Yuki Kaji joins the Bleach cast. Of the 258 series we record at 100 episodes or more, 21 state a free episode.
All 13 Bleach entries in our index state no free episode, its 366-episode television run included. So we measured the shelf it sits in: 1,549 free episodes across 21 entries, what our page notes actually say about them, and one that states 122.
By Riley Kuroda · AnimeSphere staff · August 16, 2026
Yuki Kaji has joined the voice cast of BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War, in the role of an adult Toshiro Hitsugaya. The announcement, reported by Anime Corner, reaches us as a truncated summary, so the casting itself is all that is established.
The question this site exists to answer is what a reader can do with that news right now. Our index carries thirteen entries with Bleach in a recorded title: five television entries, four films, three specials and one original video animation. We fetched all thirteen pages today. All thirteen returned successfully, and not one of them states a free episode. That includes the 2004 television series, which our index records at 366 episodes.
The hundred-episode shelf
Bleach's 2004 entry belongs to a particular corner of our catalogue: series recorded as running to a hundred episodes or more. For each of our 20,497 entries we store an episode count taken from AniList, the catalogue our index is built on, and that number describes what the series runs to, not what we hold. By that measure, 258 entries sit at 100 or more.
We fetched all 258 pages today. All 258 returned successfully, and 21 of them state a free episode. Between those 21 there are 1,549 episodes stated. Two of the 21 state exactly one episode each, while the two largest state 269 and 182, accounting for 451 of the total between them.
What the page notes say
Nine of the 21 carry our page note "Chinese audio, English subs", and between them they state 396 episodes. Two carry the note "Japanese audio" and state 187 between them. The remaining ten carry our default wording, which establishes nothing about language, so we make no claim about them.
One with episodes to watch
The Love Story of my Immortal Dad is one of the 21. Its page states 122 free episodes on animesphere.app today, against 132 recorded for the series, so the free run does not reach the end. Our episode rows for it are numbered 1 to 126 while 122 are stated free, which means the run has gaps.
Those are short episodes. The uploads run from 467 to 670 seconds, roughly eight to eleven minutes each, against a recorded episode length of 10 minutes. We record it as a web original, 132 episodes, country of origin China, tagged Comedy, Fantasy and Romance. Its page carries the note "Chinese audio, English subs", and all 122 watch pages carry an authored English subtitle track, one of ten authored subtitle tracks on those uploads.
Every one of the 122 was checked against its upload today: 122 of 122 resolved, no fetch failures, 122 distinct upload identities, no video filed against two episode numbers, and none shared with another series. The channel is iQIYI Animation, which carries a YouTube verified badge. No country restriction is recorded on any of the 122 rows.