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I would "assume" from a profit/consumer/business perspective, the anime was just catching up to the manga, and there are tons of new characters coming in as well from the looks of the manga, maybe various or different voice actors? Might even involve the processing the various documents to even produce the anime.

Bleach was a very popular anime series, I doubt they would cancel it "just cos" if they were making a profit. I have a feeling that when the Aizen arc ends for the dub, at a minimum we will hear news. At the latest at the end of the Subtitute arc. Pretty sure that Naruto didn't start its Part 2 until after the fight with Naruto and Sasuke in the dub.

Besides, at a bare minimum (it can vary, fighting, talking scenes etc) each anime episode can cover 1-3 manga chapters in a single episode on average, 5 at the most I'd say. So far the new arc started from 480, and is now at 545. That's only 65 chapters. Which is about 20ish anime episodes. When before the manga has been at least 70-100+ chapters/episodes ahead of the anime. Not really including fillers which might account for 100+ of the 366 episodes of Bleach.