To create a world-famous series like bleachingyou have to be special. Tite Kubo rarely spoke about his childhood habits and normal life, except in a few rare interviews. And if you study them, you know how different Kubo was from other children.
In such an interview bleaching The author has talked about his thought process as well as some “worrying” habits he had during his formative years. All of these experiences together built him up as a mangaka.
Tite Kubo’s obsession with drawing a particular body part
In an interview with Masakazu Morita, the voice actor of Ichigo on bleachingTite Kubo talked about what he liked to draw as a child. Of course, he started by drawing things he liked, just like everyone else. In Tite Kubo’s case, his favorite things to draw were dinosaurs and insects.
However, later the author confessed that he was fixated on drawing wrists. Yes, the author filled page after page with drawing wrists. Although it is a good drawing exercise, since wrists and hands are difficult to draw, it is not entirely normal to be obsessed with wrists as a child. Kubo himself realized how strange it was when he grew up.
So when I looked at my childhood notebook years later as an adult, I found it creepy and thought, “I’m surprised my parents didn’t try to consult someone about this.”
Even Morita was a little concerned that Kubo had such a habit as a child. He exclaimed that Kubo was a “unique individual” (for lack of better words). When children stop drawing dinosaurs and insects, they usually imitate manga characters and the like, but drawing wrists is an unexpected step.
Tite Kubo’s deep connection to music in the creation of Bleach
Tite Kubo confessed that he listened to songs when he was coming up with many Bleach characters and their character details. There are also songs that he imagined in the background when thinking about the characters’ pasts.
The author further clarified that he does not often listen to music while working, but the songs he knows automatically play in his head.
So when I draw characters or imagine action scenes, songs play in my head.
Morita was surprised by this revelation and realized that this was the reason why he always felt that Tite Kubo’s drawings had a certain rhythm or melody. The interviewer then added another twist to his story by revealing that Tite Kubo’s drawing process involves playing a video game in his head and pausing at the coolest moments. Morita concluded that Tite Kubo must have a flair for working with the camera.
The voice actor then concluded that through his answers, Kubo had created a fateful connection with the interviewer and also with every new manga artist who reads this article.
You can read bleaching on Viz Media and watch the anime on Crunchyroll.
