Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24.1.105.23-20140215221000/@comment-11188061-20140217064542

It didn't really sit well with me that despite 'not splitting them apart and keeping it 12 minutes per episode', in total we actually have less total minutes as compared to Season 1, but the difference should be minimal when we consider climax episodes (6 and 12 this time I guess) to be slightly longer than usual.

The Stray actually had 3 minutes of end credits, so value wise only Players & Pieces was the most worthy in Season 1. So here's to hoping that they did not make the end episode of Season 2 the same.

The time skip. Yes, Monty, I know you want the characters to reflect 'our' age, that as we grow up a year they too become mature accordingly, but seriously, do not tell me that a year has already passed when we begin Season 2. I'm already halfway suspecting that you wouldn't do the Vytal Tournament and just timeskip beyond it. After all, we have to wait you know, almost literally a whole year in between Season 1 and 2, but the show itself was just 2 hours and 5 minutes. And Season 2 was said to be shorter.

I'm not sure what kind of noticeable difference in animation or graphics to expect honestly. Poser Pro 2014 OP?

Hopefully the voice actors would get regular practice and not 'forget' whatever they've done during Season 1 and were forced to retrain themselves.

The OST of RWBY is absolutely amazing, but I argue that the sung pieces were poor or average with exception to 'Red Like Roses II', 'I Burn' (original) and grudgingly 'I May Fall'. 'Gold' sounded like Yang fooling around a bit with the tune when she was trying to sing Ruby to sleep, and hence it is accurate, but otherwise it sounded really lame despite the seemingly heartfelt lyrics. The Trailer's 'From Shadow' had better cohesion than the current original, and the new lyrics added no value whatsoever to the song and could have been removed with minimal consequences. 'This Will Be The Day' was average at best - typical anime opening songs that didn't really touch the heart. As such, I hope that the sung pieces to improve in the future.

Nothing to say about Monty Oum's battle chereography, since I'm not near the level that I could depict them with words accurately or beautifully. I'm also pretty sure that it's more exciting than almost all the animated fight scenes in the recent 'Lightning Return' game too, which is to say LET'S GET THE TOURNAMENT BURNING UP WITH HELLFIRE ALREADY!