Summary
- The BLEACH: No Breaths From Hell special one-shot will be released in color this September, reintroducing a concept only referenced in the early stages of the series.
- The one-shot, released in celebration of the series' 20th anniversary, is set after the Thousand-Year Blood War arc and explores the Konsо̄, a key aspect of the BLEACH storyline.
- The story features Ichigo's son Kazui and Rukia's daughter Ichika, ending on a cliffhanger that hints at a possible extended exploration of the BLEACH conception of Hell.
It was announced on the official Shо̄nen Jump Twitter (X) account on Thursday that the BLEACH: No Breaths From Hell special one-shot would be released in colour this September. The one-shot is set after the Thousand-Year Blood War arc, and reintroduces a concept that has only ever been referenced in the early stages of the BLEACH series, as well as in the last feature length animated BLEACH film, The Hell Verse.
BLEACH: No Breaths From Hell was originally released in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the series' debut, with the upcoming colourized version expected to arrive in digital stores on September 4.
The No Breaths From Hell one-shot is a 73-page chapter released in August 2021, 20 years after the series' debut. It was made available digitally through VIZ's Shо̄nen Jump online magazine and app; as well as Shueisha's Manga Plus online platform. BLEACH: No Breaths From Hell is set just over ten years after the Thousand-Year Blood War arc, known in-universe as the "Protection of the Soul King Great War", in which Ichigo is invited to a special ceremony in Soul Society to lay to rest the souls of the high-ranked Shinigami who lost their lives during the war.
The Konsо̄ is an old aspect of the BLEACH storyline, and the primary means for a Shinigami to enable a soul's safe "passing over", and in No Breaths From Hell, it is revealed that incredibly powerful souls upset the delicate balance of the worlds when they die, so a special Konsо̄ is performed to avoid catastrophe; however, the truth is far darker, and far more complicated than that.
Ichigo's son Kazui, and Rukia's daughter Ichika feature in this one-shot, which ends on a cliffhanger that supposedly teases the possibility of an extended exploration into the BLEACH conception of Hell.
The original BLEACH manga by Tite Kubo was serialized in Shueisha's Shonen Jump magazine from August 2001 to August 2016, running for 74 volumes. A spin-off series titled Burn The Witch was announced as part of the 20th-anniversary celebrations of the BLEACH franchise; which included the announcement of the return of the anime in the form of BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War, which is set for a 52-episode run spread out evenly over four cours.
The currently-airing second cours subtitled "The Separation" is set to end on September 30. The digitally coloured BLEACH: No Breaths From Hell one-shot hits digital stores on September 4.
Source: Shonen Jump X Account