Happy Birthday to the king of Yea Forums Kubo Sensei

Happy Birthday to the king of Yea Forums Kubo Sensei.

Any shitposters are welcome to say happy birthday to your king since we all know you secretly love him which is why Bleach, one of the most innovative series of all time and Kubo, one of the most artistic writers of all time both can't be kept out your mouths.

Stay tuned for the TYBW anime to be announced at Jump Festa in 7 months.

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Happy B-Day to the Master Troll. Looking forward to his future works.

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>implying Bleach anime isn't coming back in 2021
>implying it's not a reboot made by a different studio
>implying the announcement isn't happening at the Anime Expo next week
Atleast that's what some twatter fags are implying, oh god I want to believe

Who are you gonna be pulling for, Ble/a/ch? I'm going after those himes.

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If they added Nel into the banner, we would have the 4 best girls of the series.

I think there's already a Summer!Nel version from a couple of years back. Who are you going for, user?

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Happy birthday Kubo-sama.

Yonkou retweeted some old tweets about Bleach today and I hyped myself thinking he's hinting at something (most likely anime) coming up in the future, but now I realize it was probably in honour of Kubo's birthday... Which is still a great gesture nonetheless.

Happy birthday Kubo sensei. Please post more on twitter

Kubo is a misunderstood genius.

Well, JaymesHanscuck is going wild on Twitter and he made a video about the anime returning half a year ago.

Happy Birthday Tite Kubo.

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where did you get this concept art

>Ulquiorra was a literal representation of nihilism
>Mocks materialistic desires and says how futile they are as a means to keep living.
>Gets defeated by those same desires turning into a mindless monster, showing him the importance of them and changing his outlook on humans.
>The page is ulquiorra (utter emptiness) or what he thought he was with his last conscious thoughts being about the same desires he reject before ironically turning into nothing.
>One of the best character growths in manga
>The culmination of said growth so perfect that a single world on a white page is enough to convey the emotion perfectly in a visual medium.
Kubo is a misunderstood genius.

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>but now I realize it was probably in honour of Kubo's birthday... Which is still a great gesture nonetheless.
It wasn't. Yonkou doesn't care for Bleach, and he even taunted Bleachfags with a tweet that went THE ANIME WILL NEVER RETURN or something akin to that. Those retweets were him fucking around in order to raise hope and excitement. If he really wanted to honor the birthday of Kubo, he could have just tweeted something instead of retweeting shit like "It's a good time to be Bleach fan". It was a blatant dick move.

Even if Kubo were a genius (which he obviously never will be), I still could never take him seriously, due to the fact that his series got axed.

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cringe

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Cringe and no source. Cope

He does the opposite of milking the franchise

Fellow Huntard, can I get a link to Togashi's artbook that sold 37k on pre-orders alone with a 200$ price tag? After all, an axed series sure as hell can't pull that off.

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t.samefag

Kino.

>tfw you'll never have a beautiful, kind and loving wife like Orihime

It's not fair desu...

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Based.

Based Kubo.

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>this SnKuck ESL that I mercilessly assfucked in his own thread is also a Bleachcel
>literally working overtime to defend two mediocre, irrelevant manga

Shit taste is a hell of an epidemic

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>his series got axed
and he did that to himself, too

Cope

Those characters were designed by Kubo, say something nice about them

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>huntards seething that their manga will never be as loved and remembered on Yea Forums as Bleach

based hunterchad

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Why even live

>Moving goalposts after being BTFO.
Never change, my fellow Huntard.

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It's alright mate, you don't have to SEETH so hard over the fact that Togashi's artbooks never came anywhere close to The JET artbook's sales.

How many Holiday Yoruichi's are there now?

Also, friendly reminder to not feed the trolls. Do not engage with hiatusxhiatusfags, wanpissfags or snkekfags.

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>snkekfags
He´s been friendly

>happy birthday, old lesbian \:v/

Why are Ichirukists still like this?

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>Shiba Reiji (CV: Sugita Tomokazu) is Kamiyama Seijuro's rival & close friend. He's the tech chief who will do maintenance on the Revue's robots.

>Rindou Kaoru (CV: Ishikawa Yui) is Sumire's secretary.

>Ohba Komachi (CV: Shiraishi Ryoko), a super merchant from Osaka. She's very bright & also very chatty.

More info and screenshots can be found here: twitter.com/bk2128

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Youkou is a fag

>king of Yea Forums
>not togashi

>believing muslim nigger

Post favorite girls

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>king of Yea Forums
>togashi

Too fucking man, fucking sick of the same 5 characters every seasonal.

Best girls coming through

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>tfw my OTP was IshidaxCirucci

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I cant believe Kon was a girl all along

1.Yourichi
2.Rukia
3.Bambietta

I miss Kubo

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is that fucking spaghetti

Will anyone ever get to be as based as kubo?

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Why is Kukaku drawn like Tatsuki?

cause they're basically the same character except for body? same hair color, similar hairstyle, and similar attitude

Man, I swear, Aizen is the most fujoshi bait character in a manga I've ever seen. That smile gets me every time.

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I wished Kukaku was my neesan gf.

I want a Unohana mommy gf

I miss Kubo's wild ride. Burn the Witch was nice.

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I really hated the whole thing that Ywach himself killed/beat his Sternenritter. It felt like Kubo didn't knew how to end most fights and wanted to get rid of the as fast as possible.
I mean this one miracle powered guy was basically unbeatable. Even after Oni Kenpachi sliced him in half he came back.
Man this whole arc was a mess.

Gerard and Haschwalth were the only ones absorbed by Yhwach that weren't defeated beforehand

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disgusting. way too skinny. needs more thighs and hips.

Deep Fakes when?

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Miracle guy wasn't beaten even after being sliced in half

>the only ones absorbed by Yhwach that WEREN'T defeated beforehand

Gerard is the miracle guy user

Really?
I remember that Ywach actually killed that munching loli.

Oh shit yeah
Sorry guys

What happenwd to the rest of the Quincies like those who weren't Sternenritter?
Executed or killed offscreen in the battle?
Did anyone flee from the battlefield?

Munching loli was defeated off screen by Byakuya. After Yhwach stole her life force she decided to join the shinigami to get revenge. She got to Yhwach before Ichigo but he killed her nah she is fine in the novels

>#TITEKUBO
>HAPPY BIRTHDAY
>THANKS FOR EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
>I'M STILL WAITING FOR MY #ICHIRUKI

Oof.

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Quote me on this: his next series will go down as one of the greatest manga of all time and will redefine the medium.

>nah she is fine in the novels
is this delusion or truth, please post source i want best girl to live

>he´ll become a hentai artist

He already did that, doesn't need to do that again.

missstormcaller.tumblr.com/CFYOW
Other remaining quincys picked her up and healed her. Gigi is alive too, Bambi is still her zombie cocksleeve. They all want to get reunited with Candi and Mini, who are Mayuri´s prisoners

sometimes good things happen

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Elucidate please. Bleach is one of the most divisive series of all time.

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>Tite "Madman" Kubo is STILL making IRfags cry years later

Props to the absolute madlad.

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>Bleach is one of the most divisive series of all time
Not that user but that just means people will keep talking about it for years to come

Who was your favorite espada?

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Why didn't Rukia go back for him?

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he looks like a japanese ed sheeran

merry birthday

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Hapy Birfday Tighto-sempai

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NEVER EVER

I really don't get why people jump on Ulquiorras dick so much. He was generic, edgy and plot convenient, nothing special at all.

Only a deluded fool would expect any competent animation studio to pick up one of the dullest franchises in the history of anime franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy shinigami and his pals from the Soul Society as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the monotonous imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its massive amounts of filler and ineffective use of sakuga all to make swordfighting look bland, to make action seem repetitive.

Perhaps the die was cast when Kubo vetoed the idea of Madhouse producing the series; he made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for his manga. The Bleachseries might be anti-Semitic (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-One Piece series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the manga was good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the series was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time Ichigo engaged in battle, the author always had him use the "Getsuga Tenshou."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that attack was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Kubo's mind is so governed by cliches and unimaginative action sequences that he has no other style of drawing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Bleach by the same Togashi. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Bleach at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Hunter x Hunter." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Bleach" you are, in fact, trained to read "Hunter x Hunter".

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best girl

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Lol

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>Reveiw by Togashi

Kek, we got another Togashi fanboy sucking his dick.

How's that shit tier art coming along? How's that light novel esque explanation of everything going along?

here's an image of your so called "better writing" turning into a giant shitshow.

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Oh and one more thing, here is a condensed version of what has been going on during the last arc (this was after I dropped the series manga wise).

try explaining this shit show.

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>replying

>and plot convenient
What does this mean?

>BLEACH IS COMING BACK... WHENEVER!

What a solid dump of information.

>"Your favorite show is going to end! But not now!"

MOOOOOMMYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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>he's literally Cancer

Imagine having this as a mother.

Lol idiot he's the same guy who leaked BC would get 102 episodes and that DB Super wasn't coming in May like Geekdom said amongts other stuff COPE.

Ch/a/ds represent.

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The last time Klab put Orihime in a sexy bikini Kubo took it as a challenge. Hopes up

I knida irked by the fact Ichigo ditched his other OG friends (Tatsuki and other two guys) for his new Shinigami friends. I got the same feeling reading Psyren. Maybe I'm too used reading manga with small close-knitted friends.

Power scaling caught up to them though.

>Chad's only ability was to punch things with spirit energy

>Orihime's powers only work as a white mage

>Uryu is the only one that had some form of capability as a Quincy

>Tatsuki was dropped due to editors wanting to get to the Soul Reapers.

That's what happens when you power scale. Eventually characters with very generic powers get left behind or have to capability of only doing one job.

Be glad Kubo didn't go full blown Dragonball and made it so that only Sayians were capable of even standing a chance.

>Ichigo ditched his other OG friends
Its not like he can invite them to come save the world with him

You have to go back

> Black clover a flop
> Kimetsu no Jaiba a flop
> Bokuben a Flop
> Dr. Push a MEGAFLOP
> All of them cant outsell Ble/a/ch at his worst moment
> WSJ is SEETHING hard
BASED KUBO he was always right

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Kimetsu isn't a flop though
Dr Stone is pretty alright

Plus they still have The Promised Neverland.

If anything has flopped, it's their major push on trying to make another Naruto happen.

Kinda sad he always jobbed hard

Thanks user for sacrificing yourself on these baits, huntertards need to be exterminated from Yea Forums.

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>Soma gets anime coming back despite shit reviews and dropping below 200k a volume in sales
>Bleach doesn't come back despite even at the lowest point managing to still sale 400k or more
I'm really starting to believe that WSJ and Kubo do not like each other

I don't really see why you're comparing the two series. The Bleach anime was cancelled years before the manga finished up while the last Soma anime aired just last year. Anyways, it's not as if WSJ is responsible for a series getting an adaptation in the first place.

...

REVEAL AIZEN'S BANKAI YOU HACK

Someone claimed Kubo had a better paying contract signed compared to his peers so, because he's either personally smarter or at least smart enough to hire a good lawyer, the magazine publishers don't like Kubo.
Meanwhile Kubo is now in charge of character design for vidya set in 1920s japan, but with giant robots.

>Someone claimed Kubo had a better paying contract signed compared to his peers so, because he's either personally smarter or at least smart enough to hire a good lawyer, the magazine publishers don't like Kubo.

Eh, I don't think so. Because Oda's wife demanded Oda to renegotiate his contract so he gets one week off every month. And Togashi got a sweet deal that lets him go on hiatus whenever he wants to after his work on Yu Yu Hakusho. And Togashi got something even bigger since he can do whatever the fuck he wants.

They knew what they were getting themselves into.

Kubo gets a bigger cut from merchandise sales in exchange of a smaller cut from volumes sales

Bleach is too expensive for anime companies to make. Kubo expects his characters to be drawn and written with high budget movie quality. The music selection remains unique and something anime can't replicate.

Kubo knows that the real money comes from merchandising. He's way too shrewd for the anime industry.

What? Then how did pierrot get away with their QUALITY? Kubo only complained about the changes to the script

Animators in Japan are literal wage slaves.

>Implying Arrancar Arc forward had bad animation

They are but that doesn't relate to my question

Bleach became /fa/ as fuck around the Arrancar Arc

Are you talking about Arrancar SAGA? Because the anime flat out says in english "Arrancar Saga The End" in episode 310.

Once again confirming that Viz Media doesn't understand the difference between the word "arc and Saga"

Bleach had punk like designs in the early arcs. It didn't become fashion models till Arrancar Arc.

The Arrancar Saga had filler in between the big moments. The anime handled it pretty well by implying the Bleach cast are actors working a gig.

Well that still means that it's not an arc.


Arrancar Arc is manga volumes 21-32
Karakura Town War arc is manga volumes 33-48

Fuck, that would mean the Arrancar Arc ended after the Ichigo vs. Grimmjow Fight, and Karakura War Arc begins after that.

>Arrancar Arc
>Karakura Town War arc
It's all considered one arc in the manga. It should be considered a saga made up by smaller arcs but it isn't

Before Fake Karakura comes Turn Back The Pendulum, and Hueco Mundo ended with Zaraki vs Nnoitra

Not with what is written with the anime it's not. It's said in PLAIN ENGLISH at episode 310 it's a Saga. It's Viz Media translation

Pretty much

Pick your favorite.

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The anime is coming back soon. Expect some announcement this year.

Source : JaymesHanson.

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599

Tie between 502 and 609

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Speaking from a marketing perspective, what's stopping the anime from adapting the last arc? Most of the current jump anime don't even come halfway close to Bleach Manga sales in it's last arc. There is still huge interest, Brave souls brings in monthly revenue of 10 millions, the artbook sold great, Burn the witch was received well, what's stopping them?

Happy Birthday hack. Hope you get axed again.

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KUBO SENSEI! i love you. bleach was always my favorite of the big 3.

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Read the fucking thread we're just waiting on an announcement now.

>Any shitposters are welcome to say happy birthday to your king
Thanks for acknowledging your king senpai :)

okay, what KUBOOOOOO aspull that belong to 9

Still feels bad that the last arc was so rushed, at least it didn't go full souma

>He's just a delinquent kid who sees ghosts
>No wait he's a shinigami who fights ghosts
>No wait he's a shinigami who is also a ghost
>No wait he's a ghost
>No wait he's a shinigami again, but sometimes a ghost
>No wait he's a sword
>No wait he's a normal human for the first time
>No wait he's now stand user
>No wait he was actually a laser monk the entire time
I was legit shocked when kubo didn't just have kuroshitsky become god, I'm mean why not? he's literally everything else in the series.

Lol some of those aren't even real fag seethe more.

every single one of them is real, that's what's so ridiculous about it

>No wait he's a shinigami again, but sometimes a ghost
>No wait he's a sword
>No wait he's now stand user
>No wait he was actually a laser monk the entire time

These ones are fake kys.

>No wait he's a shinigami again, but sometimes a ghost
Visored
>No wait he's a sword
Final getsuga tenshou
>No wait he's now stand user
Fullbring
>No wait he was actually a laser monk the entire time
Quincy

These all are real

Best girl (male).

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Atleast he knew how to make women sexy, thanks for Yoruichi.

Zangetsu?

Shunsui literally considered this, Ichigo replacing Soul King, if it became necessary.

Yeah, power amalgamation looks ridiculous unless you consider two things:

1. Initially accidental circumstances of his parents' meeting, this gathered attention of two of the most brilliant characters (Aizen and Urahara), who then plotted Ichigo's development.

2. Beings being partially like him existed before, so a full hybrid was inevitable.

BtW serialzing when?

any archivement when that's reveal?

My bookmarks:

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Read the manga again every early fight Ichigo is doing something no shinigami can do

archive moe is dead

Bruh it hurts playing on global

>>Tatsuki was dropped due to editors wanting to get to the Soul Reapers
That has never been said

>Kubo only complained about the changes to the script
I remember various of his tweets about the animation, one of them was very ironic, it said: "Ichigo is well drawn!" like Kubo being very surprised, haha.

Reminder that the last good fight that Ichigo had that wasn't a stomp in either direction was against Grimmjow.

>stand user
>Fullbring
Retard

>>He's just a delinquent kid who sees ghosts
>>No wait he's a shinigami who fights ghosts
>>No wait he's a shinigami who is also a ghost
>>No wait he's a ghost
>>No wait he's a shinigami again, but sometimes a ghost
How's it like being this stupid? Do you need help getting dressed?

>Gin
>Tsukishima
>Ginjo
>Quilge

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday, kisama!

Imagine shitposting because you can't stop speedreading like a retard.

based and nice usage of words

>Kubo is a 400 IQ turbochad
>SoiWSJ and Jump artists are jealous
Tell me something i didn't know

>no background
kek

Im soo fucking happy something Bleach/Kubo Related is on here today. Really hope the series comes back and Tite is successful in all future endeavors

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Old man Zangetsu easy

DAMN RIGHT BOY

Regardless of whether we get a "new" anime or not and forgetting the quality of it all, I'll never forget how hard I laughed when Aizen showed up in the last arc sitting in his chair.

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Does anyone have this in higher quality and better scanned?

I thought this pasta couldn’t get any better. Boy I was wrong.

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GIMME MILKIES ORIHIME

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Based

>Atlas Shrugged not in god tier
piss poor usage of the copypasta, fuck off

Filler character. Not canon.

Today I will remind the Huntermumblers...
youtu.be/pUDUK-yvwQs

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Kimetsu no Yaiba is doing fine and is alright though. It's Clover and Dr. Stone we should be laughing at. Yaibafags are bros.

>Harry Potter in god tier

Harry Potter is peak comfy.

Based and Positivitypilled

More like peak dull. Seriously.

Are these for Sakura Taisen or another game?

Kubo classed with the anime staff and his own editors over changes they wanted to make to his work. Arrancar Arc dragged on because editors made decisions based on popularity polls.

>editors made decisions based on popularity polls
Like what?

>Do you need help getting dressed?
I do!

They wanted the Arrancars getting more screen time based on their popularity.

Grimmjow was originally going to get killed by Shinji. Look up the bleach jet interview

I honestly believe that part because Grimmjow was beaten and reduced to one arm at that point. Out of all the espada, he survived the most brutal beatings.

Just change domains to desuarchive.org

Kubo is amazing, I hope he starts something new soon.

Be productive for once in your life and post JET scans.

>tfw no gothic lolita gf to smash

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Why did he gave it the name BLEACH, again?

>bleach: makes you think of white
>white: makes you think of black
>black: the color of the shinigami uniform

"No!"

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Kubo: What comes to mind when asked about an area I place great importance on, or rather, an area I’m 'particular’ about, is how to lay down the foreshadowing. I compose the foreshadowing element by dividing it into stages, but since this element in itself is explained in the novelisations through text, I won’t talk about the 'stages’ here. Nevertheless, I believe the things you discover on the first reading are not foreshadowing to begin with but rather an ice breaker, or to be more precise something like a freebie I give away to readers that says “please anticipate things to come from these depictions in the near future!” After the big reveal you go back to read it again at which point you’re able to say “so this was foreshadowed!?” Now that in my opinion, is foreshadowing. There are two reasons for this, one, I like thriller movies, though do you sometimes have predictions that you’ve made midway through those thrillers, I mean ones that completely hit the mark by the conclusion?

J: It happens every once in a while.

Kubo: I hate that, I think to myself “if it’s supposed to be foreshadowing, then keep the reveal hidden properly!” and “surprise me with the reveal why don’t you!” (laughs), second, I think a great amusement of the manga or rather the storytelling, is that after enjoying the main story you get to debate with friends that it’s “neither this way, nor that.”

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J: Indeed it is exciting to exchange differences in interpretation with friends.

Kubo: If those debates are the most exciting part, then I hope when people discover new bits of foreshadowing after looking back on works they’ve grown to love, that they get to experience an indescribable feeling in the moment they made that discovery. I think “BLEACH” could also be one of these much loved works, so I wanted to set it up in a way where each time one would reread the story there would be a new discovery, and then a sense of joy which can only be savoured by those who have reread the story many times over.