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REVIEW: Black Rock Shooter Episodes 1-8 Streaming

It boggles my mind that someone managed to write a thousand words about BRS without even mentioning the blatant lesbianism.

I mean, thats pretty notable. Its not even subtext. spoiler[Kagari carved a heart into Yomi's chest!] Just to name one of the more blatant clues.

The TV series, good? The OVA was so horrible.

Well, both of them are horrible but I do think the TV is worse. One thing that I've learnt from watch BRS is that it turns out to be another one of those fanservice shows like DMC, or P4 the animation. Seriously, the game and manga have much better storyline.

Fronzel wrote:

The TV series, good? The OVA was so horrible.

Well, both of them are horrible but I do think the TV is worse. One thing that I've learnt from watch BRS is that it turns out to be another one of those fanservice shows like DMC, or P4 the animation. Seriously, the game and manga have much better storyline.

Fanservice in what way? While the game had a more interesting but more generic premise, the show itself managed to expand and improve considerably what was the godawful OVA (storywise not animationwise).

daichi383 wrote:

Fanservice in what way? While the game had a more interesting but more generic premise, the show itself managed to expand and improve considerably what was the godawful OVA (storywise not animationwise).

The OVA is a somewhat rambling piece on young love and jealousy, which may or may not also involve Yomi turning into a green-eyed jealousy demon (or it could just be a metaphor).

I don't really know what was so terrible about the OVA, other than that it wasn't what people were expecting.

It's half boring shojo story which hinges on exaggerated melodrama (you're only allowed to have one friend!)

and half neat but directionless stylized action scenes. They don't add up to anything although it tries to tell us otherwise; how did Yomi turn into a monster in another place and time? How Black Rock Shooter both seemingly its own thing and that other girl at the same time? This isn't surreality, it's just two unrelated things we are instructed are the same story.

Takamachi Ryoko wrote:

Fronzel wrote: The TV series, good? The OVA was so horrible. Well, both of them are horrible but I do think the TV is worse. One thing that I've learnt from watch BRS is that it turns out to be another one of those fanservice shows like DMC, or P4 the animation. Seriously, the game and manga have much better storyline.

Fanservice in what way?

The majority of people who enjoy DMC and P4 the animation are their hardcore gamer fans. They may have decent plotting, impressive visual but their direction is awful. BRS, in a way, is similar to those two. Once a first few episode keep you at the edge of your seat, the rest turns upside down.

Takamachi Ryoko wrote:

The majority of people who enjoy DMC and P4 the animation are their hardcore gamer fans. They may have decent plotting, impressive visual but their direction is awful. BRS, in a way, is similar to those two. Once a first few episode keep you at the edge of your seat, the rest turns upside down.

Thats really stretching it.

Different people = different opinions. But in all three versions of BRS: a clone, a soul collector and an alter ego of some highschool girl then I prefer the first two.

Takamachi Ryoko wrote:

Different people = different opinions. But in all three versions of BRS: a clone, a soul collector and an alter ego of some highschool girl then I prefer the first two.

Well, sure, whatever. Thats not really relevant to the point you appeared to be making, with the rather stretched comparison to DMC and P4.