History YMMV / BlackrockShooter

[[folder:''Black★★Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall'']

* NarmCharm: The first hour of the game runs on this, with the PSS best described as a RagtagBunchOfMisfits who are desperate for hot chicks. Some of them got distracted after seeing Stella up close for the first time, which is understandable because humanity has been nearly wiped out and they are the few males left. [[spoiler:Once the Draco crashed however, things get bleaker.]]

** Let's be honest here, we're not here for the game, we are all here just because it's voiced by Creator/MaayaSakamoto.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: It's okay to feel sad sometimes. [[YouAreNotAlone You don't HAVE TO bear your sadness alone, after all.]]

* CommonKnowledge: People say that the titular character is a Music/{{Vocaloid}} or that her design is based on Hatsune Miku (or even that she's a dark version of Hatsune Miku herself). Miku sang the song, but Black★Rock Shooter is not a Vocaloid and has nothing to do with them.

** Let's be honest here, we're not here for the game, we are all here just because [[it's VideoGame/BlackRockShooter]] voiced by Creator/MaayaSakamoto.

** Let's be honest here, we're not here for the game, we all here just because it's VideoGame/BlackRockShooter voiced by Creator/MaayaSakamoto.

* ScrappyMechanic: After every major boss fight, you have a QuickTimeEvent where you have to rapidly [[ButtonMashing mash the X button]] until the bar is full, in order to deliver the final blow to your opponent. But what happens when you do nothing and let the bar empty for an extended amount of time? ''Nothing''!. You won't get punished for idling a QuickTimeEvent only in this game. This led players to wonder why these QuickTimeEvent segments exist when they actually have no bearing to the gameplay itself.

* HilariousInHindsight: The fight scenes were coreographed by Creator/HiroyukiImaishi, who would later go on to make [[Anime/KillLaKill his own]] MagicalGirlWarrior series, complete with its own {{Stripperiffic}} protagonist wielding a massive weapon.

* {{Narm}}: Sure, humanity has been nearly wiped out by the aliens. But when we actually get to see that the Armaments (the cannon fodder army of the aliens) look like blocky creatures made out things resembling LEGO bricks, they don't look they are no longer intimidating that what the story tells them to be.

* NarmCharm: The first hour of the game runs on this, with the PSS best described as a RagtagBunchOfMisfits who are desperate for hot chicks. [[spoiler:Once the Draco crashed, however...]]

* GrowingTheBeard: The first two episodes were mostly {{narm}}y melodrama focusing on the creepy but oddly boring Kagari. After that she's DemotedToExtra and things start getting bizarre.

[[folder:''Black★Rock Shooter'' (noitaminA 2012 Anime)]]

* SpiritualAdaptation: The show is actually quite compatible with the ''[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Persona]]'' series. It features a tarot motif, the viewpoint switches between high school relationships and a different dimension where shadowy counterparts of the characters fight one another, and friendship is a very prevalent theme.

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!!General Tropes

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!!''Black★Rock Shooter'' (2009 OVA)

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!!''Black★Rock Shooter'' (noitaminA 2012 Anime)

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!!''Black★Rock Shooter: Innocent Soul''

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!!''Black★Rock Shooter: The Game''

* ThatOneLevel:
** The 3 motorbike segments in New York can easily become this if you don't get the hang of things. And there are Records which require a NoDamageRun for all three segments. There's no way to upgrade the speed or parameters of the bike, and no methods to recover HP, making the sections look like separate mini-games. And while you have 1000 HP, each hit will actually take a significant amount of damage (50 from smaller Armaments up to 100 from the larger ones). At most, you can only take up to 20 hits. This might sound easy on paper but it actually isn't. The driving sections are long and the highways are filled with Armaments, most of which will deal a hundred damage later near the end of the tracks.
** Several of the Extra Missions can be this as well since many of them have instant game over conditions ranging from messing up the EscortMission, getting hit by a particular attack, or fighting the enemies in the wrong order.
* TheScrappy: Nana Gray and/or XNFE. [[spoiler:The former because she sold you to the enemies and for being an all-around {{Angst}}y {{Jerkass}}; the latter because she killed all your friends, especially Rothcall.]]

** From the game: White★Rock Shooter, an alien who wiped out most of humanity and ravaged the earth. She also looks like Black★Rock Shooter.

* CompleteMonster: In the manga adaptation by TNSK, [[BigBad White★Rock Shooter]] is the catalyst of [[KillAllHumans mankind's extinction]]. [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Posing as an alien idol singer]], W★RS has herself cloned by a scientist named Gibson while her forces attack the Earth. Gibson makes a failed attempt to kill W★RS after finding out about her [[ImAHumanitarian appetite for her progeny]], prompting W★RS to call for the destruction of the human race. She proceeds to [[OffingTheOffspring kill all but two of the clones]] and beat one of the surviving clones, Nana, before falsely telling her that Gibson never loved any of them. Sensing that the remaining humans have found the final clone, Stella, W★RS orders her enforcers to kill them. She soon [[ResignationsNotAccepted kills two defectors]], along with their new human allies, and plots the destruction of the Earth just to spite a third defector. Afterwards, she forces another enforcer to kill Stella and Nana, promising her death [[YouHaveFailedMe should she fail]] or [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness succeed]]. Confronted by the two surviving clones, W★RS strips Nana, fakes her death, beats Stella to near-death, mutilates her arm, and taunts her by spitting out the apparent remains of Nana. As their fight nears its end, W★RS asks Stella to help her conquer another planet and crush its people's wishes so she can rule over them for the rest of time. [[LackOfEmpathy Cruel]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]], [[BrightIsNotGood White★Rock Shooter]] would without hesitation or remorse kill anyone who she felt wronged her.

* MoralEventHorizon: For both Professor Gibson and White★Rock Shooter. The manga adaptation presents how the apocalypse came to be. Professor Gibson drew White★Rock Shooter away from her clones after she calls them "delicious" by instinct. Of course, White★Rock Shooter is confused by this and asks what she did wrong but never got an answer. Feeling guilty, she returns home to the Apostles and postpones any plans of exterminating mankind... all for the sake of making up and asking forgiveness from Professor Gibson. One day, she returns to the lab and no longer finds the clones. Just before she can relay her message of living peacefully with the humans, Professor Gibson shoots her with specialized bullets, wounding her. Then he arms a nuclear grenade to blow both of them for his plan of safeguarding the clones. Being an alien, White★Rock Shooter naturally [[NoSell survives]] the explosion, and with her fit of rage and despair, she commands SAHA the command of "Destroy All Humans".

* EarWorm: Almost all of the background music tracks are generally short, so expect them to loop very quickly... like an obviously broken record.

* FriendlyFandoms: The show has this kind of relationship with ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' ever since the early 2010's where both shows are still relatively new at that time, thanks to the various similarities[[note]]The two shows feature {{Action Girl}}s who wear color-coded clothes, and wield large weapons that can shift to several forms. At least in the opening sequence of this 2012 anime, the other selves have their own unique logos, much like the characters of ''RWBY'' have theirs. Oh, and the similarities are even obvious when one compares the protagonists of both shows and any other characters with similarities. Black★Rock Shooter and Ruby Rose wear hooded jackets that have contrasting colors (black-blue for B★RS and black-red for Ruby), they use high-caliber guns too (a cannon and Gatling gun for B★RS and a sniper rifle for Ruby) and said guns can transform into melee weapons (a large sword versus a scythe). The list does not end there though, as both series have characters that wield scythes (Dead Master and Ruby), sword and shield (Chariot and Pyrrha with Jaune), and [[PowerFist gloves]] that also act as firearms (Strength and Yang)[[/note]]. Fans of both series made [[https://www.fanfiction.net/Black-Rock-Shooter-and-RWBY-Crossovers/7204/10833/ crossover fictions]] and artwork between the two, such as [[https://www.deviantart.com/dan-heron/art/BRS-and-RWBY-448571647 this one]].

* FriendlyFandoms: The show has this kind of relationship with ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' ever since the early 2010's were both shows are still relatively new. Thanks to the various similarities[[note]]The two shows feature {{Action Girl}}s who wear color-coded clothes, and wield large weapons that can shift to several forms. At least in the opening sequence of this 2012 anime, the other selves have their own unique logos, much like the characters of ''RWBY'' have theirs. Oh, and the similarities are even obvious when one compares the protagonists of both shows and any other characters with similarities. Black★Rock Shooter and Ruby Rose wear hooded jackets that have contrasting colors (black-blue for B★RS and black-red for Ruby), they use high-caliber guns too (a cannon and Gatling gun for B★RS and a sniper rifle for Ruby) and said guns can transform into melee weapons (a large sword versus a scythe). The list does not end there though, as both series have characters that wield scythes (Dead Master and Ruby), sword and shield (Chariot and Pyrrha with Jaune), and [[PowerFist gloves]] that also act as firearms (Strength and Yang)[[/note]]. Fans of both series made [[https://www.fanfiction.net/Black-Rock-Shooter-and-RWBY-Crossovers/7204/10833/ crossover fictions]] and artwork between the two, such as [[https://www.deviantart.com/dan-heron/art/BRS-and-RWBY-448571647 this one]].

* FriendlyFandoms: The show has this kind of relationship with ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' ever since the early 2010's were both shows are still relatively new. Thanks to the various similarities[[note]]The two shows feature {{Action Girl}}s who wear color-coded clothes, and wield large weapons that can shift to several forms. At least in the opening sequence of this 2012 anime, the other selves have their own unique logos, much like the characters of ''RWBY'' have theirs. Oh, and the similarities are even obvious when one compares the protagonists of both shows and any other characters with similarities. Black★Rock Shooter and Ruby Rose wear hooded jackets that have contrasting colors (black-blue for B★RS and black-red for Ruby), they use high-caliber guns too (a cannon and Gatling gun for B★RS and a sniper rifle for Ruby) and said guns can transform into melee weapons (a large sword versus a scythe). The list does not end there though, as both series have characters that wield scythes (Dead Master and Ruby), sword and shield (Chariot and Pyrrha with Jaune), and [[PowerFist gloves]] that also act as firearms (Strength and Yang)[[/note]], fans of both series made crossover fictions and artwork between the two, such as [[https://www.deviantart.com/dan-heron/art/BRS-and-RWBY-448571647 this one]].

* FriendlyFandoms: The show has this kind of relationship with ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' ever since the early 2010's were both shows are still relatively new. Thanks to the various similarities, fans of both series made crossover fictions and artwork between the two, such as [[https://www.deviantart.com/dan-heron/art/BRS-and-RWBY-448571647 this one]].

* HilariousInHindsight: In the first Stage, Rothcall and Xiaomin both argue about Stella's combat abilities, with Rothcall comparing her to Joan of Arc, and the other retorts to this, and Phobos tells both to cut it out. Creator/MaayaSakamoto voices Stella in this game and years later, she gets to voice Jeanne d'Arc from the ''Franchise/FateSeries''.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Some fans dislike the fact that the anime appears to be an expansion of the OVA, when the [[VideoGame/BlackRockShooter video game adaptation]] could have taken the spotlight.

* TheScrappy: Nana Gray and/or XNFE. [[spoiler:The former because she sold you to the enemies and for being an all-around {{Angst}}y {{Jerkass}}; the latter because she killed all your friends, especially Rothcall.]]
* [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot They Wasted a Perfectly Good Musician]] General consensus is, that, aside from the opening, the music is pretty boring, which is sad, because the [[Creator/ManabuNamiki author]] made some really amazing music from his previous works.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The characters were redesigned between the OVA and the Anime, particularly Yomi and Dead Master (with the latter wearing a wedding veil). Some fans were displeased.