BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War, Part 4 – The Calamity, the final cour of the BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War anime, has received an Ichigo-starring super teaser visual and a 2026 premiere date.
The cour was announced in December 2024 after the end of BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Conflict.
BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War‘s first cour premiered in 2022. The anime adapts the last story arc of Tite Kubo‘s Bleach manga, where Soul Society faces the Quincy king Yhwach and his army.
The manga was serialized from 2001 to 2016 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump and was collected into 74 tankobon volumes. A special one-shot was released in 2021. The first Bleach TV anime aired from 2004 to 2012.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Conflict staff (reprising role from previous cours unless marked with asterisk)
• Chief director* [previously director] and series composer: Tomohisa Taguchi (Akudama Drive, The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes director and scriptwriter)
• Director* [Previously co-chief episode director]: Hikaru Murata
• Series composer: Masaki Hiramatsu (The Garden of Sinners scriptwriter)
• Character designer: Masashi Kudo (Bleach)
• Color designer: Saori Goda (Akudama Drive)
• Background art director: Yoshio Tanioka (Akudama Drive)
• Compositing director: Kazuhiro Yamada (Akudama Drive)
• Music composer: Shiro Sagisu (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, Bleach)
• Animation production*: [Previously credited to PIERROT] PIERROT FILMS
Source: @BLEACHanimation
