: After a thousand years of silence, the Wandenreich (a hidden Quincy empire) resurfaces to declare war on the Soul Society. Led by their king, Yhwach , they aim to annihilate the Soul Reapers and collapse the boundaries between the human world and the afterlife.

: Substitute Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki is pulled into the front lines of this brutal war. Along the way, he discovers shocking truths about his own heritage—specifically that his mother was a Quincy—which forces him to reforge his powers and his Zanpakuto.

: The Quincy possess the ability to "steal" a Soul Reaper's Bankai, leaving the Captains of the Gotei 13 nearly powerless during the initial, devastating invasion. Production Highlights