Yeah Smiter it'll definitely be over sometime in 2012, any longer would just be ridiculous.
Yeah, that's what I see happening. All the loose ends seem like they're being tied up at long last, so unless he really drags out the war, I doubt it'll go past next summer, at the latest. But we'll see, I just think it's hard to continue the plot after a world war concludes. I mean, how do you top that?
You say this and then you look at something like Bleach that should have already ended.
Bleach had way too many loose ends to tie up, so the comparison doesn't really fit. Every once in a while I'll watch/read an old episode/chapter of Bleach and still see stuff Kubo hasn't addressed. I remember thinking the plot would end with Aizen, but thinking, "Really? He's gonna end the plot without addressing Isshin's past, Sado's powers, Grimmjow's fate, and Yachiru's namesake (Kenpachi claimed he named Yachiru after the 'only person he ever admired', I shiver thinking of Kenpachi admiring someone
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)?" I'm sure there's more I'm not thinking of, but I would have been royally ticked if the plot ended on that note.