Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War

Director(s)

Production year2022

Genre(s)Animation

Approx. running minutes24m

CastMasakazu Morita, Houko Kuwashima, Tetsu Inada, Tomokazu Sugita, Romi Park, Ryûsei Nakao, Shôto Kashii, Akemi Kanda, Akemi Kanda, Katsuyuki Konishi, Hideaki Tezuka, Hikaru Murata, Yoshinori Odaka, Mitsutoshi Satô, Tomohisa Taguchi, Tite Kubo, Tomohisa Taguchi, Shirô Sagisu, Kazuhiro Yamada, Akinori Mishima

Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War

BLEACH is a Japanese animated action fantasy series; in this episode, the Soul Society suffers tremendous losses in the ...

BLEACH is a Japanese animated action fantasy series; in this episode, the Soul Society suffers tremendous losses in the invasion of the Quincies.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Scenes of violence include stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs. Violent scenes are accompanied by bloody images.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs. Violent scenes are accompanied by bloody images.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs. Violent scenes are accompanied by bloody images.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs. Violent scenes are accompanied by bloody images.

moderate bloody images

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

Bloody images include sight of dead bodies in the aftermath of violence, wounded people bathing their wounds, and a sea of blood that is also utilised for recovery.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs. Violent scenes are accompanied by bloody images.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs. Violent scenes are accompanied by bloody images. A character intentionally cuts her own hands on her sword.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs. Violent scenes are accompanied by bloody images.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and is accompanied by bloody images.

moderate violence, bloody images

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Scenes of violence include punches, kicks, and use of bladed weapons, with some accompanying bloody images. In one fantastical scene, a character pulls out her own tooth.

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strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

In one fantastical scene a person’s torso is bloodily split in half but the presentation is stylised. Scenes feature martial arts and fantasy violence with punches, kicks, throws, weaponry and energy blasts.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Extended action sequences feature martial arts and fantasy violence with punches, kicks, throws, weaponry, magic powers, and energy blasts. Multiple shots, including close ups, feature blood spurts; however, the presentation is stylised.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Extended action sequences feature martial arts and fantasy violence with punches, kicks, throws, weaponry, magic powers, and energy blasts. There are also stylised close-up shots of blood spurts and bloody injuries.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Extended action sequences feature martial arts and fantasy violence with punches, kicks, throws, weaponry, magic powers, and energy blasts. There are stylised close-up shots of severed limbs, severed heads, blood spurts, and bloody injuries. A mass suicide results in bloody detail, but takes place within a fantastical context.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Extended action sequences feature martial arts and fantasy violence with punches, kicks, throws, weaponry, magic powers, and energy blasts. Multiple camera angles and close up shots feature people sliced in half, severed limbs, blood spurts, and bloody injuries however the presentation is stylised.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Extended action sequences feature martial arts and fantasy violence with punches, kicks, throws, weaponry, magic powers, and energy blasts. There are stylised shots of people sliced in half, severed limbs, blood spurts, and bloody injuries.

strong bloody violence, horror

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Scenes of violence include a character repeatedly smashing the head of another against rocks, resulting in sight of strong bloody injury detail; this sequence comes in the context of fantastical horror. Extended action sequences feature martial arts and fantasy violence with punches, kicks, throws, weaponry, magic powers, and energy blasts. There is sight of people sliced in half, severed limbs, blood spurts, and bloody injuries in the aftermath of stylised violence.

threat and horror

Sustained horror scenes have an unsettling tone and involve vampires, monsters, blood, and gore.

strong bloody violence, suicide

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Extended action sequences feature martial arts and fantasy violence with punches, kicks, throws, weaponry, magic powers, and energy blasts. Multiple camera angles and close up shots feature severed limbs, blood spurts, and bloody injuries in stylised sequences of violence.

suicide and self-harm

In one stylised scene scene there is a bloody mass suicide with bladed weapons.

Please note: each rating can only be used for the distribution method listed in the Use column. For more information on each Use click here.

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs. Violent scenes are accompanied by bloody images.

additional issues

There is very mild bad language ('hell').

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs. Violent scenes are accompanied by bloody images.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and is accompanied by bloody images.

moderate violence, bloody images

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Scenes of violence include punches, kicks, and use of bladed weapons, with some accompanying bloody images. In one fantastical scene, a character pulls out her own tooth.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs. Violent scenes are accompanied by bloody images.

moderate bloody images

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

Bloody images include sight of dead bodies in the aftermath of violence, wounded people bathing their wounds, and a sea of blood that is also utilised for recovery.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs. Violent scenes are accompanied by bloody images.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs. Violent scenes are accompanied by bloody images.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs. Violent scenes are accompanied by bloody images.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Scenes of violence include stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

13/03/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Violence includes stabbing and slashing with bladed weapons, and the severing of heads and limbs. Violent scenes are accompanied by bloody images.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence, horror

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

threat and horror

Sustained horror scenes have an unsettling tone and involve vampires, monsters, blood, and gore.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence, suicide

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Extended action sequences feature martial arts and fantasy violence with punches, kicks, throws, weaponry, magic powers, and energy blasts. Multiple camera angles and close up shots feature severed limbs, blood spurts, and bloody injuries in stylised sequences of violence.

suicide and self-harm

In one stylised scene scene there is a bloody mass suicide with bladed weapons.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

28/02/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Director(s)

Production year2022

Genre(s)Animation

Approx. running minutes24m