User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 686 - Death & Strawberry (End of Bleach reMIX)/@comment-24769684-20160820020548/@comment-26258-20160821032626

Didn't Kubo say in one of the interviews during the end of the Fake Karakura town that he was going to do one short arc and the one Final big arc and he also said it was going to be longer than the Aizen part, I seriously doubt his editors went to him one day and told him he had 4 years.