The Soul Reaper and Quincy conflict in Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War will continue on July 8. Aside from that premiere date announcement, the anime’s second cour also received a new action-packed trailer and a key visual of Ichigo and Uryuu, as well as theme song and cast-related details.
The new cour’s opening song is titled “Stars,” and performing the song is the 3 piece band w.o.d.. Meanwhile, the newly announced cast members are:
• Aoi Yuuki as Liltotto
• Tsuyoshi Koyama as Gerard
• Souichirou Hoshi as Nianzol
• Nao Touyama as Giselle
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War‘s first cour ran from October to December 2022 with Hulu, Ani-One Asia, and Bilibili streaming the show internationally. The anime is based on the final arc of the Shueisha-published Bleach manga by Tite Kubo, which sees Soul Society facing an overwhelmingly strong Quincy faction known as the Wandenreich and their leader Yhwach (Takayuki Sugou).
The staff of the anime includes Tomohisa Taguchi (Akudama Drive) as director and series composer, Masashi Kudou (Bleach) as character designer, Yoshio Tanioka (Akudama Drive) as art director, Saori Gouda (Akudama Drive) as color designer, Kazuhiro Yamada (Akudama Drive) as photography director, and Shirou Sagisu (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time) as music composer. Studio Pierrot is the animation production company.
Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War is the first Bleach anime since the previous 2004 to 2012 Bleach adaptation. The manga ran from 2001 to 2016 in Weekly Shonen Jump and was collected into 74 tankoubon volumes. A special one-shot was released in 2021.
Outside of the anime series, Bleach has also inspired anime movies, spin-offs, a live-action movie, and more. An anime movie adaptation of Kubo’s BURN THE WITCH manga, which takes place in the same universe as Bleach, was released in 2020.
Source: @BLEACHanimation
