Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130829103240/@comment-14909251-20140108225215

Time skips can be a good way of moving the story forward, so long as they are done appropriately. One animé where there was a very good time skip was in One Piece. Honestly, it was one of the best ways to handle a time skip. Most shows use a time skip merely as an excuse to let things happen to characters off-screen that would take a long time, like having children or undergoing rigorous training to confront some looming threat. Sometimes, like with Bleach, the time skip is utterly useless except as a way to let time go by and then give you essentially nothing in return for it. RWBY, so far has used very minor time skips that essentially just let things happen off-screen, but it is quite acceptable to make these minor leaps. Any years-long time skip would, hopefully, be more akin to One Piece than Bleach, or at least akin to Dragonball or Naruto.