Crunchyroll and A Plus Japan to Launch Bleach: Soul Resonance Mobile Game
Crunchyroll announced on Wednesday that it and A Plus Japan are launching Bleach: Soul Resonance, the 3D action mobile game based on Tite Kubo’s Bleach series by Nuverse (Marvel Snap, One Piece: Blood Routes), globally on Android and iOS devices later this year. Pre-registrations for the game are now open.
In the game, players control Ichigo Kurosaki through the story of the series. They can find unique Zanpakuto weapons, and build bonds between characters to enhance their strategy in battles. The game’s visuals incorporate the style of the new Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War anime with cel shading rendered graphics.
KLab’s Bleach: Brave Souls game launched on PlayStation 4 in over 148 countries and regions around the world in March 2022, after a delay from its originally scheduled 2021 release. KLab launched the action role-playing game for iOS and Android devices in Japan in July 2015 and worldwide in January 2016. The game is free-to-play with in-app purchases.
Other smartphone games in the Bleach franchise include Bleach: Immortal Soul, Bleach: Paradise Lost, BLEACH Kyo・Kai-Tamashinokakusei: Shinigami (Bleach: Boundary Awakened Souls – Shinigami), and Bleach: Soul Rising, which launched in March 2020, September 2017, November 2018, and September 2020, respectively.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Anime Continues
The Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War anime’s fourth part, titled Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity, will debut in 2026 on TV Tokyo and its affiliates. It will be the final season of the anime.
The anime’s first cours (quarter of a year) premiered in October 2022, and ended in December 2022 with a one-hour special that combined the anime’s 12th and 13th episodes. Viz Media is streaming the anime on Hulu in the U.S. The anime is streaming on Disney+ internationally, and Ani-One Asia is streaming the series in many Asian countries.
The anime’s second cours premiered in the United States on Hulu, in Latin America on Star+, and in select other countries internationally on Disney+ in July 2023. Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 3 – The Conflict premiered in October 2024 and concluded in a one-hour final episode on December.
Bleach Manga and Anime Legacy
Kubo launched Bleach in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2001, and ended it in August 2016. Viz Media published the manga in North America digitally in English as Shueisha published new chapters in Japan. Viz Media also published the manga in print. The manga has 130 million copies in circulation.
The manga inspired a television anime adaptation that ran for 366 episodes from 2004 to 2012. Viz Media obtained the television and home video rights to the anime in 2006. The series premiered with an English dub in Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim that same year, and eventually aired all the episodes by 2014. The anime franchise also includes four films and two OVAs. Additionally, the franchise has also inspired video games, novels, stage plays, and a live-action film that opened in July 2018.
Source: Press release
