Image via Shueisha, Pierrot, and Epic
Shueisha, Pierrot, and Epic announced that Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War characters will show up in Fortnite. The crossover starts on December 20, 2025. While we’ll learn more about that when it appears and see the Dual Zangetsu in-game on December 23, 2025, there is a teaser trailer confirming everyone who will be playable as part of the event. It also confirms there will be a car based on Ichigo’s appearance.
Ichigo Kurosaki, Rukia Kuchiki, Uryu Ishida, and Orihime Inoue all appeared in the trailer for the Fortnite crossover event. Since this is based on the latest Thousand-Year Blood War arc of the anime, everyone does look older. However, Orihime is wearing her Karakura High School uniform, and folks like Ichigo and Rukia are wearing their standard Soul Reaper attire. By including these characters in the update, it means four of the five main cast from the outset of the adventure are present. The only missing person is Yasutora “Chad” Sado.
Here’s the official teaser trailer. For each character, there is footage from the anime shown first before the in-game Fortnite model, so we can see how they compare.
A lot of anime crossovers appear in Fortnite. Two of the recent ones in 2025 include Kaiju No 8 and One Punch Man.
Fortnite is available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, Windows PC, and mobile devices, and Bleach characters will come to the game on December 20, 2025. Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity Final Season will air in 2026, the original anime and past cours are streaming on on Disney+ and Hulu now. Viz Media handles the manga outside of Japan.