Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160214165601/@comment-173.84.110.186-20160225200056

WC-83 wrote: It takes a lot to make me cry over a work or character, but when it happens it's the mark of a good work (or a work that just appeals to me, it's more the former than latter). Pyrrha's kiss/death....wasn't one of them, but I liked it nonetheless. I read the "Akame no Kill" (also known as "Akame no Kiru'), the day chapter one was translated, uploaded, and posted on a manga reading site and I followed it to the currently release. At one point, I had to take a small hiatus from reading it to chear myself back up before going back into it. After following a series that might be ending with every main character dead at it's conclusion (the anime they maid before the manga was full translated has only two out of the ten heroes alive at the end, and one of them has had their life span reduces as a cost of something they did). After rewading that series it takes a lot to make me cry as well in anime or manga. I didn't cry, but I felt imensly sad when I saw it. It shocked me a lot at the time because I was still telling myself that Roman could pull a Hannibal Chau ("Pacific RIm" refrrence), and that they could rebuild Penny (which we can all agree is possible). Pyrrah being incenerated was definetly done too emotionaly hammer the final nail in the coffin that RWBY was going to become a dark and serious series.

If I have to rank the feel of RWBY right now though, the amount of death that is taking place is in line with "Code Geass." We're seeing a few major characters die and there are a lot of nameless people being killed off screen or in the background, Atlas definetly lost some of it's human troops and I can only imagine what the civillian death count was before the soldiers and Hunters got things under controll. The atmosphere of the show right now, while bad, isn't in line with "Akame ga Kill" where you're scared that the entire series will start feeling like an anime snuff film for the main characters. Though I must sadly admit that Rooster Teeth could set that kind of tone for RWBY in the next Volume.

Speaking of comparing RWBY death to anime, can someone tell me if the death count in RWBY is simmilar to "Game of Thrones" or "Madoka Magica" and to what degree? I haven't got into either series because neither sounds like a series I'd truly care about (I greatly respect Tolkein, but my personal taste don't realy care for Medievil tales that are told in Tolkein manner despite the fact I'm a die hard Fire Emblem Fan). I'm seeing and hearing people use those shows to compare to RWBY so I'm curios about the similariteis now.

-Defcon Deceiver