THE MASTERMIND BETWEEN 'BLEACH'..............
Noriaki Kubo ,born June 26, 1977 known by his pen name Tite Kubo is a Japanese manga artist. His most significant work is the manga series Bleach.Kubo is the son of a town council member in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima. He never took drawing seriously until he was 17, and after reading the manga Saint Seiya which influenced him to become a manga artist. His first one-shot was "Ultra Unholy Hearted Machine", written for the Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1996.[1] He wrote his first manga Zombiepowder, which was also published in Weekly Shōnen Jump
in 1999. It ran a short 27 chapters before being canceled in 2000.
According to the author's commentary, Kubo was in a state of severe
emotional trauma when he wrote it.[2]
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.[3]His next series, Bleach, about a high school student who becomes a shinigami
and fights hollows, began running in the same magazine in 2001. Kubo
initially expected the series' serialization to continue no longer than
five years.[1] As of July 2012, Bleach has reached 500 chapters, and an anime adaptation began running in Japan in 2004. The manga was named a winner of the Shogakukan Manga Award for its category in 2004.[4] Kubo and Makoto Matsubara have co-authored two novelizations of the Bleach series, which were published by Shueisha under their Jump Books label.[5][6] A Bleach movie was released in Japan on December 16, 2006, followed by a second movie on December 22, 2007, a third on December 13, 2008, and a fourth on December 4, 2010. Kubo also appeared in the episode 112 of the Japanese radio program of Bleach B-Station. In that program, Kubo was interviewed by Masakazu Morita, voice actor of Ichigo Kurosaki, the main character of Bleach, and answered several questions from fans.[7] On July 26, 2008, Kubo went to the United States for the first time and made an appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con International.[8]
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