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Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War Anime Reveals New Key Visual, Additional Cast

Daiki Yamashita and Asami Seto are among the newly announced cast of the anime.

The official website of Bleach anime revealed a second key visual for Bleach Thousand Year Blood War on Aug 7, 2022. The visual is centered around the protagonist Ichigo Kurosaki and his friends.

Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War anime will release in Japan in October 2022.

Bleach Thousand Year Blood War anime second Key Visual

Along with the key visual, additional cast members working on the anime were also revealed. The newly announced cast includes:

  • Daiki Yamashita as Ryunosuke Yuki
  • Asami Seto as Shino Madarame
  • Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as As Nodt
  • Koichi Yamadera as Quile 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

Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War anime will adapt the remaining entirety of the manga up to the last chapter. An advanced screening of the first two episodes will be held on Sep 11, 2022 in Tokyo.

Previously, a key visual and a trailer were revealed for the anime at the Anime Expo.

The cast of the main characters (barring Genryusai Yamamoto) featuring in the previous seasons of the anime will reprise their role.

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

Tomohisa Taguchi will be replacing Noriyuki Abe as director of the series at Studio Pierrot. He will also be scripting the series along with Masaki Hiramatsu.

Additional staff includes:

  • Chief Animation Directors: Michio Hasegawa Sei Komatsubara, Kumiko Takayanagi
  • Action Effects Animation Directors: Satoshi Sakai, Yoshihiro Kanno, Yong Hoon Chong
  • Art Director: Yoshio Tanioka
  • Art Design: Toshiki Amada
  • Color Design: Saori Goda
  • Editing: Akinori Mishima
  • Director of Photography: Kazuhiro Yamada
  • CG Directors: Toshihiro Sasaki, Kazushi Goto
  • Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki
  • Sound Production: Zack Promotion
  • Character Designer: Masashi Kudo
  • Music Composition: Shiro Sagisu

Bleach is a Japanese anime television series based on Tite Kubo’s original manga series of the same name. It was produced by Studio Pierrot and directed by Noriyuki Abe. The series aired on TV Tokyo from October 2004 to March 2012, spanning 366 episodes. The anime adaptation includes original storylines not found in the manga with repeated appearances and stories containing these original characters.

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.

Source: Official website of Bleach anime.