It’s going to be hard to talk about Black★Rock Shooter without first addressing what this even is.
Like the Mekakucity Actors and the Kagerou Project as a whole, Black★Rock Shooter is a multimedia franchise with its roots fairly deep in Vocaloid music. In this case, though, the first thing was actually just a piece of art, depicting the character Black Rock Shooter (You don’t pronounce the star, so I’m dropping it when referring to the character), which quickly inspired a vocaloid song that the artist collaborated to create the video for. Because its absolute base is much more nebulous, different Black★Rock Shooter properties, unlike different KagePro properties, can have not just meaty differences but entirely different premises and concepts. Because of that, I need to specify that I’m speaking only about the 8-episode television Anime.
That out of the way, let’s dive in.
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