Bleach - 546

'The Last 9 Days'

WHAT??!?!?! YOU GOTTA BE SQUIDDING ME! Bad news first, Bleach will be on hiatus for 5 weeks! Yep, that's right, 5 weeks. Well, could've been worse. Anyway, this means there'll be no Bleach for the coming weeks, meaning I'll be at the complete mercy of Naruto's crappiness, which seems to have no bounds lately. On the bright side, One Piece is beginning to heat up, with the tournament finally kicking off once Luffy gets a slice of the action. So, it looks like Bleach is having its last call, confirmed in this weeks issue of jump. The rough translation is as follows:

'After this weeks issue, Bleach will be on hiatus from Jump 35-40. Starting from jump 41 (09/09), the "1000 years Blood Ward Arc - The Separation Story"  arc will start, and will be Bleach's final arc.

Before the last battle, I will be going on a long hiatus so that I can approach the final battle fully charged and give it my absolute all. When the manga resumes, please prepare yourselves for the "1000 years Blood Ward Arc - The Separation Story".'

We can presume this arc will cover... 9 days

Instead of preparing for the upcoming war, Shunsui Kyoraku finds warning Ichigo's friends of possible consequences to be of an equally important concern. That guy is certainly cunning, so I wonder if he has any plans to exploit the situation. Other than that, I found it rather amusing he gave them a special ticket to visit Soul Society, considering it seems so out of place! Also, he's almost assuming after the war, there will be a Soul Society to visit. Quite a bold assumption seeing how powerful the opposition is (*cough* Juhabach *cough*).