Kohei Horikoshi joins a group of legendary manga artists who are helping Tite Kubo celebrate the 20th anniversary of his Bleach series.
Kodoani.com – Author My Hero AcademiaKohei Horikoshi, contributed a new piece of art to the 20th anniversary exhibition Bleach.
The creator of the popular superhero manga series is the latest popular manga creator to contribute to Bleach Ex, an art exhibition currently being held in Tokyo, Japan to celebrate the manga’s 20th anniversary and Influential popular anime by Tite Kubo, Bleach. While several other guest artists have drawn the main characters of the series, such as Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki, Horikoshi has dug a little deeper, and chose to draw the mad scientist instead. Mayuri Kurotsuchi and his artificially created “daughter”, Nemu. The illustration was shared online by Twitter user @Atsushi101x.
New Horikoshi artwork for the 20th anniversary of Bleach! pic.twitter.com/GVuIxbR3Hx
— Atsu (@Atsushi101X) December 25, 2021
Horikoshi is the eighth guest manga artist to feature in Tite Kubo’s big celebration. In addition to the MHA authors, the exhibition also features art from Eiichiro Oda, Koyoharu Gotouge, Masashi Kishimoto, Gege Akutami, Yuki Tabata, Yusei Matsui, and Riichiro Inagaki. The group is an all-star collection of some of the most successful manga creators of all time, all of whose work has been published in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.
Of course, most of the artwork at the show is by Tite Kubo, who has been very busy in 2021. In addition to creating new artwork for the exhibition, Kubo is also overseeing the production of the new piece. of the Bleach anime, titled The Thousand Years of Blood. The new season will adapt chapters of the Bleach manga that were released after the series’ original anime adaptation ended airing. A stylish first trailer for the show was showcased at this year’s Jump Festa.
Kubo also released “No Breaths from Hell”, the first new chapter of the Bleach manga in over four years. Although the chapter was originally promoted as a stand-alone, one-scene story, fans were delighted to discover that it was actually the prologue to a new adventure for Ichigo and the rest. of the Soul Reapers. While Kubo has since kept quiet about the possibility of a sequel, many fans are now eagerly anticipating the announcement of an official sequel. Kubo is still working on his current manga, Burn the Witch, which is set in the same world as Bleach but with a different cast of characters.
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