2026 will be a year to remember, because they will all be back together Naruto, One Piece e Bleach. The big 3, those who dominated the scene for years when they were still going together, week after week, and who then, little by little, stopped, except One Piece, the only one that continued unabated.
Bleach it ended its weekly run in 2012 after 366 episodes. Naruto said goodbye in 2017 with the end of Naruto Shippuden, leaving room for the next path linked to Boruto. One Piecehowever, has remained the last garrison of the old school, with small breaks but without really giving up, although from next year it will embrace the seasonal format for the first time, abandoning the continuous one.
In recent years Bleach is back with the animated transposition of the final saga and in 2026, Naruto will also return. So here we will have all the big 3 together again. One Piece will resume on April 5, 2026. The new block will adapt the Elbaf arc, a saga crucial to the climax of the series. Bleach, however, continues with Part 4 of Thousand-Year Blood War, which will also be the last, scheduled for July 2026we don’t have a specific day yet. And then there’s the biggest surprise. Noaruto returns with a short formatfour special episodes scheduled for late 2026.
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It almost seems like a return to the origins, but above all a situation that can really weigh on the market. The absurd thing it’s the strength that the Big 3 still have. In the first half of 2025, Naruto was the most watched anime on Netflix. One Piece led the year’s manga sales, with Jujutsu Kaisen, Dandadan and Blue Lock close behind. And Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War has also brought luster back to the name of the franchise thanks to it to a leap in quality in animationswith some of the most popular episodes on IMDb in recent years.
So, on the one hand we have One Piece which changes pace and repositions itself with a new season and a decisive narrative arc. On the other hand, Naruto which, despite not having a weekly series, keep grinding, be careful on general platforms and returns with four special episodes. In the middle, Bleach ends its final war in the summer.
The return of these giants in the same year can have a double effect on fans. On the one hand the historical ones they will be able to return to embrace the series that formed them. On the other hand, for those who have recently arrived and have known modern shonen through recent hits, 2026 can become the year in which even the youngest will be able to really understand where a certain shonen grammar comes from. The golden age of anime is suddenly returning.
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