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Ani-One Streams Original Bleach Anime on YouTube
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Hong Kong content distributor MediaLink Entertainment Limited's Ani-One YouTube channel began streaming the Bleach anime on YouTube on Friday. The channel will stream episodes of the anime daily.
Alongside Hong Kong and India, the anime will stream in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, the Maldives, Mauritius, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The television anime ran for 366 episodes from 2004 to 2012. Viz Media obtained the television and home video rights to the anime in 2006. The anime franchise also includes four films and two OVAs. bilibili is streaming 109 episodes of the anime in India.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, the television anime based on the "Thousand Year Blood War" arc of Tite Kubo's Bleach manga, will premiere on October 10. The Thousand Year Blood War arc is the final arc of the manga, and covers volumes 55-74.
Kubo launched Bleach in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2001, and ended it in August 2016. Viz Media published the manga digitally in English as Shueisha published new chapters in Japan. Viz Media also published the manga in print.
The franchise has also inspired video games, novels, stage plays, and a live-action film that opened in July 2018.
Kubo most recently provided character designs for the Shin Sakura Taisen (Sakura Wars in English) video game.
