Legendary mangaka Tite Kubo has
never minced words when interacting with his fans, and this time he gave us a
pretty sincere and funny confession. During a recent Q&A, the author behind
the immensely popular Bleach franchise openly
admitted what has been the biggest and most frustrating technical challenge of
his entire career: learning how to draw voluptuous female proportions
correctly.
Although today he is recognized worldwide for
the impeccable and stylized character design of heroines such
as Rangiku Matsumoto, Orihime Inoue and Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, the reality is
that the author suffered quite a bit in his beginnings. Kubo explained that
when he was just starting to illustrate, he preferred to draw girls with much
smaller, flatter figures simply because they were much easier to handle on
paper. However, his artistic perfectionism forced him to practice obsessively
and tirelessly until he completely mastered the anatomy of large breasts,
recognizing that this visual element was the one that caused him the most
headaches and frustrations in front of the restirador.
All that sweat and tears on paper definitely
ended up shaping her current tastes in a rather comical way. True to his
irreverent personality, the author finished off his confession by assuring that
nowadays he chooses his favorite girls based purely and exclusively on their
curves. The more voluptuous the heroine in question, the higher she manages to
climb within her coveted personal list of favoritisms, proving that all her
hard work of research and practice was absolutely worth it.
Seeing the incredible level of detail and the
marked visual style that the author managed to impregnate in each of the women
in his work
