It’s been well over 10 years since Bleach last received a major console game release, and the revitalized manga / anime franchise is going back to the fighting stage.
Bandai Namco has been building up the roster of Bleach Rebirth of Souls for quite some time now, bringing the grand total of playable characters just shy of 30 — and it seems they’re not done yet either.
The publisher just revealed the Quinta Espada member Nnoitra Gilga to add to the list of Arrancars that’ll be available in Rebirth of Souls though we’re still missing some pretty big ones too.
By our count, the new Bleach fighter is now up to 29 different playable fighters if we count the two variants of protagonist Ichigo Kurosaki as different entries.
We already know the new game’s setting takes place from Bleach’s Substitute Soul Reaper Arc through the Arrancar Arc, so that leaves out Fullbringers and the Thousand-Year Blood War Arc completely from the launch roster.
Bamco already confirmed, however, that the first Season Pass for Rebirth of Souls is going to be focused on Thousand-Year Blood War fighters.
Before we talk about who’s still missing, why the game may be more interesting to play than you’re average anime arena fighter, and which characters we expect to see as DLC, we better go over the characters that are actually announced and confirmed already first.
So we’ll be breaking the roster up into sections so far between the Shinigami, human world warriors, Vizards, and Arrancar.
With Bleach, there’s plenty of distinctions and classifications you can make, but we’ll be lumping in the traitors like Sosuke Aizen in with the Soul Reapers and Ichigo in with his human friends.
Here’s what the Bleach Rebirth of Souls playable roster currently looks like.
Human World Fighters
• Ichigo Kurosaki
• Ichigo Kurosaki (Bankai)
• Uryu Ishida
• Yasutora Sado
Vizard
• Shinji Hirako
Soul Reapers / Shinigami
• Byakuya Kuchiki
• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto
• Gin Ichimaru
• Ikkaku Madarame
• Izuru Kira
• Kaname Tosen
• Kenpachi Zaraki
• Kisuke Urahara
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi
• Rangiku Matsumoto
• Renji Abarai
• Rukia Kuchiki
• Sajin Komamura
• Shuhei Hisagi
• Shunsui Kyoraku
• Sosuke Aizen
• Soi Fon
• Toshiro Hitsugaya
• Yoruichi Shihoin
Arrancar
• Grimmjow Jeagerjaques
• Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck
• Nnoitra Gilga
• Szayelaporro Granz
• Ulquiorra Shifar
Bleach Rebirth of Souls is set to release on March 21, 2025 for the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
You can check out the new trailer for Nnoitra below, and take a look at the game’s opening movie here that sounds a heck of a lot like Linkin Park.
Source: Event Hubs
