The seventh season of the Bleach anime series is named the Arrancar: The Hueco Mundo Sneak Entry arc. In the English adaptation of the anime released by Viz Media, the title of the season is translated as the The Hueco Mundo. The episodes are directed by Noriyuki Abe and produced by TV Tokyo, Dentsu, and Studio Pierrot. The twenty episodes featured in the season are based on Tite Kubo's Bleach manga series. The episodes' plot follows Ichigo Kurosaki's journey to Hueco Mundo to rescue Orihime Inoue, who was kidnapped by the arrancar under the command of former Soul Reaper captain Sōsuke Aizen. Although episodes focused on the character Ashido Kanō were not featured in the manga due to timing issues, Kubo still helped the anime staff to show them in the anime.
The season began airing on July 4, 2007 in Japan on TV Tokyo and ended on December 5, 2007. The English adaptation of the Bleach anime is licensed by Viz Media, and this arc began airing on July 11, 2009 and ended on September 26, 2009 on Adult Swim. Five DVD compilations, each containing four episodes of the season, were released by Aniplex between December 19, 2007 and April 23, 2008 in Japan. While Viz Media released a single DVD volume on September 21, 2010 featuring the season's first episodes, the entire season has only been released within others DVDs. Episodes 132 and 133 were also released in Viz's seventh English DVD box on December 21, 2010. Episodes 134-145 were released on March 22, 2011 as Viz's eighth compilation while the remaining ones were released on June 21, 2011. Manga Entertainment released the first volume from the season on September 26, 2011, while the second one is due to October 17, 2011. A collection of the two volumes is slated for a release on December 12, 2011.
Karin is really upset about Ichigo leaving and accidentally kicks her ball into the street.… |
Keigo's sister is the president of student council and challenges another school's Kendo team to a… |
Hanatarō of 4th Squad and Rin of the Technological Development Bureau are sent to the real world on… |
A girl is drowning in a river near Rangiku and Kon. Rangiku removes Kon from his regular stuffed… |
An Arrancar named Patros is sick of serving Aizen, because he is a shinigami. He takes the Hougyoku… |
Patros is still battling Renji, while in Hueco mundo Aizen returns to the where the Hougyoku was.… |
Everyone is training to achieve stronger power for the upcoming Winter War. Rukia & Orihime are… |
Ichigo continues his battle with Grimmjow, with his hollow mask, that is only going to last about… |
After saving Rangiku from death, Urahara commences his fight with Yammy. Luppi continues his battle… |
As the Soul Reapers recover from the battle with the Espada and Ichigo lies bandaged and asleep in… |
Ichigo wakes up and finds his hand healed. Realizing it was Orihime he is joined by Hitsugaya who… |
With Urahara's help the gateway is opened and Ichigo begins his journey to Hueco Mundo with Chad… |
Ichigo. Uryuu and Chad arrive in Hueco Mundo to find themselves in strange building. They are able… |
Chad and Uryuu finish off their opponents and escape into the barren desert of Hueco Mundo. Aizen… |
Ichigo and the others intervene to save a little girl from 3 Hollows only to find that she is… |
Lunuganga catches Ichigo and the others by surprise and sucks them underground. They awake to find… |
Nell and her group are captured by a group of Adjuchas and Ichigo sets out to find her with the… |
Ichigo, Renji, Uryuu and Chad catch up to the Adjuchas and rescue Nell and her siblings. A battle… |
Ichigo and the others break into Las Noches successfully. However, they immediately are thrown off… |
Ichigo continues his battle with Dordonii. And is struggling with Dordonii attacks. |