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i saw it when i was looking trough some jump magazines interviews, but they said there was still a small chance it would not happen, it most depended in how popular this final arc would be, apparently they spent a lot of funds in filler arcs in the anime, one the many reasons why episodes haven't come out already, other was that the bleach author wanted to possibly make this the last arc.