

A live-action film adaptation was produced in 2018.
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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. There have been numerous adaptations of the series across various media, including a TV anime adaptation by Studio Pierrot ( Naruto, Tokyo Ghoul) that ran from 2004 till 2012, which was directed by Noriyuki Abe ( Yu Yu Hakusho, Ghost Stories). The series first began publication in August 2001 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine and ended in August 2016 with a total of 74 volumes The series has become one of Japan’s most popular and well-known series. The anime was given a tentative 2021 broadcast.īleach was a long-running action shounen manga written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. An anime adaptation of the main series’ final manga arc, the Thousand-Year Blood War, was announced last year. The announcement is part of the Bleach 20th Anniversary Project, celebrating 2 decades since the franchise began in 2001. Details about the new arc, including when it will start, will be revealed at a later date. The new one-shot is a 73-page chapter that is set after the events of the main series.


At the end of the chapter, it was announced that the Bleach series would continue with a new manga arc: Gokuimeimei Arc ( Jaws of Hell Arc). In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Bleach series, creator Tite Kubo released a new one-shot chapter in the latest issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.
