bleach Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War Finally Makes Its Way to Toonami

[ben0119]

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-04-25/toonami-to-air-bleach-thousand-year-blood-war-blue-exorcist-kyoto-saga-anime/.223920

https://screenrant.com/bleach-thousand-year-blood-war-anime-toonami-schedule/

If it had taken much longer, or not happened it all, Demarco would've ended up like Admiral Ozzel and Captain Needa!

 

Still, later is better than never, and while I've already seen this subbed and dubbed once, and been enjoying Mr Tommo's coverage, I will happily watch Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War again here with everyone!  This is going to be awesome!

Oh, I'm ready!

[Mr. Idea Box]

Well, guess I don't have to make that thread myself.

With that said, this is clearly where most of the acquisition budget went. And I don't even blame them for that.

[DangerMouse]

Someone put together a dub version of the first teaser trailer.

Edited Sunday at 05:04 AM by DangerMouse

[ben0119]

3 hours ago, Mr. Idea Box said:

Well, guess I don't have to make that thread myself.

With that said, this is clearly where most of the acquisition budget went. And I don't even blame them for that.

Yeah, I'm fine even if Demarco had to sell his left kidney to get Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War. 😄

Edited Sunday at 08:30 AM by ben0119

[DangerMouse]

And the official part 1 dub trailer for the digital and limited edition release of part 1 (slightly more spoilery, but not much)

Spoiler

 

 

Edited Sunday at 05:31 AM by DangerMouse

[ben0119]

6 minutes ago, DangerMouse said:

Someone put together a dub version of the first teaser trailer.

Oh, nice!  Good catch on that, I'm not sure the trailers ever got English versions.  This is well put together.

[DangerMouse]

19 minutes ago, ben0119 said:

Still, later is better than never, and while I've already seen this subbed and dubbed once, and been enjoying Mr Tommo's coverage, I will happily watch Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War again here with everyone!  This is going to be awesome!

Oh, I'm ready!

Yeah, the dub cast is back baby! HYPE.

Edited Sunday at 05:12 AM by DangerMouse

[DangerMouse]

21 minutes ago, ben0119 said:

Oh, nice!  Good catch on that, I'm not sure the trailers ever got English versions.  This is well put together.

Yeah, they didn't release dub versions of all of the trailers only some, I was looking but it looks like Viz never released an official dub version of this one. So this was pretty great that someone took the real dub audio and put one together.

Edited Sunday at 05:33 AM by DangerMouse

[ben0119]

3 hours ago, DangerMouse said:

Yeah, the dub cast is back baby! HYPE.

Yes, there are some sound alikes, particularly for JYB with the guy who played Soul from Soul Eater (a show inspired by Bleach that was referred to as Bleach Lite, ironically,) and the guy who played Food Wars' Soma, but I'm glad it didn't come to that.  Seems like pretty much everyone who is still active is back. 

Too bad about Akon, Shinji, and Hiyori though.  Though Hiyori already had like 3 different voices. 😄

[ben0119]

2 hours ago, DangerMouse said:

Yeah, they didn't release dub versions of all of the trailers only some, I was looking but it looks like Viz never released an official dub version of this one. So this was pretty great that someone took the real dub audio and put one together.

Oh OK, so Viz did put out English versions for some of the trailers, but not all of them.  I'm glad fans were in the clutch to fill in gaps for the trailers.  

[Jman]

It’s more like Toonami is catching Hulu’s sloppy seconds, but at this point they’ll take what they can get.

[PokeNirvash]

Hey, acquisitions are acquisitions, and that's all that matters after the drought of this past four months.

[Blatch]

On 5/4/2025 at 12:59 AM, Mr. Idea Box said:

With that said, this is clearly where most of the acquisition budget went. And I don't even blame them for that.

Pretty much. Regardless of the financial reasons, Bleach just belongs on Toonami, or at least [as]. I won't be watching, but I might be if I didn't have BE and Lazarus (and Fate/UBW?) to supremely catch up on.

[yippee, 3000th post!]

[Toonamiguy321]

On 5/4/2025 at 12:11 AM, DangerMouse said:

Yeah, the dub cast is back baby! HYPE.

There is actually quite a long list of recasts, mostly among the minor cast, as quite a few VAs from this show who were small time in the mid 00s are now big time and anime dubbing isn’t worth it to them anymore. There has also unfortunately been a few recasts due to VA deaths. 
 

I think the most interesting one is that David Lodge did express an interest of reprising Kenpachi, but was not contacted. So the bad blood on that runs deep. 
 

And then strangely, Yoruichi was recast with zero contact or consent from Wendee Lee, which with the help of Twitter got the recast unrecasted and Wendee Lee back into her role. All Yoruichi lines are re-recorded by her, but the initial release of the dub has her voiced by a different person. 
 

This chart indicates Dave Mallows retirement as the cause for his recast, but in March he passed away, so it would have had to happen regardless even if he reprised in 2023. 

[Top Gun]

I could not tell you that 90% of those characters existed in the first place. Such is Bleach.