Zombiepowder. (Japanese: ゾンビパウダー Hepburn: Zonbi Paudā) is the first serialized action manga written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. Zombiepowder. was published in Japan in 1999 by Shueisha, who printed it in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine for 27 chapters before cancelling it. The series was collected into four paperback volumes, released the following year. Zombiepowder. is distributed in North America by Viz Media, who licensed it in 2005. Although critical reception in the United States was largely mediocre, the series achieved moderate commercial success in the western market due to the prominence its author had by that point achieved for his second manga series, Bleach.