Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35199716-20190903052606

With Volume 7 coming up fin a few months, I'm curious to see how people would rank all the volumes in the series so far? Thought it be a good thing to do and keep in mind with Volume 7 coming up soon. IMO, from best to worst:

Volume 3: My favourite volume imo although I still agree it has problems. The fights did take an obvious hit in quality with Monty's passing but aside from all the 4v4 fights (which were pretty bad imo) I still found the fights a blast to watch even if they weren't Monty tier. I do have other problems like how Torchwicks death should've been handled better but they don't damper my enjyment of the volume too much.

Volume 6: Hit the ground running in the best way possible. Pulled me back into the series when I lost interest after Volume 5. It's great for the most part though it stumbles at the finish line (although I'd argue every Volume except 3 is guilty of this). Yang's PTSD amounting to nothing and going nowhere being my biggest problem. The Cordovin fight was underwhelming as well. I know for some people the last few episodes was enough to break the volume for them, but that's not the case for me, especially since it was nowhere near as bad as V5's last few.

Volume 2: A massive improvement over 1 and begain to hook me in the series. The animation for non-fights could still be jank at times (Cinder's rooftop run being the go to exmple) but otherwise an improvement and more enjoyable to watch. My only other major problem is breach being a bit anticlimatic. The plot admittedly didn't progress to much this volume either apart from character devlopment and setup for Volume 3, although it was still significantly more entertaining than V1.

Volume 4: When I first watched it when it originally aired, I couldn't get into it and found it to be a dissapointing follow up to Volume 3. I did enjoy this volume much more on rewatch although I do think it's still a rather weak follow-up to V3 and it can drag at points. Qrow vs Tyrian aside, the fights did take another dip in quality though compared to Volume 3. In terms of the storylines, Yang's was the best and Blake's was the worst.

Volume 1: Ho boy. I'm going to blantant and say I did not like Volume 1 when I first watched it and would've dropped the show halfway through if it wasn't for the fights and people saying "It gets better after volume 1." Animation that wasn't a fight scene was janky as balls, 85% of the dialogue was a cringefest, the voice actors clearly didn't have a grasp on what they were doing yet (Yang in particular sounds really off), the story drops off a cliff after RWBY is formed and the volume ends in the most abrubt way possible. The first episode was good but the rest was boring to me when there wasn't a fight going on and my opinion hasn't changed on rewatch, if anything later volumes make this one harder to watch.

Volume 5: Don't think I need to elaborate on this one tbh, mostly speaks for itself. Plot's a giant mess, most of the climax fights are offscreen, The fall of Adam and the White Fang was massively mishandled and the main storyline for the majority of the volume is charaters sitting in a house for ten episodes waiting for a call to tell them the plot's finally starting. I do think IIlia's storyline was done really well though if I can say something positive about the volume.

I'm aware I've mostly highlighted the negatives and my problems rather than positives even in the volumes I like. I just don't really have too much to say on the positives. The great stuff is great, what more can I say. I just didn't want to make an essay with each volume. 