"Zombiepowder." began serialization in Shueisha's "Weekly Shōnen Jump" on August 2, 1999, and ran a brief 27 chapters before being canceled on February 28, 2000. According to the author's commentary in the cover leaf of the third volume, Tite Kubo was in a state of severe emotional trauma when he wrote it, and only began to be happy with the quality of the series as it neared its ending. Speaking retrospectively 12 years later, Kubo stated that he was not yet used to the scheduling pressures of weekly serialization when he wrote "Zombiepowder.", and that at the time he paid too much attention to his editor's comments rather than trusting his own ideas. Other than Tite Kubo, "Zombiepowder." had five credited staff, though their exact roles in its production were never specified.