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Pretty self explanatory. Her main weapon is a ArmCannon as big as her, enough shells are ejected from the cannon to cover a large place in 5 to 10 seconds, that, the three-barreled gatling gun form of the cannon, yet another form where it is TWO gatling guns with a even more monstruous rate of fire, and [[spoiler:In the Manga/BlackRockShooter manga, as a EleventhHourSuperpower, more cannons sprout from her cannon until they form a gigantic shell made of cannons, who intercept the shots aiming to destroy Hazama.]]

* [[spoiler:TheStinger heavily implies either this or that Yuu will undergo something like Yomi or Mato - STR's eyes are even hazel in the OVA.]]
** [[spoiler:Confirmed. She is Strength/STR.]]

[[WMG: Black★Gold Saw is involved with [[spoiler:Yomi turning into Dead Master.]]]]

* Both featured someone in the way of the relationship (Jesse and Leslie had the teacher, Mato and Yomi had Yuu) which ends badly because of it ([[spoiler:Leslie drowns in the river while Jesse and the teacher were out at a museum, Dead Master took over Yomi.]])

* Another major difference is the fate of the friend. [[spoiler:In Terabithia, Leslie stays dead. In B★RS, Mato rescues Yomi]].

The first episode has her patting Mato's head. Due to LawOfConservationOfDetail, everything you see in an anime is important, including that scene. My guess is [[spoiler:she's giving Mato the power of Other-World Self to sort out her problems, not unlike Izanami masquerading as fuel station attendant in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', secretly giving Narukami his Persona power]].
* Jossed. [[spoiler:What Saya is ''actually'' doing is playing up the psychoses of the girls with Other Selves to strengthen them, in the hope that they can curb Black★Rock Shooter's rampage in the Otherworld.]]

[[WMG:[[spoiler:Chariot will get better]]]]

There might be precedent in the OVA, what with the possibility [[spoiler:B★RS died in the opening]]
* Confirmed. [[spoiler:Chariot makes her return in the finale, except in a supporting instead of an antagonistic role.]]

In the OVA, the Other World was just where Yomi was taken away to. The similarities between events in the two worlds were largely superficial. But in the 2012 anime, [[spoiler:Mato experienced part of the battle in a dream, and Black★Gold Saw's intervention seems to have affected events in the real world despite no real world equivalent of B★GS showing up.]] So rather than it being another world that you can go to be becoming one with your counterpart there, it seems to work more like the battle system in The World Ends With You.
* Jossed. It IS different, but not in the way this theory suggests [[spoiler:existing as a sort of parallel dimension that exists to shoulder the stress and grief of young girls. Also, Black★Gold Saw ''has'' a human counterpart: Saya Irino, the school counselor]].

* Jossed. Saya Irino is a very real person, unlike "Yuu", [[spoiler:who is really Strength]].

* Close, but not quite. [[spoiler:Chariot ''does'' return, but isn't grown, and instead seems to have experienced a full-blown resurrection. That said, the finale alludes that, as long as their counterparts in the real world continue living, and as such continue to experience grief and sorrow, the Otherselves come back to help shoulder those emotions.]]

* Semi-Confirmed. The Yuu we see is actually [[spoiler:Strength, while the ''real'' Yuu has taken her place in the Otherworld]].

* Jossed. [[spoiler:All this time, Saya has been trying to fulfill the promise she made years before to Yuu. By awakening the Otherselves of girls under her responsibility, she keeps Yuu (who has switched with Strength) safe, as it gives B★RS other targets for her rampage.]]

[[spoiler:The girl Saya met in high school is the earliest known instance of an Other Self, or interaction with Other World. Additionally, she has the ability to create Other Selves in other people. As such, she is the oldest and most experienced Other Self there is, and has a vested interest in keeping IB★RS from destroying it.]]

Not in the same sense that Yomi is connected to Dead Master, or Kagari is connected to Chariot. [[spoiler:The girl who created Strength died, and Strength created a replacement (Yuu) in the real world so she could continue her work and continue to associate with Saya. This is why Yuu only seems to interact with real-worlders who have Other Selves--They're the only ones who can even perceive her.]]
* Jossed. [[spoiler:Strength and Yuu just switched places, with the latter taking over the former's body in the Otherworld.]]

[[WMG: Chariot [[spoiler:could be resurrected.]]]]

[[spoiler:If the end of Episode 7, where Dead Master is about to be BackFromTheDead, is any indication, the same thing could happen to Chariot. There's one problem with this: she got decapitated by B★RS. The resurrection is still possible though.]]
* Confirmed. [[spoiler:Chariot, along with Dead Master, return in the finale, though in a more supporting role.]]

Pretty self explanatory. Her main weapon is a ArmCannon as big as her, enough shells are ejected from the cannon to cover a large place in 5 to 10 seconds, that, the three-barreled gatling gun form of the cannon, yet another form where it is [[UpToEleven TWO]] gatling guns with a even more monstruous rate of fire, and [[spoiler:In the Manga/BlackRockShooter manga, as a EleventhHourSuperpower, more cannons sprout from her cannon until they form a gigantic shell made of cannons, who intercept the shots aiming to destroy Hazama.]]

* It's as if the ''PowerRangers'' did a FinishingMove on Rita Repulsa the instant she stuck her head out the Trash Compactor. "Ahhh, after 10,000 years I'm free, it's time to conquer '''*BOOM*'''."

* So, Otherworld characters have [[ProjectedAvatar Type XI immortality]] and after death they need to possess their [[AlternateUniverse alternate universe]] counterparts to regain their bodies. Then, Dead Master's host, who was killed in PV, was Yomi from a different dimension.

Pretty self explanatory. Her main weapon is a ArmCannon as big as her, enough shells are ejected from the cannon to cover a large place in 5 to 10 seconds, that, the three-barreled gatling gun form of the cannon, yet another form where it is [[UpToEleven TWO]] gatling guns with a even more monstruous rate of fire, and [[spoiler: In the Manga/BlackRockShooter manga, as a EleventhHourSuperpower, more cannons sprout from her cannon until they form a gigantic shell made of cannons, who intercept the shots aiming to destroy Hazama.]]

* [[spoiler: TheStinger heavily implies either this or that Yuu will undergo something like Yomi or Mato - STR's eyes are even hazel in the OVA.]]
** [[spoiler: Confirmed. She is Strength/STR.]]

[[WMG: Black★Gold Saw is involved with [[spoiler: Yomi turning into Dead Master.]]]]

* Both featured someone in the way of the relationship (Jesse and Leslie had the teacher, Mato and Yomi had Yuu) which ends badly because of it ([[spoiler: Leslie drowns in the river while Jesse and the teacher were out at a museum, Dead Master took over Yomi.]])

* Another major difference is the fate of the friend. [[spoiler: In Terabithia, Leslie stays dead. In B★RS, Mato rescues Yomi]].

There might be precedent in the OVA, what with the possibility [[spoiler: B★RS died in the opening]]

In the OVA, the Other World was just where Yomi was taken away to. The similarities between events in the two worlds were largely superficial. But in the 2012 anime, [[spoiler: Mato experienced part of the battle in a dream, and Black★Gold Saw's intervention seems to have affected events in the real world despite no real world equivalent of B★GS showing up.]] So rather than it being another world that you can go to be becoming one with your counterpart there, it seems to work more like the battle system in The World Ends With You.

[[spoiler: If the end of Episode 7, where Dead Master is about to be BackFromTheDead, is any indication, the same thing could happen to Chariot. There's one problem with this: she got decapitated by B★RS. The resurrection is still possible though.]]

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