The 35th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Monday that the magazine will publish a new 73-page chapter of Tite Kubo's Bleach manga in the combined 36th and 37th issues on August 10. The "new episode" for the manga will have a color page, and will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the manga's release. Furthermore, the magazine itself teases the one-shot story: "Ichigo was invited to Soul Society for a certain ceremony, but!?"
Kubo released Bleach on Weekly Shonen Jump in 2001 and ended in August 2016. Viz Media published the manga in North America digitally in English while Shueisha published new chapters in Japan. Viz Media also published the manga in print.
New 73-page chapter of the Bleach manga
The manga inspired a television anime adaptation that ran for 366 episodes from 2004 to 2012. Viz Media obtained the television and home video rights to the anime in 2006. The series premiered with an English dub on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim the same year. . Then, it finally aired all the episodes in 2014.
The anime franchise also includes four films and two OVAs. However, the franchise has also inspired video games, novels, stage plays, and a live-action film that premiered in July 2018. The manga is inspiring a new anime adaptation that will cover the manga's "Thousand Year Blood War" arc. The arc is the final arc of the manga and covers volumes 55-74.
The world of Bleach takes place where a young boy named Ichigo Kurosaki, still in high school, comes face to face with a Shinigami named Rukia Kuchiki. After the meeting that changed his life, and having his house invaded by a Hollow, Ichigo becomes a Shinigami (also known as "Reaper of Death"), and where he has his life from a simple high school, to one of the strongest Shinigami from all anime.
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