User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E6 -Known By It's KRAAAW - Impressions/Recap/@comment-2601:741:C200:692A:A8B5:16B0:B6B7:4635-20171124060709/@comment-25936766-20171124140331

If they reduced the episodes's lengths to even the level in Volume 2, it'd be horrendous and destroy the writing.

Vol.1's episodes were short because they were incomplete. They rushed through it and released them in halves because the whole episode wasn't finished yet.

All these times you see "Whatever (part 1)" and "Whatever (part 2)", they are actually 1 single episode, just divided in halves.

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The reason it would destroy the writing is because the less the episode's lengths, the less screentime you have available. Which means:

>Less time to develop the characters.

>Less time to develop the plot.

>Less time for world-building.

Which means you have 2 choices:

1) Cut the development of some characters and world-building to save on time for the "important part", which would have the result of making the work feel more hollow and unbuilt.

2) Rush through it all and do everything as fast as possible, which is just plain bad writing.

Now, when you consider how RWBY already has problems with character development and world-building, and that the story already progresses rather fast, it's easy to add 2+2 and see that if they reduced the screentime so majorly, it would be a disaster.

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The writing, or better said the work itself, already required episodes longer than, say, 6 minutes, 8 minutes. Even 12mins wasn't really enough (though it doesn't help they wasted time with Jaune and his dumb Dance arc in V2).

RWBY is not an anime short. It's designed to be similar to actual anime. And actual anime has a standard length of 22mins-long episodes for a very good reason.