Bleach TYBW Cour 3 To End With A 1-Hour Special Episode

The official website of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War has confirmed that the third cour of the anime will conclude with a one-hour special episode, combining episodes 39 and 40.

The finale will air on Dec 28, 2024, at 23:45 JST.

Cour 3 of Bleach TYBW started airing on Oct 5, 2024.

Six Lounge performed the opening theme song ‘Without Any Word,’ while Suisoh performed the ending theme song ‘Monochrome’.

The chief director Tomohisa Taguchi had recently revealed in an interview that they clicked staff photos to use as references to animate key scenes in the anime that were hard to visualise.

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War is an anime series based on the Bleach manga series by Tite Kubo and a direct sequel to the Bleach anime series that ran from 2004 until 2012.

Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War cour 1 aired in Japan on Oct 10, 2022, and ended on Dec 26, 2022, with a one-hour long special episode, combining episodes 12 and 13 of the anime.

Cour 2 of the anime started airing on July 8, 2023.

It was previously revealed that  anime will be split into four cours, with breaks in between.

Source: Official Website