Black★Rock Shooter BEAST

Black★Rock Shooter Beast (ブラック★ロックシュータービースト, Burakku Rokku Shūtā Bīsuto), abbreviated to BRSB, is an original character designed by huke. She is based on the original concept for Black★Rock Shooter.

Concept
Her main illustration features model information about the character, as well as a number of warning labels and symbols. Among all these, she is classified as "Model #8091 BRSB Devastator", a device manufactured by MLTW™. The first of two large warning symbols is labelled "DEVASTATIVE" with a star icon horizontally split in half and two asterisks, while the second warning symbol is labelled "IRREGULAR" with a crown icon.

Appearance
As an original character based on Black★Rock Shooter, Black★Rock Shooter Beast is a girl with blue eyes, black hair in uneven twintails, and a blue flame emanating from her left eye. However, her overall appearance is much different from her base concept.

BRSB's twintails are spikier and much shorter in length. A large blue crown decorates her head and appears to be formed by the flame in her eye. She wears an asymmetrical black and white tank top with five stars cut out at the neckline, one blue star on the left, and two zippers; one below her left breast and the other zipped at her right hip while exposing her left hip. Her black sleeves are wide and detached from her shoulders. Directly below her tank top is a large white and black belt with a blue buckle, and a very mini black pleated skirt. BRSB also wears spiky black thigh-high greaves with blue buzz saw-like wheels at her feet and blue spikes behind her greaves. White and black straps run down the length of her greaves, and underneath are white thigh-high leggings of a taller length. Her hands are skeletal, akin to that of Dead Master and Black★Gold Saw, and she wields a black and blue handgun named Seven-Shots in her right hand.

While not illustrated with BRSB, she also apparently wields a large broadsword named BRSBLADE as included in her figma. Her figma also shows that her tank top has an open back, revealing a tattoo of her trademark symbol on her upper back.

History
huke uploaded the illustration to his Pixiv on July 24, 2011, and his personal blog the day after. The descriptions for both posts announced that he would be releasing his first artbook, titled BLK, and that a figma of Black★Rock Shooter Beast would be included in the limited edition of BLK. A preview of the figma was posted on August 24, 2011, by Mikatan, then-blogger for Good Smile Company.

The limited edition for BLK also included a coupon for an avatar of Black★Rock Shooter Beast in Puchitto★Rock Shooter, marking BRSB's first and only appearance in any form of Black★Rock Shooter media thus far.

Trivia

 * Her nickname in Japanese as officially recognized by huke himself is ケモ岩さん (Kemoiwa-san, or Beast Rock-san).
 * Her symbol is an intricate coat of arms with the crown above the shield engraved with a checkered star and two sword crossing each other at the bottom.