I'm making this thread for the 2012 Black Rock Shooter anime series, based on the vocaloid song of the same name by Huke. There's basically two different "levels" to the show, the ordinary world and the "other world". The ordinary part is about a middle school girl named Mato Kuroi who meets and becomes immediately infatuated with the cool and aloof Yomi Takanashi. An attempt to become friends with her ends with a nasty meet-up with mysterious and creepy wheelchair-bound girl Kagari Izuriha who seems to want Yomi entirely to herself.
The other world part on the other hand is about a badass, pale skinned and skimpily dressed girl named Black Rock Shooter with a blazing blue eye and a powerful cannon capable of shooting rocks at high speeds journeying through a mysterious and surreal "other world" and battling various foes along the way. However the two seemingly disparate parts aren't totally unrelated and the characters in the "other world" seem to parallel those from the regular one...
Just watched the show's first episode today, looking for another anime to watch while I wait for the next dubbed episode of Kekkai Sensen to come out. It seems pretty good so far. The interactions between Mato and Yomi are fairly cute and endearing but the show's real highlight are the other world sequences, which have amazing CGI animation as well as extremely cool and surreal looking gothic landscapes. The show actually reminds me a little bit of the Persona series, with the otherworldly landscapes combined with ordinary school life and the concept of "other selves". Definitely give this a watch if you like heartwarming girl-on-girlsex ~pure yuri love~ completely platonic friendship combined with jaw-dropping action sequences in fantastical environments. Plus the first episode features a girl with a giant cannon for an arm fighting a girl riding a giant steampunk spider that shoots macarons as projectiles. How can you say no to that?
Evil flower of Pure Illusion... we're going to pluck you out!
The other world part on the other hand is about a badass, pale skinned and skimpily dressed girl named Black Rock Shooter with a blazing blue eye and a powerful cannon capable of shooting rocks at high speeds journeying through a mysterious and surreal "other world" and battling various foes along the way. However the two seemingly disparate parts aren't totally unrelated and the characters in the "other world" seem to parallel those from the regular one...
Just watched the show's first episode today, looking for another anime to watch while I wait for the next dubbed episode of Kekkai Sensen to come out. It seems pretty good so far. The interactions between Mato and Yomi are fairly cute and endearing but the show's real highlight are the other world sequences, which have amazing CGI animation as well as extremely cool and surreal looking gothic landscapes. The show actually reminds me a little bit of the Persona series, with the otherworldly landscapes combined with ordinary school life and the concept of "other selves". Definitely give this a watch if you like heartwarming girl-on-girl
Evil flower of Pure Illusion... we're going to pluck you out!