Title: THE BLADE
WSJ Synopsis
Transcending dimensions and appearing simultaneously in the Soul Society, the World of the Living, and Hueco Mundo, Yhwach declares that he will return the world to nothingness and create a new world where neither the "fear of life" nor the "fear of death" exists
However, Ichigo, rising once more from the depths of despair, alongside his allies, including the Soul Reapers and Arrancars, have not yet given up on this world
In each of the Three Realms, the final blood battle against Yhwach begins-
Full Staff List
Storyboard: Satoshi Sakai, Tomohisa Taguchi
Ep Director: Tomohisa Taguchi, Chen Dali, Shintarou Matsui
Chief Animation Director: Yukio Hasegawa
Animation Director: Saeko Ozawa (PIERROT FILMS), Cindy H. Yamauchi, Mari Tominaga, Yukio Hasegawa
Miyuki Kawano, Mariko Moritou, Heigo Akashi, Ad0k:ss Sasaki, Ichirou Uno, Eiji Abiko, Teruko Takeshima, Kumiko Horikoshi, Izumi Kondou, Guoren Liao
PIERROT FILMS
Yeong-Hun Jeong, Rina Suzuki, Minami Shiba
Action/Effects Animation Director: Satoshi Sakai
Assistant Action/Effects Animation Director: Takashi Hashimoto
Key Animation: Miyu Nakano, Katsuhiro Takagi
Yuki Satou, Ad0k:ss Sasaki, Kazuko Matsumura, Daisuke Shibukawa, Youko Kikuchi, Youjirou Sakai, Tadashi Fukuda, Tomohisa Taguchi, Toranosuke Hori, Akito Takahashi, Kyouta Washikita, Akira Teramoto, Miyuki Kawano, Kouhei Ootsu, Emi Yamasaki, Azusa Yamashita, Saki Ishimoto, Ikutsu, Kaito Hisano, Yoshifumi Miyaji, Guoren Liao, Mai Sakamoto, Kenzen, Wujiu Sun, angelkade, Zhongyu Shi, Yotam Liberman, Bebert, Piotr Ciechanowicz
PIERROT FILMS
Dali Chen, Rina Suzuki, Yukino Kumeta, Saeko Ozawa
Satoshi Sakai, Takashi Hashimoto
Yukio Hasegawa, Kiyoshi Komatsubara, Kumiko Takayanagi
61 2nd KAs
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Leaks
- Normal runtime, OP and ED included
- Ep is 90% anime-original content. The new trailer barely showed any of it
- There is said to be "a lot" of sequences on the level of or better than Blood Chains Ichigo vs Yhwach
- Ichigo, Uryuu, Grimmjow and Harribel are given the most focus during the fight, while Byakuya, Soi-Fon, Shunsui, and Toshiro have smaller parts
- Yhwach takes out almost everyone in the first half of the ep, most of them recover later but not Renji
- No appearances from Aizen, Urahara, Kenpachi, Isshin or Ryuuken
- Ichigo stays in the same Bankai form as before, no horn or Blood Chains. No new techniques from him either just Getsuga
- Byakuya performs well at the start but gets donuted later
- Soi-Fon does some ninja stuff to run through Yhwach's pillars
- Toshiro and Soi-Fon use their Bankai
- Grimmjow and Harribel perform extremely well, tho Harribel ends up almost dead
- Uryuu is actually useful and has great teamwork with Ichigo, for example there is a scene where Ichigo fires a Getsuga at Uryuu and Uryuu absorbs it and shoots a Getsuga arrow. It is said to be even better than the Blood Chains Getsuga scene from ep 45
- Akon and the other SRDI members are involved and shoot a strong beam
- Chad shows up with Yukio and rescues Akon from Yhwach's power. Yukio hacks into the cannon and changes its course
- Ginjou appears also but doesn't do anything impactful
- No Uryuu flashback scenes
- At one point the worlds are about to merge but Ganju, Nel and Nanao are able to stop it briefly before getting overpowered. Nel apparently stops the sky from closing with her head(?) After that the worlds are merged for a bit until Yhwach is defeated
- Explanation of final scene from leakers: Uryu shoots arrow head -> grimmjow bites yhwach (i think something is getting sucked out of him thanks to kisuke), shunsui is then able to touch yhwach which exposes his core (?) - i think, Ichigo starts running towards yhwach, ryunoske spawns in thanks to shunsui (i think) with a sword, grimmjow, dondochakka and pesche stab sword into yhwach, ichigo then swings, yhwach tries stopping it with his fingers, the sword breaks which reveals zangetsu, title card gets slashed. The ending was unique where Ichigo cuts Yhwach and then the title appears which gets affected by the cut as well. And then we see Ichigo slash Yhwach and ep ends
- Overall the ending of the fight is said to be much better than in the manga
- Number One is used in the ep, not during Ichigo's final slash but before
all credits to Pace (@/CrazyDlet) and @/d0nut2x on X and discord
