Black★★Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall

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Japanese: ブラック★★ロックシューター DAWN FALL

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 3, 2022 to Jun 19, 2022

Premiered: Spring 2022

Broadcast: Sundays at 23:00 (JST)

Producers: Disney Platform Distribution, Good Smile Company, Imagine

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Bibury Animation Studios, Bibury Animation CG

Source: Other

Genres: Action, Drama

Theme: Super Power

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 5.91¹ (scored by 6,982 users)

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Ranked: #9243²

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Popularity: #3371

Members: 38,041

Favorites: 333

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In the year 2062, Earth finds itself fiercely battling Artemis—an AI which rebelled against humankind following a grand-scale workforce automation project failure years prior. In the hope of winning the war, a group of three highly skilled human warriors is assembled, known as the guardians of humanity.

Empress, the last surviving guardian, wakes up alone in an empty research facility. Unable to recall anything from the past except a place called "Lighthouse No. 8," she begins to search for answers. It is not long before she discovers an impending threat from Artemis—and she is the sole person who can save the world from destruction.

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Black★★Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall was released on Blu-ray in four volumes from July 27, 2022 to October 28, 2022.

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Opening Theme

"ASEED" by ZAQ

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Ending Theme

"Before the Nightmare" by Kanako Takatsuki

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Jun 19, 2022

Grain_of_Salt

Not Recommended

Black Rock Shooter, where did you go? Never has that line been more true. I guess this adaptation definitely evoked this line of the song, by destroying everything else.

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. 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.

This show is an absolute edgelord nightmare of mediocre writing. In early episodes it tries its ... best to be gritty and dark, throwing around copious curses, death, and rants about sex as well as repeated on screen rape. 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. 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. 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. 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). 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. And in universe the justification is equally dumb, saying that Empress and Death are passable names for orphan children. Again there's just no valid reason for the changes regardless of the quality.

The show is CG, which does knock it down in a lot of people's eyes. In its defense the CGI is completely passable, and the weaker parts are masked by fog and dim lighting like a Marvel movie. 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. 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.

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. I enjoyed hearing ZAQ for the first time in a while, but the song shouldn't be attached to Black Rock Shooter. The OST reminded me of forgettable Marvel movies to the point I was convinced I heard some Disney Marvel copyrighted sound effects. This could be entirely possible considering Disney was involved and this was exclusive to their streaming service. (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?)

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. For all its flaws and weird choices it still felt more like BRS and had much more to appreciate. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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Jun 19, 2022

YudiYusantoS

Mixed Feelings

Here is my review of this anime in 2022!

Story (6)
The story is similar to Black Rock Shooter from 2008. But this time they have different storylines and animations. Here, Black Rock Shooter didn't strong as on 2008 anime in my opinion.

Art (6)
The art for this anime is quite disappointed for me since I have a high expectation for good animation in this 2022 anime. The effect they use is not a lot and didn't eye-catching unless the quarter of the last episode. They need to adjust the shadow, lighting, etc more detail in my opinion.

Sound (8)
All the sounds that they used are really good ...

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Jun 20, 2022

PixelB

Not Recommended

Black Rock Shooter, for the third time in a row, is a swing and a miss. Apparently, Black Rock Shooter was initially designed by Ryohei Fuke, but I think almost all of us came to know and love this work from Supercell’s music video, “Black★Rock Shooter.” I love Vocaloid, I love Supercell’s works, yet I never watched the anime or OVA when it came out since I basically knew that an anime based off a music video is basically destined to be terrible.
I watched them both by sheer coincidence just months ago, and it’s safe to say that both of them were pretty horrendous. I ... think anyone who watched the music video would have just wanted a stylized Miku fight some baddies with her cool motorcycle and katana. Instead, you were subjected to the most mediocre and edgy melodrama, with intermittent scenes of actual fun action in between. It’s safe to say that the OVA and the anime series both were poorly written. Yet, despite that, both shows had a surprisingly good production quality. The anime actually used CGI, which honestly still is better than 99% of the garbage anime CGI out there today. So I came with very low expectations for the 2022 adaptation, especially with Disney collaborating on the show, considering that Netflix has created just about zero good shows so far. Well, safe to say, production value wise, Disney trumps Netflix by large margins.

This show too, uses CGI, and it’s also one of the very few anime whose CGI isn’t terrible. It’s not amazing, but the show uses a mix of hand animation and CGI on the models, like the hair and eyes, so this works out. I was pretty disappointed with the fight scenes. The main reason to use CGI is to have good fight scenes that would cost way too much to animate in 2D unless you’re Ufotable. The original Black Rock Shooter does show a good depth of space and fight scenes that highlights the CGI usage, but I just don’t see it here. The 2022 adaptation’s fights aren’t really impressive, and it’s actually the high detail CGI backgrounds that impress me the most. That’s when the show bothers to put on a background. 60% of the show’s backgrounds are desert, flat ground, or white space, so there’s that. However, fights are still passable. Production value of the show is still nice. It’s got a good budget, and certainly not the reason for me to hate the show

That brings me to the thing that kills this show of any joy: the story. Remember how I said that anyone who watched the original music video would have been satisfied with a stylized Miku fighting some baddies? At the very least, this show DOES get rid of the crappy melodrama plot from the previous adaptations, but instead, it brings in the most underdeveloped, “ambitious”, and trope filled sci-fi plot. I say “ambitious” since a lot of shounen/action media tend to fall under two categories: overly generic, or overly ambitious with all of the problems of the former, but with a plot that doesn’t make any sense at all.

This show starts off with Black Rock Shooter saying cringe stuff like “I gotta find lighthouse 8,” while also suffering amnesia. Later on, there’s also a “special drug” that the MC takes to gain super strength, but only for a brief moment of time. Any longer, and there will be permanent damage! Wow, that doesn’t ring any bells at all. Did I mention that Black Rock Shooter also is kind and wants to save humanity? Already off to a great start! But wait! It’s also “Sci-fi.” The sci-fi part is complete bullshit. The show introduces a bunch of sci-fi jargon that doesn’t matter because it never gets expanded upon. Worldbuilding is non-existent. Most of the humans that you see in the show get mowed down immediately like npcs because they’re part of an “evil organization,” because that’s exactly what they are: they do not matter to the story at all. Also, for an MC that grieves at any human dying, they really don’t care about saving humans when killing anyone that belongs to the evil “education institute” organization.

I could go on and on about why the sci-fi is horribly executed, but I’ll just mention one of the many plot holes. The show’s entire foundation and premise is that there’s an evil AI that went rogue. Ok, great, but if humanity is still functioning (which it is), why the hell hasn’t there been another AI created to counter it? There’s so many plot holes and poorly established worldbuilding principles, that the only purpose of this sci-fi is an excuse for the characters to have OP abilities, weapons, and their badass motorcycles. This is where I ask: why not just make the genre fantasy? If you’re not expanding on the sci-fi principles, the only reason you’re even introducing the stuff to begin with is to have people have OP superpowers, then just stick with magic. It’s just so much simpler. Instead, you got girls with sci-fi superpowers fighting alongside humans that still have fucking and use military vehicles that don’t look any more modern than what we have now. Apparently, only a select few people can have OP superpowers, while the rest of the humans are forced to stick with their centuries old weaponry. I kid you not, despite having the easy option of having an evil demon lord or something try to destroy the world, in episode 11, they decide to have the villain explain the “nuclear fusion reactor” that’s going to destroy humanity for 73 seconds straight. There’s 73 seconds of sci-fi bullshit being explained on how the planet is going to be destroyed. Lovely. The ending itself is pretty generic, the only noticeable thing about it is that they finally pay homage to Supercell’s Black Rock Shooter at the very end.

Characters are asinine. The Colonel and Monica are the only two remotely good characters, but even they are quite generic and boring. The characters with superpowers, especially the “good guys” are terribly made. There’s a gimmick to all of them. One of them is a yandere, the other has a split “gap” personality. The MC’s only personality trait is that she’s “kind and wants to save humanity.” There’s conflict between the MC’s group of friends. The yandere wants to kill her, and the girl with split personality also wants to. Not that it matters, since once the MC recruits them, they’re just there to add to the numbers. There’s a comically short amount of time dedicated to their character development in which they turn from foe to friend.

What is the time that should have been spent on character development? Yes, it’s the story. Yes, there really needed to be an entire episode dedicated to fixing Black Rock Shooter’s motorcycle. There also had to be like 6 episodes dedicated to destroying the “educational institute” for no reason at all. There was this one side story episode focused on Isana, which was one of the better episodes since Monica was the main focus. Yet, even then, Monica is also a comic relief character that says stuff like “let’s have sex” to Black Rock Shooter. Oh yes, peak comedy. Get it? It’s funny, since Black Rock Shooter doesn’t know what sex is, and Monica gives a misleading definition of it to her. Wow, I’m sure that won’t be brought up again!

This show could have been a generic fantasy show with focus on character development, and I probably would have liked it. Instead, it’s an overly complicated sci-fi filled with plot holes and irrelevant plot points. Rather than explaining anything, the show’s main focus is still just “kill the baddies.” Even towards the very end of the anime, there’s still exposition dumps everywhere to make sense of the crappy story.

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