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.