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Friday, February 17, 2012

Initial Impressions: Black★Rock Shooter

This anime has been updated. For "Final Impressions: B★RS", click here.

February 17, 2012
Posted by DarrenW

Dear anime fans,

Yes, it's THE anime of the season (Well, aside from Guilty Crown), Black★Rock Shooter!!

So it starts off with Black Rock Shooter, alone in an isolated world of dreams and fantasy (the way i see it), wielding her star cannon which can shoot rocks out at incredible speed. She is shown having two long pigtails, a left eye that burns with a blur flame, and constantly wears the LEAST amount of clothes I've ever seen.

There are two universes in this anime. The fantasy and human universe.

Black Rock Shooter

Mato Kuroi, your average middle schooler, is the protagonist for this story, of which her other side is the Black Rock Shooter. She joins the basketball team and on the first few days of school, she meets Yomi Takanashi, a timid girl in the same class, who does not want to make
friends with Yomi, for some unknown
reasons.

Other World

Well it's later found out that it's because of Yomi's possesive 'friend' Kagari Izuriha, that causes Yomi to keep away from making friends. Ugh creepy wheelchair bound girl.

However, both Yomi and Kagari are also portrayed as
"battle warriors" like Black Rock Shooter
in the other world.

In total there are five of such "warriors", in which all wield different weapons and are differentiated by different colours.

If you would like to draw comparisons, I find it oddly similar to Yumekui Merry, what with the dream world and human world, and the fact Merry in Yumekui Merry isn't wearing much EITHER.

Kagari Izuriha. Creeping me out.

Not wanting to spoil things for you guys, I strongly suggest you go watch this anime. Definitely not a let down. Even SparkNorkx and Tr3xus are watching it.

Plot wise, no significant plot yet for the first 2 episodes. However, seems very likely that an awesome plot will be developing soon.

Mato Kuroi

Different atmospheres were maintained within both worlds. A cheerful realistic tone for the human world and a cold, dark and eerie atmosphere set for the other world, awesome stuff.

Yomi Takanashi. Also "Dead Master"

Another note is that the 3D CGIs are very well made, and the OP is SICK. The OP, "ブラック★ロックシューター", is composed by ryo (supercell), the SAME COMPOSER for Guilty Crown's "My Dearest" and "The Everlasting Guilty Crown" Omg, I'm in heaven.

However, I'm not really digging the parts where Black Rock Shooter gets shot or injured. Although there's no blood, it still looks painful.

Black★Rock Shooter premiered on February 3, 2012 and only has 8 episodes, sadly. It is fansubbed by AFFTW-Hatsuyuki, Asenshi, AsukaSubs-SubDESU, CSS, Commie, Nishishi-subs, WhyNot, and GX_ST. Wow.