Episode Title: GATE OF THE SUN
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Official summary: As if to paint over the Soul King Palace, Yhwach reassembles the city he had lifted from the Seireitei and creates "Wahrwelt." Though they are in shock, Ichigo's group begins moving towards the castle, but Askin Nakk Le Vaar appears before them. Meanwhile, Kyōraku's group charges in despite struggling to create footholds from the Reishi. Awaiting their arrival is Lille Barro, who snipes at them using his "The X-Axis" ability. Even while their fighting force is being shot down one by one, the Shinigami continue advancing forward without stopping.
Staff List
Screenplay: Masaki Hiramatsu (平松正樹)
Storyboard: Dali Chen (陳達理)
Episode Director: Dali Chen (陳達理)
Chief Animation Director: Kiyoshi Komatsubara (小松原聖)
Animation Directors: Saeko Ozawa (小澤早依子) / Kazuo Takigawa (滝川和男)
Key Animators list (missing 7 names, credits 3z_0q0q):
Kiyotaka Iida / Hiromi Yokoyama / Mayumi Watanabe / Koji Haneda / Roger / Nathan Gauvreau / Mari Oda / Yuka Fujiwara / Junichi Yokoyama / Naoto Abe / Shiori Sekiguchi / Yasuyuki Suzuki / Chen Qiuyu / Yuzuki Sekine / Hidetsugu Itō / Wenyuan Xu / Yukino Kumeta / Kazuyuki Ikai / Yoshihiro Taniguchi / Xu Li
PIERROT FILMS: Yuki Sato / Saeko Ozawa / Dali Chen
Pierrot Animation Studio Room: Retsu Ohkawara / Mifumi Tomita
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Leaks
Preview images
Official summary: As if to paint over the Soul King Palace, Yhwach reassembles the city he had lifted from the Seireitei and creates "Wahrwelt." Though they are in shock, Ichigo's group begins moving towards the castle, but Askin Nakk Le Vaar appears before them. Meanwhile, Kyōraku's group charges in despite struggling to create footholds from the Reishi. Awaiting their arrival is Lille Barro, who snipes at them using his "The X-Axis" ability. Even while their fighting force is being shot down one by one, the Shinigami continue advancing forward without stopping.
Staff List
Screenplay: Masaki Hiramatsu (平松正樹)
Storyboard: Dali Chen (陳達理)
Episode Director: Dali Chen (陳達理)
Chief Animation Director: Kiyoshi Komatsubara (小松原聖)
Animation Directors: Saeko Ozawa (小澤早依子) / Kazuo Takigawa (滝川和男)
Key Animators list (missing 7 names, credits 3z_0q0q):
Kiyotaka Iida / Hiromi Yokoyama / Mayumi Watanabe / Koji Haneda / Roger / Nathan Gauvreau / Mari Oda / Yuka Fujiwara / Junichi Yokoyama / Naoto Abe / Shiori Sekiguchi / Yasuyuki Suzuki / Chen Qiuyu / Yuzuki Sekine / Hidetsugu Itō / Wenyuan Xu / Yukino Kumeta / Kazuyuki Ikai / Yoshihiro Taniguchi / Xu Li
PIERROT FILMS: Yuki Sato / Saeko Ozawa / Dali Chen
Pierrot Animation Studio Room: Retsu Ohkawara / Mifumi Tomita
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Leaks
- First 11 minutes is Mayuri & Kenpachi, Grimmjow & Askin scenes from the manga
- Last ~10 minutes is a brand new Renji vs. Uryu fight
- It is a pure 1v1 fight, neither side has any help
- Uryu uses his Vollständig again
- Uryu is drained by Renji and forced into using Sklaverei
- Uryu uses another new ability similar to Yhwach's Kirchenlied: Sankt Zwinger to drain Renji's Reiatsu
- Renji also uses new techniques
- Renji almost kills Uryu about 5 times
- In the end, Uryu wins by blasting a hole through Renji's chest, but Renji puts up a good fight and was cool
- Both Renji and Uryu fought with the intent to kill each other. They didn't hold back at all and didn't even use each other's names during the battle. Uryu kept calling Renji "Shinigami," and Renji called him "Quincy."
- There is a new flashback of Renji learning the true name of his Bankai
- Renji's inner world will appear CORRECTION: NO INNER WORLD
- Hisagi, Ōmaeda, Kiyone, Sentarō, and Isane are all sniped by Lille in that order
- End of episode poem by Mayuri: "Be your own god"
- Next episode (34) title: BABY, HOLD YOUR HAND