RWBY Chibi did a whole joke around cats being thieves and how that (despite Blake's protestations) make her start thieving too. Hell, early volumes of the show loved to make "racist" jokes that went something like -> Weiss assumes a faunus is a criminal -> Blake defends him and calls Weiss racist -> The faunus ends up being a criminal.
And then they thought they could smooth over Ironwood's fall by revealing in an interview that Ironwood has a passive semblance that forces super autism on his mind that pushed into his decisions and brings his own agency in his actions into question.
Best part was that Ironwood's VA had no idea that was a thing, meaning it was most likely thrown in to save face.
I’m not sure if RWBY had anything akin to a pitch bible or anything like that, but if it did, it was a few pieces of paper at most. And it was less thought through than when Matt Groening drew the Simpson family in order to avoid giving away the rights to his Life In Hell comic.
The pitch bible was a napkin at Monty's favourite coffee shop.
You're assuming he needed a pitch Bible.
It was a place.
I'm only being partly funny, Monty is on record saying that he basically wrote everything important about RWBY's lore and focus on a napkin and that's what he showed Rooster Teeth.
Which I will say again, I believe was only a ploy to keep a talented animator on staff and RT had no real faith that his show would explode the way it did once the trailers hit.
Not that it mattered because again, most likely, RT didn't care what Monty made as they just wanted to keep the guy from quitting.
I followed RWBY back in my RT fan years - stopped watching after volume 3, and haven't seen it in a solid....decade now I think.
I'm not expecting Da Vinci from ketchup and a napkin but it's genuinely amazing how the production values for this trainwreck are so consistently terrible that even the pitch document was made with no budget.
I really really hope VIZ just lets this show die, or just does some comic books/merch at the most. If they do try to redo or finish it, I hope to god they replace all the actors, get new writers and don't hire anyone from the old team.
For their sake, they're not so stupid as to give Kerry and his cronies much leeway. Which is none at all. I sincerely hope that they don't, but I also want them to realize exactly why RT failed. The hard way.
