History

Kubo Tite is the creator of Bleach. Tite Kubo, also referred to as Kubotite (Kubo Taito), is actually only a pen name for Noriaki Kubo. Born in June 26, 1977 he first began drawing manga in High School and became a member of the Anime Club. Although hard to believe, it wasn't always easy for Kubo as he wrote Zombie Powder while still in high school but do to lack of popularity Zombie Powder was cut after only 4 volumes which was an emotional blow to Kubo. Later on, Kubo started a new manga, entitled "Bleach" a manga about Shinigami and Hollows. When Kubo first presented Bleach to Weekly Shonen Jump it was rejected due to it being similar to Yu Yu Hakusho a very popular a still very popular manga. Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball, happened to read the manga that Kubo had submitted and had heard that it was rejected. Akira quickly mailed Kubo and with this letter Kubo was able to get confidence back to himself and was once again inspired to write. Eventually, his work paid off and Weekly Shonen Jump serialized his manga. It is now well over 150 chapters in length with no sign of slowing, and a very popular Anime Series being shown in prime time on Japanese Television, on TV Tokyo.


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