Visually breathtaking with superb art, fluid CG/2D fights and an intriguing dual-world premise, Black Rock Shooter nonetheless collapses under a nonsensical, hole-riddled plot and laughably overwrought teenage melodrama that makes its eight episodes feel like a rushed, patched-up mess. The aesthe...

Black★Rock Shooter excels in delivering emotionally charged characters filled with hatred, sadness, and joy, complemented by a surprisingly good soundtrack and an eye-catching art style. However, the heavy reliance on CGI during battles proves distracting, the opening Vocaloid song feels robotic ...

Black Rock Shooter is a visually striking anime with flawless CG animation and a deeply metaphorical story about adolescence and emotional pain. While its narrative can be confusing and requires careful attention to fully grasp, the emotional payoff is profound once understood. It's a highly reco...

Black Rock Shooter’s fight scenes are a visual feast—slick, color-soaked battles with inventive angles and gorgeous effects that outclass most TV anime. Yet the 8-episode run is crippled by breakneck pacing, threadbare exposition, and character arcs that lurch from zero to melodrama in seconds, l...

Black★Shooter: Where you learn new colors each day! Note: I've used my own scoring scale. View my MAL page for more info. Story: (6/10 - Decent) It had a lot of potential but the delivery was "meh." There are over 7 billion people on Earth... imagine if there are over 7 billion BRS. Insane right?...

Black Rock Smith dazzles with its inventive dual-art design and sweet shoujo-ai chemistry, making the short series easy to binge in one sitting. While the plot can feel murky and the soundtrack unremarkable, the emotional honesty of the girls’ struggles and the vibrant visual switch-ups keep you ...

Actually i just finished watching it, so i decided to write a review right away to share my insights about the anime to you guys... Emotions ran throughout the story. I think its the key element on the whole plot of story. BRS just implies one thing.....It's just accepting the reality to face you...

I am certainly appalled and shocked at why the most voted reviews has a bad ranking for this series, for I personally liked it. Perhaps it was too confusing, or the watcher didn't receive real pain to understand what on earth was going on with this anime (I'm not saying you didn't for those who d...

Black Rock Shooter is a visually beautiful, eight-episode ride whose unpredictable, mind-blowing story about shared pain only fully clicks once you reach the end. Amazing sound design and a seamless mix of 2D and 3D art pull you deep into every scene, while the main characters stay just as hard t...

Black Rock Shooter delivers a powerful dual-world narrative with benchmark-level animation, perfect sound design, and characters who grow into one of the best second-half payoffs in anime. Only minor stumbles come from the early episodes’ forced drama and the plain real-world art style. A must-wa...

Right. This show. Touted as one of the biggest train wrecks in the medium. And well, I won't deny that it is. Initially the concept seems interesting if you're into the head bleedingly obvious symbolism and metaphorical themes that anime can't seem to ever play off subtly, but near the end, aroun...

After completing this anime , it was painful , I have decided to write a review on it . There are its pros and cons , First the pros , catchy soundtrack , opening and ending songs never fails to make one rewind to hear the song again . Another pro is that the art was really good , it was so well ...

An amazing favorite for ages, Black Rock Shooter captivates with its dual-universe premise where schoolgirls’ emotional pain manifests as fierce, weapon-wielding avatars. While the intertwining timelines can sound confusing, watching clears things up and delivers striking battles—especially when ...

This short, abstract series is awesome for the wealth of insightful messages a rich-minded viewer can extract, presenting human life in an unusual, catchy audiovisual package. While its exaggerated, seemingly illogical plot may lose shallow-minded audiences, that same exaggeration is what makes i...

Initially disorienting, the series rewards patience as its cause-and-effect emotional architecture comes into focus, offering an intellectually stimulating experience rich with side plots and dramatic tension. While the early episodes risk losing viewers with their apparent lack of sense, the eve...

Black Rock Shooter weaves an intriguing dual-world setup whose emotional payoff—life’s pains and joys painted in bright and dull colors—proves poignant once the link between realities clicks. While the early episodes leave you guessing and the birth of the parallel realm goes unexplained, the sty...

This is my first review, so yeah. Black Rock Shooter is a great psychological thriller with a confounding storyline, but there are probably a ton of anime out there that are very similar. The CG is pretty good, and the art style is very unique. The colors are very vivid, because a theme of the st...

Well, this was on fucking badass anime. Oh yeah, this is my second review on MAL. My first one sucked. A lot. Okay, time to start his review! First up, THE STORY! That was probably the worst part of this anime. I had no idea what was going on at the start of the anime. So first this awesome fight...

Black Rock shooter was something that I mainly wanted to pick up because of a friend. Because she loves the series. So I figured I'd give it a shot, and I'm glad I did. Even if I'm frozen from feels after finishing it. It hit me that well. A show really is good if it manages to do something like ...

I was looking forward to Black Rock Shooter as I enjoyed the OVA and always enjoy Huke’s fantastically stylized animation. The problem I found with Black Rock Shooter was the fact that the story was as dull as an overused knife and really wasn’t as good as it was trying to be. The problem here is...