Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-38854975-20190905144044/@comment-36926079-20191027044420

I can't think of a single traditional Magical Girl anime that doesn't make me cringe. Without it subverting the trope in some way, like in Madoka Magica or Miss Guillotine, the tone feels to lighthearted and quickly grows stale for me. Cardcaptor Sakura, Sailor Moon, and other more "traditional" magical girl animes, while all good individually, make the Magical Girl genre seem stale.

People hate fairy tales and Magical girl animes for the same reason- they follow similar tropes, which makes them hard to watch. RWBY is only better than others because of its fighting and pure fanon potential, not its plot.

I believe that RWBY would have been more enjoyable personally if they either made volume 1/2 seem less magical girly and followed the tone of the trailer, or if they put more focus on subverting the tropes by having the Battle of Beacon be the end of the series with Remnant being thrown into a Mad Max setting.