Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10389886-20151104190702/@comment-4010415-20151105060807

Alright, so, here's the thing... It's already been mentioned in this thread that the creators intended for RWBY to be an anime. Monty had even said "I want to make an anime."

You fear weeaboos watching RWBY, but do you realize that RWBY is already on Crunchy Roll, and when Crunchy Roll first started putting the volume 1 episodes up, they had a lot of people on that site demanding the "original Japanese version"? There have been weeaboos watching since 2013, friend.

As for the official Japanese dub... Rooster Teeth is a company. They noticed that there was a significant Japanese fanbase, and many of those Japanese fans don't speak English and rely on the bilingual fans to upload subtitled episodes to Nico Nico. They saw an opportunity to expand RWBY's horizons, and they took it.

Though, yes, the Japanese dub will inevitably bring a couple of problems...


 * Back in 2013, I saw quite a few people saying "I'm not gonna watch this unless it gets a Japanese dub or something. Then, I'll watch it subbed." *Facepalm*


 * There are going to be people who will watch the Japanese dub with English subtitles and then proclaim "I only watch it in the original Japanese!" And then they'll be confused if they stumble into the wiki and find that we have info from 2 whole years ahead of time in the show.

That's just something we'll have to deal with. The dub will give Rooster Teeth another source of income for RWBY's funding, and more funding means they can continue to make RWBY at a good quality, maybe even improve it even more.