Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28831435-20160703040107/@comment-27612532-20160709133829

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Sirius Fenrir wrote:

But the real  clincher was  God Eater. Originally a game from 2010, God Eater's similiarities with RWBY are soo strong, that you'll have to be blind not to see them. If the Grimm-like monsters or massive weapons that transform into guns with shades of Cloud's Buster Sword wre not enough... Except the similarities are not as strong as you think they are. Sure, characters in both GE and RWBY use sword/hammer/spear-gun-shield things, but that's pretty much it.

-RWBY has magic and a magic-like resource, Dust. GE has nothing like it.

-The Grimm are, design-wise, just painted animals for the most part. The Aragami are, starting from the weakest Ogretail, a combination of things.

-Humanity in RWBY used to be kicked hard by the Grimm, but using Dust they fought back and lasted enough to make and maintain 4 kingdoms. In GE humanity got kicked harder and is constantly going in and out of being endangered, and even their attempts at making "a safe haven" didn't work much. Overall GE is pessimistic, RWBY is more optimistic.

-In RWBY weapons are weapons. In GE God Arcs are weaponized Aragami capable of eating things.

And those are just some of the differences. Also, regarding their God Eater anime adaptation, that one is only more reason for me to say NO to Ufotable. Even ignoring the fact of "Budget Eater", it was very unfaithful to the source material. I cannot deny the differences, but the similiarities remain. I dare you to find any material more like RWBY than God Eater. Trust me, I tried. Closest alternatives have been Black Rock Shooter and Soul Eater, but even then their similiarities are not as pronounced as God Eater. And in regards to source material, God Eater's game protagonist was basically a self-insert, literally named Yuu (a pun like Yang would make), very unsuitable for a anime. Lenka had a backstory and thus could not follow the same progression, Still, they kept the same beats of the story. Lastly, their biggest change was creating a God Arc not in the game, which is exactly the type of creativity I think Monty would endorse. But this is only my opinion. It's just that budget should not be a major conscern in this discussion; since we can hypothesize any financial situation for Roosterteeth to make such a project feesiable. That is all.