Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War
Key visual for the series
No. of episodes40
Release
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original releaseOctober 11, 2022 (2022-10-11) 
present
Season chronology

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (BLEACH 千年血戦篇, Burīchi: Sennen Kessen-hen), also known as Bleach: The Blood Warfare, is a Japanese anime television series based on Tite Kubo's manga series Bleach and a direct sequel to its predecessor anime series of the same name. In March 2020, Weekly Shōnen Jump and "Bleach 20th Anniversary Project & Tite Kubo New Project Presentation" livestream announced that the manga's final story arc, the "Thousand-Year Blood War", would receive an anime project. In November 2020, it was confirmed that the anime project would be a television series adapting the entirety of the arc. The trailer and visual for the series were revealed at the Jump Festa in December 2021.

The anime series is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and written by Masaki Hiramatsu. It premiered on TV Tokyo in October 2022. The series will run for four cours with off-season breaks in between. The first cours, subtitled The Blood Warfare, consists of 13 episodes and ended in December of the same year. The second cours, subtitled The Separation (訣別譚, Ketsubetsu-tan), also consists of 13 episodes and was broadcast from July to September 2023. The third cours, subtitled The Conflict (相剋譚, Sōkoku-tan), consisting of 14 episodes, aired from October to December 2024. The fourth and final cours, subtitled The Calamity (禍進譚, Kashin-tan), was announced after the third cours finale.

For The Blood Warfare cours, the opening theme song is "Scar" (スカー, Sukā), performed by Tatsuya Kitani, while the ending theme song is "Saihate" (最果て, lit.'The Farthest Reaches'), performed by SennaRin; in addition, Kitani also performed the special ending theme song for the first episode, "Rapport", which was previously used as the theme song for the series' 20th anniversary exhibition, Bleach EX. For The Separation cours, the opening theme song is "Stars", performed by w.o.d., while the ending theme song is "Endroll", performed by Yoh Kamiyama. For The Conflict cours, the opening theme song is "Kotoba ni Sezu Tomo" (言葉にせずとも, lit.'Even if You Don't Say It'), performed by Six Lounge, while the ending theme song is "Monochrome", performed by Suisoh.

In October 2022, Viz Media announced that the series would stream on Hulu in the United States and Disney+ internationally outside of Asia. The English dub of the series began streaming on Hulu in November of the same year. In April 2025, it was announced that the English dub would make its broadcast television premiere on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block beginning on May 18, 2025.