Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (BLEACH: The Blood War) is a Japanese anime television series based on Tite Kubo's manga series Bleach. The anime series is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and written by Masaki Hiramatsu. The series 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.