Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Tite Kubo 2020 and 2021 projects: BLEACH Thousand Year Blood War, Burn the Witch, Burn the Witch TV series (Studio Colorido x Tite Kubo) AND Sakura Wars global release AND Sakura Wars TV series

I don't tend to make posts about these type of matters but I've been a huge Tite Kubo fan for well over a decade now. Ever since last year there has been talk about something huge coming for the BLEACH series which ended in 2017, but got its official ending when the 74th and final volume was released on October 2, 2018. But other than that there hasn't been anything concrete so far until recently where Bleach: face again got a website announcing something huge soon.

18.3.2020 Weekly Shounen Jump Twitter account announced that we will be getting Burn the Witch anime by Studio Colorido (very Ponyo-esq studio), a weekly Burn the Witch manga series on WSJ Magazine by the main man Tite Kubo himself, and a 20th anniversary anime for Bleach: face again / Thousand Year Blood War in 2021, as well as a global release of the New Sakura Wars  The anime community is going crazy as it seems that Tite Kubo is completely replacing Masashi Kishimoto's Samurai 8 manga as well. absolutely insane right now. Japan in general sees a HUGE deal of potential in Kubo over any other mangaka right now.

Burn the Witch


Burn the Witch is a one-shot Tite Kubo created July 16th, 2018 for Weekly Shounen Jump (WSJ) celebration. It tells the story of Ninii Spangle (a blonde actress) as well as the dark-haired anime fan Noel Niinashi who work as guardians in a world called Reverse London which basically exists as a mirror dimension of the real world. The gateway to Reverse London goes through telephone booths in London, but the girls also have their own, I guess, magic, that they can use to create portals to travel through the dimensions. It was revealed at the end of the one-shot that Reverse London is actually in Western Soul Society from Bleach. Except it has dragons and is much different in its layout. BtW is an interesting one-shot showing Kubo's ability to worldbuild as there are numerous different dragons in the world with different purpose to them.
It is absolutely crazy that Burn the Witch is getting an anime adaptation in Fall of 2020 by Studio Colorido, along with the manga series coming from Kubo himself in 2020.

New Sakura Wars
New Sakura Wars is an interesting piece of news that not many seems to know about. Sakura Wars used to be a very popular game series in Japan but 15 years ago was the last time it got its last game, Sakura Wars 5: So Long, My Love. Last year it was revealed that SEGA had hired Tite Kubo as the designer for Sakura Wars 6, called New Sakura Wars / Taisen Sakura Wars. It tells the story of mech robot fighters in a very similar setting as Burn the Witch. It's basically a harem game, but the real piece of news about is is that it's the biggest budget harem game from Japan, ever. It looks gorgeous. It's also impressive how much Japan loves Tite Kubo since SEGA themselves had hired him. 
Sakura Wars has been pushed a lot and they've even confirmed a TV anime series for the game in Spring of 2020!
 
BURIIICHU

Bleach news is obvious, but massively huge. The anime ended about eight years ago at the end of the Fullbring arc. Now it's coming back: Bleach: face again project was confirmed as the adaptation of the final arc of the Thousand-Year Blood War arc of Bleach, and I have a pretty good feeling right now that we might even be getting an adaptation of the BLEACH epilogue novel series known as Can't Fear Your Own World that have an interesting villain in the form of Tokinada Tsunayashiro, a corrupt noble from one of the Five Noble Houses of Bleach. 
Bleach: face again / Thousand Year Blood War will be getting an adaptation for the 20th anniversary of Bleach, in 2021. It's being rumored that at least one of these projects is going to get a budget bigger than that of Kimetsu no Yaiba.

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