Burn the Witch #0.8

Anyone whose read this manga will know how much Colorido actually improved upon the source. Obviously Kubo is heavily involved with the project, and you can tell his studies on London/England are paying off, and he really infuses that world design with the cultural background. At first you would think a series like this leans on Harry Potter tropes, but many of them are blown out and upgraded in ways that give them a unique identity completely separate from obvious inspirations. The design are incredible, and Kubo is still in his prime. Every single detail and little addition to the characters comes out in a classicBleach style, but with an even sharper refinement of his previous style into something similar, yet different. It really helps give the world it's own "identity" aside from Bleach, but you can easily see these characters appearing along side the Bleach ones as they have the same framework in design. Everyone feels unique, and you can already feel the desire of cosplayers wanting to imitate Ninny's hairstyle, or Noel's outfit. Osushi feels like a level up on the Kon formula from Bleach, with more integration into the story itself. The dragons are maybe some of the most interesting work I've seen, and are like an evolution of Miyazaki's Catbus from Totoro mixed with Shadow of the Colossus presenting a fresh take on both concepts with this "biologically mutual" relationship. The way that helps the actual plot and feeds into the world design is something unique, yet familiar to anyone used to the Hollows. Nearly every dragon could be made into it's own plushie, with an almost Pokemon, or Dragon Quest design work. At times the dragons alone have you wishing for a HxH, or Toriko style spin off really focusing on that aspect, and you can see all of this working inside a video game possibly even better than it does as an anime. The world is maybe one of the best I've seen in a Shonen. Sound design and animation is on point, with Colorido adding dozens of fine touches that elevate the manga source. Things like the Dragonball and Sailor Moon themes being used as ringtones show a passion for the material that infuses the animators own influences into the work, showing how Burn the Witch is rooted in a lineage of incredible Shounen and Shojos, fusing to make something fresh and new. I truly hope Kubo is into this project, and want's to write the manga even at a slower pacing. This has so much potential, but already serves as a wonderful introduction.

Burn The Witch is a sorry attempt of a happy man. Tite Kubo is famous for incredible character designs and he is also capable of creating a sense of amazing worlds and captivating atmospheres. However he is infamous to actually write something meaningful or something more interesting than a 3 year old could do in a sandbox. Burn The Witch is an example of his low standards and his luck of writing skills. The animation is pretty much the only thing you will find in this a positive experience compared to the rest. Since there is no real story and the characters are so onedimensional that it’s hard to even believe this type of writing is acceptable. Although that the animation is the only positivity it offers, it isn’t anything special either. I would gave it a 7 or 7.5 at best to the animation. Which is a good level of animation, but considering that they had over two years to make this 20 minutes episode, it’s pretty average. The characters. We have the black haired girl (Noel) who is so all Japanese. She is a silent beauty, acting like she doesn’t care about anything. We have the blonde girl (Ninny) as contrast to her. She is so annoyingly loud that you didn’t know what the hell she is saying. Even if you catch a few words that comes out of her mouth doesn’t matter to the story one bit. We also have a boy (Balgo) whose brain cells can’t go further than panties. He only wants to see panties and the only thing he talks about is panties. It seems that you really-really had to mess up an anime to get any kind of reality check back from it. So until you didn’t try hard enough to make it that appealing, some people will just gave it a 7 and thats applies “low” in today’s standards. From that reason anime like this will continue. Burn The Witch is just one awful anime that has zero reasons to exist. Although I gave it an incredibly overrated score of (2), maybe because I felt it had some possibilities deep down of its original concept. As such of pathetic reason I could have also given it a (1), for waisted great talents and their time on such a dry-cut-rate attempt of an “anime”. Withal the mind that so many Mangaka’s with significantly better concepts getting declined every day. In my opinion to adapt such story is unacceptable. It was unacceptable before the year 2000’s and it’s still unacceptable in 2024. Final Score 2/10 ⭐️

Colorido nailed it with this one! The movie, which serves as the main story, hits differently now. The best way I can describe this series is as a blend of Harry Potter meeting Pokemon, or envisioning how JK Rowling might have approached Fantastic Beasts to create a more compelling story. So, if you're a fan of Harry Potter, you will undoubtedly enjoy this story and what it has to offer. Tite Kubo has struck gold once again, and observing how the studio not only maintained the quality but improved upon it from the movie that premiered in 2020, I believe I'm not the only one who sees thepotential here if it's continued properly. Anyways, The 28-minute ONA serves as a pure setup for the movie, and I highly recommend that anyone reading this should seek it out after watching it.

Pretty good special. Although it was released after the BtW anime, in terms of the manga this actually came first as a one shot. We get to see how Balgo gets involved in the world of Reverse London. That makes this a good entry point into the series, even if you haven't seen the first anime. If you have seen the first anime, I would highly recommend watching this special too. There's not much to say other than that as the original chapter was more of an introduction to the world of BtW, and this special just adapts that. Characters are fun and quirky, theart and animation are gorgeous and the soundtrack is pretty good. Reminds me of those old OVA's from the 80's and 90's. I suppose if there was one thing I didn't like, it's that the tone stayed a little too light hearted during the climax. I feel like a tone-shift would have been good there.