Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3146930-20131209150357/@comment-4010415-20131212020802

Well, well, well. I can't wait to see how people react to volume 2. I have an absolutely fantastic feeling about volume 2 in terms of animation, and I'm hoping that they'll get more voice acting practice in for the upcoming episodes.

I'm glad that this guy seems to understand that the short run time has hindered how far we've gotten into the story, though. Most people, in general, have a bad habit of trying to compare things that aren't really equal in calculation.

16 episodes of RWBY =/= 16 episodes of another anime. And people need to realize and remember that!

I've said it before on someone's blog, and I'll say it again: RWBY Volume 1 is about 1 hour 50 minutes, right? (Please, tell me if I'm wrong. It'd be appreciated) That's approximately 5.5 episodes of a regular anime, if you estimate that most anime episodes have a runtime of about 20 minutes. 20 because shows that take up a 30-minute slot are never 30 minutes long; they're usually 20-22 minutes to make way for commercial breaks. I went with 20 instead of 22 because it's a lot easier to calculate evenly and also kind of takes out the intro and outro most likely. 1 hour = 60 minutes = 3 episodes, 50 minutes = 2.5 episodes.

So, in all reality, we really have not seen the equivalent of 16 episodes of any other anime, and people need to stop acting like we have.

I see people display this behavior on Youtube, as well. "hur dur Let'sPlayer1991 beat this game in only 20 episodes, and you're on episode 30! You suck, Let'sPlayer1991 is better than you at this game!" Let's Players' episode lengths vary, though. People always seem to neglect to look at the actual play time/run time and prefer to look at episodes. Well, if Let'sPlayer1991's episodes tend to be 30 minutes long and he completed the game at 20 episodes, then his total game time was 600 minutes. If the other Let's Player (Let's name him JonesyPlays or something) makes 15-minute episodes and is on episode 30, yet to finish the game, he's not really behind because he has played for 450 minutes so far. If he beats the game in 10 episodes, he will have beaten the game in the exact same amount of time as Let'sPlayer1991, but people will still say he did worse and was slower at it merely because he has 40 episodes, and Let'sPlayer1991 has 20.

Irritating and irrational, isn't it?