Tite Kubo

Tite Kubo is the professional name of the Japanese manga artist and character designer who created Bleach. The series, about a high school student who becomes a shinigami, ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 2001 to 2016 and had more than 130 million copies in circulation as of 2022. Its TV anime aired on TV Tokyo from 2004 to 2012.

Kubo's first one-shot appeared in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1996, and his first series, Zombiepowder, ran in the same magazine from 1999 to 2000. Bleach won a Shogakukan Manga Award in 2004.

He has also designed characters for Madhouse's Aoi Bungaku adaptations and returned to the magazine with Burn the Witch, first as a 2018 one-shot and then as a seasonal series from 2020.