In the year 2062, Earth finds itself fiercely battling Artemis—an AI which rebelled against humankind following a grand-scale workforce automation project failure years prior. In the hope of winning the war, a group of three highly skilled human warriors is assembled, known as the guardians of humanity.
Empress, the last surviving guardian, wakes up alone in an empty research facility. Unable to recall anything from the past except a place called "Lighthouse No. 8," she begins to search for answers. It is not long before she discovers an impending threat from Artemis—and she is the sole person who can save the world from destruction.
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Grain_of_Salt
Black Rock Shooter, where did you go? Never has that line been more true. I guess this adaptation definitely evoked this line of the song, by destroying everything else. I really don't feel this is fair to call a BRS story, as it really feels like a subpar light novel (which it was) that only got greenlit by attaching itself to the BRS identity. None of these characters, plot, or setting has to be a part of BRS, and as a consequence of that none of this feels like it is. This show is an absolute edgelord nightmare of mediocre writing. In early episodes it tries itsbest to be gritty and dark, throwing around copious curses, death, and rants about sex as well as repeated on screen rape. None of this serves any purpose other than trying to establish this as edgy, though once it goes away in the second half I found myself missing it because a desperate attempt at shock value, while crude and unnecessary, was still more entertaining than the run of the mill second half plot full of the same tropes and archetypes acted out by characters with no likeable traits or interesting personalities. Again, despite being called Black Rock Shooter, most characters and premises in this story are entirely new, and maybe I would've been slightly more forgiving if this wasn't trying to milk marketability from the heyday of late 2000s anime. What the story adds sure isn't GOOD but if it tried to stand on its own maybe it would've been forced to do something interesting. Granted the characters we do take from BRS are so devoid of anything that originally made them likeable, to the point that we even renamed them based on tarot cards (since Strength already was a tarot card). Not only is it weird to want to drag an IP through the dirt for clout, it's even weirder to then not even call the lead character her own name 90% of the time. And in universe the justification is equally dumb, saying that Empress and Death are passable names for orphan children. Again there's just no valid reason for the changes regardless of the quality.
The show is CG, which does knock it down in a lot of people's eyes. In its defense the CGI is completely passable, and the weaker parts are masked by fog and dim lighting like a Marvel movie. That being said the designs themselves are completely average at best with nothing standing out or interesting, and the redesigns for the established characters are downright criminal. When Black Rock Shooter, Dead Master, and Strength had their intros I couldn't help verbally crying "what have they done to you?" Redesigns aren't foreign to this franchise as it had a lot of fandom power in its prime, but the problem is these designs are downgrades both visually and in expressing character.
The music commits the taboo of disregarding the old OP (yes it plays in the final credits but that's to be expected and a slap in the face being attached to this nonsense) and what replaces it is unoriginal butt rock. I enjoyed hearing ZAQ for the first time in a while, but the song shouldn't be attached to Black Rock Shooter. The OST reminded me of forgettable Marvel movies to the point I was convinced I heard some Disney Marvel copyrighted sound effects. This could be entirely possible considering Disney was involved and this was exclusive to their streaming service. (God, I can't imagine a child stumbling upon the edgelord first episodes after watching Lion King or something, did Disney not see the script before greenlighting?)
I had many problems with both other adaptations of Black Rock Shooter, but as early as five minutes into this show I was apologizing to Mari Okada for being so harsh. For all its flaws and weird choices it still felt more like BRS and had much more to appreciate. Those adaptations had heart and understood the show needed to stand on its strength of emotion, this story feels like a military otaku grabbing figures and smashing them together. With this iteration there's nothing to appreciate or take away other than the...I guess bragging rights to have seen the true train wreck of the franchise that was a mistake from earliest conception to completion. The voice cast does their best to inject some humanity and there are enough competent choices or moments if you watch closely that I'm sure much of the staff also tried their best. But this was never going to work no matter how much effort was put in, and many of the decisions made only hurt it more.
_Kaorinite
Hello and good day to you BRS fans and readers and anime lovers and video game fans. I am writing this review to give you a FAIR review for the anime, which a LOT of BRS fans are claiming this version of BRS is crap and saying lines like "what have they done to BRS?" Its trash and bad etc. Clearly those BRS fans never saw more than 1 of the BRS anime and certainly didn't bother to play BRS: The Game when it came to the US many years ago on the PSP. Let me just say this, BRS is like many series likeMegaman and Sonic the Hedgehog for example. What do I mean by that? I mean, it doesn't stick to 1 setting, nor 1 timeline/universe. Perhaps it'd be better to say its like all them DC and Marvel etc. Super Hero series in the US. See, BRS: The Game was a story set in a post apocalyptic world where Aliens invaded Earth and the Humans are fighting back against the Aliens.
BRS having just been awakened helps fight alongside the humans to fight off the Alien invasion and try to save the human race which is almost extinct...If some of this sounds very familiar thats because this anime is closer to the game's story in terms of setting than it is the previous 2 anime series however, despite this, some of the same themes from past anime series are still here. (Hope and despair and not giving up) Make no mistake though, the anime is NOT telling the game's story, the two stories are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Just as one example for this anime that's not a spoiler, instead of Aliens from the game its an AI that humans created thats trying to kill humanity. BRS' origins are also completely different between the two and, as said before, each BRS series, whether anime, game or otherwise has different characters who yes, may share the same name as another character in another universe, but are not the same character at all. BRS is one of a handful of those individuals who shares the BRS name.
Now that you know this, I want you to go into this with an OPEN MIND should you decide to watch any BRS anime, especially this one. This one has some cliches yes but those don't ruin the anime or hinder it and it is my hope that BRS fans will be more open minded in the future. This anime doesn't deserve the low ratings which are, imo, over reactions and thus unfair and unjust ratings just because its nothing like the 1st two anime series and I DOUBT the mobile game thats set to release this year (barring a delay or cancellation...) will be like what BRS fans might be expecting from a character and story perspective too. Fyi, I HIGHLY recommend playing BRS: The Game if you are able too, its a great game and has 2 endings, maybe more I forget but 2 for sure endings as there may've been a 3rd ending being a bad ending, I forget (Look up a spoiler free guide for how to get the endings, I forget how to get the endings) If nothing else I believe the game has playthroughs on Youtube though its more fun to actually play if you can vs. watching the game being played
Back to this anime, despite a few cliches (emphasis on a few, not many), its been interesting and good and I love the mystery the anime had but I have to say the anime needed 1 more episode but that aside, I rate it a 7.0 out of 10. Its a GOOD anime and a GOOD adaptation of BRS and again, they've done a similar story for BRS with BRS: The Game on PSP but as stated before, both the game and Dawn Fall anime have very different stories and characters and endings too. So many fans calling this not BRS when it is very much so BRS. BRS' CORE theme is hope in the depths of darkness and despair and BRS is typically that hope. How this plays out in Dawn Fall is interesting and BRS isn't alone in trying to save humanity. There are some twists you may not see coming, for example in my case I did not see why Lunatic, aka Artimis, aka the AI trying to wipe out humanity, is trying to wipe out humanity. She chose the perfect name for herself alright, Lunatic suits her both in her craziness and in the reference to the moon with the luna in her name. I won't spoil why she's doing this, that's for you to find out as it was one of many mysteries. I enjoyed BRS: Dawn Fall, just wish it got 1 more episode to tie up some loose ends... and I really enjoyed the mystery aspect BRS: Dawn Fall had, it, alongside the characters are what helped to bring this story, the characters and world and their reality to life and considering what kind of story this is, that's a MUST and they nailed it.
It is my hope, you will look past the negative reviews and misguided beliefs on who and what BRS is as this review has tried to point out who and what both the character and the series BRS is/are. Many don't like the slight changes in her design for example, thats nothing new, she always gets changes to her design and so on with every adaptation yet some people make it sound like they butchered both her design and story of BRS when they did not and her design is close enough to all the other BRS characters. Dead Master's design changed a lot here, that is true, but again she is not the same Dead Master as in previous BRS series and I actually liked this Dead Master. What I'm trying to say is, its better if you go into this with an open mind instead of a closed off one and if you like mysteries you might just enjoy BRS: Dawn Fall, long as you have an open mind.
This review was brought to you by a BRS fan whose seen all the anime pretty much and played BRS: The Game, for whatever that's worth to you. Its my hope this info and my review will help you have a more open mind to this anime and thus a more enjoyable experience.
PixelB
Black Rock Shooter, for the third time in a row, is a swing and a miss. Apparently, Black Rock Shooter was initially designed by Ryohei Fuke, but I think almost all of us came to know and love this work from Supercell’s music video, “Black★Rock Shooter.” I love Vocaloid, I love Supercell’s works, yet I never watched the anime or OVA when it came out since I basically knew that an anime based off a music video is basically destined to be terrible. I watched them both by sheer coincidence just months ago, and it’s safe to say that both of them were pretty horrendous. Ithink anyone who watched the music video would have just wanted a stylized Miku fight some baddies with her cool motorcycle and katana. Instead, you were subjected to the most mediocre and edgy melodrama, with intermittent scenes of actual fun action in between. It’s safe to say that the OVA and the anime series both were poorly written. Yet, despite that, both shows had a surprisingly good production quality. The anime actually used CGI, which honestly still is better than 99% of the garbage anime CGI out there today. So I came with very low expectations for the 2022 adaptation, especially with Disney collaborating on the show, considering that Netflix has created just about zero good shows so far. Well, safe to say, production value wise, Disney trumps Netflix by large margins.
This show too, uses CGI, and it’s also one of the very few anime whose CGI isn’t terrible. It’s not amazing, but the show uses a mix of hand animation and CGI on the models, like the hair and eyes, so this works out. I was pretty disappointed with the fight scenes. The main reason to use CGI is to have good fight scenes that would cost way too much to animate in 2D unless you’re Ufotable. The original Black Rock Shooter does show a good depth of space and fight scenes that highlights the CGI usage, but I just don’t see it here. The 2022 adaptation’s fights aren’t really impressive, and it’s actually the high detail CGI backgrounds that impress me the most. That’s when the show bothers to put on a background. 60% of the show’s backgrounds are desert, flat ground, or white space, so there’s that. However, fights are still passable. Production value of the show is still nice. It’s got a good budget, and certainly not the reason for me to hate the show
That brings me to the thing that kills this show of any joy: the story. Remember how I said that anyone who watched the original music video would have been satisfied with a stylized Miku fighting some baddies? At the very least, this show DOES get rid of the crappy melodrama plot from the previous adaptations, but instead, it brings in the most underdeveloped, “ambitious”, and trope filled sci-fi plot. I say “ambitious” since a lot of shounen/action media tend to fall under two categories: overly generic, or overly ambitious with all of the problems of the former, but with a plot that doesn’t make any sense at all.
This show starts off with Black Rock Shooter saying cringe stuff like “I gotta find lighthouse 8,” while also suffering amnesia. Later on, there’s also a “special drug” that the MC takes to gain super strength, but only for a brief moment of time. Any longer, and there will be permanent damage! Wow, that doesn’t ring any bells at all. Did I mention that Black Rock Shooter also is kind and wants to save humanity? Already off to a great start! But wait! It’s also “Sci-fi.” The sci-fi part is complete bullshit. The show introduces a bunch of sci-fi jargon that doesn’t matter because it never gets expanded upon. Worldbuilding is non-existent. Most of the humans that you see in the show get mowed down immediately like npcs because they’re part of an “evil organization,” because that’s exactly what they are: they do not matter to the story at all. Also, for an MC that grieves at any human dying, they really don’t care about saving humans when killing anyone that belongs to the evil “education institute” organization.
I could go on and on about why the sci-fi is horribly executed, but I’ll just mention one of the many plot holes. The show’s entire foundation and premise is that there’s an evil AI that went rogue. Ok, great, but if humanity is still functioning (which it is), why the hell hasn’t there been another AI created to counter it? There’s so many plot holes and poorly established worldbuilding principles, that the only purpose of this sci-fi is an excuse for the characters to have OP abilities, weapons, and their badass motorcycles. This is where I ask: why not just make the genre fantasy? If you’re not expanding on the sci-fi principles, the only reason you’re even introducing the stuff to begin with is to have people have OP superpowers, then just stick with magic. It’s just so much simpler. Instead, you got girls with sci-fi superpowers fighting alongside humans that still have fucking and use military vehicles that don’t look any more modern than what we have now. Apparently, only a select few people can have OP superpowers, while the rest of the humans are forced to stick with their centuries old weaponry. I kid you not, despite having the easy option of having an evil demon lord or something try to destroy the world, in episode 11, they decide to have the villain explain the “nuclear fusion reactor” that’s going to destroy humanity for 73 seconds straight. There’s 73 seconds of sci-fi bullshit being explained on how the planet is going to be destroyed. Lovely. The ending itself is pretty generic, the only noticeable thing about it is that they finally pay homage to Supercell’s Black Rock Shooter at the very end.
Characters are asinine. The Colonel and Monica are the only two remotely good characters, but even they are quite generic and boring. The characters with superpowers, especially the “good guys” are terribly made. There’s a gimmick to all of them. One of them is a yandere, the other has a split “gap” personality. The MC’s only personality trait is that she’s “kind and wants to save humanity.” There’s conflict between the MC’s group of friends. The yandere wants to kill her, and the girl with split personality also wants to. Not that it matters, since once the MC recruits them, they’re just there to add to the numbers. There’s a comically short amount of time dedicated to their character development in which they turn from foe to friend.
What is the time that should have been spent on character development? Yes, it’s the story. Yes, there really needed to be an entire episode dedicated to fixing Black Rock Shooter’s motorcycle. There also had to be like 6 episodes dedicated to destroying the “educational institute” for no reason at all. There was this one side story episode focused on Isana, which was one of the better episodes since Monica was the main focus. Yet, even then, Monica is also a comic relief character that says stuff like “let’s have sex” to Black Rock Shooter. Oh yes, peak comedy. Get it? It’s funny, since Black Rock Shooter doesn’t know what sex is, and Monica gives a misleading definition of it to her. Wow, I’m sure that won’t be brought up again!
This show could have been a generic fantasy show with focus on character development, and I probably would have liked it. Instead, it’s an overly complicated sci-fi filled with plot holes and irrelevant plot points. Rather than explaining anything, the show’s main focus is still just “kill the baddies.” Even towards the very end of the anime, there’s still exposition dumps everywhere to make sense of the crappy story.
coldasicee
People gets Dawn Fall wrong and they forget a lot of things about the first anime. First of all, BRS is originally a character created for a music from Ryo. The lyrics are about surpassing obstacles and the past. Then the first anime, which had a story based on the lyrics on the view of the anime's creators, Ezaki and Yoshioka (won't elaborate to avoid spoilers), it's very beautiful and deep. Thesecond adaptation is also based on the lyrics but in a different way, you have to remember that Black Rock Shooter is a music video character based on Miku and that's it. All adaptations have all the freedom they want to create stuff. And the post apocalyptic world was the choice this time.
Arts: it's a fresh take much appreciated since we already had an adaptation with the original artwork. They kept the roots but adding freshness to it and with that enabling the creating of more figures and merchandise (smart move).
Graphics: yes, it's 50% or more CGI, but some folks tend to forget that the first adaptation was also the same way lol. And honestly? This is one of the best blended CGI I've seen, this is high hopes for the future. Of course there were some bad CGI here and there but that was only for small moments, crowds and stuff like that. If you are complaining about CGI you should first worry about the lack of frames per second that almost every anime has. We have tools that even I can use AI to increase FPS without hurting quality.
Story: it's a whole new take on Black Rock Shooter. And it was much appreciated by me. I'm not going to lie and pretend I wasn't expecting something like the first adaptation. But it was their choice and it was good. A lot of references from classics like Blade Runner and The Matrix and a conclusion that brought tears to my eyes when I thought of the lyrics.
With all that said, Dawn Fall is a new take on the original lyrics and they managed to keep the emotions, even if in an unexpected way.
Black Rock Shooter will always be there, for all of us, helping us overcome all of our difficulties, it doesn't matter when, how or where.
Soilborn
Black Rock Shooter has a wide array of good media out there. This is not one of them. The story is interesting in premise, for about 15 minutes, at which point it turns pretty rote and goes pretty much where you expect it to. The badassery that the franchise banks heavily on is absent. The mix of CGI and 2D art is worse than Inuyashiki; there were a number of times when I questioned how static the Colonel's model was attached to that vehicle's gunner seat. This was an effort to get through, and I had to choke it down. If you're a fan of the franchise,I suggest you stay away. And if you insist, I'm sorry.
Drougn
Sad and depressing, and not just the story, the animation was bad, the plot was full of holes, the Character designs left me scratching my head. The only positive thing I can say was the end twist involving the antagonists plan was satisfying, that's it. The foul language and mentions of certain acts definitely left me feeling awkward especially after seeing the previous show. Nothing felt genuine, and everything felt forced, clearly a franchise being milked with lackluster content. The story was generic, the art style poorly implicated, the Characters were too sex driven at the start just to abandon it entirely, i highly recommendthe original show but not this.
Ranacchi
When this anime was first announced I was immensely excited for it, I missed out on the first Black Rock Shooter hype trains my anticipation was through the roof. Before you go into this show, let me warn you about one thing. It's different, very different from the other 2 installments released prior. Don't go in expecting more like that, if the previous 2 weren't to your liking however, you might enjoy this one more.Story:
I didn't like it very much in the beginning, the topics it touched on aren't my kind of topics. I don't like to see that sort of stuff in anime.
Later on it got better as the focus shifted away from those to some more to my liking.
Art:
Buyers beware, it's a CGI show. Though I didn't exactly mind it, during some scenes it really amused me and only a few times did it stand out poorly.
I enjoy the designs of the characters (except for one). I much prefer this version of DM. Strength also got a makeover which to me looks fine, same with Black Rock Shooter herself.
Sound:
Not sure what to say about this. The themes are fine, the audio too. The characters didn't sound "off" or anything.
Characters:
From the beginning episodes I already really liked Black Rock Shooter's personality, her chemistry with most early other characters is pleasant to watch. Some of the other early characters unfortunately weren't as interesting, some made me curse they'd go off-screen sooner rather than later. Further on this changed, a dynamic and lovely trio was established who really bounced off of each other well.
Enjoyment:
My experience with this show was very mixed as you can probably tell by the other points. There were some really good highs, some awful lows... the majority of the anime was just alright, though.
If it hadn't gone with the early topics and gone straight to "the meat of the show" I would've liked it a lot more. A lot of the conflicts seemed unnatural to me and forced into there to have something happen to one of the mains. One of my favorite scenes contained a bit of a backstory for the character names which was surprisingly creative and I really appreciated that.
I honestly really like black rock shooter as a franchise so I'm grateful we at least got this show.
What I hope for is that if they make a sequel or a spinoff, they'll do a slightly better job at writing the story for it.
Black Rock Shooter has a lot of potential so I hope they utilize more of it next time. It was an attempt. Not a good one, but merely a tolerable one. Plenty room to do better next time!
Thanks for reading, I hope you have a wonderful day!
Pinzonff8
I loved the nods to the previous animation, especially the final scene. I personally think that you will be hooked from beginning to end without any doubt, I assure you, the ending is not predictable at all, on the contrary, you think that it is on a safe course and suddenly it gives us an unexpected slap in the face, I really liked that aspect, the change in the animation style is considerable, but personally I loved it a lot because of the use of cgi for the theme of the machines, but especially the scenarios, which I feel it makes them very realistic, thesoundtrack is not even mentioned, it is excellent, especially in the action scenes and in the drama, to conclude I think that this anime is made for true fans of black rock shooter.
tessaiga97
I just watched the last episode and I'm extremely sad because I really like this franchise, they rushed through practically the entire anime and in the end it didn't show the outcome of the story. On the other hand, I really liked the villain Lunatic who was very charismatic The characters, Strength and Dead Master are pretty cool.. I missed the Black Gold Saw that unfortunately didn't appear due to the change in the anime's story The anime has a vulgar image/language and at times I laughed at some +18 jokes In my opinion it could have been much better, but if you're a big fan like me ofthe Black Rock Shooter series then it's obvious you should watch it
KodySapphire
THIS SHIT WAS ASS BROOOO, I am so dissapointed at how this turned out!!! The excessive fanservice through the main villain, the way deadmaster's name was given. Even the characters were dissapointing! Although not everything was bad I give it that, the CGI was pretty cool, the opening was a banger 10/10 song, and... Damn its just that. The random ass power ups and transformation in the middle of the series and at the end of the show was stupid and the fact that our mc lived after her death without a single logical excuse is bumming. I hope that the next BRS show is as goodor better than the original show.
Teresey
i personally am generous when it comes to expectations, i was a big fan of BRS as a kid. I liked the anime because of how it tries a unique art style mixed with CGI. however i find it weird how some designs in this show are sexualised. i can only point out one of the non humanoid monsters, which looks like they have a pp for a blaster.. so weird. the story was decent at best, i am generous when it comes to expectations. they offer some major choices yet also find a way to work around any bad things happening, leading up toa desirable ending.
I like it? I'm really confused about the ending though, it seems like they ran out of budget and had to cut it short.
mew6two3
This anime was much better than I was expecting. It starts off sort of generic, with an apocalyptic war scenario. But the animation was really unique, even though I’m not a fan of the style in other works. The story eventually pulled me in, it definitely has an Ai / Antichrist type of situation, big robot evil world savior guy, was used to “educate” mean bad humans. And now there are robots everywhere patrolling and wiping out humans. Black Rock Shooter and her squad of cuties (from other BRS works/merch) come in to help the humans. I probably enjoyed it more than most people becauseI’m a sucker for symbolism. And there’s a really cool call back to the orgin of BRS at the very end of the last episode. It melted my heart.
Reviewholic
I have never seen any form of Black Rock Shooter other than reading negative reviews of the first few anime. So I watched Dawn Fall with low expectation. For the most part, this anime heavily reminds me of Mad Max. Some extremely vulgar stuff like sex and gore that aren't fully displayed or animated, so it feels a little light-hearted despite the horrible context. Most the characters are messed up and stupidly volatile. The main protagonist and friends have the classic plot-convenient amnesia and rely on it for easy development. The plot is straightforward. Despite mainly using 3D animation, the show doesn't have stellar action scenes.Throughout the show, most of the action sequences are sloppily animated, and some important boss fights are awful. However, the first and last episodes have solid action.
At least the sound is done right, music is constantly played and build up to the scene. Sound effects are decent, sometimes wonky.
Unfortunately, I did enjoy the ending. It has the right amount of tension and some nice character moments. Not enough to redeem the overall quality of the series, sadly. At the very least, Dawn Fall isn't a horrible show.
