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Zombie Powder is an unfinished action manga and the first serialized work of Tite Kubo, author of the popular manga series Bleach. It was published in Japanese by Shueisha in 1999, serialized in the magazine Weekly Sh¨­nen Jump. Zombie Powder is distributed in English by Viz Media. The series is 27 chapters in length, and collected into 4 tank¨­bon.

Zombie Powder follows a young boy named Elwood Shepard and mysterious criminals Akatubi Gamma and C.T. Smith in their search for the Rings of the Dead, a group of legendary artifacts with the power to resurrect the departed and grant immortality to anyone who collects enough of them. The series has an anachronistic western setting, with sparsely populated human settlements separated by desert. The trio travel from town to town in this world, fighting other criminals for possession of the Rings of the Dead. They obtain three of said rings in the course of the story, but due to the series' cancellation, the plot is left incomplete.

Critical reception of Zombie Powder has been largely mediocre. Reviewers of the series have criticized it for being excessively derivative, having an underdeveloped setting, and containing few compelling characters. Its graphical presentation and combat sequences have, however, been generally complimented, along with its blending of humor and action. Despite this, Zombie Powder has achieved moderate commercial success in the United States due to its heavy action focus and the popularity of Tite Kubo's second manga series Bleach.