Bleach season 14

The fourteenth season of the Bleach anime television series is based on Tite Kubo's Bleach manga series. It is known as the Arrancar: Downfall arc (破面・滅亡篇, Arankaru・Metsubō-hen), is directed by Noriyuki Abe, and produced by TV Tokyo, Dentsu and Studio Pierrot. The season concludes the fight between the Soul Reapers and Sousuke Aizen's arrancar army as the former defends Karakura Town from the latter's invasion, while Ichigo Kurosaki and his group fight the arrancars in Hueco Mundo to rescue Orihime Inoue.

The season aired from April 13, 2010, to April 5, 2011. Aniplex collected it in eleven DVD volumes between February 23 and December 14, 2011. The English adaptation of the Bleach anime is licensed by Viz Media, and the season aired on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block from August 12, 2012, to September 29, 2013.

The episodes uses six pieces of theme music; two opening and four endings. The first opening theme song, "Change" performed by Miwa, is used from episode 266 to 291, while the second opening theme song, "Ranbu no Melody" (乱舞のメロディ, "Melody of the Wild Dance") performed by Sid, is used from episode 292 to 316. The first ending theme song, "Stay Beautiful" performed by Diggy-Mo', is used from episode 266 to 278, the second ending theme song, "Echoes" performed by Universe, is used from episode 279 to 291, the third ending theme song, "Last Moment" performed by Spyair, is used from episode 292 to 303, and the fourth ending theme song "Song for..." performed by Rookiez Is Punk'd is used from episode 304 to 316.