Tite Kubo

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

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

After two more short stories, he started his first longer manga, Zombie Powder , in 1999 . The 700-page story about people in search of zombie powder. , which has the power to bring the dead back to life and make the living immortal, was published until 2000 in Shōnen Jump and made Tite Kubo known.

The real breakthrough came a year later when his manga series Bleach made its debut. In it he tells of the 15-year-old student Ichigo Kurosaki , who has been able to see ghosts since birth and receives the powers of a Shinigami . When the Shinigami Rukia Kuchiki is kidnapped, he sets out to save her. Bleach , which has appeared weekly in Shōnen Jump since December 2001, sold over 30 million copies in Japan by May 2006, won the Shōgakukan Manga Prize , has been translated into numerous languages ​​and filmed as an anime series with 366 episodes and as a real-life film .

Works

• Ultra Unholy Hearted Machine , 1996
• Kokumashi Urara (刻 魔 師 麗), 1996
• Bad Shield United , 1997
• Zombie Powder. , 1999-2000
• Bleach , 2001-2016
• Burn the Witch (One Shot), 2018
• Burn the Witch (Miniseries), 2020

Web links

• List of all tankōbon publications (Japanese)
• Interview with Tite Kubo at Shonen Jump (English)
• Profile of Tite Kubo on anisearch.de