The Viz Media releases preserve the Japanese reading order and overlay the visual sound effects with equivalent English text. The English lettering was criticized for being overly large, which "Anime News Network" thought made the characters appear to be shouting at inappropriate moments. There are several additional differences between the Japanese and English volume releases of "Zombiepowder.". The cover of the second manga volume, which featured an illustration of C.T. Smith holding a gun to his own head, was replaced in the English edition with new art of Gamma in sunglasses. The English editions of volumes 2–4 also each contain a one-shot story from early in Kubo's career, which were not present in the Japanese collections: "Ultra Unholy Hearted Machine", "Rune Master Urara", and "Bad Shield United", respectively. These extra stories were included for two apparent reasons: to further appeal to "Zombiepowder."s primary English-speaking audience of "Bleach" fans interested in the development of Tite Kubo's style, and to expand the length of the later volumes, which would otherwise have been shorter than Viz's normal releases, to standard pagecounts.