In October 2022, Viz Media announced that the series would stream on Hulu in the United States and Disney+ internationally outside of Asia Viz Media's English dub of the series began streaming on Hulu in November of the same year. For The Separation cour, the opening theme is 'Stars' by w.o.d., while the ending theme is 'Endroll' by Yoh Kamiyama.

Tatsuya Kitani performed the opening theme 'Scar' ( スカー, Sukā), while SennaRin performed the ending theme 'Saihate' ( 最果て, 'The Farthest Reaches') In addition, Kitani also performed the special ending theme for the first episode, 'Rapport', which was previously used as the main theme song for the series' 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Bleach EX. The second cour, subtitled The Separation, began airing on July 8, 2023. The first cour, The Blood Warfare, consists of 13 episodes and ended in December of the same year. The series will run for four cours with breaks in between.

The series is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and premiered on TV Tokyo in October 2022. The trailer and visual for the series were revealed at the Jump Festa '22 in December 2021. In November 2020, it was confirmed that the anime project would be a television series adapting the entirety of the arc. In March 2020, Weekly Shōnen Jump and 'Bleach 20th Anniversary Project & Tite Kubo New Project Presentation' livestream announced that the manga's final story arc, the 'Thousand-Year Blood War', would receive an anime project. Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War ( BLEACH 千年血戦篇, Burīchi: Sennen Kessen-hen), also known as Bleach: The Blood Warfare, is a Japanese anime television series based on the Bleach manga series by Tite Kubo and a direct sequel to the Bleach anime series.

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