Just yesterday,new episode 289 just came out!
Here is the small plot summary if you are really interested: The story continues with the battle against Yami,as Byakuya and Kenpachi began fighting against each other.In all that mist of battle Yami rages and goes to his second form of his resurrection.On the other battlefield battles continues as Komamura and Hisagi are fighting against their old friend...Tousen.
As of now Bleach is one of top 10 animes in tearms of number of episodes.
The next episode should be coming out in 28th September.
The new Bleach episode,288 has just come out today!
And by many of you, you can be assured,it is not a filler episode^^
The story continues as Ichigo moves to help his friends.There he is accompanied by captain Unohana which tells him more about Aizens zanpakuto. I don't want to give to much of spoilers,so if you are interested,go and check it out :D
As seeing now,it looks like this series will have a lot more episodes.
Now that manga is probably near the end it will not take to long to anime to finnish then too(because then probably there won't be any filler episodes).
So you can just predict how much there will be. I guess at least 50 good story episodes,lol xDD
We will just have to wait and see =)