Thread:KNN005/@comment-25266931-20170304160915/@comment-25266931-20170305185047

I don't see why she doesn't care about unarmed combat? Weapons are cool, no doubt. No one refuting that. But to rely solely on them is reckless. And she's not that stupid so why? Is she written to be more focused on immulating Qrow to keep up a parallel between her and Cinder (who imitates Salem)?

In Muy Thai classes you learn unarmed first. That's gotta be what the vast majority of all dojos do, right? Unless it's fencing and kendo. So what class did Ruby go to that jumped her straight to rare weapons? Did Qrow think: "Hey I'll teach her scythes and since I'm a cool hand-off no-micro-managing type, I'll let her decide what to learn after that on her own"? And so then all she did was mix scythe with sniping and called it a day?

@Ark: I meant no offense to RT. I just mean there's a fine line between parody, homage, and shamelessly copying something because putting forth effort to try something new and have the bravery to risk it all on something new is somethin most media don't want to do. RT has good idea. They mix them in with some overused ones but that's fine. As long as they're making an effort. As long as they're not recycling the same otaku-NEET-moe-bait style that comes out usually in anime I got no real complaints. Anime is great but we don't need another show about schoolgirls in uniform with high pitch voices and they're secretly sexy prudish goddesses that all love one selfish shy nerd. You know what I mean.

There's FMA and AoT and Cowboy Beebop and then there Asterisk Wars or Akiba's Trip or Chaos Head or Is It Wrong To Pick Up A Girl In A Dungeon. There's trying to write an epic just so happening to reused tropes. And there's not trying at all to do anything thought provoking or new and conciously reusing tropes just to capitalize off the popularity of said tropes. And maybe stroke the egos of viewers who will pretend they are the leads in these anime and want to fantasize. I could go on. But RT isn't like that. They're actually trying. They just need to, as Blake herself put it "take bigger strides".