Noriaki Kubo, known professionally as Tite Kubo, is a Japanese manga artist and character designer.
16 Facts About Tite Kubo
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Tite Kubo wrote his first manga Zombiepowder, which was published in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1999.
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Tite Kubo later stated that he was not used to the magazine weekly serialization and used to pay more attention to his editor's comments rather than his own ideas.
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Tite Kubo initially expected the series' serialization to continue no longer than five years.
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Tite Kubo appeared in the episode 112 of the Japanese radio program of Bleach B-Station.
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In that program, Tite Kubo was interviewed by Masakazu Morita, voice actor of Ichigo Kurosaki, the main character of Bleach, and answered several questions from fans.
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On July 26,2008, Tite Kubo went to the United States for the first time and made an appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con International.
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Tite Kubo provided character designs for Madhouse's anime adaptations of Ango Sakaguchi's Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita and Ryunosuke Akutagawa's The Spider's Thread and Hell Screen, which are parts of the Aoi Bungaku series.
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In 2018, Tite Kubo returned to Weekly Shonen Jump and published a one-shot, Burn the Witch, in commemoration of the magazine's 50th anniversary.
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Tite Kubo's fight scenes are noted for swift cuts and dramatic angle changes between panels, as well as minimal inclusion of background art or splash pages.
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Tite Kubo remembers trying to sketch its characters and found his own designs to be simpler than that of Mizuki's.
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Tite Kubo has cited influences for elements of Bleach ranging from other manga series to music, foreign language, architecture, and film.
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Tite Kubo stated that Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball taught him that all villains must be "strong, scary and cool" without exception, and added that to this day no fight scene has shocked him more than Trunks' first appearance.
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The action style and storytelling found in Bleach are inspired by cinema, though Tite Kubo has not revealed any specific movie as being an influence for fight scenes.
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Tite Kubo has stated that he wishes to make Bleach an experience that can only be found by reading manga, and dismissed ideas of creating any live-action film adaptations of the series.
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Since creating them like this, Tite Kubo considers every character to be unique and wants each of them to be developed along the series.