Anime ATM 56 Black Rock Shooter OVA

This all began with my otaku friend and I talking about Hibike Euphonium and how there aren't many GL anime out there. And then she introduced me to the BRS world. And then I watched the OVA at midnight and couldn't fall asleep.

{Spoilers}

Oh boy. Let me just say that like a lot of OVA's out there there's not a whole lot of explanation of what the heck is going on. Like it didn't even click that the blue fiery stuff coming out of her gun were rocks until I thought about the title and was like "Oh yeah she's the only one with a gun so that means those fiery things are rocks!" *claps for self for being so slow* So there's a lot of confusion to be sure and a lot of go-betweens with the two different worlds. And there's never a clear explanation so I hope you like ambiguity because that's all you're getting if you watch this.

Something that really convinced me to watch the 8 episode anime was well 1. the promise from my friend that there would be a more fleshed out plot in the anime and 2. the animation is so beautiful. It kind of reminds me of RWBY and Madoka Magica if there was a mashup between the two. Because there's a super badass fighting girl aesthetic which reminds me of RWBY and there's a kind of psychedelic thing going on with the different girls fighting each other and a lot of colored flames and whatnot, kind of like when Madoka faced the witches in mini alternate worlds (sorry it's been a while since I've watched Madoka Magica so excuse my inaccuracies). But the fluidity of the animations I could watch all day. It's so beautiful. If you can't stand slightly creepy things then at least watch fight scene GIFs because those are so amazing.

Again there's a lot of creepiness going on. I just watched the first episode of the anime and I'm scared. Also the anime and OVA are pretty different, even Yomi's hair is different. And how Yomi and Mato become friends. And Yuu's dynamic. I think the thing that freaked me out the most was that last clip of Yuu in the OVA. I died. And also what happened to Yomi??? It ended so weirdly. That's why I gotta keep watching.

Overall I'd say if you can tolerate Madoka Magica and that eerie creepy atmosphere you can get through this OVA. Or better yet watch the anime for more GL, because to be honest it wasn't that starkly present in the OVA. It's really pretty from an artistic standpoint though so at least try it out!

This scene made me want to learn how to make GIFs!!

Look at this grungy atmosphere. She's so cool ugh

SO COOOOOOL

I thought she was cute...I feel unfairly betrayed

Anime Blurb 50 Hiyokoi OVA

So I watched this long, long ago before the war was even conceptualized. I dunno what this means, but it sounds cool right? I had forgotten how blatantly awkward and relatively succinct everything was. Huh...

{Spoilers, but who really cares because you could always watch it in 22 minutes and then come back to read this to relive the kawaii-ness}

So the premise of this story is that there's this really short girl that got hit by a bus (??!) which prevented her from starting school with the others. I really don't understand how you can recover from getting hit by a bus in less that six months but okay??? And since she's really shy it's hard for her to make friends, but since she made friends with the popular kid she made hecka friends in one day. If you didn't get the hint already, this is a highly ideal situation and not likely to happen in real life like ever. And the guy is super tall so if you really like the extreme height difference trope maybe this is something you wanna check out.

Overall this anime OVA is extremely short at less than 23 minutes. There's a manga if you want more of this kind of thing. It's really cute for the doki-dokis. We've got some lil colorful spheres going on floating around and spinning flowers. Really good stuff here. And we've got some nice supportive characters. Honestly if you have 22 minutes then you have no real reason not to watch this OVA. It's short, it's cute, and it's kind of relatable if you're awkward like me. I can't say that you can find the best quality of this, the Youtube video is literally 240 pixels (which is why my screenshots suck, excuse me T^T I have failed), but it's a really good short watch. You don't have to think too much about whether to watch this or not because it just fills you with really fond fuzzies inside.

This is gonna be me my whole first year at college >~< I'm really not looking forward to the social part

This is probably the most iconic scene of Hiyokoi, actually kinda all I remember from watching the first time. The pain! The horror! The trauma!

I can't get over the lil chick on her head. If they sold a barrette of this I'd be down to wear it.

I could've ended it with a picture of Hiyori's blooming love...but I really just enjoy the relatable awkwardness which is her so...ya here you go