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| 12 | [[center: [- [[Characters/BlackRockShooter Top]] | '''Anime Characters''' | [[Characters/BlackRockShooterTheGame Game Characters]] | [[Characters/BlackRockShooterInnocentSoul Innocent Soul Characters]] | [[Characters/BlackRockShooterDawnFall Dawn Fall Characters]] -] ]] |
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| 14 | Characters of the ''Franchise/BlackRockShooter'' franchise first introduced in the [[Anime/BlackRockShooter anime adaptations]]. |
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| 18 | !Introduced in ''Black★Rock Shooter OVA'' |
| 19 | |
| 20 | !!Humans |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[folder:Mato Kuroi]] |
| 23 | !!Mato Kuroi |
| 24 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaHanazawa (Japanese), Creator/XantheHuynh (English) |
| 25 | |
| 26 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_mato_ova_2.png]] |
| 27 | [[caption-width-right:300:Mato Kuroi in the 2009 OVA]] |
| 28 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Mato Kuroi in the 2012 Anime]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_mato_anime.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | A happy-go-lucky girl who's very excitable and hyper. She's very naïve, however, and very closed-minded; she likes to marvel at things, and enjoys playing the guitar. She's also very skilled at basketball and is a bit of a {{Tomboy}} (although not quite as much as one would expect from her appearance). |
| 31 | |
| 32 | In the 2012 anime, she seems to be fond of philosophical musings or just "zoning out" and staring at stuff. Saya notes that she is innocent, and that she has never hated anyone nor has, up until now, anyone hated her. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Has a younger brother, Hiro, and a mother who shows up a bit onscreen. [[DisappearedDad Her dad is never shown]], however the 2012 anime says he is often on business trips. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | Her "other self" is Black★Rock Shooter. In both incarnations, she ends up merging with her at some point. |
| 37 | ---- |
| 38 | [[AC:General Tropes]] |
| 39 | * AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Doesn't wear ''[[MeaningfulName black clothes]]'', but a lot of her clothing has a blue/star motif. |
| 40 | * DisappearedDad: Her farther is never shown on-screen, though he is stated to be on a business trip in the TV anime. |
| 41 | %%* GenkiGirl: To a certain extent. |
| 42 | %%* GirlishPigtails: Very short ones. |
| 43 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 44 | ** "Kuroi" means "black clothes"; "Mato" with the proper kanji means "target" (as in target shooting). Her other self is Black★Rock Shooter, who certainly wears black clothes and works a lot with target shooting, her target being the Dead Master. |
| 45 | ** The aforementioned kanji for "mato" also is used to form adjectives, so together "Kuroi Mato" could just mean "black-clothed." |
| 46 | ** In basketball, one "shoots" baskets. |
| 47 | * OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Mato starts off as your typical junior high school student. Come the end of both continuities, where she merges with Black★Rock Shooter. |
| 48 | * {{Tomboy}}: According to the OVA, she evidently gained her basketball skills from practicing with boys in the park. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[AC:OVA Tropes]] |
| 51 | * LoveAtFirstSight: While not full-on love, Mato starts to get a little bit ''besotted'' when she first sees Yomi. |
| 52 | * LuminescentBlush: Mato has a habit of blushing a lot whenever she interacts with Yomi. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | [[AC:2012 Anime Tropes]] |
| 55 | * AllLovingHero: As Saya puts it, she never detests, or is never destested by others. |
| 56 | * AdaptationalBadass: Mato in this continuity [[MadeOfIron tanked]] a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Insane Black★Rock Shooter and ''[[{{Determinator}} still kept going]]'' before defeating her with [[WaveMotionGun a gigantic ★Rock Cannon]] and [[CombinedEnergyAttack some help from the Otherselves]]. |
| 57 | * BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: She goes even deeper to fight Insane Black★Rock Shooter. |
| 58 | * BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted, in contrast to the Otherselves, because she heals slower than them. When she, in form of Black★Rock Shooter, faces Insane Black★Rock Shooter and refuses to attack her, Insane Black★Rock Shooter ruthlessly beats the shit out of her and specifically attacks her face and limbs. Not even a minute later, Mato is down with an extremely bruised and bleeding face and a horribly twisted leg. |
| 59 | * {{BFG}}: During her fight with Insane Black★Rock Shooter, she pulls out one so big the muzzle itself is as tall as Insane Black★Rock Shooter. |
| 60 | * ChildhoodFriends: She's known Yuu since they were kids. |
| 61 | * CombinedEnergyAttack: Her ultimate attack involves the Otherselves giving their powers to Mato to charge the ★Rock Cannon to it's fullest power. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill She fires it]] at Insane Black★Rock Shooter ''point blank''. |
| 62 | * {{Determinator}}: In Episode 8, Insane B★RS breaks both of her legs over the course of a savage beating, but once Mato puts her mind to fighting back, she still manages to stand up and wield the ★Rock Cannon. |
| 63 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: Starts off a brand new friendship with Yomi, Kagari, and the real Yuu in the finale. |
| 64 | * FreakOut: After merging with Black★Rock Shooter, she finds that she killed Yomi[=/=]Dead Master. The result turns them into Insane Black★Rock Shooter. |
| 65 | * HeroicBSOD: Falls into one after merging with Black★Rock Shooter and becoming Insane Black★Rock Shooter. Strength brings her back to reality to some degree, but after telling Mato she can escape by claiming she's not Black Rock Shooter, the mere mention of the words cause her to have an identity crisis. |
| 66 | * InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: Defeats Insane Black★Rock Shooter herself - though with help from a CombinedEnergyAttack with the assistance of the Otherselves. |
| 67 | * InnocentBlueEyes: Her dark blue eyes reflect on her helpful and good-hearted personality. Saya describes her eyes as such. |
| 68 | --> '''Saya:''' "I realized when I first saw you. Your eyes are really beautiful. They're the eyes of a girl who's never been hated or hated anyone else." |
| 69 | * KirkSummation: Attempts to reason with Insane Black★Rock Shooter before they fight. It ultimately doesn't work. |
| 70 | -->'''Mato (as Black★Rock Shooter)''': I don't want to be healed before I even know I'm hurting! I want to be hurt! |
| 71 | -->'''Insane Black★Rock Shooter''': [[ShutUpKirk Then I'll hurt you]]. |
| 72 | * MadeOfIron: Not even getting her legs broke from Insane Black★Rock Shooter's beating can stop her. |
| 73 | %%* OutOfClothesExperience: Mato is given this treatment when she's connected to her other self. |
| 74 | * ThePhilosopher: She sometimes lapses into internal monologue about "the color of things" and "birds". [[{{Foreshadowing}} She even sees herself as "black"]]. |
| 75 | * PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Dreams about the Otherworld. |
| 76 | * PureIsNotGood: It's implied that Black★Rock Shooter is born of her desire to help people, and the reason why Black★Rock Shooter is so strong is because Mato is such a good girl with no worries... and she wants other people to not suffer just like her. Ignoring her ''own'' worries ends up turning B★RS into TheJuggernaut in the Otherworld. And from what it looks like, that mentality had existed and was rooted in her since she was a ''toddler''! |
| 77 | * StepfordSmiler: She's just ''better'' at it than the other girls. She hides her pain well, and instead tries to solve other people's problems - putting her in denial that her problems exist and eventually making her think she's running away from them. |
| 78 | * {{Synchronization}}: After merging with Black★Rock Shooter, she feels all her pain instead of the other way around. |
| 79 | * UnflinchingWalk: In the finale, she just keeps walking into Insane Black★Rock Shooter's attacks so she can fire a [[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows rainbow]] colored [[CombinedEnergyAttack Spirit Bomb]] laser ''[[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange at point-blank range]]''. |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:Yomi Takanashi]] |
| 83 | !! Yomi Takanashi |
| 84 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (Japanese), Creator/SuzieYeung (English) |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_yomi_ova_0.jpg]] |
| 87 | [[caption-width-right:300:Yomi Takanashi in the 2009 OVA]] |
| 88 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Yomi Takanashi in the 2012 Anime]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_yomi_anime.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | A girl who catches Mato's eye due to her FriendlessBackground and her having been dropped off by a car on her first day. As fate would have it, she lives in the same neighborhood as Mato. She takes the train with Mato from then on, and also joins the volleyball team (which she shows skill in) after watching Mato in the basketball team. Her parents are very rich. |
| 91 | |
| 92 | She starts to drift away from Mato after she is separated from her class-wise in their second year, and her disappearance by possession/merging fuels the main plot. Her "other self" is the Dead Master. |
| 93 | |
| 94 | The 2012 anime plays her a little differently, not only giving her glasses but changing her personality a bit. Unlike before, she is unwilling to make friends both due to the fear she will hurt them and because Kagari seems to have her on a leash. Again, she seems to not like Yuu, although this is rationalized a bit better than it was in the OVA. |
| 95 | ---- |
| 96 | [[AC:General Tropes]] |
| 97 | * AlternateCharacterReading: Her family name, "Takanashi". It's written "kotori-asobi", which means "little birds playing", but pronounced as "no hawks". In Japanese, this also doubles as a PunnyName because there are no hawks where little birds play. Surprisingly, [[TruthInTelevision this is an actual surname]] that has been used in both real life and in other Japanese media, anime included. |
| 98 | * DamselInDistress: |
| 99 | ** The OVA has a rare case where the Damsel is ''also'' (partially) the kidnapper. In reality, it is her otherself who took over Yomi's body. |
| 100 | ** In the TV series, she is chained up and hidden in a doll by Chariot in a floating house. |
| 101 | * FriendlessBackground: Due to her being a NewTransferStudent after staying in Germany for many years. Consequently, she never made friends with any Japanese students before. |
| 102 | * GreenEyedMonster: A source of conflict in both the OVA and broadcast anime is the jealousy she feels regarding Yuu and Mato's friendship. It gets worse in the TV anime, where she also has to contend with Kagari's new friends. Fits with her green eyes. |
| 103 | * MeaningfulName: Her name, written with different kanji, means "underworld", which is fitting when you realize her "other self" is the Dead Master. |
| 104 | * {{Ojou}}: In the OVA, she apparently lived in Germany for a period of time (but is not very good at German). She was dropped off at school by her dad in a car on her first day (which is rare in Japan), and her parents hired a detective when she goes missing - she even has the first kind of Ojou personality; kind and gentle. In the 2012 anime, she also lives in a huge mansion. |
| 105 | * OjouRinglets: An odd variation, as the curls appear on the front part of her hair, but behind her shoulders, her hair is cropped closely to her head. The 2012 anime does this a little differently, as at one point she lets her hair down and it looks normal, albeit a little long, implying she wears pigtails of some sort. |
| 106 | * OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: It's what she tries her earnest to look like in front of others, including her fellow junior high classmate Mato. |
| 107 | |
| 108 | [[AC:OVA Tropes]] |
| 109 | * HugeSchoolgirl: Not all that tall, but in the OVA, Mato seems to point it out constantly. (It is to be noted, however, that by normal human proportions, she is significantly taller than Mato.) Yomi also admits to having a complex about her height. |
| 110 | * NewTransferStudent: In the OVA, her backstory is that she lived in Germany for a while. Her name, "Takanashi", is also not very common in Mato's area. |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[AC:2012 Anime Tropes]] |
| 113 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: This Yomi is much more sensitive to ShrinkingViolet levels in than in the OVA. |
| 114 | * CreatorBreakdown: InUniverse; her paintings get a lot creepier as her loneliness worsens. |
| 115 | * FreakOut: In Episode 4, after Kagari innocently tells Yomi that they're done being friends, the latter snaps. |
| 116 | * IronicEcho: |
| 117 | ** At the hospital, when Kagari and Yomi hear Mato (who has been a thorn in Kagari's skin) behind their door, Kagari snaps. In Episode 4, when Kagari tells Yomi that they're done being long-time friends, Yomi snaps instead. |
| 118 | ** Also has one of sorts to the original OVA; in the OVA, Mato was the one who looked for Yomi when she went missing; in the anime, it's the complete opposite. |
| 119 | * ItsAllMyFault: The reason for her current relationship with Kagari, given the latter got caught in a car accident while trying to reach out to Yomi and became chair-ridden. |
| 120 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: The death of Dead Master causes Yomi to lose her memories of how her hair was cut, and she loses her feelings for Mato to the point where she deletes Mato's mail from her phone. At least until Episode 7, when she actually manages to get said memories back by thinking about it hard enough once Mato's disappearance affects her badly. |
| 121 | * ProneToTears: She cries a ''lot''. Though this is probably more a by-product of her very, very parasitic relationship with Kagari. |
| 122 | * TraumaticHaircut: After her FreakOut, she relapses it into at school by cutting her hair in the midst of class. |
| 123 | * {{Yandere}}: Yomi has a psychological need to have someone need her more than anyone else. In the fourth episode alone, she starts to act possessive to both Mato ''and'' Kagari, in spite of the latter's maltreatment of her. When she gets a text from Yuu with her claim of being "Mato's friend", Yomi ''snaps'' and almost destroys her phone. She later goes off the deep end at the end of the episode when Kagari tells her that their friendship is over. |
| 124 | [[/folder]] |
| 125 | |
| 126 | [[folder:Yuu Koutari]] |
| 127 | !! Yuu Koutari |
| 128 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaAsumi (Japanese), Creator/DaniChambers (English) |
| 129 | |
| 130 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_yuu_ova.jpg]] |
| 131 | [[caption-width-right:300:Yuu Koutari in the 2009 OVA]] |
| 132 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Yuu Koutari in the 2012 Anime]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_yuu_anime_7.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 133 | |
| 134 | The manager of the basketball team at Mato and Yomi's junior high school. |
| 135 | |
| 136 | In the OVA, Mato only respects her in her first year, but becomes close friends with Yuu in her second year (as they are in the same class together, and Mato and Yomi are not). Her "other self" is implied to be Strength. |
| 137 | |
| 138 | In the 2012 anime, she is a childhood friend of Mato who often skips classes. She is also fond of coffee. She is in fact Strength, having switched places with the real Yuu years before the beginning of the show. As such she is not entirely real, though she can still interact with the physical world. |
| 139 | |
| 140 | Tropes related to the original Yuu Koutari go in the Strength section below. |
| 141 | ---- |
| 142 | [[AC:General Tropes]] |
| 143 | * GenkiGirl: Hardly anything upsets her, and she's always there to cheer up Mato. |
| 144 | |
| 145 | [[AC:OVA Tropes]] |
| 146 | * OnlyOneName: She was only given a last name in the 2012 Anime. |
| 147 | * SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Did not appear in the pilot or the trailer, and her existence was unknown before a magazine and the website revealed her existence. |
| 148 | |
| 149 | [[AC:2012 Anime Tropes]] |
| 150 | * ADarkerMe: Inverts this trope. The actual Yuu is ''more'' savage than Strength, once Strength gains emotions and begins to interact with the real world. |
| 151 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: Unlike in the OVA, where she'll often adopt a clingy side whenever Mato and Yomi are with each other and is implied to jealous when the two reconcile near the end, this Yuu doesn't mind Yomi hanging around with Mato. This is because [[ZigZaggedTrope she's Strength in Yuu's body]]. |
| 152 | * AscendedExtra: In the OVA, she was simply a girl who seemed to be awkward around Yomi, generally acting as an annoyance to Yomi and being extremely pissed off about being left out from Mato and Yomi's friendship. In the anime, she not only has a much bigger role in the story and is much more nicer and assertive, she's actually ''Strength'' taking her place as Mato and Yomi's classmate, after the two transferred their bodies to each other. |
| 153 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Has a strong attachment to Mato because she was her only friend when she was younger and all alone. |
| 154 | * CastsNoShadow: Strength-as-Yuu has no shadow in ''any'' of the scenes she's in when everyone else very clearly has one. This sets up Episode 5's big reveal. |
| 155 | * DecompositeCharacter: Her role in the basketball team seems to have been transferred to Arata. |
| 156 | * DiedInYourArmsTonight: Dies in the real Yuu's arms in the last episode. Although she gets better in TheStinger. |
| 157 | * DrivenToSuicide: Originally tries to kill herself to stop the real Yuu's pain. That is, until they decided to switch places. |
| 158 | %%* DyingDeclarationOfLove: To the real Yuu, before crumbling away. |
| 159 | * EmptyShell: Yuu. The real one, that is, opted to become one, due to the soul-crushing situation of her life. As a consequence, she lost the ability to feel any human emotion and became an EmotionalGirl for the majority of her school life until [[OnlyFriend Saya]] came to the picture. |
| 160 | * HeroicSacrifice: She eventually goes through with her [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal tendencies]] in the final episode, literally breaking into pieces and forcing Yuu to enter the real world. However, [[DisneyDeath she is seen restored as Strength]] in TheStinger. |
| 161 | * HumanityEnsues: She develops human emotions because of the real Yuu's pain, and then takes her place in the real world. |
| 162 | * InvisibleToNormals: She is invisible to those who don't have an otherself. Arata is able to interact with her briefly while on the bus to summer camp but is unaware of her existence otherwise. |
| 163 | * LiterallyShatteredLives: Her body cracks and shatters near the end of anime, but she gets better in TheStinger. |
| 164 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her intention was to help the Otherworld and Saya, and she felt like she could fix the situation by merging Mato with Black★Rock Shooter. Instead, it trapped Mato within her and made everything worse. |
| 165 | * NotSoImaginaryFriend: She only manifests as Yuu to a certain degree in the real world, as she has no shadow and only under certain circumstances is her existence acknowledged by other people. |
| 166 | * PhraseCatcher: At least in the dub, we get the absolutely adorable "Yo yo to you, Yuu". |
| 167 | %%* SpiritAdvisor: Is this for Saya to some degree. |
| 168 | * StraightMan: Plays this in regards to Mato during her GenkiGirl moments. |
| 169 | * UndeadTaxExemption: As far as the public real world is concerned, Yuu disappeared several years ago (when Saya was a High School Student) and switched with Strength, and Strength is not acknowledged as existing by anyone. That original Yuu can be a NewTransferStudent in the last episode would require quite a bit of paperwork. |
| 170 | * WalkingSpoiler: She's introduced as Mato's childhood friend and one who seems to have no connection with the plot of ''Black★Rock Shooter'' whatsoever. Then she's revealed to have an Other Self known as Strength, and on top of that, Yuu and Strength actually swapped bodies. |
| 171 | |
| 172 | [[/folder]] |
| 173 | |
| 174 | !!Other Selves |
| 175 | |
| 176 | [[folder:Black★Rock Shooter]] |
| 177 | !! Black★Rock Shooter / Insane Black★Rock Shooter |
| 178 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaHanazawa (Japanese), Creator/XantheHuynh (English) |
| 179 | |
| 180 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/black_rock_anime_art.jpg]] |
| 181 | [[caption-width-right:300:Black★Rock Shooter 2012 (Anime Promo Art)]] |
| 182 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Black★Rock Shooter 2009 (OVA Promo Art)]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/black_rock_ova_art.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 183 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Black★Rock Shooter in the 2009 OVA]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_black_rock_ova_2.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 184 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Black★Rock Shooter in the 2012 Anime]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_black_rock_anime_8.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 185 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Insane Black★Rock Shooter 2012 (Anime Promo Art)]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/insane_black_rock_shooter_art.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | A mysterious girl in the Otherworld who seems to be a good fighter, but does not give any reason for her fighting. Seems to be a silent hero. |
| 188 | |
| 189 | In the OVA, she loses her katana, the "black blade", and, according to some interpretations, her life in a battle with Black★Gold Saw and fights with the ★Rock Cannon, which can fire 20 bullets per second. |
| 190 | |
| 191 | In the 2012 anime, she represents Mato's desire to solve other people's problems and ignore her own, and thus goes on a rampage to kill "other selves" throughout the Otherworld. This causes Saya to panic and quickly traumatize the other girls in the hopes of awakening "other selves" to stop her progress and protect the Otherworld for the original Yuu. Mato ends up merging with her in Episode 5, but the shock of seeing Dead Master die transforms them into Insane Black★Rock Shooter (see below). |
| 192 | |
| 193 | Since she is the "other self" of Mato, she is also voiced by Creator/KanaHanazawa. |
| 194 | ---- |
| 195 | [[AC:General Tropes]] |
| 196 | %%* ActionGirl: But of course! She is the protagonist of this action-packed anime adaptation. |
| 197 | * AlternateSelf: Of Mato Kuroi. |
| 198 | * AnimeHair: Her hair tends to stand up in the air. |
| 199 | %%* BadassLongcoat: With a star on the back. |
| 200 | * BayonetYa: The ★Rock Cannon has a blade attached below the muzzle. Although the only instance where we get to see its usage is when Mato (in Black★Rock Shooter's body) unintentionally stabs the midriff of her Insane counterpart. |
| 201 | * {{BFG}}: The ★Rock Cannon is as tall as her. |
| 202 | * {{BFS}}: Both her OVA self and her Insane form from the anime wield one; the former in the more blade-like form of ★Rock Cannon (not to be confused with the katana shown at first), and the latter with the Insane Cannon Lance which she wields [[BladeBelowTheShoulder below the shoulder]]. |
| 203 | %%* BlackSwordsAreBetter: Generally has such a sword. |
| 204 | * ChainedByFashion: Many promotional artworks for the original music video and this anime depict her being chained in several ways, mostly by the Otherselves. In her insane version, she gets chained to a pillar because she is causing a rampage in Black★Gold Saw's domain. After ripping her arm, a chain attaches her {{BFG}} to the stump. |
| 205 | * DarkActionGirl: The [[AdaptationalVillainy anime version]] of B★RS is shown as an AntiVillain [[VillainProtagonist Protagonist]] who is responsible for starting fights with the Otherselves, who are merely doing their duties of shouldering the pain of their real-life counterparts. Her Insane self is worse in this regard, as she has no qualms murdering anyone who gets in her way. |
| 206 | * {{Determinator}}: It doesn't matter how much punishment B★RS takes, she keeps pressing on. She might even reach into ImplacableMan territory since she doesn't show much of the damage she takes. |
| 207 | * GirlishPigtails: Subverted. Her pigtails are extremely long, and one of them is shorter than the other; however, she's far from girly in terms of appearance and personality. |
| 208 | * IcyBlueEyes: She has piercing blue eyes to go with her stoic personality. They also {{glow|ing eyes of doom}}. |
| 209 | * InTheHood: Her {{Badass Longcoat}} always featured one, but she has always kept it down until the 2012 Anime. |
| 210 | * LegFocus: A large portion of her legs are exposed, and some shots even ''[[MaleGaze focusing]]'' on them. |
| 211 | * MorphWeapon: Rock Shooter's "★Rock Cannon", which can transform into a small katana "black blade" and also into a 30mm Gatling Cannon. |
| 212 | * NamedWeapons: "★Rock Cannon" for her BFG and "Black Blade" for her katana. |
| 213 | %%* TheRival: Can be interpreted as this to Dead Master. (Does interpretations even count?) |
| 214 | * SmallGirlBigGun: The ★Rock Cannon is almost as big as her. |
| 215 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: Her attire exposes almost all of her body, consisting of a [[WalkingSwimsuitScene bikini top]], booty shorts, thigh-high boots, and a [[NoShirtLongJacket hoodie]]. |
| 216 | * SuperStrength: While she usually prefers Melee weapons over physical strength, she is shown to be capable of this as shown in the OVA, where she breaks the Dead Master's chains with her bare hands. There's also the fact that she generally carries around the ''much'' larger [[{{BFG}} ★Rock Cannon]] without so much as an issue, let alone wield it as both a ranged and melee weapon. |
| 217 | * SuperWindowJump: She gets inside Chariot's floating house by kicking the window with both legs while jumping. |
| 218 | * SwordAndGun: She loses the sword in the first scene of the OVA, however; instead, her gun gets to become some sword-like blunt object. |
| 219 | * TheVoiceless: |
| 220 | ** Does not speak at all; whether she does so because she is TheStoic or because she cannot is unknown. [[SubvertedTrope She finally talks to Mato]] at the end of the OVA, although this may be because Mato is her human counterpart. |
| 221 | ** At the end of the first anime episode it seems she's incapable of making any sound as she gets impaled by Chariot and opens her mouth in a scream, but there's no sound coming from her at all, although this could be just stylistic. |
| 222 | ** In the end of the 2012 anime, she does speak, albeit telepathically as she doesn't need to move her mouth. |
| 223 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Only in the TV anime. Black★Rock Shooter has no emotions and only acts by instinct, but at the same time, she was born of a desire to help people. Her Insane form retains this philosophy, but is more brutal in combat. |
| 224 | |
| 225 | [[AC:OVA Tropes]] |
| 226 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a scar on her hip and another on her leg; it's likely from the impact of Black★Gold Saw's final stroke in their [[ScarsAreForever first encounter]]. |
| 227 | * SwissArmyWeapon: After the apparent loss of her Black Blade, the ★Rock Cannon can transform into a spiked melee weapon. |
| 228 | * WalkingSwimsuitScene: In the prologue of the OVA, she does not wear her jacket yet while fighting Black★Gold Saw, evoking this image. |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[AC:2012 Anime Tropes applying to normal Black★Rock Shooter]] |
| 231 | * NinetiesAntiHero: BadassLongcoat, {{Stripperiffic}}, talks with her humongous gun and katana, vague ill-defined powers revolving about being MadeOfIron and GoodThingYouCanHeal and she's not afraid in the least to use lethal force. |
| 232 | * AdaptationalJerkass: In the OVA, B★RS was actively working toward Mato's intention of saving Yomi, although [[AmbiguousSituation whether or not any of this happens before Mato merges with her]] is uncertain. In the series, she's depicted as a SociopathicHero and her constant slaughter in the Otherworld is something Mato is unaware of for the most part and would rather not happen for the rest. |
| 233 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Played with. This B★RS is a WellIntentionedExtremist AntiHero who is not above picking fights against Otherselves or brutally killing them out of [[LoveMakesYouEvil carrying Mato's desire to help others]]. After going "Insane", she becomes a full-fledged villain, though Mato [[DefeatMeansFriendship stops her at the last second]]. |
| 234 | * AntiHero: Despite being the central protagonist of the anime, she seems to be completely fine with massacring "other selves" without restraint. This bothers Saya very much, but it concurs with Mato's belief that the Otherworld is wrong. |
| 235 | * AtopAMountainOfCorpses: B★RS in the third episode after killing pre-awakened other selves. |
| 236 | * ByronicHero: She's by far the most ruthless and amoral incarnation of B★RS, but she ultimately believes that what she's doing is right. |
| 237 | * CompositeCharacter: This redesigned version of B★RS shares several elements based from her previous incarnations, including other separate characters: |
| 238 | ** Her jacket, black denim shorts, and boots are similar to the clothing of White★Rock Shooter and Black★Rock Shooter Beast. Her overall color theme is now bluish than black. |
| 239 | ** Her hair is more spiky, just like Stella. |
| 240 | ** She no longer has scars on her midriff, just like Rock. |
| 241 | ** She wears two belts, just like her Insane counterpart. Which makes sense, since she turns into the latter near the end of the series. |
| 242 | * CompressedHair: Her long pigtails instantly disappear when she puts her hood up. |
| 243 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: Mato pretty much brings B★RS under control after defeating her. |
| 244 | * DisneyDeath: |
| 245 | ** She's destroyed as Insane Black★Rock Shooter in the finale but is seen unharmed as a restored Black★Rock Shooter shortly thereafter, without any [[UnexplainedRecovery explanation as to how she recovered]]. |
| 246 | ** The ending hints that as long as their real-life counterparts are alive, the girls' Otherselves will also continue to exist, to help shoulder their grief and sorrows as the girls continue living. |
| 247 | * GatlingGood: Her response to getting a giant waterfall of macaroons thrown at her is to upgrade her gun into a minigun and fire so many bullets that they scatter everywhere. She later uses a stationary double minigun for a brief moment against Dead Master's undead minions. |
| 248 | * GuestFighter: Black★Rock Shooter appears in ''Lord of Vermillion Re:2'' resembling her 2012 anime appearance. |
| 249 | * HeelFaceTurn: The end of the final episode, where she returns to her normal self after her Insane counterpart is defeated. |
| 250 | * HumanPincushion: Or "Non-Human Pincushion" rather, since she is not human after all, just humanoid. She's gotten others' weapons stuck into her body. A shot of the opening also shows her being impaled from random directions. |
| 251 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: It's just the first episode and B★RS is already ran through by Chariot's wedge-like form, which is as big as a bus. |
| 252 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: In contrast with her ill-fated fight with Black★Gold Saw during the OVA, her Black Blade serves her fairly well in the anime series, dealing most of the killing blows in the Otherworld. |
| 253 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: Her desire to fulfill Mato's own desire to help others leads to her killing the other Other Selves. |
| 254 | * MadeOfIron: She takes enough damage to kill a human several times over in the first episode alone. |
| 255 | * MoreDakka: Every time she is outnumbered by projectiles or minions, B★RS responds by transforming her slow cannon to a faster minigun. |
| 256 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: |
| 257 | ** Decapitating/killing "other selves" causes people to lose their grief. It also causes them to lose the attachments that caused said grief. |
| 258 | ** Her unchecked progress in destroying the Otherworld is what is getting Saya to try to stress out the girls in the hopes of getting "other selves" to stop her. |
| 259 | * NonchalantDodge: Subverted. She attempts to nonchalantly step aside when Chariot charges her only for spikes to suddenly sprout from the wheels, catching her anyways. |
| 260 | * OffhandBackhand: Chariot tries to rush at her with a sword when her back is turned, but instead B★RS ignites her eye-fire and beheads her, barely even turning at all. |
| 261 | * PerpetualMotionMonster: All otherselves doesn't need sustenance other than justification for their existence -- the continual suffering of their humanselves for them to shoulder. But B★RS is especially notable in this regard, because she invades the realm of other otherselves ''to kill them''. |
| 262 | * SociopathicHero: Her methods of "helping people" for Mato are rather amoral, even by the latter's standards. |
| 263 | * SwordAndGun: She wields both her sword and cannon at the same time in Episode 5. |
| 264 | * VillainProtagonist: In a sense. Since she is the one who intentionally kills the Otherselves, beings who are merely existing for the purpose of shouldering the grief of their real counterparts. |
| 265 | |
| 266 | [[AC:2012 Anime Tropes applying to Insane Black★Rock Shooter]] |
| 267 | * AlienBlood: Has purple blood. Emphsized in the final fight with Mato, who's bleeding out normal blood despite turning into an Other Self. |
| 268 | * AnArmAndALeg: Rips her injured arm off from her main weapon. |
| 269 | %%* AxCrazy: There's a reason she's referred to as ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Insane]]''. |
| 270 | * TheBerserker: Her fighting style is pretty much rushing in blindly, shooting down everything in sight, and shrugging off whatever grazed/slashed/crushed her. |
| 271 | * BodyHorror: Black★Rock Shooter's transition to Insane Black★Rock Shooter is messy. She gets impaled by dozens of spikes after changing. And she rips her own injured arm! |
| 272 | * CombatPragmatist: Well, she's insane at this state and no longer pulls most of her punches unlike her regular counterpart. |
| 273 | ** The Insane Cannon Lance has hidden muzzles on its edges, and she lets one fire at an unsuspecting Black★Gold Saw, momentarily crippling her leg. She later uses this same muzzle to shot herself in the legs to get Mato to shut up and stop interfering. |
| 274 | ** She intentionally aims her punches at Mato's face and limbs, dazing and crippling the latter, sending her limping on the floor. |
| 275 | * CreepyMonotone: When communicating with Mato she maintains a simply and cold monotone, never once raising her voice, even as she is pummeling the poor girl into a bloody wreck. |
| 276 | * DetachmentCombat: In the first few minutes, B★GS severely injures the arm IB★RS has her {{BFS}}[=/=]{{BFG}}, IB★RS's response is to RIP that arm off and throw it. Later on, the Insane Cannon Lance takes the place where her arm is supposed to be, and she throws it like any normal lance, crossing this trope with RocketPunch. |
| 277 | * DissonantSerenity: Despite her rage-filled expression, her telepathic communication with Mato is utterly emotionless. Justified since she doesn't actually have emotion. |
| 278 | * DimensionalCutter: After her transformation, she uses the Insane Blade Claw to forcefully cut open a portal shortcut to Black★Gold Saw's location. |
| 279 | * DualWielding: Has her {{BFS}}/{{BFG}} on her right arm, holds a [[BlackSwordsAreBetter much smaller blade]] in the other. Later, she uses the chains attached to her back to use B★GS's sword. After she shoots off the arm holding said blade of course. |
| 280 | * EnemyWithout: To Mato in the last episode. |
| 281 | * EpicFlail: After ripping her arm off, she uses the chain attached to her back to turn the weapon attached to said arm into this. She then uses B★GS's sword in the same way. |
| 282 | * ExactWords: In Episode 8 of the anime, I.B★RS refers to herself as Mato's "other self". This is because she is a transformed version of B★RS and not a separate being from B★RS. This would also explain why I.B★RS' trademark fangs are not shown in the anime, as Mato, nor the original Black★Rock Shooter does not have fangs. |
| 283 | * FeelNoPain: Unlike regular B★RS she never seems to react to injury in any manner. Mato on the other hand feels the full brunt of it and reacts about as well as one would expect from such a young girl to such injuries. |
| 284 | * FusionDance: She appears after Mato and Black★Rock Shooter fuse... [[FreakOut but with a twist]]. |
| 285 | * {{Gunblade}}: Her new BFS can also can be used to shoot a MASSIVE amount of shots. |
| 286 | * TheJuggernaut: Nothing stands between her and her kills. Not even Mato can stop her... Until she becomes her EnemyWithout. |
| 287 | * LavaSurfing: She surfs over Strength's LethalLavaLand domain using her {{BFS}}! |
| 288 | * NamedWeapons: "Insane Blade Claw" for her short sword and "Insane Cannon Lance" for her BFS/BFG hybrid weapon. |
| 289 | * OhCrap: Insane Black★Rock Shooter shows no emotion until Mato summons a gigantic version of the ★rock Cannon with a barrel bigger than she is tall, causing her to react in shock. |
| 290 | * PainfulTransformation: All that new armor plating bloodily burst out from beneath her skin. |
| 291 | * PowerBornOfMadness: As Insane B★RS. Yomi's death by her own hands caused the tragic transformation. |
| 292 | * PowerIncontinence: Downplayed. While it is not directly related to power, the blue flaming eye of B★RS only ignites when she is serious in combat, or defeats an other self. But the purple flame of IB★RS? It's always ignited. |
| 293 | * PurpleIsPowerful: B★RS is strong normally, but as Insane Black★Rock Shooter with a purple motif (red mixed with the blue), she's nearly unstoppable. |
| 294 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: While her overall color them is purple, her transformation sequence starts off with the [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/blackrockshooter/images/2/24/BlackRock.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120407090157 flame in the eye turning red]] and, a close-up of her now-red pupils. This highlights how unhinged and dangerous she is. |
| 295 | %%* SuperpoweredEvilSide: To B★RS and Mato. |
| 296 | * SwordDrag: Since her BFS/BFG is too large, Insane B★RS does this whenever she walks in Strength's domain. |
| 297 | * TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Her toy was advertised on the website before she appeared in the anime. |
| 298 | * VariableLengthChain: It must be magical as it is able to float around in midair carrying Insane B★RS's giant weapons. |
| 299 | [[/folder]] |
| 300 | |
| 301 | [[folder:Dead Master]] |
| 302 | !! Dead Master |
| 303 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (Japanese), Creator/SuzieYeung (English) |
| 304 | |
| 305 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dead_master_ova_art.jpg]] |
| 306 | [[caption-width-right:300:Dead Master 2009 (OVA Promo Art)]] |
| 307 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Dead Master in the 2012 Anime]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dead_master_anime.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 308 | |
| 309 | A girl with two horns and the "Dead Scythe". Seems to be followed around by two telepathic skulls, which she uses as weapons. She also has powers over chains. |
| 310 | |
| 311 | May be a {{Yandere}}. Her human counterpart is Yomi. As such she is also voiced by Creator/MiyukiSawashiro. |
| 312 | |
| 313 | She receives a noticeable redesign in the 2012 Anime, including glasses and a wedding veil. |
| 314 | ---- |
| 315 | [[AC:General Tropes]] |
| 316 | * AlternateSelf: Of Yomi Takanashi. |
| 317 | * ChainPain: Chains are a general motif of hers and she uses them extensively in combat. |
| 318 | * CoDragons: Has a pair of huge, levitating, metallic, black skulls as her top two minions and main means of attack. |
| 319 | * DarkActionGirl: As the EvilCounterpart contrasting Black★Rock Shooter's ActionGirl status. |
| 320 | %%* DarkMagicalGirl: In the OVA, she's merged with, or possessing, Yomi. Still counts for the Anime too. |
| 321 | * DemBones: Not herself (unless you count her skinless wings), but a major part of her depictions is to be surrounded by undead skeletons, usually the two giant skulls that accompany her. Part of her scythe and horns resemble vertebrae, too. |
| 322 | * ElegantGothicLolita: Her black dress covers up a lot of skin, but adds to her evil-ness. It gets even frillier in the 2012 anime. |
| 323 | * FemmeFatalons: Her hands are somewhat oversized with sharp, armored fingers. |
| 324 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: She appears to have skinless bat wings sticking out of her back. |
| 325 | * GreenEyedMonster: She's the embodiment of jealousy with green eyes who gets stronger as Yomi becomes more jealous. |
| 326 | * TheGrimReaper: Definitely has this vibe to her overall theme. She's named ''Dead'' Master and carries a scythe after all. |
| 327 | * HornedHumanoid: Generally has vertebrae-like horns on her head, whether black or green. |
| 328 | * NamedWeapons: "Dead Scythe". |
| 329 | * OjouRinglets: Her curls are identical to Yomi's, only slightly longer. Personality-wise, its subverted as she has a psychotic side and is [[{{Yandere}} dangerously possessive to Black★Rock Shooter]]. |
| 330 | * PsychoticSmirk: She is almost always portrayed sporting this on, as opposed to her human counterpart. She occasionally does this too in the OVA. And really, her Scythe being broken didn't prevent her from licking her fingers, and then giving this to Black★Rock Shooter as if nothing happened. |
| 331 | * SexyBacklessOutfit: Much more evident in the OVA, as some shots reveal her bare back. |
| 332 | * SicklyGreenGlow: As part of her color motif and general nature as an antagonist, anything surrounding her area is flickered through green. The skulls that follow her glow green on the inside; the Pilot Edition short has her green eyes gleam as she's about to presumably defeat B★RS; the fourth and fifth episodes of the TV anime has her battles take place in a luminescent green environment; and in the opening of the latter she is depicted alongside her Death Scythe radiating in green. |
| 333 | * SinisterScythe: Her signature Death Scythe functions as both a battle weapon and as her MagicWand, highlighting her sadism and implied lust for B★RS, as well as having heavy resemblance to TheGrimReaper. |
| 334 | %%* TheRival: Can be interpreted as this to Black★Rock Shooter. (Does interpretations even count?) |
| 335 | * WingsDoNothing: Mostly spends her fights leaping about and when she does take to the air to glide or hover, it seems to be a case of PowerFloats. |
| 336 | %%* {{Yandere}}: Hinted at in the OVA towards Black★Rock Shooter, much like her human self has this feeling towards Mato. This is made more blatant in the 2012 Anime where she's even wearing a wedding veil. (Might need some reworking) |
| 337 | |
| 338 | [[AC:OVA Tropes]] |
| 339 | * BigBad: Of the OVA, being the instigator of Yomi's disappearance. |
| 340 | * DemonicPossession: Stole Yomi's body for her own after absorbing enough of her negativity. |
| 341 | * EmotionEater: Grew stronger by feeding off of Yomi's loneliness and jealousy over Mato and Yuu's blooming friendship, to the point where she became strong enough to become the dominant personality of the two. |
| 342 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Black★Rock Shooter laying down her arms and hugging her, despite all the pain inflicted on her, confuses and frustrates Dead Master to no end. It leads to her defeat. |
| 343 | * FingerLickinEvil: Dead Master licks her finger/claw after B★RS shot down a blade of her scythe, causing her to fight bare-handed for a while. |
| 344 | * TheHeartless: Strongly implied to be one to Yomi. |
| 345 | * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Does this to Black★Rock Shooter, first by chaining her to a wall; whether this is feeding off Yomi's instincts or if it's entirely the Dead Master's volition is up to debate. |
| 346 | * LoadBearingBoss: Dead Master's death (which leaves Yomi behind) causes her castle to crumble, which forces B★RS to carry Yomi out. |
| 347 | * OhCrap: Her reaction in the near-end of the OVA when Black★Rock Shooter broke the chains holding her in place, marches forwards towards her, and then embraced her. She resisted to no avail, resulting in her falling off the ledge and then dissolving afterwards, leaving the body of Yomi aside. |
| 348 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: In the OVA, after "taking" Yomi, she did absolutely nothing except apparently sit in her throne room waiting. Though it's likely she was waiting for B★RS anyway. |
| 349 | |
| 350 | [[AC:2012 Anime Tropes]] |
| 351 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: This version of Dead Master lacks the malice of her OVA counterpart and only fought B★RS due to her role as an Otherself. |
| 352 | * AdaptationalWimp: In the OVA, Dead Master was a perfectly capable fighter. In the anime, B★RS quickly unravels the chain, and she gets carried away helplessly by Chariot's spider minions. After struggling for a ridiculously long time against the chains binding her, it seems like she might join the fight... but then she gets dragged into a fissure created by Black★Gold Saw. Though it may be justified in a sense since Yomi was in a pretty weak state. But this [[SubvertedTrope no longer applies]] after Episode 4, where she is able to hold her own in a fight against Black★Rock Shooter. |
| 353 | * BackFromTheDead: Is revived to help fight against the [[BackForTheFinale end-of-series]] threat. |
| 354 | %%* BigBoosHaunt: Her zone of the otherworld. |
| 355 | * ChainedByFashion: Sealed by Chariot with her own chains as a symbolism of Kagari's control over Yomi's guilt. When Yomi's FreakOut reaches its apex, her chains warp around her into a giant mountain and explode into her army of countless skeletons. |
| 356 | * CompositeCharacter: She uses the name and general look of Dead Master, but shares aspects with "Black★Devil Girl", such as the glasses and green theme color. |
| 357 | * FourIsDeath: |
| 358 | ** If one considers the red eye watch over in the first episode as Black★Gold Saw, then Dead Master is the fourth otherself to appear in the anime chronologically. |
| 359 | ** More like a VisualPun, but with her glasses, this representation of the frachise's resident Grim Reaper has four eyes. |
| 360 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Played for drama in Episode 5, since Mato didn't want to kill her. |
| 361 | * NaturalWeapon: Has huge mechanical-looking claws. |
| 362 | * NightOfTheLivingMooks: Episode 4 sees this, as she raises an army of undead. |
| 363 | * OutOfFocus: In the OVA, she's the BigBad, being the main antagonistic force in the Otherworld. In the anime, Black★Rock Shooter is the VillainProtagonist, and Strength and Black★Gold Saw become {{Ascended Extra}}s, leaving her with a more marginal role. She even gets killed in Episode 5, and doesn't appear again until the end. |
| 364 | [[/folder]] |
| 365 | |
| 366 | [[folder:Strength]] |
| 367 | !! Strength |
| 368 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaAsumi (Japanese), Creator/DaniChambers (English) |
| 369 | |
| 370 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_strength_art.jpg]] |
| 371 | [[caption-width-right:300:Strength 2009 (OVA Promo Art)]] |
| 372 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Strength in the 2009 OVA]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_strength_ova.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 373 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Strength in the 2012 Anime]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_strength_anime.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | A mysterious "other self" that is approaching the Dead Master and Black★Rock Shooter throughout the OVA. |
| 376 | She is implied to be the "other self" of the OVA's Yuu. |
| 377 | |
| 378 | In the 2012 anime, she is eventually revealed to be the actual Yuu Koutari, who Saya had tried to befriend while they were in high school. She suffered from many familial issues and bullying, but was aware of the Otherworld's existence and related it to Saya when she talked to her. It's implied that the abuse she suffered allowed Strength to become self-aware. After a misunderstanding, Saya offered to do anything for Yuu. Yuu revealed the existences of Strength and Black★Gold Saw, and had Saya promise to protect her and the Otherworld. Afterwards, she contacted Strength and decided to switch places with her, allowing Strength to deal with reality while she deals with the comparative simplicity of the other world. |
| 379 | ---- |
| 380 | [[AC:General Tropes]] |
| 381 | * AlternateSelf: Of Yuu Koutari. |
| 382 | %%* ArtificialLimbs: Both arms. |
| 383 | %%* CuteBruiser: Implied since we never see her straining under the weight of her giant arms. |
| 384 | %%* FourFingeredHands: Her Ogre Arms have these. |
| 385 | %%* GiantHandsOfDoom: Her metallic Ogre Arms. |
| 386 | * HadesShaded: Unlike the other Otherselves, she has brown skin instead of an UndeathlyPallor. |
| 387 | * InTheHood: Her hood always covers her head, unlike the protagonist. |
| 388 | * NamedWeapons: Her giant mechanical fists are named Orge Arms. |
| 389 | * ProphetEyes: In huke's artwork and in the 2012 anime before she gained emotion, after which they turned [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]], the color of her eyes were pure white. |
| 390 | * SmallGirlBigGun: Her arms are made up of two huge mechanical guns. |
| 391 | * TarotMotifs: Named after the eighth (or eleventh) Major Arcana. |
| 392 | |
| 393 | [[AC:2012 Anime Tropes]] |
| 394 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Both she and the real Yuu had a lot of emotional baggage. Even more so with the latter, who is shedding BerserkerTears while beating up Insane Black★Rock Shooter. |
| 395 | * AdaptationalBadass: Has an extra pair of Ogre Arms and can fight Insane Black★Rock Shooter on equal footing. |
| 396 | * AdaptationalJerkass: Strength went from an EmotionlessGirl in the OVA to a talkative AxCrazy CreepyChild who [[CosmicPlaything is angry at the world for wronging her]]. Considering the fact that she's the real Yuu in Strength's body, who had [[DarkAndTroubledPast a rather crappy life]] before Saya befriended her, this is understandable to some extent. |
| 397 | * AscendedExtra: Compared to the OVA, whose only contributions there was standing on a cliff in the Hollow World before jumping off, and was merely implied to be the other self of Yuu the same way Dead Master and B★RS are to Yomi and Mato respectively, Strength here has a central role in the plot. Not only that, but she's more than ''just'' an AlternateSelf of Yuu; she's actually the ''real'' Yui who transferred her body to the ''real'' Strength in order to get out of the hellish situation she was going through. |
| 398 | %%* AxCrazy: As a side effect of switching places with Strength. |
| 399 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: As Yuu, she wanted to switch places with Strength, believing that if she were in a world where all she had to do was fight without thinking, she could take the physical pain and she would be happier. By the time the events of Episode 7 transpire, she is ''clearly'' unhinged by this decision. |
| 400 | * BewareMyStingerTail: Her design gives her a mechanical and prehensile scorpion-like tail. |
| 401 | * BerserkerTears: While ranting about her DarkAndTroubledPast to Insane Black★Rock Shooter at the beginning of the finale, she can be seen crying in a fit of rage. |
| 402 | * BigDamnHeroes: Saves Black★Gold Saw from certain death by the hands of Insane Black★Rock Shooter, to Saya's shock. |
| 403 | * CosmicPlaything: [[DarkAndTroubledPast "I can't live in that world all by myself! There are monsters... everywhere!!"]] |
| 404 | * CreepyChild: Compared to the rest of the other selves, she has the appearance of a young girl, which makes since her human counterpart and original self was shortest of the trio. While she starts off as an EmotionlessGirl, once she starts talking, she's goes AxCrazy and shows {{Slasher Smile}}s more often. |
| 405 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: With divorced parents and a mother and stepfather who don't care about her, and a ton of bullies at school who torment her (including dumping their eraser shavings into her rice), she has a lot of this to deal with. |
| 406 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: In the final episode, after being ambushed by Black★Rock Shooter, she returns to the real world and is promptly befriended by the others. |
| 407 | %%* EmotionlessGirl: Until she goes crazy. |
| 408 | * FingerFirearms: Can fire bullets out of her mechanical arms. She later upgrades her firepower by transforming her fingers into [[GatlingGood miniguns]]. |
| 409 | %%* LethalLavaLand: Her zone of the otherworld. |
| 410 | * LightningBruiser: She's small, strong, fast and CRAZY, as she would need to be, considering she manages to surprise Insane Black★Rock Shooter. |
| 411 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: She can unfold another pair of arms out of her first set. |
| 412 | * MysteriousWatcher: Implied, as she's seen dragging and throwing away the corpses of Chariot and Dead Master even though she wasn't present for their deaths. |
| 413 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Because the real Yuu spent the next ten years in the Other World as Strength, she's already at her early twenties after being sent back into the real world. |
| 414 | %%* OutOfClothesExperience: Strength is given this treatment when she's connected to her other self. |
| 415 | * ParentalNeglect: Her parents divorced and her mother married another man; neither seem to care about her, leaving her in the corner. In fact, they don't seem to care about anything, given the dilapidated state of the house and how it eventually burns down from a neglected cigarette. |
| 416 | * PleaseDontLeaveMe: The real Yuu tearfully does this to a dying Strength in the finale. |
| 417 | %%* PsychoSmirk: Shows one in the 2012 series. |
| 418 | %%* RedEyesTakeWarning: She gets them in the 2012 anime. |
| 419 | %%* SlasherSmile: After showing her true colors. |
| 420 | * SplitPersonalityTakeover: Of sorts. She's basically Yuu's mind in Strength's body. |
| 421 | * SuddenlyVoiced: The only other self capable of non-telepathic speech... since she's actually a human. |
| 422 | %%* SuperStrength: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's a given.]] from her name. |
| 423 | * SwissArmyWeapon: Her fists are incredibly versatile. Outside of the obvious punches, she can [[FingerFirearms shoot bullets from the fingertips]], transform and combine her fists into a [[GatlingGood minigun]], [[MultiArmedAndDangerous take out an extra pair of arms]], and even form some kind of railed apparatus that uses one fist to propel the other. |
| 424 | * UndeadTaxExemption: The original Yuu in the ending gets introduced to the rest of the class. Considering she's been missing for 10 years, that's quite a bit of paperwork. She even says she doesn't have a home to go to before she returns to the real world. Granted, Saya might have helped ease the transition in this regard. |
| 425 | * VillainousBreakdown: |
| 426 | ** In the last episode, Strength's interference resulted with Yuu being scared for her life when Insane Black★Rock Shooter destroyed her Ogre Arms and prepares to deal the deathblow on her. Fortunately, Mato is unwilling to let Insane Black★Rock Shooter do the deed and personally confronts her Other Self, sparing Yuu as a result. |
| 427 | ** A more soul-crushing example happens later in the same episode when the real Yuu [[PleaseDontLeaveMe begs Strength not to die]] because she's "too scared to live in the real world by herself". |
| 428 | * WhamLine: Delivers the biggest whammy of the 2012 series in Episode 7. |
| 429 | -->Your greeting is rather late, Mato Kuroi. I see my Strength has been relying on you. [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya My name is Yuu Koutari. Strength is down here right now, just as you are.]] |
| 430 | * WhenSheSmiles: She doesn't smile very often as Yuu. Saya notes this in the aftermath of Yuu's house burning down. |
| 431 | * YouCanTalk: Other Selves don't talk much (at least non-telepathically). This is not the case with Strength, however, mostly because she's not actually an Other Self in the first place. |
| 432 | [[/folder]] |
| 433 | |
| 434 | [[folder:Black★Gold Saw]] |
| 435 | !! Black★Gold Saw |
| 436 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MamikoNoto (Japanese), Creator/NatalieVanSistine (English) |
| 437 | |
| 438 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_gold_saw_art_3.png]] |
| 439 | [[caption-width-right:300:Black★Gold Saw (OVA Promo Art)]] |
| 440 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Black★Gold Saw in the 2009 OVA]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_gold_saw_ova.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 441 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Black★Gold Saw in the 2012 Anime]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_gold_saw_anime.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 442 | |
| 443 | An "other self" who was seen fighting Black★Rock Shooter at the beginning of the OVA. She caused some of her scars; according to some interpretations, she was also responsible for taking Black★Rock Shooter's life. |
| 444 | |
| 445 | In the 2012 anime, her eye is seen opening in various locations of the "Otherworld", implying that she's watching. It appears that she has a great deal of power over the Otherworld, and is cultivating the Other Selves. She is in fact trying to stop Black★Rock Shooter from destroying the Otherworld. She is later revealed to be the other self of Saya Irino. |
| 446 | ---- |
| 447 | [[AC:General Tropes]] |
| 448 | * {{BFS}}: She has a large sword, possibly as big as her in some drawings. |
| 449 | * HornedHumanoid: Generally has red horns on her head. |
| 450 | * NamedWeapons: "King Saw" for her long blade. |
| 451 | * NonIndicativeName: She does not, in fact, wear gold in any of the artwork. There is one figure that gives her a bit of gold on her armor and sword, however. |
| 452 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Downplayed. She wears primarily black clothing with a noticeable red tint to them. While she isn't outright antagonistic, she does display a cold and menacing demeanor when confronting her enemy. |
| 453 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Her entire scheme is red, including her eyes, and though she isn't outright evil she serves as an enemy to B★RS . |
| 454 | * StatuesqueStunner: She is the tallest and the bustiest other self introduced in the anime. |
| 455 | |
| 456 | [[AC:OVA Tropes]] |
| 457 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's unknown what what happened to B★GS after she won the battle, let alone if she even won or not. |
| 458 | |
| 459 | [[AC:2012 Anime Tropes]] |
| 460 | * AlternateSelf: Of Saya Irino. |
| 461 | * AdaptationalBadass: Her powers go from hand-to-hand combat to ''reality-warping''. |
| 462 | * AdaptationalWimp: At the same time, her power level is downgraded significantly in the TV anime. In the OVA she appears to actually ''beat'' B★RS, but in the anime she puts up the least impressive fight of any character. Though note that when she was fighting with B★RS, Saya was intentionally trying to take the diplomatic route with Mato, so she did comparatively little fighting. It doesn't excuse her inability to defend herself though. |
| 463 | * AnArmAndALeg: She's partially responsible for IB★RS losing an arm. IB★RS then gets revenge, by blasting her arm off. |
| 464 | * AscendedExtra: Compared to the OVA, who merely served as an opponent to B★RS at the beginning of the short before disappearing, here she's the HeroAntagonist trying to defeat B★RS and is the otherself of [[CanonForeigner Saya]]. |
| 465 | * DiabolusExMachina: When it looks like Chariot's MentalWorld is breaking apart, B★GS suddenly appears, stops the breakdown by [[TimeStandsStill pausing time]], and sends Dead Master into a fissure. Then she vanishes, giving Chariot the opportunity to hit B★RS from behind. This culminates in Chariot [[OffWithHisHead losing her head]]. It's all sort of subverted when we learn that B★GS was trying to kill B★RS, and B★RS would have killed Chariot anyway. |
| 466 | * DimensionalCutter: She sends Dead Master into a fissure into her and Yomi's MentalWorld after slashing the ground. |
| 467 | * EvilRedhead: Downplayed on both sides. The 2012 anime [[AdaptationDyeJob gives her]] a (very dark) red gradient to her otherwise dark hair, and while her goal is to ultimately protect the Hollow World from [[VillainProtagonist B★RS]], the way she reaches her goal leans more into PragmaticVillainy territory. |
| 468 | * GlassCannon: Her ability to hack off limbs with her speed and strength against Insane Black★Rock Shooter is amazing. Taking damage? Not so amazing. |
| 469 | * {{Irony}}: She is made to look like a devil and clearly represents the Devil arcana, yet her {{Leitmotif}} ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMkTVAYIYdE Heaven]]'' is designed like it would belong in a church. |
| 470 | * LightningBruiser: The fact that she wields a {{BFS}} might not justify it alone as the other characters are also able to wield lofty weapons. She is however, the fastest in combination with her strength. It takes both DM and B★RS a few seconds to notice her, or [[FlashStep rather where she was just standing.]] In addition, She sends Dead Master down a fissure she created with [[SwordBeam a single swing of her sword]]. |
| 471 | * MakingASplash: Seems to have a lot of water-related powers. She is also the only other self to cross worlds by sinking herself in a body of water, as seen in Dead Master's world. |
| 472 | * MookMaker: In Episode 6, she shows the ability to create a massive amount of soldiers by throwing water from her watering can onto the ground. |
| 473 | * MysteriousWatcher: She can watch any area of the otherworld she desires by opening a gigantic eye in the sky. |
| 474 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Mato says she resembles a middle-aged lady. It can be justified by the fact that Saya is B★GS. |
| 475 | * RedHerring: Initially played out to be the main antagonist of the story, only later is it clear that the real main antagonist is [[VillainProtagonist Black★Rock Shooter herself.]] |
| 476 | * TeleportersAndTransporters: Moves between different parts of the otherworld by sinking into the ground or water surface. |
| 477 | * TimeStandsStill: She is able to stop the destruction of Chariot's MentalWorld by pausing time. |
| 478 | * TheWorfEffect: After her display of power in Episode 2, B★GS is (literally) single-handedly dispatched by Insane Black★Rock Shooter in Episode 6. See her entry on AdaptationalWimp for more detail. |
| 479 | %%* WellIntentionedExtremist: She's Saya's vehicle to protect the Otherworld. |
| 480 | [[/folder]] |
| 481 | |
| 482 | !Introduced in ''Black★Rock Shooter TV (2012 Anime)'' |
| 483 | |
| 484 | !!Humans |
| 485 | |
| 486 | [[folder:Saya Irino]] |
| 487 | !!Saya Irino |
| 488 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MamikoNoto (Japanese), Creator/NatalieVanSistine (English) |
| 489 | |
| 490 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_saya_anime_2.jpg]] |
| 491 | |
| 492 | The middle school counselor of "Dawn Counseling" at Mato's school. She is often the one to go to when talking about personal problems, and will do it while offering them lots of coffee. |
| 493 | |
| 494 | She is the human counterpart of Black★Gold Saw, and can consciously channel herself into her. She is awakening other selves through less than moral means to prevent Black★Rock Shooter from destroying the Otherworld - or more specifically the original Yuu Koutari, who now resides there. She was friends with the original Yuu Koutari in high school and later made a promise to protect her. Yuu revealed Black★Gold Saw to Saya before switching places with Strength. |
| 495 | ---- |
| 496 | * AdultsAreUseless: She's a guidance counselor, but sometimes, she stirs up some of the girls' troubles instead of outright fixing them. |
| 497 | * AntiVillain: In an attempt to fulfill a promise to the original Yuu to protect her - and by extension, protect the Otherworld - she tries to mess up her charges to incite their "other selves" to awaken, purely for the purpose of stopping Black★Rock Shooter's rampage. She also contemplates killing Mato to stop Black★Rock Shooter, but can't do it because she knows it's wrong and that Mato did nothing to deserve it. |
| 498 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: She turns out to be a lot less nice than she initially appeared to be. She initiates Yomi's FreakOut, tries to strangle Mato to death twice and slaps Yuu when she finds out about Mato merging with Black★Rock Shooter. |
| 499 | * DeclarationOfProtection: Her entire motivation is to protect Yuu, and by extension, the Otherworld. |
| 500 | * EasilyForgiven: Saya may have been a WellIntentionedExtremist, but she still sent several high school girls into depression. Even though she's the high school counselor. |
| 501 | * {{Expy}}: She looks essentially like adult [[Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}} Suruga Kanbaru]] and seems to inherit a part of her kinky persona. |
| 502 | * HarmfulToMinors: She nearly strangled Mato and passed it off as a joke, and later tried it again before stopping herself. |
| 503 | * MisplacedKindergartenTeacher: Only visually. She wears a strange kiddish armband. |
| 504 | * MustHaveCaffeine: Saya really likes drinking coffee. She frequently makes it for students who drop by the counselor's room. Though she reveals that she actually ''[[InvertedTrope hates]]'' coffee when it doesn't have milk in Episode 5. |
| 505 | * MyGreatestSecondChance: She promised to protect Yuu because she had, for a moment, [[MyGreatestFailure suspected Yuu]] of burning down her house. In order to make it up to Yuu, she promised to do anything. |
| 506 | * ThePromise: Her motivation is to keep one concerning Yuu's safety. |
| 507 | * PsychoPsychologist: At first glance, she appears to be a regular, kind-hearted PsychologistTeacher who aids her students over their personal problems and does a really good job at doing so (justified as she is the guidance counselor), but she has her own dark motives concerning Yuu and the Otherworld. She's also abusive to the people helps, from being responsible for Yomi's SanitySlippage to strangling Mato so tightly that it nearly ''kills'' her. |
| 508 | * SenseiChan: They actually call her Saya-chan-sensei. |
| 509 | * TrademarkFavouriteFood: Milk coffee, coming from the same woman who [[{{Irony}} doesn't like]] [[DoesNotLikeSpam plain coffee]]. |
| 510 | * TreacherousAdvisor: Does the opposite of what a school counselor is supposed to, all for the sake of the Otheworld. |
| 511 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Her reasons for breaking the girls is that the original Yuu was her friend when she was in high school, and in a desperate attempt to help her, she made a promise to protect her, and, by extension, the Otherworld. She believes that Black★Rock Shooter will destroy the Otherworld if unchecked, so she puts stress on the girls in the hopes of awakening "other selves" to curb her. |
| 512 | [[/folder]] |
| 513 | |
| 514 | [[folder:Kagari Izuriha]] |
| 515 | !!Kagari Izuriha |
| 516 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EriKitamura (Japanese), Creator/KayliMills (English) |
| 517 | |
| 518 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_kagari_anime_v2.png]] |
| 519 | |
| 520 | A girl who lives close to Yomi. She is a childhood friend of hers, and is bound to a wheelchair; thus, she does not attend their school. She lives next door to Yomi and seems to be controlling her via a TinCanTelephone, constantly telling her that she "must not make friends" and claiming Yomi to be "hers"; according to her Yomi must "take responsibility". It turns out that when Yomi was moving away with her family Kagari tried to run after her and was hit by a car. |
| 521 | |
| 522 | Fond of pastries and dolls, but is very, very blatant about her hatred for anyone. After Black★Rock Shooter beheads Chariot, she suddenly and rather unnervingly becomes calmer and starts to get over her trauma. She eventually returns to school in Episode 4. |
| 523 | |
| 524 | She is the human counterpart of Chariot. Chariot's death in Episode 2 causes her to lose all of her grief - and also her attachment to Yomi. |
| 525 | ---- |
| 526 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A (probably) non-romantic version. After seeing Yomi coming back to school, her memories of Yomi begin to come back slowly. She is also disoriented by Mato's disappearance. |
| 527 | %%* BitchInSheepsClothing |
| 528 | * CreepyChild: Early in the 2012 series, she is portrayed as unnerving towards Mato and is very controlling of Yomi. She's also a lot younger than the two, which further adds a layer to her creepiness. |
| 529 | * CreepyDoll: Heavily associated with one, whom she names Mary. She also "talks through" it, claiming that anything she says while acting as Mary is not something that she is saying. |
| 530 | --> "Go away! Go away! Go away!" |
| 531 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Has blonde hair to go with her gold eyes, an attribute carried over to her other self. |
| 532 | * CuteAndPsycho: Her appearance of a cute lil' blonde girl is contrasted heavily by her creepy nature. In her debut episode, after Yomi questions why she keeps on forcing Mato to her macarons she takes out her doll Mary and pretends to be that doll when asking Mato to go away, all the while saying "Go away!" [[MadnessMantra repeatedly]] until Mato eventually leaves out of trepidation. Once she adapts to school life though, she starts to show more of the cute side of her psychotic personality. |
| 533 | %%* DefeatMeansFriendship: Metaphorically, at any rate. |
| 534 | * DefrostingIceQueen: She instantly becomes a nice person and is friends with Mato. Not only that, but she gets instantly popular in the class ''just by saying "shut up!"'' |
| 535 | %%* DontYouDarePityMe: Says this almost word for word. |
| 536 | * DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Sports these in Episodes 1 and 2 as an indication of her psychosis. |
| 537 | * EpiphanyTherapy: Gets over her years-long psychosis rather easily. She is, however, still a bit psychotic afterwards - she likes to make strange remarks from time to time that are a little disturbing. |
| 538 | * EvilCripple: Subverted. She debuts sitting in a wheelchair with the insinuation that her legs were broken sometime before the series started, and she begins to show her true colors when she ask Mato to leave in a unsettling tone, in addition to treating her supposed childhood friend as nothing more than a tool for her use and abuse for own twisted desires. Later, we found out she ''faked'' being a cripple and that her pretending as such only ''added'' to her evilness. |
| 539 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Upon attending school again, she ties her hair into a side-ponytail. |
| 540 | * GlurgeAddict: Loves dolls and macarons and is almost always seen with one or the other. This does not make her [[CuteIsEvil any less creepy.]] |
| 541 | * HeelFaceTurn: She and Mato become friends in Episode 4. |
| 542 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Even after she transferred to Mato's school and became a better person, she still shows signs of being antisocial and clingy to Yomi, as well as being ''very bad'' at showing genuine kindness. She does, however, show a lot more gratitude and respect to Mato than she did previously, and treats both her and Yomi as legit friends, even showing some concern for the latter after she goes off the deep end following years of abuse she was subjected to by Kagari. |
| 543 | * KarmaHoudini: Kagari doesn't really face any punishment for years of DomesticAbuse, which resulted in a deeply troubled Yomi. |
| 544 | * KnightOfCerebus: Her appearance sets the dark nature of the show. |
| 545 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: After her other self Chariot gets her head chopped off, she loses her attachment to Yomi. She remembers that she loved her once, but she can't invoke those feelings anymore. Fortunately, she regains at least some of her memories in Episode 8. |
| 546 | * LettingHerHairDown: A rare inverted case. Kagari lets her uncombed hair down when she was still reclusive and wheelchair-bound, but she later ties it to a ponytail when she returns to school and becomes friendlier to Mato. |
| 547 | * LookBothWays: She was hit by a car while trying to catch up with Yomi. |
| 548 | * NoSocialSkills: Ridiculously blunt in her psychoticness toward Mato. Even after she is healed, she's comically blunt and foul-mouthed, which earns her popularity at school. She also [[InnocentlyInsensitive badly]], '''[[InnocentlyInsensitive badly]]''' [[InnocentlyInsensitive words her gratitude]] to Yomi for taking care of her all those years. |
| 549 | * PseudoCrisis: At the end of Episode 2 it seems like something bad happened to Kagari... but then in the next episode we learn that she just fell asleep. |
| 550 | * RomanticizedAbuse: When she stops being a bastard girlfriend and becomes capable of normal relationships with other people, Yomi ''snaps''. That's an eerily familiar development... |
| 551 | * SelfInflictedHell: A mundane example. She's not actually crippled physically. However, her mental state has been driven so badly that she believes herself to be crippled, to the point where a twisted wrist makes her think that she is completely incapable of doing this. Debatable as to whether this is "hell", however, as she seems to take pleasure in forcing herself to be dependent on her. |
| 552 | * SweetTooth: Not only does she enjoy sweets, but she's good at making them too, like the madelines and chocolate chip cookies she made for Yomi. |
| 553 | * ThirdPersonPerson: Says her first name, Kagari when referring to herself. |
| 554 | * TookALevelInKindness: Starts off as a cruel and unsympathetic CreepyChild who hates anyone who gets in her and Yomi's to the point of intimidating Mato into exiting her house, and shows zero regard in mistreating Yomi (who up until this point was her ''childhood friend''), leaving the latter emotionally and mentally damaged for the rest of her life. After she goes to school with the rest of the girls, she mellows out considerably and becomes a more friendlier person to Mato and Yomi, even if she doesn't express it correctly. She even feels bad Yomi for all of the abuse the latter endured and her subsequent SanitySlippage; she even offers her a bag of cookies to reconcile, which unfortunately triggers her HeroicBSOD. |
| 555 | * UnsexySadist: The sadist part comes from carving a heart-shaped scar in Yomi's chest, and she's definitely portrayed as repulsive before Chariot gets beheaded. |
| 556 | %%* UsedToBeASweetKid: At least before the accident. |
| 557 | * VillainousBreakdown: In Episode 2, she completely flips her shit when Yomi suggests that she move on from the accident. |
| 558 | %%* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: Semi-inversion; it's more like Why Did You Make Me Hit Myself? |
| 559 | %%* {{Yandere}}: For Yomi in the beginning of the show, thought it's later undone. |
| 560 | [[/folder]] |
| 561 | |
| 562 | [[folder:Arata Kohata]] |
| 563 | !!Arata Kohata |
| 564 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ManamiNumakura (Japanese), Creator/AnairisQuinones (English) |
| 565 | |
| 566 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_arata_anime.png]] |
| 567 | |
| 568 | A member of Mato and Yuu's basketball team. Seems to always wear her jersey. |
| 569 | ---- |
| 570 | * ACupAngst: Claims to Saya that the only reason she can't confess to a boy she likes is because she doesn't have "big boobs". |
| 571 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: She and Taku are now a couple, and Mato teases her about it. |
| 572 | * GenkiGirl: Arata is a very enthusiastic person especially when it comes to sports. Even when all Mato wanted to do was show interest in the basketball club, Arata instead made her run sprints. However, it's made clear that her bubbly persona [[StepfordSmiler is all just an act]]. |
| 573 | * GirlishPigtails: Has stubby pigtails that are even shorter than Mato's. While she initially doesn't fit this personality-wise, being a sport-loving tomboy and all, she does start to show [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak a more sensitive side]] when confessing to her crush. |
| 574 | * InSeriesNickname: Kohacchi by her peers. |
| 575 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: Black★Rock Shooter killing her fledging other self caused her to lose her love for Taku, an attachment that gave her grief. But just like the other girls, she regains these feelings in the last episode. |
| 576 | * LoveConfession: She likes a boy in her class named Taku and gives him a love letter. It ends ''very'' badly when his {{Jerkass}} friends decide to mock her in front of the entire school. It eventually ends in an EarnYourHappyEnding for the two. |
| 577 | * OutOfFocus: She actually doesn't become important in any way. |
| 578 | * SacrificialLamb: To illustrate the effects of an other self dying, Arata's gets killed off in the first episode she appears. |
| 579 | * SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Is never seen in any official promotional material in the TV anime. She does appear on the website, however. |
| 580 | * StepfordSmiler: This is who she really is, though no one is fooled. It's a source of stress for Mato knowing that Arata is hurting inside but shrugs it all off. |
| 581 | * {{Tsundere}}: Can act like a bubbly girl in front of Mato and her basketball team, but she is shy and easily flustered around Taku. |
| 582 | [[/folder]] |
| 583 | |
| 584 | !! Other Selves |
| 585 | |
| 586 | [[folder:Chariot]] |
| 587 | !!Chariot |
| 588 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EriKitamura (Japanese), Creator/KayliMills (English) |
| 589 | |
| 590 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brs_chariot_anime.png]] |
| 591 | |
| 592 | The other self of Kagari. A wheel-legged Otherself that Black★Rock Shooter provokes into fighting for holding Dead Master a hostage. |
| 593 | ---- |
| 594 | * AlternateSelf: Of Kagari Izuriha. |
| 595 | * BackFromTheDead: She comes back to help Mato defeat IB★RS in the [[BackForTheFinale last episode]]. And of course, her head is intact. |
| 596 | %%* BlackSwordsAreBetter: Unclear if it's actually better, but it does look cool. |
| 597 | * CanonForeigner: She doesn't appear to be any of huke's previously created characters, though she bears a noticeable resemblance to the Apostle SZZU from [[VideoGame/BlackRockShooter the video game]]. |
| 598 | * CoolCrown: Has a huge black spiked crown that wraps around her head. |
| 599 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: The trailers make her seem more important than she actually is. But that's only for the early episodes of the series. |
| 600 | * DynamicEntry: Her preferable method of saying hello to a guest is to run them over with her overly giant spider and cart. |
| 601 | * EdibleAmmunition: Her vehicle has cannons that fire giant explosive macaroons. |
| 602 | * ElegantGothicLolita: Her appearance and dress - consisting of a black dress in white frills - invoke this, and she is just as tall as Kagari. |
| 603 | * EvilGloating: Of sorts. When Chariot first runs over Black★Rock Shooter with her SpiderTank, she gets out and begins dropping gooey regular-sized macaroons on Black★Rock Shooter's face while she's still buried under the rubble. [[RefugeInAudacity Veeery slowly.]] |
| 604 | * GiantSpider: Drives a giant robot spider named Mary as a sort of chariot. |
| 605 | %%* LevelAte: Her zone of the otherworld. |
| 606 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: She has a huge, wheel-like shield with spikes on it. |
| 607 | * MythologyGag: Her Giant Spider resembles an enemy from the PSP game. And the character whom she shares a resemblance to (SZZU) also rides a companion (CKRY). Some of Chariot's attacks are also similar to the pair's. |
| 608 | * OffWithHerHead: In Episode 2. The effect seems to have erased Kagari's attachment to Yomi, allowing her to get over her trauma... but also causing Yomi's FreakOut. |
| 609 | %%* RollerbladeGood: Except the wheels are actually her feet. |
| 610 | * SpikedWheels: There are spikes on the sides of her leg wheels. |
| 611 | * StarterVillain: The first Otherself BRS encounters in the series. |
| 612 | * TarotMotifs: Named after the Seventh Major Arcana. |
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