Volume 7 is the seventh season of RWBY. It premiered on November 2nd, 2019 on the Rooster Teeth website, and ran for 13 episodes with a holiday break on December 28th, 2019.[1] Starting with Volume 7, RWBY stopped being uploaded to YouTube. The volume was preceded by Volume 6 and followed by Volume 8.
Overview
Ruby's Group successfully arrive at the kingdom of Atlas with the Relic of Knowledge where they work with General Ironwood towards his goal of building a communications tower on Amity Colosseum to restore global communications and tell the world of Salem and unite Remnant against her. However, the arrival of Arthur Watts and Tyrian Callows in Atlas, the looming threat of Salem and the growing trust issues between our protagonists make things more complicated.
During the Volume, the heroes learn that Penny Polendina was rebuilt following the Fall of Beacon, the Happy Huntresses led by Robyn Hill attempt to help the people of Mantle no matter what and Jacques Schnee attempts to become a member of the Kingdom's council in order to remove the Dust embargo made by Ironwood. All the while, the heroes are trained by the Ace Operatives and become actual Huntsmen. While they work with Ironwood throughout the Volume, his continued extreme actions towards Mantle begins to make them question if they are doing the right thing.
Characters
Major Characters
Other Characters
Minor Characters
- Forest
- Drunk Mann and Drinking Buddy
- "Thirsty" Moms
- "Thirsty" Moms' children
- AK-200 Driver
- Summer Rose (Flashback)
Episodes
- Main article: Episodes
| Chapter | Episode | Title | Original Air Date | Run Time | External Link |
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| Trailer | Volume 7 Trailer | October 3rd, 2019 | 1:36 |  Volume 7 Trailer Volume 7 Trailer
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| 1 | "The Greatest Kingdom" | November 2nd, 2019 | 18:06 | The Greatest Kingdom
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| 2 | "A New Approach" | November 9th, 2019 | 18:18 | A New Approach
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| 3 | "Ace Operatives" | November 16th, 2019 | 17:33 | Ace Operatives
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| 4 | "Pomp and Circumstance" | November 23rd, 2019 | 17:48 | Pomp and Circumstance
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| 5 | "Sparks" | November 30th, 2019 | 19:58 | Sparks
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| 6 | "A Night Off" | December 7th, 2019 | 16:58 | A Night Off
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| 7 | "Worst Case Scenario" | December 14th, 2019 | 18:15 | Worst Case Scenario
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| 8 | "Cordially Invited" | December 21st, 2019 | 15:37 | Cordially Invited
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| 9 | "As Above, So Below" | January 4th, 2020 | 18:19 | As Above, So Below
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| 10 | "Out in the Open" | January 11th, 2020 | 15:40 | Out in the Open
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| 11 | "Gravity" | January 18th, 2020 | 20:20 | Gravity
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| 12 | "With Friends Like These" | January 25th, 2020 | 18:02 | With Friends Like These
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| 13 | "The Enemy of Trust" | February 1st, 2020 | 24:11 | The Enemy of Trust
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Development
- Main article: RWBY Development
The development for Volume 7 began shortly before the finale of Volume 6 aired.[2] Eddy Rivas and Kiersi Burkhart were added as co-writers, in addition to Miles and Kerry. The first voice acting sessions for key characters happened on April 23rd.[3]
Early in planning stage, the events of Volumes 7 and 8 were going to happen in just one Volume. That didn't last long, as the second half was pushed back into Volume 8 before the first Writers' Room of the outlining stage of Volume 7.[4]
On July 5th, 2019, the official RWBY Twitter account confirmed that Volume 7 will premiere in November.[5] The premiere date was confirmed to be November 2nd, 2019 on July 19th, 2019. [6][7]
A sneak peak of the first episode was played at RTX 2019 on July 5th, 2019. The clip would be made public on October 31st, 2019.[8]
The trailer for the volume was released on October 3rd, 2019.
On December 28th, 2019, in lieu of an episode, Rooster Teeth aired a "FRWBY" Volume 7 Recap bonus special. The video featured the voice of Forest and a clip for Chapter 9.
Development for Volume 7 ended on January 30th, 2020, two days before the finale aired, with Sound Team wrapping up the final episode.[9]
The Ace Operatives and especially Elm Ederne and Harriet Bree were designed to experiment with diverse body types.[10]
Originally, Cinder and Neo were intended to be more present in the Volume, but the crew had to cut back on their appearances, instead making them instrumental to Ironwood's collapse.[11]
The writers originally were not sure about having a montage in the episode "Sparks".[12] Originally, there was no montage in the episode with the team instead sitting around a table talking about what they did.[13] During the montage, Vine asked Jaune if he ever considered extending his Aura. Since Jaune couldn't do it himself yet, this would have led into the introduction of the Disc Grenade as a substitute later in the Volume. However, the introduction of the Disc Grenades had to be moved to Volume 8 instead.[14]
The sub-plot featuring Robyn Hill's efforts to obtain supplies to Mantle was a late addition to the Volume's outline.[15]
Qrow and Robyn being arrested at the very end of the Volume was added late in development so they could effectively be "parked" in the same location as each other for most of Volume 8.[16] Kerry Shawcross admitted that he repressed the memory of changing a storyboard for the final episode of the Volume so Qrow and Robyn could get arrested during the last week of storyboarding for the episode.[17]
Trivia
- The main theme of Volume 7 is Trust.
References
- ↑ Kerry Shawcross' Blog Post
- ↑ Chad and Miles Interview
- ↑ Lindsay Jones' Twitter
- ↑ RWBY Volume 8 Directors' and Writers' Commentary Chapter 14
- ↑ Official RWBY Twitter
- ↑ RTX 2019 RWBY Panel
- ↑ The Official RWBY Twitter
- ↑ Entertainment Weekly
- ↑ Chris Kokkinos on Twitter
- ↑ RWBY Panel | RTX 2020
- ↑ RWBY: Volume 7 Director's Commentary – Chapter 11
- ↑ RWBY Volume 7 Crew Commentary - Chapter 5
- ↑ RWBY Volume 7 Crew Commentary - Chapter 6
- ↑ RWBY Volume 8 Directors' and Writers' Commentary Chapter 2
- ↑ RWBY Volume 7 Crew Commentary – Chapter 5
- ↑ RWBY Volume 8 Directors' and Writers' Commentary Chapter 4
- ↑ RWBY Volume 8 Directors' and Writers' Commentary Chapter 4
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