User blog comment:Varzan Deodinm Beldinm/Volume 2: Will the Fan Feedback Pay Off?/@comment-7370418-20140704212527

It's funny how people think this show is cliched, since that means nothing to me, really; I've only recently been getting into anime, maybe a year or two into it (not that recent, but still), and in that time span, I've watch, maybe, about five anime's in total, all with completely different concepts about them. RWBY is completely new to me, as well as everything in it, so although someone who might have watched hundreds of episodes of other animes and can spot cliches and repeated tropes in this, RWBY is original in my eyes.

That said, I do know what makes good characters, good story-pacing, and all that. To not sound biased (hopefully), the biggest problem for me was, in fact, the story, or lack-thereof; in a nutshell, the story is "There are creatures called Grimm, there are schools that train students to fight the Grimm, and off to the side is a guy named Torchwick who is leading the White Fang for...something." Basically. I think the thing RWBY did to make up for this was the character development. With most of the main characters already developed enough to move on, we won't have to worry about and filler episodes. I feel like that was the main purpose of Volume 1, to build ONLY the basics to get them out of the way, and so it doesn't seem pointless to bring up those elements introduced later.

Still, this remains one of my most favorite shows ever, so despite the criticism, I'll love it either way. Monty has to do something reallly, really, really, a-thousand-times-more-really stupid in order for me to stop watching completely.