Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Reveals Closer Look at Aizawa’s New Design

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War has officially brought Sosuke Aizen back to the franchise with the newest episode of the anime, and the series is celebrating by offering a new look at the villain’s updated design for the final arc! Now that the anime is officially taking on the long awaited final arc from Tite Kubo’s original manga, fans are getting to see many of the characters, fights, and moments they have been waiting to see play out for a long time. The final arc brings back many familiar faces, and some of these returns are definitely more welcome than the others.

Bleach’s newest episode brought Aizen back to the anime as part of the unfolding invasion of the Soul Society, and it’s our first new look at the villain in over a decade. As a result, his look overall has changed in the time that he had been imprisoned following his own attack on the Soul Society and this comes with a cool new character design for the new anime that you can get a much closer look at below: 

Why is Aizen Back for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War? 

Episode 6 of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War sees Head Captain Yamamoto fully entering the fight against Yhwach and the Sternritter, and it’s soon revealed why we don’t really get to see the captain in action. His fierce display of power was enough to take out the enemy, but it’s soon revealed that it was all a distraction while Yhwach himself had different plans for the Soul Society invasion. As it turns out, he really only wanted to get in contact with Aizen. 

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It’s here that Aizen makes his return to the series and reveals that he already had a full grasp on everything that was happening on the battlefield despite being imprisoned deep beneath the First Division’s quarters. It’s here that Yhwach reveals that Aizen has been labeled a special threat much like Ichigo Kurosaki, and thus wanted to recruit him because they share the same goal of destroying the Soul Society. As fans would expect, Aizen refuses to do so. 

Now it’s just a matter of seeing how Aizen will play into the rest of the new anime as the final arc continues, so how did you like seeing the villain making a comeback? 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!