Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161211174540/@comment-25936766-20161220002616

KNN005 wrote: All I'm saying is, I like the show RWBY, but I can't turn a blind eye that in a lot of ways it just recycles almost everything seen in anime already. No one sees a need to break the mold. Yeaaah, Monty wanted it that way. The show was far more cliché in V1, to be fair. Miles and Kerry are making it less cliché, but in the end, it was always meant to be like anime, from the art to the tropes.

And IIRC Monty himself said he didn't care or wasn't aiming for creativity. RWBY wasn't meant to be some Puella Magi Madoka Magica or Neon Genesis Evangelion, designed with the intention of breaking the mold.