Noriaki Kubo (久保 宣章, Kubo Noriaki) (born June 26, 1977), known by his pen name Tite Kubo (久保 帯人, Kubo Taito), is a Japanese manga artist. His most significant work is the manga series Bleach.
The son of a town council member in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima, Kubo graduated from the local high school. In an interview, Kubo has stated that he entered a magazine's manga contest, and that although he did not win, one of the magazine's editors notice...
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Noriaki Kubo (久保 宣章, Kubo Noriaki) (born June 26, 1977), known by his pen name Tite Kubo (久保 帯人, Kubo Taito), is a Japanese manga artist. His most significant work is the manga series Bleach.
The son of a town council member in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima, Kubo graduated from the local high school. In an interview, Kubo has stated that he entered a magazine's manga contest, and that although he did not win, one of the magazine's editors noticed his talent. They subsequently worked together on joint projects. Not long afterward, his first manga short, "Ultra Unholy Hearted Machine", was published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump Special in 1996. This was followed by two more shorts, and in 1999 his first serial, Zombiepowder., began in Weekly Shōnen Jump and ran for four volumes until 2000, when it was cancelled. According to the author's commentary in the cover leaf of the third tankōbon, Kubo was in a state of severe emotional trauma when he wrote it.
His next series, Bleach,...
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