His fight scenes are noted for swift cuts and dramatic angle changes between panels, as well as minimal inclusion of background art or splash pages. Style īoth of Kubo's serialized works are shōnen manga with a heavy focus on action.
BLEACH FASHION ART SERIES
A second season of the series has been announced. The 4-chapter first season was published in August to September 2020. Later on, in 2020, the one-shot was serialized in the magazine with a seasonal release schedule. In 2018, Kubo returned to Weekly Shōnen Jump and published a one-shot, Burn the Witch, in commemoration of the magazine's 50th anniversary. Kubo provided character designs for Madhouse's anime adaptations of Ango Sakaguchi's Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's The Spider's Thread and Hell Screen, which are parts of the Aoi Bungaku series. 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. 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. Kubo also appeared in the episode 112 of the Japanese radio program of Bleach B-Station.
BLEACH FASHION ART MOVIE
The first 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 and Makoto Matsubara have co-authored two novelizations of the Bleach series, which were published by Shueisha under their Jump Books label. The manga was named a winner of the Shogakukan Manga Award for its category in 2004.
BLEACH FASHION ART TV
Additionally, an anime adaptation of the series was broadcast in TV Tokyo for 8 years from 2004 to 2012, spanning over 366 episodes. Bleach ran for 15 years of serialization and reached over 698 chapters from 2001 to 2016. Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball, saw the story and wrote a letter of encouragement to Kubo. The original story concept was submitted to Weekly Shōnen Jump shortly after the cancellation of Zombiepowder, but was rejected. Kubo initially expected the series' serialization to continue no longer than five years.
His next series, Bleach, about a high school student who becomes a shinigami and fights creatures known as Hollows, began running in the same magazine in 2001. 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. According to the author's commentary, Kubo was in a state of severe emotional trauma when he wrote it. It ran a short 27 chapters before being canceled in 2000. He wrote his first manga Zombiepowder, which was also published in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1999. His first one-shot was "Ultra Unholy Hearted Machine", written for the Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1996. In elementary school, he had already decided to become a manga artist, due to reading the manga Saint Seiya. Kubo was born on June 26, 1977, in Hiroshima Prefecture, where his father worked as a town council member.