User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 681 - THE END TWO WORLD/@comment-1970092-20160707185023

Again, with this pacing, I just can't believe Kubo is racing toward a finale in less than even 10 chapters. I suppose I should wait to see how next week is handled, but this week just felt like your run of the mill Bleach. I do believe people are putting too much stock into this volume 73 thing.

Honestly, we don't know what it means. We don't. We just extrapolated a meaning. But I've seen reason enough for me to believe that the commonly accepted meaning is wrong.

IF - there were only have a volume's worth of material left to the story, why obscure the number in the magazine that came out on the same day? Rhetoric, sure, but that has to be reasoned.

IF - Bleach were to be ending in 4 chapters or less, why is this chapter paced as it has in past 10 or more chapters? You would imagine that, considering what's left to still happen and be explained, that Kubo wouldn't have scenery panels, and instead would have big information dump and "time lapse" via a narrator giving us missing information. And maybe that's to come, but I'll believe it when I see it. This does not like look Bleach will end before my 4th year of college this fall. Not by a long shot~