Is Tite Kubo Hinting at a BLEACH Sequel?
I just found out that a special artbook is coming out to celebrate Bleach later this year. It will be called Bleach JET and the picture I first saw features Ichigo who looks a lot like his father Isshin but with orange hair and no beard. The official announcement first came via a brief video on the official Instagram page, and it points to over 700 pieces of artwork being collected in more than 500 pages.
The interesting part comes in a tweet that series creator, Tite Kubo, sent out. It had two images and one of them featured Ichigo in a graphic tee as is normal for him, but the interesting part is that the graphic says, “and little sequel.” Or at least, that’s what it looks like it says. We can’t see if there’s anything before “and” and we don’t know that it’s an “l” before “ittle,” but it makes the most sense. This of course has fans theorizing that Kubo is hinting at a sequel to the manga. Neither Kubo nor the manga’s publisher Shueisha have officially announced a sequel, so we could all be getting excited for nothing. What would the sequel cover? Ichigo as an adult? Ichigo’s kid? Yuzu and Karin? Some new character?