In the post that I dedicated to Bleach, I mentioned how disappointed I was with his last saga, because it was very rushed and a lot of convenience and nonsense happened, however there is something about Bleach that I like a lot and that is that the style of Tite Kubo (its creator) is undoubtedly one of the best of the Shonen Jump, that although in terms of drawing the scenarios are quite simple and some cases non-existent, the main attraction with respect to Tite Kubo's drawing style is his characters, because he has a really good style, the line drawing, character design, powers, skills is really unique, besides that as far as battles are concerned he can make really impressive and quite dynamic scenes, that's why despite all the disappointment that the end of Bleach left me, I really wanted to see this mangaka again in a new project and soon, after some years of the end of Bleach, Tite Kubo would return.
On the 50th anniversary of the Shonen Jump, Tite Kubo would return with a small project, a One-Shot called "Burn the Witch" (a One-Shot is a one-chapter manga with a self-concluding ending). This new manga would focus on new characters and tell us a little story that would have nothing to do with Bleach, or at least that's what we thought at the beginning.
The One-Shot Burn the Witch has a fairly simple story, but is nonetheless very entertaining, all thanks to Tite Kubo's excellent drawing. In this story that focuses on "witches". We are introduced to "Niihashi Noel", which is being harassed by "Balgo", and after leaving it behind Niihashi Noel is introduced in a phone booth to be transported to the "Reverse London", because unlike Bleach that all its history is focused on Japan, in Burn the Witch the events are focused on Europe, specifically in London. Later we are introduced to the 3rd main person in this story, Ninii Spangle. These two characters both Niihashi Noel and Ninii Spangle, work for an organization that takes care of but also eliminates some quite rare creatures that are called "dragons". These "dragons" serve different things in the world, as much as food, fuel or textiles, there are different types of these creatures.
Noel and Ninii work in the care section of these Dragons, however, Ninii wants to move up in rank to join the group of those who are in charge of eliminating the dragons that are endangering the lives of the inhabitants of London. After a day of work, Noel and Ninii are contacted by their boss, who tells them that right in the place where Noel lives, a dragon has been detected, which we see said dragon took the form of the dog of Balgo. Balgo is accompanied by his friend, and to everyone's surprise his "friend" was also a dragon. Since there are dragons that are capable of taking a person's dead body and impersonating that person. Since his friend died 10 years ago, this dragon took his body and was interacting with Balgo during all this time.
After an arduous battle, in which Balgo is badly injured after protecting Ninii , they manage to finish off the dragon that had taken the body of "Balgo's" friend. The story takes us once again to the headquarters of this organization and they assign Noel and Ninii the care of Balgo because when he is bitten by one of them, he now has the ability to be a half-dragon. The story ends up surprising us by showing us that this organization is a branch of the "Soul Society" but with a location in London, so both the events that happen/occur in Bleach and Burn the Witch are in the same universe.
In spite of how simple this story was, it was quite entertaining and it is always nice to see Tite Kubo's style again. So this little manga only made me want to see a new project of this manga, but soon we would have more news about Tite Kubo. Because some time later, through a live show on Youtube, 3 future projects were going to be revealed in relation to Bleach and Burn The Witch.
- The main project was the adaptation to the anime of the last Bleach saga. Although there were things I didn't like about this saga, I look forward to seeing it adapted.
- The adaptation to an anime film of Burn the Witch, here I leave you the trailer because it looks pretty good.
- The other project was the serialization of the manga of Burn the Witch, this is going to be a manga of few chapters, only 4, so it will be a mini story, which will begin to be published on 24th of the year 2020, so there is not much time left.