We’re less than 24 hours away from episode 1 of the long-awaited Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War anime series. To get you prepared with enough time to gather all your friends and snacks here’s everything we know about the upcoming premiere of Bleach’s final arc.
Bleach will be streaming on Hulu (North America) and Disney Plus (Internationally) the premiere of the first episode is set for 10/10 at 8:30 am PST. Expect the servers of both of these companies to be put to the test if you’re looking to watch it on release. View the Hulu listing by clicking here.
Episode 1 will have a run time of 24 minutes and 31 seconds and will have no opening or ending. The new content in the premiere will be for 20 minutes with the last 4 minutes being a recap of special moments from all the previous Bleach seasons.
After the first episode, the Thousand-Year Blood war series has already been confirmed to run for 52 episodes spread across 4 cours or seasons, averaging out to be 13 episodes per season depending on how they want to spread them.
Many of the English dub voice actors for the Bleach series have been confirmed to make their return, but we have no confirmation of what the dub release schedule will look like or if it will be simuldub as well. View below for some of the confirmed voice actors making their return.
Johnny Yong Bosch as Ichigo Kurosaki
Michelle Ruff as Rukia Kuchiki
Derek Stephen Prince as Uryu Ishida
Stephanie Sheh as Orihime Inoue
Wally Wingert as Renji Abarai
Doug Erholtz as Kisuke Urahara
And that’s all we know! If you have any questions about the upcoming release of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War let us know in the comments below and we’ll do our best to answer them! Of course, look forward to continued Bleach coverage from us as the series airs. Enjoy the Premiere!!
Very interesting stuff.