Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.160.120.109-20140627184048/@comment-1173941-20140627231312

This is an amusing argument. Why must everything be absolutely and totally original? The whole point of RWBY is to not be completely original, if you haven't noticed. They intentionally over-used common anime cliches, and each character is a references to either fictional or historical characters in one way or another.

Your argument that RWBY is unoriginal in the idea that you assume it was trying to be original, by having 0 influence from anything else (which is impossible), is flawed by its very nature.

The only time calling a word of fiction "unoriginal" ever works, is when the entire story is borderline plagiarized.