User blog comment:Lemursrule/Countdown to new Bleach/@comment-1932702-20101025024325/@comment-1351982-20101025025537

You are right only Kubo knows 100% what will and will not happen, but it seems like he has these next two arcs more throughly laid out than the previous arcs based off what he said in masked. I think the purpose of the arrancar arc was to lay out a foundation for at this point looks like the final two arcs in Bleach. I honestly believe from how Kubo has laid out the Bleach storyline, we really can't have more than two arcs. Bleach will not have any major time skips for two reasons. #1 it is the biggest literary cop-out of all, If you have to skip extensive amounts of time to move your own plot forward, there is obviously a problem. #2 The way bleach's plot is set up now it would make absolutely no sense to have a time skip. I have a pretty good idea on plot points that might occur in future chapters. I would re-watch episodes 123 and 150.