Union Arena's Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Vol. 3 booster pack has a date that's easy to get wrong, since two different dates are both genuinely correct depending on what they refer to.
Confirmed directly via Bandai's official Union Arena product page: the full retail release date is November 13, 2026. November 6 is a separate, earlier pre-release date for local shop events, not the general release.
This guide covers that distinction clearly, plus the complete checklist and rarity breakdown for the set.
Everything here is verified against Union Arena's own official product listing.
November 6, 2026 is when Union Arena's official pre-release events begin at participating local shops, giving players early access before the set is broadly available. November 13, 2026 is the actual general retail release date, when the product becomes available everywhere.
Confusing the two means either missing an early pre-release opportunity or expecting broad retail availability a full week before it actually arrives.
The set contains 81 total card types across four main rarities: 28 Common, 29 Uncommon, 12 Rare, and 12 Super Rare, plus 6 separate Action Point card types. Some cards also come in alternate-art or alternate-design variants beyond this base count.
That's a fairly typical rarity spread for a Union Arena expansion, weighted toward commons and uncommons with a meaningfully smaller top-end rare tier.
Each booster pack costs $4.99 USD and contains 12 cards, with one display box holding 16 packs and one full case holding 16 display boxes. Parallel rare cards are confirmed included somewhere within that structure.
Knowing this structure ahead of time helps set realistic expectations for how many packs, boxes, or a full case actually costs before committing to a purchase.
Confirmed characters in this set include Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryu Ishida, Orihime Inoue, Yoruichi Shihoin, Shunsui Kyoraku, Sosuke Aizen, and Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, spanning both the story's core protagonists and its major antagonist forces. That's a genuinely deep character roster for a single volume.
Covering both hero and antagonist sides this thoroughly gives the set broad appeal across different character preferences within the fandom.
Select cards in this release feature embossed signatures from the original Japanese voice cast, including Masakazu Morita (Ichigo), Noriaki Sugiyama (Uryu), Yuki Matsuoka (Orihime), Satsuki Yukino (Yoruichi), Akio Otsuka (Shunsui), Sho Hayami (Aizen), and Junichi Suwabe (Grimmjow). This is a genuinely notable feature, distinct from a typical illustrator-signed card.
Voice-cast-signed cards carry a different kind of appeal than illustrator signatures, since they connect directly to how fans actually experienced these characters through the anime.
An earlier announcement of this set understandably treated November 6 as the release date, since that was the first confirmed date attached to the product. Bandai's fuller official product listing has since clarified that November 6 is specifically the pre-release date, with November 13 as the actual general release.
Getting this distinction right matters for anyone planning a pre-order or a local shop visit around either date specifically.
Union Arena's earlier Bleach volumes followed a broadly similar four-rarity structure, though each volume's specific character focus and Action Point content differs based on which part of the story it covers. Vol. 3's Thousand-Year Blood War focus gives it a meaningfully different character roster than the franchise's earlier volumes.
Collectors building across all three volumes should expect some character overlap but a genuinely distinct core cast reflecting each volume's specific story focus.
Some collectors specifically aim to complete every card type in a set's checklist, not just chase individual chase cards, which makes an accurate, complete checklist reference like this one genuinely useful throughout an entire collecting project. Having the confirmed numbers upfront avoids uncertainty about when a checklist is actually finished.
Bookmarking or printing this breakdown before opening product gives a completionist collector a clear, reliable target to track progress against.
Keeping a running tally as pulls arrive, rather than sorting everything only after a box or case is fully opened, makes it far easier to spot exactly which rarity tiers still need attention while there's still time to plan an efficient follow-up purchase.
For collectors chasing the full checklist rather than a single chase card, 9-pocket binder pages make it easy to track a growing set at a glance.
November 13, 2026.
Official pre-release events begin at participating local shops.
81, plus 6 separate Action Point card types.
Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryu Ishida, Orihime Inoue, Yoruichi Shihoin, Shunsui Kyoraku, Sosuke Aizen, and Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez.
Whether you're planning for the pre-release or the general launch, keep your pulls organized from day one. EVORETRO's Plastic Deck Box keeps Bleach Vol. 3 singles secure right out of the pack.
Binder pages make sorting a growing pull collection across all four rarities much easier.
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