Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28831435-20160703040107/@comment-25936766-20160709125515

Sirius Fenrir wrote:

But the real  clincher was  God Eater. Originally a game from 2010, God Eater's similiarities with RWBY are soo strong, that you'll have to be blind not to see them. If the Grimm-like monsters or massive weapons that transform into guns with shades of Cloud's Buster Sword wre not enough... Except the similarities are not as strong as you think they are. Sure, characters in both GE and RWBY use sword/hammer/spear-gun-shield things, but that's pretty much it.

-RWBY has magic and a magic-like resource, Dust. GE has nothing like it.

-The Grimm are, design-wise, just painted animals for the most part. The Aragami are, starting from the weakest Ogretail, a combination of things.

-Humanity in RWBY used to be kicked hard by the Grimm, but using Dust they fought back and lasted enough to make and maintain 4 kingdoms. In GE humanity got kicked harder and is constantly going in and out of being endangered, and even their attempts at making "a safe haven" didn't work much. Overall GE is pessimistic, RWBY is more optimistic.

-In RWBY weapons are weapons. In GE God Arcs are weaponized Aragami capable of eating things.

And those are just some of the differences. Also, regarding their God Eater anime adaptation, that one is only more reason for me to say NO to Ufotable. Even ignoring the fact of "Budget Eater", it was very unfaithful to the source material.