Black★Gold Saw

Black★Gold Saw (ブラック★ゴールドソー, Burakku Gorudo So) is part of the supporting cast of the OVA series Black★Rock Shooter.

Original Concept
Black★Gold Saw is a girl with red eyes and long black hair. A red flame shoots out from her right eye. She has a pair of curved black horns whose color turns to red as it reaches the tip. Like Dead Master, Black★Gold Saw also has skeletal claws. Her outfit is similar to Black★Rock Shooter's except for the design of her jacket and her bikini top; her jacket extends into a worn-out cape which is dyed red at the end.

Her weapon of choice is a large sword with golden blade and a black saw-edge on its reverse side. It has a long handle with a skull-like object on top and a hilt shaped like a crescent; its name is King Saw.

Black★Rock Shooter (OVA)
In the OVA, her jacket is shorter, and she also wears armored boots with pointed crescent designs. Like all of the "other selves," her eyes have a circular pattern in them. Notably, Black★Gold Saw's red flame is not present at all during her appearance.

Black★Rock Shooter (2012)
Her jacket seems to bear a little bit of resemblance to MEFE's clothing. Her sleeve have a red belt attached to it along with two white line running across just above the belt's line. Her jacket is tied together with a white ribbon. Her shorts is a little bit longer and had more details to it. Her belt is also different. Unlike the OVA design, she had no black thigh-high socks although her grieves are pretty much the same, except for some changes, notably at the base of the foot. Her claws are very much the same as that of BRSB now, but, it's still more skeletal. Her King Saw have a new look as well, with a very much shorter blade and a sawblade on the hilt.

Her only appearance is in the beginning of the OVA, where she is victorious in her fight against Black★Rock Shooter, presumably being the one who gave her the scars on her midriff.

Black★Gold Saw is shown to have a much bigger role in the anime, having plot relevance, her role as an other self being confirmed, and her human counterpart revealed.

Abilities
Black★ Gold Saw has demonstrated many abilities in the 2012 anime, more than she ever did in the OVA. She may have some time or reality-altering abilities in terms of the Otherworld, as she managed to stop the destruction of Chariot's world as if she had stopped its time and had seemingly cut reality itself when driving Dead Master into the ground. She also has the ability to create beings, as she creates the strange hooded figures from a watering can. This watering can is also able to sprinkle a mirror-like surface on the ground that shows Saya's memories. She is also able to see things far away using her giant eyes as shown in Episode 1 and Episode 4. She can also summon a massive King Saw out of the ground.

Trivia

 * Black★Gold Saw is the second "Black" character to appear in the OVA.
 * Her claws are more "skeletal" in contrast with Dead Master's. Dead Master's claws are more of a pair of demonic gloves rather than a pair of skeletal claws.
 * She appears similar to the younger Saya Irino instead of Saya's older short-haired appearance.
 * She seems to have more violent and sadistic nature, as seen in the expressions of her Figma.
 * Black★Gold Saw was seen using a watering can on the ground, causing mysterious hooded figures to emerge. She thus may have the ability to create life and/or "other selves".
 * When BGS was redesigned (both in the original artwork and in the anime), the crimson flame that BGS were missing or rather, removed. Since then, there are no more artworks of BGS depicting her with her tradmark flame. Because of that, she became the first "Black" character never to show eye flames.
 * She may be the first character in the anime who fought (insane) B ★ RS and never died. However, she got her sword arm ripped off by iBRS's Insane Cannon Lance's back vulcan. She would have died if Strength hadn't saved her.
 * Black Gold Saw in the fight with Insane Black Rock Shooter is mostly probably holding back, as seen Saya is trying to communicate and reason with Mato rather actually fighting her.
 * Some of the drawings that depict King Saw are colored silver than gold.
 * Ever since her appearance in the OVA, her counterpart self has not been confirmed until the anime.
 * Just like how the flame on her right eye mysteriously dissapears, the star symbol on her name does not appear anymore on subsequent media after the premiere of the OVA.
 * Her figma has the problem of having its King Saw's point easily broken. The painting around the neck of its jacket also get easily faded.
 * She seems to be the counterpart of BRS, with BRS being a long-range warrior, and BGS close-range. Both also have the ability to summon larger versions of their weapons.