Tite decided to become a manga-ka when he was in elementary school. At the 2012 Jump Festa, Kubo sent in an author's note stating that he had gotten married. On July 26, 2008, Kubo went to the United States for the first time and made an appearance at theВ San Diego Comic-Con International. In that program, Kubo was interviewed byВ Masakazu Morita, voice actor ofВ Ichigo KurosakiВ and answered several questions from fans. Tite voicedВ KonВ in the OVAMemories in the Rain, which was shown during the Jump Festa 2004 Anime Tour and also appeared in the 112th episode of the Japanese radio program of Bleach B-Station. Tite was involved in the character design for the anime. Additionally, four feature-length animated BleachВ moviesВ were released between 2006 to 2010. In 2004, an anime adaptation of BleachВ began running in Japan, which ran for over seven years, totaling 366 episodes.

Kubo and Makoto Matsubara have co-authored two novelizations of the Bleach series, which were published byВ ShueishaВ under their Jump Books. The manga was named a winner of theВ Shogakukan Manga AwardВ for its category in 2005. As of August 2012, over 500 chapters of BleachВ have been serialized in Weekly Shonen JumpВ and collected into over 50 volumes. In 2001, his next manga series, Bleach, made its debut in Shonen Jump and is still ongoing. At the age of 18 he submitted his first concept ofВ ZombiepowderВ and after several rejections, it was finally accepted toВ Shonen JumpВ in 1999 and ran for four volumes until 2000. In 1996, his first manga short, ' Ultra Unholy Hearted Machine', was published in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump SpecialВ and was followed by two more shorts. Tite graduated from the local high school. He has two younger siblings, a brother and a sister.

Born June 26, 1977, Tite Kubo is the son of a town council member inВ Fuchu,Aki District,В Hiroshima.

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