THE HOLY NEWBORN

Atop Mayuri's platform in the replaced Seireitei, Kisuke Urahara has the assembled Shinigami and Sternritter channel their Reiatsu into glass orbs to thicken a gate toward the Soul King Palace. The work is interrupted when Yhwach's black substance begins stripping the Wandenreich city into the air, alarming the defenders who can barely raise one gate by comparison. Above, Yoruichi opens a Garganta before Ichigo to reveal Grimmjow, and moments later Nelliel arrives in her adult form, explaining that Urahara's bracelet lets her switch at will.

Riruka Dokugamine and Yukio Hans Vorarlberna appear next, herding the group into an elevator built from Yukio's Fullbring and a captured Valley of Screams. Yoruichi explains how the pockets of stable Reishi around the Dangai let them move without releasing Reiatsu, allowing a surprise strike on Yhwach. Ichigo is dismayed to learn he alone was kept in the dark about the plan. Below, the gate begins to break down when Ukitake's Reiatsu is lost, until the Visored lend their power and Mayuri's Reiatsu Amplifier restores it into a gigantic Senkaimon.

At the Greater Soul King Palace, Yhwach reveals a face covered in misshapen eyes and, musing on his overflowing power, shatters the palace into floating rubble that the Schutzstaffel scramble to survive. He addresses Haschwalth as his first son and begins remaking the Quincy nation, ringing the five cities with blue energy to form a massive Quincy Zeichen. In the ascending elevator, Ichigo persuades Yukio and Riruka to stay behind for safety, thanking Riruka for forcing her Dollhouse to work on something as uncute as a Valley of Screams.

When the elevator arrives, Ichigo and his friends are stunned to find themselves back inside the Wandenreich city, and the Gotei 13 emerge from the gate into the same reshaped landscape rather than the palace. Shunsui deduces the enemy lifted the Quincy city from the Seireitei and rebuilt it over the Soul King Palace, now a giant Quincy Zeichen of five cities. Yoruichi reunites with her brother Yūshirō, Byakuya notes the enemy controls all the local Reishi, and a huge tower crowned by Silbern rises from the central platform. Enthroned within, Yhwach declares this new world shall be called Wahrwelt.

Urahara builds a gate to the Soul King Palace, restored by the Visored and Mayuri's Reiatsu Amplifier. Ichigo reunites with Grimmjow, Nelliel, and the Fullbringers, learning of Yoruichi's Valley of Screams elevator plan. Yhwach reveals his eye-covered face and rips apart the palace to remake it. Ichigo has Yukio and Riruka stay behind. The Gotei 13 and Ichigo's group arrive in the rebuilt Wandenreich city, which Shunsui realizes was raised over the palace and reshaped into Wahrwelt.

This is the thirty-second episode of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War and adapts scattered pages from Chapters 613 through 629. Its opening theme is Kotoba ni Sezu Tomo and its ending is Monochrome. It aired in Japan on November 9, 2024, and in English on December 7, 2024. The featured event is the concluded Fall of the Soul King. The adaptation reworks many manga details, including presenting the Valleys of Screams diagram on a screen inside the elevator and reversing the order in which Yoruichi describes Riruka and Yukio's Fullbrings. A note explains that Ichigo's mention of a prior Valley of Screams references the film Bleach: Memories of Nobody.