2006-08-28, 07:50 | Link #1 |
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Join Date: May 2004
Age: 40
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Zombie Powder
Finally decided to read this manga, and thought it was pretty good. It had great characters, and that's enough for me to enjoy the manga. Action was good, and the story I thought was going somewhere, especially as they explore each character's background.
Sadly, the manga was only 4 volumes long, and it ended very abruptly. I've tried searching around for an explanation for the shortness, and the best explanation that I could find was that the mangaka was in a bad state of mind when he did Zombie Powder. The mangaka is Kubotite, the mangaka of Bleach. So I was wondering if anyone here knows the whole story behind why he stopped releasing Zombie Powder, and if there's any news on him ever considering continuing the manga.
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2006-08-28, 13:11 | Link #3 |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Monterrey, México
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What I read was the manga fared poorly on readers and received sparse fan letters, used as an indication gauge for manga ratings.
Eventually, Shonen Jump pulled it out after Kubo announced its cancellation. |
2006-08-28, 18:41 | Link #4 |
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New York, USA
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Guido is exactly corect. Shounen Jump decided to cancel it because of poor viewer response. Though I read some very interesting things that Kubo-sensei said about it in an interview.
In that interview Kubo-sensei said that he was planning for Zombie Powder to lead into a much more complicated and involved story, just like the first Bleach story arc was a prequel to the Soul Society arc. When he was told that the manga was being cancelled, Kubo simply created an ending for Zombie Powder that threw away all of the cool things that he was intending to do. Later on when writing Bleach he was very careful to keep everything in reserve so that he could tie up the entire first story arc neatly in case that got cancelled also. I know that if Bleach had been cancelled before the Soul Society arc, I wouldn't have seen 95% of the cool stuffs. Heck, I wouldn't even be able to imagine where it was going. Just imagine what Zombie Powder might have become if he hadn't had to cancel it...
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2006-08-28, 19:54 | Link #5 | |
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But yeah, I agree with you with the introductory volumes before the real story. Heck, up until volume 4 we were simply introducing all the characters that will be involved in the story.
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2006-08-28, 20:05 | Link #6 |
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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i have read in a interview with kubotite that he would like to continue zombie powder someday...
when that will be, who knows.... bleach is ongoing, but once ichigo defeats aizen, i'm not sure that there will be much of a story left... i mean, everything that's happened from the first chapter to present has been all part of the same storyline: Aizen being a bastard who wants to attain ultimate power. if ichigo beats him, then there will be no more through line. so when/if that ever happens, kt might go back to the world of zombie powder. *crosses fingers* |
2006-09-09, 21:33 | Link #8 | |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: All over the place...
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I actually picked up volume 1 by Viz this morning, and the English adaptation seems pretty solid after some initial assessment. It's got a few misprints here and there, but apart from that everything's just fine. The second volume is going to be released in December. Last edited by [DOT].L; 2006-09-09 at 22:45. |
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2007-04-26, 17:18 | Link #9 |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Zombie Powder
I have recently been reading Zombie Powder and am now on volume three since I wait until its in Borders to buy it. However, I have heard from a fellow anime aficionado that the series ends at volume four due to some personal problems of the creator Tite Kubo. I wish to know if this is true and if so will the series be continued or if my friend is a liar and the series is still going strong.
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2007-04-26, 17:30 | Link #10 | |
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Age: 36
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2009-01-13, 03:11 | Link #15 |
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Athens (GMT+2)
Age: 35
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I loved the manga too, I knew it had ended abruptly before I started reading it, but I think it's a promising one with a lot of potential. Maybe when bleach is over Tite Kubo will start writing zombie powder again!
P.S:is it just me or does Grimmjow look like Gamma? |
2009-04-30, 18:34 | Link #17 |
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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So....pretty much everyone is saying the same thing "Tite Kubo went crazy and started Bleach , instead of finishing Zombie Powder, because fans weren't too crazy about ZP"
Well, he needs to quit Bleach and go back to ZP, cuz Bleach is the worst manga I have ever read (my opinion) and I feel incomplete when I start a manga/book series and then I can't finish the story.....hope I'm not the only one |
2009-08-02, 08:37 | Link #20 |
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In one of Bleach's recent chapters Kubo actually used the same idea for one of his characters to have guns Does this mean there's still hope for ZBPD!!!
PS For whoever is familiar with Bleach does ne one think that Wolfina looks like Keigo's sister ?_?
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