Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.23.148.194-20140118015155/@comment-4010415-20140305232428

I like to think that one problem with some of the people who're complaining is that some people are either exaggerating or only looking at the surface.

Example of looking at the surface: "They're not even developing all the characters yet! We've barely gotten anywhere in the story!" People keep looking at "16 episodes" and thinking a lot more should have been done at this point and that the writing is too slow and too full of filler. The problem is, if you take the total runtime of Volume 1, it's actually equivalent to approximately 5.5 episodes of a TV anime. Not much gets done in the first 5-6 episodes.

Example of exaggeration: "RWBY is so unoriginal, it's exactly like Soul Eater!" It's not exactly like Soul Eater. Granted, it has similarities. A main character wields a scythe, yes, but Ruby's scythe is not a living person who transforms into a scythe. They go to an academy to learn to fight monsters, yes, but they fight monsters for a different reason. Hell, if I wanted to, I could say that Bleach is just like Soul Eater, just by applying the same mentality as the people saying RWBY is just like Soul Eater.

And it's already been pointed out in this thread, everything has tropes. Literally everything. It's unavoidable. It's so hard to have original ideas these days because almost everything has been done to the point where some of those things become tropes.

If you really want a good idea of just how common tropes are and how pretty much everything is chock full of 'em, look up your favorite movies, TV shows, and anime on TVTropes.org.