Black Rock Shooter (2012)

Black★Rock Shooter is a 2012 supernatural fantasy anime television series produced by studio, Ordet, and Sanzigen providing the computer animations. Originally gonna be a direct sequel and follow up to the Original Video Animation of the same name (which is in turn inspired by the song of the same name by the Japanese J-pop band Supercell), but was assumed to be reworked as a complete reboot.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It is an improvement to the OVA, despite it's a new story rather than a continuation.
 * 2) It faithfully follows the OVA's source material, and bringing back to their roots.
 * 3) Despite being assumed to be a complete reboot of the series, It does try the best to avoid the Magical Girl aspects because it had nothing to do with the series.
 * 4) It borrows lessons on what every isekai serieses should have been.
 * 5) Solid fan favorite voice acting, such as Hana Kanazawa as Mato Kuroi/Black Rock Shooter/Insane Black Rock Shooter, Miyuki Sawashiro as Yomi Takanashi, Eri Kitamura as Kagari Izuriha, Mamiko Noto as Saya Irino, Kana Asumi as Yu Kotari/ Strength and Manami Nakamura as Arata Kohata/one of the hooded figures.
 * 6) The characters have fair share of unique traits:
 * 7) *Black★Rock Shooter is a compelling character that does fit in this series since her name was in the title of the media franchise. She is also a lone fighter.
 * 8) *Dead Master is the master of the dead who controls it.
 * 9) *Black Gold Saw is the devil, who creates people.
 * 10) *Chariot is like a living doll who wants to "go away".
 * 11) *Strength is something much of a muscle.
 * 12) *Arata's other self and the hooded figures are lonely, yet fearful beings.
 * 13) *Insane Black Rock Shooter is an emotionless girl that cares no less than killing others similar Michael Myers from Halloween.
 * 14) Great action scenes.
 * 15) Yu Kotari's backstory was sad.
 * 16) Badass moments like Black Rock Shooter transforming her Rock Cannon into a gattling gun.
 * 17) It has a more manga-like feel.
 * 18) The CG animation is beautiful and nice to look at.
 * 19) It has some imagination and originality which takes lessons from The Adventures Of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, A Monster Calls, and I Kill Giants.
 * 20) Insane Black Rock Shooter is very an awesome looking villainess with his armor design.
 * 21) A dark story that does differently to further avoid other dark magical girl series like Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
 * 22) The series gives some imagination and creative things.
 * 23) The character designs are an improvement and are especially beautiful and nice to look at.
 * 24) It shows a take on pain and how it affects the victims in the real world.
 * 25) It can be compared with Puella Magi Madoka Magica but does not need to either rip-off the charm at all. But, is without Kyubey, or Madoka.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Consiting of 8 episodes can be unnessary which could have been 13 or 12 of them.
 * 2) * However, Black Gold Saw didn't have much swordfighting possibly due to time constraints.
 * 3) The story can be mixed and confusing, but can be poorly executed.
 * 4) Animation errors are still here.
 * 5) Some viewers can appreciate the scantily clad depiction of girls besides Dead Master, Strength, and Chariot.
 * 6) Some little of the plot holes and unanswered questions are still here:
 * 7) * How did Otherworld exist?
 * 8) * How did both Black★Rock Shooter and otherworld's inhabitants were born?
 * 9) * And how did Saya Irino knew about otherworld and its inhabitants?