RWBY ( , "ruby") is an anime-style American web and media franchise created by Monty Oum for Rooster Teeth. The show is set in the fictional world of Remnants, where young people train to become Huntsmen and Huntresses to protect their world from Grimm beings. The name RWBY comes from the four first names of the main characters: Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang, as well as the associated theme colors Red, White, Black, Yellow. After several promotional trailers, the first episode was screened on the RTAST Teens convention RTX show and then released on their website in July 2013. The next episode was released around the week, first to Rooster Teeth customers, then to YouTube a week later. The series became a viral hit, and the second season, subtitle Volume 2 , was released in July 2014.
During production Volume 3 , on February 1, 2015, Oum died after experiencing a coma caused by an allergic reaction during a medical procedure. This leaves the future of the series uncertain for a short period of time until Rooster Teeth Animation Head Gray Haddock announces that the series will continue, and that Volume 3 will premiere in 2015 as planned. Volume 3 was released on October 24, 2015. Meanwhile, the first two seasons were released to the home media and available on streaming services such as Netflix and Crunchyroll, the latter of which will include the release of the current season in their simulcast. In October 2016, the fourth season was released. The series has also been dubbed in Japan and broadcast by Tokyo MX, in partnership with Warner Bros.. Japan.
Rooster Teeth released a video game called RWBY: Grimm Eclipse , as well as a spin-off series called RWBY Chibi , in 2016. The fifth volume aired on October 14, 2017 and ended on January 20 2018. The teaser shorts Volume 5 for Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long characters have been released, as well as the second season of RWBY Chibi. The third season of RWBY chibi is released after the end of volume 5. Volume 6 is currently being worked on and set to become prime minister in Autumn 2018.
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Summary
This story takes place in the Remnant world, which is full of mysterious and evil creatures known as "Grimm Beings". Prior to the series events, mankind waged a live battle against Grimm before discovering the power of a mysterious element called Dust that enabled them to fight against monsters. On this day, Dust is used to improve the ability and power of people. Those who practice to fight with Grimm are known as Huntsmen or Huntresses. The series focuses on four girls, each with its own weapons and unique strength. Together, they formed a team of RWBY at the Beacon Academy in the Vale kingdom, where they were trained to become Huntress with the JNPR team ( , "juniper" ), the SSSN team (span> , "sun"), the CRDL team ( , "cardinal"), the CFVY team ( , "coffee"), and various other student teams.
When much theft of dust was organized by the local criminal head, Roman Torchwick wiped out the royal capital (Beacon's house), the RWBY Team began investigating the theft of their own accord. This leads them into conflict with Torchwick and its partners, Cinder Fall - whose covert motives require stockpiling of volatile commodities. The Fall Plan is to lead the White Fang - a terrorist group looking for equality for the Faunus/human race/animal hybrid - in a terror attack on Vytal Festival, an annual inter-academy competition. In the chaos, Cinder seized power from a deeper conspiracy among academy school principals. Through Volumes 4 and 5, the RWBY teams scattered each headed to the Haven Academy at Mistral, which took them (deliberately and otherwise) into conflict with Cinder, the new and old villain, and their master Salem, the antagonist.
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Development
RWBY has been an old concept of Oum for years before it was developed. Toward the end of his work in Rooster Teeth's 10th season Red . Blue , he developed a color code approach for character names and designs as a hook for the series. During production on Red vs. Blue season 10, Oum asks Burnie Burns series makers if they can produce RWBY after the end of the season. Burns, worried for production schedules, told Oum "If you finish Season 10, then you can do whatever you want." Production at RWBY begins as intended, with the first trailer completed within two weeks and premieres after the credits from Red vs. Blue season 10 finals on 5 November 2012.
Oum designs the characters with help from artist Ein Lee, utilizing designs inspired by classic fairy tales. Each character has an associated color, and it is the first letter of the main character color, red, white, black, and yellow, which gives the series name. The character name also has the same letter and its meaning as color (eg "Weiss Schnee" translated to "white snow" in German). The series was originally written by Oum, along with fellow employees Rooster Teeth, Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross. Oum was initially concerned by a story that focused on the female character developed by the male crew primarily, but said they managed to develop the character of women well. Regarding design, OUM wants to "present a two-dimensional view, a shaded toon, but with all the depth and complexity of 3D animation production." Seasons 1 to 3 are powered by Rooster Teeth's internal animation team using Smith Micro Poser software, from assets built on Autodesk Maya. Starting in Season 4, the episode is now being animated in Maya. The music of this series was composed by Jeff Williams, who previously composed the soundtrack for Seasons 8-10 of Red vs. Blue , and featured vocals by Williams's daughter, Casey Lee Williams.
Promotions
A series of four promotional trailers, one for each of the main characters, was released. They are mainly produced by Oum and assistant animator Shane Newville. Each trailer begins by opening one of the four main characters and then displaying a detailed action sequence. The "Red" trailer is shown after the credits for Red vs. Blue's season 10 finals in November 2012. Followed by the "White" trailer in February 2013. The "Black" trailer was unveiled at the East PAX panel at the end of March and was the first to include a voice dialogue. After the premiere of the "Black" trailer, Oum noted with regret that the first two trailers were shorter and had less character development. The "Yellow" trailer is displayed on the A-Kon Rooster Teeth panel on June 1, 2013. Music from the trailer is sold as a digital download at some online retailers.
On July 5, 2013, in the RWBY panel for their RTX 2013 event, Rooster Teeth aired the first episode of RWBY , and will post the episode to their website on July 18th.
Release
After the premiere of RWBY in July 2013, Rooster Teeth posted a new episode for the first season, a subtitle Volume 1 , a weekly stream on their website, with access two hours earlier as they sponsor. New episodes will be uploaded to YouTube next week. On August 16, 2013, the streaming site Crunchyroll announced it will broadcast RWBY . Volume 1 ran for 16 episodes, the length varied. Volume 1 ends in November 2013, and then released to DVD and Blu-ray.
The second season, subtitle Volume 2 , was played on RTX on July 4, 2014, and aired on July 24th. It consists of 12 episodes, with the last episode released on October 30, after which it was released on DVD and Blu-ray.
Volume 3 aired on October 24, 2015 along with a series episode of RWBY the World of Remnant backstory . To Volume 4 , producer Rooster Teeth and co-director Gray G. Haddock said that Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross wrote for the series. The season debuted on October 22, 2016. In January 2017, the fifth season was announced to be developed, and released on 14 October.
On February 1, 2015, Rooster Teeth announced that both RWBY volumes were available so far for streaming on Netflix.
In 2017, Rooster Teeth announces that Rooster Teeth First member will get an episode one week earlier than the general public.
International releases
The Blu-ray and DVD releases in Australia are handled by Hanabee Entertainment. The first volume was released in the UK by Animatsu Entertainment on May 4, 2015, on DVD.
On August 15, 2014, Rooster Teeth announced that a local Japanese ambassador was being developed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Japan. Rooster Teeth CEO Matt Hullum stated that they will be marketing the event as anime: "This is the first time an American anime has been marketed to Japan.It usually works in other ways, and we're very excited about that." Warner Bros. has also obtain local merchandising rights as well.
Volume 3 is screened in selected theaters on December 3, 2016. Volume 4 is released in selected cinemas for a limited period of two weeks from October 7th to October 20th, 2017. To promote this, the event is broadcast on Tokyo MX in July 2017 under the title RWBY 1-3: The Beginning , featuring episodes from volumes 1 through 3 are condensed into 12 episodes.
Reception
Critical response
The commentator who discussed promotional trailers praised the event's animated style and soundtrack of his music. The trailer encourages enthusiastic anticipation for the inaugural series. When the first episode aired on RTX, it was popular with attendees to the point that the seats were filled in all three playbacks. Amanda Rush, writing for Crunchyroll, took down the anime and Western influences of the series, and praised it as "clever, interesting, beautiful to look at" which says anime fans will enjoy it. The Yakima Herald-Republic calls it "thrilling" and "captivating" and praises its "beautiful" 3D character animation. The Austin Chronicle describes the premiere as making Oum "rock star" from Rooster Teeth. The series is reported to have contributed to a 9% increase in view for the official YouTube channel Rooster Teeth. Richard Eisenbeis praised the series for using clever fairy tale elements, pleasant and fun dialogues, and battle choreography, but was very critical of the short nature of the episodes, stating that, "The biggest drawback in doing micro-series... is that there is a precious little time for good characterization ". He is also critical of the technical issues of animation, saying that the animation is good when the audience can not see the character's legs. He believes that RWBY is "a good first step into the world of possibilities."
Response to marketing as anime
The reaction to Matt Hullum's statement made on August 15, 2014 about RWBY being anime has been mixed. Lindsay Jones said: "Funny enough, we showed our Japanese RWBY cohorts and they started arguing about whether it was anime or not! But seeing the audience's reception was so real, and we never expected that." Movie Pilot Blogs include RWBY as anime topics among "fire wars" that you do not want to follow. Anime News Network writers Paul Jensen and James Beckett wrote: "We do not have an official RWBY review here in ANN, but it's cool to see American production make it into encyclopedia release." Michael Mauer of The Cornell Daily Sun > writes that the issue is still debated among the anime community, while ComicsVerse's Sabrina Pyun writes "This show is known for many things, from its dubious status as anime with its unique 3D animation style." However, the main news article is dated after Hullum's statement and previewed the following season and the franchise has referred to RWBY as an anime of America, including Variety , Collider, iDigitalTimes, Entertainment Weekly , Adweek , and Hollywood Timeout .
Awards and nominations
Music
Music for all RWBY volumes is mostly composed by Jeff Williams, with additional compositions by Steve Goldshein and Alex Abraham. Williams is a member of the Trocadero band, which performs music for Rooster Teeth's Red vs. Blue , and finally create your own music for the three seasons Red vs. Blue that precedes RWBY . Most of the vocals were provided by Williams's daughter, Casey Lee Williams, with some additional vocals by Lamar Hall and Sandy Casey.
The RWBY soundtrack features a variety of genres, especially fast rock music. In an interview with Rooster Teeth, Williams mentioned that he used his lyrics to mark future events on certain occasions. In developing the song, Williams uses an event script and selects random words and phrases that he thinks are cool. He will also gain advanced knowledge of character development, background stories and their lives. He then takes the emotions associated with the scene, adds tempo, drum accompaniment, rhythm, and finally composes the song from there.
Volume 1 Soundtrack
The official soundtrack for RWBY: Volume 1 was released by Jeff Williams on November 12, 2013. This included songs used in trailers, intros to series episodes, as well as music scores for each episode. This soundtrack also contains previously unreleased songs such as "I May Fall" and "Wings". However, these songs played briefly at the end of various episodes.
Volume 1 reached number one on iTunes and beat the movie soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire . The soundtrack reached number 22 on Billboard's Top Rock Albums charts.
Volume 2 Soundtrack
The official soundtrack for RWBY: Volume 2 was released on December 2, 2014. Soundtrack reached number 6 on Billboard's Hard Rock Albums.
Volume 3 Soundtrack
The official soundtrack for RWBY: Volume 3 was released on May 3, 2016. The album reached number 5 on the Bill Rock's album album Hard Rock Album, and number 12 on the Top Rock Albums chart.
Volume 4 Soundtrack
The official soundtrack for RWBY: Volume 4 was released on June 16, 2017. The album reached number 79 on the Billboard Top 200. The album also reached number 6 on Billboard's Hard Rock Albums, and number 18 on Billboard's Album Rock Top.
Volume 5 Soundtrack
The official soundtrack for RWBY: Volume 5 was released on June 8, 2018.
Other media
Video game
For the anniversary of Rooster Teeth in 2014, Jordan Scott fans made a video game based on RWBY RWBY: Grimm Eclipse , using the Unity game engine. It's under development for a total of five months.
Based on the events in the first trailer, the demo is "hack 'n slash survival" featuring Ruby facing an increasing wave of Grimm attacks. Richard Eisenbeis of Kotaku praised his combo system, which "remarkably reflects his animated [ed] counterpart," and unlockable skills, saying, "You will feel like an unstoppable badass similar to Ruby in this series. "
In RTX 2014, Rooster Teeth announced that they had hired Scott, and officially took the game. The initial demo of the game is available for consumers to play on the show, and the game title is changed from "Grim Eclipse" to "Grimm Eclipse" to match the spelling. the creatures in the show. Rooster Teeth CEO Matt Hullum stated, " RWBY is a natural choice for us to focus on making our first video game.Asks can hope that we will bring the same level of originality in action, comedy and design for video a game that has made the animated series RWBY very popular. "On December 1, 2015, the game was released as the Early Access title on Steam, with a full PC release on July 5, 2016. The game was released for Mac OS X on October 13, 2016, and later released for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on January 17, 2017. The game allows one to four main characters in combination (s) to battle through Grimm waves. They are also in the path of mysterious company and its founder. This action takes place in the Emerald Forest, Mount Glenn, Forever Falls and finally to an island named after the antagonist, Doctor Merlot.
At the Evo 2017 game event, it was announced that the upcoming fighting game called BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle by Arc System Works will feature cross-over characters from BlazBlue , Persona 4 Arenas, Under Night In-Birth, and RWBY. Ruby Rose was the leading participant in the first game trailer teaser, and Weiss confirmed in the second character recognition trailer, Arc Systems then announced that Blake and Yang would be available as downloadable content.
Manga
The November 2015 edition of Shueisha magazine Ultra Jump announces that the dog manga Shirow Miwa will illustrate the manga adaptation of RWBY , which debuted November 19, 2015 The manga will "unravel the mystery of four trailers." Volume 1 manga ends in February 2017 while featuring teaser for follow-up.
RWBY Chibi
RWBY Chibi is a comedy animated spin-off from RWBY that sacrifices 24 3-6 minutes long episodes. It was first announced as part of Rooster Teeth's 13th Birthday celebration on April 1, 2016, and Episode 1 aired on May 7, 2016. The first season ends on October 15, 2016. Each episode consists of several scenes in which aspects of RWBY characters are usually exaggerated for comic effects. Episodes do not follow a strict chronological order, nor do they follow the rigorous canon of the main show. In January 2017, Rooster Teeth confirmed that the second season will begin in May.
Appearance on other media
Who appeared as a fighter in the online series Death Battle by ScrewAttack! (Division of Rooster Teeth), where he fights Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII . The series creator, Ben Singer, talks with Oum about entering RWBY characters on Death Battle before Oum passes.
References
External links
- Official website
- RWBY on IMDb
- RWBY (anime) in the Anime News Network encyclopedia
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