Anime & Manga RWBY General discussion thread.

[Terthna]

Newest volume of RWBY in my eyes is pretty good story, and is pretty awesome in the few fights we have had so far.
Newest episode does bring tears

Good for you; personally, I just think you have weird taste. You remind me of my mother; who still thinks Jar Jar Binks was unironically funny, and the best part of The Phantom Menace.

 

[Zachowon]

Good for you; personally, I just think you have weird taste. You remind me of my mother; who still thinks Jar Jar Binks was unironically funny, and the best part of The Phantom Menace.

There is wierd and then down right heretical.

Though so far volume 8 had a moment where I shouted "TAKE THAT BITCH!" so life is good

 

[GoldRanger]

I could never get myself to watch past the first 3 seasons. Is season 4 onwards worth my time?

 

[Zachowon]

I could never get myself to watch past the first 3 seasons. Is season 4 onwards worth my time?

As probably the only fan of it on here I say yes. 5 has its up and downs as does 4, but 6 7 an 8 definitely pick up

 

[CarlManvers2019]

I still haven’t watched Volume 7 or 8

Say, have they revealed what happened to Summer Rose yet?

I honestly felt after the end of volume 6 there were barely any mysteries left

“The Past” is usually what keeps me interested in a series

 

[Zachowon]

I still haven’t watched Volume 7 or 8

Say, have they revealed what happened to Summer Rose yet?

I honestly felt after the end of volume 6 there were barely any mysteries left

“The Past” is usually what keeps me interested in a series

Oh you would like volume 8, there is a idea about one of the new mini bosses

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Say, have they revealed what happened to Summer Rose yet?

She's dead and Salem made an epic "Your mom" joke at Ruby's expense.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

She's dead and Salem made an epic "Your mom" joke at Ruby's expense.

Honestly felt really predictable there

I was hoping in earlier seasons Summer got turned into a minion or something

 

[Zachowon]

She's dead and Salem made an epic "Your mom" joke at Ruby's expense.

All we have so far

Honestly felt really predictable there

I was hoping in earlier seasons Summer got turned into a minion or something

That is a running theory about a new minion that has appeared

 

[Zachowon]

Spoiler

So for anyone who has seen D grey man, or other series where people unlock more of their abilities over time, that has just happened with Ren.

He can now see everyone else's emotions and read them. And called out ACEOPS

 

[f1onagher]

I could never get myself to watch past the first 3 seasons. Is season 4 onwards worth my time?

4 and 5 are meandering simulators that occasionally have some decent character bits. Six is surprisingly good, but is still, ultimately, a pale shadow of the first three seasons. Seven and eight have gotten onto a horse of good animation and decent fight scenes and utterly, utterly, inbred retarded writing. Like Habsburg inbred retarded writing.

 

[Zachowon]

4 and 5 are meandering simulators that occasionally have some decent character bits. Six is surprisingly good, but is still, ultimately, a pale shadow of the first three seasons. Seven and eight have gotten onto a horse of good animation and decent fight scenes and utterly, utterly, inbred retarded writing. Like Habsburg inbred retarded writing.

7 and 8 are good.
I personally think using the full capabilities of Maya over putting it in blender works a lot better for smooth animation

 

[Zachowon]

Yangs voice actress is starting an OnlyFans

 

[Doomsought]

4 and 5 are meandering simulators that occasionally have some decent character bits. Six is surprisingly good, but is still, ultimately, a pale shadow of the first three seasons. Seven and eight have gotten onto a horse of good animation and decent fight scenes and utterly, utterly, inbred retarded writing. Like Habsburg inbred retarded writing.

The whole purpose of RWBY was the fight choreography. Once they lost the essence of the show, decay set in. Without the fights to set the pacing, the pacing of the story fell apart.

 

[absenceofmalice]

The whole purpose of RWBY was the fight choreography. Once they lost the essence of the show, decay set in. Without the fights to set the pacing, the pacing of the story fell apart.

As Ship said before the purpose of RWBY was to promise fight choreography and then never deliver.

 

[Zachowon]

The whole purpose of RWBY was the fight choreography. Once they lost the essence of the show, decay set in. Without the fights to set the pacing, the pacing of the story fell apart.

4 and 5 are the worst in that regard where 6 is okay with it, 7 and 8 have definitely gotten better fights

As Ship said before the purpose of RWBY was to promise fight choreography and then never deliver.

They did so, it went down for a couple seasons as they adjusted to no Monty, but it picked back up

 

[f1onagher]

Yangs voice actress is starting an OnlyFans

Is RT not paying enough?

4 and 5 are the worst in that regard where 6 is okay with it, 7 and 8 have definitely gotten better fights

They did so, it went down for a couple seasons as they adjusted to no Monty, but it picked back up

I agree that everything, particularly the fight choreography has improved after a low point in 4 and 5, but that does not change the fact that the writing is utter crap. RWBY's writers are allergic to writing anything 'generic' so they toss out every good idea that their world organically produces to cram down an artificial script that fails to compel the audience beyond those already invested in something that is no longer there.

That old Jelloapocalypse video touches on the more obvious stuff, but the one that always stuck out to me is how quickly they sidelined Sun Wukong halfway through Blakes independent adventure because, surprise, surprise, a character based on the most widespread heroic archetype in history was more compelling than their rainbow bait OCs.

 

[Doomsought]

Is RT not paying enough?

Voice actors in the US tend to get payed very little, well under minimum wage, and make most of their money off conventions. Which isn't much either, because voice actors are the opposite of a big deal.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Voice actors in the US tend to get payed very little, well under minimum wage, and make most of their money off conventions. Which isn't much either, because voice actors are the opposite of a big deal.

To clarify: there are "acting ghettos" in the US. Unlike Britain, where you have stage actors also doing TV and movie stuff and voice acting for games and cartoons, in the US you are really shoehorned into one type of acting. Stage actors don't really do anything else. TV actors don't really do anything else. And so on. There are different ghettos within the American voice acting industry: anime voice actors (a very small group, mostly concentrated in California and Texas), cartoon voice actors, and video game voice actors, in ascending order of prestige. The now famous video game voice actor, Troy Baker, began his career as an anime voice actor, but now he's too expensive for that (notably he voiced the main character of a JRPG that he voiced over a decade ago, Tales of Vesperia, but his character was redubbed for the PC rerelease, while everyone else's voice was kept the same).

Looking at Yang's voice actress' history, she doesn't seem to be really doing any voice work outside of occasionally coming in to voice Yang for the new season of RWBY once a year, and voicing her in video game spinoffs. That's not typically how American voice actors make money. You need to be constantly taking on jobs and/or be working a side job to keep afloat.

 

[f1onagher]

That certainly explains why you hear the same voices across so many shows. Why does it work that way? It definitely doesn't benefit the actors and it doesn't seem to provide any boost for the producers.