TITE KUBO JUST SAID SOMETHING GENUINELY BEAUTIFUL ABOUT MANGA THAT MORE PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR 😭🔥 He explained that creators like Gege and Gotouge have told him BLEACH influenced them… but he doesn’t see Jujutsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer as “copying” his work. Because Kubo himself was inspired by Saint Seiya. The Gold Saints left such a huge impression on him that you can see that DNA in the way the Gotei 13 Captains were structured. "That's how creativity evolves. Each generation of creators absorbs ideas from the works they admire, reinterprets them through their own perspective, and transforms them into something entirely new. That's what influence has always been."