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After 20 Years, ‘Bleach’ Has Come to an Elegant, Exhausting, Fitting Finale

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After 20 Years, ‘Bleach’ Has Come to an Elegant, Exhausting, Fitting Finale

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, the long-awaited anime adaptation of Tite Kubo’s blockbuster shonen manga, ends with the same heightened hallmarks that made Bleach a phenomenon in 2004. The Calamity, Pierrot Films’ fourth and final cour, delivers gorgeous animation, larger-than-life battles, and storytelling that can be as invigorating as it is convoluted. Bringing those qualities together, Thousand-Year Blood War‘s series finale feels suitably Bleach: frequently exhilarating, periodically exhausting, and a fitting conclusion to a landmark shonen series many fans never expected to live to see completed.

Bleach follows Ichigo Kurosaki (EN: Johnny Yong Bosch, JP: Masakazu Morita), a high schooler who moonlights as a substitute Soul Reaper, a samurai who defends humanity from demonic creatures called Hollows. In typical battle shonen fashion, this logline is only the tip of the series’ iceberg. Ichigo fights and befriends entire swaths of rival supernatural civilizations from heaven, hell, and everywhere in between, from the militant Soul Society and the seedy half-hollow society of Hueco Mundo to the long-thought-extinct archers, the Quincies, with humanity and his friends’ fate hanging in the balance.

Ichigo is the closest thing anime has to a messianic figure, tied to all the above parties as he fights tooth and nail to protect those he befriends along the way. The Calamity sees Ichigo and his allies contend with a war against the Quincies, led by the overpowered Yhwach (EN: Richard Epcar , JP: Sugo Takayuki ), whose plans within plans in his aptly titled Thousand-Year Blood War would put Nostradamus to shame.


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