Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4403232-20140411230237/@comment-10390252-20140604083142

VedranTheII wrote: BenRG wrote: Remember that RWBY is a lot shorter than most animé. With twelve 15-minute episodes per season, it has very little time to introduce new characters and new plot lines.

Didn’t stop them from nearly doubling the cast for volume 2 though.

I've got to say, I'm not sure the number of characters who will make it into the 'cast', where 'cast' is primary characters or secondaries with more than one or two lines of dialogue apiece. Certainly, I would doubt that most of the newbies will likely have much in the way of explored character background or focus episodes.