After two years of the launch of Burn The Witch One-Shot (I didn't remember that it had been 2 years since that), the first chapter of this mini history of the witches who fight dragons finally came out. As I said in the post that I dedicated to the One-Shot this manga is going to be short, only 4 chapters and although I hoped that it would have at least some additional chapters, I think that these 4 are enough to show us this new world that has relation with Bleach. Once again Tite Kubo is going to leave us amazed with his excellent drawings and character design, however it still maintains the same characteristics of having totally simple and even empty backgrounds, and this is something quite typical of this author. However, as expected, Burn The Witch started in the Shonen Jump starring the cover of the magazine and also has an excellent color page.
And without more, the review of the first chapter:
The story of this first chapter is very simple and serves as an introduction to this "new universe", although I would have liked that in this chapter, they had gone deeper into the story, since the One-Shot served for that very purpose, as an introduction. Burn The Witch 1 "Witches Blow A New Pipe", after a small introduction to Ninny's character, shows us Noel fighting one of those dragons for a mission that was assigned to him. After this, she is helped by Ninny to finish the mission, what's curious about how these "witches" use their powers, besides using a kind of magic flute, they also use skills very similar to the ones used by the Shinigamis in Bleach.
After this, when the two protagonists were at the organization's headquarters, surprisingly the third protagonist of this story appears: Balgo, who is being "dragged" through the air by his "pet dragon". Let's remember that in the One-Shot of this manga, Balgo became a "half-dragon" so that both Noel and Ninny were left as their caretakers.
After some unimportant presentations and some comical moments (as it is common with this author), they finally manage to stop Balgo and his pet, however the reason why "Osushi" (the pet) would get so nervous is because a Black Dragon was going to attack Balgo and at this moment it is explained to us that the "half-dragons", are capable of attracting other dragons, therefore, for the first time after many years, inside the Reverse London, because of Balgo entered a Black Dragon. Ninny sees this and even with her desire to enter the group of elimination of dangerous dragons will attack this dragon.
However, this fight is not shown, since they change the scene and show us a group of people sitting watching the whole fight between Noel and Ninny vs. the dragon. This group of people is presented and because of the little that can be seen of these characters they seem to be leaders of the "Wing Bind" Organization, that is, the Soul Society of Europe, so these characters after talking a little, the one that seems to be their leader (which has a design similar to the Ywach), says that they must "stop" Balgo, so I guess this story is going to focus on keeping Balgo safe from the leaders of this organization.
There are still things that need to be explained, how was this organization created, how does it relate to the Soul Society of Japan? It also explains that people who are not specially prepared to have contact with dragons can suffer 100 years in prison or death, and that at a higher degree of contact with these creatures they have a greater chance of becoming half-dragons like Balgo. And the most important doubt I have is, will any Bleach character appear as a cameo?
