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PCWC: I noticed you have quite a lot of tools for drawing? What's your favorite?
Kubo: The can of white paint. I just stick my hand in there and slap some on a blank page/
PCWC: If the page is blank why would you need to add more white to it?
Kubo: I'm Tite Kubo.
PCWC: Excuse me? I do not completely understand your answer.
Kubo: I'm Tite Kubo. There's a meaning behind the white paint. I use effort to make my designs and when people complain about the lack of backgrounds in my story I get mad. You're supposed to peel off the paint.
PCWC: But wouldn't that lead to a blank page?
Kubo: You some kind of smart ass? What you find behind the paint is me, Tite Kubo. You're actually getting two backgrounds for the price of one.
PCWC: I see. Any final comments?
Kubo: You prick.
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PCWC: Do you ever search the internet for what your readers have to say about your manga?
Kubo: Yes and I wish to apologize. I just keep taking their money and do little to earn it. I am a thief, a stupid, block faced thief. The reason I continue to write Bleach is because the story is so bad that it hurts me emotionally. Death is not enough to punish me. I really want to suffer you know? I want to keep making bad stories with no content and slowly die from my own rage towards myself.
PCWC: I don't understand Kubo-sensei...what about your editors and family?
Kubo: They don't care. Isn't it obvious with my latest chapters? I want to die. I want this story to kill me. If I survive to make a Hell Arc, the villian will be me and Ichigo will kill me. I will draw the final pages with the blood that streams from my body.
PCWC: I...don't really know how to react to this. Do you really want me to print this?
Kubo: Do as your heart desires. My only desire is to suffer..
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PCWC: I heard that you had once dreamed to be a fashion designer, why did you decide to be a mangaka?
Kubo: Ah, I'm glad you asked that.
PCWC: ...
Kubo: ...
PCWC: So are you going to tell us why?
Kubo: Oh, right. Sorry.
PCWC: ...
Kubo: Yes?
PCWC: ...So... tell us about your dream to be a fashion designer.
Kubo: When I was younger, I wanted to be a fashion designer.
PCWC: ...And?
Kubo: And now I'm the mangaka of Bleach.
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PCWC: Your studio is a beautiful place. I can imagine it being very calming to work here. But I'm curious as to why you have a shovel next to your desk.
Kubo: That's for digging plot holes.
PCWC: I see. In fact, I recall seeing a white room with nothing inside as you showed me around earlier. What's the purpose behind that?
Kubo: I sit there for inspiration when my story becomes too complicated for me to work out. Nice, clean white walls really help me out a lot.
PCWC: How do you come up with character designs? You have a noticeable talent for such different looking people.
Kubo: I just roll up some clay and punch the shit out of it. I pretend it's my father and go from there with whatever comes out.
PCWC: And for female characters?
Kubo: I take otaku fetishes and add +1.
PCWC: What does that mean?
Kubo: Whatever I want it to mean.
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PCWC: Bleach is known for its array of interesting and unique characters. I think the fans would like to know which one is your favorite?
Kubo: Hands down, Luffy.
PCWC: Are you referring to Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece?
Kubo: Shit...I forgot he was in One Piece. Well, it's like I've said before. Sometimes I forget what happens in my own story. You know once I woke up on a Monday and forgot I even make bleach for a living? I just pulled some crap about Yammy being the strongest so that should last a good 3 months.
PCWC: Three months? Doesn't that seem a little dragged out?
Kubo: I decide the length of an arc by rolling a dice. For Hueco Mundo I got a 6.
PCWC: Six months?
Kubo: Nope.
PCWC: Years?!
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PCWC: Some readers have complained that your fights drag on for far too long with far too little action, what are your thoughts on this?
Kubo: A good fight is like a good wine. The older it is, the better it is.
PCWC: But even the Anime team has been complaining about the pacing issues, don't you think you should speed it up a bit?
Kubo: But that would destroy it's distinct, aged flavor.
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PCWC: So do you hang out with other mangaka during your free time?
Kubo: Oh yeah, definitely. Oda and Kishimoto are my best friends. Sometimes, if I act good and don't say anything at the clubs they feed me scrapped sketches of their rejected chapters. I then proceed to crap that out and use it for Bleach chapters.
PCWC: I will ignore that. I reject ever hearing any of what you just said. Next question! Rukia was originally a shinigami who could shrink down to the size of a fairy in one of your one shots. Why does she not do that in the series?
Kubo: Because that would be a cute overload. I made her take a bath in a coffe cup! That's uber cute and when Tite
Kubo sees uber cute he feels the urge to corrupt it horribly.
PCWC: Much like how you corrupt your own characters?
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PCWC: Bleach is often considered very mature for a shonen. What do you think about this perception?
Kubo: I agree, Bleach is very mature and...sorry, Mama Kubo didn't raise a liar. Only dumb shits like what the Kubot comes up with.
PCWC: Do you think it's appropriate to say such things about the consumers?
Kubo: The consumers don't understand me! They read Bleach and see endless fights and humungoid racks, they don't see the deeper meaning!
PCWC: What is the deeper meaning?
Kubo: Life itself is an endless fight! And big chests represent liveliness and vitality! I remember looking and Daddy Kubo's secret collection of magazines and seeing such lively women inside. Combined with a trip to the paranormal research museum and that's how I come up with half my female characters.
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PCWC: So are you a tsundere? A kuudere? A yandere perhaps?
Kubo: An amusing question. I'm whatever I feel like at whatever time it is. But since I'm Kubo, I'm mostly Kuudere. Heh heh.
PCWC: Many people question how involved your assistants actually are. You claim to use them because you are illiterate but do they serve other purposes?
Kubo: Of course. They discuss every chapter with me. But watching their slimy tongues slither in their murky cavernous mouths behind fanged teeth and dried, cracked pairs of lips like money hungry goblins waiting to engorge themselves on a nubile maiden I just lose it and smack the crap out of all of them!
PCWC: You abuse your assistants?
Kubo: Not just my assistants, when they criticize me they pull me out of my "cool" vibe and I...well, completely lose my cool. I chew walls, eat books like sandwiches, chop desks in half and rip out hair from their monkey-like skulls.
PCWC: I take it you are sensitive about your work.
Kubo: Only when the comments are from my assistants. I love them and it hurts to hear bad stuff from your loved ones.
PCWC: Yet you throw a tantrum and assualt them?
Kubo: I don't throw tantrums, I completely snap. They have claimed that even the veins in my tongue just snap apart and then I'm out for a few hours. We just return to work and the rest of the day is quiet.
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PCWC: Gintama has ranked higher than Bleach for the 2nd week May issue, what is your reaction to that?
Kubo: Hey, I compare ranks of sales and so far, I'm shining bitch! I'm God! That Gintama guy can only parody my show, feasting upon the fallen dead skin from my success and making a parody of it. It's rare when another main character practically lusts for your own.
PCWC: But One Piece and Naruto outsell you by quite a lot. What does that make them? Hyper Gods?
Kubo:...I don't know...
PCWC: I thought you were good at ranking and using levels.
Kubo: Listen, I'm richer than you! I don't need this abuse from a peasant, Soul Society mistreats fools like you without any money to their name! I eat at Quizno's and you're stuck with Subway!
PCWC: But didn't you say earlier that you eat at Subway?
Kubo: Crap...even my life has plot holes in it...
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PCWC: There isn't a lot of dialogue in Bleach like there used to be. Can you explain why?
Kubo: Hey, the pictures speak their own message!
PCWC: I think that's a little hard to believe. It doesn't seem like anything is being said at all.
Kubo: Exactly! That emphasizes the idea of nothingness in the story, that's what hollows are all about!
PCWC: What about backgrounds and severe drop in panels?
Kubo: Are you even capable of sight?! That also provokes the idea and feeling of nothingness!
PCWC: So your goal is to make a story that glorifies how lacking in everything it is?! Wouldn't it make the reader feel ripped off when they purchase a volume of your manga?
Kubo: And the lack of money from their wallet will also emphasize the nothingness.
PCWC: Yeah...along with the gap in their heart being left unfilled.
2009-11-11, 22:25
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