Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24202592-20131216071024/@comment-24278127-20131216072039

It would definitely be an interesting thing to add. Different from most anime.

Though I feel as though its pressuring and limiting time in a way.

Each volume typically takes...what about 6 months? And each volume has only a limited number of episodes. All of the characterization for a character would have to be done within a certain range of episodes such that the characters are still expected to have such qualities within that age range. We wouldn't expect Ruby to still be going on with her teenage angst, past 20 years old would we; assuming RWBY lasts that long?

The benefit of freezing ages is that you get to explore who that character is at that time for as long as the series exists.