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I've never heard of Bleach being planned to end after the second arc, and that sounds pretty ridiculous. As for this "mangaka don't have time to plan" thing - Eiichiro Oda and One Piece. Your argument is invalid.

And if you want evidence of the foreshadowing for Ichigo being a Quincy, I just came across what's likely the first instance in the very first arc - when he's explaining the Quincy to Rukia, Urahara explicitly compares Ichigo's powers to theirs (Chapter 36, page 13) rather than to, say, Shinigami. And later still, it's pointed out that Ichigo's Bankai doesn't work like the rest of them by condensing power inward rather than releasing it outward, in direct parallel to how Quincy and Shinigami form their weapons, respectively. But sure, he just pulled it out of his butt 30 chapters into the final arc.