Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-527562-20130929043002/@comment-26475399-20151223165427

I dunno about any of you guys, but i feel like Bleach has a good long while before this final arc wraps up. There's a ton of stuff that still needs to happen. I would like for the manga to at least hit 700 chapters, but i see the potential for further chapters yet. That is, of course, if everything works out properly and there's no sudden rush.

I do hope that the manga reaches a total conclusion before any animation is released. I've kinda jokingly said to myself before, that it would be neat if they've been animating everything all along, and just sitting on it until the manga completely ends; that way, we wouldn't havta wait very long between the end of the manga and the "re-awakening" of the anime. Then all the episodes would flow steadily from start to finish, with no worry of fillers being necessary.

One way or another, i'm awaiting the anime's return.

... May not happen 'til around 2020, but here's to hoping it'll still happen someday. ;)