Black★Rock Shooter

Black★Rock Shooter is the incarnation of the Black★Rock Shooter character appearing in the 2012 anime.

She is the "other self" of Mato Kuroi.

Appearance
The original concept of Black★Rock Shooter was redesigned for the anime, with some new elements possibly inspired by the designs of White Rock Shooter and Black★Rock Shooter Beast, as her new jacket and boots (which are now more blue than black) have similarities to both WRS' and B★RSB's clothing, as well as a pair of black denim shorts. Like Stella's appearance in the PSP game, her hairstyle is more spiky compared to her other incarnations. Unlike her original concept and her OVA incarnation, she does not have any scars on her midriff which is similar to her Manga incarnation. She wears two belts just like Insane Black★Rock Shooter a crooked white belt and a brown belt and she also wears her trademark hood more often than she does in other media. She is a little short for her age, standing at about 158cm (without the high heels on her boots), close to Yomi's height. She has a very small and thin disproportionate figure, as she is very skinny. She is supposedly said to be rather light, weighing about 90 lbs.

Like all of the "other selves" appearing in the anime, her blue eyes have a circular pattern in them.

Personality
She is very calm and silent while fighting, but tends to have a rather savage side to her. She professes herself to have no feelings and to work only from her nature. She seems to say things exactly as they are, being very blunt and rather proud.

She seems to be more brutal than any other B★RS incarnation, having beheaded Chariot and Arata's other self, and killed Dead Master, and as Insane Black★Rock Shooter, attempted to kill Black★Gold Saw and Strength. She appears to be rather mentally unstable, often making unpredictable decisions and actions. She seems to have no regard of anyone's feelings as she coldly mocked Mato's feeble attempts to fight and continued fighting Strength regardless of her human self's cries. She is a very mysterious, yet sadistic person and can actually be quite taunting of her enemy in battle. She seems very confident in her ability, almost to the point where she thinks she can defeat anyone. She becomes noticably irritated if she is not winning a battle. She does not seem to care if people die as long as she achieves her goal.

Abilities
Although she shows weakness in combat often, she can be skilled enough to defeat even more powerful opponents than her, as well as take on armies single-handedly. Her attacks focus more on offensive and evasive maneuvers, having skill with ranged weaponry and great prowess in wielding close-quarter weapons. She also uses her unique athletic abilities in combat, being shown to be able to do many flips and dodges. Black★Rock Shooter wastes no time in her movement, taking in every single aspect of the fight. When she kills her opponent, her left eye causes a blue flame to emerge from it. Her motif seems to have blue flames. Many of her abilities are either vaguely shown, or unknown.

Black★Rock Shooter's endurance is immense, being able to survive merciless pounding, impalement, slicing, bullets, being crushed, grinded, and many other things. Despite this, she still manages to stand up and fight effectively.

Black★Rock Shooter has displayed superhuman feats of speed and agility on numerous occasions. She can move at incredible speeds, leap long distances, react with perfect accuracy, and dodge attacks faster than the eye can see. She also displays great finesse in combat.

While Black★Rock Shooter has shown no obvious signs of possessing superhuman strength, she seems to be able to wield her Rock Cannon, which looks quite heavy, with great ease.

Trivia

 * Even though Black★Rock Shooter's character artwork shows her without her jacket on, she is always shown wearing it throughout the entire anime.
 * One possible reason she does not have any scars on her midriff would be because the injuries the "other selves" receive heal much more quickly than ones received humans by in the real world do, as she stated to Mato.
 * This is the first time that Black★Rock Shooter becomes an antagonist due to her becoming I.BRS.
 * This incarnation of B★RS appears in the game Lord of Vermillion Re:2, dressed in her attire in the anime series.
 * Her belts are colored differently in each of her artworks; sometimes her other belt and the belt on her jacket is colored brown, while in other artworks (you can see it in her concept art), those belts were colored black.
 * In some of her artworks, her crooked belt is in a straighter position.
 * The sole on her boots are also black in her initial concept.
 * Though it appears her jacket is colored blue, it's actually the hue of the background that makes her jacket blue.
 * Unlike Yuu (as Strength), Mato as B★RS doesn't move her mouth when talking, only using B★RS's telepathic ability to speak.
 * Her figma has the exact same eye flame accessory of the BRS2035 figma. Also, the upper portion of her figma has the same mechanism as the White Rock Shooter figma, albeit without the White Wing units.
 * She is said to be about 16-18 years old (at least mentally for an otherself's true lifespan is unknown) while her human self, Mato is 13 years old.
 * She seems to be one of the shortest otherselves.
 * She is shown to heal alot faster than the other otherselves. This is displayed most prominently when she is insane.
 * In many references and fanworks, Black Rock Shooter is said to be a demon, both metaphorically, and literally. Her behavior in the anime supports this most of all.
 * Black Rock Shooter does have fangs even though she is said not to. They are rarely shown but can be spotted in episodes 7-8 (both as Insane Black Rock Shooter, and in regular form.)
 * In the anime opening, she is shown to have a power similar to Black Gold Saw's observing, large "eyes". No evidence for this is shown in the anime or anywhere else.
 * She is very often depicted to have either a blue flame or a white star motif. A rather rare theme of hers is also black strings and/or chess pieces.
 * The most debatable aspect of Black Rock Shooter would be her height, as multiple heights have been stated for her and her designed drawings sometimes show her to be the same height as Mato Kuroi or Yomi Takanashi (not to mention she wears high heels and appears taller). She should be around 158cm (more or less). (Her template is in need of some editing as well)
 * Black Rock Shooter's blue flame is only ignited when she defeats an enemy, but after her transformation to Insane Black Rock Shooter, her purple eye flame seems rather active than her blue flame.
 * She, along with IBRS, are the only figmas from the 2012 BRS line that have "rusted" effects on their weapons. The rest don't have this effect, unlike the OVA versions which all have this effect on their weapons.