User blog comment:Salubri/New Characters and Reveals in the Future of Bleach/@comment-1405841-20100828152948

From the Interviews, Kubo has expressed the desire (while not definate) to work on another TBTP arc. I don't know where someone got this other idea (I certainly didn't read it in a stated interview) but "apparently" he wants to go into some more depth on some of the Espada (as in their own TBTP arc) and now this big rumor has been spread that Nnoitra might be returning. But that's just a rumor that sprouted somewhere in the information from MASKED elsewhere on the internet...I personally don't have much stock in it.

The thing I'm curious about right now is WHAT older character Kubo intends to arrive during the current arc. In the summary of events to come, from translations, Kubo said he wishes to go into detail about the entire Royal Guard, introduce a character MUCH OLDER than Ichigo in the current arc and that right now it's going to take place in Karakura town (whether or not he's referring to the final long arc or the mini-arc is uncertain). Plus there's this controversy with "Unohona's True Face"...which people have speculated it to refer to something like Tsuande's (from Naruto) ability to make herself look much younger or...to her actually being an antagonist (a bit farfetched, I don't support it...though I've always had this weird feeling about her....).