The final battle against Yhwach in Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity may have yet to be resolved, thanks to the delay of its last two episodes to October, but we now have the voice actor details for two young additions to the cast, one with the Kurosaki family name and the other with the Abarai’s.
As revealed in Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 44, 2026 (via the Tite Kubo & Staff X/Twitter account), Azusa Tachibana is playing Kazui Kurosaki, while Ayaka Ohashi is voicing Ichika Abarai. Tachibana voiced a Soul Reaper in the eight episode of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (according to the Japanese Wikipedia, this was her first voice actor performance) and has since gotten more prominent roles like Shiina Kuze in Magical Girl Lyrical NANOHA EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance and Ewe Aries in The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch. Meanwhile, Ohashi is the voice of characters like the Bang Dream! franchise’s Saaya Yamabuki and The Daughter of the Demon Lord Is Too Kind‘s Jahi.
Here’s what the two characters look like:
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Final Part – The Calamity is the final part of the Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War series, which adapts the last story arc of Kubo‘s Shueisha-published Bleach manga and sees Soul Society dealing with an invasion by the reawakened Quincy king Yhwach and his army. The first cour debuted in 2022 and was followed by 2023’s Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Separation and 2024’s BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Conflict. Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Final Part – The Calamity began airing on July 25 and is streamed outside Japan on Disney+ (Hulu in the US).
The Bleach manga ran from 2001 to 2016 and is collected into 74 tankobon volumes. A special one-shot was released in 2021. The original Bleach TV anime aired from 2004 to 2012.
Production credits (same credit as previous cours unless marked with asterisk)
• Chief director* [previously director] and series composer: Tomohisa Taguchi (Akudama Drive, The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes director and scriptwriter)
• Director* [previously co-chief episode director]: Hikaru Murata
• Series composer: Masaki Hiramatsu (The Garden of Sinners scriptwriter)
• Character designer: Masashi Kudo (Bleach)
• Color designer: Saori Goda (Akudama Drive)
• Background art director: Yoshio Tanioka (Akudama Drive)
• Compositing director: Kazuhiro Yamada (Akudama Drive)
• Compositing director: Satomi Okuhara (previously assistant)
• Music composer: Shiro Sagisu (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, Bleach)
• Animation production*: [Previously credited to PIERROT until The Conflict] PIERROT FILMS
Source: @tite_official
