Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Celebrates Arrancars' Return With Special Art

By Nick Valdez

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War is now getting into the thick of its titular war for the revival anime series, and the newest episode is showing off a cool new side of some key Arrancars with some special art debuted during the anime! The revival anime series has reintroduced fans to the action classic as it finally adapts the final arc from Tite Kubo's original manga, and with the first episode kicked off a huge new invasion from a mysterious enemy. But as the newest episode proved, it wasn't only the Soul Society that was actually in danger from this new army.

Episode 2 of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War updated fans on how Hueco Mundo has been doing, and unfortunately the region has been wiped out by the mysterious group that had attacked the Soul Society in the premiere. During all of this some of the surviving Arrancar, including the Tres Bestias of Emilou Apacci, Franceska Mila Rose, and Cyan Sung-Sun, got into the action to defend their home. To celebrate seeing these favorites in action again after all this time, the series' commercial break title cards showed off not only new art for them, but for Hueco Mundo too. Check it out below: 

The Tres Bestias are Back! 

Episode 2 brought the Tres Bestias back to the scene shortly after this new army, dubbed the Wandenreich, attacked Hueco Mundo and took the former third Espada, Tier Harribel, into their custody. The three Arrancar were upset at the fact that so much damage had been done without them around, and decided to jump into the action fairly quickly and took out a number of the invaders that had killed their comrades before. But as soon revealed, they didn't do so well in their fight either. 

This is only the start of the massive conflict between all three regions of the afterlife realms, and these are far from the only Arrancar that we will get to see in action as the final arc of the anime continues. But at the same time, it's also setting up many more characters for the kind of bloody end that the Tres Bestias got for their big return. 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!

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