Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity
8.8
Quality Score
0.24 (Mild Positive)
Audience Mood
8 / 10
Controversy
36,245
MAL Ratings
Synopsis — from MyAnimeList
Final part of Bleach: Sennen Kessen-hen.
Audience Consensus
The audience is sharply divided, with a strong contingent praising the stunning animation, music, and adaptation improvements, while another group heavily criticizes the nonsensical plot, pacing issues, and excessive power scaling. Many long-time fans feel a disconnect between nostalgic appreciation and the current narrative's perceived flaws, leading to a highly polarized reception.
Strengths
- Consistently stunning animation and production quality, often movie-like.
- Soundtrack remains one of the best, with improvements in OST usage.
- Anime-original additions and expanded scenes enhance story flow and polish.
- Elevates established strengths like style, atmosphere, character designs, and music.
- Superb sound effects enhance immersive action.
- Adaptation respects and elevates source material, filling narrative gaps.
- Incredible animation, looks best for the final cour.
- Character development and moments feel truly special.
- Rich and informative world lore.
- Strong directing choices, hard cuts, soaring drone shots in opening sequence.
- Orchestration is phenomenal, recorded clearly with a live ensemble.
- Visuals show clear improvement in compositing.
- Animation is stellar.
- Sound has had significant improvements.
- Expands on source material with original content and character moments.
- Expects more greatness with potential for more original content and music.
Weaknesses
- Story is stagnant or non-existent, moving at a snail's pace.
- Fighting scenes are badly choreographed with too many cuts and weird camera angles.
- OST tracks don't hit like the old ones.
- Character dialogues are cringe and make no sense.
- Power scaling and win/loss conditions are uninteresting.
- Constant calling of names mid-combat.
- Inexplicable healing of characters mid-combat.
- Random moments of comedy dialogue in the middle of fighting.
- Illogical holding out on powers just to lose and be saved.
- Side characters are shallow and only talk about Ichigo.
- Main villain's power is only in conversation, not shown in combat.
- Pacing is too fast in the last cour, felt like production wanted to end the show.
- Ass-pull power-ups every few minutes.
- Ichigo has too many forms/Bankai, making previous power levels seem irrelevant.
- Inoue heals everyone instantly, then unlocks powers that don't work.
- Plot armor and character survival despite no business being there.
- Hype is gone due to predictability and drawn-out nature.
- Assault on the eyes with too many cuts and weird camera angles.
- Plot holes are everywhere.
- Characters literally come back from death, carrying plot armor for 20 years.
- Enemy designs are ugly and part of a comedy club.
- Problems with original series continuity, power scaling inconsistencies.
- Sexualization is out of control, bordering on ecchi.
- Yoruichi's fight is an excuse for nudity and degrading actions.
- Fights are too long and drawn out with zero justification or enjoyment.
- Characters are power vessels without clear motivations or backstories.
- Fighting is nonsensical, lacking explanation of powers or choreography.
- Animation is inconsistent, padding runtime.
- Reusing of abilities like Getsuga Tensho.
- Nothing makes sense; utterly ridiculous mess.
- Excessive sexualization and nonsensical garbage.
- Nothing feels like it serves a purpose; excess piled on excess.
- Squad Zero behaves like caricatures and their introduction leads to power escalation.
- Dialogue actively takes away from visuals.
- Yoruichi's only power-up is losing clothes and gaining stockings.