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ChishioKunrin wrote: Sirius Fenrir wrote:

The Fate series features characters with powers just like FF 15's Noctis or Cinder and Velvet.

More importantly, the Fate series shares the penchant genderbent legendary or historical figures with RWBY

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 were not enough, there is also a character the screams Ruby Rose. Monty tweeted her image some time back. See here. If any studio was more qualified to make a Final Fantasy or RWBY anime, it would be ufotable What Cinder does is not similar to Noctis or Velvet. She doesn't seem to be summoning weapons. It seems like she's using Dust to form molten earth into obsidian shaped like weapons. She's basically glass blowing, but without the blowing.

Penchant for genderbent legendary or historical figures? If I go with your quote in a literal sense, RWBY has only done that with four of their many, many characters, and that's because that's what their team theme was. If you add in classic stories in general, then they've done it with five characters, since Penny is a genderbend of Pinocchio. Still, in relation to how many characters there are, five hardly seems like a penchant.

People've also compared RWBY to Attack on Titan and Soul Eater. A lot of anime have similarities. You can compare Kekkaishi to, uhhh... geez, what was it that Kekkaishi was ringing some serious similarity bells for? Was it Bleach? Meh, it's been so long since I saw it. What I meant is that Cinder and Velvet are similiar to Archer from Fate who is also similiar to Noctis. So you can say she is related to character related to another character. She uses short blades she manifests at will like Archer and also uses a bow with explosive arrowheads. Velvets ability to copy weapons is like Archer, but Noctis and him can control the weapons with their mind. I should have said Penny was more like Noctis.

Also, I don't mean literally by penchant. However, both authors, Monty and Nasu, do seem to like genderbent characters. I should add that four genderbent characters are unsually high concentration at once for series that is not focused on that. There at least three or four characters out side of JNPR that are genderbent: Penny as you mentioned, but Emerald may be based on  Aladdin. There is also Neo. Ignoring who she is based upon, we do know she is actually a Roman Torchwick benderbend. Lastly, Arslan may be cnnected to Aslan, but the jury is out on that one. By penchant, we should note that they now create genderbent characters with no theme in mind. So I expect more to come. For instance, Fate began with only one benderbent character in the entire lineup of dead warriors: Arturia Pendragon. Since then, there are many more. Since RWBY favors female fighters over males, it is only natural for more genderbent characters to be introduced.

Indeed, similiarities are replete everywhere. As I said before, RWBY and God Eater have the closest style to me.