What Manga Chapters Has Bleach TYBW Adapted So Far?

Oct. 5, 2024

Bleach is set to return with the much-awaited Thousand Year Blood War Arc Part 3. In the modern age of anime, we’ve seen several amazing shows like Attack on Titan and Demon Slayer. However, Bleach, even after being away from the screens for several years, made a bombastic return with the TYBW arc adaptation. Studio Pierrot has successfully adapted to the modern animation style and released two incredible cours. Now, with the third part underway, let’s look at how many chapters Bleach TYBW has adapted from the manga so far.

How Many Chapters Are Left In Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War Arc?

In the Bleach manga, Thousand-Year Blood War Arc is covered in 218 chapters, roughly. This makes TYBW one of the longest arcs in the manga series, so it makes sense why the studio decided to cover it in four parts. Regardless, to answer the question, Bleach TYBWanime hasso far covered 128 chapters, which means the anime still has 90 chapters to adapt.

Part 1 of Bleach TYBW, which consisted of 13 episodes, covered 62 chapters of the source material. TYBW Part 2, on the other hand, which also ran for a single cour with 13 episodes, covered the next 67 chapters from the manga. So, a total of 129 chapters have been adapted so far.

If we consider the first two parts, the anime has been adapting around 4-6 chapters in each episode. However, it’s safe to assume that the studio will bring down the pacing in the next two parts.

There are nowaround 90 chapters leftto adapt from the Thousand-Year Blood War Arc in the Bleach manga. So if creators want the next two parts to also feature 13 episodes each, they’ll have to divide 90 chapters across two cours.

Taking the previous trend into account, 45 chapters may not be sufficient for 13 episodes. So, the creators will have toslow down the pacingby including significant anime-only elements. The anime-only parts will not only help tell a better story but also make it easier for the next part to run smoothly for 13 episodes. Honestly, Bleach has done this with the previous two parts by including several anime-only elements, but they’ll have to do it more in the next two parts.

TYBW has so far been an action-packed experience. Of course, it sometimes lacked good animation, but it was a great adventure overall. Hopefully, the quality will only go uphill from now onwards.

Aparna is the Senior Entertainment Writer at Beebom. She started her professional journey in the retail industry but her admiration for films and TV shows pulled her into the field of entertainment writing where she has experience writing for various well-known publishers including Otakukart, Sportskeeda, Game Revolution, Forever Geek and Dexerto.