New Bleach Light Novel Coming Soon?
Will this become another April Fool’s joke come true for the Bleach light novel author?
On April 1, 2025, Bleach author Tite Kubo would go to Twitter to announce a new Bleach light novel set in an alternate high school setting with Ryugo Narita, author of the Bleach light novels, Spirits are Forever with You and Can’t Fear Your Own World/
But what seems on the surface to be an April Fool’s joke by Tite Kubo might actually come true with enough fan support.
Fate/Strange Fake, released on January 10, 2015, started out as an April Fool’s joke by Narita on his website in 2008 but became real after much fan support, resulting in a light novel that is ongoing with 9 volumes to its name.
The project, dubbed, “Bleach: The High School Warfare”, which references the final arc (The Blood Warfare), already existed as a collaboration between the Bleach anime staff and Tite Kubo released on April 1, 2023 as an elaborate April Fool’s Joke in the form of a visual novel game.
Although Kubo’s post was an April Fool’s joke, Narita seems insistent on starting the project himself, as indicated in his retweet.
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.
Source: Twitter
というわけでして、BLEACHの配信動画で発表された話が嘘なのか本当なのか……！ 乞う御期待！ とりあえず、リルトットは二年生、乱菊さんは屋上という森田さんの希望はしかと胸に刻みましたぜウヒュー！！ #BLEACH https://t.co/VD4PvkSMD4
— 成田良悟＠色々執筆中 (@ryohgo_narita) March 31, 2025
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