Bleach Creator Releases New Art of The First Soul Reapers

November 22, 2022, 11:45am

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War has fully unleashed the very first Soul Reaper Captains from when Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto had first founded the 13 Court Guard Squads, and the original creator behind it all is celebrating their big anime debut with some special new art showing a much closer look at their designs. While the very first group of Captains had been mentioned in passing, and even been seen at a glance before, the newest episode of the anime finally brought them all to screen after over a decade of waiting to see the final arc of Tite Kubo’s original manga.

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This was an exclusive moment for the anime helping to further flesh out the events of the manga’s final arc as seen in Tite Kubo’s original run, and it’s clear that the anime is helping to bring the complete version of the story that Kubo had been ruminating on for quite some time. That’s more true than ever with the full look at the original roster of Soul Reaper Captains, and you can check them out below with a new spread shared in the latest issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine (as spotted by @WSJ_manga on Twitter):

BLEACH Special Illustration by Tite Kubo in Issue #51. pic.twitter.com/hmU22zQZmh
— Shonen Jump News (@WSJ_manga) November 20, 2022

How to Watch Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War’s Newest Episodes

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War is now airing new episodes as part of the Fall 2022 anime schedule. It’s a few episodes into its run thus far (and there are a few episodes of the English dub now available), so it’s the perfect time to jump back into the franchise and see how the final arc has kicked everything off. If you are interesting in doing just that, you can now find the new anime streaming on Hulu in the United States and Disney+ in international territories.

The first few episodes have kicked off a huge fight between the Soul Reapers and Quincies, and it’s a feud that goes back several years. It’s why the newest episode has the flashback to the very first group of Captains, and really only the start of a bigger war to come in the future. But how are you liking Bleach‘s new anime so far? Let us know all of your thoughts about it in the comments! You can even reach out to me directly about all things animated and other cool stuff @Valdezology on Twitter!