Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (BLEACH: The Blood War) is a Japanese anime television series based on Tite Kubo's manga series Bleach. The series is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and written by Masaki Hiramatsu. It premiered on TV Tokyo in October 2022 and will run for four cours with off-season breaks in between. The English dub of the series began streaming on Hulu in November of the same year. The fourth and final cours, subtitled The Calamity, is set to premiere in 2026.