Production Stuff

Noriyuki Abe
Noriyuki Abe is a Japanese anime director who Tite Kubo's Bleach manga.

Biography
Abe's career as a director saw him taking the helm of a couple of Yu Yu Hakusho projects in the early 1990s. He subsequently worked on numerous anime, many of which ran for over 40 or 50 episodes before starting work on the anime adaptation of Bleach in 2004, and which concluded in 2014 having also spawned four movies which Abe also directed.

Works

 * Bleach
 * Bleach: Memories of Nobody
 * Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion
 * Bleach: Fade to Black
 * Bleach: The Hell Verse
 * Black Butler
 * Yu Yu Hakusho

Masashi Kudo
Masashi Kudo is a Japanese animation artist who has worked on the anime adaptation of Tite Kubo's Bleach manga, creating numerous character designs for the series.

Biography
Kudo has worked as a storyboard artist and episode director for Bleach. He is responsible for creating numerous anime-exclusive character designs for the Bleach anime's filler episodes.

Works

 * Bleach
 * The Wings of Rean
 * Aquarian Age - Sign for Evolution
 * Re-Kan!
 * Planetes
 * Witch Hunter Robin

Shirō Sagisu
Shirō Sagisu is a Japanese composer who has created multiple soundtracks for the anime adaptation of Tite Kubo's Bleach manga.

Biography
Sagisu published his first work, "EYES," in 1979 and has released further works in every decade since, frequently under the title "Shiro's Songbook." He has also produced music for various anime series from 1984 to the present day. In 2010, Sagisu was among the winners at the ninth edition of the Tokyo Anime Awards, taking the prize for Best Music for Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance.

Works

 * Bleach
 * Bleach: Memories of Nobody
 * Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion
 * Bleach: Fade to Black
 * Bleach: The Hell Verse
 * Final Fantasy VI
 * Mobile Suit Gundam
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Transformers

Makoto Matsubara
Makoto Matsubara is a Japanese writer who has authored a number of novels set in the universe of Tite Kubo's Bleach manga.

Biography
Matsubara was born on the 19th of July 1980 and is married to comedy manga-ka Jigoku no Misawa. Matsubara began writing novels for the Bleach franchise in 2006. His Bleach books have only been released in Japanese.

Works

 * Soshite Ryuuta wa Nya to Naku (2002)
 * Bleach: The Honey Dish Rhapsody (2006)
 * Bleach: Letters From The Other Side (2009)
 * Nestle To Night (2011)
 * Bleach: The Death Save The Strawberry (2012)
 * Bleach: WE DO knot ALWAYS LOVE YOU (2016).

Navigation
Draft to follow for production companies:
 * Shueisha (Jump, WSJ)
 * Studio Pierrot (TV Tokyo) - might go on anime page
 * Viz