Burn the Witch

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Japanese: BURN THE WITCH

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 3

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 2, 2020

Producers: Shueisha, Twin Engine, Bandai Namco Arts

Licensors: VIZ Media

Studios: Studio Colorido, team Yamahitsuji

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Fantasy

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 21 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.13¹ (scored by 119,542 users)

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Ranked: #3676²

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Popularity: #987

Members: 246,434

Favorites: 671

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Although citizens of London view dragons as a fairy-tale myth, statistics confirm that 72% of the city's deaths are caused by these grotesque beings. Unable to see them, the public is oblivious to their existence. However, in a mirror dimension to "Front London," exists a place where dragons can be seen with the naked eye—"Reverse London."

Ninny Spangcole is a member of a popular girl group. But in Reverse London, she works as a "Witch" at Wing Bind—an organization that dispatches agents to exterminate the beasts and protect the citizens of both Londons using magic. Ninny and her partner, Noel Niihashi, in addition to their jobs, safeguard Baldo Ywain Parks, a young man with an odd connection to the dragons.

Thanks to the Wing Bind's hard work, there were no fatal dragon attacks for almost a century. But the peace shatters when Baldo's presence unexpectedly causes a Dark Dragon to wreak havoc in the city. The witches are further inconvenienced when Ninny's troublesome former bandmate appears in Reverse London—in tandem with another powerful dragon.

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Background

Burn the Witch is based on an action fantasy one-shot manga by Tite Kubo and takes place in the Bleach universe.

In October 2020, Burn the Witch collaborated with the mobile gacha game Bleach: Brave Souls, where Ninny Spangcole, Noel Niihashi, and Bruno Bangnyfe feature as playable characters.

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Adaptation:	Burn the Witch
Alternative setting:	Bleach
Prequel:	Burn the Witch #0.8

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Characters & Voice Actors

Niihashi, Noel

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Yamada, Yuina
Japanese

Spangcole, Ninny

Main

Tano, Asami
Japanese

Bangnyfe, Bruno

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Kobayashi, Chikahiro
Japanese

Osushi-chan

Supporting

Hikisaka, Rie
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Parks, Balgo Ywain

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Tsuchiya, Shinba
Japanese

Banx Jr., Billy

Supporting

Hirata, Hiroaki
Japanese

Baljure, Macy

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Hayami, Saori
Japanese

Squire, Sullivan

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Shimizu, Haruka
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Slashhaut, Wolfgang

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Mugihito
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B. Dipper, Roy

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Tanaka, Miou
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Simone, Jamie

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Kawano, Tatsurou

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Miyoshi, Keiichirou

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Suzumura, Chika

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"Blowing" by NiL

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Mar 16, 2024

exuy

Recommended

While Japan has Shinigami and Hollows, England has witches and dragons, on the one hand it looks like apples and pears, but the acronym SSWB, meaning "Soul Society West Branch" says otherwise. In short, it's Tite Kubo again, you can tell by the character models, with one of the main heroines looking like a more mature (not just in one particular body part) and taller Rukie, and the other heroine being a bit of a copy of Hijori, with a short-haired and taller Orihime, actually Marcy here, and I could go on and on like this.... What's worse is the fact that the Ichigo here, ...

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Apr 9, 2024

Adnash

Mixed Feelings

It's always upsetting to see such a good-looking show end up being all form over substance. Unfortunately, things such as stellar animation, beautiful colours, interesting looking art style, and cool character designs can't carry the overall chaotic direction and extremely rushed, poorly written plot.

"Burn the Witch" offers a very nice and intriguing setting that serves as mere background to a story that's just half-baked. Half-baked, because how would one call a situation when viewers are supposed to care about anything and anyone, when all they learn throughout the show is that "this place exists, this person exists as well"? Why do viewers have to learn ... about presumably important and strong secondary characters, see them saying a phrase or two, and afterwards not hear anymore about most of them, or just see them being somewhere in the background and saying something cryptic that's also not elaborated upon later on? Many high schoolers would write a better scenario, even for such a short animated series. It's even worse if we consider that without knowing the prequel movie, which was released 3 years (!) after the reviewed series, the viewers will have a hard time figuring out what the heck is exactly happening in the story, why do some situations occur, and why do certain characters act like they do. Yup, "Burn the Witch" doesn't offer any introduction, not without watching the "Burn the Witch #0.8" prequel movie.

Speaking about its length, there are three episodes, and each one is 20 minutes long. In theory, that would be alright to tell a cute story. That is, if the writing was at least on an acceptable level. Sadly, like I mentioned earlier, the writing was mediocre at best, but most of the time it was chaotic and messy. The direction was weird as well, as if the show couldn't find balance between more static and more dynamic scenes, but preferred to just mix them up and end up with a rather convoluted mess.

Some might say that it was like this in the source material. Some might say that this show fits the "Bleach" universe in which it is set. I'm neither familiar with the first nor the second thing, so as an anime only viewer, I can't relate to any of them. However, even if I had knowledge about one thing or another, I wouldn't treat it as something positive. If an anime is not labelled as a spin-off series, then it's not unwise to assume that one may enjoy the story without knowing the main series, no? Obviously, a shared universe is not the same as a shared story, after all. And at the end of the day, we're talking about an animated show that is loosely related to an already existing series. The fact that source material was worse or better, or that some elements might make more sense if someone is familiar with said existing series, shouldn't matter, in my opinion.

I was torn between choosing "Mixed Feelings" or "Negative" as the final verdict for this review. I think the former will be more appropriate. I don't regret watching it myself. It didn't take a lot to watch the reviewed show and the aforementioned prequel movie, after all. Although, I can't recommend this show if you care about anything else than its great-looking visuals. Not with all the cons this show has, which I pointed out earlier.

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Jul 18, 2022

tmancm

Not Recommended

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I am going to start with the positives first. The animation is amazing, to the point that I feel bad the it going to be associated with this show's everything else. Also, it had some interesting worldbuilding ideas but it didn't explore that nearly enough.

Ok that's the positives, now the negatives. The story feels both rushed and stalled at all times, I'm not even sure how that's possible. Things will just happen as if it was an already established, meaning there is little no explanation why things happen, but then there will be a 10 minutes of talking about nothing with characters we never met.

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