With a recent announcement of Bleach’s manga in its final arc, an accompanying announcement via TV Tokyo’s programming schedule has revealed that the Bleach Anime series by Studio Perriot will end its Televised run on March 27th, 2012. As of writing this post, that is around a month away.

A scan of the magazine that shows the information is below:

Bleach Ending Magazine Scan!

The Bleach anime began airing in 2004, and will total in with 366 episodes when it ends this year, having run for a total of 8 years.

Fans of the serious are definitely shocked by the fact that the final arc in the series is not being animated, but given that the manga and anime are about to run in parrallel soon, its not surprising that the series was intended to end at the end of the recent Full-Bring Arc. Largely regarded as the weakest story arc of the manga series to date, it is undoubtedly sad that Bleach will end on more of a whimper than anything else.

Of course, given Bleach’s popularity, its expected that we’ll get a set of OVAs or a final series in the same vein as InuYasha when the manga. We’ll keep you posted on any updates on this!

Source: Moetron

• Sesshomaru2029

  ._. Why not make anther long fill arc i’d rather watch a filler and wait for the manga to get far long with the story then see it end. Just because the animeis getting close to the manga does not mean it should end, honestly they could do a long filler arc like they did with the bounts and zanpakuto arc. -.- i find it stupid considering we had to wait 3 years to see inuyasha final act last part of the manga animated._. So yeah id rather see a filler then see bleach end.

• FlareKnight

  It is too bad it’ll end with a whimper like this. Though I maintain that both anime and manga should have just ended after Aizen was defeated. The fact that both are ending soon (though not at the same plot point) is good evidence of that. Though suppose there is benefit to making a couple arcs to end at a certain point.

  In terms of the filler think they were at the limit. If Bleach is remembered for anything it sadly will be it’s use of fillers. I mean filler arcs in the middle of an arc (just randomly inserted)?

  Will be a lot of good things to remember about Bleach. Hopefully it’s memory isn’t going to be damaged by some of the odd choices.

  • Ana

    Bleach’s previous arc did to be even worse than any fillers. No wonder they decided to end it by once, the drooling of bad story is too much to handle.
    I would do the same thing in their places. Animators aren’t writers.

    It’s not big lose anyway. The newest arc didn’t get an exciting beginning. Is time to the author put his pencil down: he can’t no longer think in good stories.

    • Yes

      You talk shit

• Ian

  Look on the bright side; they may not limit the possible future of Bleach to an OVA series or an extra season. Maybe it’ll conclude the story in a film series.

• Kinganime

  after Aizen was defeated i think they should have ended but it would be better to add at the ending maybe put something like having a normal life and get marry at the end and it would have made a nice ending

• Ana

  Yeah right. After the stupid pointless previous arc? Who the hell would care? Tubo disappointed fair enough, now I even wonder how the series became popular.

• Dlkaldor

  Guy’s it’s not ending. THEY’RE JUST CHANGING CHANNELS.

  • Dean

    Are you sure?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/VHOCTOHV2XYPEALVZGBIO25WKU Dieta

    i think u right,,,, not only tv tokyo that show anime series,,,,, there are still another tv channels…… ^^

• http://www.facebook.com/essam.m.yousry Essam M.Yousry

  SRSLY !!!!

• Anonymous

  What took them so long?

• http://profile.yahoo.com/VHOCTOHV2XYPEALVZGBIO25WKU Dieta

  A least give us a VERY good FINAL ending story like when with aizen,,,, this final arc makes me more curious,,, coz all shinigami new appearances,,,, if this is the really really final ending of bleach series,,,, i just can say WEIRD….

• Brian721993

  Dear bleach fans to conclude your questions bleach is not ending it’d on a 3 week brake I research all over the place it will resume soon

• No

  Fillers disappoint people I think. Even though I loved the Reigei arc a lot there were many similarities with the zanpaktou rebellion. I think it will come back for a couple of series, they arent just going to ignore that fans, it will be like DBZ.

• JDM nx2000

  Just read the manga if you havent been doing so already

• blaze

  why would they do that