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My overall opinion was…pleasantly surprised.

I caught on to the tone the show would take almost immediately, so all the college/high school stuff really didn’t surprise or phase me…so I came out of volume 1 satisfied and hooked; It had a “fitting in” theme that was there throughout the volume and switched perspectives in order to not get boring, fights where mind numbingly good, particularly the end duel, and they even managed to blindsight me with Jaune’s reveal which was shockingly well executed. The show was horribly flawed, god knows I wrote an entire text wall detailing everything they could have done better, but I came here expecting nothing, expected a Harry Potter/Devil May Cry crossover in episode 2, and got a Harry Potter/Devil May Cry crossover by the end.

VOLUME 2 however is a step back as far as I can tell…although I wasn’t really expecting anything else since it’s an in-between volume, which means it doesn’t have a beginning and it can’t have an ending…but it also misses a bit on the theme aspect that volume 1 had…first half is more of a conclusion to volume 1 and the second half opens the “identity/ self discovery” theme that didn't reach a reall conclusion...I’m grateful they aren’t rushing such a powerful theme…but nonetheless that still left the ending strangely hollow…

I almost shed a tear when Weiss and Blake came to an accord and the music rolled in volume 1…although that was probably because of the song…but here I was legitimately expecting more episodes after the ending one because…it didn’t feel like an ending, no theme was reaching a conclusion, no new chapter felt like it was opening, it just…stopped… So I actually came out of volume 2 with a meh in stead of the meh+ I was expecting. Overall I’m expecting volume 3 to be a volume 2.5, but if I was a critic…and I fancy myself one sometimes… I would analyze volume 3 on it’s own merit so my prediction for volume 3 is…meh.