Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine editors announced Friday that there will be a live stream presentation event online to make up for a cancelled event that was scheduled to take place at AnimeJapan 2020.
The event was called the "Bleach 20th Anniversary Project & Tite Kubo New Work Presentation", and was meant to be a stage presentation featuring a small handful of voice actors and talent involved in Bleach.
Bleach's creator Tite Kubo will unveil a 'New Work' along with Bleach's 20th Anniversary Project at AnimeJapan 2020, being held on March 21. Weekly Shonen Jump's Editor-in-Chief Hiroyuki Nakano will be at the stage presentation. pic.twitter.com/NM9zHCLOuz— Weekly Shonen Jump (@WSJ_manga) January 27, 2020
Bleach was first released in 2001 in Weekly Shonen Jump and then ended in 2016. The franchise follows the story of a boy named Ichigo Kurosaki who obtains the powers of a Shinigami (Japanese gods of death) and an epic tale that flows through many sagas.
Bleach had mega success and became one of the most successful series of the shounen genre, up there with the likes of Dragon Ball, One Piece, Naruto, and more. The franchise spawned many video games, movies, stage plays, tons of merchandise, and more.
The event that was planned for AnimeJapan 2020 was set to have voice actors Masakazu Morita, Ryotaro Okiayu, the Editor-in-Chief of Shonen Jump Hiroyuki Nakano, and Yoshiyuki Hirai, a member of the America Zarigani comedy duo. Its not clear at this time if the live stream that was announced will still include the names mentioned above or in what form the announcements will take place.
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