The main promotional video for the fourth cour of the TV anime "BLEACH: Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War ," based on the final arc of Tite Kubo's popular manga "BLEACH," serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" (Shueisha), has been released on YouTube. The video begins with an intense battle scene between Ichigo Kurosaki and Yhwach, and then showcases a series of spectacular battle action sequences featuring characters such as Kisuke Urahara, Yoruichi Shihoin, the Gotei 13, and Uryu Ishida. The final arc, "Thousand-Year Blood War Arc," will be broadcast in four cours, with "Kagashintan" being the final cour.
It was also announced that episodes 1-3 of "Kashintan" will have a one-day-only advance screening in theaters on June 21st. The screenings will take place at Shinjuku Wald 9 (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo), United Cinemas Aqua City Odaiba (Minato-ku, Tokyo), Sapporo Cinema Frontier (Chuo-ku, Sapporo), Midland Square Cinema (Nakamura-ku, Nagoya), T-Joy Umeda (Kita-ku, Osaka), and T-Joy Hakata (Hakata-ku, Fukuoka). A stage greeting with the cast will also be held at United Cinemas Aqua City Odaiba.
"BLEACH" is a manga that depicts the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki, who gains the powers of a Soul Reaper, as he and his companions battle evil spirits called Hollows and traverse different worlds. It was serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" from 2001 to 2016 and became one of the magazine's flagship titles.
The TV anime aired from 2004 to 2012, four animated films were released, and a live-action film starring Sota Fukushi was released in 2018. The "Thousand-Year Blood War Arc" was broadcast in four parts, with the first part airing from October to December 2022, the second part from July to September 2023, and the third part from October to December 2024.
The fourth season, "Kashintan," will air on TV Tokyo and other networks starting in July.
◇Staff (titles omitted)
Original Story & General Supervision: Tite Kubo▽General Director: Tomohisa Taguchi▽Director: Hikaru Murata▽Series Composition: Tomohisa Taguchi, Masaki Hiramatsu▽Character Design: Masashi Kudo▽Chief Animation Directors: Toru Hasegawa, Sei Komatsubara, Kumiko Takayanagi▽Action & Effects Animation Directors: Satoshi Sakai, Takashi Hashimoto▽Art Director: Yoshio Tanioka▽Art Setting: Toshiki Amada▽Color Design: Saori Goda▽Editing: Akinori Mishima▽Director of Photography: Kazuhiro Yamada, Satomi Okuhara▽CG Directors: Toshihiro Sasaki, Takahiro Suzuki▽Music: Shiro Sagisu▽Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki▽Sound Production: ZACK Promotion▽Animation Production: PIERROT FILMS
◇Cast (titles omitted)
Ichigo Kurosaki: Masakazu Morita; Uryu Ishida: Noriaki Sugiyama ; Orihime Inoue: Yuki Matsuoka; Yasutora Sado: Wataru Takagi Hiroki Yasumoto ; Ganju Shiba: Wataru Takagi; Rukia Kuchiki: Fumiko Orikasa; Renji Abarai: Kentaro Ito; Kisuke Urahara: Shinichiro Miki; Yoruichi Shihoin: Akio Otsuka; Shunsui Kyoraku: Ryotaro Okiayu; Toshiro Hitsugaya: Romi Park; Kenpachi Zaraki: Fumihiko Tachiki Tachiki; Sosuke Aizen: Show Hayami; Yhwach: Takayuki Sugo; Jugram Haschwalth: Yuichiro Umehara; Askin Nakklevaar: Shunsuke Takeuchi; Gerard Valkyrie: Tsuyoshi Koyama
