Oct 21, 2020
To best summarize how I feel, it's a nice watch but it just feels too short and incomplete. It's as almost they were planning a season for the anime and then realized they only had a budget for three episodes.
So the "movie" is three episodes of ~20 minutes or about an hour long. That's not a lot of time to make a complete and satisfactory story. There needs to be time to set up the plot, get some background and a foundation for the story, create characters and explain their quirks and relationships, etc...
There just isn't enough time for that in an hour movie... Even
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worse, it feels like the movie drops you right into episode 6 of a season (of 13 episodes). Two minutes of a backstory isn't enough to fully nurture a good story. Even worse it tries to get to the last episode of season if the span of time equal to three episodes... which is a bit too rushed. There isn't any real growth in the characters... and characters show up but they just don't have any major importance to the movie at all.
That aside, what I watched... I enjoyed. It was a fun watch and I see potential for anime series that could work and I would be down to watch that if that were the case. There needs to be more time to explain things and not to have them throw everything to the viewers in just one hour. This could have worked as a movie.. but in the end it just turned out three episodes that were treated as a movie which just doesn't work out that well. Perhaps the creators didn't have a choice in that manner... which is a shame because I do see some positives in Burn the Witch.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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