A promotional video for the anime Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War announced on Monday that it will return for its second cour (quarter of a year) in July 2023 .
The anime's first cour concluded this Monday with a one-hour special that combined episodes 12 and 13 of the anime. The 13th episode of the anime featured a special ending video:
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War premiered on October 10 in Japan.
The anime is based on the “Thousand-Year Blood War” arc of Tite Kubo’s “Bleach” manga.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War will air for four cours (a quarter of a year) with breaks in between. The show premiered on October 10th in Japan on TV Tokyo and its affiliates, and is streaming on over 20 services in Japan, including Hulu and Disney+.
The anime will cover the remainder of the original manga until the end. The "Thousand-Year Blood War" arc is the final arc of the manga and covers volumes 55–74.
Tomohisa Taguchi (Twin Star Exorcists, Kino's Journey – The Beautiful World, Akudama Drive) is replacing Noriyuki Abe to direct the anime at Studio Pierrot. Masashi Kudo is returning as character designer, while Shiro Sagisu is returning to compose the music.
Tatsuya Kitani, who performed theme songs and image for the exhibition “Bleach Ex,” is singing the opening theme song “Scar,” while SennaRin sings the ending theme song “Saihate” (The Farthest Reaches).
Synopsis
After a series of murders in the Hollow and several disappearances in the Rukongai district, it is revealed that the Quincy were actually alive. To jog their memory, the Quincy are an order of reishi-manipulating human mediums who kill Hollows rather than purify them like the Soul Society. They are thought to have been killed by the Society en masse 1,000 years ago, with the exception of the Ishida family.
The anime's Japanese voice actors include members who did not appear in the anime, but are reprising their roles from the Bleach: Brave Souls game.
Source: ANN
