No, I did not misspell the title, RWBY is the correct spelling of the greatest independent American Anime other than Avatar, and I'm tempted to say they are tied for first place. RWBY just started its second season on Rooster Teeth and proves anime can be made by Americans and be totally awesome, and may pave the way for 7th Moon. RWBY is the story of students at Beacon Academy for hunters and huntresses. The world is briefly described in the first epsiode, soulless monsters known as Grim threaten humanity's survival until people discover Dust, a source of power that can be used to fight the Grim. Not everyone is cut out for this work, so those who do specifically train to hone their skills as elite fighters to protect a now flourishing civilization. Among them is Ruby Rose, a prodigy and one of the few people who can wield a scythe that also functions as a gun and has an innate ablity to enhance her speed and agility to perform extreme combat movements. Her powers are not entirely unique, her (slightly older) sister Yang is gifted in hand-to-hand combat, Weiss Schnee is a skilled fencer and Dust sorceress, and Blake Belladonna is a cat-eared Faunus(people with animal traits) who can use a katana and a whip ribbon with deadly accuracy. Together the four form team RWBY, and train to fight the Grim along with their friends team JNPR including Pyra a gifted swordswoman with telekinetic abilities, Nora, a hyperactive but surprisingly capable fighter, Ren, Nora's extremely patient and possibly more talented life-long friend, and Jean D'Arc a hopeless goofball who cheated his way into the academy but somehow managed to become team leader thanks to his leadership skills kicking in when the chips are down to make up for his lack of actual ability on the battlefield. The first season is largely about introducing these eight characters and Beacon Academy with the premise that they will fight Grim, generic unsympathetic decidely evil monsters that allow for plenty of combat without any question of concience, which can be very useful when getting past censors but lacks much depth for story potential. Fortunately a mysterious criminal organization which seems to be led by a fiery sorceress named Cinder voiced by the amazing Jessica Nigri adds some drama, though we don't know much about them other than that they engaged Ruby in combat in the first episode and come back at the end of the season to cause more trouble and are clearly the big bad of season two. My favorite character though is Sun Wukong, a blond monkey-tailed Faunus who has the hots for Blake and so far seems to be one of the good guys, but what he can do with his gunchuck staff makes you want to be on his side whichever side that is. If you haven't checked this series out, please check it out right now, you won't regret it.
7th Moon
Friday, August 15, 2014
RWBY
No, I did not misspell the title, RWBY is the correct spelling of the greatest independent American Anime other than Avatar, and I'm tempted to say they are tied for first place. RWBY just started its second season on Rooster Teeth and proves anime can be made by Americans and be totally awesome, and may pave the way for 7th Moon. RWBY is the story of students at Beacon Academy for hunters and huntresses. The world is briefly described in the first epsiode, soulless monsters known as Grim threaten humanity's survival until people discover Dust, a source of power that can be used to fight the Grim. Not everyone is cut out for this work, so those who do specifically train to hone their skills as elite fighters to protect a now flourishing civilization. Among them is Ruby Rose, a prodigy and one of the few people who can wield a scythe that also functions as a gun and has an innate ablity to enhance her speed and agility to perform extreme combat movements. Her powers are not entirely unique, her (slightly older) sister Yang is gifted in hand-to-hand combat, Weiss Schnee is a skilled fencer and Dust sorceress, and Blake Belladonna is a cat-eared Faunus(people with animal traits) who can use a katana and a whip ribbon with deadly accuracy. Together the four form team RWBY, and train to fight the Grim along with their friends team JNPR including Pyra a gifted swordswoman with telekinetic abilities, Nora, a hyperactive but surprisingly capable fighter, Ren, Nora's extremely patient and possibly more talented life-long friend, and Jean D'Arc a hopeless goofball who cheated his way into the academy but somehow managed to become team leader thanks to his leadership skills kicking in when the chips are down to make up for his lack of actual ability on the battlefield. The first season is largely about introducing these eight characters and Beacon Academy with the premise that they will fight Grim, generic unsympathetic decidely evil monsters that allow for plenty of combat without any question of concience, which can be very useful when getting past censors but lacks much depth for story potential. Fortunately a mysterious criminal organization which seems to be led by a fiery sorceress named Cinder voiced by the amazing Jessica Nigri adds some drama, though we don't know much about them other than that they engaged Ruby in combat in the first episode and come back at the end of the season to cause more trouble and are clearly the big bad of season two. My favorite character though is Sun Wukong, a blond monkey-tailed Faunus who has the hots for Blake and so far seems to be one of the good guys, but what he can do with his gunchuck staff makes you want to be on his side whichever side that is. If you haven't checked this series out, please check it out right now, you won't regret it.
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