/rwby/ - RWBY

>>36349

>Manga adaptation

If it’s not an ecchi parody that has all the girls get their clothes ripped off during fights, what even is the fucking point?

>>36392

Sounds like an improvement honestly.

>>36416

Depends on what you like, really. The novel takes an extremely tropey approach to the characters. Jaune, for example, is basically nothing like he is in the OG show. It's difficult to explain, but all the characters seem like uncanny imitations. Like your mom comes into your room but really it's someone else wearing her skin.

https://remnantscans.wordpress.com/rwby-the-session-prologue/

You can read the first two chapters at that link.

From the Red Trailer alone, I would've wanted a Samurai Jack kind of thing where Ruby is just traveling around fighting Grimm or something. Everyone else can be the characters she meets along the way.

>>36107

This would've been a million times better. A fight each episode could happen without necessitating a million years of lead-up and exposition. Ruby could remain a mysterious character with a subtle personality like in her trailer. Maybe a mix between SJ and Mushishi would have been a perfect formula for a show like RWBY… then again that would require a lot of restraint when it comes to writing.

>>35854

It would be amazing if they had kept it as close as possible to the trailers (or Dead Fantasy).

Short videos focused on action scenes with little to no talking and just have the story implied through small subtle details in them, leaving the door open for lots of fan speculation, looking for clues, and putting together the story.

The trailers did great at that, look how much they told you about each character and their background in a couple of minutes compared to how much we get to know about them in the series itself with them talking non-stop.

>>36126

>>36338

I think Monty should have played to his strengths in that regard, but Monty had a story he wanted to tell. The world has potential here and there, and how Salem could have manipulated nations could have been fascinating.

Assuming it was executed well, the cliches still hold it back.

Monsters that prey on negative emotion, and they look like an animal, but…

Ancient mcguffins to find a'la RPG quest.

Ancient Evil, and the only person who knows how to stop it asks the protag(s) for help.

But if it was executed well enough, you could sell almost anything. As long as it's interesting and you're made to care about the characters.

>>36373

>Monty had a story he wanted to tell.

It's quite clear that he didn't. What you mean is that he had some setpieces and concepts he wanted to work with, and that's it. The guy clearly knew nothing about what makes a story good, or even well written. If he did, he wouldn't have hired a hack and an intern as lead writers for his show. Looking at S1 and S2, there's nothing there that really shows Monty had concrete ideas about what the general goal of each season would be and how the characters interacted with eachother (reminder that Blake & Ruby and Yang & Weiss have basically never spoken). RWBY is just a collected mess of things that seemed cool in his mind and could have been cool if anything was handled competently. And Monty IS a competent guy, when it comes to animating at least. The Red trailer was perfect (Ruby shows more personality in the 3 minutes of fighting she does in the trailer than she does in the rest of the show), so what's the difference between the trailers and the show from a production standpoint? The Dynamic Duo Miles and Kerry (who are incapable of writing themselves out of a paper bag) weren't present to ruin the red trailer.

Anyway, the samurai Jack approach would have been the best way to handle things. The writers wouldn't have had to bother with some large epic overarching story (something they're trying to do now and fucking up at it right as we speak). They would have been able to reconcile the large amount of characters with the appropriate screentime and they wouldn't have had to worry about Ruby herself developing as a character (something Monty didn't want from the get-go: he said she had to remain static). They could have instead focussed on interesting magical environments, and cool fights that need little context.

>Monsters that prey on negative emotion

I don't really think this is a cliche, and it could have been pretty cool if it had been done correctly. Having controlling your emotions be part of huntsman training would be interesting, and seeing characters having to hold back their emotions even though one of their friends just died while they're fighting grimm wouldPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1809

>Are you the one who unashamedly shilled in the most recent one?

Nope. I do post in them though since /rwby/ is a little slow when it comes to discussion, and I use /co/ pretty often myself. I have shilled our board once in one though.

>>2532

You can probably unpin my second thread since I just made my third thread. I've been having stuff irl dragging me away from updating my story lately.

>>2536

I would love to do a CYOA, but I'm afraid of being a shitty quest/thread master I feel there's too many of them.

Sorry about the multi-month hiatus guys. I've returned from the abyss with higher spirits, and a new update.

I'm still waiting for a translation of the manga, and it doesn't seem like anyone cares to translate any of the stuff released in moonland, so I think we're both shit out of luck.

>Suzuhito Yasuda

Someone rip the illustrations please. My dick needs it.

Also I'm guessing by the cover that it's one big beach episode in LN format?

>>36238

The manga is getting released in English in a week.

>>36232

https://remnantscans.wordpress.com/

This person partially translated it, though not fully. They haven't posted since last summer, though, so I'm not even sure if they're still working on it.

>>36239

>Someone rip the illustrations please

I'm pretty sure they're already somewhere online. You can find most on the RWBY wiki I think.

There's a few images here >>36244 too.

>>28810

Sure, here.

t. Drama and Literature 101

It's only unbelievable at first glance because we didn't know that the first three chapters were just framing context for the "real" story. Monty had something like 10 chapters planned and everyone in-house knew ahead of time that they were intentionally setting up a faulty expectation, a technique to make viewers identify with the bereavement that the entire cast and even setting has just gone through.

This was the way it was always going to be. They warned us in the songs. We didn't listen.

AND NOW IT'S HAPPENING

nevar 4get

>>25497

I will never be over her death. Why couldn't fucking Jaune die instead of her? Now RWBY is short a Best Girl, leaving only Ruby herself to fill that void! ;_;

>>25497

it still pains me tbh. she was my favorite character

>>25497

fucking spoilers cunt

>>35519

FUCK YES. Thanks Anon!

Anyone making anything lately?

Thinking about resurrecting my old designs and working on them.

>>34561

I more see Jaune fucking Yang and marrying Ruby. Of course he ends up being taiyang 2: swordsman boogaloo.

>>34563

NO FUCK YOU I WILL NOT BE CUCKOLDED BY A NIGGER IN A ONESIE

>>34572

>that vid

kek. I love yang to, it's just if I have to pick between Miles and Kerry making bumblebee canon or yang fucking blonde bitch boy I'd rather see the blonde beta at least get something. Poor guy never catches a break. **then again Blake might like him, he's been getting edgier lately"

>>31409

>spot the guy that never listened to podcasts nor watched the x-mas themed shorts

>Right wingers are this autistic

>>35758

So is it a case that he just spilled spaghetti and dealt with shit in the worst way possible (he couldn't work for RT because of "temper tantrums" or sperg outs), or was his only crime really wanting to get the cash cow back under Monty's foot?

(not that he should have given it up in the first place. Make a contract for one season, see what people think, then you have them over a barrel if it's a hit and can make more demands)

>>35759

Truthfully, I don't know. IIRC, From Shane's accounting, Sheena is the one who gets fucked sideways after Monty's death. it seemed that as soon as Monty died, MK wanted to take it and make it become their thing, while Shane and Sheena wanted to stay by Monty's vision, Sheena actually knew what plot points Monty wanted in RWBY by being with him as he animated all night, talking about RWBY as he did so.

>>35760

And even then, we have conflicting reports of RT hating Sheena like poison long before Monty's death.

Either because she had him wrapped around her finger, was treating him like shit, and/or whispering in his ear to get the show back under his control or force a "Do X or I walk" deal.

Anyway, there's another thread for the details of that.

>>35762

This is where two narrative collide and I don't know which one is closer to reality.

Shane was airtight with Monty and the crew. and from his account, Sheena was someone who loved Monty and RWBY, and RT treated her like dirt.

The 8chan thread put the narrative out that Sheena treated him like shit and as soon as the burial was done, took the money and ran.

it's overemotional man talking about his mentor's life vs Anons who make a narrative out of what they can see.

>>35678

And he did one more.

Technically should be in the How To Fix RWBY thread, but I figured putting his work here with the rest would be better.

In short, he says Monty's Rule of Cool still follows storytelling. I.e. offers exposition and lorebuilding. Albeit- sometimes characters do shit in a moment of "cool" they never do later (like Ren's pressure point fighting)

>>35360

>sheena

>mfw i have no adequate pic to express my rage

Horsecocks

>>35021

>>35023

>>35022

>>35020

>That long wait

>That build up

>It's futa

Well call me rused

>>35125

If there was a non-futa version, I would have liked the corset pic as well as the bukkake one. Or a combination of both.

The action scenes and involvement with weebs (from Dead Fantasy) set the foundation.

Then RT got involved, getting the "Nu-Geek" crowd involved, as well as early youtube users (the kind who watched RvB when it was new).

With the above you have a very vocal community.

The weebs discuss it- even if it's to say they don't like it. Some hate how aggressive weebs are about their opinion, so they look at the show almost out of spite.

> Christ that guys really got his tits twisted over this show. Wonder what it's really like.

The casual geek/dilettante geeks are into it so they can look "quirky and unique", and on top of that it's a new and unknown show, attracting hipsters or those with desires to be unique in liking something unknown they can boast they have knowledge about.

And the early youtubers are in into since their mentality is "It's free, and I'm doing it to burn time" so they're less concerned with quality (think of it like how Apps on Smartphones are now).

All of the above act like free advertising, so more people know it exists and checks it out.

As for how it got big in Japan- I haven't a fucking clue.

I know Japs like some western animation (capeshit and Disney), but I figured they liked hand-drawn over CGI. I also thought otaku hated western people trying to emulate anime/the community and especially trying to make their own. Maybe it tickled the fancy of casual anime fans in Japan, and the show had just the right waifus?

Now the above does risk more western SJWs or busybodies squirming their way into Japanese animation industries (Crunchyroll is respected, but they're oblivious the companies origins), but hopefully the free market and otaku rage will sort that.

RWBY relies on serendipity, an already existing, brainless fanbase, and marketing. It being free is also a plus.

Japan likes it because Japan.has shit taste. SAO and the like is loved more in Japan than it is here. Besides, it's RWBY's success in the west combined with the strings RT can pull as a multimillion dollar company that grants it a timeslot on Jap television. If RWBY was the first project done by an indie production studio it wouldn't be as popular at all.

>>35409

I mean in the show you just make it flatter and wider pieces of marshmallow, or you have the actual cereal be flakes (so it's not Marshmallow Flakes, it's Marshmallow and Flakes- the branding just dropped the "and" to make it a product name).

Also- this has to be the scummiest fucking idea for merchandise. I hate food merch at the best of times (it lasts as long as it takes to eat) but for fucking cereal- the cheapest breakfast possible outside of toast. And not just normal cereal- kids cereal the stuff that offers no fucking value as a breakfast thanks to 20% of your daily sugar intake.

Fucking selling "People Like Grape" Grape flavored soda would be better!

>they reuse the same shitty promotional art from GE

>didn't have the budget to make a new Pyrrha portrait

Seriously, this is literally the same shitty Pyrrha art from Grimm Eclipse.

>>35415

Worst part of it? Those portraits are even older than GE, they were used for a card deck set they had in store around 2014.

https://store.roosterteeth.co.uk/products/rwby-playing-cards

RT needs to hire new/better artists or at least get a better QC man.