Forum:Bleach could have ended at 178

I think it's strange that bleach could have ended in chapter 178. Soi Fong had her sword right up on aizen neck and even talked about how she could take his head off but didn't. Don't get me wrong, i'm glad she didn't, long live bleach, but why do you think she didn't do it. Do you think she had a reason, or was it just so that they could write more bleach? Maybe it shows how much the captains underestimated himKulash05 03:18, October 26, 2009 (UTC)

Bleach was originally scheduled to go for five years. I am not sure when Bleach got extended to "whenever Kubo runs out of ideas" but at some point, Kubo was working under the assumption that Bleach wouldn't be going indefinitely. Tinni 03:21, October 26, 2009 (UTC)

Maybe it's possible that Tite didn't expect it to be as popular as it ended up being, so it doesn't surprise me that he initially wrote it so it could have ended sooner. (What a lame ending that would have been, though. "You betrayed us! *beheads Aizen* The end!) I wonder how that all works though. I've read about some other mangas where the fan base wanted it to keep going, but the artist didn't want to (such as Yana Toboso's RustBlaster). Twocents 03:30, October 26, 2009 (UTC)

I don't think it would have worked that way. I mean, for a long time Kubo hadn't thought of the Gotei 13. Not even sure when he thought of the Gotei 13 or decided on Aizen being a bad guy or even THE bad guy. As I was writing up the summary for chapter 25 I thought to myself that maybe Arrancar Grand Fisher was intended to play a more important role then being one-shotted by Isshin. I.e. Ichigo's vizardness would have been to defeat Grand Fisher. Who know how things would have place out. Maybe we wouldn't have had the whole soul society arc at all or at least it would have been far shorter etc, etc. I doubt even Kubo knew how things would have changed if Bleach didn't get made indefinite. I mean, I don't know about right now, he has admitted to making things up as he goes long. Tinni 06:02, October 26, 2009 (UTC)

While it's possible, think about it a little more. Renji, Ichigo and Komomura (SP?) couldn't scratch Aizen (Ichigo was even using his bankai). The way it was worked in I don't think it was a possibility anymore, but I agree that maybe in the planning process it may have come up if Bleach wasn't as successful.

Sorry, but to the previous guy before me, it wasn't that Komamura couldn't cut Aizen, but it rather being that he attacked an illusion rather than Aizen himself. And to be honest, why would someone end it like that? It's a little boring, and talk about fan dissatisfaction! Animeluvr92 02:09, October 27, 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, the second to last post was me. --Ihaveaname 04:05, October 27, 2009 (UTC). And I know what you mean Anime, but it was the fact that he couldn't even touch Aizen when he tried. --Ihaveaname 04:05, October 27, 2009 (UTC)

well it's pretty simple, she could have killed him but they needed to capture him and interrogate him,  because that evil monologue about Hogyuku and etc was only herad by Ichigo and the others that were there,  Gotei 13 only heard something like "hey these three tards betrayed us and  killed Toushiro and Momo (they seemed dead at that moment)  go get him!" so, I think it could have ended more sooner, this was intended to be a short series as I heard somewhere,and in onemanga Renji adresses Byakuya as a General in his first appearance,  maybe is a mistranslation,  but maybe the whole deal was only rescue Rukia, bring her back or let her stay and the End,maybe Grand Fisher was the Final boss little atfer that, but then everyone liked the complexity and potencial of Gotei 13 and Kubo prolonged it,  thas my opinionDaigo623 23:23, October 27, 2009 (UTC)


 * Everything can be explained away by Aizen's hax release. I bet even is she did try to behead him, you would see the mirror shattering instead (illusion)

Knowing Aizen, he probably would have picked up his head, put it back on his neck, insulted Soifon and her incompetence in a nice voice, and then sat down and told Tousen and Gin to kill everyone.