Bleach fans are finally getting an adaptation of the last arc of the Bleach manga: The Thousand Year Blood War Arc.
They are splitting it into 4 cours with 13 episodes in each cours.
The animation was great for the first episode. They brought back the banger ost and the original cast is doing the voices again.
I am personally just really happy to see something made in 2022 actually turn out to be good!
Imo there are some really good parts in the arcs after the Soul Society arc.
From what I have heard from people, many consider the first arc of Bleach as just good and consider the soul society arc as the peak of the show.
I personally liked both arcs; I liked the first arc of Bleach because it was very similar to Yu Yu Hakusho which is in my top 5 anime of all time and I liked the Soul Society arc because it had some good characterization and great fights.
It could be quite hit and miss, one the one hand the Fake Karakura Town arc meant a lot of different characters got to show off their abilities in combat like Hisagi revealing his Shikai, however on the other hand at times too much time was spent on the arc and how some of it resolved meant some characters were wasted.
The fact Halibel was the sole Espada to survive, bar Nel and the other one, meant characters like Starrk and Yammy were woefully underused. Starrk gets taken out in the Fake Town Arc by a gimmick relating to Shunsui's Shikai and Yammy is taken out offscreen by Byakuya and Kenpachi. Despite being the two most powerful Espada using their full Resurreccions both get jobbed hard and it's debatable who actually comes off worse out of the two.
Yammy for getting taken out offscreen or Starrk losing to someone not even using their Bankai?
Plus the TYBW arc has a lot of characters deaths. A LOT of them. So there will be quite a few anime only fans out there who probably get mad at their favourites getting killed off considering how bloody the arc starts let alone continues.