Talk:STRQ/@comment-75.80.34.44-20171013064155/@comment-4010415-20171021153004

The manga was mostly for the Japanese fans, considering the Red, White, Black, and Yellow Trailers didn't get dubbed, so the manga had chapters about those four, as well as a supplementary story.

However... it's still stupid to only explain the White Trailer in the manga, something currently only available in Japan and that we'll have to pay for when it gets released in the west, and not have a single thing in the show itself that so much as mentions the explanation for why Weiss had to fight that giant suit of armor or what it was. The manga explains a lot of this. That part of her past is pretty significant to her relationship with her father, and it has connection to the conflict with her father in Volume 3, where he apparently wanted her to explain to him again why she wants to be at Beacon instead of Atlas, according to Winter. It also explains why the giant armor is a summon for Weiss. A Schnee only gets a summon of an enemy they defeated if that fight led to them moving past who they were at the time.

The Boarbatusk fight in Volume 1 led to a chain of events that caused Weiss to stop being angry about Ruby being her leader and to start trying to be a better teammate. Defeating the giant armor opened the door for Weiss to finally leave home, finally leave her father's supervision, finally leave the pressure to conform the Atlas elites' culture, and venture out to Beacon where she could focus on herself and grow as a person.