Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140112135542/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140113000053

Darkcloud1111 wrote: I honestly didn't mind. There is absolutely nothing wrong with talking and learning about the characters. I watch a lot of real anime and anime is generally very wordy a lot of the time. Yes you get your action scenes and they are really nice, but you can't really learn about a character just from how they fight.

Also, if they hadn't split up the episodes into two parts, we would have a 10 episode volume which would most likely be aired over 10 weeks. That would mean in retrospect, we would either have to wait longer for the show to air or wait longer for the new episodes in Volume 2 to air. Or maybe air them every other week, which would probably cause even more problems. Personally, I would much rather be given a little state of something every week instead of a huge bite every other.

Oh I didn't mind at all, my point was that during RWBY's airing Monty was getting a lot of people almost begging for Dead Fantasy 6 and my brother who I ended up getting hooked on Soul Eater couldn't sit through RWBY.

Anime-wise a lot of shows that are 25 minutes long do tend to get a bit wordy but if you look at the shows that share resemblance with RWBY like Soul Eater almost every episode has a couple of small fight scenes or one big massive one. Those episodes are as wordy as RWBY but they are actually building. With RWBY you are getting 5 minutes of plot and character development and then being left hanging for a week. Then the next week you get Weiss defeating  a boar in 40 seconds and that's it for action sequences for another week?

Not hard to see why some people would feel like not watching, I mean there was no guarantee there'd be action the next week either (and there wasn't Jaune got slapped around for 5 seconds and then we got some character and plot development).In fact of the action major action sequences they occured in Ruby Rose, First Step Part 2 (3 episodes after Ruby Rose), Emerald Forest Part 1 & 2, Players and Pieces, Foreverall Fall Part 2 (five weeks after Players and Pieces) and Black and White (two weeks after Forever Fall Part 2). It's not overly difficult to see that Dead Fantasy fans may lose interest throughout the episodes between Ruby