Bleach: Sennen Kessen-hen - Soukoku-tan

After an awe-inspiring battle with Ichibei Hyousube—leader of the Soul Society's Royal Guard—the powerful Yhwach moves into the final stage of his master plan. He aims to slay the Soul King, the being whose very existence maintains the status quo of three worlds: Hueco Mundo, the Soul Society, and the realm of humans that Ichigo Kurosaki and his closest friends hail from. Conquering his own bout with the remainder of the Royal Guard, Uryuu Ishida joins Yhwach in his efforts to create a new world in his image.

With a flood of resolution and newfound power, Ichigo rushes to stop Yhwach from accomplishing his ultimate goal and save the countless lives within the three existing realms. But Ichigo has a complicated lineage, one that leaves him susceptible to Yhwach's sinister influence.

Meanwhile, in a final desperate gambit, Jirou Sakuranosuke Shunsui Kyouraku, the newly promoted head captain of the Soul Society's combat corps, enlists the help of an old enemy whose immense power may turn the tide of battle.

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Kurosaki, Ichigo Main

Morita, Masakazu Japanese

Ishida, Uryuu Main

Sugiyama, Noriaki Japanese

Zaraki, Kenpachi Supporting

Tachiki, Fumihiko Japanese

Urahara, Kisuke Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese

Aizen, Sousuke Supporting

Hayami, Show Japanese

Hitsugaya, Toushirou Supporting

Park, Romi Japanese

Kuchiki, Rukia Supporting

Orikasa, Fumiko Japanese

Kuchiki, Byakuya Supporting

Okiayu, Ryoutarou Japanese

Jaegerjaquez, Grimmjow Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

Shihouin, Yoruichi Supporting

Yukino, Satsuki Japanese

Taguchi, Tomohisa Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard, Series Composition

Murata, Hikaru Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Nagasaki, Yukio Sound Director

Chen, Dali Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation, Assistant Animation Director, Chief Animation Director

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Jan 25, 2025

KENKAIYT

Recommended

Bleach: Sennen Kessen-hen - Soukoku-tan is the best of the Thousand Year Blood War anime so far.

Visuals - This cour is easily the most visually impressive for this anime so far. The animation quality is excellent and rarely dips. Still frames, weird compositing, and bad cgi are present but are infrequent and brief. More talented staff has been added to the series which allows for clean and fluid animation to be present far more often than before in this anime.

Soundtrack - Bleach is well known for having awesome music. This is still the case for cour 3. The old and new songs created by ... Shiro Sagisu are great. The main problems for the soundtrack in this cour is that songs that have been used frequently in prior cours are used fairly often and as a manga reader, some songs did not fit my expectations for certain scenes as I felt a different emotion reading the manga than the emotion trying to be conveyed from the music by the studio pierrot staff. The reuse of music problem is also exacerbated by the fact that Shiro Sagisu has made a huge catalogue of music for the Bleach IP but very few are being used. Though I do not think these issues is enough to ruin the experience.

Story - The story is fairly consistent and takes it's time in comparison to prior cours adapting less chapters from the manga. The plot is generally coherent, lacking plot holes or stupid decisions made by characters (mostly).

Characters - The characters are still written consistently with more development is being offered to old and new characters.

The added content for this anime is probably the most unique aspect since the staff adds so much with the mangaka, Tite Kubo being a part of staff as a general supervisor. The added content mostly serves to benefit the series, with very few either not doing anything to the series, or hurting the series.

This cour is very well made with some minor setbacks.

tl;dr

The visuals are mostly excellent, the soundtrack is mostly good, the story is still mostly coherent, and the characters haven't been tarnished.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jan 29, 2025

fizer0

Mixed Feelings

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Quincy: smirks "I can wipe you all out in an instant." activates a deadly technique

Shinigami: grimaces "Tch…" staggers but remains standing

Quincy: calmly lowers his hand "Hmph. As expected. Nothing but talk."

Shinigami: smirks "You think that was enough? Watch this." unleashes a hidden technique

Quincy: eyes widen "Impossible…!" stumbles back, feeling overpowered

... Shinigami: calmly walks forward "You were saying?"

Quincy: grits teeth, then suddenly smirks "I knew you'd use that move." activates Uno Reverse

Shinigami: eyes widen "No… this can't be!" staggers, overwhelmed

Quincy: steps forward, exuding confidence "Now, it's over."

Shinigami: chuckles "You really think so?" his wounds fade as he unveils his true technique

Quincy: stunned "W-what?! That's…!" realizes he's in danger

Shinigami: calmly raises his sword "Now, perish."

Quincy: grins despite the pain "You're strong… but I haven’t shown my ultimate technique yet."

Shinigami: expression shifts "…What?!"

Quincy: closes his eyes "Awaken… Absolute Erasure!" unleashes a blinding energy wave

Shinigami: stumbles but remains standing "Not bad. But you forgot…"

Quincy: panting "…What?"

Shinigami: smirks "I am immune to erasure." walks through the attack unscathed

Quincy: eyes widen in disbelief "No… that's not possible!"

Shinigami: raises a single finger "And now…" activates a technique that bends reality

Quincy: feels his body being erased instead "What?! No…!"

Shinigami: stays cool

Quincy: fading away "Hah… But even now, you underestimate me…"

Shinigami: narrows eyes "Hmph. What now?"

Quincy: suddenly reforms "Reversal of Reversal!"

Shinigami: shocked "You rewound your own existence?!"

Quincy: grins "And now, it's really over." summons a final technique

Shinigami: laughs softly "You never learn." reveals yet another transformation

Quincy: shocked "No way…!"

And the cycle continues…

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jan 11, 2025

Nomaed

Not Recommended

Funny

BLEACH: A TRILLION YEARS UNFORGIVABLE ENDLESS PAINFUL REMINISCENCE BATTLE

Yuhabaha: "Ichigo, thank you. Without you, I would not have achieved my goal!"
Ichigo: "What, what do you mean?"
Yuhabaha: "You are a sinigami, a quincy, a hollow, a weizard, a human. And more importantly, you are a wizard, Harry, I mean, Ichigo. I needed the power of all to open the portal to the real where sense doesn't make sense. The last season!"
Ichigo: "Impossible. That can't be true."
Yuhabaha: "Yes, it can. You didn't know that, but that dog that you gave a piece of bread to after the sixth lesson you had on the sixth day after your ... sixth birthday had exactly 666 hairs. Did you think it didn't have that much fur for no reason? It was all a part of the sequence of the gate activation!"
Ichigo: "NO!"
Yuhabaha: "Yes! Even that time you spent on the sixth of June, which is the sixth month, of 2006, pleasuring yourself for exactly 666 seconds, was a requirement to open the gate."
Ichigo: "No, you are lying! That doesn't make any sense!"
Yuhabaha: "Precisely! Off we go, Hashuwarudo, my trustworthy right hand, whose family I have slaughtered mercilessly but who still follows me but maybe still plans on betraying me after having so many opportunities to kill me, and Ishida Uryu, who is totally not planning on betraying me."
Before leaving, Isida turns and looks at Ichigo.
Isida: "Ichigo."
Ichigo: "Isida, you..."
Isida: "I HATE SINIGAMI!"

Later, that very same minute:

Ichigo: "This guy is just a quincy, he can absorb the soul energy from all around him to replenish his reisi, but we have destroyed everything, so he's done!"
Villainous minion whose name does not matter and who is completely forgettable (VMWNDMMAWISF): "HAHAHAHAHA! You are a fool, Ichigo! Behold my true power: the instant defeat!"
Ichigo: "What? Impossible! How can you do that with your reisi, which has been an established concept throughout the series?"
VMWNDMMAWISF: "Have you forgotten where we are, Ichigo? This is the realm where nothing makes sense! KIYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Random Ichigo's sidekick places his hand on Ichigo's shoulder in reassurance.
Rando: "Don't worry, Ichigo. Go, I will deal with him."
Ichigo: "What? Have you lost your mind? He can summon an instant defeat!"
Rando: "Yes, he can. But can he defeat every of the one million techniques that I have acquired?"
Ichigo: "A million techniques?.. Wait! Don't tell me that during the five minutes break that you took to pee, you managed to finally master the one million techniques technique! IDIOT! YOU WERE MAKING A FOOL OF ME THIS WHOLE TIME! AND EVEN WHEN WE WERE FIGHTING THAT GUY YOU KNEW WE WOULD WIN CAUSE YOU COULD HAVE USED YOUR TECHNIQUE!" *funny_face.jpg* *laugh_track.mp3*
Ichigo smirks with a confident look.
Ichigo: "Yes, I trust you."
Ichigo and company leaves.

A few moments later...

VMWNDMMAWISF: "KIYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! So much for a million techniques! Are you an idiot? Did you not hear the name of my ability? What does it matter how many techniques you have if I can use my ability to defeat you? KIYAHAHAHAHA! You are such an idiot! And all your friends are idiots! And even your relatives are idiots! Have you been doing it on purpose? Did you surround yourself with idiots on purpose? Or did you surround yourself with idiots because you are an idiot?"
Rando: "You managed to defeat all of my million techniques. What a shame. It would be the end for me if I had only one million techniques..."
VMWNDMMAWISF: "Nani?"
Rando: "Talking about being an idiot. It seems you didn't hear the name of my technique."
VMWNDMMAWISF: "Only the deaf couldn't hear it. It's one million techniques."
Rando: "No. It is One Million Techniques TECHNIQUE."
VMWNDMMAWISF: "That just means that your technique consits of one million techniques, you idiot! What does it matter?"
Rando: "No, it means that my technique that I have only one technique, which consits of one million sub-techniques. And because you have used your ability to defeat my sub-techinues, makes it a sub-ability, and you will not be able to use it to defeat my tehcnique!"
VMWNDMMAWISF: "No, that is impossible. You are just a shinigami, who uses reyatsu, the soul energy, the concept of which has been established throughout the series. What you tell defies all logic, it doesn't—"
Rando: "Make any sense?"
VMWNDMMAWISF: "No, no, you couldn't."
Rando: "Now, witness my true technique: UNO REVERSO!"
VMWNDMMAWISF: "That's even not the name of you techinue!"
Rando: "You are indeed an idiot! NOTHING MAKES SENSE IN THE LAST SEASON!"
VMWNDMMAWISF: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" *dies*

To be continued...

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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