User blog comment:RaijinRising/Thoughts on Volume One/@comment-173.55.65.229-20131222044338

If I could change something.

I would have wanted Yang and Blake to be given more screentime. Blake only really existed toward the end of the volume, and all it established was that she was a Faunus, and that she was White Fang, and that Adam indeed did exist and wasn't some trailer only hallucination. Yang didn't exist for much of the volume either, and was generally regulated to one very brief moment of sunshine in the series, or more accurately, the time where she took on the Ursas before Blake stole the spotlight. Plus all the BlakexYang people probably want to see those two together as much as humanly/Faunusly possible. I don't blame them.

I would have liked Ren and Nora to get more screentime. Ren and Nora were around since episode four, but they have less development than Sun and Penny did, and they were only around at the end of the volume. I find it mildly ironic that Ren and Nora, characters who were introduced very early on, do not have as much development as Sun and Penny, who have only existed for two episodes, in contrast with the roughly six episodes that Ren and Nora were in. Sun and Penny? We know a lot about them. Ren and Nora, no.

More belivable villains. The "Cardin-blackmailing-Jaune" thing was the stereotypical blackmail for some small favors thing. It sounded more like a placeholder rather than an actual storyline. Cinder, well, If she's the theoretical antagonist of the entire story, then why does she not appear for most of it? . Cinder appeared in the beginning to throw a few punches, show of her nicely shaved legs, and then run away, and was never seen again until the end where it shows she was the real bad guy the whole time? It would have been better if she was manipulating the dumbcluck (which she was), but was actually seen doing so.

If the show is called RWBY then why is it the title character, Ruby, doesn't get a prominent role for a significant amount of time? Jaune upsurps her role as title character for at least four episodes, Pyrrha for at least one, and Blake for two others. In total, Ruby doesn't relaly exist in the story.

Outside of that, I'm pleased with how RWBY went. It's got it's faults, but it's not too bad. But what I really wanted to see was teams RWBY and JNPR, Sun and Penny playing Grifball. With Roman's head.