Bleach TYBW Part 4 Confirmed for July 2026!

Aritcle at a glance:

• Bleach: TYBW Part 4 officially confirmed for July 2026, titled The Calamity, marking the final stretch of the Thousand-Year Blood War, and easily the most anticipated part yet.
• Jump Festa ’26 delivered a new teaser with fresh visuals, returning staff and cast confirmations, and brief but exciting glimpses of key moments like Haschwalth vs. Uryu.
• Bleach is also getting a brand-new light novel project by Ryogo Narita, a full manga-to-LN adaptation titled Don’t Bleach My Fist, and yes, the name is as insane as it sounds.

Well, Jump Festa is officially done, and as always, it brought a LOT of awesome announcements to close off the year with. And of course, as many expected, we finally got more news on Blech TYBW Part 4 during the Jump Festa as well. I will do a whole article covering all the Jump Festa 2025 announcements later. But you just know I had to talk about Bleach first. I say this without exaggeration, TYBW Part 4 is the first time I’ve looked forward to a season THIS much.

But yeah, welcome back to another news article. Bleach got a bunch of updates in Jump Festa. I won’t cover everything cause I am honestly not interested in the new mobile game. But I will talk about TYBW Part 4 and the new Bleach spin-off novel by Ryogo Narita. So let’s get started.

What do we know about Bleach TYBW Part 4 so far?

As I said, all the news comes to us courtesy of Jump Festa ’26. Of course, Bleach had a whole dedicated segment and all. As the title says, Part 4 is coming in July 2026; no confirmed date just yet. We got a teaser trailer for Part 4 showing SOME new scenes and, of course, confirming a returning staff and cast. Part 4 is titled “The Calamity” and will be the final part of the TYBW arc. You can check out the teaser here. I am linking the Japanese version because the Viz one is region-locked and may not work for you.

Additionally, Bleach is getting a proper novel adaptation written by Ryogo Narita. Yeah, it is not a spin-off this time; it is a proper, full-fledged adaptation of the manga into LN format, titled “Don’t Bleach My Fist,” which sounds utterly ridiculous, and I love it. If you don’t know, Ryogo Narita has written the 2 “canon” pieces of Bleach fan-fiction/spin-offs, in the form of 2 LN series: Spirits are Forever With You and Can’t Fear Your Own World.

Now let’s move on to

My Thoughts

Surprisingly, I don’t have much to say this time. I have yapped about TYBW Part 4 so much already that if I do it again, I’ll just be repeating myself. I will say, though, it is funny how prominently Chad and Ganju are featured in the promotional material for Part 4 so far, which is kinda funny because they really don’t do anything beyond this point in the manga. Like, even if the anime gives them more scenes, I fail to see what they can do against Yhwach, who’s a literal GOD at this point.

Other than that, the whole “eye thing” in the teaser was interesting. We saw the Soul King eyes on both Ichigo. I know we’ve seen it before, but it is interesting. And once again, I really look forward to the Haschwalth vs. Uryu fight in the anime. Just the small bits they showed here looked clean as hell.

That is all for now

OKAY, that is seriously enough. See? I ended up yapping away anyway, even though I said “oh, I don’t have much to say,” that’s what happens when your fanboy brain just takes over. Anyway, off to play Elden Ring. See ya!

Also, check out our release date guide for Winter 2026 here!