[ryan]

I watched the Black Rock Shooter OVA last night, because I've felt like buying the Figmas lately.

It was interesting. It wasn't what I expected, I think I liked it, but I'm not entirely sure.

I liked a lot of things about it. I liked the art style in the alternate world, I like the designs of the characters, the fighting was neat. I liked the way the human story was told intercut with the action scenes. If it had been shown straight linear the character bits would definitely have dragged on and gotten very boring, but with it cutting back to the alt world every so often for a fight scene, seeing similarities in the characters to their human counterparts, kept me invested in the human scenes.

But it explained absolutely nothing. At all. Who? Why? How? Not a thing is explained. None of the non-human characters are named, except BRS as the very last line, which I think actually was kinda dumb doing it at all. I only know the names due to researching the Figmas. Black Gold Saw we see in the very beginning, fighting BRS, and it looks like she stabs BRS, but nothing appears to come of it. We get a glance of Strength, for maybe two seconds, and she's just standing there, and then she is never seen again.

It did leave me wanting more, so I'll be checking out the TV version in the very near future. It most definitely did NOT talk me out of buying the Figmas, so I'll probably start trying to pick them up on Mandarake soon.