Where to Watch Bleach: The Calamity — Hulu, Disney+ and Japan

Quick answer: Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity premiered on Saturday, July 25, 2026 and is streaming now, exclusively on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in select international markets (Viz Media’s official wording), with new episodes weekly. It is not on Crunchyroll — and never was. Japan, meanwhile, does its own thing entirely: TV Tokyo broadcasts at 11 p.m. JST, and domestic streaming lands on Netflix, Prime Video and DMM TV from July 26 — a perfect example of how anime rights split by country. Here is the full map, the watch order, and the license story behind the Crunchyroll question, all sourced.

The final part of Bleach begins — what’s actually premiering

The Calamity is the fourth and final part of the Thousand-Year Blood War arc — the storyline that resumed Bleach in 2022 after a decade away. Anime News Network confirms it as the concluding part, and Viz’s own materials bill it as the Final Part. The cour opens with episode 41, “GOD OF THUNDER” (per Animate Times), continuing straight from Part 3 The Conflict. Studio Pierrot returns, Tite Kubo remains closely involved per Viz’s announcement, and the new opening comes from jo0ji with the ending by 9Lana (Dengeki Online). US fans even got episodes 1–3 early in theaters via a Fathom Entertainment run in late June — a sign of how big Disney and Viz expect this finale to be.

Why it’s not on Crunchyroll (and never was)

The license explains everything: Viz Media holds Bleach’s rights and sublicensed streaming to Disney, reportedly after a bidding war — which is why TYBW skipped Crunchyroll entirely, as Sportskeeda’s explainer lays out. That deal puts every part of TYBW, including The Calamity, behind Hulu in the US and Disney+ everywhere Disney chose to carry it. If a site tells you to watch The Calamity on Crunchyroll, it is wrong. The practical upshot: one subscription (Hulu or Disney+, depending on your country) covers the entire arc from Part 1 through the finale.

Japan gets a completely different lineup

Here is the part most English guides skip: in Japan, The Calamity is not a Hulu/Disney+ story at all. The TV Tokyo network broadcasts Saturdays at 11 p.m. JST, and per GAME Watch, domestic streaming starts July 26 at noon JST on Prime Video, Netflix and DMM TV, updating weekly. So the same episode sits on Netflix in Tokyo and behind Hulu in New York — anime licensing at its purest. Country-by-country splits like this are exactly what our availability database tracks per title.

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Traveling when it drops? Rights split by country, so the service you pay for at home may not carry the episode where you happen to be — the US Hulu feed, for instance, works only inside the US. How region locks work, and how existing subscribers handle travel, is covered in our anime streaming VPN guide. Terms vary by service; where a local official option exists, start there.