No.8784
It was made by a japanese fella so it's an anime, simple as.
No.8785
>>8784This
And Aeon Flux is manhwa
No.8786
Not an anglo so I'm not autistic about categories.
No.8789
I dislike Rooster Teeth as a company, was always indifferent about RWBY but RIP Monty.
No.8801
It's basically an anime because it's made bya a jap with weebs as his assistants, it's more than an imitation of japanimation style/jokes like ATLA has.
As a show/anime it's alright, not my favorite, but the memes and fanfiction are fun.
No.8807
>>8783How did machinima become anime?
No.8846
>>8807rwby was made in poser originally so its not machieama
No.8862
>>8847>final panel is autistic screeching Classic RWBY memes.
No.9801
I find RWBY to be largely boring despite its interesting ideas. Ironically like Fairy Tail however, its rather ripe for fanfiction crossovers.
>>8785Imma be honest… who gives a damn? It follows anime aesthetics, it's in this board, ergo anime, no need to be technical.
No.9805
The way they do the white fang is such a lib take. A completely discarded subplot. And after
The fall of Beacon Ruby basically gets fucked over as a character. White Fang is done poorly but not inaccurately. It's supposed to be a rebellion but it just acts like shit a lot of the time. What they really don't explore is WHY there is anti-faunus sentiment. They're not that fucking different and if the cultures evolved at similar times and close proximity there ought to be no racist concepts in it. There's a reason why Orcs and elves are portrayed as very different in physical and cultural aspects to humans.
>inb4 "but black racism"Racism towards black people did not just arise because "dem negros are too dark skinned" But because of a multitude of reasons - cultural differences, stage of socio-economic development differences, etc. After modern chattel slavery and modern politics took the stage and people were already used to racism as a concept, THEN we get discrimination solely because of skin-color (and the associations that come with them). The same applies to Faunus, except more so, they didn't randomly arise on another continent away and get discovered by humans, they arose WITH humanity, so where did the racism come from? IMO they should have made a much stronger emphasis on animal traits (a la Monster Girls).
Miles and Kerry said themselves that they couldn't accurately write discrimination because they were white males and didn't know how to properly represent the oppression of minorities, but really it’s just laziness on their part. Being a "White Male" has nothing to do with it. Irish were an oppressed minority in the British Empire, and I've sure as hell read some good depictions of minority oppression written well by whites (To Kill a Mockingbird anyone?).
Adam was definitely nazbol. The White Fang's violence over-all isn't the issue, but Adam's portrayal seemed to make him a borderline sadist because "muh villain!!!". I'd be ok with him being a sadist, what I can't stand is that he went from extremist leader of a terrorist group to stalking, abusive ex-boyfriend. I'd say his character is too irrational to be the leader of a revolution ever, but he's the villain of a badly written cartoon show. They made him a sadist because it's the only way for the writers to show he's the villain since everyone who watched the show came to realize White Fangs are in the right (did they seriously expect people to sympathize with a corporation that uses slave labor just because the heir of said corporation is one of the main characters?).
But then Edgy Sadist Adam only made him cooler, so the writers to decide to make him even more obsessed with Blake. I'd have preferred a more level-headed villain, but heh, it's still a lib show that makes a horrible job in portraying minorities. I'm more surprised there aren't any money obsessed not-jews in Remnant. Then again making Adam a sadist is a bit of a libtard thing if you know a lot about the liberal mindset. Liberals dont think that people who hold beliefs outside "Muh window" are acting rationally or in good faith and are just acting out their personal problems on society as a whole. Obviously this actually does apply to some people (/pol/yp's) but not pro-civil rights revolutionaries. Also making Adams ideology that he wants to murder all humans indiscriminately makes him more like Idi Amin then say Mandela, Malcolm or MLK jr.
This is a fairly common sentiment too:
https://old.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/b4a21i/adam_was_always_a_flawed_character/ No.9857
>>8783For the first 3 seasons, RWBY was dumb fun with a bit of intriguing, mysterious, promising worldbuilding. Then it got loathsomely slow and self-serious with at least 2 major plotholes and out of character moments an episode. The worldbuilding was largely squandered or retconned. I finally dropped it because it just got just too retarded. Later seasons RWBY is fractally, holistically flawed. It's the anime equivalent of The Last Jedi. You cannot fix any one flaw because every flaw depends on every previous flaw, which intersect to create a resulting even greater flaw. Attempting to "fix" it would create something so drastically different as to bear no resemblance.
No.9858
>Adam was definitely nazbol. The White Fang's violence over-all isn't the issue, but Adam's portrayal seemed to make him a borderline sadist because "muh villain!!!". I'd be ok with him being a sadist, what I can't stand is that he went from extremist leader of a terrorist group to stalking, abusive ex-boyfriend. I'd say his character is too irrational to be the leader of a revolution ever, but he's the villain of a badly written cartoon show.
IMO, Adam has barely any characterization before he becomes "el nightmare ex". He's just a generic edgy cool dude. You can infer that he might be an activist/driven revolutionary from his social position, but you can't really see it because he has like 5 lines of dialogue in the first 3 seasons. I was actually surprised when I first came across the "Adam is Lenin/Fred Hampton!" take, because I didn't recognize that as what the writers were trying to do with him. I really feel like people are reading what they wish they saw into him, which, I completely understand as I wish they had gone much further in that direction.
>I'd say his character is too irrational to be the leader of a revolution ever, but he's the villain of a badly written cartoon show. They made him a sadist because it's the only way for the writers to show he's the villain since everyone who watched the show came to realize White Fangs are in the right (did they seriously expect people to sympathize with a corporation that uses slave labor just because the heir of said corporation is one of the main characters?).
Correct. The need to spell out everyone and everything as explicitly good or explicitly evil is a pervasive problem with the Miles+Kerry's writing and screams immaturity.
No.9867
>>9858>screams immaturity.Yep, I honestly think that RWBY started off with some really good concepts and new takes on "le magical girl fighting team" idea (such as the concept of Aura, which acted as a plausible excuse for characters to survive otherwise impossibly fatal attacks) and then just ruined it because they had no long-term plan after
Beacon's Fall. This really shows in fanfictions, where people can sometimes really expand and remove the initial flaws and so prevent that "Last Jedi"-tier muckup you described.
No.9871
>>9857I keep watching it because it's like watching a trainwreck, but I honestly can't recommend it to anyone. There are so many dumb things, it's like the writers have no idea how to do their job.
Speaking of Adam and White Fangs: I always thought it was weird that Weiss, a porky racist, never apologized to Blake for her racism. Part of Weiss growth as a character is that at some point she realized that racism against faunus is wrong and that maybe if she wasn't part of the fantasy equivalent of a Virginian landowner, no faunus would have attacked her family business. I guess it's a bit awkward to say "Hey Blake, sorry for being racist and for using your kind as cheap labour", but still.
Another weird thing is the secondary villains are the White Fangs, a group that fights for the rights of faunus. They want to make a point how racism is wrong, yet when the main characters aren't busy killing monsters they beat up faunus who dared to attack a corporation that uses them as slaves. What RWBY is showing isn't exactly subtle for Americans and for people who know a bit of American history, but the writers are handling it with the usual "the path to hell is paved with good intentions" bullshit: sure faunus are oppressed and stuff, but maybe they should fight it with online petitions instead of taking up arms to fight those who work them to death. Oh and the fact that Huntsman are basically supercops doesn't help. No character is really bothered by racism against faunus, with the exception of faunus and maybe their human friends.
Adam was supposed to be an edgelord who wants to take revenge on humans, but it was later rewritten as a stalker obsessed with his ex. The more fans thought that white fangs were right, the more the writers tried to paint them as stupidly evil. And let's not talk about the lesbian faunus who was in love with Blake…
No.9875
>>9871>Weiss, a porky racist, never apologized to Blake for her racismI'd reckon because that would be even more hollow and cartoonish, than them instead simply becoming friends.
>the lesbian faunus who was in love with Blake Oh no, not that…
No.9890
>>9875To me it seems they simply swept under the rag the fact that one of the titular protagonists was racist.
No.9891
>>9890Well not really, Weiss herself wasn't racist so much as her Father and his company. Regardless of her attitude, she was raised a snobby rich girl which is where most of her prissiness comes from. It's less her character being racist and more the writers not having her address and confront anything about the company, they didn't even pull an Asami Sato situation.
No.9892
>>9891In the first season, before Blake reveals she's a faunus, Weiss said a lot of racist things about faunus like how they're terrorists, how she doesn't trust them and so on. Is it because she was born into a porky family that exploits faunus? Of course, and she eventually realizes she was wrong, etc. The point is she never apologized to Blake, you might say it's not necessary to do it because they're now bros 4 life, but I think even a small "Hey Blake, sorry for being a cunt" would have made a difference. Is it cheesy? Is it clichè? Maybe, but it'd fit the show.
> It's less her character being racist and more the writers not having her address and confront anything about the companyAnd in the latest season she used her company's unlimited power FOR GOOD. Checkmate commies!
No.9899
>>9892>company's unlimited power FOR GOOD. Checkmate commies!based and wholesome
No.9900
>>9899 >Hurr muh charity!!!Begone filthy capitalist
No.9901
For real though I haven't actually watched this show so I won't judge too much but I think the racism against people with animal ears thing is one of the most hilariously stupid ideas I've ever seen in this kind of work
No.9902
>>9900>Hurr muh charity!!!I didn't say charity
I said based and wholesome owo
No.9903
>>9901it like da fire emblyums
No.9904
>>9901It's even worse if you watch it.
No.9906
I absolutely LOVE Salem's character design but I'd rather not watch the thing.
No.9909
>>9903Didn't RWBY come out before Fire Emblem?
No.9913
>>9912Never mind, I'm a dumbass, Nobody talked about Fire Emblem until recently when a lot of rule34 started popping up on Twitter in the past year, so I assumed it was new.
No.9919
>>9908>The plot was obviously an afterthought.lol yes, they never properly explained dust.,
No.9925
>>9919Semblance either. I also hate how when magic was introduced it was treated as this completely different thing in a world where everyone and and their dog can have any superpower under the sun.
No.9926
>>9925Actually I liked that Magic was differentiated from Aura and Semblances. The latter seems to be pretty obvious to me; everyone has an aura, it's the same thing, a Semblance is a soul's individual ability, that distinguishes it's soul from others. Those who are similar (or maybe related) will have similar semblances.
No.9929
>>9925That too, and some of them are simply absurd. For example, Qrow and Clover have a semblance that grants bad luck/good luck. This means they have a
reality altering semblance that's able to influence things to go in their disfavor/favor, which is, in theory, very powerful. Of course since nobody wants to see Qrow slipping on banana peels all the time, the semblance activates only when the writers think it's convenient which is extremely lazy.
No.9947
>>9929I thought they said that Qrow's bad luck only affects people around him (thus him being a loner)
No.9948
>>9700Yeah, he still occasionally makes Manwhore videos but his other stuff is pretty good too.
No.9949
>>9948Kek, a blast to the past this is
No.9951
>>9805>Miles and Kerry said themselves that they couldn't accurately write discrimination because they were white males and didn't know how to properly represent the oppression of minoritiesWhat, they couldn't pick up a fucking book?
No.9952
>>9901> I think the racism against people with animal ears thing is one of the most hilariously stupid ideas I've ever seen in this kind of workI could see it being a thing in a world where you have these fucked up monsters running around. Even without that, if you've got capitalism, you're going to need a section of the workforce to hyper-exploit, ala the Irish, Africans, Jews, etc. I could see some rich, powerful people choosing the faunuses as that, making the argument that their animal features made them sub-human, and thus okay to exploit. Or if they had some kind of connection to the monsters (Hollows?), or were scapegoated as such.
But yeah, people not liking them just because they have cute anime ears or tails or whatever? No, not really. I mean, just look at Blake, a stereotypical kawaii-nekojin waifu. I find it extremely hard to believe that anyone's going to discriminate against that. Enslave and make into harem fodder? Sure. Make sit at the back of the bus? Not so much.
I've only seen the first season though because that's all that's dubbed in Japanese and I can't stand the English voices.
No.9955
>>9951like I said later in the sentence, yes - it's literal laziness on part of them, as well as a convenient cop-out if someone dislikes some detail about it.
>>9952>I can't stand the English voices.Really? I get Sub is usually better than Dub, but I found the show to have reasonably good voicing, especially later as the team grew in experience.
No.9957
>>9952Faunus are badly done in general: what's the point of having two sets of ears like Blake? Horns and tails are alright, but two additional ears? What's the point? I guess it was hard to hide Blake's real nature in S1 if she only had her cat ears, so now almost every faunus has both human and animal ears.
No.9958
>>9956See
>>9913 >>9957 >2 pairs of earsYeah that is anime tier dumb stuff
No.10027
>>9955The voice acting wasn't universally terrible but Ruby's was especially grating to me.
No.10028
>>10027TBH Ruby didn't annoy me, but the side characters and mooks often had annoying voices, like the bad German accent mook from episode 1 of Season 1.
No.10149
>>9957 Anyone remember back in 2014-15 people dicussed
>Why do faunus have only one trait from an animal, and why do they still have human ears if they already have cat or bunny ears? And the main ideas seemed to be something related to Grimm, to provide a legitimate motivation for why humans tend to mistreat them.
Humans tried to create better humans through genetic engineering. That created 3 distinct groups: humans, faunus and Grimm. Humans and faunus had souls/consciousness, and thus were deemed "acceptable". Grimm didn't, and were deemed "disposable". Unfortunately, the ruthlessness and numbers of the Grimm caused massive casualties among the humans and faunus, forcing them into a small number of cities and villages contained by natural barriers. Cut off from the rest of the world they once controlled, the humans and faunus became the remnant of the civilization they once were.
Of course the grimm origins are no longer a question in the fandom (although the Silver-Eye Grimm sorta dangled more idea bait for fans
No.10463
Someone should draw Blake as Alunya and then we never talk about this show again
No.10469
>>10463>draw Blake as AlunyaSounds cool, pic related
>then we never talk about this show again*angry cat noises*
No.10803
>>9871>I keep watching it because it's like watching a trainwreck, but I honestly can't recommend it to anyone. There are so many dumb thingThe motto of the fandom is
"Love it, hate it, just don't tell us it's good" for a reason
No.10807
When I watched new live Gyakuten Saiban episodes with /a/ on Japanese TV streams, they'd air RWBY before it.
Apparently, RWBY is massive in Japan.
No.10809
>>10807>Ripoff amateur discount-anime from "Ze Vest" using mediocre CG is popular in Japan Surprising but not unexpected, lel.
No.10821
>>10807>>10809That's funny, I've often been told that the reason shows like Teen Titans and Avatar weren't as big in Japan as they were over here is that the Japanese audience just saw them as inferior Western knockoffs.
I guess this proves RWBY IS the real deal.
No.10823
>>10805I want Yang to spoon me every day. The rest can live
No.10825
>>10821>Teen Titans and Avatar weren't as big in JapanATLA is by far superior to most single season Jap productions and so is Teen Titans. The latter is probably disliked because DC superheroes are not very popular in Japan, but ATLA IDK the reason for the lack of Jap popularity.
No.10858
>>10835You're probably right but I do think Salem's design is cooler.
No.10893
>>10858I prefer Kaguya and Hagoromo, Salem is pretty cool looking though.
No.11233
I know that the fandom loves to rag on the show, but to be honest it's still a pretty good attempt for something made initially by amateurs. It at least tried to create a new world and have some clever ideas and concepts or play on old tropes. It tried to have stakes and didn't shy from having characters die or be maimed or turn traitor. This is among many reasons it's superior to ripoffs like High Guardian Spice.
That spectacle of failure is like someone took the most annoying parts of Ruby and the gang, hung that out on the same basic story frame as RWBY but in a DnD e5 setting and topped it off by smacking on some liberal idpol:
- Team of Girls (including a black-haired catgirl)
- Heavy Magic Focus (most of it being combat related)
- MCs travel to an academy to become the warriors of their dreams
- All main characters are specialized
- Protagonist's mother went "missing" on a mission
Seem familiar?
TV Tropes on HGS:
https://archive.ph/2PtUf The stupidest thing is that a much more original and much better animated Crunchyroll product called Onyx Equinox came out and despite being obscure has high ratings and an original plot that actually IS diverse, based on traditional Latin American mythology and culture, produced in joint with Mexican members.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_Equinox As an aside Oddity Illustrations did a video on improving the design of HGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzF987ytWFs No.11267
>>11233>High Guardian Spicenah, High Guardian Spice based :^)
No.11275
>>11233I tried watching onyx equinox and it's mostly bad. The mc and supporting cast really suck. It's also hard to give a shit about the world ending because the world is pretty shitty anyway, so who cares about the little weiner mc or the asshole panther that's always bullying him or the two soccer playing chinlets that are also pieces of shit.
Some of the ideas are pretty metal but overall it's a wet fart.
No.11276
>>11249Blake probably because cats tend to have litters of multiple kittens
No.11277
>>11249none because they will all end up lesbos.
No.11281
>>11275Have you watched High Guardian Spice?
No.11288
>>11267 >copy-pasta corporate shilling >>11276Isn't her being an only child a disproval of that?
>>11275 I didn't think it's that bad, certainly better than some "muh demonology" shite I've seen animated in the West in recent years.
>>11277lel no.
No.11290
>>11288>copy-pasta corporate shilling Nah, the show is just based :^)
(PLEASE STOP POSTING AND RESPONDING TO BAIT) No.11307
>>9951>couldn't pick up a fucking book? >>>/edu/4212 Why People Don't Read Anymore:
https://archive.is/w1f30 No.11313
>>11277Do futanari count as lesbians
No.11314
>>11313That'd be a good question, but as far as I know, none of them are hermaphrodites. Hypothetically, given that they're technically mainly female, simply featuring additional male genitalia, it is probably closer to lesbian than straight, though a real penis over a fake kind of makes is uncertain.
What brought this question on anon?
No.11316
>>11315Can you not derail? This is an RWBY thread, not a thread about "muh sex spectrum" based on some false equivalence to the political compass.
No.11318
>>11313Yang does NOT have a penis ok
No.11319
>>11318I think that this might be becuz of
>>10826>>11317 Sorry if I sound hostile, it's just this kind of stuff turns into idpol shitposting REALLY fast and I try to avoid that.
No.11341
>>11314>What brought this question on anon?The equipment factors into the outcome of the mission. If they're all just equipped with vaginas, then presumably they'll only be able to get pregnant, but if there are penises involved then in theory they can get each other pregnant.
But if they're futa that identify as penis-averse lesbians then that's going to add further variables into who gets pregnant and has the most kids, whether they're giving birth to them, or injecting their progeny into other hosts.
It's all very technical.
No.11347
>>11341>The equipment factors into the outcome of the mission. What mission anon?! The heck kind of hunting are you doing?
>if they're futa that identify as penis-averse lesbiansLMAO
>>11340>prove it NTA but kek
No.11362
>>10826Comedy aside Bumblby ship is kinda cringe, and Season 7+ having hints of that relationship is kinda pathetic. I could see Yang being bisexual, she's a Rough and Tough Gal; in Volume 1 she literally made a comment during the sleepover (the night she met Blake) that she liked sleeping in the same room with the boys, and clearly her character loves to tease others, and sexual relationships are often a common source of teasing between friends and siblings, that's not a sign of sexual attraction. But Assuming Yang is a pendulum, Blake is an arrow, having obviously straight fantasies and attractions in early Seasons; she likes a trashy romance novel about Ninjas (Icha Icha?) and had a thing for Adam and later Sun.
But that doesn't stop shippers. Still they're not important, most people thought that Yang and Blake interactions as “Yang misses Blake so much.” in Volume 5. They held hands and Yang comforted her after the fight with Adam. Straight girls do this sometimes, it’s not a big deal. Of course they missed each other. They are best friends because they have been through a lot together. But then in Volume 7 you have subtle-unsubtle yuribaiting because Roosterteeth's management clearly thinks that they're not diverse enough and so incline to the shippers.
So the questions to have are "What’s wrong with two girls being best friends?" and "Why do some fans of the show focus more on the ships than the actual show itself?"
Anyhow this' been my TED talk, come again soon and have a good night.
No.11377
>>11347>What mission anon?! B R E E D I N G
No.11378
>>11377>Hungtress mission: Breeding kek, sounds hot.
No.11477
Has anyone seen Gen:LOCK? The trailer is pretty dynamic but I've seen nothing about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen:Lock No.11499
Looking at Monstra and its design of a cachalot, I speculate that it may have been inspired by the HMS Leviathan from Scott Westerfeld's rather brilliant steampunk trilogy.
https://rwby.fandom.com/wiki/Monstra (pic 2)
https://leviathanscottwesterfeld.fandom.com/wiki/Leviathan (pic 1 from the book)
No.11500
>>8807>>8846The hell actually happened to Machinima tho?
No.11503
>>11500The "medium" or the company?
The medium probably just lost its novelty. I'm sure there's some of it out there that just isn't as popular. I think even RvB still has a decent following.
The company went through that usual stupidity where they got bought out by some huge conglomerate, merged and then terminated.
No.11582
>>11559Kek
>>11503>The "medium" or the company? The Youtube Channel, I'm confued by th meaning of "medium".
No.11600
>>11584Your life must be pretty empty and meaningless if you have to waste it rushing to defend a Chinese girl cartoon on the internet
No.11603
>>11600 >[disingenuous snark]I'm not defending anything or anyone if you notice, I merely pointed out just how ridiculous it is to make a mountain out of a molehill over a single nonverbal post on social media, and be cancerous enough for this to pop up on my rather isolated self. I commented on it in this thread since it is on topic and I felt like it.
No.11643
>>11584There's a whole ecosystem ranging from small accounts simply fishing for likes to content creators with actual money to make who are just desperate for any little slip-up like this that they can mercilessly dunk on until it's not even fun anymore. RWBY is such an established punching bag at this point that it just encourages stuff like this.
I do think the show is mostly terrible but you're right, this is pure autism. I mean, fuck's sake, it's a social media brand account. You're not even really dunking on anyone at that point.
No.11644
>>11582>I'm confued by th meaning of "medium".Y'know, just the general act of using game engines to make videos.
The Youtube Channel was completely purged of content as part of the aforementioned merger and termination.
No.11652
>>11644>general act of using game engines to make videosOooh ok, yeah. Thanks.
No.12702
VOLUME 9 *should* come out this year.
https://twitter.com/JoeyBC/status/1430953189063471108 HERE IT IS! THE LONG-AWAITED RWBY CHIBI SUPERCUT!
https://mega.nz/file/M7wAkDhL#Qofz0mXsSTMEOzaJZxSXb0XxBqnOnK9u42dcaQIB9So Third RWBY Book is about Roman and Neo
https://booksamillion.com/p/Rwby/E-C-Myers/9781338760866 V8 Soundtrack:
https://mega.nz/folder/bgtWFJBZ#cZG_gW0RB7_XYr3Fql5tdw Also RWBY Japan is preparing an announcement for Feb 1 - (Apparently the translation they provided was fucky and the actual translation implies that whatever it is they’re specifically waiting till Feb 1st to announce) - I. E. The anniversary of Monty’s death.
No.13567
>>13566
spoiler the nudes and lewds, thanks.
No.13569
>>13566
how is she a tankie beside being russian themed?
No.13570
>>13569The character is a typical LARP of the "COMRADE WE KILL THE CAPITALIST EXPLOITER" klyukva.
No.14118
>>13566>loli shit
>>13568>barely visible nippleyes, the visible nipples in your cp that you masturbate too
No.14119
>>14118>loli badOk and?
>the visible nipples in your cp that you masturbate too Nice projection closet-pedo-kun.
No.14160
>>14118The fact that the first thing you thought of when you saw a non-serialized presentation of a perceived little girl is sex says alot about you. (Also what children are that developed? You would have to be thinking about children constantly to come to this conclusion, pedo).
No.14162
>>14118moralfaggotry is just white noise at this point
No.14170
>>14162Loli is shit IMO, but unless it's blatant porn it's a moot point on an imageboard.
No.14175
>>13566>>14118LMFAO how is this loli you blatant newfag
No.14236
>>14203They're drawings on a screen lmao
No.14239
>>14224>>14236pedoshit is banned
No.14251
>>14239its actually embarrassing that a mod deleted 2d porn of a girl with big tits and wide hips lmfaoooo
No.14254
>>14239Yes, it is. But
A) It's fictional
B) the depiction is not a child
C) it's not blatant porn - that'd actually deserve to be deleto'd.
Polite Sage for off topic.
No.14264
>>14239lol get a load of this authority worshipper
No.14265
>>14255Nothing makes me think of "sexualization of minors" more than a drawing of a voluptuous curvy naked fictional character, man.
No.14267
>>14265sry m80, no visual bush on her, so it's still pedophilic.
No.14271
pedoscarefags are being racist against short women again
No.17549
>>17528Ice Queendom was really fun. I liked the Nonbinary Inception Ghostbuster character and all the dream stuff.
No.18455
Volume 9 when?
No.18466
wow i posted this 2 years ago. I forgot i posted it already
No.18468
>>17539the animation gets better later on, and i think the fighting choreography and animation even early on by monty is very impressive. Like look at the nevermore fight, or Yang vs Mercury, or perhaps take a gander at the red trailer.
No.18475
>>18465Where will I be able to pirate it? It won't be on nyaa, right?
No.18479
>>18475i thought the show was free, but they took it off of youtube, fuck rt
i will not be telling where to get it for free, sorry to say it. but i didn't know volume 9 would be coming so soon, so this will be interesting to watch it.
No.18508
So I watched the first episode of vol. 9 and
it's going to be Alice in Wonderland??>>18487Thanks!
No.18514
>>18508the animation was weird
No.18760
>>18530 It's a new fairy tail, & hearing about fairy tales being real isn't the same as experiencing them. Magic alone isn't a fairy tale material, aura, semblances & dust make magic only slightly unbelievable compared to a crazy new world.
>>18508 Yes, it's at least a change of pace from the grimm-dark story Vol.8 concluded on.
No.18761
>>17527 Me. At least some of the projects continue on to this day… dare I say… Remnants?
>>9958>>9957 >>10149 Now that I think of it, why don't the faunus have tails, all of them ought to, & it'd make them more separated from human visage without going full-furrytard.
On a tangent, have we ever gotten a more solid confirmation of the origin of Dust? Is it the souls/bodies/magic of the original humanity crystallized into being? Is it fragments of magic infused moon-rock from the shattered satellite?
No.18762
>>18475>>18487 4chan pirates it
The pastebin:
https://rwbyg.com/ Volume 9 Episode 1 for example
https://mega.nz/file/7VQxQa5J#cxKK-crriY-T22nIThM0zXS148olvwEoHy86KH54bmsIn other news
New RWBY ANIME SERIES “RWBY: Ice Queendom” by studio SHAFT out now in both Sub and Dub.
RWBY x Justice League Crossover movie Part 1 coming April 25th:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fKpdtyoLJE No.18763
>>9805The problem I have with Adam/White Fang/ Faunus potential isn't even necessarily with Adam and his death like some people say. Its the fact that he was supposed to be this super popular leader of this fraction of the Faunus and by the time he's dead, we don't really see that influence at all. Like especially in Atlas/Mantle, which is supposed to be the place where the Faunus are treated the worst, forced to take these dangerous mining jobs. You would think that Adam's ideology would be the most prevalent. But instead, we have Robyn Hill, which is basically a baby version of Adam." We will do bad things to get our way, but fundamentally, we strive to be non violent". And yes, Adam did get more sadist as the show went on but, that could play into the ideology no. Fundamentally, the difference between Adam and Robyn is that Robyn uses violence as a last resort while Adam, its a tool. So it would have been interesting if Blake and the rest had to deal with the fact that "hey, Adam may be gone but his ideas aren't and are in fact super fucking popular". And maybe theres a radical faction within Mantel called the Adamist or Blood Fang, and they go around basically doing terrorism while wearing grimm masks like Adam. The problem I think ultimately, is they were just all out of juice in the Faunus department. You already had to deal with Faunus shit basically from Vol 4-5 and then Adam shit in Vol 6, which was barebones lets be honest, he "showed up" to scare Blake and Yang a few times and then the final confrontations and then death. They had to deal with all that, and maybe redoing Faunus shit would have been seen them retreading ground. Which is why they don't really acknowledge it, just refering it all as "Mantle", without specifying that Faunus probably make up a good chunk and the most shit on
No.18765
>>18762Sorry Yang is too busy making sure that everyone can understand that the authors have no spine and made the most boring ship canon due to fan pressure. No time for her little sister.
No.18770
>>18762Ice Queendom was pretty good. B+
No.18771
>>18765 >Yang is too busy making sure that everyone can understand that the authors have no spine and made the most boring ship canon due to fan pressure.Ah Yuribaiting, fucking up yet another series by making characters toxically OOC to their original selves, by making friendships horny to the point of ignoring everything/one else, all for the sake of the schlick.
The comics get even worse.
No.18772
>>18770>Ice Queendom Every time I read/hear that, all I can think of is femdom fetish featuring Weiss.
As a side note Vol.9 is such a breath of fresh air compared to the last 3 seasons. It feel like the series originally did.
>>18765 It's kinda disappointing that most fanfiction treats Yang better than the actual show at this point. FFS Yang & Weiss have better chemistry, because they, at least, compliment one another.
Forgot to add that the Novels just massacre the characters as characters.
No.18773
>>18771The Penny x Ruby stuff in Chibi was adorable though.
No.18774
Blake and Yang get the cuddles while Ruby, Weiss and Jaune get the struggles.
No.18775
>>18773 Chibi is playful fun, so yeah.
>>18774 >Blake and Yang get the cuddles while Ruby, Weiss and Jaune get the struggles. Kek
No.18776
Rooster-teeth has announced a new logo for its 20th… it's shit. looks like a bad ripoff of the Kellogg's cereal logo. The trend of aggressive oversimplification of logos using basic shapes, no shading and 2-3 colors pisses me off as a graphic designer, the blue text on red background. Yet another reason for Monty to turn over in the grave.
>Last year, Rooster Teeth approached Austin-based creative agency Guerilla Suit to create a new visual brand identity that was “as dynamic, playful and unconventional” as the organization itself https://archive.is/E4lFg Complexity watered down past simplicity, real representative of the current company, as if the Warner Bros meddling isn't enough.
The original logo goes back to RvB & the cockbite gag, thus the Rooster (Cock) & chattering teeth (bite + a comedic prank item).
https://rvb.fandom.com/wiki/Cockbite The logo isn't too complex or too simple, it's just right. But with the original cadre leaving this former indie studio it's become the same as any other corp, shitty modern logo criteria included.
No.18781
>>18775I guess the idea is that the Ever After responds to how people feel, but it still feels a bit too cruel that it offers free couple's therapy to some while it keeps reminding others of their failures and losses…
No.18813
The paper pleasers were cute.
No.18817
>>18809 It's another (the 5th) 'chapter' about character trauma. (SLIGHT SPOILERS): Basically the issue at hand is the same as in the pics posted in
>>18762 &
>>18796 Thing is, is this PTSD should have come to head way earlier than Volume 9, at least for Ruby. The entire group keeps forgetting that in spite of being an accomplished fighter… she's 2 years younger than any of them & honestly just a kid that has gone through the wringer emotionally, yet has had to man-up to support her friends every time they suffer, & they all seem to forget that she's suffering too. Honestly ever since Volume 3 the series has felt like it's become the "Break Ruby's Soul" show, with her positive attitude an initial naïve innocence being brutally stamped on over & over again with little hope to look forward to. It's honestly depressing.
No.18822
>>18817After all they have been through, I don't think that two years matter that much. The responsibility of being the leader is way worse. The others are not holding up much better either, Jaune had his own meltdown and to me it seems like Weiss is close to her limit too. Blake and Yang… I guess they cope by distracting themselves with each other.
No.18823
>>18817i feel like the writers of this volume are the same types of people who think evil super man is the greatest thing since sliced bread
No.18834
>>18822>I don't think that two years matter that much It does in the context of maturity, schooling, enjoyment of childhood etc. Ruby is not only engaged in battles that she shouldn't need to be engaging in until she's 4 years older (than current), but is also responsible in leading a battle team of older girls that are supposed to be more mature during a bunch of worst-case scenarios. Remembering my own teens, the mental change from 15-16 to 17-18 can be significant.
>The others are not holding up much better eitherTrue
- Jaune: He's clearly gone off the deep end because of his guilt over Penny & Pyrrha. But for him it's been a lot longer since his failures.
- Weiss: She honestly seems to be the closest to fine, the lack of close family bonds seems to have made the SDC's fall not so impactful as it ought to be. Its the reason that she's been more of a sister to Ruby than Yang in recent episodes.
- Blake n' Yang: These 2 are honestly the least mature of the group, it's irritating to see them behave like a poor parody of a couple, with Blake trying to run from every hard situation, & Yang throwing herself into them, dragging the team into this crappy teen drama. RT should have kept the idea of team RWBY being about sisterhood and friendship & not attempted this terrible ship. But nah, Yang & Blake kill a bovine together so apparently they're married in all but paper.
However the issue is that the other characters recognize & support the other… except for Ruby; she's just getting ignored, then after breaking down, treated like SHE'S the inconsiderate one. Except even in her own rant, Ruby admits everyone else's issues, she just wants some support of her own this time. After all for Ruby (unlike Jaune) it's been barely 1 week since the bomb plot, the fall of Atlas, Penny's second (likely permanent) death & the failure of another Hail Mary plan against Cinder/Salem, all under her presumed leadership. Adult military commanders have shot themselves in shame over the guilt of such failures, it's little wonder a girl like Ruby is falling apart.
No.18835
>>18823 Speaking of Superman, There's a crossover with DC that people are going apeshit over, mostly because Blake tells batman not to wok alone & to stop being negative. She's not incorrect… except for this coming from Blake. & then right after Yang inserts some horny comment… that makes no sense & isn't even a pun FFS.
Funniest thing is that the TMNT x Batman movie had the same situation, one loner (Raphael) telling another loner (Batman) to not abandon everyone to do the impossible by yourself. See, Raph used himself as an example and admitted that fighting alone isn’t always the right option; sometimes you need a team (a major theme of RWBY).
The panel makes it seem like Blake is just dunking on him without referring to herself as an example. If she mentioned how she ran away cause she figured fighting the White Fang gang alone was the only way only to realize its too much and she needed trusted help, this interaction would’ve worked a lot better.
Also the audacity of this coming from Blake who fled Beacon after her teammate had her arm cut off by her ex. If she mentioned that and realized how fucked up it was to abandon them, it would’ve made Blake a solid character who learned from her mistakes and is trying to tell Batman he can’t just solo his problems.
No.18838
>>18836>my charitable interpretation is that the sudden discovery of their mutual attraction is how they cope and try to distract themselvesExtremely charitable for poor ship writing. It seems to be a recent trend in lesbian ships - 2 girl characters that have no sexual chemistry are mashed into a relationship that also alienates their friends & family in its toxicity. KorrAsami is an earlier example.
They've been "mutually attracted" for some time before Volume 9 almost forcibly so to the point that they no longer resemble themselves, they're like a crappy imitation of Raven & Tai, except Raven & Tai's behaviors had real reasons (fear of Salem & Ozpin's manipulations for Raven, the loss of Summer soon after Raven left for Tai).
>WeissYeah that's what I mean, she's mature enough (both in age & mentally) to not be out of control, but as she isn't the official leader making the decisions, she's not under that pressure.
No.18839
>>18835>that makes no sense & isn't even a pun FFSSometimes it's arousing to get into a confrontation with someone you find attractive. She's jealous because she wants to be on the receiving end of that belligerent sexual tension.
No.18840
>>18839>Sometimes it's arousing to get into a confrontation with someone you find attractive Not in the context of the scene, nor Yang's character (originally), it's just extremely out of place. At this point Yang is just "Blake's Simp" instead of the "cool party girl"
>she wants to be on the receiving end of that belligerent sexual tension. Ah yes, the sexual tension of a hypocrite hissing angrily at someone for being a loner… then stalking off.
No.18842
>>18835Maybe I misremember but I don't think Blake was trying to solve her problems alone, she was just running from them.
>>18839Or maybe she likes the conflict because she's the Yang that wants to fight?
No.18844
>>18842>I don't think Blake was trying to solve her problems alone, she was just running from them. After she got outed as a former White Fang member & faunus, she goes out to take on the White Fang under Torchwick of theirs basically alone, Sun tries to tag along and the rest of her team go after her, but only because she leaves them behind to begin with. Then after Adam literally disarms Yang, she runs off to do… something.
>she likes the conflict because she's the Yang that wants to fight If that were the case then she ought to have hooked up with Weisscream.
No.18850
>>18840>Not in the context of the scene,Arousal by proxy.
No.18857
I'm so hyped for the next episode I can barely contain myself
No.18859
>>9907> it doesn't make sense that she has human minions Why not? The Grimm aren't really sentient, even in a true animal sense, & although she controls them & can see through them, she can't finely manipulate them on a mas scale, not to mention it takes time. Besides human agents are useful for infiltration & their Aura/Semblances let them fight better than most Grimm of similar size.
Besides, ancient & intelligent she may be, but she still needs people like Watts to handle technology. Tyrian, Hazel & later Mercury are her mad dogs to cause chaos.
No.18861
>>18777Imagine being a corporate branding consultant and getting paid $50k to just steal some logo off the internet and call it a day. Reminds me of the Street Fighter logo and the shitttastic London Olympics logo that the government paid like £200m for.
No.18866
>>9908>the nonexistent filler in the first 2 I disagree. Vol 1 & 2 introduced us to the initial setting & got the team to open up to each other & the audience, bonding as they did, while preparing future plot points. Monty had an entire Bible of ideas for many volumes that is supposedly being followed, although I'm of the belief that the Bible was just his base ideas, since I'm sure he hadn't expected to die before he could write them out.
Volume 3 began the payoff of the buildup in the first 2 Volumes, establishing the stakes & essentially being the come-of-age moment for the team in
The Fall of Beacon. But after they just undermined it, failed to pick up properly, not paying off hints or concepts, etc. It only got worse after. The base story is functional, but the problems that arise can be boiled down to
A) PIS - Plot induced Stupidity
B) CIS - Character-Induced Stupidity
C) WIS - Writer Induced Stupidity
D) various combinations of the above
Thus Atlas' Military is both a laughably liberal portrayal of dictatorship, while also being incompetent for some reason & the White Fang stop existing after Adam is sacrificed on the altar of Bumbleby.
No.18876
>>18875it could be cool in some ways but i'm concerned the fight choreography that monty shane and some others did would be lost in the process
so i'd much prefer leaving them as they are now.
even if the fights are better now you can tell that its a different style and feel than the first two volumes
No.18879
>>18875I think the amateurish animation is disarming. People already love to hate RWBY, if it actually looked good their expectations would be naturally higher and it would be a disaster.
No.18882
Neo was cute in Torchwick's arms.
No.18883
>>18876 What I mean is to replicate the scenes exactly a they are, but minus the clipping & odd shading + better facial details/movement & background detail. No choreographical changes.
>>18879 >I think the amateurish animation is disarming.That's fair, it has its rough charm
No.18884
>>18777Why didn't they just get a cartoonist to draw a unique rooster character with a big toothy grin? That's the obvious way to go.
No.18885
>>18884 >Why didn't they just get a cartoonist to draw a unique rooster character with a big toothy grinI really don't know.
Maybe they thought they'd be a more serious looking company if they abandoned the humoristic name play?
No.18888
>>18887>>18857 Embed is a spoiler.
That last episode is pure trauma, Jesus Christ. Poor Ruby is going to have her spirit broken by the end of this if it continues. Neo's a fucking psychopath
she got what she deserves. Little is the only joy in this episode
Little's end was heartbreaking.
This kinda reminds me of an anti-Naruto - the protagonist that makes promises to protect the people they care for… but keeps failing to keep those promises.
A really good analysis of the ep by Phoenix/Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ak7e-ZfxP4 No.18890
>>18889>She just committed suicide?It's not clear about what ascension implies - is Jaune correct about the ascended being truly reincarnated (memories gone) or are there specific circumstances? I very much doubt that the MAIN, TITULAR character is going to die like that.
No.18891
>>18890Of course we as viewers doubt it but she still drank it with the assumption that this is what will happen, so it is at least
attempted suicide, and the others will also understand it as such.
No.18892
>>18891>the others will also understand it as such Kinda ironic, given the platitudes they kept saying abut it being 'just' rebirth & that meant Jaune could be wrong about the tree being death. But yeah it is in a sense Ruby's
attempt to become 'an hero' Maybe she'll meet Little there.
No.18893
>>18838>a recent trend in lesbian ships - 2 girl characters that have no sexual chemistry are mashed into a relationship that also alienates their friends & family in its toxicity. Honestly thinking about it, the 2 "popular" yuri ships are Yang/Blake & Ruby/Weiss. But neither of those are good ships in terms of writing of characters. Yang/Blake is like every dysfunctional lesbian relationship, & the other 2 are clearly true friends. Yang had chemistry with the Schnee princess, one a brash, unfiltered rough n' tumble girl, the other a hard-ass perfectionist. Yang smoothed Weiss' sharp edges with he bluntness & penchant for humor, easily ignoring the pale girls prickly nature. If you HAD to have a dynamic that isn't pure friendship, those 2 are the ones that functioned in a Yin Yang sort of way. Instead Blake had her character become this strangely submissive person that go against her supposed character progress.
Instead we get generic bad teen drama #435
Funniest part is the Jaune reaction the writers inserted; Jaune:
"Feels like I've been waiting forever for that!"Since when has Jaune talked to Blake or Yang for more than a minute? When has Jaune been close to either of these two, let alone together? Jaune's closest connection to someone in RWBY is Ruby, hell, he knows her so well that her reaction to him giving her Crescent Rose, stops his angry rant because he can see (better than anyone else apparently) that Ruby is deeply hurt. This is like if I went back to my highschool in 20 years, saw two of my sister’s friends kissing and I was like "I've been waiting forever for that!"
No.18904
>>18903they squandered Sienna so bad.
No.18907
>>18904 Yeah utterly wasted
like a lot of characters in the show An actually morally gray figure whom even Ghira can't bring himself to condemn, only respectfully disagree with, and a "villain" who honestly raises a valid point whether you like her methods or not. She was great, unfortunately, she wasn't what the plot needed by the time she showed up, so she got the faunus version of Et Tu Brute.
No.18910
>>18904>>18907I don't get it, what's wrong with having minor characters that only appear for moments?
No.18912
>>18910>hat's wrong with having minor characters that only appear for moments? Nothing. But Sienna isn't (in the actual world) a minor character. She's an extreme counterpart to Ghira, & one of the leaders of the Faunus, & THE leader of the White Fang. Her plotline is just nixed because, outside of Monty's concept of her character the rest of CRWBY just made her a throwaway to toss aside, because they didn't feel like finishing the potential.
She should have been a key into letting us see a new and morally grey side to the WF arc (thus the posts ITT talking about Adam & the Faunus being poorly implemented). Otherwise what is Blake even trying to save? If all we see are extremists; what have we been shown that indicates there is even anything there other then a terrorist organization filled with unrepentant bad guys. Introducing a character for the first time that has serious prior impact and ties to the proper story (In this case Sienna does, being the leader of the White Fang) only to have them talk for a few minutes then have an already bad character kill them to speed along the story without any build-up is the definition of lazy writing. Sienna wasn't Tuskon, a simple named informant that is offed to set the tone for Emerald and Mercury, who were also being introduced at the same time. She was the declared leader of the Fang that - with no real explanation (aside from being told Adam is popular) - has everyone, including her own personal guards turn on her, and then die like fodder, despite being an experienced fighter.
No.18915
>>18912It's a story, not a documentary. Just because she's important in the world does not mean that she has to be important in the story too.
No.18918
>>18915Except its important to the story - it's like having Ozpin or Ironwood barely get any screentime then killed off by their underlings casually instead - y'know - an actual fight. Like I said, it's lazy, poor writing that ended up going nowhere, even though the Fang are literally one of the important players in the plot, but instead just got shunted out.
No.18919
>>18918Her only relevance was that there had to be someone to coup, it could have been a dark silhouette from volume one, it wouldn't have mattered. Ozpin and Ironwood are actually relevant to the plot, she was not. It's a pretty silly thing to be upset about. If you want to see more of her I'm sure you know where to find the porn.
No.18925
>>18919>Her only relevance was that there had to be someone to coup Yeah no, this right here is exactly the mindset the writers had & is a perfect example of crap planning & ignoring your worldbuilding & basic good story telling.
> it could have been a dark silhouette from volume oneIf that had happened, it'd still be better than introducing a character in flesh to then kill them off. It's inane.
>you know where to find the porn Relying on porn & fanfics to tell a better story proves my point.
> Ozpin and Ironwood are actually relevant to the plot, she was not Yes, she is, because SHE is the Fang's leader who replaced Ghira as a radical, but one that balanced it for the self-interest of the movement, unlike Adam's bloodthirsty extremism. Her role in the story gets cut off & in turn makes the White Fang irrelevant - one of the main antagonists of the story beheaded & made into fodder. FFS this literally provides an entire avenue of factional conflict in the Fang that just gets left behind, even though the faunus aren't just going to vanish from the storyline.
This is crap writing, & has little to no defense.
No.18953
A BIT off topic, but since HGS sort of appeared ITT (& in /co/'s RWBY threads) I thought I'd mention that the character Parsley (I had to look the name up) - the blonde, no-nonsense hammer-carrying dwarf feels like a combination of Nora Valkyrie & Jaune Arc.
- Blonde, & lots of siblings like Jaune.
- Hammer user, perky & no-nonsense (& short) like Nora.
Leads me to think that at least one of the people on HGS is a RWBY fan.
Also an actual review of HGS from a person that tried to give it a chance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mefTINTQDFk&ab_channel=EquesTron No.18958
>>18953I miss Nora I liked her character before she turned all emo.
No.18961
what would it take to really fix rwby? just replacing the hack fraud pedophiles that call themselves its writers?
No.18975
>>18961At this point? Nothing. The story would have to get overhauled completely to address all the characters and plotlines they fucked up/dropped.
No.18980
>>18961 In the past? Monty Oum not dying. Not saying it would be perfect, but the guy knew what he was doing & the general direction to take things (most concepts, plotlines & ideas in the series are his, but the further from Vol 2/3 you go, the less development had been given to them & the more freedom to write for CRWBY). RWBY as a series is influenced by Shonen anime & Final Fantasy, the latter in part because of Oum's enjoyment of it, & hi use of characters like Tifa in Dead Fantasy. In the shonen aspect (for example) Jaune particularly was a Cloud inspiration.
https://old.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/8gk9my/jaune_is_partly_inspired_by_cloud_strife_from_ff7/ https://megashadowdragon.tumblr.com/post/140120795062/jaune-is-partly-based-off-cloud-strifeAnd although Ruby's character & the teams make up is more like various Naruto characters (originally), the story itself has no concrete goals at the start; Ruby is not looking to become Pirate King, Hokage or reconstruct the Shikon jewel. Like Bleach* the story lacks a stated end goal the main character seeks to achieve from the start, other than a vague sense of being a hero that saves people
something that's getting dismantled in Vol 9 thus the story & characters meander, & if the original author isn't there to point the direction… it's likely not going to be very good
At this point like
>>18975 says, nothing can really save the series short of maybe just going full memelord.
(*)Hell if you think about it the Grimm are like the Kingdom Hearts' Heartless or Bleach's Hollows. After The Hound I always expected some Grimm-human hybrids like you see in fanfiction like an Arrancar or Nobodies group.
No.18991
>>18961let Ruby say "fuck"
No.18993
>>18975Maybe that's what they should do then, just give this one as good a finale as they can, then start working on a sequel/spinoff series, 2wby. Cut their losses, keep what worked, dump what didn't, and hire some actual writers that know what they're doing.
No.18994
>>18993That's just RWBY Chibi.
No.18995
Why is it so short I can't wait another week
No.19002
>>18892Well, it looks like Ruby's tea party did not bother them a bit.
No.19029
Since we saw the herbalist turn beautiful, does that mean that Ruby will come back looking like Weiss?
Actually, my prediction is that Ruby will come back stronger and better but is still easily defeated by Neko (a portmanteau of Neo and Neko (nihongo for cat), get it?), but when the cat leaves Neo's body to enter Ruby's, leaving Neo to regain consciousness and notice that Ruby is still alive, so she tries to finish the job, but the cat would not like that and tries to stop her before she can enter Ruby and they fight to death while the gang sneak home behind their backs.
No.19030
>>19029>Ruby will come back looking like WeissI'm not sure I follow the logic. Is the implication here that Ruby is ugly?
>Neko (a portmanteau of Neo and Neko (nihongo for cat), get it?)I prefer NeoPet. Honestly I hope that the cat makes it to Remnant just to team up with Salem in his quest to pursue the Brother Gods.
>the cat leaves Neo's body to enter Ruby'sThere's no reason for that, he just needs a
Remnant body to possess Ruby had been a target for her broken psyche. After
Ascension she's not even going to be herself (some people are claiming she'll become Summer, though that's nonsense) she's not going to be broken anymore, so CopyCat isn't going to be able to do anything.
>they fight to deathThat's so pointless
Neo('s ego) is all but functionally dead as it is, the hell is the point of BFRing the character AGAIN?
I'm thinking Little is going to ascend to
fuck that kill was brutal No.19032
>>19030Did you miss the last episode?
The cat can't return in Neo's body because Neo has nothing to return for. It wants Ruby again. Whether ascended Ruby will work or if it has some way to stop ascension is another thing… No.19033
By last I mean the latest, episode 9.
No.19037
>>19032>The cat can't return in Neo's body because Neo has nothing to return for.Huh, but the cat also can't
possess someone unwilling/unable to spiritually resist though, thus the fixation on Ruby & later taking of Neo. Making the cat just a Vol9 character is going to be pretty lame if they have that. Also if Neo
has nothing to return for, & has essentially a shattered ego, then why would she fight the cat after it possibly releases her? It'd be strange but more likely Jaune might save Neo.
>>19033 Yeah I figured.
>>18762 RWBY Arrowfell Trailer (Out Now):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBtc7gWpOHE No.19040
>>19038>If she saw that Ruby returned, her revenge failed and maybe her will to kill could return too. That's like Sasuke seeing Itachi arise again & trying to have revenge AGAIN. The entire point is that she's got nothing left & her 'revenge' was just an excuse to keep going, having achieved it there's nothing left.
>the possessed person regains control over their body just for a short second but at the decisive moment, saving the heroes by giving them time to get away or something. It would be a way to make Neo help them without actually helping them, a way to "redeem" her without having to actually change her ways. I guess, but I'm not holding my breath
Spoiler prediction:
The Summer Rose bait at the end of ep9 is going to be a bait n switch; Ruby has the thing Naruto does with Kushina in the seal - talking to her mother's spirit before overcoming herself - then finding her strength to be reborn as a better self. Jaune, because of him being the buttmonkey of CRWBY, is going to probably be a hero one last time, taking a killing blow or something to let the rest of RWBY leave the EverAfter. Hopefully Ruby's catharsis is going to be a la Gurren Lagan "Be the best version of yourself that you can be".
No.19043
>>18846>Still no official RvB x RWBY crossoverFuck it
[RWBY/RvB] - Infiltration (GMod Machinima)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jlc7Y6LwPY RT Recap - The Animated Recap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ica7WmGc_sc No.19049
>>18925>>18912>>18907>>18903 Nobody seems to mention how shes a Bengal Tiger Faunus with a hindu pottu and a Muslim last name. It's real organic representation, as she is a radical civil rights activist who takes action, and comes from a mixed religious/cultural reference (a combination of Bengali, Hindu, and Islam) and encompasses the "war borne from love and necessity" motif that Indians are known for and are proud of. Khan specifically means "ruler", and the concept is a reference to Shere Khan from The Junglebook, and the fact she's based off the jungle book only strengthens her being representative of India, because as far as I'm aware she's the only Indian character in the show.
She's the Boba Fett of RWBY; Awesome character idea SUPPOSED to be a background character. Yet the fans love her a lot more than what was expected. If she WERE to be alive, then we would've gotten a lot more of her
No.19064
>>19049I want to breed the cat
No.19067
>>19064 Everyone does anon.
>>1888712 hours to go to Episode 10 of Vol-9, possibly the last Volume.
No.19071
>>18846 >Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen Part One>Part 1Ohohoho
Enjoy on soap2day(dot)to
Best Jaune x Jess moments
https://litter.catbox.moe/d3175v.mp4 No.19072
>>19049I thought her tits were a lot bigger than they are.
No.19073
>>19072>I thought her tits were a lot bigger than they are.Porn does that to characters.
>>19071 I REALLY enjoyed this, even if its not perfect.
Since they age down the super-heroes when they 'go to remnant' are they gonna age up RWBY+JNR when they go to the DC comics verse for Part 2?
No.19074
>>19071Your link expired.
No.19076
It's over
No.19088
>>19074Just watch the movie on soap, it was a temporary 870+Mb file.
Also all Volumes
https://9anime.to/watch/rwby.r93o/ep-2>>19076 Shut up, Volume 10 IS going to happen
it has to, 10 fucking years can't end like this No.19096
>>19074>>19088https://litter.catbox.moe/r4iud2.mp4 The Yang/Blake parts of the movie were objectively Ok, if you ignore the context of the actual series… so like most fanfic depictions of ships.
Ren, Nora & Cyborg got memed to hell though, even if its overblown
No.19100
>>19096Didn't the Green Lantern used to be a black man?
No.19101
>>19100There are several green lanterns, one of them a black man
No.19102
>>19100 The original from the comics is Hal Jordan, but later came other human Green Lanterns, including the black man Jon Stewart, that you refer to. Jessica Cruz is more recent, latina if I recall correctly. Kinda disliked because of her character being poorly written, but this movie certainly makes up for it, making her a qt tomboy. The short-hair with green highlights i also a better look than her usual long-hair, like Season 1 Detective Beckett from Castle.
>>19073>Since they age down the super-heroes when they 'go to remnant' are they gonna age up RWBY+JNR when they go to the DC comics verse for Part 2? Leaks confirm, pic rel
No.19103
OK someone explain to me about the last episode, why did seeing her mom lie fix Ruby? Did she want to become her mom that much? I mean I know she was an influence but I wouldn't have been able to tell that this was her issue.
No.19104
>>19103 I'm still as confused as you, but its generally supposed to be that Ruby is no longer using her mother as the benchmark of unassailable honesty & heroism as she has before, & so accepted herself for being who she is.
No.19153
Do people here only like RWBY because of the porn?
No.19156
>>19153 It's not that simple. I mean yeah porn is an appeal, but to be honest RWBY is something that originates from old-school machinima & internet in general. A passion project of a small group of people that became something fairly popular. It's a mess of a story but still sucks you in if you get on the ride. The memes, the potential of the worldbuilding, the varied characters are all attractive for people, even if its not always executed well in Canon.
TL;DR: It's fun to watch, imperfections and all.
>>19071>soap2day(dot)toMega
https://mega.nz/folder/nPY30KYC#7vN9Cn0Xv2qD1ijKxdKOYQ No.19168
Spoilers for Vol 9 Ep10!
So this most recent volume confirms that the Brothers were in fact second generation gods and the Tree was the Primordial (albeit, indifferent) deity of the RWBY-verse. The Dragons are basically Demiurges who keeps creating worlds and fill it with 'people' only for their works to slowly degrade and fail to function.
Remnant (Definition: a part or quantity that is left after the greater part has been used, removed, or destroyed.) is itself a case study in this. Humanity was once capable to cast magic, but after rebelling against their creators each individual was left with a single spell, called a Semblance (Definition: the outward appearance or apparent form of something, especially when the reality is different.).
The Blacksmith makes it clear the door between worlds was left open for the Brothers to return, but they clearly haven't. So they aren't in the Everafter and they aren't in Remnant. They are out in the cosmos, once again trying to build world that won't break.
Maybe it's a never ending daisy chain of universes that are empty or abandoned, that get occupied by the Brothers, structured after their whims or experimental desires and either destroyed or abandoned as they move on to the next.
Honestly I preferred that the Ever After be another of their creations rather than the Brothers' origin.
No.19169
>>19166>Some ESLWhy are native speakers like this?
No.19170
>>19169>Offended over an acronym>on a Korean Nuclear Energy Forum Go back.
No.19253
>>19252what is it. I've only seen the hbomberguy video.
No.19256
>>19255Yes, and it's lame. She's been building up her repository for who knows how long and then she uses it up in a minute without even winning the battle. They act like it's some ultimate trump card that can only be used in dire situations but when it is actually used it's a huge disappointment.
No.19267
>>19256>it's lameNo, you're just a killjoy
>She's been building up her repository for who knows how long and then she uses it up You realize that she utilizes like maybe half a dozen photos for hardlights right? A Camera holds a lot more than that & she's been collecting all year, from all sorts of students.
>act like it's some ultimate trump card No merely that its not something to use pointlessly
>without even winning the battle She singlehandedly cut apart 2 paladins that took all of Team RWBY + Sun & Neptune to take out. You know, the insane warmachines built to fight armies? I'm sorry it wasn't DBZ power levels enough for you.
No.19316
>>19267Okay I take it back but only because she's really cute in that picture.
No.19526
>>18914>literal plot contrivance.pngPSA: You are now being made aware that Blake and Yang being romantic was a literal product of the "Suspension Bridge Effect". In what is quite possibly the most on the nose and blunt manner, I've seen. It's as though MKEK read about it and thought it had to unironically and absolutely be a suspended bridge in order to work. The suspension bridge effect is a scientific and psychological term used to describe a biological reaction in our psychology when we are under pressure. When we experience external stimulus that ignites our adrenal response, it plays a strange role in our minds and interpreting our environment.
The Suspension Bridge Effect is also known as the “misattribution of arousal.” It’s a phenomenon stating that something looks better when under a pressure environment, like standing on a suspension bridge.
"You spent 5 minutes with an animal on a rickety bridge and now you've convinced yourself it's true love" - Ruby "The Gaybasher" Rose No.19718
>>>/AKM/3230Fuck, it's like a black hole.
Anyway, Ruby Rose would be bananas for Mimi-Sentry. She'd be nerding out over her like nobodies business.
No.19723
>>19719It's not really cel-shaded CG, that wold be more the Spiderverse movie, this is just how it looks in Poser.
Also post links to videos, Embed dies all the time here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7D7OTfa-a4 No.19724
>>19723>It's not really cel-shaded CGAre you referring to RWBY or Pootis Engage? If the latter then of course not, it's just a demonstration of proper 2D-imitating animation techniques. When it comes to RWBY, the later seasons are cel-shaded while the first seasons don't even have proper lighting. Which is worse actually. Like, the quality of lighting, textures and models leaves much to be desired.
No.19725
>>19723>Also post links to videos, Embed dies all the time hereI wouldn't advice posting direct YouTube links instead of Invidious ones.
No.19726
>>19724 RWBY is almost literally taking Video Game graphics and turning it into an anime. It's sort of the reverse of what a lot of the 3D Playstation games were doing for anime, to make them into video games.
>the first seasons don't even have proper lightingYes, because of the constraints of Poser.
>Which is worse actually To each their own, it's janky, yes, but considering that it's a bunch of people in the early 2010s using free software to make an indie project for fun, it's decent work, far above the likes of many SFM videos being made at the time. It has a flawed charm to it. Later they switched to Maya from V4 onward and have been improving animation and art quality ever since. The main thing about RWBY that attracted people wasn't how high res the animation was, it was the concept of Cute Girls Fighting and the amazing choreography of Monty Oum in a brand new, non-manga based animated series.
Also
>Guilty Gear XrdLMAO
>>19725 Just use adblock for youtube, they don't get monetization and as for tracking, that's kind of inane, I doubt the NSA is going to charge you for watching TF2 shitposts.
No.19727
>>19726>To each their ownYes. I'm very picky when it comes to animation quality.
>using free softwareMore like "giveaway software" (I hate the term "free software" with a burning passion, thanks, RMS).
>LMAOHave an issue with GGXrd? It set the standard of animation in cel-shaded games and animation, no matter if it's actually a good game or not. I personally never played it (I suck at fighting games).
>Just use adblock for youtubeAnyone who doesn't have some surveillance blocking solution set up is either a noob, a self-righteous useful idiot or a retard. That said, it is nice to help the noobs and decrease the amount of identifiable traffic going to YouTube, as well as to prevent others from running YouTube's proprietary JS code or logging into their Google accounts by accident.
No.19730
>>19727 (cont.)
Also, the adblocker should be enabled all the time, not just for YouTube. It's way more essential than having a freaking antivirus, if you don't have it enabled 24/7 then WTF are you even doing on the Internet? It's a basic privacy and security measure. Privacy and Security 101.
P.S.: Why doesn't the embed field get automatically cleaned up after sending a reply? This site, SMH.
No.19737
>>19727>I'm very picky when it comes to animation quality. You must not have grown up with the 90s early CG animation. I think RWBY improved a lot after V5 in the animation aspect, and prior to that there is at least a valid reason for the animation problems. I was having fun watching the series to nitpick on animation issues.
>Have an issue with GGXrd Not really, it's a private joke.
>Anyone who doesn't have some surveillance blocking solution set up is either a noob, a self-righteous useful idiot or a retard No shit.
>Why doesn't the embed field get automatically cleaned up after sending a reply? Dunno, that's a question for
>>>/tech/ As would be a question about the fuck ups with Embed errors.
No.19740
>>19737>Dunno, that's a question for >>>/tech/It would be a question for
>>>/meta/, not /tech/.
No.19745
>>19737>You must not have grown up with the 90s early CG animationYes but I hate nostalgia in general, it wouldn't matter either way.
No.19765
>>19745>Hate nostalgiaOh you youngsters, give it a decade.
>>19743 Ruby and Penny are friends you sick fuck.
No.19766
I watched this show when it was on youtube for a while. It was like I wanted to hurt myself. It was so bad. The animation was poor. The voice acting was the worst of Americanizing weeb shit. The writing was god awful. The fight scenes were cool at first (duh, it was animated by the dead guy known for fight scenes) but no one ever died. All the episodes were like one scene long.
I can't think of anything else I'd watch if I wanted to cause myself more pain.
Why is anyone here a fan of this? Why does this thread have so many posts? Is there anyone that watches this show for any reason other than they hate themselves?
No.19767
>>19766a friend showed me one scene of rwby to demonstrate good action scenes and I was like… really? it's just typical anime where they spend the whole time talking at each other. this is my definition of a good action scene
but people like what they like so no hate, just wish more grounded action was more common
No.19768
>>19766 >nobody dies >RWBY https://rwby.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Deaths Ok LOL
>I can't think of anything else I'd watch if I wanted to cause myself more pain. Melodramatic rubbish
>The voice acting was the worst of Americanizing weeb shit. <An amateur group of people making youtube animations aren't up to the standard of full blown studios, who'd have thunk!Yeah this post is just bait. Stay mad
No.19770
>>19767>just typical anime where they spend the whole time talking at each other. <I saw one scene so I know the showUh, no. The vast majority of fights in RWBY have limited talking. What scene did your friend show you?
>my definition of a good action scene >Children of men1) It's an animated fantasy show it being super realistic is counter to the point, your complaint makes more sense in regards to something like Weiss Kreuz Eternal, where they use CQC, even when it makes more sense to use firearms, and half the conflicts/deaths wouldn't happen if the main characters fought realistically.
2) That's not typically what is meant by "action", yes it is technically an action scene, but it's not a fight scene, or even a proper firefight by the main characters, but more like a "person in a chaotic scenario" type situation. There's some Chinese military films that actually are realistic action, but that's a different matter entirely. It's not really fair to compare what is essentially a martial arts + swords + guns + "magic" fighting series to a grounded realistic fight, it's like comparing a fight from ANY cartoon ever and complaining about superhuman fighting, like that's the point - it's cool looking, there's not much more to it than that.
I enjoy grounded action, but I'm not looking for that in a show that clearly is not meant to be about that, you can like 2 wildly different things, I can enjoy a cheesy action flick by Jackie Chan yet also appreciate his more serious films, because they're different genres of interest.
RWBY is by no means a great show, it's got tons of flaws, but it's fun because taking it seriously is just as retarded as taking Dragon Ball seriously or treating capeshit seriously; you're meant to enjoy the entertainment, and if it's not for you, there's no point bitching about it, there's a million other properties that you may enjoy instead.
No.19772
>>19765>Oh you youngsters, give it a decade.Define "youngster." Like, I need to be 40 to stop being a youngster or something?
>[fictional characters] are friends you sick fuckYou're taking all this too seriously.
No.19773
>>19770>they use CQC, even when it makes more sense to use firearmsWhen you pick the Warrior class in an RPG.
No.19782
>>19772>I need to be 40 to stop being a youngster When you get to a full adult (not just a young adult) you start to look back on things with fondness.
>taking all this too seriously Yes but also no.
>>19773>when you pick Melee in a realistic FPSFTFY
No.19796
>>19794I really don't like shipping characters, it's completely pointless. Really distracts from the enjoyment of the show as a story.
Why is it necessary for every story to have a romantic subplot? Every character has to have some romantic or sexual attraction for who knows what reason other than wish fullfillment perhaps. It's all due to the fetishization of love prevailent within our culture, love becomes not just a regular part of one's life but something that should be activily sought for, without which the life is thought of as unfullfilling and meaningless (unconscious egoists, SMH).
On second note, is Ruby x Penny canon?
No.19798
>>19796It's not canon, that scene is from RWBY Chibi which is explicitly stated as non-canon, and even then it is not really a real confession. Although people saw confirmation in less for Blake and Yang…
No.19799
>>19798Is it by Rooster Teeth too?
No.19801
>>19799Yes. It's free on YouTube, but it probably does not make much sense without knowing the characters.
No.19802
>>19801Then it counts I think. That's already more canon than most fanfiction, that's for sure.
No.19840
>>19794LOL no. But seriously, yurishippers and yaoishippers are cancerous as hell. The Chibi scene is just a bit, there's some stuff in Chibi that's really wack, like Cinder essentially being the "candy van" meme and other things, it's non-canon for a reason, though its still fun (because it's for humor and not unironic shipping).
>>19799 >>19802But as stated it's a joke bit, it doesn't count, because it's like various other chibi omakes such as Chibi Avatar or Chibi Isekai Quartet, just for gags.
>more canon than most fanfiction >RWBYOh my sweet summer child, you have no idea how much fanfiction makes more sense and can be more canonical than the actual show, as strange as that sounds.
No.19851
>>19840>you have no idea how much fanfiction makes more sense and can be more canonical than the actual showIMPOSSIBLE!
No.19852
>>19840>But seriously, yurishippers and yaoishippers are cancerous as hellHow are they different from any other shippers?
No.19871
>>19852>How are they different from any other shippers? My dude, are you new? There's a reason Fujoshi, Fudanshi and to an extent Himedanshi, are considered the worst sort of shippers in RWBY and anime in general, because
A) They tend to be fetishizers that literally represent the cringe of the "UwU/OwO" meme (far more than most straight shippers)
B) It's almost always unfounded on any sort of character interaction or story themes, and 90% of the time feels forced
C) It just comes off as vulgar modern shit; "2 people have a healthy, real friendship? THEY MUST BE FUCKING!" And you see this more with yuri ships and yaoi ships than straight ones.
Within RWBY you only have to look at the pure cancer of WhiteRose and Bumbleby shippers; it's all either lust-based fapbait or libshit. Shippers in general can be cancerous, but I will take Lancaster and RoseGarden and even WhiteKnight Shippers over any of the Yuriships.
No.19873
>>19871>My dude, are you new?No, I just don't interact much with shippers and tend not to hang out on forums (this one is an exception because it's my shelter against SJW radlibs, McCarthyists and neo-Nazi /pol/tards).
>but I will take Lancaster and RoseGarden and even WhiteKnight Shippers over any of the YurishipsDunno, I will take yuriships with Tracer over whatever shit Blizzard has put out. It's literally worse than any yuriship in Overwatch, holy fuck.
No.19881
>>19873>don't interact much with shippers Good for you
>this one is an exception because it's my shelter against SJW radlibs, McCarthyists and neo-Nazi /pol/tards Same, sorta.
>I will take yuriships with Tracer over any yuriship in Overwatch What? Isn't Tracer FROM Overwatch?
Tracer x Scout is the best Tracer ship, fite me No.19888
>>19881>I will take yuriships with Tracer over any yuriship in OverwatchThat's not what I meant. You don't know the official pairing Blizzard has made? They've introduced some bland gril
IN A COMIC SHORT just so Tracer can be a lesbian. There are much more interesting characters in Overwatch yet they've decided to make someone write a fanfic-level story. That's some Disney-level cringe, putting out low-quality stories just to look "progressive." Typical libshit garbage.
>Tracer x Scout is the best Tracer ship, fite meSurely you're joking, Tracer x D.VA is the best ship.
No.19893
>>19888> You don't know the official pairing Blizzard has made?Not an Overwatch player so I don't really know much about it.
>they've decided to make someone write a fanfic-level story. That's some Disney-level cringe, putting out low-quality stories just to look "progressive." Typical libshit garbage. Sounds about right to them.
>Surely you're joking NEVER!
No.19907
>>18763 Adam was wasted potential personified. Especially since he's set up to the villain that haunts Yang and Blake, since Cinder is the villain the hangs over Jaune, Ruby and Weiss. Adam going from a calm killer to an flailing murderer is inane. He should have been a terminator or slasher like figure, nearly unstoppable, his faunus senses far outstripping most of their own, his experience in weapons overshadowing theirs, his ability to disappear and mercilessly hunt them. Hell, he's a perfect candidate for someone jaded enough to get recruited directly into Salem's circle. But nah, lets just do lame drama and an absolutely pathetic fight.
A really good post on the contrasting the chilling persona of V3 and the hysteric we get after being so dissapointing.
https://archive.ph/6LyXo No.20009
i can take it or leave it
No.20053
>>19907interesting photo edit
No.20054
>>20053 It's a pretty (in)famous meme in the fandom.
>>20009 Ok
No.20055
It is a simulacra of anime. A copy of a copy that has lost all true connection with the original object.
No.20081
>>19906Sayonara, Knight-Sensei.
No.20082
>>20055Anime isn't even an object, just an umbrella term.
No.20086
>>19907I realized that in the lead up to that volume, they had a whole teaser short dedicated to him. Like, usually when you have these shorts, like the red/yellow/black/white trailers, it supposed to tease for the next volume and their possible points of interest and conflict. Hell, right below this trailer in recommended was the trailer for Weiss in the lead up to the next volume (5) . Whether you think its good or bad, at least she plays some role in the story and the short is appropriate to give more context to where she comes from. But with Adam, he shows up at the end, and its all about Blake and his obsession with her. Nothing of the short, which is basically about the conflicting factions of the White Fang, play a role in him confronting Blake. At best, you get the shot of him reminding Blake of what humans are capable of (aka, his branded eye). But that's less a warning to Blake and more trying to guilt trip her. Maybe it would have been better if he realized he lost his way about the mission and decided to end his obsession with killing Blake, for his own peace of mind and for betraying the White Fang. At least then, it makes sense why he decided to continue following them without making him the generic psycho stalker ex boyfriend.
No.20091
>>20055>simulacra >Muh anime purityOh it's this guy again
>>20082 and
>>20088 are correct.
>>20086 >[snip]THIS. I'd also like to clarify by the "pathetic fight" I'm more referring to certain portions of his end and his V5 face off against Blake.
Also I'd like to note that the Test Footage of Monty's Adam vs Yang fight was interesting and the fight standard Monty quality, but to be quite frank I prefer the canon fight in terms of it being a shocking, unexpected one-shot, since it set up Adam's dangerous character and his power being above the likes of Team RWBY. It's because of this dangerous and serious display of Adam's character that his character got fans and why Adamfags were so furious with his castration post V3. Going from a edgy, frightening villain with a dark presence and becoming a seething incel that was far too pathetic to be leading a revolutionary/terrorist group.
The drawn out fight is well choreographed as usual, and very cool, but it fails to have the sheer impact of the canon disarming of Yang. They took Monty's animation later and used it for the fight where Yang and Blake
kill him https://cream-and-five-sugars.tumblr.com/post/182066125761/adam-vs-yang-old-unused-footage-the-lady-in No.20211
>>20091WTF, why is she thicc?
No.20236
>>20211>why is she thicc? >Asking this about YangFor shame anon.
>>20140 Don't show this to Ruby-schizo, he already tried to kill himself once to Isekai into Remnant once.
No.20238
>>20236She's famously "top heavy".
No.20262
>>20236>For shame anonI don't watch RWBY, I have nothing to be ashamed of.
No.20296
>>20091More on the test footage (archive.is available)
https://www.tumblr.com/rwbyconversations/177019902666/adam-vs-yang-test-footage-summary >>20238 And for having a booty too - the shorts aren't or rather are for show.
>>20262 Even MORE shame.
No.20297
>>20296Nora has thunder thighs!
No.20502
>>19727>EMBED Embed is unreliable m8, post link and title.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNmqd_DwJJ4 Two Hands Revy - Ship Chase
>>19040>Spoiler predictionWell I was partly correct although the Naruto-esque moment isn't quite her meeting her mother's soul, though she did accept herself (still wish she'd been aged up into grown Ruby, would have made for a good visual metaphor). Jaune got blasted by Weiss, but no sacrifice moment really happened.
>Hopefully Ruby's catharsis is going to be a la Gurren Lagan "Be the best version of yourself that you can be".Unfortunately did not happen.
No.20505
>>18835 >Making another crossover between DC and RWBY only worseThe current run RWBY x DC comics began in Febuary and are still going as of July 2023 and it just keeps getting worse. It's plot is inane, the art style is just garbage and don't even get me started on the dialogue. Also ironically in Issue 4 they accidentally confirmed the joke about RWBY being the horsemen of the apocalypse.
In terms of character designs the DC folk look okay but RWBY just looks terrible; Ruby looks okayish even with the dorky goggles, and Weiss is mostly unchanged (other than that strange scar stylization) but why did they think Yang and Blakes costumes were any good at all here? Yang looks like a poorly done Silver Age (of comics) Scarlet Witch and Blake like a particularly lazy Catwoman cosplayer, which clashes terribly with the Modern Age designs of the DC-verse characters.
https://rwby.fandom.com/wiki/DC_RWBY No.20507
>>18953Nora is definitely underrated - cheery, passionate, girly and pretty but strong too. Ren is a lucky guy.
>>20297 THE Thunder Thighs!
>TFW she will never squeeze your head between her thighs as her active semblance zaps you>>18958 >turned all emo.I really don't know why they did that, especially since Ren didn't even do anything that bad to Nora even if he was an arse, and they literally kissed and made up. Feels contrived. The JL crossover movies Ren/Cyborg jealousy that Nora eggs on also feels OOC, even if it leads to some funny memes.
No.20521
>>20505I'm sure this is exactly what Monty envisioned way back when.
Also does anyone else remember when he died insane gamergates online accusing his wife of murdering him
No.20525
>>20521>I'm sure this is exactly what Monty envisioned way back whenI assume this is sarcasm
>when he died insane gamergates online accusing his wife of murdering him Yes, honestly it was a joke in the /rwbyg/ community, amounting to "pussy killed him" but then the schizos took it seriously and created this huge incel-ish conspiracy, it was inane.
No.20621
>>19071 >>19102 >>19073 >>19088 Part 2 got announced a few days ago with a teaser image (pic rel). It's gonna be released on Ruby's birthday (October 31st). I'm just hoping they don't exclude/side-show Jaune and the rest of JNR in this, because that would suck after the KnightLight build-up in the first one. JNR is listed to be in the film, so there's that. The RWBY-verse antagonist is probably Watts, though possibly Merlot may make an appearance instead, which would be fun.
The original comic-run is no help in guessing since Starro was the main antagonist there, it was actually a physical Justice League transplanted/merged into the RWBY-verse instead of a VR in Volume 7-8 and it actually takes place somewhere between Volume 2 and 3 sort of like Ice Queendom, evident by Pyrrha being alive, although JNPR are mostly cameo appearances instead. That being said it's still fun. I'm guessing/hoping that Part 2 is going to have the RWBY-verse physically transfer over to the DC-verse.
https://readallcomics.com/category/rwby-justice-league/ No.20622
>>20621>>19073>>19071 Speaking of KnightLight - here's a fic that got removed from FFN because of wannabe jannies on the site review-bombing over the stories not fitting the M-rating limit.
There's some others also written on fanfiction.net in the crossover section and /RWBYg/ has a dedicated TrafficLight writer that made a few KnightLight greens as well, I gotta go dig up some of the Zips.
No.20710
One thing I'm honestly surprised and disappointed in the lack of is Grimmified characters, it is so unbelievably hard to find a fic with a Grimm Ruby or Grimm Summer or grimm anyone (which is strange considering that it's been a fan theory/idea for a long time). Especially after the reveal of the Grimm Hound being based on a Silver-eyed Faunus and Cinder's Grimm arm which I would have thought as perfect food for fanfic material. The only contender for these would be some Grimm-turned-human fics, but even those are scarce and rarely well written. In terms of fan-art there's only slightly more than fics and not all of it is good either.
The number of fics I've found is barely 2 dozen or so and they're wildly disappointing, considering the sheer number of RWBY fanfics there are. I can only recommend 3 of them, all Jaune focused which are pretty good. If anyone knows of any others please link them.
3 fics I recc:
1)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13191717/1/My-Abominable-Monster-Classmates-Can-t-Be-This-Cute The initial story prompt is basically Rosario Vampire, but it becomes something wildly different and pretty interesting
2)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13965520/1/Where-a-Heart-Once-Was This one really goes all out in branching off the canon timeline and doesn't hold back at all in terms of both imaginative Grimm and the horrific nature of battle. It also doesn't play around with Grimmification like most fics, so it's not just a 'humanoid grimm' but a monsterous grimm, built on the twisted remains of a human killed by Salem (I won't spoil who).
3)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12778468/1/Jaune-s-Grimm-hand kinda has some aspects from the plot of Parasyte but with a well-meshed twist by making it Grimm related and impact the plot of the story, giving Jaune unexpected and unique abilities and problems.
No.20896
>>10804Other RWBY /draw/ requests
>>>/draw/3505 >>>/draw/3323 >>>/draw/3316 Also some edit requests in the edit thread
>>>/draw/3506 >>>/draw/3693 >>20881 >You could try the Japanese dub.Jap dub isn't very fun tbh, although that might be because I've grown tired of Japanese speaking in anime in general overall. I used to be sub > dub, but now its the reverse.
No.20903
>>20881do all the seasons have a jap dub?
No.20907
>>20903Yes
You can find it easily on 9anime (now aniwave)
https://aniwave.to/watch/rwby.r93o/ep-1>>20752 >CRASH Episode 1: From The Top Shoulda posted the link outright in case the embed dies, forgot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyMWEQB0AUg&ab_channel=B00mrang No.20908
>>20907Your link only has 13 episodes in Japanese.
No.20912
>>20908Strange, they must have been removed. Link rel has them up to Volume 4 and Volumes 5-7 did get dubbed, but I can't find them at the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/@RubyRoseSilverEyes/playlists On a different note, Raven should have been more Asian looking (especially considering her touhou Reimu + samurai based attire) and subsequently Yang should have been half-asian looking. Or have it be a switcharoo - make Tai the asian one with Western LARP and Raven a samurai 2hu LARPer. I still like Yang's original design, but it's just a thought that occurred to me. It would fit the "yakuza delinquent" vibe she had originally.
No.20950
>>10825Avatar the Last Airbender has dislike among the Japanese because the Fire Nation is very clearly a depiction of Meiji era Japan, with all the fascist industrial-capitalist aspects it had. The Japanese post-1990s, have become very allergic to negative depictions of Ancient Japan and Japan in general, thus films and series that revealed the ugly side of Japan's feudal and imperial past (Seven Samurai, Zatoichi, Inuyasha, Princess Mononoke) are no longer common, and in general such works have become niche, because it's an informal taboo. For similar, nationalist reasons the Nanking Massacre (which the wiping out of the Air Nomads is similar to) is ignored. Ironically RWBY is partially influenced by ATLA according to Miles Luna.
TL;DR: ATLA reminds the Japanese of their country's past misdeeds.
ATLA thread
>>>/hobby/2562 No.20951
>>20950>Ironically RWBY is partially influenced by ATLA according to Miles Luna. """"influenced""""
No.20953
>>20951 If your typically burger exaggeration of quotation marks for the sake of pretentiously overbearing sarcasm is implying the RWBY aped off of ATLA, then you've clearly seen neither.
Very little of RWBY's main features is like ATLA, you can vaguely say that the concept of 4 kingdoms of different regions that the main cast travel and visit for various plot arcs references ATLA, but even that is very vague, there are some elements glimmering through, but nothing more than that.
>>20921>>20912Found a full jap version of Ice Queendom if you were looking for that
https://9animetv.to/watch/rwby-ice-queendom-18086?ep=92447 No.21060
New "volume" when?
No.21062
>>21060RTX 2023 did not confirm Volume 10, but
Shawcross was quoted as saying “Eddy [Rivas] and I and the writer’s team have been working on stuff for Volume 10 despite not having a greenlight,” also
>Kerry: "We don't have a Volume 10 greenlight yet, but we are going to show something at the panel that is post-Volume 9."And they showed a lot of unfinished stuff from the end of Vol 9 which would actually make for a good Volume 10 beginning, I've posted it in the thread. I think that RT is going to work on V10 a bit on the side but concentrate on the JL crossover which comes out on Halloween and is their next big project. I'm predicting an announcement for V10 around then and a release date probably in mid-late 2024, going by previous history. Likely it's a hangup in negotiations with the unnamed "partners" they mentioned (I suspect it's CR).
There are rumors it will be called Volume X.
No.21106
>>21092I thought it
was Penny
No.21188
>>21187oh boy, I can't wait to get corpo slop in my vaguely indie anime
No.21195
>>21191>Who the hell cares about these spinoffs Not enjoying other content with RWBY that extends the life-span of the series
Besides it's clearly a way to pull for time in regards to Volume 10.
>>21188 If you mean to mock my post, it's falling flat since my expectations for JLxRWBY P2 are quite low actually, I'm just lamenting that in the face of how unexpectedly decent Part 1 was.
It would have been cool to see Jaune as the Rusted Knight again too.
No.21639
>>21633Fucking hate Winter tbh. Biggest bootlicking bitch in the series, and only turned on Ironwood at the last moment with a shoddy excuse, even though she is as much, if not more culpable for the actions he and the Ace Ops did for most of the series.
>Literally runs away from home, abandoning her sister and brother to the tyranny of their abusive father and alcoholic mother >Thinks the sun shines from Ironwood's Iron Wood through the entire series before her heel-face turn >Grew up in a rich prissy environment and sees anyone not like her as lesser than her>Absolute Jobber Honestly the list goes on.
Seriously, fanfiction depictions of her make her a more likeable character. I know the early season depictions were just Monty following anime tropes for Weiss as the rich girl with a hard-ass older sister who's better than her, but the more we see of Winter, the less I like her. I wanted Cinder to kill her at the end of Vol 8, and giving her the Maiden powers, while expected was just such a wasting of Penny.
No.21641
>>21639Yes, but she's pretty. I don't even remember what made her change her mind about Ironwood in the end.
No.21643
>>21641Basically she got guilty about her sister and her possible death and suddenly decided she gave that much of a shit about her.
No.22383
>>22315Last updates were in
>>21062 and the screencap I thought was from V10
>>20623 is actually from the JL crossover Part II. However JL 2 does take place after Volume 9 so the mistake is understandeable. It makes the lack of Jaune in the actual crossover all the more annoying though, considering the aspect of him essentially being a middle-aged man in the body of a 19 year old and having suffered quite a bit more since his initial meeting with the Justice League and Jess.
No.22920
>>22910Demand them to put RWBY under copyleft or into public domain under a threat of mail delivery to the members of their board of directors.
No.22924
>>22920Anon, they get death threats every day, that's not going to stop them from sinking their ship and taking all their properties with them. Both in the copyright way and in writing their stories into the ground out of sheer contrarianism.
>>19094 Does she at least get a scooby snack?
No.22925
I like Ruby
No.22977
>>22970But the homophobic Ruby meme made a lot of people aware of the show, that must be a good thing, right?
No.22978
>>22970dang one ship can really do all that?
No.22996
>>22977 Catpiss has been baited ham-fistedly since Volume 6. The Ruby meme only came about in Volume 9. It was only this funny because of how tone deaf and bad the writing had become by that point.
>>22978 Many such cases (KorrAsami, MaKorra, CatrAdora, StarCo, all the ships of the Voltron: Legendary Defender series, etc.)
They drove most of the plots and just killed the story, leading to retarded things happening.
No.23444
>>23272I second this, they're very similar cuz I wanna have sex w/ both of them
No.23445
>>8784Actually, RWBY was written by an American, Monty only did the choreography.
No.23449
>>23445No. Monty was the one that created the story, it was his project that he got greenlit after doing choreography for RT in RvB and making the latter successful. CRWBY were writers on board, but Monty had the final say and was the one coming up with the setting, plot, characters etc, having almost all the control in the Red, White, Black and Yellow trailers.
>>23444>444>trips wasted on horninessTypical RWBY fandom
No.23450
>>23449If he created the setting it doesn't mean he created the script or any animation other than fight scenes.
No.23452
>>23450Anon, are you being retarded on purpose?
>Monyreak "Monty" Oum,[2] was the creator, director, co-writer, animator, and a voice actor of RWBY. He voiced Lie Ren in Volumes 1 and 2 https://rwby.fandom.com/wiki/Monty_Oum He had direct control of the story direction through Volume 2, with Volume 3 being what he wrote out in detail prior to his death. He animated any scenes he wanted (not only fights) and the dialogues to go with them were written by him, as were the characters, their backstories and designs. It was his story, his writing and his animation and direction. The fact that he collaborated on it doesn't mean it isn't his, especially since, as his project, he had final say on anything, and was a known workaholic. You can claim Volume 3 onwards wasn't animated by him, but that's because he was dead, and the story writing declined the further we go because the story bible was vaguer for later Volumes, due to his unexpected death. Also it's pretty well known that Oum was constantly adjusting the script and story on the fly forcing the animation team (including himself) to change and fix things that were already written and animated.
So TL;DR: Yes he was a writer, he dictated the direction and he personally took a hand in many scenes, while that primarily involves scenes, it also includes the Beacon Dance and important scenes involving more than close ups.
No.23454
>>23452Very well. Then the problems with the script can be placed on him. If he did janky animation during non-combat scenes then you can add that as well.
No.23466
>>23455Pretty sure RWBY just copied stuff from anime like Cowboy Bebop and such.
No.23467
>>23466 (me)
Also, the non-combat animations are jank in the first seasons, yes.
No.23468
>>23467 (me)
And the lighting. And the background. And the monsters.
No.23474
>>23468>>23466>>23467>I-it copied!Not this shit again. Being inspired by and referencing other anime is not "copying" and Monty and the original RT team working on RWBY never hid the fact that they referenced stuff like HxH. Hell the entire concept came from Monty's love for Final Fantasy VII and his animations using Tifa and other such characters prior to joining RoosterTeeth.
>>23471 Has it correct.
Oh and post a single reply, not 3 posts for a couple meagre sentences each.
No.23475
>>23474nah, the rwby writers took shit from other animes without understanding the context of why those things worked in those animes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81fdKWOHrdE No.23479
>>23475 >Retarded contrarian reposts the tired, nitpicky, hbomber video every RWBY shitter posts because they think it means somethingOh wow RWBY used a similar introduction in episode one to Cowboy Bebop (nevermind that the animation is different in both medium and fights, never mind that the characters are different or the plot this leads to is different). And yes it worked quite well, because it was inspired by, but did not directly take from Bebop among other anime. (You) and Hbomber's faggoty gotcha's fail on a fundamental level. You see this with his utterly inane comparisons to ATLA (which I covered before ITT) or the retarded shit about "muh underage girls" which ignores that only Ruby is underage at the shows beginning, and the rest are approaching adult-hood and are still far less under-dressed than most anime such as BnHA, so his complaint about "underage sexualization" is retarded. I honestly could go point by point and dismantle his shoddy, garbage video, but I won't bother, it would take me longer than the video to rip it apart and I don't care to waste that much time on haters. RWBY is by far not a perfect show and I've criticized it many times, but I do so as a person that watched it since it first came out and is a fan disappointed by its decline. Hbomber is just another ECeleb faggot that gets his kicks and money off of hating shit and creating drama with fallacious arguments and pseudo-intellectual attitude.
Edit: HBomber also lies his ass off, claiming that he was inspired by Monty and that he was his hero or something, when his SomethingAwful forum posts about him reveal the opposite:
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3663526 >>23476No, /co/ edgelords and /a/nime purists like to talk shit because they're miserable people that can't enjoy something without pissing on other things.
No.23488
>>23474>I-it copied!Why do you feel the need to mock me when I didn't even want to personally offend you?
>Oh and post a single reply, not 3 posts for a couple meagre sentences each.Not my fault that this site doesn't allow me to edit posts.
No.23490
>>23479>I honestly could go point by point and dismantle his shoddy, garbage videoSomehow i doubt it since you managed to write a couple of paragraphs in response and not address even a single point.
No.23492
>>23488 >>23490>Why do you feel the need to mock me when I didn't even want to personally offend you?<1-800-C'mon-Now Because you're blatantly being condescending, don't pretend to be obtuse
>Not my fault that this site doesn't allow me to edit posts. Then how about you stop being a twitter spaz and think through your posts
before posting, instead of making unnecessary replies parasitizing post limit… again. And no, phone-posting is not an excuse.
>you managed to write a couple of paragraphs <not address even a single point Funny, given that I addressed several specific points;
A) Him hiding behind "Monty's vision" and how he respected the guy and that's why MKEK's writing was bad, even though he himself talked shit about Monty before-hand
B) Pointed out his mentions of "muh underage sexualization" as being untrue, especially by anime standards.
C) Addressed his unfunny bit about RWBY 'copying' Cowboy Bebop's Movie introduction, which is what you began this debate with
>>23466 >"RWBY just copied stuff from anime like Cowboy Bebop"So yes I addressed your points and pointed out a few examples of what makes Hbomber's video a hack-job.
Hbomber does what most anime youtube analysts do; trawl reddit for memes and shit-posts ranting about a show, watch some contextless clips and portions of the show, looking for stuff to shit on, then release a compilation of these newfag, ironic memes and shit-takes presented as an "analysis" or "critique". It's boring and obvious to anyone that isn't an idiot… unfortunately most of his target audience are exactly that, idiotic libs. His criticisms are faux-intellectual dribble for people even more unintelligent than his smug self.
As another example he mocks the usage of Poser and Monty for using it (the latter of which he glosses over in the video and only talks about on SomethingAwful, because mocking a dead man on his youtube channel would be bad for public image). He ignores the context, time-period and actual details of animation in his claims, something that actual animators have discussed and covered in far better detail and without all the snide ignorance of faggots like Hbomber who haven't created anything original in their life, let alone animated something.
See
>>18875 for a REAL analysis of RWBY's animation.
No.23493
>>23492I wish that one day retards like you will realize that there is more than two people on the imageboard.
<"RWBY just copied stuff from anime like Cowboy Bebop">So yes I addressed your pointsWrong. That wasn't his points. He doesn't criticize for using other anime as inspiration, he criticizes for ont understanding why the source of isnpiration was good. Namely how the characterization works. Did you just watch 30 seconds of the video and jumped to conclusions or are you just that stupid?
Personally i think hbomber was a bit too nice in his critique. RWBY is a mix of meh fight scenes and utter dumpsterfire of everything else.
No.23495
>>23476nah, it has a cool tone and action (or at least it did in the first 3 seasons, the only watchable ones). if i knew of a better written show that feels like rwby, i'd watch that instead.
No.23496
>>23493>I wish that one day retards like you will realize that there is more than two people on the imageboard. Wow you can use VPN/Phone-Mobile-Data/Tor to samefag! Sure showed me!
Regardless, it's irrelevant.
>That wasn't his points.There is quite literally a bit in his video where he talks about Episode 1's introduction of the Roman robbing the store and how it's Soooo like Cowboy Bebop's Movie introduction. And again I was addressing a specific example given.
> he criticizes for ont understanding why the source of isnpiration was goodFFS stop and check your damn sentences. And no, his criticisms are trash because he CLAIMS they don't work, but he doesn't know what the writers are going for, especially regarding the early Volumes. Episode 1's reference to Bebop works just fine, in part because
A) They already had the TRAILER's as introductions
B) It's a completely different story and sets up the plot, doing its job as a scene.
>Namely how the characterization works And his statements are fucking trash that demonstrate that he didn't watch the show. Example: He criticizes Jaune for rejecting Pyrrha's help and trying to tough it out on his own… which is the result of his own insecurities about not being a strong or skilled fighter, about cheating to get into Beacon and so on. Later this gets further explored with the fact that he has 7 sisters, and he learns and gets over it, being able to trust his friends to accept him as he is, and not the heroic image he wants to project. The same goes for most of his character criticisms. Again RWBY certainly isn't without fault, especially as things went on, but not for the reasons Hbomber states.
>RWBY is a mix of meh fight scenes and utter dumpsterfire of everything else.If that's your opinion, then why are you here in this thread? To relive your 2010 edgelord days?
No.23498
>>23496>Wow you can use VPN/Phone-Mobile-Data/Tor to samefag! Sure showed me!And every time you morons pretend that i would give enough fucks to do that instead of admitting that you are a stupid fuck.
>There is quite literally a bit in his video where he talks about Episode 1's introduction of the Roman robbing the store and how it's Soooo like Cowboy Bebop's Movie introduction.Yes, he talks about it. But it is to set up the critique and not the actual point of the critique. Because he then uses them to compare to each other and show what one did right and other one didn't. How fucking stupid you have to be, really?
>And no, his criticisms are trash because he CLAIMS they don't workYou already showthat you have zero bloody idea about what his points even are about.
>They already had the TRAILER's as introductionsWhat exactly red trailer said about he as character? Except that she has like a cool scythe, can figth and likes color red? What the store scene adds to that? Nothing. They are just okay (ish) fight scenes, that's it.
>He criticizes Jaune for rejecting Pyrrha's help and trying to tough it out on his own… which is the result of his own insecurities about not being a strong or skilled fighter, about cheating to get into Beacon and so on. Later this gets further explored with the fact that he has 7 sisters, and he learns and gets over it, being able to trust his friends to accept him as he is, and not the heroic image he wants to project. The same goes for most of his character criticisms.So much copium. If you can't tell how this is a shitty writing, i dunno even what to say. A joke of a character has a plot device that would kinda sorta explain why he did something in his character arc (using the term loosely) several fucking seasons after it's happened, lol. And what exactly happened to make him trust his friends?
>and not the heroic image he wants to project.Lol, if only he actually tried to do that in the series instead of your imagination. That would imply he doesn't understand that he is weak and has delusions, but…he doesn't. He just rejects her with "yeah i am weak but i don't need help because…reasons". And then does full 180 without any apparent reasons either.
No.23499
>>23498>"every time you morons pretend that i would give enough fucks to do that instead of admitting that you are a stupid fuck." >Samefags exist and use VPNs, Tor and phone-posting to avoid detection>This is well established imageboard behavior <N-no you're stupid and wrong!uygha I don't care, if you're bothering to bitch on a thread about a show you clearly hate, then IP-switching samefaggotry isn't off the table either.
>Yes, he talks about it You're as much of a speed-reader as HBG is. The post I was responding to SPECIFICALLY brought up Cowboy Bebop, then AFTER Hbomber's video was brought up. That's where the Bebop comparison always comes from.
>it is to set up the critique and not the actual point of the critiqueWhich is why I called it an unfunny (and inaccurate) bit. And it's not a critique, it just says "look this scene from a show made by anime fans is referencing another anime. Dat's bad because in the anime it had all these other meanings and contexts!" relative to its own verse
Ignoring
A) It's primarily a reference for the sake of fun
B) It has it's own meanings and context within the story, unique to itself, working well more often than not, such as when Mercury fought Yang in the Tournament and how it references HxH yet has a different set up and meaning from the fight its referencing..
C) If MKEK had written these references to have much greater similarity and context to the anime they were referring to, he'd instead be crying "plagiarism" because shitting on the show is the point of the video, not "critique".
>show what one did right and other one didn't.No, he cherrypicks and narrates things to support his already established conclusions
>How fucking stupid you have to be, really? Clearly not as stupid as you, since I never fell for his grifting pseudo-intellectual shit, I can criticize MKEK myself without relying on some reddit-faggot's meme-based opinionshit.
>You already showthat you have zero bloody idea about what his points even are about. Ok Pot.
>What exactly red trailer said about he as character A lot actually: She's standing by a gravestone. We don't know whose yet (because it's a trailer) but it establishes her as someone with empathy at the very least and it can be extrapolated as someone she lost. Her fighting abilities with a very unique weapon indicate that she's capable, which sets up her later entering Beacon and skipping years, as a talented prodigy. Her being a prodigy leads into her not being a good leader because she's younger, less-experienced and relatively unassertive by nature which leads to both initial conflicts and resolutions in early seasons, and over-arching themes about her idealisms of heroism clashing with her inability to save everyone. The trailers for Weiss set up her need to prove herself, her struggles to do so and her determination contrasting her image of a prim princess that performs on stage. Black trailer sets up Blake's character as a rebel who didn't want to abandon her humanity. Later Post-V3 writing is what ruined her, along with the rest of the White Fang plot-line. But that's the most obvious, low-hanging fruit, and HBomber would have to be a drooling moron to miss that, so I'm not giving him any credit for his lib criticisms of White Fang. But I digress.
Yellow Trailer set up Yang; party girl with cheery exterior and casual dress hiding her inner insecurities and dark secrets. We also see Roman in the background, setting him up for his later run-in with Ruby in Episode 1.
Each trailer demonstrates a glimpse into different fighting styles, different characters through behaviors and appearances, generating intrigue, which is exactly what a trailer is for.
>What the store scene adds to that? NothingWRONG, Episode 1 set up characters, conflicts and more throughout the first 3 seasons. The Dust being stolen both in Black Trailer and by Torchwick in Episode 1 is the same dust used in the Train explosion later on and is part of the Dust-Thieving plot that Blake looks into during her conflict with Weiss. It's resolution brings the team closer together. Hell even the first 5 minutes sets up the following: Ruby likes weapons and knows how to fight, easily dealing with adult mooks in spite of her size. She clearly has a sense of justice, a slightly childish one at that, which, as I stated, sets up her characteristics. As the season progresses we soon learn she's a sheltered kid growing up on stories of heroism and her deceased mother who she idolizes. Hell each detail, from her clothing (her mothers medallion, the bright color scheme fitting her name and upbeat nature) already provides some depth. Her interactions with Roman also set her and him up. He's an arrogant, sarcastic slimeball, even in his debut.
So from the trailer and episode 1 what we have is an introduction to our main protagonist with basic characterization through action, visual appearance and dialogue, while establishing the future plot… like any normal story.
>So much copiumSo much non-argument. You're just saying "HBomber is right b-becuz he said this is bad and that's my opinion too" and trying to hide it badly under vague "criticisms".
>A joke of a character has a plot device that would kinda sorta explain why he did something in his character arc (using the term loosely) several fucking seasons after it's happened Wow, this isn't even a strawman, this is a fucking straw-clump of an argument. Not only did his main insecurities about cheating his way in and about being weak get introduced the first season, but we see it clearly hinted at in his behaviour, from attempted false confidence while poorly flirting with girls, to clearly not knowing anything about fighting or weapons. The part with his sisters REaffirms this later.
>what exactly happened to make him trust his friends And this is how I KNOW you didn't even watch the show. The blackmail scheme against Jaune comes to head and he gets forced to make a decision; either swallow his pride and do the right thing, not falling for peer pressure, or bitch out, and this led to him having to open up to his friends and accept their help. You wouldn't know good writing if it bit you in the ass.
>if only he actually tried to do that in the series instead of your imagination Except he does, just because you have the attention-span of a gnat, doesn't mean everyone else does.
>He just rejects her with "yeah i am weak but i don't need help because…reasons" Uhhh No. He doesn't have a GOOD reason to reject her because it just boils down to pride and shame, and in GOOD writing you don't have to explicitly say that, to carry this across. The concept of masculine insecurity and the rejection of help in a false sense of independence is old and well understood, if you don't get it, then you need to read more books, fiction and non-fiction.
>then does full 180 without any apparent reasons eitherI already addressed this, if you can't watch 5 minutes without spazzing out, that's not my problem, just stop posting your butt-hurt here and go back to r/RWBYCritics
No.23500
>>23499>Which is why I called it an unfunny (and inaccurate) bit.No, you pretended that it was the point of his critique. Because earlier you said that you responded to his criticism, and that wasn't it. You are one stupid cunt.
>She's standing by a gravestone. We don't know whose yet (because it's a trailer) but it establishes her as someone with empathy at the very least and it can be extrapolated as someone she lost.Pfffffft. You don't know a single thing about analyzing art.
>WRONG, Episode 1 set up characters, conflicts and more throughout the first 3 seasons.It doesn't. Not to mention everything seems to be retconned like 2-3 times per season.
>And this is how I KNOW you didn't even watch the show. The blackmail scheme against Jaune comes to head and he gets forced to make a decision; either swallow his pride and do the right thing, not falling for peer pressure, or bitch out, and this led to him having to open up to his friends and accept their help. You wouldn't know good writing if it bit you in the ass.Yeah, good writing is when something unrelated to the problem happens and character does 180. Guess stupid fucks like you are the target audience of the show.
Did chatgpt wrote this shit for you? Kek. Your post is full of pretentions bullshit that has nothing to do with the actual show. All to pretend this trash of a series actually is worth anything.
But then again, watching a butthurt fanboy defend this trash, by inventing asinine explanations is pretty funny. Please, continue.
No.23502
>>23492Dude, we're two different people…
>condescendingWhere was I condescending? I said nothing to you or to Oum and when I said that the animation and lighing are jank I'm just stating the obvious, the show just doesn't look good outside of fight scenes. The fight scenes are good, I admit.
>Then how about you stop being a twitter spaz and think through your posts before postingI AM TRYING. Plz stop being so overzealous, you're not really giving me much help.
No.23503
>>23502Are they, tho? For me they are like SW prequels fights - a lot of choreographed crap with litte substance and basic direction (sometimes even without that).
Fight aren't really that different from the rest of the writing. They are tools for telling a story and not just here to "look cool". And i feel that there was a significant lack of that in rwby, aside from extremely basic stuff (that hbomber guy drooled all over as if it's a god given gift). Granted, they are much better than the rest of the show, but imo it's still not that good on it's own.
No.23509
So what happens now?
No.23512
>>23509>>23508So apparently they sold all their properties to Warner Bros entirely, and there is at least hopes for a movie to end it (pics rel). The shutdown seems to be a WB decision too.
What also sucks is Casey Lee literally only found out from Variety posting a tweet about it (pic 3 rel)… like what the fuck…
No.23513
>>23500>No, you pretended that it was the point of his critiqueNope, that's you projecting
>earlier you said that you responded to his criticism Earlier I said I responded to a few of his 'points'.
>You are one stupid cunt Same to you.
>You don't know a single thing about analyzing art. And the pseudo-intellectual reveals their false sense of superiority.
>It doesn'tNot an argument, just denial.
>everything seems to be retconned like 2-3 times per season Source: Your ass
> good writing is when something unrelated to the problem happens and character does 180 Seething faggot posts another Straw Pile argument, more news at 11
>stupid fucks like you are the target audience of the show. I don't pretend the show is something it isn't, which means I don't make up bullshit to hate on it, since I'm not an edgelord like you. I have criticized RWBY many times ITT, with detailed explanations about shit like Ironwood in Volume 7-8, or the awful way White Fang was written, not the nonsense you're on about.
>Did chatgpt wrote this shit >Your post is full of pretentions bullshit<wrote<pretentionsLMAO, if anything that's you, ya illiterate.
>watching a butthurt fanboy defend this trash, by inventing asinine explanations<I'm so smart by wasting my time hating on something I don't like instead of doing anything else. <Y-you're butthurt not me. N-no u!Ok faggot, please continue your projection.
No.23514
>>23502>Plz stop being so overzealous, you're not really giving me much help. Fine, your posts genuinely are different from the other retards.
Some of the animation isn't great, but that's already been discussed ITT ages ago. For the time, the program and budge at release, it was pretty decent for an Indie animation made by a couple guys on their PCs. Now-days people have access to better animation programs and so on, making it easier for people to animate. That's why RWBY switched to Maya later and why later animation becomes much smoother since Maya has less limitations than Poser did, including shading, and walking on surfaces.
No.23516
>>23509Now?
Let's go practice medicine.
No.23518
>>23508What an absolute shame. I'll miss Red vs Blue, but can't say I was actively engaged with the studio beyond that. Frankly, the whole thing should've been shut down back when those terrible harassment allegations first came out.
Word is they're still planning to release RvB: Restoration, which I have high hopes for. But even failing that, I guess Season 17 is still a good ending point for the series.
We don't talk about Zero.I never really kept up with RWBY as the action wasn't my cup of tea and I personally didn't think the plot or characters were good. My understanding is that there isn't any place in the series right now where you could stop it and say "this is where we can say the series ended" like with Red vs Blue (which, to be fair, has had multiple points where you could say that since the series has been running for over 20 years - Episode 100, Revelation, Season 13, Season 17), so the only way for fans to get closure would be for the IP to get bought out.
>>23512Yeah, typical example of WB being really shitty about business. Odds are the only reason they shut down Rooster Teeth is because it wasn't bringing in as much profit anymore, rather than actually addressing harassment.
Fucking amazing that you can find out you no longer have a job through no fault of your own by logging on to Twitter, of all things.
No.23519
RIP to RWBY I guess.
No.23520
>>23518>Yeah, typical example of WB being really shitty about business. Odds are the only reason they shut down Rooster Teeth is because it wasn't bringing in as much profit anymore, rather than actually addressing harassment.They have been gutting everything for tax writeoffs ever since the merger.
No.23523
>>23518RWBY was a silly, stupid show, but I loved it anyway. It might not be to everyone's taste but that's a personal preference.
And yeah WB really did fuck RT up even more than RT already was doing.
>>23521 I'm doing a rewatch of RWBY, the good old days of fun before Ruby went to the
Tree.
No.23525
I live in Austin. I remember when I was in highschool, there was a guy in my grade who refused to study because his life plan was to drop out and get hired by Roosterteeth. I wonder how that dude's life went.
No.23526
>>23525GED isn't worth shit so can't be much worse.
No.23527
>>23521Download and archive if you give a shit about saving it. WB-Discovery has been going on a rampage pulling down and deleting content they own.
No.23528
>>23521Which season did you stop watching on? If you're finishing the series, it's probably best to stop at Season 13. Season 14 is just an anthology / mashup of mini-series episodes that are a mixed bag, while Seasons 15 and 16 are pretty bad (with one or two good moments). If you really want to watch it through to the last stuff with the Blood Gulch Crew, then you can power through to Season 17 which I personally think is phenomenal and does a lot to salvage the earlier two seasons (Wash and Donut make for a surprisingly good duo lead).
Don't watch RvB: Zero
especially if you think the Brain Damage subplot was one of the good parts of Seasons 15-17Regardless, when or if Restoration gets released I'll probably watch it, and you should too if you at least make it through Chorus since that's when it's supposed to pick up from (the pitch is apparently an alternate ending to Season 13).
No.23530
>>23513>Y-you're butthurt not me. N-no u!You both look like you're very angry at each other honestly.
No.23543
>>23528 >>23518 >>23508 >>23511 >>23518 >>23512 >>23519RvB is apparently getting a final season. RWBY: Beyond is going to be completed and RT is scrambling to put together an RWBY Volume 10 in the 60 days they have allotted to them. I'd rather something to polish it all off, rather than just ending on a whimper.
Also in other news Dillon Gu is interested in buying RWBY which is honestly a good, realistic option. The guy is a Monty-fan, Animated Volume 3, created Project Monty, and does Genshin animations at the moment on his youtube channel that are genuinely well animated and fun (and I say this as someone that loathes Genshin).
https://archive.ph/G4aX3 No.23556
>>23543Red vs Blue's final season has been in the works for a while now - announced last year, with a single episode released as a teaser. The question isn't whether it was being made, but whether it would get released since it's been delayed so much (now made more prominent with Rooster Teeth getting shut down).
Still not the biggest fan of RWBY but if people are really passionate about it then let's hope that guy can buy the IP so that people who are still passionate about it can continue to work on it.
No.23559
>>23556>Still not the biggest fan of RWBYFair
>if people are really passionate about it then let's hope that guy can buy the IP so that people who are still passionate about it can continue to work on it. THIS. But I fear Kerry and Miles might torpedo this just out of spite.
No.23560
>>23556It'd be nuts not to release the final season of RvB after Burnie and Matt came back to write and direct it.
No.23573
The best thing would be to buy rwby, reboot it, and make sure those two crackers aren't allowed anywhere near the writing room.
No.23574
>>23573I think people are a bit too harsh on Miles - he was the lead writer and director of Red vs Blue's Chorus trilogy, which is almost universally loved and considered the "last hoorah" of the series (though here's hoping Restoration changes that!).
I can't speak for the other guy, though. Maybe he was a bad influence on Miles, or maybe there were uncredited co-writers for Chorus that helped steer Miles in a good direction for RvB, but not RWBY.
Even if you dislike Miles as a writer, if nothing else
that just makes Felix's death all the more satisfying, since Miles was his VA.
No.23575
>>23574RvB had well established characters and style by that point tbf.
No.23576
>>23575Yes, but it also added tons of new fan-favorites like Felix, Locus, Dr. Grey, General Doyle, Kimball, etc. and let a lot of the existing characters grow with their own arcs (Tucker, Wash, Carolina, etc.)
The Chorus trilogy is really good in its own right, it didn't just ride the coattails of earlier seasons.
No.23577
>>23573>CrackersEddy was fine, Miles was better as a VA, his writing sucked and he sucked up to Kerry's opinions and basically let her control his portion of the writing.
>>23565 It would probably return RWBY back to the basics - a youtube show funded by fans and his own income as he primarily operates on Youtube, collaborating with another RWBY exodee, Shaw.
>>23574 Miles had no business writing RWBY honestly, none of them did. I remember Monty having to constantly reject some of his and Kerry's proposals during their meets, some of which got filmed and were released before being lost to the internet years ago. I might find it if I dug around in desuarchive, but I won't bother slogging through ~2600 threads to do so.
No.23580
>>23576That's true, and it also gave the Reds and Blues a surprising amount of character development. What I meant was more that instead of building on something already established they felt more free to do whatever they wanted with RWBY, and maybe they needed the constraints.
No.23581
>>23577Again, I can't speak to how well he did with RWBY, but Miles writes best when he or whoever he's working with has a clear vision. He obviously lead the Chorus trilogy, and he was brought on for a few episodes of Season 17. This leads me to believe that Kerry's writing was the issue and that Miles should've intervened or disagreed instead of sucking up, as you said.
Speaking of Season 17, that's a great example of how deferring to another writer can affect the quality of your show. In this case, Joe Nicolosi (lead writer for Seasons 15 & 16) had to work on another project, so Jason Weight (co-writer for Season 16) took over with Joe's outline for the remaining plot beats. And it turned out really well! Despite writing arguably the worst episode of the worst season (up to that point), Jason turned things around and wrapped everything up nicely. It helps that, funnily enough, he also wrote the best episode of that season (i.e. Wash learning about his
cerebral hypoxia), the quality of which carried over when he helmed Season 17.
In retrospect, I think everyone was a little too harsh on Seasons 15 & 16 - they're a mess, sure, but there's a genuine and heartfelt story at the center of it that needed a proper script doctoring for it to stand out (which thankfully happened with Season 17). Honest to god, I would take them over Zero any day of the year - at least Joe and Jason bothered to follow heavy story beats and understood where they wanted to take the plot and characters.
>>23580I don't think constraints is the issue - RWBY just felt aimless and confused, it had all sorts of creative freedom but didn't make the most of it (or wasn't very competent about making something with it). I can't speak for the seasons I haven't watched, but that's definitely how it felt early on. As for why this is the case, well, Miles proved with Chorus that he can come up with original characters and plot threads without having to rely on existing material (even if he likes bringing it in to tie things together), and it sounds like he deferred to Kerry a lot, so that would leave Kerry as the root of the problem.
No.23584
>>23580Yes, they absolutely needed constraints IMO, or at least someone to edit their writing so it didn't go off reservation… which is what Monty did until his death.
>>23581>RWBY just felt aimless and confusedWhich as I've always said, was because Monty died and RT pushed away some of its better creators. That's why the further we go, the more depressingly pointless things feel.
>how it felt early on Well early on it was just having fun establishing itself; the characters, the world and so on, which came to head in Volume 3 and was supposed to go into a hero's journey type plot.
>Miles proved with Chorus that he can come up with original characters and plot threads without having to rely on existing material That's the problem, RWBY wasn't really his. Chorus had direction because he was a major originator of the entire thing and so knew where he was going to take it, rather than taking someone elses world and characters and not knowing what to do with them, the White Fang and Adam for example.
>it sounds like he deferred to Kerry a lot, so that would leave Kerry as the root of the problem. Kerry and Barb to be exact.
Also as a side note the owner of the rwbyg site
>>18762Is currently ripping every episode of RWBY, Ice Queen and RvB they can have on Blu-Ray and are going to upload it all so that the files won't be lost. I gotta talk to site-anon later to determine the exact details.
No.23586
>>18762I implore you, please add the soundtracks in FLAC to this
No.23596
So you've just been hired as the lead writer for the sequel to the hit online anime rwby. What are your plans for 2wby?
No.23616
>>23596Resurrect and kill Penny in every episode.
No.23621
>>23614>all the plotholes in chorus were done intentionally, as a bitoh i get it now. hilarious.
No.23657
>>23654Not seeing the problem tbh
No.23695
>>11559Ah, the old Cat-Girl Ears Question. Going by the story of the Faunus and the God of Animals in The Shallow Sea fairytale, Faunus were given animal traits on top of their human visages, rather than simply replacing them, thus Catgirl faunuses having 2 sets of ears. From a practical aspect it makes Blakes hearing even better than just having immense Cat Ears would, as human ears are located horizontally to our sides, with very slight angling towards the front (like with birds) while Cat ears, like fox ears or wolf ears, face forward more and are located higher up, like 2 close RADAR dishes. Thus, Blake's hearing would have excellent side hearing, able to hear in a greater radius around her, and also better directional hearing. It's like having 2 front-facing, really good eyes and two smaller, less precise eyes to the side that act as early warning… of course the writers forget that and Blake gets blindsided constantly, because like the rest of the Faunus, she's treated like trash.
The real answer is, it worked however Monty wanted it to work, just like how 2 different faunus types create a child with a random faunus trait, while 2 of the same create a similar child.
No.23696
>>23657I'm with the Tor anon, it's kinda weird.
>>23616 That's more of something to do for RWBY Chibi.
>>23586 Not the Site Owner, you'll have to go to /rwbyg/ on 4/trash/ and ask them there. It depends on if they can RIP the files or not.
No.23699
>>23695since when was it considered unnatural for cat girls to still have their human ears?
No.23716
>>23699Would you think it was weird if they had two sets of eyes too
No.23867
>>9805>Irish were an oppressed minority in the British Empire I want to expand on this some more. The Irish are a perfect example of potential source material, to the point that it literally lends itself to some of the plotlines about Extremist vs less-Extreme factions of the White Fang. The bombings and raids by the White Fang on dust facilities and civilian infrastructure is a good mirror to The Troubles. It's so easy to find allegory material to portray differing dynamics within the WF, too.
Imagine Adam Taurus with a proper NornIron steak accent. Intimidation across every single scene would have gone through the roof. He's all but a lad from Belfast, who grew up hating the Strand 'cause he can't stand the fact that he's from Auld Smoke. Dresses like a cunt from Dublin, at that.
>for more great matches for the world situation, take a look at the true allegory of the faunus being the Irish, and v7 being a massive reference to Gulliver's travels.https://www.tumblr.com/luimnigh/183781717509MKEK likely didn't accomplish this intentionally, but it's still there. They barely had to try at all to reach all this, but they just didn't. Funny thing is that RoosterTeeth's staff are libs, so all they'd have to do was look at Death Eaters, who Rowling based - in part - on the IRA because she wrote Harry Potter during The Troubles bombings (
>>>/hobby/10633 ). Hell the Irish got treated like trash in America too, so it would work even better.
Also we've only seen Local human militias rightfully clashing with the White Fang in Adams short, and there's the vague implication (almost never backed up) that some of the government institutions are racist to Faunus. Since any moderately sized group of people are basically just allowed to go out and try their own shot at making a town in the wilds, there ought to be a fair few towns explicitly made by Humans, for Humans, who just don't let any faunus settle in or move through them. Following the White Fang escalation and known role in the fall of Beacon, it would make sense for these towns to begin actively attacking faunus and the White Fang with their own paramilitary units and movements. What do these Militias look like, do they have a special outfit they wear like the White Fang? Has anything like this ever been explored in a story well? Obviously if this was explored in the show, they would be the bad guys and it would be botched, but it'd be an interesting parallel as well.
Also if they really were incapable of writing a story about racial oppression or something, why not hire a black person to do that?
No.23877
>>23876>i like how weiss ended up being unapologetically racist from beginning to end now that its over Fucking what? I'm not the biggest fan of Weiss, but that's blatantly incorrect. Girl is a full on class traitor by the end of Volume 8.
Anyway Baal is based as usual.
No.23878
>>23654yeah it's probably one person with a fixation commissioning it
No.23879
>>23878That's most commissions tbh.
No.23882
>>23876Why is this artist drawing bullshit like this with those skills?
No.23885
>>23882Because he started out as an /a/ drawfag
No.23895
>>22970 A lot of BB fans mention that Monty supposedly planned the ship. The ship being planned isn't the gotcha people think it is. If it was really the case it just makes the ship worse. 10 years of buildup and it still sucked.
The closest we get to proof of it being planned was a video of him discussing a script where they joke about Yang being lesbian and then one of them (I think Monty actually) says NO and they laugh. The other supposed proof video of Monty they like to use is an interview* where he replies to a question about if there will be queer characters and he says 'Yes probably' stating that they're currently children and that as writers they were discovering their characters over time and that it was a possibility, he didn't specify which characters, let alone team RWBY and he emphasized that it needed to be well written and natural… clearly that last part was not achieved. Honestly Freezerburn would have been a better ship, especially after Yang rescued Weiss from her Mother's bandits.
*(x.com/IncorrectBees/status/1080848643530190848?s=20)
No.23936
>>23933I wonder if Blake has a barbed strap.
No.23937
>>23933Cute fan-art does not absolve yittykitty
>>23936 She'd be offended you asked such a faunus-profiling question
but yes she does No.23938
>>23937>She'd be offended you asked such a faunus-profiling questionGood, I hope she'd get even more pissed when I make her wear the leash and collar.
No.23939
>>23938>she'd get even more pissed when I make her wear the leash and collar Yet still be into it
<White Fang on the streets<Domesticated in the sheets Truly Collared
No.24002
>>23995>no blake*punches wall*
No.24342
>>24063Speaking of the Curious Cat, Only one mention of NeoPet, by me.
>>19030 I'm ashamed.
No.24377
>>23882>>23884Baalbuddy is fucking based! Fuck you!
Anyway any FRWBY enjoyers here? (2nd picrel)
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