Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24183436-20131118140639/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140209162958

To be fair Ben it's not trying hard to specifically be any sub-type of anime. It's not going out of it's way to capture the same style as DBZ, Avatar, Naruto, Soul Eater or any magical girl anime or mecha anime. It's combining elements of all anime utilising 2D and 3D modelling whilst lending ideas and tropes from several sub-genres or, in the case of the first few I mentioned, several popular anime that happen to embody tv tropes. It is trying to carve out its own style of anime, which is at least commendable.

As for the quality, to me all Volume 1 did aside from introduce us to the world and the main character is demonstrate just how much potential RWBY has. Now that they have a physics engine and everyone has settled down into their roles on-screen I fully expect an increase in quality. Sure at the end of the day the story-writing, voicework and animation may never be at the level of an actual anime, but at the same time RWBY has no where near the budget, fanbase or quantity of team members working on it as, say Avatar does. Still there was a marked improvement across the board as far as voicework goes during Volume 1 and as Miles and Kerry get more accustomed to the RWBY Universe they will likely end up getting story writing ideas flowing a little more naturally and with continued experience in writing they can only get better. Season 1 Volume 1 was an exhibition of potential, no matter how good it is now, it can only get better.