Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Animator Shares Cool Rangiku Sketch

By Nick Valdez

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War has kicked off the titular war between the Soul Reapers and the Quincies, and one of the animators behind the series is hyping up Rangiku Matsumoto's big comeback with some cool new art! The final arc of Tite Kubo's original manga series has some of the biggest moments in the series overall for many of the fan favorite characters, and that's one of the many reasons why fans have been waiting to see all of it come to life for over a decade. Now that the new series has begun, many ore are beginning to see why fans had been hyping up this final battle.

The first few episodes of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War have been steadily reintroducing the massive cast, and been setting up the wave of new enemies filling the ranks of the Wandenreich now invading Soul Society. With this invasion bringing back Rangiku and many of the Soul Reaper Captains to the spotlight as they begin their fight, Leo Kawamoto, one of the animators on the series has celebrated this latest episode with a cool new sketch showing off the fan favorite fighter with fans on Twitter. Check it out: 

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With the previous episode of the series seeing the Sternritter break through to Soul Society in pillars of flaming Reishi, Episode 4 of the series officially kicks off the fights between the Captains and these mysterious new enemies. The Quincies had annihilated a huge amount of the Soul Reaper's ranks through just the first wave of the invasion alone, and things are getting even tougher as each of the Captains realize that their new opponents are much stronger than they might be able to handle. 

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Rangiku accompanies Toshiro Hitsugaya during his fight, but when his Bankai is stolen, she plays her first major role in the war. She's stunned when Toshiro's Bankai is taken, but he orders her to use Tenteikura to alert the rest of the squads that the enemy can steal their Bankai. With this being her first major moment in the war, now it remains to be seen how she factors into the rest of the fights as the new anime continues this long awaited war. 

How did you like Rangiku's return to the anime after all this time? How are you liking Bleach's new series so far? Let us know all of your thoughts about it and everything anime in the comments!

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