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Either that or add another filler arc. But since it already felt like Bleach was 50 % filler episodes, they wisely decided to take a break.

But with the last arc being the Fail Full-Bringer arc, which was... far from good even in the manga, it's no surprise no studio wanted to pick Bleach up again.