A teaser trailer and visual for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 4 – The Calamity, the Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War anime’s concluding fourth cour, have been released.
The new visual features Ichigo swinging his sword with Orihime, Chad, Ganju, and Uryu depicted on the fragments of the blade as it shatters.
Image source: @BLEACHanimation
BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War is the anime adaptation of the last story arc of Tite Kubo‘s Bleach manga, where Soul Society faces Quincy king Yhwach and his army. It started in 2022, and after the first cour came 2023’s Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Separation and 2024’s BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Conflict.
The Bleach manga was serialized from 2001 to 2016 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump and was collected into 74 tankobon volumes. A special one-shot was released in 2021. The first Bleach TV anime aired from 2004 to 2012.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Conflict staff (reprising role unless marked with asterisk)
• Chief director* [previously director] and series composer: Tomohisa Taguchi (Akudama Drive, The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes director and scriptwriter)
• Director* [Previously co-chief episode director]: Hikaru Murata
• Series composer: Masaki Hiramatsu (The Garden of Sinners scriptwriter)
• Character designer: Masashi Kudo (Bleach)
• Color designer: Saori Goda (Akudama Drive)
• Art director: Yoshio Tanioka (Akudama Drive)
• Compositing director: Kazuhiro Yamada (Akudama Drive)
• Music composer: Shiro Sagisu (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, Bleach)
• Animation production*: [Previously credited to PIERROT] PIERROT FILMS
Sources: BLEACH anime official channel, @BLEACHanimation