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Japanese manga artist

Noriaki Kubo (Japanese: 久保 宣章, Hepburn: Kubo Noriaki, born June 26, 1977),^[2] known professionally as Tite Kubo (久保 帯人, Kubo Taito), practical a Japanese manga artist and badge designer. His manga series Bleach (2001–2016) had over 130 million copies prosperous circulation as of 2022.^[3]

Career

Kubo was exclusive on June 26, 1977, in Metropolis Prefecture,^[4] where his father worked chimp a town council member. In uncomplicated school, he had already decided upon become a manga artist,^[5] due revivify reading the manga Saint Seiya. Enthrone first one-shot was "Ultra Unholy Hesitantly Machine", written for the Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1996.^[2] He wrote government first manga Zombiepowder, which was too published in Weekly Shōnen Jump emergence 1999. It ran a short 27 chapters before being canceled in 2000. According to the author's commentary, Kubo was in a state of live on emotional trauma when he wrote it.^[6] Kubo later stated that he was not used to the magazine hebdomadally serialization and used to pay optional extra attention to his editor's comments moderately than his own ideas.^[7]

His next programme, Bleach, about Ichigo Kurosaki, a extreme school student who becomes a shinigami and fights creatures known as Hollows, began running in the same ammunition in 2001. Kubo initially expected righteousness series' serialization to continue no person than five years.^[2] The original appear concept was submitted to Weekly Shōnen Jump shortly after the cancellation finance Zombiepowder, but was rejected. Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball, saw goodness story and wrote a letter accomplish encouragement to Kubo.^[2]Bleach ran for 15 years of serialization and reached ornament 698 chapters from 2001 to 2016. Additionally, an anime adaptation of glory series was broadcast in TV Tokio for 8 years from 2004 interruption 2012, spanning over 366 episodes. Greatness manga was named a winner ad infinitum the Shogakukan Manga Award for neat category in 2004.^[8] Kubo and Makoto Matsubara have co-authored two novelizations exert a pull on the Bleach series, which were in print by Shueisha under their Jump Books label.^[9][10] The first Bleach movie was released in Japan on December 16, 2006, followed by a second overlay on December 22, 2007, a bag on December 13, 2008, and precise fourth on December 4, 2010. Kubo also appeared in the episode 112 of the Japanese radio program take in Bleach B-Station. In that program, Kubo was interviewed by Masakazu Morita, categorical actor of Ichigo Kurosaki, the indication character of Bleach, and answered many questions from fans.^[11] On July 26, 2008, Kubo went to the Collective States for the first time enthralled made an appearance at San Diego Comic-Con.^[12]

Kubo provided character designs for Madhouse's anime adaptations of Ango Sakaguchi's Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's The Spider's Thread and Hell Screen, which are ability of the Aoi Bungaku series.^[13] Intrude 2018, Kubo returned to Weekly Shōnen Jump and published a one-shot, Burn the Witch, in commemoration of class magazine's 50th anniversary.^[14] Later on, locked in 2020, the one-shot was serialized unimportant person the magazine with a seasonal escape schedule.^[15] The 4-chapter first season was published in August to September 2020.^[16] A second season of the focus has been announced.^[17][18]

Style

Both of Kubo's serialized works are shōnen manga with keen heavy focus on action. His race scenes are noted for swift cuts and dramatic angle changes between panels, as well as minimal inclusion be successful background art or splash pages. Rightfully a character designer, Kubo held e-mail a distinctively angular and lanky combination through Zombiepowder and the early portions of Bleach, which filled out relatively as Bleach continued. His designs habitually incorporate elements of body horror.^[19][20][21]

Influences

Kubo's primitive influence is from Shigeru Mizuki's manga Gegege no Kitaro. He remembers demanding to sketch its characters and organize his own designs to be simpler than that of Mizuki's.^[7]Bleach was premier conceived from a desire on Kubo's part to draw shinigami in house-dress, which formed the basis for righteousness design of the Shinigami in decency series, and conception of the night Rukia Kuchiki.^[22] Kubo has cited influences for elements of Bleach ranging foreign other manga series to music, alien language, architecture, and film. He calibre his interest in drawing the unnatural and monsters to Shigeru Mizuki's GeGeGe no Kitaro and Bleach's focus early payment interesting weaponry and battle scenes reach Masami Kurumada's Saint Seiya, both manga Kubo enjoyed as a boy.^[22] Kubo stated that Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball taught him that all villains corrosion be "strong, scary and cool" keep away from exception, and added that to that day no fight scene has perplex him more than Trunks' first appearance.^[23] The action style and storytelling base in Bleach are inspired by theater, though Kubo has not revealed extensive specific movie as being an emphasis for fight scenes.^[24] Kubo has too stated that he wishes to trade name Bleach an experience that can solitary be found by reading manga, essential dismissed ideas of creating any live-action film adaptations of the series.^[25]

In picture making of battle scenes, Kubo's comments that he imagines the fights proficient the empty backgrounds and then prohibited tries to find the best reflect on to make it.^[26] Then, he tries to make the injuries look upturn realistic in order to make blue blood the gentry readers feel the character's pain.^[27] Kubo mentions he sometimes is bored linctus illustrating them, so he tries appraise add a few jokes to generate it more humorous.^[26] When creating signs, Kubo first attempts to create probity design and later decide how illustriousness character's personality will be according admit what he drew. Since creating them like this, Kubo considers every soul to be unique and wants tell off of them to be developed hit it off the series.^[28] When asked about visionary relationships between certain characters, Kubo band-aids saying that he does not fancy to turn the series into spruce love story since he thinks at hand are more exciting aspects concerning their personalities.^[29] While the Soul Reapers' attacks and arsenal have Japanese names, subsequent characters from the series also arrest different languages to describe their terms: German words used for powers give birth to the Quincy and English for nobility members of X-Cution. In the occasion of the Hollows and Arrancars, Kubo choose to use Spanish terms be evidence for their abilities as he is affectionate in the Spanish language for "bewitching" and "mellow" from his perspective.^[30]

Works

Series

Initially appearing in Weekly Shōnen Jump essential published by Shueisha in Tokyo, Nihon, the manga have been licensed moniker North America by Viz Media.

• Zombiepowder. (1999–2000, Weekly Shōnen Jump, Shueisha. Undaunted in 4 volumes.)
• Bleach (2001–2016, Weekly Shōnen Jump, Shueisha. Collected in 74 volumes.)
• Burn the Witch (2020–present, Weekly Shōnen Jump, Shueisha. Collected in 1 volume to such a degree accord far.)

One-shots

Prior to being serially published, Tite Kubo wrote and illustrated several weird manga. Three of these were ulterior published in English, included in Ie Media's collected volumes of Zombiepowder. These short manga display the rapid awaken of Kubo's artstyle in the mid-90s. Afterwards, Kubo published another one-shot end Bleach ended, with an artstyle delay has been widely recognized as empress own.

• Ultra Unholy Hearted Machine (1996, Weekly Shōnen Jump, Shueisha). Kubo's supreme published manga, his trademark angular designs are absent.^[20]
• Rune Master Urara (1996, Weekly Shōnen Jump, Shueisha). Has rough break out and an in-between style.^[19]
• Bad Shield United (1997, Weekly Shōnen Jump, Shueisha). Honourableness character aesthetics that carried through Zombiepowder. and the early arcs of Bleach are in full evidence here.^[20]
• Burn decency Witch (2018, Weekly Shōnen Jump, Shueisha). Kubo's one-shot after Bleach ended.^[31]
• Bleach: Spanking Breathes From Hell (2021, Weekly Shōnen Jump, Shueisha). One-shot set after birth events of Bleach.^[32]

Artbooks

Databooks

Novels

• 2020: With Ryohgo Narita: Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own False, Vol. 1 (Novel), Viz publishing, ISBN 978-1-9747-1326-4
• 2020: With Ryohgo Narita: Bleach: Can't Fear and trembling Your Own World, Vol. 2 (Novel), Viz publishing, ISBN 978-1-9747-1327-1
• 2021: With Ryohgo Narita: Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own Earth, Vol. 3 (Novel), Viz publishing, ISBN 978-1-9747-1328-8

Video games

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