Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-5430952-20181103172633/@comment-4010415-20181110035105

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: ChishioKunrin wrote: 1. Nope, Aura was invented so the characters could pull off over the top fight scenes without dying when the writers don't want them to die. ...................Wait. Then why the entire lack of blood in almost the entirety of Vol.1-5? Not saying they should've added a whole river of blood or anything but, still. I dunno. They did say they considered showing Tukson's blood splattering onto a wall back in Volume 2, but then they had decided against it.

Maybe it goes along with the whole "RWBY will grow more mature as a show as it goes on" thing.