A new trailer and key visual have been released for the second part of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, which is titled “The Separation.” The trailer highlights Ichigo and his fellow soul Reapers continuing to engage in conflict with Yhwach and the Wandenreich. Part two will premiere sometime in July 2023. 

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War premiered on October 10, 2022 in Japan and concluded the first cour on December 27, 2022. It is the first Bleach anime since 2004, with Hulu, Disney+, and Ani-One Asia all streaming the series internationally.

The production staff includes Tomohisa Taguchi (Akudama Drive) as director and series screenwriter, Masashi Kudou (Bleach) as character designer, Yoshio Tanioka (Akudama Drive) as art director, Saori Gouda (Akudama Drive) as color designer, Kazuhiro Yamada (Akudama Drive) as photography director, and Shirou SAGISU (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time) as music composer. Studio Pierrot is in charge of the animation production. 

Bleach has also inspired several anime films, spinoffs, a live-action film adaptation, and more. An anime movie adaptation of the BURN THE WITCH manga, which takes place in the same universe as Bleach, was released in 2020.

Tite Kubo’s original manga series ran in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from August 7, 2001 to August 22, 2016 with 74 tankoubon volumes released in total. It was published under the Jump Comics imprint. 

Viz Media releases the manga series in English and describes the latest season as: 

When new Soul Reapers and a new enemy appear in his hometown of Karakura, Ichigo jumps back into the battlefield with his Zanpakuto to help those in need. Meanwhile, the Soul Society is observing a sudden surge in the number of Hollows being destroyed in the World of the Living. They also receive separate reports of residents in the Rukon District having gone missing. Finally, the Seireitei, home of the Soul Reapers, comes under attack by a group calling themselves the Wandenreich.

Led by Yhwach, the father of all Quincies, the Wandenreich declare war against the Soul Reapers with the following message: “Five days from now, the Soul Society will be annihilated by the Wandenreich.”

The history and truth kept hidden by the Soul Reapers for a thousand long years is finally brought to light.

Source: Bleach Official Japanese Twitter