I'm a recent fan of Bleach, so much so that just this week I finished Bleach and with the huge hype that was for this new arc I threw myself in head first and I can tell you that Bleach - A Thousand Year Blood War is an inexplicable work of art.
Studio Pierrot has undoubtedly done a magnificent job in terms of animating Bleach even from the original anime as well as this new arc that exceeded limits and gave a gift to all the fans who have waited years for this continuation and I am a recent fan. I can understand the passion that Pierrot put here, The animations are magnificent, the soundtrack is spectacular and above all the combat choreography is ridiculously incredible.
The story
As I'm not a manga reader at least not in this new arc, I'll try to summarize with what we've been presented so far, Bleach Thousand Year Blood War takes place as a continuation of the events of the original anime saga after the Fullbringer arc. We are then presented with a new threat Yhwach "The Quincy King" and his Stein Ritter army that comes in search of the complete destruction of Soul Society, and this is a very brief summary so as not to give you the entire plot that is being developed throughout these episodes.
Animation
As I already mentioned in the introduction, animation is an aspect that Pierrot has undoubtedly put all its passion into, and that passion is visible, all the scenes are impeccable, 3D is used but it is not something strange and ridiculous, but something that it makes the experience even more captivating if seen on high quality monitors, without giving away spoilers I want to give my personal opinion about episode 6 "The Fire" which is a superb visual spectacle and which made me "applaud" the work put here.
Characters
Well, Bleach's characters, quite charismatic and incredible, are characters that you can undoubtedly get attached to and all of them with very different characteristics and with a phenomenal presence, I'm not going to lie, I wish there was more emphasis on certain characters than it's been shown so far it's pretty good having some changed looks which I thought was really cool.
The Pace of the Episodes
Well, as I mentioned earlier, I'm not a manga reader in this arc and I'm just going to stick with what I'm seeing in the anime.
There are some animes that don't know how to make an interesting pace, but in Bleach that doesn't happen, since the beginning it's full of action and things happening and that makes the experience so addictive that we don't even realize the 24 minutes of the episode to pass, the estudio knew how to balance the story scenes with the fight scenes very well and applied the BRUTAL soundtracks that make Bleach Thousand Year Blood War a spectacular arc.
Conclusion
Bleach Thousand Year Blood War is an excellent continuation of what the original anime was and is a love letter to all the older fans of this anime and the more recent ones who have joined this magnificent work of art created by Tite Kubo.
And I highly recommend seeing this sequel, it's a superb job by Pierrot and my grade is without a doubt a very high 10.
Thanks for reading this far
NitreX
