Jul 30, 2010
If you keep yourself on your toes, and have seen a fair share of anime in the past, I can guarantee you will be able to predict every single major plot event in this drawn out and clunky story. First off though I'll say that the animation does not disappoint, the quality is up to if not better than most on the air shows and although there's not much deviation from the standard in terms of design and motion they staff's done a solid job.
Now, about predictability, which most certainly is not an issue in any good story as plenty of plots have a
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beginning that practically gives away the end. But with good story telling, you don't mind. Black Rock shooter however, does not have good story telling. Instead it has lengthy undramatic and emotionally forced build up to a random(yet, of course predictable) occurrence, which leads to the final 10 minutes being used neither to explain nor expand but rather continue the purposeless fight scene that we've already seen plenty of circa random cut aways sandwiched by the friendship-drama snowball rolling down the story's hill.
Certainly there's finer points and details I can get into but I'm definitely not the only one disappointed here so I won't get into what other reviews have already said.
The school life portions, had they been well written and presented a conflict that anyone could care for, would have been fine. The pointless cuts to the 50 minute stale mate of a fight scene would not have been necessary either if they just made the portions of the script where characters were interacting and developing something more than what it was. The first time they showed the fight probably hooked people easily enough that the 10 or so other times it was done were definitely not necessary. And really, the way it started had so much potential, the plot in the original song is so vague and ambiguous that really, there could have been any sort of plot but instead they just went along with the source material and stayed vague and ambiguous, painfully so.
Considering how much they provided for detail in the meaningless little portions of the ova, it's also disappointing that they didn't spend that time expanding on some of the inferred portions of the story. Considering how meticulous and detailed the fan-base is with their own renditions of BRS it's almost sad how unimaginative the writing in this is. There's one shot of the two heroines together with one playing the guitar, expanding on that could have made the plot amazing, half the point of BRS is that it's a song, without the song the character isn't much and without the character the song isn't much either. That's a specific example I'll bring up, but if you watch the OVA or have already, just imagine some of the scenes and developments given more meaning.
But anyways, compared to the quality that the independant creators on the internet were able to produce in terms of creativity, this OVA comes nowhere close. They stuck to cliches and were content with a run of the mill plot, didn't really seem to give much about their characters and have a liking for macguffins and deus ex machina.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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