Viz Media has revealed a new key visual for the upcoming Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War Part 2 — The Separation. The visual highlights Yhwach and his team of Stern Ritters — a group of powerful Quincy members that includes Uryu Ishida. The second cour is scheduled to premiere on July 8, 2023.
An animated reveal of the new visual was also posted by the anime production team.
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The first cour of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War ran from October 11, 2022 to December 27, 2022. Hulu, Disney+, Ani-One Asia, and Bilibili are streaming the show outside of Japan.
The production staff 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 handling the animation production for the series.
Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War is the first Bleach anime since the previous 2004 to 2012 Bleach adaptation. The manga series ran from August 7, 2001 to August 22, 2016 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump and was collected into 74 total tankoubon volumes. A special one-shot was released in 2021.
Outside of the anime, Bleach has also inspired anime movies, spin-offs, a live-action film, and more. An anime film adaptation of Kubo’s BURN THE WITCH manga, which takes place in the same universe as Bleach, was released in 2020.
Viz releases the Bleach manga in English and describes Thousand-Year Blood War as:
When new Soul Reapers and a new enemy appear in his hometown of Karakura, Ichigo jumps back into the battlefield with his Zanpakuto to help those in need. Meanwhile, the Soul Society is observing a sudden surge in the number of Hollows being destroyed in the World of the Living. They also receive separate reports of residents in the Rukon District having gone missing. Finally, the Seireitei, home of the Soul Reapers, comes under attack by a group calling themselves the Wandenreich.
Led by Yhwach, the father of all Quincies, the Wandenreich declare war against the Soul Reapers with the following message: “Five days from now, the Soul Society will be annihilated by the Wandenreich.”
Source: Viz Media Official Twitter, Bleach Japanese Official Twitter
