Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28831435-20160703040107/@comment-25936766-20160709195016

Sirius Fenrir wrote:

1-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.

2-And in regards to source material, God Eater's game protagonist was basically a self-insert, literally named Yuu, 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.

3-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. 1-Clearly you tried. What are the similarities between GE and RWBY? 1) Humans fight monsters, and 2) People use hybrid weapons. That's it, that's their only real similarity. And even with the weapon aspect they are different. In RWBY people make their weapons and they are still weapons. In GE, one cannot just use any God Arc, one needs to be compatible with it, or else one will be eaten. Because the God Arc is an Aragami, the very thing it was made to fight against.

Let's compare RWBY with Soul Eater instead. What are the similarities? 1) Special warriors fight monsters. 2) Said warriors are trained at special academies to fight said monsters. 3) Each of them is partnered up. 4) Both Maka and Ruby use red scythes. 5) Both Maka and Ruby turn out to have a special trait that wasn't really hinted much before but then becomes more important (Maka is a Scythe, Ruby is a SEW). 6) Big Bad in SE is a witch, Big Bad in RWBY alludes to a witch.

That's 6 similarities between Soul Eater and RWBY. 3 times the similarities it has with GE.

2-For starters, he's only called "Yuu" in another /much better) adaptation. In the game you gave him the name you wanted. Raibu, Liz, Bob, whatever. Second of all, self-inserts often translate into vanilla characters in adaptations, which is not a bad thing. Persona 4 the Animation did the same with Yu/MC, making him bland and boring at first, but gradually gains character, and that makes the development much more effective and noticeable.

And third of all, if all they needed was someone with a backstory, that's no excuse to make Super-Generic Shonen Guy Lenka. Hell, they already had that: Yuu.

3-Because in the game you could channel The Flash and go at super speed and could jump entire walls in one leap, right? Because in the game you fought on top of a plane while giving physics the middle finger, right?