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NEWS: RWBY Animated Series Greenlights 10th Volume

Is this corpse still shambling along?
Guess they needed to release something to keep whatever imaginary audience they still think they have, I suppose a few colored balloons will do it.
Fifth-grade ass "trailer" btw.

Yeah, I figured the eventual direction after the series was acquired would be probably doing an extra season or two to wrap some things up then maybe a relaunch or something. Feel like ultimately there's probably more value in rebooting it but you do at least want to make sure you don't alienate the existing fanbase first.

Lizuka wrote:

Yeah, I figured the eventual direction after the series was acquired would be probably doing an extra season or two to wrap some things up then maybe a relaunch or something. Feel like ultimately there's probably more value in rebooting it but you do at least want to make sure you don't alienate the existing fanbase first.

Viz is a translation/localization outfit with few original titles to its name. I didn’t think they would have the means to continue the franchise.

That said, for better or for worse, that’s exactly what they’ve done, down to bringing back the original writing team blamed for derailing the series in the first place.

Beatdigga wrote:

Lizuka wrote: Yeah, I figured the eventual direction after the series was acquired would be probably doing an extra season or two to wrap some things up then maybe a relaunch or something. Feel like ultimately there's probably more value in rebooting it but you do at least want to make sure you don't alienate the existing fanbase first. Viz is a translation/localization outfit with few original titles to its name. I didn’t think they would have the means to continue the franchise. That said, for better or for worse, that’s exactly what they’ve done, down to bringing back the original writing team blamed for derailing the series in the first place.

There was no "derailing", they've been part of the franchise since production started and were just as responsible for its initial creation and planning as the original creator was. They were his closest collaborators. RWBY would not exist if not for them

I don't really get why so many people get their takes from misinformed and/or mediocre Youtubers, but there's simply no legitimate source that suggests they've majorly and significantly deviated from the original outline (by "legitimate", I mean with clear, provided evidence and not full of biases).

There was an outline?

Bern73 wrote:

Beatdigga wrote: Lizuka wrote: Yeah, I figured the eventual direction after the series was acquired would be probably doing an extra season or two to wrap some things up then maybe a relaunch or something. Feel like ultimately there's probably more value in rebooting it but you do at least want to make sure you don't alienate the existing fanbase first. Viz is a translation/localization outfit with few original titles to its name. I didn’t think they would have the means to continue the franchise. That said, for better or for worse, that’s exactly what they’ve done, down to bringing back the original writing team blamed for derailing the series in the first place. There was no "derailing", they've been part of the franchise since production started and were just as responsible for its initial creation and planning as the original creator was. They were his closest collaborators. RWBY would not exist if not for them I don't really get why so many people get their takes from misinformed and/or mediocre Youtubers, but there's simply no legitimate source that suggests they've majorly and significantly deviated from the original outline (by "legitimate", I mean with clear, provided evidence and not full of biases).

There was an outline?

I wasn’t trying to suggest they deviated from an outline. I’m saying they wrote themselves into a corner and I figured the route that made the most sense was to give the thing to new writers and just restart the thing from scratch. That’s apparently not in the cards.

The issues were definitely NOT a result of writers using the show as a vehicle to have their self-insert characters (that they also voiced if memory serves)