RWBY - The Hindenburg on which Rooster Teeth rests its hopes, dreams and future

https://anime.team-rwby-project.jp/en/ Website is up with English.
Tells nothing about the thing proper that I skimmed through, other than JNPR is in.
Also, anime outfits.
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Ruby is kinda meh, but Weiss and Blake look fucking awesome. Yang is yang, which is great. No robot arm interestingly enough.

Weiss and blake look borderline villainous. Could be really awesome if they decide to go down a route were each of them embraces power and just goes apeshit.


I mean RWBY is already pretty dark. Demon monsters are overrunning the world, the people meant to stop it are getting overwhelmed, and the most powerful country in the world just got wiped out.

Gen just wouldn't pretend Team RWBY are spotless when they actively contribute to said country getting wiped out through how dumb their plan is.
That's what's frustrating about Rwby. the base concept is SOLID. It really is, but they either dont have the balls or the money to go though all the way.

There needs to be some real consequences. Going forward I really hope this steals all the steam and takes over the franchise.

 
Ruby is kinda meh, but Weiss and Blake look fucking awesome. Yang is yang, which is great. No robot arm interestingly enough.
Man, the designs are really cool, but I seriously can't unsee Azur Lane's Enterprise when I look at Weiss xD
Weiss is way overdone, the greatcoat is way too heavy for Weiss' style.
 
https://anime.team-rwby-project.jp/en/ Website is up with English.
Tells nothing about the thing proper that I skimmed through, other than JNPR is in.
Also, anime outfits.
View attachment 3105973

Ruby is kinda meh, but Weiss and Blake look fucking awesome. Yang is yang, which is great. No robot arm interestingly enough.

Weiss and blake look borderline villainous. Could be really awesome if they decide to go down a route were each of them embraces power and just goes apeshit.



That's what's frustrating about Rwby. the base concept is SOLID. It really is, but they either dont have the balls or the money to go though all the way.

There needs to be some real consequences. Going forward I really hope this steals all the steam and takes over the franchise.


Weiss is way overdone, the greatcoat is way too heavy for Weiss' style.
Not sure why they gave Ruby a snowboard.

I’m pretty happy they got of Weiss’ side ponytail. It looks stupid.

Blake looks like the one with fanservice, and I wonder how they’ll do the Faunus aspect since she has the Black Panther gloves.

And seeing as they have Yang with two arms instead of one, looks like we’re getting a start from square one.
 
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Weiss is way overdone, the greatcoat is way too heavy for Weiss' style.
If she hasn't taken over the family business, gained control of an army and or gone mad with power.....then yeah, it's pretty overdone.

I just really want to see some dark shit. They dont even have to radically change anybody's personality to make it dark. Just give their powers, the Grim and collateral damage weight.

Gen has been hit and miss for me, but I really respect his willingness to go to some dark places without feeling overdone and pointless. I think he is exactly what this franchise needs.
 
I just really want to see some dark shit. They dont even have to radically change anybody's personality to make it dark. Just give their powers, the Grim and collateral damage weight.

Gen has been hit and miss for me, but I really respect his willingness to go to some dark places without feeling overdone and pointless. I think he is exactly what this franchise needs.
If you say so. Even if there’s probably some fanfiction that beat him to the punch.
 
I just really want to see some dark shit. They dont even have to radically change anybody's personality to make it dark. Just give their powers, the Grim and collateral damage weight.

Gen has been hit and miss for me, but I really respect his willingness to go to some dark places without feeling overdone and pointless. I think he is exactly what this franchise needs.
Most anime studios that try to go dark do it so poorly though. Just being dark on it's own isn't daring or weighty, it's just dark. How you handle that material is what matters and the majority of the Japanese studios just don't so well with it since it always just becomes melodrama.
 
I can't say I like RWBY, but I'll give the first episode a go at least. Tow Ubukata on writing duties is promising. He wrote Fafner: Dead Aggressor and that's one of my all-time favorites.
 
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Wait so Gen isnt writing but he's animation concept. First time ive heard that one. Does that translate to super violent fights or....

Most anime studios that try to go dark do it so poorly though. Just being dark on it's own isn't daring or weighty, it's just dark. How you handle that material is what matters and the majority of the Japanese studios just don't so well with it since it always just becomes melodrama.
Gen's pretty good at pulling that off but he's not writing it apparently so... hmm.

Tow Ubukata on writing duties is promising. He wrote Fafner: Dead Aggressor and that's one of my all-time favorites.


Oh fuck yeah he did ghost in the shell arise. We are in good hands!

(annnd apparently wki say's he beat the shit out of his wife?!.... this will be interesting)
 
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Gen's pretty good at pulling that off but he's not writing it apparently so... hmm.
But he's not good at it.
Oh fuck yeah he did ghost in the shell arise. We are in good hands!
GiTS: Arise? You mean the most mediocre GiTS that gets by on the IP? That show was all flash and very little substance, especially considering the shoulders it was standing on.
 
But he's not good at it.



In all seriousness it is hit and miss. I just admire his willingness to go all the way.

GiTS: Arise? You mean the most mediocre GiTS that gets by on the IP? That show was all flash and very little substance, especially considering the shoulders it was standing on.
Arise was more subtle as far as philosophy was concerned. It's not as in your face as Innocence, and its more spread out over the series. There were definitely a lot of interesting situations as far as brain hacking and cyborg development was concerned.

Really it's biggest sin is it changed the voice actors and it wanted to be a Muppet movie origin story. It wanted to tell how section 9 came to be, but it didn't want to step on Stand Alone Complex's shoes so it called itself an AU. As somebody who watched ALL the GITS up to this point I think its a fantastic origin story for the major and the gang with a few easily handwaved continuity errors.

The series is very interconnected by an arc concerning a brain hacking malware and programmer called firestarter. Essentially you'd have terrorist of the week plots that all shared an arc that was resolved in the final movie. I thought the writing and action was pretty good.

The whole OVA format is a little confusing. So Id recommend just watching the Alternative Architecture TV series and 2015 movie. Especially considering the tv show has extra footage.


I have begun to feel hope again.
 
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I am kinda happy to get more happy Jaune and Pyrrha scenes.
 
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Seems more like a retelling with more focus on Weiss/expansion. More time to flesh out characters and they end up going somewhere new(the winter outfits).
I was wondering why that was. I mean, Ren has fur in his outfit, and Ruby in an earlier shot had a snowboard.

As for focus on Weiss…does that mean even in Japan, Ruby gets the development shaft? It’s even called “The Ice Queendom”.
"Gumball Shroud" had me fucking rolling
Ah, broken English.

Oh...they are doing a straight re-telling...this is not good.
Here’s the trailer again but with subtitles.
. I can see why you’re afraid. That or it could be like The Force Awakens where you tread old ground in a weird way to gain trust for holding the IP before you make your own path.
 
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