History Creator / TiteKubo

* TeenGenius: According [[https://twitter.com/i/moments/926914353680568321 to this interview]], Kubo only started taking illustration and manga seriously when he was a teenager. However, when he was still in school, his artwork caught the eye of the Shueisha editors. The rest is history.

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%%* HamToHamCombat: Kubo admitted he struggles to write fights in a serious way and can only do it by involving jokes along the way. Many characters therefore ramp up the ham during battles. Only the most important battles lack any humour to showcase just how significant they are.
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%%* PsychologicalHorror: Has dabbled occasionally in this, which the fans have praised. The biggest examples take place in the X-Cution arc (when [[spoiler: Tsukishima {{mind rape}}s Ichigo's friends and family to pit them against him]]) and the Thousand Years Blood War (with [[spoiler: As Nods first [[MindRape mind-raping]], then almost murdering Byakuya]]).

* CreatorBacklash: Made it abundantly clear he was not pleased with ''Anime/BleachHellVerse''. In the small interview that came with the collectors edition of the DVD in Japan, Kubo notes that he requested his name be removed from the credits (a request that was denied) as he rather passive-aggressively stated that he felt he hadn't contributed enough to the film to be acknowledged in the credits... because the studio had rejected all of his ideas. Many fans share Kubo's sentiment (which is amazing given any circumstance, knowing Kubo's status as ''the'' TrollingCreator), labeling the fourth movie the weakest of the bunch.

* CreatorBacklash: Made it abundantly clear he was not pleased with ''Anime/BleachTheHellVerse''. In the small interview that came with the collectors edition of the DVD in Japan, Kubo notes that he requested his name be removed from the credits (a request that was denied) as he rather passive-aggressively stated that he felt he hadn't contributed enough to the film to be acknowledged in the credits... because the studio had rejected all of his ideas. Many fans share Kubo's sentiment (which is amazing given any circumstance, knowing Kubo's status as ''the'' TrollingCreator), labeling the fourth movie the weakest of the bunch.

For ''Jump's'' 50th anniversary in 2018, Kubo came back to make a oneshot, a romcom fantasy titled ''Manga/BurnTheWitch''.

For ''Jump's'' 50th anniversary in 2018, Kubo came back to make a oneshot, a romcom fantasy titled ''BURN THE WITCH''.

Eventually, in 2019, it was announced that Kubo would be making his video game debut as the character designer for ''VideoGame/ShinSakuraWars'', the sixth installment in the ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' series.

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: One of Kubo's methods for dealing with writers' block is to create new characters. However, ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' is based on military units, armies, and organizations. As a result, he doesn't simply design one or two characters, he designs many. The Shinigami are an organization of thousands, split into thirteen divisions, and there are at least two or three developed characters per division. The Arrancar consists of more than ten Espada with multiple subordinates. The Quincies have an entire army of characters and even the Fullbringers are an organization of six people. That's ignoring Ichigo's classmates and the Royal Guard. The characters very quickly stack up.

Tite Kubo (born Noriaki Kubo, June 26, 1977; "Tite" is pronounced "Taito") is the creator of ''Manga/{{Zombiepowder}}'' and the popular series ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', a series that remains one of the most popular {{Shonen}} manga that ever circulated in Magazine/WeeklyShonenJump, at least in the first decade of Main/The2000s.

Tite Kubo (born Noriaki Kubo, June 26, 1977; "Tite" is pronounced "Taito") is the creator of ''Manga/{{Zombiepowder}}'' and the incredibly popular series ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', a series that remains one of the most popular {{Shonen}} manga in circulation today, partly due to the large amount of interesting characters and partly due to [[ShockingMoments the sheer number of awesome moments]] the series has produced. His color cover pages always have characters in [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes very trendy outfits]].


He is widely considered to be a TrollingCreator, to the point of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1nyd_o3IYo trolling demigod]], given that he keeps a big part of the fandom riled up ''constantly'' no matter what he does. Here's his Website/{{Twitter}} [[http://twitter.com/tite_official account]]. He's also good friends with fellow author Creator/MayuShinjo, based on their tweets. Sadly, he is also an IllBoy: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170111125416/http://tenshiscave.tumblr.com/post/153300055417/kubo-tite-bleach-twitter according to his twitter]] he's had constant health problems ever since Bleach's tenth publishing years.


At Jump Festa 2012, Kubo [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/interest/2012-12-22/bleach-creator-tite-kubo-gets-married said]] that he had recently gotten married, but didn't comment beyond that statement. Up to this day, the lady's identity hasn't been revealed, almost surely to protect her and Kubo's privacy.

* HamToHamCombat: Kubo admitted he struggles to write fights in a serious way and can only do it by involving jokes along the way. Many characters therefore ramp up the ham during battles. Only the most important battles lack any humour to showcase just how significant they are.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: One of Kubo's methods for dealing with writers' block is to create new characters. However, ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' is based on military units, armies and organisations. As a result, he doesn't simply design one or two characters, he designs many. The Shinigami are an organisation of thousands, split into thirteen divisions, and there are at least two or three developed characters per division. The Arrancar consist of more than ten Espada with multiple subordinates. The Quincies have an entire army of characters and even the Fullbringers are an organisation of six people. That's ignoring Ichigo's classmates and the Royal Guard. The characters very quickly stack up.
* PsychologicalHorror: Has dabbled occasionally in this, which the fans have praised. The biggest examples take place in the X-Cution arc (when [[spoiler: Tsukishima {{mind rape}}s Ichigo's friends and family to pit them against him]]) and the Thousand Years Blood War (with [[spoiler: As Nods first [[MindRape mind-raping]], then almost murdering Byakuya]]).

-> ''SO THERE I WAS BEING KUBO, WHEN THE EDITORS CAME IN AND WERE LIKE "YOU NEED TO DO MORE THAN PANELS OF WHITE PILLARS AND BLACKGROUNDS!" AND I WAS LIKE "FUCK YOU, I'M KUBO!" SO THEY WERE LIKE "WELL HOW ABOUT SOMEBODY DYING?" AND I WAS LIKE "FUCK YOU, I'M KUBO!" AND I MADE LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY. I LOVE MY LIFE.''
-->-- '''Website/{{Youtube}} commentator'''

Tite Kubo (born Noriaki Kubo, June 26, 1977; "Tite" is pronounced "Taito") is the creator of ''Manga/{{Zombiepowder}}'' and the incredibly popular series ''Manga/{{Bleach}}.'' He has several often parodied weaknesses as a manga-ka ([[WhiteVoidRoom eschewing backgrounds]], slow pace, OnlySixFaces, [[AssPull Plotkai]], [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters creating new characters]] to overcome writer's block), etc. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), ''Bleach'' remains one of the most popular {{Shonen}} manga in circulation today, partly due to the large amount of interesting characters and partly due to [[ShockingMoments the sheer number of awesome moments]] the series has produced. His color cover pages always have characters in [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes very trendy outfits]].

When through his previous Twitter account he heard that Nick Simmons' comic ''ComicBook/{{Incarnate}}'' plagiarized his own works, he responded simply--

->''"Between last night and this morning, I've been getting a lot of messages from overseas fans along the lines of 'There's an American comic ripping off Bleach!' I'm not that good at English, but I looked at the site and it seems it's a comic by Nick Simmons, the son of [[Music/{{KISS}} Gene Simmons]]. To be honest, I'm more bothered by the fact that Gene Simmons' son is a comic artist than whether or not it's a rip-off..."''

This earned him respect within his fandom.

The shutdown of [=RawParadise=] and a message from Shueisha in Shounen Jump asking people to report sites that host raws for scanlation across the globe seems to be at least partially attributed to Kubo, who had been receiving several tweets from foreign fans congratulating him on his 400th chapter of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' before it was even for sale in Japan, and him putting two and two together.

Tite Kubo (born Noriaki Kubo, June 26, 1977; "Tite" is pronounced "Taito") is the creator of ''Manga/{{Zombiepowder}}'' and the incredibly popular series ''Manga/{{Bleach}}.'' He has several often parodied weaknesses as a manga-ka ([[WhiteVoidRoom eschewing backgrounds]], slow pace, OnlySixFaces, [[AssPull Plotkai]], [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters creating new characters]] to overcome writer's block), etc. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), ''Bleach'' remains one of the most popular {{Shonen}} manga in circulation today, partly due to the large amount of interesting characters and partly due to [[HolyShitQuotient the sheer number of awesome moments]] the series has produced. His color cover pages always have characters in [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes very trendy outfits]].

!!Tropes associated with Tite Kubo's works are:

Tite Kubo (born Noriaki Kubo, June 26, 1977; "Tite" is pronounced "Taito") is the creator of ''Manga/{{Zombiepowder}}'' and the incredibly popular series ''Manga/{{Bleach}}.'' He has several often parodied weaknesses as a manga-ka ([[WhiteVoidRoom eschewing backgrounds]], [[PacingProblems slow pace]], OnlySixFaces, [[AssPull Plotkai]], [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters creating new characters]] to overcome writer's block), etc. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), ''Bleach'' remains one of the most popular {{Shonen}} manga in circulation today, partly due to the large amount of interesting characters and partly due to [[HolyShitQuotient the sheer number of awesome moments]] the series has produced. His color cover pages always have characters in [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes very trendy outfits]].

[[caption-width-right:200:[[spoiler: THE HEART]]]]

At Jump Festa 2012, Kubo [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/interest/2012-12-22/bleach-creator-tite-kubo-gets-married revealed]] that he had recently gotten married, but didn't comment beyond that statement.

He is widely considered to be a TrollingCreator, to the point of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1nyd_o3IYo trolling demigod]], given that he keeps a big part of the fandom riled up ''constantly'' no matter what he does. Here's his Website/{{Twitter}} [[http://twitter.com/tite_kubo account]], and he's also good friends with fellow author Creator/MayuShinjo, based on their tweets. Sadly, he is also an IllBoy: [[http://tenshiscave.tumblr.com/post/153300055417/kubo-tite-bleach-twitter according to his twitter]] he's had constant health problems ever since Bleach's tenth publishing years.

When through said Twitter account he heard that Nick Simmons' comic ''ComicBook/{{Incarnate}}'' plagiarized his own works, he responded simply--

He is widely considered to be a TrollingCreator, to the point of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1nyd_o3IYo trolling demigod]], given that he keeps a big part of the fandom riled up ''constantly'' no matter what he does. Here's his Website/{{Twitter}} [[http://twitter.com/tite_kubo account]], and he's also good friends with fellow author Creator/MayuShinjo, based on their tweets. Sadly, Kubo also is somewhat of an IllBoy: [[http://tenshiscave.tumblr.com/post/153300055417/kubo-tite-bleach-twitter according to his twitter]] he's had constant health problems ever since Bleach's tenth publishing years.

* PsychologicalHorror: Has dabbled occasionally in this, which the fans have praised. The biggest examples take place in the X-Cution arc (when [[spoiler: Tsukishima {{mind rape}}s Ichigo's friends and family to pit them against him]]) and the Thousand Years Blood War (with [[spoiler: As Nods first [[MindRape mind-raping]], then almost murdering Byakuya]]).

* DefinitelyJustACold: According to his own tweets, Kubo fell ill after Bleach's 10th year and his health got worse and worse as time passed. When there were double issues of the Shonen Jump (meaning, he had two weeks to do a chapter rather than the normal once-a-week schedule), he would spend the first week working and the second one in bed to recover. (The doctor told him the trope name, like, literally) It got to a point where [[CreatorBreakdown he wondered if he should just stop writing Bleach]].

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Kubo's made-up non-Japanese names can be very confusing to read and hard to pronounce and aren't necessarily the most obvious pronunciation. Kubo's very name is also an example of this trope: "Tite" is pronounced as "tight," not "TEE-teh" as is commonly interpreted.

* ItsPronouncedTroPay: Kubo's made-up non-Japanese names can be very confusing to read and hard to pronounce and aren't necessarily the most obvious pronunciation. Kubo's very name is also an example of this trope: "Tite" is pronounced as "tight," not "TEE-teh" as is commonly interpreted.

Tite Kubo (born Noriaki Kubo; "Tite" is pronounced "Taito") is the creator of ''Manga/{{Zombiepowder}}'' and the incredibly popular series ''Manga/{{Bleach}}.'' He has several often parodied weaknesses as a manga-ka ([[WhiteVoidRoom eschewing backgrounds]], [[PacingProblems slow pace]], OnlySixFaces, [[AssPull Plotkai]], [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters creating new characters]] to overcome writer's block), etc. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), ''Bleach'' remains one of the most popular {{Shonen}} manga in circulation today, partly due to the large amount of interesting characters and partly due to [[HolyShitQuotient the sheer number of awesome moments]] the series has produced. His color cover pages always have characters in [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes very trendy outfits]].