Bleach anime ends after 22 years with Thousand-Year Blood War finale
The gist
The final Bleach episode, 'Death & Strawberry', aired in Japan on Oct 27, closing the Thousand-Year Blood War arc.
The anime revises a manga ending fans widely disliked, so its reception is the story.
How it unfolded
- 2001Tite Kubo began serializing the Bleach manga in Weekly Shonen Jump; it ran until 2016.
- 2004 -10The Bleach TV anime first aired.
- 2012The original anime ended after 366 episodes across 16 seasons, never catching up to the manga.