Review of Black Rock Shooter

Black Rock Shooter is a very interesting anime. Honestly, I first watched this anime back in 2015, and damn I didn't understand a thing but the action was cool. Definitely, the thing that most people will recognize about BRS is the action scenes and amazing character designs. The story is very emotion/psychological focused which I couldn't fully appreciate on my first viewing as this was one of my early anime but after re-watching this I can definitely say it's an interesting series. The characters are great. Obviously, at times the reactions and character actions were amplified to make the drama more dramatic but it worked well tobuild on the story.

Basically, there are two worlds, normal drama world, and badass fight world. They're both linked by the emotions of the main characters and their alter selves. Which I think is cool and a unique idea. This concept works REALLY well when dealing with the relationships between characters as they use the battles in the other world as literal fights between emotions. It's like that movie Inside Out but if they turned it into a badass anime.

By far my favourite character in this series is the star herself, Black Rock Shooter. I can't say much without spoiling but through this entire re-watch, I absolutely loved her because I had previous knowledge from re-watching this about this ending. The ending in this series is great cause it makes you love the characters even more. The one thing I vividly remembered from this series was its last episode. It left a big impact on me. I also really love Matoi cause I always end up loving the MCs with their justice/kind-like personalities.

But of course, we're all here for the cool fights lol. They don't disappoint. I bet we've all seen at least one BRS fight in some form like an AMV. Funny enough an AMV was the reason that I decided to pick this series back up and experience it again.

Normally I don't like drama but here it was interesting. It's probably because it came alongside those fights. The fights and the drama merged well cause they weren't separate entities but if one started to escalate the other would follow.

Overall great series. I'd definitely recommend this series if you're fine with drama and want some epic fights with really good unique choreography cause DAMN THEY GET INTERESTING!!!

9/10 will definitely re-watch again in the future.