Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28831435-20160703040107/@comment-4010415-20160709184425

Sirius Fenrir wrote:

The Fate series features characters with powers just like FF 15's Noctis or Cinder and Velvet.

More importantly, the Fate series shares the penchant genderbent legendary or historical figures with RWBY

But the real  clincher was  God Eater. Originally a game from 2010, God Eater's similiarities with RWBY are soo strong, that you'll have to be blind not to see them. If the Grimm-like monsters or massive weapons that transform into guns with shades of Cloud's Buster Sword were not enough, there is also a character the screams Ruby Rose. Monty tweeted her image some time back. See here. If any studio was more qualified to make a Final Fantasy or RWBY anime, it would be ufotable What Cinder does is not similar to Noctis or Velvet. She doesn't seem to be summoning weapons. It seems like she's using Dust to form molten earth into obsidian shaped like weapons. She's basically glass blowing, but without the blowing.

Penchant for genderbent legendary or historical figures? If I go with your quote in a literal sense, RWBY has only done that with four of their many, many characters, and that's because that's what their team theme was. If you add in classic stories in general, then they've done it with five characters, since Penny is a genderbend of Pinocchio. Still, in relation to how many characters there are, five hardly seems like a penchant.

People've also compared RWBY to Attack on Titan and Soul Eater. A lot of anime have similarities. You can compare Kekkaishi to, uhhh... geez, what was it that Kekkaishi was ringing some serious similarity bells for? Was it Bleach? Meh, it's been so long since I saw it.