User blog:Maki Kuronami/Lesson 17: Food fights elevated into an arm form.

So after a long hiatus, it's time for me to do that episodic blog that I used to do. In this case, let's discuss Volume 2 Chapter 1.

We return to Neo Vale which now has HOLOGRAPHIC STREETLIGHTS. That still silly, but awesome nonetheless.

For starters, we get an introduction on the Mercury and Emerald dynamic. Emerald... is a thief. Can we assume she's Aladdin now? That's all I've got.



So they go to the book store run by Wolverine, who's into false advertising. The books they were talking about piqued my interest though. Potential discussion about the Third Crusade impending?

After the first in-series death occurs, we cut to Blake's far far superior sketching. And Nora tossing peas, cherries towards Yang...?

Ruby chimes in with her Big Bad Book for apparently the hypest day on Beacon. Meanwhile, Nora ensued a food fight.

Cut to Sun and Neptune, and Sun shipping himself with Blake. Props to Kerry for having a decent voice with Neptune. Not as #cringe as I expected it to be.

I'd like to praise something that this episode has done properly: Background events. Now that silhouettes are no longer a thing, they've began to make some background incidents occur without affecting the main scene itself. That ensuing food fight occuring while Sun and Neptune were talking kept the scene from being as dull as the ones seen in Volume 1.

So we walk in to the so-called food fight. IT IS THE MOST EPIC FOOD FIGHT EVER. OF ALL TIME. I won't talk much about it as it has to be seen rather than described.

Melons are godly in the hands of JNPR.

Also, interesting thing: The trailers lied. The part where Ozpin ensures Glynda about RWBY/JNPR was far more detailed than what we're shown. Monty appears to be taking inspiration from Hideo Kojima.

Let's check out how Roman is doing. Oh, he's just mimicking the clamshell diaper scene from Spongebob. I wonder how many got those though?

Important tidbit here: Even Roman doesn't know what's going on. He only collected the Dust, but didn't know what they were for.

Another important detail is how he refers to Emerald and Mercury as 'kids'. And an offhand comment from Emerald confirms that Cinder is not young-ish.



Overall, this episode blows the very first episode of RWBY over the water in terms of quality. And I'm setting my bar a bit higher from here on out. Lastly, like nearly 40% of the Volume 2 trailer appears to be here in the first episode. Pretty much the White Fang Mecha, some Grimm yucking it out in Vale, and Ironwood are the few scenes that were absent.

Thoughts on the Third Crusade, everyone?