User blog comment:Lemursrule/THE ARRANCAR ARC IS OVER!/@comment-1268838-20100928131759

I'm glad to hear that the Arrancar arc is finally over, but honestly, it doesn't make a bit of a difference to me. I actually expected the end of Aizen to be the end of Bleach as a whole - his responsibility for causing the vast majority of the story's events seemed to imply that he was not just a big bad, but the big bad of the series. As far as villains go, I am hoping that Kubo can find something that ties into the story very well, rather than pulling some new enemy out of thin air. Luckily, there are still many unresolved plot devices for him to take advantage of, unlike some other manga series that grasp at straws and drag the story out needlessly.

Question regarding the short and "long" arc; was he saying that the "long" arc is significantly longer than the "short" arc, or the Arrancar arc? Either way, so far it seems like out of the manga Big Three, Bleach is going to be the second longest. I guess we'll see.