Bleach | |
![]() Key visual of the series featuring (from left to right) Rukia Kuchiki, Kon, Yasutora "Chad" Sado, Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryū Ishida and Orihime Inoue | |
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Directed by | Noriyuki Abe |
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Music by | Shirō Sagisu |
Studio | Pierrot |
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Original network | TXN (TV Tokyo) |
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Original run | October 5, 2004 – March 27, 2012 |
Episodes | 366 |
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War[c] | |
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Music by | Shirō Sagisu |
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Original network | TXN (TV Tokyo) |
Original run | October 11, 2022 – present |
Episodes | 26 |
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Bleach (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese anime television series based on Tite Kubo's original manga series of the same name. It was produced by Pierrot and directed by Noriyuki Abe. The series aired on TV Tokyo from October 2004 to March 2012, spanning 366 episodes. The story follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he obtains the powers of a Soul Reaper—a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki. His newfound powers force him to take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife. In addition to adapting the manga series it is based on, the anime periodically includes original self-contained storylines and characters not found in the source material.
Viz Media obtained foreign television and home video distribution rights to the Bleach anime in March 2006. Bleach was broadcast in the United States on Adult Swim from September 2006 to November 2014.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, a sequel series covering the manga's final story arc, also animated by Pierrot (by studio Pierrot for the first two parts and by Pierrot Films for the third one) and directed by Tomohisa Taguchi, aired its first 13-episode cours on TV Tokyo from October to December 2022. The second 13-episode cours aired from July to September 2023. The third cours is set to premiere in October 2024.
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