With the episodes of the Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War anime that have already aired, the series significantly expanded the Soul Society, and one fantastic costume is helping to draw attention to one of the new arrivals from the potent Squad Zero group that the series’ protagonist Ichigo Kurosaki and the others had been practicing with.
The long-awaited anime adaptation of the Bleach manga debuted last Fall when Ichigo and the Soul Reapers were under attack by a formidable Quincie army, beginning a vicious new conflict. It meant that in order to even survive, they needed all the assistance they could receive.
Then, with the startling emergence of a potent squad of Soul Reapers who made their debut in the series, Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War provided them with this assistance. The five members of Squad Zero were working as an elite royal guard for the Soul King in a high area of the Soul Society when they rescued a hurt Ichigo and the others and assisted them in various ways as they prepared for their rematch with the Quincies. Here, fans first saw Kirio Hikifune, who fed Ichigo well-balanced meals to restore his energies.
The artist @johara04_ on TikTok has now given up some amazing cosplay for this epic fighter from Bleach, Kirio Hikifune.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War episode 22 premiered on September 9, 2023.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War episode 23 will premiere on September 16, 2023.
The synopsis for the episode is as following:
“Ikkaku and Yumichika join forces with Hamen and the others to fight against the zombies controlled by Giselle. However, the person Giselle had prepared as her next pawn was Hitsugaya, the commander of the 10th Division. Ikkaku and his friends collapse before the merciless attack of Hitsugaya, who has turned into a zombie. Hitsugaya also attacks Mayuri, but Mayuri ignores him and declares that he has a medicine he wants to try. Meanwhile, while Byakuya was fighting Robert and his friends, Hisagi comes and wields his sword. However, what was at the end of Hisaki’s sword was…“
- Screenplay Masaki Hiramatsu
- Storyboard: Atsushi Wakabayashi
- Staging: Kazuya Fujishiro
- Animation Director: Rina Suzuki, Kumiko Horikoshi, JIWOO
- Chief Animation Director: Kumiko Takayanagi
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 2: The Separation anime premiered on July 8, 2023.
The anime’s new cast members include:
- Aoi Yūki as Liltotto
- Tsuyoshi Koyama as Gerald
- Sōichiro Hoshi as Nianzol
- Nao Tōyama as Giselle
The anime’s English Dub cast includes:
- 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
Tatsuya Kitani performed the opening theme song “Scar”, and SennaRin performed the ending theme song “Saihate”.
The new Bleach anime will run for four cours with breaks in between.
The anime’s staff includes:
- Tomohisa Taguchi as the Director
- Animation Studio: Pierrot
- Masashi Kudo as the Character Designer
- Shiro Sagisu as the Music Composer
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The cast includes:
- Masakazu Morita as Ichigo Kurosaki
- Fumiko Orikasa as Rukia Kuchiki
- Noriaki Sugiyama as Uryū Ishida
- Yuki Matsuoka as Orihime Inoue
- Hiroki Yasumoto as Yasutora Sado
- Kentaro Ito as Renji Abarai
- Shinichiro Miki as Kisuke Urahara
- Satsuki Yukino as Yoruichi Shihōin
- Binbin Takaoka as Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto
- Houko Kuwashima as Suì-Fēng
- Shouto Kashii as Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi
- Aya Hisakawa as Retsu Unohana
- Masaya Onosaka as Shinji Hirako
- Ryotaro Okiayu as Byakuya Kuchiki
- Tetsu Inada as Sajin Komamura
- Akio Ohtsuka as Shunsui Kyōraku
- Tomokazu Sugita as Kensei Muguruma
- Romi Park as Tōshirō Hitsugaya
- Fumihiko Tachiki as Kenpachi Zaraki
- Ryusei Nakao as Mayuri Kurotsuchi
- Hideo Ishikawa as Jūshirō Ukitake
- Naomi Kusumi as Ichibē Hyōsube
- Yōji Ueda as Ōetsu Mimaiya
- Tomoyuki Shimura as Tenjirō Kirinji
- Rina Satou as Senjumaru Shutara
- Ayumi Tsunematsu as Kirio Hikifune
- Takayuki Sugo as Yhwach
- Yuichiro Umehara as Jugram Haschwalth
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Askin Nakk Le Vaar
- Ayana Taketatsu as Bambietta Basterbine
- Yūki Ono as Bazz-B
- Yumi Uchiyama as Candice Catnipp
- Natsuki Hanae as Gremmy Thoumeaux
- Satoshi Hino as Lille Barro
- Daiki Yamashita as Ryūnosuke Yuki
- Asami Seto as Shino Madarame
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Äs Nödt
- Kōichi Yamadera as Quilge Opie
- Hideyuki Tanaka as BG9
- Takaya Hashi as Robert Accutrone
- Nobuaki Kanemitsu as Driscoll Berci
- Yasuhiro Mamiya as Mask De Masculine
- Tomoaki Maeno as NaNaNa Najahkoop
- Wataru Hatano as Hidetomo Kajōmaru
- KENN as Berenice Gabrielli
- Takahiro Fujiwara as Jerome Guizbatt
- Wataru Komada as Asguiaro Ebern
- Daiki Hamano as Luders Friegen
Bleach is a Japanese manga series composed and showed by Tite Kubo. Bleach follows the undertakings of the unmanageable teen Ichigo Kurosaki, who acquires his folks’ predetermination after he gets the forces of a Soul Reaper a passing embodiment like the Grim Reaper from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki. His newly discovered forces compel him to assume the obligations of protecting people from malicious spirits and directing withdrew spirits to the hereafter, and set him on excursions to different spooky domains of presence.
Bleach was serialized in Shueisha’s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from August 2001 to August 2016, with its parts gathered into 74 tankōbon volumes. The series has generated a media establishment that incorporates an anime TV series transformation that was delivered by Tokyo-based Studio Pierrot from 2004 to 2012, two OVA episodes, four animated films, ten stage musicals, and various computer games, just as numerous sorts of Bleach-related product. A Japanese live-action adaptation delivered by Warner Bros. was delivered in 2018.
English-language arrivals of Bleach are facilitated by Viz Media, which has delivered a few volumes of the manga every year since 2004, and distributed parts of Bleach in its Shonen Jump magazine since November 2007. Viz Media got unfamiliar TV and home video rights to the Bleach anime in 2006. Adult Swim started circulating dubbed episodes of Bleach in the United States that fall, and Hulu later started to stream captioned adaptations of the anime seven days after every episode broadcasted in Japan. Viz Media has likewise delivered every one of the four Bleach films in English.
Bleach got the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen classification in 2005. Regardless of critical slumps in both the Japanese and English manga markets, Bleach kept on performing great economically, and had more than 120 million tankōbon volumes available for use worldwide starting at 2018, making it the thirteenth smash hit manga ever.
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