It's clear to see in these works by the newer mangaka that Bleach has had a massive impact on almost all of them, and each piece is accompanied by a little note addressing their respect and admiration for Kubo. With the final chapter of the manga presenting us with a time skip that took main characters like Ichigo Kurosaki, Orihime Inoue, and Rukia Kuchiki into the future, the No Breaths from Hellone-shot offers 73 pages of catching up and new soul reaper concerns.

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We then get a brief cameo from a few Captains like Mayuri, Iba and Kensei as they are told their Lieutenants must head to the World of the Living to capture some Hollows for the ceremony (apparently they slay some Hollows as part of it…) and off they all go. One thousand fans got to experience an early premiere of the first two episodes on September 11, 2022.

To top it off, during Bleach’s 20th anniversary, it was announced that the “Thousand-Year Blood War” arc will receive an anime adaptation in the future.

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It's also always fun to see Kubo's fellow Jump peers from the early 2000's take a stab at his work, and Oda, Kishimoto, and Kubo all seem to have developed a good-natured, friendly relationship over the years. Apart from the anime TV series, there have been many Bleach anime films, OVAs, various video games, a few light novels and manga spin-offs, and even a series of musicals that ran from 2005 till 2012. Inagaki's piece also caters to his own preferences, showing Ikkaku Madarame slicing a beaker in a charmingly colored sketch, while Matsui's love of characters with strange, augmented bodies comes through in his choice of subject, the mad scientist Mayuri Korotsuchi. The Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Episode 1 ED special video features the music “Rapport” by Tatsuya Kitani.When his family is attacked by a Hollow—a malevolent lost soul—Ichigo becomes a Soul Reaper, dedicating his life to protecting the innocent and helping the tortured spirits themselves find peace.

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To make matters worse the balance of power in the multi-dimensional world of Bleach is now out of whack because the extremely high power level of Aizen and Yhwach are either suppressed or depleted and now the life forces of people like Yamamoto, Unohana and Ukitake are all in Hell, weakening the bonds and allowing Grantz and some Beasts to appear in the real world. Bleach was such a big part of my childhood and watching where it started to where it went was a big adventure. However, keep in mind that VIZ Media and Disney+ will be releasing details specific to each territory or region.

So I thought to myself a few weeks ago “if the special chapter isn’t just a jokey throwaway thing I might do a quick look at it on my blog, but otherwise I have enough Bleach going up at the moment…” and then suddenly not only is it full of new continuity, characters and plot but it also seemingly starts a whole new story arc! His next series, Bleach, about a high school student who becomes a shinigami and fights hollows, was not such a failure. Although this sticks to the established battle-then-training-then-battle shonen template, darkness and horror lurk at the edges. Things do go a bit awry, as Bleach fans will be well aware of, when a number of Hollows-like creatures show up. Aside from the anime adaptation of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, Weekly Shonen Jump also announced the serialization of Burn the Witch this coming summer.