Bleach fans eager for more information on the anime’s final arc will soon get some, Aniplex announced on Sunday.
More information surrounding the project will be revealed at Jump Festa 2022, which is set to take place from December 18th to 19th later this year. The announcement will be made during a special program under the name, “Super Stage EX 'BLEACH” which will take place on December 18th at 18:00 JST.
The new project was announced back in March 2020 and will adapt the series’ Thousand-Year Blood War arc. The original anime ended just prior to the events of the upcoming adaptation and has been dormant for nearly a decade.
The first Jump Festa began in 1999. Organized by Shueisha, the event focuses on various Jump publications and their serializations. After the 2020 event was regulated to an online-only experience, Jump Festa 2022 will be returning to the Chiba Prefecture’s Makuhari Messe convention center. The location also plays host to the Tokyo Game Show and the Summer Sonic music festival.
While the majority of the convention will be held in person, the “Jump Super Stage EX” events will only be streamed online. Those wishing to watch the event live can access it through the official site.
Tite Kubo’s Bleach manga ran in Shonen Jump and Weekly Shonen Jump from 2001 to 2016. The supernatural adventure series spanned 74 volumes, standing alongside Naruto and One Piece as one of the biggest and most successful serializations of its era.
The manga would inspire a variety of games, light novels, and various other projects alongside a musical and trading card game. Pierrot, the studio behind titles like Naruto, Boruto, and Tokyo Ghoul, worked on the anime adaptation, which aired from 2004 to 2012. Pierrot produced four animated films from 2006 to 2010 but has not been linked to the new project as of yet.
Viz Media published the manga in English, while the anime can be streamed on Crunchyroll and VRV.
Source: Crunchyroll