Viz Media reveals the newest trailer for the anime adaptation of Bleach’s final story manga arc: the Thousand-Year Blood War. The video below highlights the antagonists of the arc: the Sternritter (Star Knights), which are a group of incredibly powerful Quincy (Uryu Ishida’s race) who plan to wipe out the Shinigami (Ichigo’s pals and associated group) using special techniques.

Viz Media also revealed the key art for the anime featuring both the Shinigamis and Sternritters.

The anime will premiere on TV Tokyo in October, with the entire series covering the original manga up through its ending. An advanced screening of the first two episodes will be held in Tokyo on 11th September. The show will be directed by Tomohisa Taguchi, with Masashi Kudo returning as character designer and Shiro Sagisu on music.

Here’s the full Japanese VO cast:

• Masakazu Morita as Ichigo Kurosaki
• Fumiko Orikasa as Rukia Kuchiki
• Noriaki Sugiyama as Ury? Ishida
• Yuki Matsuoka as Orihime Inoue
• Hiroki Yasumoto as Yasutora Sado
• Kentaro Ito as Renji Abarai
• Shinichiro Miki as Kisuke Urahara
• Satsuki Yukino as Yoruichi Shih?in
• Binbin Takaoka (replacing Masaaki Tsukada) as Genry?sai Shigekuni Yamamoto
• Houko Kuwashima as Suì-F?ng
• Shouto Kashii as R?j?r? ?toribashi
• Aya Hisakawa as Retsu Unohana
• Masaya Onosaka as Shinji Hirako
• Ryotaro Okiayu as Byakuya Kuchiki
• Tetsu Inada as Sajin Komamura
• Akio Ohtsuka as Shunsui Ky?raku
• Tomokazu Sugita as Kensei Muguruma
• Romi Park as Toshiro Hitsugaya
• Fumihiko Tachiki as Kenpachi Zaraki
• Ryusei Nakao as Mayuri Kurotsuchi
• Hideo Ishikawa as Jushiro Ukitake
• Naomi Kusumi as Ichibe Hyosube
• Y?ji Ueda as ?etsu Mimaiya
• Tomoyuki Shimura as Tenjir? Kirinji
• Rina Satou as Senjumaru Shutara
• Ayumi Tsunematsu as Kirio Hikifune
• Takayuki Sugo as Yhwach
• Yuichiro Umehara as Jugram Haschwalth
• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Askin Nakk Le Vaar
• Ayana Taketatsu as Bambietta Basterbine
• Y?ki Ono as Bazz-B
• Yumi Uchiyama as Candice Catnipp
• Natsuki Hanae as Gremmy Thoumeaux
• Satoshi Hino as Lille Barro

The trailer definitely did its job as it only showed a third (or fourth) of the entire anime arc. There’s actually a lot more in store if you’ve kept up with the manga.