On the occasion of the television reboot of Bleach, with the final season (Thousand-Year Blood War) coming out in a few weeks, my eye fell on Tite Kubo's next project: Burn The Witch.
Teaser:
Official Crunchyroll Trailer 1:
Official Crunchyroll Trailer 2:
Episode 1 clip:
Episode 3 clip:
Ending - "Blowing":
Official Anime Site: https://burn-the-witch-anime.com/
The first one-shot manga was published in the magazine Shounen Jump in 2018, while in 2020 the sequel was published in the same magazine in 4 chapters. The same year saw the release of the film based on the series, which is widely released as a three-episode limited series.
Although it's not easily noticed at first, the series takes place in the same universe as Bleach. The hints, numerous at first, become certainty at the end. The whole adventure practically takes place in the Western Division of Soul Society in London, which is divided into the area of humans (Front London) and the area of Wizards/Witches and their organization, Wing Bind (something similar to the Gotei 13).
So Wizards instead of Soul Reapers and Dragons instead of Hollows. Starring two young witches, Ninny and Noel, who work together to maintain order in London despite their starkly different personalities.
It is an interesting series without big emotions, with Kubo's characteristic style. It feels like something that started out as an homage, a parallel universe and a game about fans and fandom, but along the way it seemed to be able to stand on its own.
That is why at the end of the first limited series, instead of solving the questions, even more are created, while the conditions are formed in a way that could lead to a quite interesting continuation. After all, there have been discussions about such a possibility for two years.
