User blog comment:WarrenWitch/Yang nails it, Pyrrha gets her man, Weiss chooses the lesser of two evils...and Ruby hits a crow/@comment-11942246-20130816050909/@comment-13616152-20130816142934

@Zolnir

Okay, so it's anime. Why is it then that you're adding a layer of realism and logic to it by saying it's totally normal to fire a bunch of kids medeval style into a live forest of monsters - as an initiation test - simply on the merits of "it's a Military academy" and "they have experience"?

You don't create joke characters for things like this. Unless it's an anime, of course. But saying "it's an anime" is a blanket statement that negates any and all sort of resoning or logic at any given moment within the show. You can say that they're training warriors all you want, but once you turn around and say "it's an anime", you just rejected any logical arguement you had previous.