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Netflix Streams Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Anime in India
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Netflix is streaming Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, the television anime based on the "Thousand Year Blood War" arc of Tite Kubo's Bleach manga, in India. The streaming service currently has five episodes of the anime.
Ani-One Asia's YouTube channel began streaming the anime for Ultra subscribers on October 10. It is streaming an episode each Monday at 10:00 p.m. IST. The channel began streaming the original Bleach anime on September 16. bilibili began streaming the original Bleach anime for free on August 13.
The anime will run for four cours (quarter of a year) with breaks in between. The show premiered on October 10 at 24:00 (effectively, October 11 at midnight) on TV Tokyo and its affiliates, and will stream on 20+ services in Japan, including Hulu and Disney+.
The Thousand Year Blood War arc is the final arc of the manga, and covers volumes 55-74. The anime will cover the rest of the original manga up through its ending.
Tomohisa Taguchi (Twin Star Exorcists, Kino's Journey - The Beautiful World, Akudama Drive) is replacing Noriyuki Abe to direct the anime at Studio Pierrot. Masashi Kudo is returning as the character designer, and Shiro Sagisu is returning to composing the music.
Kubo launched Bleach in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2001, and ended it in August 2016. Viz Media published the manga in digitally in English as Shueisha published new chapters in Japan. Viz Media also published the manga in print. The manga has 130 million copies in circulation.
The manga inspired a television anime adaptation that ran for 366 episodes from 2004 to 2012. Viz Media obtained the television and home video rights to the anime in 2006. Ani-One began streaming the series as daily YouTube uploads on September 16. bilibili is streaming 109 episodes of the anime in India.
The anime franchise also includes four films and two OVAs. Additionally, the franchise has also inspired video games, novels, stage plays, and a live-action film that opened in July 2018.
Source: Netflix
