Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3146930-20131209150357/@comment-9090085-20131210021519

Darkcloud1111 wrote:

Maki Kuronami wrote: Monty makes every mundane speech epic...

And indeed, RWBY is not an anime: It's a web series homage to anime. I normally call it an Anime-styled web-series or simply a web-series (like Red vs Blue or the Nostalgia Critic). I mean it makes tons of references to Anime, but that just makes it feel less like an Anime in my opinion; like it is screaming "I am an Anime, look at me!"

I still like the show and everything and can't wait for Volume 2. Web-series, Show, whatever floats your boat; I don't really care.

I really started watching because I was expecting an over-the-top anime-styled show, which is pretty much what I got.

He more-or-less called it average, which I feel is accurate: it puts most of it's energy into fight scenes and character design, leaving things like plot on the wayside. This, oddly enough, is what I like about the series: it doesn't waste my time beating me over the head with plot - which many writers seem to think means "politics" - and just gives me interesting characters interacting naturally, and excellently choreographed fights.

Most of the faults he mentioned happen to parts of shows I put little value in: Voice acting? as long as it doesn't hurt my ears every 30 seconds, I don't really care. Animation? as long as I can clearly tell what's going on(and the conversation scenes don't look too stiff - which, for an animated show, RWBY's do not look stiff), it's fine for me.

I realize people have been raging on about the use of a school setting. I, personally, barely notice it - I'd even go so far as to say it's underutilized(we barely learn anything at said school, which for me would be half the point of staging it there; especially since the writers appear to have no interest portraying "normal school life")

Ultimately, I enjoy it, which at the end of the day, is all that maters to the individual viewer - you don't enjoy it? you can watch something else; the 'net is vast, after all.