Bleach Anime Unveils Jacket Illustration Featuring Ichigo for Music Composer's Self-Covered Soundtrack CD

BLEACH anime unveiled the jacket cover illustration for the music composer Shiro Sagisu’s soundtrack CD titled SHIRO’S SONGBOOK BLEACH BANKAI! on Tuesday after the broadcast of BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War episode 8. Shiro Sagisu self-covered soundtracks after the BLEACH anime project got continued. The product compiles one disc and is scheduled to be released on December 14, 2022, available at the price of ¥3,300 (≒$23.8). The introduction says the CD lets you rediscover the charm of BLEACH music by the artist Shiro Sagisu.

The tracklist for the Bleach OST is:

1. Overture – on the precipice of defeat
2. Number One – oldskool
   featuring Hazel Fernandes
3. Treachery – ominously
4. Treachery – treacherously
5. Love is waiting – intro (999)
6. Love is waiting (999)
   featuring Hazel Fernandes
7. 999 – orchestra
8. Number One – voice orchestra
   featuring KOTETSU
9. Here to Stay – you’re here to stay
   featuring Hazel Fernandes
10. Here to Stay – orchestra
11. Into the Fire – orchestra
12. Number One 2008
    featuring Adam Brown
13. Going Home – her sights
    featuring Hazel Fernandes
14. Going Home – his sights
    featuring Ian Michael G Pitter
15. Nothing can be Explained – variations
    featuring Mike Wyzgowski
16. Slip Away (Never Meant To Belong)
    featuring Ian Michael G Pitter
17. It’s Easy (Will of the Heart)
    featuring Ian Michael G Pitter

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Animation studio Pierrot is animating the adaptation of Tite Kubo’s BLEACH manga serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from August 2001 to August 2016 with a total of 74 volumes. The studio also worked on the original TV anime adaptation aired between October 2004 and March 2012, which has a total of 366 episodes. BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War is currently airing this season with a total of four cours. The new anime is covering the manga’s chapters from the 480th to 686th (volumes 55 to 74). The cast members of the main characters such as Masakazu Morita and Yuki Matsuoka are reprising their roles as Ichigo and Orihime from the original anime.

 VIZ Media licensed the manga series for English releases and released the final, 74th compiled volume on October 2, 2018. The official website describes the plot of volume 55, which compiles the first chapter of the Thousand-Year Blood War arc as:
The peace is suddenly broken when warning sirens blare through the Soul Society. Residents there are disappearing without a trace and nobody knows who’s behind it, meanwhile, a dark shadow is also extending itself toward Ichigo and his friends in Karakura Town…

Source: Official Website
© TITE KUBO / SHUEISHA, TV TOKYO, dentsu, Pierrot