Bleach news
The gist
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War lost the Summer 2026 grand prize to Mushoku Tensei Season 3.
Its short broadcast window, not its score, kept it out of the running.
How it unfolded
- Jul 4, 2026Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Conflict, the final part of the anime adaptation, began airing.
- 2026The Conflict aired eight episodes before going on a one-month hiatus, then returned to air its final two episodes.
- Sep 12, 2026The tracking window for the Anime Data Insights Lab Summer 2026 study ended.