A note from the creator

Tite Kubo

Currently a manga creator basking in a life without deadlines.
Having no deadlines is amazing!
Original author of BLEACH.
After serialization ended, my torn shoulder tendons finally recovered with some rehabilitation.
Be mindful of your shoulders when you create manga, people!

A note from the author

Ryohgo Narita

A novelist who longs for life without deadlines.
Hopes to write a manuscript in Dankai where time flows differently!
(Ends up dead because of Kotatsu and Koryu.)
The second author to work on a BLEACH novelization.
Plagued day after day by tendonitis of the fingers and elbows.
Also in rehabilitation, hoping for a recovery...!

BLEACH: CAN’T FEAR YOUR OWN WORLD I

Original story by Tite Kubo

Written by Ryohgo Narita

Cover and interior design by Jimmy Presler

Translation by Jan Mitsuko Cash

BLEACH CAN’T FEAR YOUR OWN WORLD © 2017 by Tite Kubo, Ryohgo Narita

All rights reserved.

First published in Japan in 2017 by SHUEISHA Inc., Tokyo.

English translation rights arranged by SHUEISHA Inc.

No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the copyright holders.

Published by

VIZ Media, LLC

P.O. Box 77010

San Francisco, CA 94107

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Names: Narita, Ryohgo, 1980- author. | Kubo, Tite, author. | Cash, Jan Mitsuko, translator.

Title: Bleach : can’t fear your own world / written by Ryohgo Narita [and] Tite Kubo ; translated by Jan Mitsuko Cash.

Other titles: Can’t fear your own world

Description: San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, 2020- | “First published in Japan in 2017 by SHUEISHA Inc., Tokyo.” | Translated from the Japanese. |

Summary: “The Quincies’s Thousand Year Blood War is over, but the embers of turmoil still smolder in the Soul Society. Tokinada Tsunayashiro, elevated to head of his clan after a slew of assassinations take out every other claimant to the title, has a grand plan to create a new Soul King. His dark ambitions soon sow the seeds of a new total war across the realms, but all is not lost. There is one unlikely Soul Reaper who holds the key to defusing the conflict-Shuhei Hisagi, Assistant Captain of the Ninth Company and reporter for the Seireitei Bulletin!”— Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020001553 | ISBN 9781974713264 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781974718498 (ebook)

Subjects: CYAC: Supernatural—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.N37 Bl 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020001553

Printed in the U.S.A.

First printing, July 2020