User blog:Fairy Maid/huke's original characters



When I came back to this wiki not too long ago, I looked at the Black★Rock Shooter (original concept) page on a whim. I saw how recently it had been updated, and that it was much more concise and accurate to its page title than before. I decided to rewrite some other pages based on how that one was written, such as Black★Gold Saw and Dead Master. I learned a lot from checking what was actually set in stone for huke's characters when he posted their first (sometimes only) artworks, but the most important thing I learned was this:

Only four or five out of fifteen or so characters on this wiki are officially part of the Black★Rock Shooter franchise. The rest are, or were, only assumed to be B★RS characters.

That became quite apparent to me as I went through all the characters listed in the navbox below. I found that many of the pages incorrectly stated that the characters are part of the franchise and not appearing in the OVA (which should tell you how long that info's been there), which is nothing but misinformation. What's worse is that it's misinformation that has persisted and remained for well over 10 years.

But rather than straight up deleting the pages without any explanation that could be easily relayed to anyone who comes on the wiki, I decided to update the pages and make it clear enough that many of these characters are just original characters that huke drew, many of them drawn only once. Aside from maybe being custom avatar options in Puchitto Rock Shooter (which itself, in my opinion, is kinda dubious in terms of being official), almost none of them have actually appeared in any B★RS media or been officially recognized as part of the franchise.

As another layer of misinformation, it was incorrectly stated that Dragon Slayer was one in the same with Solomon, a character from a story called RMGD, which itself was then assumed to be a part of the Black★Rock Shooter franchise. But after researching more about RMGD and translating it, I learned that the story and its characters are separate from huke's other original characters, and of course, the B★RS franchise. Something I'm sure Japanese fans already knew for a long time now.

In retrospect, I suppose it was understandable why someone would assume a number of huke's original characters to be Black★Rock Shooter characters. If they wear black, have distinct names, and wield hecking huge weapons, then they do fit the criteria. But the standard for any wiki is basically to always check your sources beforehand, which I assume was not set at the time these character pages were added.

And now, it's up to the imageboards to update their B★RS character tags if people there even notice the changes made to the respective pages on this wiki.