Tite Kubo's Bleach ran in Weekly Shonen Jump for fifteen years, and its final arc is now finishing on screen. The closing part is subtitled The Calamity, it started airing in Japan on 25 July 2026, and it is scheduled for ten episodes. Pierrot Films is animating it, as with the earlier parts.
The Thousand-Year Blood War arc moved fast enough on the page that readers argued about whether it had room to land. The anime answered that by splitting the arc into four parts and airing them from 2022 onward, and this is the last piece. Kubo himself is credited as chief supervisor, and the adaptation has been adding scenes and characters that never appeared in the manga. Reworking a story that already ended is unusual, and it says something about how much care the staff wanted to give the ending.
Shiro Sagisu, who has scored the series since its earliest days, returns for the music. Masashi Kudou handles character design and Masaki Hiramatsu the series composition. The Soul Society and the Royal Guard fight their way toward a conclusion, and Ichigo learning what Uryu was actually doing is the spine of this stretch.
If you have carried this series since the early volumes, this is not simply the next batch of episodes. Disney+ and Hulu carry the show outside Japan, so check the schedule on whichever one you use.
