User blog comment:Sapo444/Hello fellow RWBY fans! Here is a strict, but good review of RWBY for u!/@comment-11188061-20131110065215

I do think it's accurate.

The problem here Maki, wasn't whether RT/Monty Oum wants Team JNPR to be as relevant as the MCs or not. The pacing and incredible short length of episodes by itself caused Team JNPR to be relegated to sub character status and become hopelessly irrelevant, no matter the wishes of the creator.

It's like this: Imagine that you're writing a story with a word limit of 5 thousand words. Now, imagine that you're trying to make all 8 characters - Team RWBY + Team JNPR - to be relevant as MCs individually in this story.

If you haven't guessed yet, that's literally impossible. The most you can do is to have 4 characters (I can imagine such a format at least, since I did one with Weiss/Blake, 2.5k words) at once without leaving them too empty without content or interest.

To try and stuff 8 characters in anime format and still want to call them alll MCs is like... someone's going to be treated as sub characters, make no mistake. You can either have a few characters with strong MC status, or treat them all together as a single unit (Like Power Rangers), and by that point the MC is only that 1 unit - the individual characters themselves are irrelevant.

Just like at Song of Ice and Fire trilogy. How much effort do you think George Martin put in to make everyone (he has my utmost respect) an MC, even though some of them died at some points of the story? The scale is just MASSIVE.