Burn the Witch

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This is a manga with promise. It is a mix of Harry Potter and Bleach, basically if Harry Potter and Bleach had a child, Burn the Witch would be that child. Instead of samurai's with swords, it's witches with gun(?) wands. Instead of hallows it's dragons. Blago is an even bigger dork, than Denji from Chainsawman, for better or for worse. I love the dynamic between Noel Niihashi and Ninny Spangcole. It's a bit too earlier to say that will become a great manga, but I have faith that Kubo can make Burn the Witch properly fulfill its potential. We'll just have to see if ... it can do it when we get to that point. Also I love the Dragon Ball reference.

The fantastic mind of tite kubo presents: Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt but now they're witches in London or something i dunno.

Mean-spirited comparisons aside, i want to like this manga, i really do, hell i even had a good time reading it but it's just ok at best. The amount of generic shonen anime shit is just so boring at this point, you have a new fantasy world with a new fantasy organization hunting new fantasy monsters by using, yet again, a power system that nobody knows how it works and it really doesn't seem to matter outside of being an excuse for characters to ... do cool stuff. It honestly feels like is ticking all the boxes on a list of things a manga needs to have to be popular with shonen fans and is doing so in the most boring way possible.

Funny enough really don't mind generic shonen stuff, my main problem is that EVERYTHING is here and is being rearranged in the most lazy way possible (it's honestly debatable if it's even being rearranged at all), everything in favor of a manga that would have been the shit, like, 10 years ago, but by today's standards just doesn't fly at all.

I'm kind of disappointed at how bad this is because i think the manga is very aesthetically pleasing, i like the idea of reverse london, the dragons (even though calling them dragons seems more like a thing done for branding purposes since a lot of them don't resemble dragons in the slightest), and the witch organisation has some cool ideas going on, but that's all it really is, some cool ideas, not much outside of it.

too bad i guess.

Burn the Witch is a rushed, near incomprehensible short manga series by the creator of Bleach. There’s virtually no time for character development or depth, but there’s clearly a larger world being hinted at by both the one shot and four chapters. With way more chapters, this could have been built up into something more interesting, but instead it’s forgettable. It’s unclear the intent here… is it source material for the anime or testing the waters? I actually think it would have been better off just as the one shot and not continued.

The art is solid, there’s a clear skill to it. Which is ... the only saving grace.

Not worth the time to read, even if it’s short.