Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 4 Release Schedule and Where to Watch

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War — The Calamity premiered July 25, 2026 and runs 10 weekly episodes through September 26. New episodes drop Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. PT / 10:30 a.m. ET on Hulu in the US and Disney+ internationally, with English subtitles and an English dub available.

Part 4 is the final stretch of the Thousand-Year Blood War anime. Here is the complete release calendar — and one structural detail about this cour that has gone largely unremarked.

Bleach TYBW Part 4 release schedule

Release times by timezone

• Pacific — 7:30 a.m. PDT
• Mountain — 8:30 a.m. MDT
• Central — 9:30 a.m. CDT
• Eastern — 10:30 a.m. EDT
• UK — 2:30 p.m. GMT

Where to watch Bleach TYBW Part 4

Our take: the shortest cour is adapting the hardest material

Here is the number almost nobody is discussing. Parts 1, 2 and 3 each ran 13 episodes. Part 4 runs 10. The finale is the shortest cour of the entire Thousand-Year Blood War adaptation.

That cuts directly against what this anime has been doing for four years. The defining virtue of the TYBW adaptation — the reason it rebuilt the franchise’s reputation — is that it expanded. It gave screen time to fights the manga cut away from, restored context the manga skipped, and slowed down where the source material sprinted. Studio Pierrot spent three cours treating the manga as a first draft to be filled in rather than a script to be transcribed.

Now it reaches the ending — the single most criticized stretch of Tite Kubo’s original run, the part readers have spent a decade calling rushed — and the episode count goes down by three.

There are two honest ways to read that, and it is worth being clear that we do not yet know which is right.

The optimistic reading: ten episodes of tightly-planned material beats thirteen of padding. A shorter cour can mean the adaptation identified precisely which threads need resolution and is refusing to inflate around them. Length has never been the same thing as quality, and the previous parts earned enough goodwill to justify trusting the plan.

The cautious reading: the repairs this ending needs are additive. Fixing a rushed conclusion means giving underserved characters their moments, and moments cost minutes. Three fewer episodes is roughly seventy fewer minutes of runtime in the exact stretch where the source material has the most gaps to fill.

The practical upshot for viewers: watch the pacing of the middle episodes, around 4 through 6. That is where an adaptation reveals whether it has room to breathe. If those episodes feel like they are moving through checklist items, the compression is real. If they linger, the shorter count was a choice about focus rather than a constraint.

Either way, this is the ending. After September 26 there is no more Thousand-Year Blood War anime left to make.

For more, see our ranking of the strongest Bleach characters, our list of the best anime fights of all time, and where the series lands among the best manga ever made.

Frequently asked questions

How many episodes is Bleach TYBW Part 4?

Ten episodes, running weekly from July 25 to September 26, 2026. That is three fewer than each of the first three parts, which ran 13 episodes apiece.

When does the next Bleach episode come out?

New episodes release every Saturday at 7:30 a.m. PT / 10:30 a.m. ET, following the schedule above through September 26, 2026.

Where can I watch Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 4?

Hulu in the United States, including via Hulu on Disney+, and Disney+ in international territories. In Japan it airs on TV Tokyo and affiliated stations.

Is The Calamity the last part of Bleach TYBW?

Yes. Part 4 is the final part of the Thousand-Year Blood War anime, concluding on September 26, 2026.

Sources

• Variety — The Calamity sets July premiere on Hulu and Disney+
• Final Weapon — full episode schedule
• GamesRadar+ — release times and platforms