They need to adjust the shadow, lighting, etc more detail in my opinion.Īll the sounds that they used are really good The effect they use is not a lot and didn't eye-catching unless the quarter of the last episode. The art for this anime is quite disappointed for me since I have a high expectation for good animation in this 2022 anime. Here, Black Rock Shooter didn't strong as on 2008 anime in my opinion. But this time they have different storylines and animations. The story is similar to Black Rock Shooter from 2008. But this was never going to work no matter how much effort was put in, and many of the decisions made only hurt it more. The voice cast does their best to inject some humanity and there are enough competent choices or moments if you watch closely that I'm sure much of the staff also tried their best. With this iteration there's nothing to appreciate or take away other than the.I guess bragging rights to have seen the true train wreck of the franchise that was a mistake from earliest conception to completion. Those adaptations had heart and understood the show needed to stand on its strength of emotion, this story feels like a military otaku grabbing figures and smashing them together. For all its flaws and weird choices it still felt more like BRS and had much more to appreciate. I had many problems with both other adaptations of Black Rock Shooter, but as early as five minutes into this show I was apologizing to Mari Okada for being so harsh. (God, I can't imagine a child stumbling upon the edgelord first episodes after watching Lion King or something, did Disney not see the script before greenlighting?) This could be entirely possible considering Disney was involved and this was exclusive to their streaming service. The OST reminded me of forgettable Marvel movies to the point I was convinced I heard some Disney Marvel copyrighted sound effects. I enjoyed hearing ZAQ for the first time in a while, but the song shouldn't be attached to Black Rock Shooter. The music commits the taboo of disregarding the old OP (yes it plays in the final credits but that's to be expected and a slap in the face being attached to this nonsense) and what replaces it is unoriginal butt rock. When Black Rock Shooter, Dead Master, and Strength had their intros I couldn't help verbally crying "what have they done to you?" Redesigns aren't foreign to this franchise as it had a lot of fandom power in its prime, but the problem is these designs are downgrades both visually and in expressing character. That being said the designs themselves are completely average at best with nothing standing out or interesting, and the redesigns for the established characters are downright criminal. In its defense the CGI is completely passable, and the weaker parts are masked by fog and dim lighting like a Marvel movie. The show is CG, which does knock it down in a lot of people's eyes. Again there's just no valid reason for the changes regardless of the quality. And in universe the justification is equally dumb, saying that Empress and Death are passable names for orphan children. Not only is it weird to want to drag an IP through the dirt for clout, it's even weirder to then not even call the lead character her own name 90% of the time. Granted the characters we do take from BRS are so devoid of anything that originally made them likeable, to the point that we even renamed them based on tarot cards (since Strength already was a tarot card). What the story adds sure isn't GOOD but if it tried to stand on its own maybe it would've been forced to do something interesting. Again, despite being called Black Rock Shooter, most characters and premises in this story are entirely new, and maybe I would've been slightly more forgiving if this wasn't trying to milk marketability from the heyday of late 2000s anime. None of this serves any purpose other than trying to establish this as edgy, though once it goes away in the second half I found myself missing it because a desperate attempt at shock value, while crude and unnecessary, was still more entertaining than the run of the mill second half plot full of the same tropes and archetypes acted out by characters with no likeable traits or interesting personalities. best to be gritty and dark, throwing around copious curses, death, and rants about sex as well as repeated on screen rape. This show is an absolute edgelord nightmare of mediocre writing. None of these characters, plot, or setting has to be a part of BRS, and as a consequence of that none of this feels like it is. I really don't feel this is fair to call a BRS story, as it really feels like a subpar light novel (which it was) that only got greenlit by attaching itself to the BRS identity. I guess this adaptation definitely evoked this line of the song, by destroying everything else. Black Rock Shooter, where did you go? Never has that line been more true.
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