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ok lay it out for me
i wanna get into BRS
tell me step by step what i need to watch first and whatever.
Watch the PV with the original song:
Then either read the manga or play the video game, because the OVA is a waste of ~40 minutes of your time (though you can find the Abridged version [ETA: the one by gg], which cuts it down to the ~10 minutes that
are worth watching).
And the anime is just... ugh. I think I watch it because I get to hear Miku in the OP, but that's about it.
ETA: And some history of BRS:
1. Huke draws an image of a girl with skimpy clothes, twintails, one eye that's surrounded by a blue flame, and wielding a huge freakin' gun; her name is Black Rock Shooter.
2. The image inspires Supercell to write a song titled "Black Rock Shooter", using Vocaloid software to do the vocals.
3. Huke finds out, joins forces with Supercell, and illustrates a PV for the song, using his character.
4. The PV becomes pretty popular once it gets posted on Nico Nico Douga (it gets something like 2 million views after a year of being up).
5. Somehow, Studio Ordet gets interested and decides to do an OVA featuring BRS.
6. The OVA gets made and released. People are sorely disappointed by how crappy the OVA is - in 50 minutes, they show about 10 minutes of BRS, and timeskip an entire year of school. Also, the song never once makes an appearance, except at the very end,
before the actual ED song, where you hear a few light piano notes that play out a short segment.
7. We pretty lose all hope that an anime is going to get made, because seriously, that OVA was not very good or popular.
8. BRS manga gets published at some point.
9. Imageepoch releases the BRS video game in August of 2011; the game has illustrations by ufotable, who are far better artists and animators than Studio Ordet. There are two premium versions: Black Rock Shooter and White Rock Shooter. Each version comes with an awesome FIGMA of the respective character.
10.
Earlier this year, NISA does a US localization of the BRS video game. NISA confirms that they're localizing the BRS video game for US and EU.
11. BRS anime happens. It's just as bad as the OVA, IMO.
-- Griffinhart