User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 555 - THE HERO/@comment-4207271-20131030053245/@comment-1351982-20131030114654

Also another point is why would Kubo take about two months off to write if this was not the climax? The poor guy didn't even take time off (writing wise) for his own WEDDING! Also to be honest, I cannot see Bleach going beyond 2015 (perhaps early 2016 at the latest) and I have believed this since the end of the Arrancar arc. Unless the work is something like a musical or something with an alternating story line (like tv shows and some American comics) it's really hard to maintain a singular story line for over 10 years, it just doesn't really happen with the Bleach's type of story structure, it just doesn't. Plus, while the Shinigami are still important, at the end of the day, Bleach is Ichigo's story/journey and once Ichigo's story is over, then there's no real point to continuing Bleach and I don't think Kubo has any intrest in a serious spin-off and I don't think he should do one.