Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3124041-20130607221115/@comment-3124041-20130720061621

By the way, Monty Oum explicity labels RWBY as an anime. For that, I fully support his claim.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/07/12/feature-inside-rooster-teeths-rwby

Even if you don't, at the very least, RWBY is undoubtedly "anime-styled".