Vanessa Cross Visual Art Paper on Tite Kubo

Vanessa Cross

Individual Studios/ Practice

Bruce Wall

February 22, 2010



Visual Art Paper

My visual paper is going to be about one of my favorite anime artist named Tite Kubo

cause that is what I love to draw the most so that is why I am going to do the

paper on him. I was thinking of doing the paper on anime artist but I had to choose

one because anime artists are every where. Tite Kubo is the manga artist of one of

my favorite anime/manga of all time and that anime is Bleach. Tite kubo was born

June 26, 1977.


Tite Kubo’s first started drawing manga in high school, where he was part of this

anime club. High school is were he created his first original manga called Zombie

Powder, it is about a man named Akutabi Gamma, and he is searching for the Zombie

Powder, a legendary drug that can raise the dead or make the living immortal. Gamma

fights with a chainsword, and has metal plating all over his right hand and arm that

he uses to catch bullets. The other main characters are a thirteen year old

pickpocket named John Elwood, Sheperd C.T. Smith and he was a crack-shot gunman

who dresses like a London banker, the third character is a women named Wolfgangina

Lalla Getto who is a female journalist with a 101-cm h-cup bust. Zombie Powder It

is an unfinished story with only 27 chapters and only four books, he ran it in the

shonen jump magazine. Then they had to cancel the series because it wasn’t selling

that many copies and it wasn’t that popular. It was short of fan letters so that

is why it wasn’t that popular.

Later it Tite Kubo’s career he created a new manga called Bleach and submitted is

into the weekly shonen jump thinking it probably wouldn’t be that popular like the

Zombe Powder. But in a couple of years bleach became one of the most popular manga

and anime of all time. It is still an ongoing series with over 200 chapters and

over 200 episodes so far. The manga/anime is still an ongoing series and that keep

coming out with more and more episodes and it is aired on adult swim at around

midnight. They also made a few movies based on the series and they too became

popular. Bleach is about a 15 year old high school boy named Ichigo Kurasaki and

one day he runs into a soul reaper named Rukia Kuchiki and she was fighing this

creature called a hollow and it is a spirit that doesn’t have a soul and there job

is to help the souls pass on into the after life. Along the way Ichigo meats tons

of different characters throughout the series good and bad. He starts out as a

strong sustditute soul reaper in the first three seasons but as the series

progresses he gets stronger and learns new abilities in the other seasons and there

are about 14 seasons out in japan but only 8 seasons that aired on TV here in the

US. There are so much merchandise for bleach as well like T- shirts, posters, and

even trading cards of course there is a whole lot more but I don’t want to list them

all.

I picked a manga artist for my visual paper because I love to draw anime and other

cartoons but mostly anime. So I picked Tite Kubo because there are so many manga

artists out there so I had to narrow it down to one and so I picked the artist that

created my favorite anime Bleach. But he did create other manga as well but none

have been as successful as Bleach is and bleach in still going and doesn’t seem to

want to end any time soon.






http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/tite-kubo/ here is the site i got the imformation from