Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.23.148.194-20140118015155/@comment-4010415-20140930122757

24.131.48.58 wrote: Does rwby really look anything like an anime? The hairstyles are mostly completely natural with some spiky areas, but nothing out of the ordinary style. Sure there are a few unnaturlal hair colors, and eye colors, but that's about it. If you look at their eyes it's just a little bigger than people in real life. Crazy spiky hair does not an anime make. Neither does unnatural hair colors or eye colors.

For example, the vast majority of the characters in Durarara have normal hair style and colors. Sure, there's that really weird guy who had a massive pompadour, but he was part of a gang that commonly sports pompadours (Yes, that's a thing in Japan). And sure, Shizuo's hair is blonde despite him being Japanese, but that's because he dyes it so it's easier for people to notice him and avoid him (since he's the living embodiment of rage and violence, but he doesn't want to hurt people). Nobody in Durarara has any crazy strange wacky eye color either.

The art style of the eyes and faces in RWBY is very anime-like. Besides, Monty said that, when he finished up with animating for Red vs Blue season 10, he said "I want to make an anime." The crew has been bouncing between calling RWBY an anime and "anime-inspired."

Also, I'd say eye colors like pink (Ren, kinda Neo), purple (Yang), yellow (Blake, Cinder, possibly Sage), red (Emerald), and whatever the hell color Fox's eyes are (I'm saying pure white, but others are saying yellow or amber) are enough to fit your description of an anime.

Emerald has pale green hair. Sage has dark green hair. Mercury has silver hair. Neptune has blue hair (though, considering he tries really hard to be Mr. Cool, it could be dyed). Oobleck has green hair. Neo's hair is split pink and brown with white streaks in the pink half.

And then... we have the fact that Dove has fox-face. You know, the common occurrence in anime where a character always has their eyes closed? Like Gin from Bleach, Walker from Durarara, Akabane from GetBackers, etc etc etc? It's so common that TVTropes has a trope called Eyes Always Shut, though not all fox-faced characters follow the trope.

We also have the fact that the animators have been putting anime expressions in RWBY. The most recent example is the episode Field Trip. Note Weiss' eyes and the blue verticle lines on Blake's head. Those are common anime expressions.

There's also the time that Ruby and Weiss both had "waterfall tears" in the episode Welcome to Beacon.

There is more to anime style than just strange hair and eyes.