Bleach’s Final Part Moves Episodes 49 and 50 to Late October
A four-episode “climax selection” will air before the delayed installments as staff work to improve animation quality.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity has postponed episodes 49 and 50 to October 19 and 26 at 24:00. The production committee says staff are improving the anime’s quality ahead of its climax.
The production committee announced Saturday that Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity has delayed episodes 49 and 50. They will air Monday, October 19 and Monday, October 26, respectively, at 24:00—effectively midnight the following day.
The committee said staff are working to improve the anime’s quality as it approaches its climax. The Calamity is the fourth and final part of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War.
A “climax selection” will revisit four episodes before the delayed installments:
- Saturday, September 19, at 11:15 p.m.: Episode 7, “Born in the Dark”
- Saturday, September 26, at 11:00 p.m.: Episode 28, “Kill the King”
- Monday, October 5, at 24:00: Episode 46, “The End”
- Monday, October 12, at 24:00: Episode 48, “The End Two World”
The Calamity debuted on TV Tokyo on July 25 at 11:00 p.m. JST (10:00 a.m. EDT). Streaming on Japanese services began July 26 at noon.
Other television launches followed:
- BS TV Tokyo: July 27
- AT-X: August 2
- Hiroshima TV and Niigata Broadcasting: August 4
- Sendai Broadcasting: August 10
jo0ji performs the opening song, “I-BULL.” Singer-songwriter 9Lana performs the ending song, “Rasen” (Spiral).
Viz Media and Fathom Entertainment gave the first three episodes advance screenings in 943 U.S. theaters on June 25–29. Screenings offered Japanese audio with English subtitles and an English dub.
The screenings also included an exclusive behind-the-scenes conversation featuring creator Tite Kubo, chief series director Tomohisa Taguchi, and series director Hikaru Murata.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War spans four cours, each a quarter-year programming block, with breaks between them. It adapts the original manga’s remaining story through its ending. The manga’s final arc, Thousand Year Blood War, covers volumes 55–74.
The first cour began in October 2022 and finished that December with a one-hour special combining episodes 12 and 13.
Viz Media streams the anime on Hulu in the United States. Disney+ carries it internationally, while Ani-One Asia streams it in many Asian countries.
The second cour launched in July 2023 on Hulu in the United States, Star+ in Latin America, and Disney+ in select other countries.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 3 - The Conflict debuted in October 2024. It ended that December with a one-hour final episode.
Sources: Bleach anime's website via ANN
