User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 680 - THE END 2/@comment-4718355-20160630184247

I'm actually glad ichigo lost given it would have sucked even worse if he won given he's the protagonist. Though I call bull on how Gerard died. I guess it goes to saying "to beat one person with BS insane powers, have someone with even greater BS powers kill him". The way he opened a portal for everyone to fight him when he crosses over is like a final boss fight sort of but If yhwach only took the quincy and hollow side of ichigo's powers then he may have his Shinigami ones still. I doubt rukia and renji will try to fight him, they used up a lot of stamina and strength fighting lately. I do think some others will show up to give ichigo another boost (lame, but will likely happen) and enter the gate. I personally believe grimmjow and nel will arrive eventually and it will be ichigo and grimmjow vs yhwach together for the final fight.

And since the manga is coming to an end, you can see how kubo purposely left the number of chapters off yet, as he's either being rushed or already did the math we don't know. It could be 20, 30 or hell even 80 for all we know since we still need to know a lot of stuff: the fight with yhwach 1000 years ago, how uyruu survived against ashwualen and other stuff like how does Gerard have soul king heart. I just hate seeing people bash on bleach even though its not the greatest manga ever, its still strong to me and I will miss it.