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Even the more reliable leakers are starting to confirm that the Bleach anime is only a matter of time. I think we are in for a blast regarding the Bleach franchise in the upcoming two years.
The license of Studio Pierrot is also supposedly expired.
I'd actually be really surprised by this if they made the anime. Here's the thing about the Final Blood War, it's not just some 1-cour anime that could be produced. There's 206 chapters to cover. If you went aggressive and said they could do 3 chapters in an episode that's still 68 episodes which is a LOT by most standards (it would take 2-4 years to animate that kind of quantity based upon how most running anime gets published).
But the giant catch is, most anime is made as promotional material to sell the manga. We don't think of it that way overseas because we don't get Shounen Jump the way they do in Japan, but considering that there's no manga revenue to be made from animating Bleach I'd be surprised if they invested the amount of money it would take to do ~68 episodes. Their anime revenue model isn't the same as it is here which is typically all advertising revenue.
I'd LOVE to see the final arc animated, I just don't know if there's any actual profit to be had by doing so.
It's one of the reasons why Movies are becoming such a popular medium in Japan for animating manga that wouldn't be as lucrative as a nationally televised anime. Series such as Black Butler get movies instead of animated cours because the revenue model is ticket sales, which actually *does* bring in Revenue and profit directly related to the series. As opposed to it taking up a popular TV slot which doesn't get as much direct revenue to the animation studio.