Bleach : The Calamity Hits Hulu Saturday , and Yhwach Is Fighting the Second Law

Five days from now — Saturday, July 25, at 7:30 a.m. PDT (10:30 a.m. ET) — Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War — The Calamity begins streaming on Hulu in the United States and Disney+ internationally, as announced by VIZ Media. That is the broadest access point the final arc of Tite Kubo's 25-year franchise has yet had: no ticket required, no theater location needed, no geographic exclusion for most markets. What arrives this week is the first chapter of the conclusion of one of the most-watched anime runs of the decade — and if you want to understand why the arc's villain is more than a megalomaniac with supernatural power, the physics explanation requires only one concept: the second law of…