User blog comment:ShadsRocksMySocks/Best Understanding and over all review of the Black Rock Shooter OVA/@comment-76.206.54.225-20100811045237

Black Rock Shooter. Where do I start.

Well, let me first begin by saying that was not what I expected. In a good way. In fact, what I got is much better than what I expected. First off, when I saw the music video sung by Miku and all, I thought this was just another one of those fan made vocaloid side stories (examples being the dark woods circus and the daughter of evil and stuff, y'know?)

But it was not. To my surprise, it had nothing to do with Vocaloid, and ended up being about some girl off to find someone she loves. The only thing BRS and Vocaloid had in common was that BRS herself only looks a little bit like Miku Hatsune.

But anyway, then by the time the pilot came out, I realized it actually had a PLOT. From what I gathered from the pilot, I assumed the plot went something like this; There's a girl who's boyfriend or something went missing. And he's, like, lost somewhere in the otherworld and she turns into BRS to find him. (it would explain the picture of the mystery man that appeared in the pilot) At the time I didn't pay much mind to Yomi. I thought she was Mato's sister or something, not a major plot device like she really is in the OVA. And it took me a bit to realize Yomi was Dead Master. I pretty much found out when I discovered the BRS wiki. xD

ANYWAY then I looked a bit into the characters some more and this plot thing started forming in my head, and BOOM the OVA came out. I watched it immediately to get familiarized with what the plot REALLY was... and it took me a moment to get it.

And I liked it. I liked it much more than the thoughts I had of it before. Now I understood who Mato and Yomi and BRS and Dead Master were finally, and I loved the story as a whole. I loved how they alternated between average school scenes between Mato and Yomi to epic battles between BRS and Dead Master. For those of you who are confused of exactly when the order of events occurs between the real world and the otherworld, here's my theory on that. Time goes by much slower in the otherworld. A day in the otherworld could be a much longer amount of time in the real world. Therefore, while the story goes over 1 and a half school year(s) in the real world, the fight scenes in the otherworld only seem minutes apart. Although this would contradict how Mato was able to bring Yomi back to the real world in the end without it being weeks or months after she went off looking for her, I'm still gonna stick with this theory.

Though by the end, I was still left hanging on a few questions. Did Mato and Yomi remember their little trip to the otherworld? If not Yomi (since she was busy being posessed by Dead Master) then at least Mato? Did she remember the scene where BRS merged with her? Also, is Yuu that Strength chick? It seems pretty obvious, since just around the time Yuu befriends Mato, Strength jumps down from that cliff she's on into god knows where. Plus near the end, Yuu seemed a bit... depressed. Maybe she's the next to dissapear. IDK they might be the same. Yuu and Strength are both short and have green eyes, the only difference being that Strength has white hair for some reason. Then again, there are tons of differences between Otherworld selves and real life selves.

Another question being that if there's a second OVA (which there might be since there are still some loose ends to tie up...) Then will more characters be introduced? And will Black Gold Saw return? And will we meet her real life self?

Just one more thing... Who WAS that mystery man in the pilot?! He looked like Tyki Mikk from D.gray man or something! If he's not Mato's boyfriend, or the one Miku is singing about in the music video, then who IS he? And is he even a boy? It's so hard to tell with such a brief and odd image of him/her... He's not evenon the character list. Who knows, for all we know he could be Huke himself, who decided to doodle himself into the pilot for kicks and giggles. Although I don't know what Huke looks like (I don't think anyone does) and I'm fairly sure he didn't animate the pilot, despite the drawing looks more like his in the Otherworld parts, rather than in the OVA, where the drawing style is almost completely different, yet enjoyable.

Still, it was nice, and I absolutely love how it keeps me wondering. I love questioning things, especially when I get no answer, because, well, I just like to think about it all. Anyway, I hope there's a second OVA, and let's hope the otherworld people get some dialogue this time or something! If not, I hope they at least introduce more characters! :D