Talk:RWBY: The Official Manga/@comment-37664166-20190228210750/@comment-25936766-20190311140037

@Chish: What if I told you MoB and FatManFalling made a collab not too long ago?

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Now, I'm going to ignore everything EF says in that video and focus on the main topic: RWBY Manga Anime Adaptation. If we're talking about the original manga that told an original story with new outfits and a squid that glues Grimm together, sure, go ahead, dew a RWBY OVA. Same for the anthology, it's everything I wanted Chibi to be and better.

But if we're talking about the manga that just adapts the main show, eh, it's 50/50. First, there's "what makes RWBY good" according to actual japanese viewers: It's different from the usual manga and anime you see. Not necesarily great, but different.

For the same reason, most don't like the novels and manga as much. Because they are written by japanese writers and thus end up feeling much more like the usual stuff, so RWBY loses it's charm. If there was an "anime adaptation of the manga that adapts the show", it wouldn't just be redundant, it would make RWBY less special. Imagine Vol.1 but 5 times more cliché than it already was, with the only good thing being not looking like ass.

On the other hand, the manga I do find it better than Vol.1 more often than not. More enjoyable at least, with some new and fun moments, and the expressions are pretty good. And unlike what Phantom says, nothing says it would be overloaded with CGI. He speaks as if it was dictated by fate that such a thing would be full of awkward ugly trash, but for all we know it could well look downright beautiful instead, like this.

....Besides, even if they do use CGI, the whole main show is already CGI, pretty sure that if they wanted to use 3D Grimm they'd just use the ones in the show that don't look bad. And besides, how hard and expensive can it be to draw a bunch of walking shadows?

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Overall, I wouldn't mind a 2D RWBY "anime" - it'd be kind of like Teen Titans - but if it's just going to adapt the main story, then I'd rather they just remade Vol.1+ and added stuff from the manga instead.