Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War Final Cour Reveals Official New Key Visual
Bleach’s Anime Expo panel reveals a key visual and confirmation that the final part will come out next year.
During Anime Expo 2025, at the Bleach panel, we receive a teaser visual for “Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity”, showing Ichigo in his hybrid state, with his Hollow left eye turning red, as he is about to combine his two swords (the blade and scabbard of his true Zanpakuto, Zangetsu).
This all happens within a red background, which could be a hint towards yet another color direction change, a return to the red color of Cour 2 perhaps?
The release year has been confirmed to be for 2026, as it has already been stated that Bleach will not be returning this year.
About Bleach
Bleach is the manga written and illustrated by Tite Kubo for Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from August 7, 2001 to August 22, 2016 with 74 volumes and 686 chapters.
As one of Shonen Jump’s Big Three alongside Naruto and One Piece, Bleach sold greatly internationally, having reached 130 million tankōbon volumes in circulation worldwide by 2022, making it the 13th best-selling manga of all time.
Bleach would be adapted by Studio Pierrot, which also happened to adapt Naruto, on October 5, 2004 under the direction of Noriyuki Abe but would end with 366 episodes on March 27, 2012, leading to a decade-long hiatus.
Pierrot would adapt the final arc of the manga in the form of the “Thousand Year Blood War” series that began airing on October 10, 2022 and is still ongoing, being divided into 4 cours of 13 episodes.
Bleach is the story of Ichigo Kurosaki, an ordinary highschooler with the extraordinary ability to see spirits, who would be thrust to the role of Substitute Shinigami to protect his hometown of Karakura Town, while also facing off against the threat of the rebel Shinigami Sosuke Aizen and eventually, the Quincy Blood War initiated by its Emperor Yhwach.
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