Tite Kubo

Tite Kubo (Japanese久保 帯 人, Kubo Taito; actually Noriaki Kubo (久保 宣 章, Noriaki Kubo ), born June 26, 1977 in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist, whose works are aimed at adolescent boys and are attributable to the shōnen genre. He works for the publishing house Shueisha.

He went to his hometown Fuchū to secondary school, where he was in an anime club. At this time he began to draw. At age nineteen, Kubo, who has two younger siblings published his first comic as a professional artist. The short story, which he published under his real name Noriaki Kubo, is titled Ultra Unholy Hearted Machine, and appeared in 1996 in a special edition of the best-selling manga magazine Shōnen the jump, for which he has since worked.

After two more short stories he began in 1999 with a first longer manga, Zombie Powder. The over 700 -page story about people looking after the Zombie Powder. , Which has the power to raise the dead back to life and make living immortal, has been published until 2000 Shōnen Jump and made known Tite Kubo.

The real breakthrough, however, came a year later when his manga series Bleach made ​​its debut. In it he tells the story of 15 -year-old student Ichigo Kurosaki who can see ghosts since he was born and given the powers of a Shinigami. When the Shinigami Rukia Kuchiki is kidnapped, he makes his way to rescue her. Bleach, the Weekly Shōnen Jump since appears in the December 2001 sold in Japan until May 2006 over 30 million times, won the Shogakukan Manga Award, has been translated into many languages ​​and filmed as an anime series with 366 episodes already.

Works

• Ultra Unholy Hearted Machine, 1996
• Kokumashi Urara (刻 魔 师 丽), 1996
• Bad Shield United, 1997
• Zombie Powder. , 1999-2000
• Bleach, since 2001