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perfect spelling its rwby spelled ruby main character is ruby and team is rwby I wont spoil full names of characters but its first letter of each name and colour ps music is 10 out of 10 but full soundtrack is way better every season has at least 5 singed songs so its good music in almost every episode only downside is writing sometimes but music choreography of fights (done by monty oum until season 3 when he died in 2015) and character designs are spectacular its 8 volumes 12-13 episods each with varied lenght sometimes 8 minutes sometimes 30 or hour and yeah openings are done by one duo of peaple
You should try these ones also 1) The God of highschool 2) The Case Study of Vanitas 3) Dororo 4) Carole and Tuesday 5) Kokkoku 6) Erased 7) Steins Gate 8) Link Click 9) Ranking of kings
Volume 1: cute high school anime Volume 2: a bit of depression but still light-hearted and funny Volume 3: SUFFERING, PAIN AND BLOOD Volume 4: depression Volume 5: depression Volume 6: d e p r e s s i o n Volume 7: anime + shipping fluff + D E P R E S S I O N Volume 8: SUFFERING, PAIN, BLOOD AND UNBEARABLE AMOUNTS OF D E P R E S S I O N basically sumed up the anime for you
It is also important to note that Casey, the female vocalist, was 13 when she first started making the music for the show. Her dad is the composer of the show. She now has her own band called Okay, Goodnight and her dad have included one of their songs in the show during season 8.
RWBY started as a passion project by Monte Oum. The budget was very small to start with. As the series got more popular and progressed, the animation quality was able to improve. All the songs done for the show (not just intros, every season has full soundtracks) are done by Jeff Williams and his daughter Casey Williams. When I say the songs were just done by those two, I mean that Jeff does all the writing, composing, all the instrumentation, and backup vocals and Casey does the primary vocals. Jeff Williams enjoys breaking music norms in alot of his music which can be really interesting and cool most of the times but can be jarring for some people on some songs (like the last opening for you).
Jeff Williams has put a lot of good music into RWBY, but I'm not a fan of the entire soundtrack. The first of Monty Oum's videos I ever saw was Dead Fantasy. Many people probably knew of Monty from Haloid, but I was never really a fan of either franchise so I didn't spend my TH-cam days looking up videos about them. I actually think I found out about Dead Fantasy based on a piece of artwork by Monty. "Twilight Princess", I think. As to the animation style of the early seasons, I'm pretty sure no one really "preferred" it, but accepted it because Monty's name was on the project. After his passing and with a bigger budget, the show gained cleaner animation but the fight scenes became noticeably generic by fan standards.
Series creator Monty Oum built his career and reputation on his fight choreography and kinetic animation style. Especially in the first few season, there would be jarring shifts between the fight scenes that he gave personal attention to, and the more static "talking scenes" that were handled mostly by the B unit. After Monty passed away, the the team has really struggled to maintain the same levels of over the top action and believable flow that made him a unique genius. He was one of the finest creative minds of my generation, taken from us too soon. Edit: He started at Rooster Teeth choreographing the fight scenes where Tex beats up the rest of the cast, so if you recall those scenes fondly, you will probably enjoy a show dedicated to more of that.
So true, the show's quality took a nose dive after Monty passed away, and I, sadly, lost all interest in the show after that. It just wasn't the same without him.
@@lareolanKFP I will say that while it would be impossible to recapture Monty's choreography, they have improved a lot from where they were after his passing.
The fourth volume intro actually has an Easter egg in it. Series creator Monty Oum passed away before season three so they honored him the following year. The song includes the phrase "Move Onward Not There Yet". M.O.N.T.Y.
Nice curiosity: the soundtrack for all seasons is indeed from the same people always, and the singers are Jeff and his daughter Casey. At season 1 album, she was only 13... 13!! And she made onde of the best songs EVER! Gotta respect her. (the song is mirror mirror in case you want to hear)
holy shit that song is so good, if he reacts to the RWBY osts id shit my pants, red like roses pt1 and 2, this life is mine, all things must die, like holy shit all of those are so fucking good!
Oh, this show. This show is absolutely amazing. It still pains me to this day that the director passed away and didn’t get to see his creation thrive on himself. His work was something I doubt anybody else can replicate. Rest In Peace you absolute legend, Monty Oum.
@@wolfgangkern5164 He was the creator, animator, and director of this show that he created himself. I fail to understand your need to “correct” anything.
I think if he saw how Roosterteeth whored out his creation, he'd probably sob for hours, I know I would. So much potential, thrown away because of writers and directors with ego issues, dismissing any and all criticism to label it hate because it made it easier to ignore it, pushing the animators to constantly work crunch hours for pennys, an obsession with trying to push narratives for certain agendas without really trying to expand on them or actually have a discussion. You are totally within your rights to enjoy it, but honestly season 3 is pretty much when it stops being fantastic, which sucks cause that was also when the writing was trying to develop more.
@@Evokai6419 Well, and I feel like it goes a little hand-in-hand - it's much simpler to animate the non-action scenes and still make it look good, which is why episodes started to get longer and action spurts generally became both shorter and less intense
@@Evokai6419 I mean in my opinion it's kinda disrespectful to assume the wants of a person who has passed especially since some of the people who're making the show were Monty's friends and would've have been the most affected except his family. Some of RoosterTeeths practices are piss poor but please leave his creation outta it.
RWBY begins quite lighthearted. The world is always dark but in control and protected. It all goes downhill every season and becomes darker and darker. It is glorious.
I'd answer his question by saying: not much gore (rare instances we even see blood), some psychological horror, though that's not the main thing either and the first volumes are totally family friendly.
I am rewatching the series right now and I am on Volume 6. Man, I forgot just how creepy the Apathy are. The entire farmhouse section is just unsettling.
Fun fact: RoosterTeeth/RWBY likes having people react to their show. So you can show it without any transparency and even make it fullscreen with your head in the corner. There shouldn't be any copyright trouble with you doing any of this.
Thats not been true for about 5 years, lots of people have had issues. Ever since Rooster Teeth got bought and sold over and over, and lost many of their founding members, I suspect.
But it doesn't mean it'll be true in the future. Remember, when TH-cam policy changed, people got haunted by their vids done in like 2012 or something. So if you gonna do the YOLO thing and full screen this with music, you should also be aware that "maybe" in the future, Rooster Teeth wouldn't like it and may or may not sue you.
@@ClockworkAnomaly Not really true, but also you aren't wrong that people have trouble. But thats not really on RT. People have had trouble for a long time long before RT got bought. Its just a case of TH-cam's algorithm being shit and catching stuff its not meant to. Even smaller indie studios that dont have a parent company that allow full reactions have to deal with it too. Just the way this site works. RT has some instructions for when that happens, including contacting them so they can have it unclaimed for you
You should watch all 4 RWBY trailers. Even on their own, they're really cool. If you ever watch this series, it could be fun if you included your brother. No doubt if you tell him, he'll convince you. There's a lot to like. It starts off lighthearted with badass fights through out and really short. The story has ups and downs, but it does get darker and longer episodes overtime. See if you can watch it with subtitles, the songs are tailored to seasons. Rooster Teeth is pretty lenient with reactions, as long as it's not the newest episode out, you can post them and message them about it. They actually love seeing fans reactions. The characters and fighting style were originally heavily inspired by Final Fantasy and martial arts movies, Monty was a beast! -
Just be sure to watch the trailers in color order: Red, White, Black, and Yellow. They tell a story in themselves when viewed in correct order, and open more than one mystery. You'll love them!
RWBY has been around for about a decade, the four trailers coming out starting I want to say Fall of 2012, and the first season starting about a year after the "Red" trailer came out, the animation improving with every season they released. It is definitely a fantasy anime that goes back and forth between light hearted, action packed, and tragic. One of my favorite aspects is that each and every character is a reference to something or someone, one of the most prominent influences being fairy tails. Been a long time fan myself and hope you get to check it out some time!
@@GOTGames Yup. The series name is pronounced like "Ruby", and Ruby Rose is the name of the Red character. It is a difficult series to explain without spoiling too much, but the Red, White, Black, and Yellow trailers would at least give you an impression of what the four pivotal characters are like and I highly recommend you react to them before starting the series itself. The music in them is great too and I know you'll enjoy them!
@@gundoru2851 the trailers are also unique because where most shows and movies would use scenes on the ahow itself as the trailer, for rwby they made its own thing that ads a bit of context about the season and or characters
The animation change you call out at 9:55 comes after Monty Oum passed away. He created the show and led fight scene choreography until his death during production of season 4. He specialized in an animation engine called Poser which very few other people know how to use well. Without him there was no reason to stay in Poser, so they moved to the more industry standard Maya engine from season 5 onward. Fights took a dip without him, but the newer engine allowed the others to do more.
Really love the RWBY soundtrack and Casey Lee Williams' voice. Throughout the different openings you can hear her voice develop and mature - first OP she was 13, on the last she was 20, irrc. Awesome music, props to her father Jeff Williams, who wrote the songs and played the guitar. I always listen to their songs while cycling :)
They’re known for their combat scenes! And the animation def took time for me to get used to but I absolutely love it now and is so cool to see it evolve over the volumes. Such a great show!
Oh, I adore RWBY, thrilled that you reacted to this. RWBY came out in 2013 and has had 8 volumes so far with a volume 9 coming in 2023. It started out from very humble beginnings, with a small team and low budget and episodes rarely being longer than 10 minutes if we were lucky. But the world and characters, not to mention the excellent fight scene animations, got a lot of attention and they just got better as the show went along. Eventually, the series got so popular that it got an actual anime studio to make their own version, called RWBY: Ice Queendom, which released this year and is more of an alternate universe fan fiction with a high budget than any official part of the RWBY universe. Tragically, the original creator passed away during the production of Volume 3, so he never got to see the full extent of his brainchild's success.
Yep, the first 1-3 seasons of RWBY are animated and written by Monty Oum, and it indeed started as an extremely low-budget animation but it grew into something much more. (It's a shame Monty doesn’t get to see it grow, may he rest in peace) Edit: The quality of the animation for the early seasons fit with the low budget. However, the fighting choreography animation from Monty Oum is unbelievable for that budget. Especially for someone who was a self-taught animator.
RWBY definitely had a shoestring budget, especially for the first season. It did well enough that they were able to put more money into it and improve the animation over time. The fight scenes (especially in the early seasons) are a big highlight of the show, as well as the music (not just the openings, it has other great songs throughout). Seconding a recommendation to react to at least the 4 character trailers (Red, White, Black, Yellow).
Mounty made gold out of thin air. He was on his own level. I still remember watching from S2 to S3 and thinking how sluggish everything felt even though the animation had gotten better.
@@tintillor do you mean 3-4? I thought he had animated most of the season 3 fights before he passed, and they didn't change rendering engines until season 4
@@DraustTrollbaneUS yeah, only a couple though, mercury and emerald vs coco and yatsuhashi was really good, and I'm quite certain Monty animated it, or at least most of it
You know its a good show when japan is like "we need to make an actual anime of this!" Other good thing is that im pretty sure rooster teeth actively allow people to play and react to all seasons without worry of copyright strikes. Really good show to react to.
Agreed! Even after all this time, the character introductions have aged really well and are still just as badass as they’ve always been. I love watching people react to them, especially Ruby’s!
Thanks for your enthusiastic reaction! Was introduced to RWBY by my Son at the time Volume 4 was airing and within a week became a First Member to help support the continued creation of this amazing series. There are full versions of all the opening songs and the lyrics tend to foreshadow events that are within each volume. There is a soundtrack for each volume with an additional 7-9 songs that are used in the episodes. The Voice actors bring the characters to life and love how the animation progressively improves each volume to add depth to their story. Volume 9 was promised to be released beginning early 2023 and eagerly awaiting the continuation ❤
The show is amazing. As for how dark it is the first two seasons are more light and fun but once it hits the third season and you start to find out more about everything it gets darker. I wouldn’t say it’s extremely dark but it does have some darker aspects. I think you would definitely enjoy it.
It definitely has that Attack on Titan energy of "Oh. This has actually always been very dark, but where they hinted at it before, it's fully revealed to us now." Writers: "This isn't even 50% of my full darkness."
Everything after season 3 doesn't really feel dark though. It feels like someone who doesn't know how to write a dark story inadvertently writing a comedy. For a story that takes place in a world of "bloody evolution" all the characters come across as as naïve and soft even the characters who have experience killing other people.
@@Connor-ONeill Just because characters die doesn't mean a show is dark. I've seen darker scenes from freaking Pokémon. There is no serious mutilating trauma, No existential dread, No cosmic horrors, No body horror. No psychological horror. No exploration into the dark corners of the human mind. Many of the RWBY deaths don't have weight and could come across as comedic with a few edited in sound effects. This is because the people making the show refuse to commit and thus end up pulling their punches.
So your telling me Pokémon has darker scenes than **SPOLIERS** people being killed in front of their children via building crushing, people having to "deglove" one of their own limbs, people being stabbed multiple times and dying or just straight up ran through and dying, people having their eyes slashed out, people being decapitated, admitted child murder, a maniac massacring a room full of innocent civilians, people literally screaming for their lives to be spared just to be brutally killed, someone shot nearly point blank in the dome, another shot and exploaded, people being transformed into monsters while fully conscious and some pretty horrifying implications all throughout if you take half a second to think. Some happened off screen but we heard everything,some on screen but we didn't see everything. I Don't remember the last time Ash had to mercy kill Misty or James from team rocket going to massacre a political rally.
Fun fact: The composer of the songs is Jeff Williams and the singer is his daughter, Casey Lee Williams. Season 1 of RWBY came out when she was ONLY 14. But the song was actually recorded MONTHS before the episode aired, so she may in fact have been 13 when she sang "This will be the day."
Agree. Stay away from the fandom. The show is great, just enjoy it if you are willing to watch it, and make you own guess. By the way, rwby is not an anime.
When it comes to show discographies, RWBY definitely has one of the most amazing ones. Every song was written with specific story points or particular characters in mind and Jeff Williams, the composer, has made these perfectly. Plus his daughter, the singer, Cassie Lee Williams, gives me chills. In my opinion, the music is top tier and is a bug part in my enjoyment of the show. That and the amazing combat scenes!
Non spoilery plot is basically: kids go to a school to fight monsters, then at some point they go on to further places. If you ever want to get into the show, they actually do have like a few mini shorts where one of the characters explains some brief background lore too
There are already spoilers and toxicity in the comments, be ready! Questions you asked: -RWBY is not visceral very often, but touches on dark themes (read that as death and dismemberment, alcoholism, depression, and more) nearly every season. -RWBY is currently 108 episodes long with a new season coming out "early 2023" and talk from RT that they still plan another season after that one. -Casey Lee Williams is the singer for all OP and a lot of the OST. Her father composes and plays guitar for most of it as well. She also sings and writes in the band "Ok Goodnight", I recommend listening/reacting to "Awake" for some amazing vocal range. You're about to see a VERY mixed set of opinions in the comments. RWBY has been a rollercoaster from the start. Everyone has something to blame for the things they dislike, but in reality as a show it's been enjoyable from start to finish for different reasons, like you said from the fighting, the aesthetic, the music, more.
Worth mentioning, the 108 episode that are out so far are not all standard length episodes. Especially early in the series, it wasn't unusual for an episode to be only 5 or 6 minutes long. So 108 episodes isn't as long here as it would be for a normal series.
@@somacruz1912 Last I heard on the "recent" drama, no staff members had decided to leave the RT family after apologies were made and management was discussed. Is there someone specific who has said they will not return for S9?
@@Mrnick21212 Kdin Jenzen for one announced she wouldn't work with rooster teeth again, as did Josh Grelle, who voice May Marigold and Tyrian Callows respectively
about this mixed opinions. i really love the whole show, what i think happend is that there was never some sort of "moderation" with the fan base, so when it bacame "normal" to complain, it was just...common, if you dont stop hearing "oh, this is bad because..." you kinda start to beleave that. for i time i started thinking, hmmm maybe it has things wrong here and there but then i notice they were really things thaat did not really matter...now....about RT drama...jeez...i did not notice until it was late so now i feel weird out
Oh, another thing; the music is mostly all done by Jeff Williams and his daughter Casey Lee Williams. In the first opening you heard, I believe she was around 14 when she recorded it! After Monty died, Jeff wrote the song "Indomitable" as a tribute to Monty Oum. It plays during an event in volume 6 and the full version is on the volume 6 soundtrack. It's hands down the most emotional song on my playlist. Someone made a montage of Stan Lee using that song in the background after he died, and now I think of two wonderful artists that we've lost. Highly recommend listening to it.
@@johndrisdelle9359 the song on its own doesn't, but videos for it are made using some aspect of the show that is a spoiler. So if he wants to listen to cold he can't use a youtube video for it and be safe
Fun fact, it’s been around about a decade by rooster teeth, but beginning this or last year it actually did get a Japanese animated remake, which switched the story up a bit and gave it a fresh different anime look, the original show is still going on too, it’s just there’s now an alternate Japanese anime version too
each season is about the length of a full movie put together. Each episode ranges from about 12 minuets to 18 minuets. Makes it very easy to binge watch. Absolutely a master piece! some seasons are a bit slower than others because they are also telling the story of them traveling to the next big area.
The first few seasons were written and animated by Monty Oum who did some of the animation for Red vs Blue. He did a lot of the animation on a computer running windows xp. Sadly he passed away before the show finished.
You should definitely check out some of the other songs from RWBY, many of them are even better than the openings and feature a wide variety of genres. The original 4 trailers, "red," "white," "black," and "yellow" are all really good and full of action. They can give you an idea of what the characters are like (each color corresponds to a character, ruby, weiss, blake, and yang, from the main 4).
About your wondering about it’s style and the budget of the animation for the show, the company started with 6 dollars for their budget for this show so considering that I think they did really well. It’s one of my favorite shows, I’ve rewatched it more than a few times. Definitely recommend to watch!!
Fun facts: 1. Characters in RWBY are based on legends, fairy tales and historical figures. 2. This series is by Rooster Teeth Productions which is located in Austin Texas. They're known for their original Series Red Vs Blue, a machima series based in the Halo game series. 3. There is an official RWBY anime which takes place before season/volume 2. It retells season 1 in a few episodes, makes certain things clear, alter certain characters a bit, and adds in a series of events that could be considered canon but aren't. 4. The series creator Monty Oum had died early into RWBY's life as a series. Causing one of the characters to get a new Voice actor and for the fight scenes to drop in quality for a while. 5. The way the story had been progressing in the last few seasons had caused the fans to dislike a lot of it. Especially with how characters react to certain situations. 6. Volume 9 will be coming out early next year. And so many hopes that it will be better than the last few seasons. But I rather set my expectations low so I'm not disappointed by how bad it could be.
Imo the fighting choregraphies will never be as good as what Monty did in Dead Fantasy and early RWBY... a shame RT didn't capture the essence of Monty's passion for martial arts.
Lmao the RWBY subreddit collectively ranked volumes 7 and 8 in the top 4. It’s literally the same handful of people loading claiming volume 6 was the worst volume ever when it came out.
I would recommend giving it a watch, the volumes get longer as the series goes on, but it's not very long to be fair. Music is a banger, so if you do end up watching it, I would love to see a reaction to the soundtrack for each volume.
He's done it ! RWBY openings reaction ! We said it you'd love the songs 😉 Like you suspected it, openings, endings and all the ost have been made by Jeff Williams and his daughter Casey Lee Williams (she was 13 when the series started in 2013), with sometimes the participation of her mother Sandra "Sandy" Lee Casey and the rapper Lamar Hall. Yes, you spotted it correctly, the graphics of the series improved a lot for Volume 4 (seasons are called Volumes and episodes, Chapters) because they changed the animation software from Smith Micro's Poser to Autodesk Maya. And the combat choreraphies are excellent from the start, i'm sure you'll get into it really quickly ^^ For the scenario, it's so complex it's impossible to tell without spoiling the story, but to say things short, we follow the adventures of Ruby Rose, a 15 years old teenager who wants to be a huntress, a keeper of peace and a slayer of Grimms (the black monsters you seen in the opening), along with the friends and foes she's gonna meet during her journey. And yes, it become darker with each volume. If you intend to react to the series, you must know two things : 1) Rooster Teeth don't mind reacters, so even if your first reactions are striked by the YTbot, you just have to ask them to unlock the rights for you and thats good, so no need for filters or other anti-strike techs. 2) In order to fully comprehend and apreciate the series, you'll have to watch it in a certain order : basically the release order. Which means you'll have to start by the Red, White, Black and Yellow trailers, during Volumes 2, 3 and 4 you'll need to check the World of Remnant shorts, and there is characters shorts before volume 4, 5 and 6. All of these little things are canon in the show. Anyways, thanks for your reaction, I think I'll make an exception and go on your Twitch if you decide to react this show 😁
RWBY falls into the category of being probably more... PG-13, generally light hearted as a baseline tone, but it does include progressively darker elements as the story goes on. RWBY is one of those series where I won't try to claim it as being the best thing ever, but it is generally very enjoyable (I'd say it is more enjoyable than it is good, if that makes sense), though quality shifts a bit season to season. It has some of the best fight scenes you will see in... well, anything. As some others have commented - I recommend checking out the character trailers. They're excellent showcases of how great the combat scenes are. In regards to your question about the Japanese version, that is RWBY: Ice Queendom. It has a bit of a rapid synopsis of the first season, and then jumps into an original storyline that is nestled between the first and second seasons.
Omg. I'm so happy you are reacting to this shows openings. The music throughout the series a banger! All composed by the same guy and about 90% of the songs (all the songs) are sung by his daughter. They don't really have outside music. However, Cassie did have her own band now, and even partnered with one of the voice actors from the show to create the band. Her vocal evolution has been amazing. You should check out the trailers for RWBY (titled red trailer, white trailer, black trailer and black trailer). The show itself is based around fairy tales. It's awesome, you'd love it. And we'd all love to welcome you into the cult ( LOL). To answer a few of your questions. The animation evolved as the series went on. The genre is hard to explain. It definitely has some darker aspects. However I'd categorize it under action fantasy? The lyrics for every song is composed with a purpose. They say so much. The general synopsis is for friends right to save the world. The series follows their journey thru the ups and downs. Also, each episode started out at around 12 minutes each episode. As the series went on they got longer. It's an easy binge series. I also don't know if it's still relevant, but I think Rooster Teeth was pretty easy going on the copyright for their episodes. You may not need to edit the reactions when you watch it. Anyways. Good luck. Love your reactions.
@G.O.T Games The head for the show was Monty Oum, he started on youtube and made the best fight choreographies you'll ever see. RT hired him to make this series, his original creation, a reality. That indie animation developed as the show progressed from season to season. He passed away and they started to cut corners when it came to the combat segments. The rest of the show's team just didn't have his vision, talent, and attention to detail. I appreciate they continue on his creation and they were doing well on the story end. His passing is one of the most unfair accidents I've personally heard of. This show broke me at points, but it's fight scenes were crafted by the best in the business until his passing.
RWBY Volume 6 Chapter 3 is the greatest chapter in history of RWBY and it will probably stay that way. The history of the world, the old world and the new world of remnant, the backstory of Salem and Ozpin, the reveal of the gods and much more its an episode full of lore and all secrets slowly reveal themselves it is literally a complete plot twist. This one single chapter changes everything and its all explained to us by best girl Jin.
You are absolutely right about the animation. Outside of combat it was always rough but it got much better as the seasons went on. I remember back in season 1 some scenes didn't even have proper walking animation,, they just put characters feet outside of the frame and let them slide on the ground.
RWBY was first made roughly a decade ago by Monty Oum, animation savant who hand animated the first trailer and took a lead animator/director approach to the remaining trailers & first and second seasons, though tragically lost his life due to an allergic reaction in a routine surgery. Rooster Teeth, who Monty worked for, took up the rest of his project in his name (Monty had the entirety of RWBY from beginning to end planned out so the team could complete his vision) and has been going strong since. 99% if not 100% of the fan base has nothing but sadness and condolences for Monty as RWBY was his baby that he had to convince Rooster teeth to let him start up (Even with no context, look up "Tribute to Monty Oum" a short video of the man himself talking about his passions and fear that he will never finish his work. (I cry every time, everyone does.). Some people prefer the older style of animation, some people don't like the direction the show has gone in, some seasons are lighthearted, some get dark FAST. It definitely matures over time and is a must watch; anime style fights, funny humor, serious themes about destiny and coming of age. If you started a reactions series on it, Rooster Teeth has stated if you email them asking to do a reactions series, your free to post it in full, it's all(ish) on youtube already. :)
I totally recommend this, and with Volume 9 out rn it’s collecting steam again, the music is spectacular and the show is great. Plus, RT is totally chill with reactions and it’s an easy react. The show may be 9 seasons, but the first 3 are all under 2 hours, and the rest around 3 hours each in length so it’s a quick binge.
Music is all done by Jeff Williams and his daughter Casey Lee Williams, and some other artists feature in some songs, like Lemar Hall always does the rap bits
RWBY is such an Iceberg of a show. Every question you've asked has an hour of answers. Most people only see the tip of the iceberg in animation quality and will overlook this gem.
Anime is the japanese word for animation, true. But when we first got access to japanese animations, we learned the term without the translation, and thus in english it became a word for japanese animations. Later it has been expanded to animations done in japanese style elsewhere, though not all agree.
Omg! I didn’t think you would react to RWBY!! I’m glad you’re reacting to RWBY! And RWBY is pronounced as “Ruby” so you’re correct! It’s amazing! And the songs always have a meaning behind them. The series was premiered in 2013. And the creator passed away after Volume 2. Oum had a severe allergic reaction and fell into a coma in January 2015. He died on February 1, 2015. The songs usually have a meaning behind them. The art style is 3D animation and the animation style gets better each Volume! I also recommend you watch the trailers. The person who sings all the openings is Casey Lee Williams! She started singing when she was very young and the first opening, she was only 13? Or 12? I forgot but she was young when she started along with her father Jeff Williams who does the music? I keep forgetting but RWBY is amazing and it gets darker.
Hey welcome to your first step into RWBY! Hearing you call the main baddy “Medusa boob woman” was hilarious and rather succinct XD RT changed the animation software from Poser Pro to Maya in between volume 3 and 4, so from 4 on it’s a different style. The show is pg13, but touches on darker more serious themes in the later seasons as the stakes get higher and our protagonists grow. You did get one name right, Weiss is the girl in the white dress and hair and the “W” in RWBY. The title is an acronym for the four main characters!
As far as the animation changes go, the original creator started out by creating the models using Maya software, and then adding them to Poser Pro, and the first 2 seasons were all done in Poser Pro. But after season 2, the creator died due to a failed operation after he had an allergic reaction. Afterwards, a team took over the project and touched up on their skills with the initial Maya software and animated the rest of the series using it, and every season they get better at using it. So each season looks like the animation quality goes up because it actually does lol
The animation definitely improves in a lot of places. Too many people hate on all the animation after Monty died but he also only worked on the fights and was definitely a genius at animating fights
@@orionknight4803 yeah maybe its because people got hooked when we all saw that red trailer and got shell shocked so much with how bombastic and creative it is then as the story goes on, it changed and became more... generic. Im not updated with the story anymore after Vol6 with the invasion of a m3cha for promotion from another series. Im curious if Ruby is still one shotting everyone with silver eyes. Is my girl Cinder still alive?
Hahaha this was a great video! So many places where I switched between "wow, that's prescient" and "lol that's hilariously wrong." I was worried you would get spoilers since they do drop Easter eggs in the openings, but I guess without having seen the show, it's hard to be spoiled when you don't know what's happened even a little. If you do end up watching, though, I'd highly recommend not revisiting the openers for later seasons. Once you get to know who characters are, later season openers will spoil plot from earlier seasons. Hope you watch and maybe even record your reactions!
Considering that we're doing RWBY now, can you also listen to the track "Red like roses". It's one of the most iconic songs from the series and also just really good
RWBY is definitely a fun show. All of the openings are great. Yes, the show is pretty funky in animation style at the beginning. I will say the style gets better as it goes. Overall, RWBY is definitely worth the checkout.
It's possible that this is my comfort show. I don't recall having as much excitement for new volumes as I did for the first few volumes. The quirkiness and one off lines of the characters. The corny jokes spoken and unspoken. It's quite warming. Then there were the fight scenes. It's hard not to have a smile on while watching.
interesting little fact: The lady singing in a lot of the songs for RWBY was only 12 and made a lot of the music with her family. Her name is Casey Lee Williams.
As stated before,.. You really should do the RWBY character Trailers. They are listed by color. RWBY Red trailer, RWBY Yellow trailer, RWBY White trailer and RWBY Black trailer.
Not sure if anyone has said this before but Jeff Williams and his daughter Casey Lee Williams do the music for all 8 seasons of RWBY, Jeff Williams does alot of the later seasons music for Red VS Blue where Casey also joins him for a couple of the songs in RvB
The animation budget definitely gets bigger as the series progresses and the fight choreography is top notch. It’s always stood out to me. Great anime overall.
As a fellow music person i gotta say music is BIG for this show Every album is connected to the story and and every rwby memeber (and a lot of other characters) have songs throughout the show that gives insight into their chatacters and their emotional state, thoughts and feelings Also the songs are just fucking bangers
12:50 responding to your questions: the first 5 seasons were fairly tame, but seasons 6-8 got a lot darker. It is fairly family friendly, and most gore is replaced with rose petals and ash (an amazing choice imo) and a funny trope throughout the entire series is "It's also a gun" where basically every weapon has both a ranged and melee aspect to it. In the full version of opening #5(?), The Triumph theres a line that goes "Yeah i'm a girl but I'm also a gun" just referring to the trope.
Never expected you to react to RWBY. Its a pretty good series for a computer generated anime series. The intro to each series give hints to things that will happen during the respective series. Some of the songs from this series are amazing and covers a variety of music styles from ballads to hard rock/metal. Plus the main female vocalist, Casey Lee Williams, has a fantastic voice as you've heard. You should check some of the songs out, some I recommend are This Life is Mine, Caffeine and Red Like Roses part 1 +2 (theres avideo on TH-cam which combines the 2 songs).
The amazing thing with the first 3 volumes, they were using Poser which is a bit more limited, but they made it work. Some really amazing animation, especially went Monty would go ham on the fight choreography. (They had some issues with some scenes where they would constantly be crashing the Poser engine.) Then they switched to using Maya which definitely seems to have upped the quality. But even starting with the original 2 trailers which were done completely by Monty by himself (with Jeff/Casey Williams doing the music) the animation has been great and gets better with each new volume. All the music has been composed by Jeff Williams with Casey Williams singing almost all of it. (In some of the later seasons, they've had a couple of guest singers for a couple of songs.) Casey is credited as the vocalist for the series as well as the voice for the character Neo. In scenes where Weiss (yes, you've definitely heard that name from your brother) is singing, that's also Casey. If you want to check out Casey's band, that would be OK Goodnight. If you want a taste for RWBY without actually committing to watching the series, you can watch the 4 trailers that Monty made to pitch the show to Rooster Teeth. The first 2 trailers were animated completely by Monty. The 3rd and 4th RT did give him some help. And while RT did greenlight RWBY, at first they basically told him, sure, you can go ahead and do your pet project in your own time as long as you keep doing Red vs Blue. But RWBY has been so consistently good that the budget kept going up, more people getting assigned to the team, etc. The shame is that Monty passed unexpectedly due to complications during surgery before they wrapped up the 3rd season. But his little pet project still lives on. Monty had a story to tell and they wrote the basics for the entire story before they started fleshing out the story and it changes here and there as someone comes up with a good idea. But it's still supposedly continuing on towards the end that Monty planned. (I forget, but I think they planned on 12 seasons? That number seems to be in my head and it could very well be wrong.)
Volume 8 is rock combined with jazz. It’s a VERY unique son because of it. There’s a bit of jazz influence on a few other song but volume 8 is very jazzy especially the chorus. Honestly it’s impressive how well both genres worked together in that song. Anyways that’s why it’s bizarre there aren’t any songs like this one. Also it’s my favorite because of how unique it is.
15:44 The music is primarily (95%) done by Jeff Williams (instrumentals) and his daughter Casey Lee Williams (vocals). A few other artists key in for certain songs, but the father-daughter duo kills it for the majority of the series!! Also, don't even consider watching the Japanese anime adaptation (Ice Queendom) until you're well into the original American-produced series (RWBY).
Always nice to see more people checking out RWBY :) While many say anime HAS to be from Japan, I see it as just a style of art/animation/story-telling. Just because a style originates from a specific part of the world, doesn't mean others can't make something in that style as well. You wouldn't tell a painter they can't do Impressionism just because they're not French or that a singer can't do rap music because they're not American. If someone, no matter where they come from, wants to make an anime, they can make an anime. I have no issue with people thinking otherwise, but the ones that always start complaining when someone calls it anime and start insulting them are the worst people to see filling comment sections.
RWBY startet with a very low budged, releasing the short episodes on youtube and making new content when possible. Also there have been a very small team to create it and they had a kinda crap programm to animate. All that got better with each season.
It starts out super light hearted and almost feels like a slice of life anime for the first 2.5 seasons, then there's a drastic shift at the end of the third season where it suddenly gets way darker and more serious
*"Western anime" is a term for that.* RWBY is much MUCH closer to anime than it is to western animated shows. So it's hard to grasp what the show is like if you call it an "American animated show" or "an anime-inspired-cartoon". I find "western anime" to be a good term for encompassing that while also separating it from actual anime. Like we all over the world outside US do with "American Football" and "Football". It's also much less of a mouthful than the myriad of different terms people tend to come up with trying to explain how "it's not an anime, but it also is just like an anime".
I am going to explain some things about RWBY, without getting into spoilers! -RWBY is pronounced like Ruby(you've got that right) -it's a anime style artwork show made in the US, it's spinoff, Ice Queendom, is a side story made in Japan. Rwby is and isn't anime. -it's eight current volumes soundtracks have been composed by Jeff Williams with his daughter Casey Lee Williams as lead vocalist. There are occasional guest singers. -The soundtracks slap and based on how you like the intros, you would like the soundtracks! (love them actually) -RWBY fans are loyal, but there are also a lot of haters. -Roosterteeth allows full reactions on TH-cam! All you must do is contact them and they will unban any reactions. RWBY reactions are very popular and often make channel ratings explode. -RWBY is a light PG13. Low profanity, the worst sexual content is some cleavage and slightly suggestive shots. Some blood, death, and slightly darker topics are touched on. No worse than other PG13 movies and shows. -As a RWBY fan, I would love to see you react to the show or at least some of the soundtracks. It's a great passion of mine and I think you will like it. Plot is pretty awesome, music slaps, and the fight animation is incredible. Additionally, RWBY carries Monty Oum's Legacy, so it holds a lot of significance in the hearts of those who appreciate his great work.
I have been watching you for a little while now since i found you. RWBY is one of my all time favorite shows, I've been watching it all the way back in 2012, i grew up with it basically. Im really glad you reacted to it. This is the first time im commenting on your videos and I hope you see this. This one held a place in my heart and im glad you liked the music RIP Monty. Last thing i want to say is i Recommend the Kill La Kill openings if you haven't seen them. I have many more i want to recommend but ill start with that.
I'll continue to recommend OP&EDs from "Nana" until I die 😆 This is one of those animes where you don't even think about skipping opening and ending. The story is literally built around music. Based on what you like, you won't regret checking it out. th-cam.com/video/hHLECHYUbXk/w-d-xo.html - link to compilation
Part of the charm of RWBY is that the budget climbed higher and higher with every season as the fanbase grew. You can visibly see the improvement from one season to the next, and around 3 is where I think the biggest quality jump is.
@@thewizardninja The Death Note episode could be considered "western anime" to some extent. Everything else... Frankly, joke or not, if you can't tell the difference, maybe it's on you. I mean, colorblind people don't go around mocking people who can discern red from green because both look the same to them.
There's 100 ish episodes but the lengths of each episodes varies as volume 1-2 is like around 15 only for certain episodes, the ones past volume 3 (or when the maker of RWBY passed away) are usually 16+ minutes if I remember correctly.
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perfect spelling its rwby spelled ruby main character is ruby and team is rwby I wont spoil full names of characters but its first letter of each name and colour
ps music is 10 out of 10 but full soundtrack is way better every season has at least 5 singed songs so its good music in almost every episode only downside is writing sometimes but music choreography of fights (done by monty oum until season 3 when he died in 2015) and character designs are spectacular its 8 volumes 12-13 episods each with varied lenght sometimes 8 minutes sometimes 30 or hour
and yeah openings are done by one duo of peaple
check durara opnings
wolcome to demon school iruma kun opnings and ending
and the song fainl eclepce
You should try these ones also
1) The God of highschool
2) The Case Study of Vanitas
3) Dororo
4) Carole and Tuesday
5) Kokkoku
6) Erased
7) Steins Gate
8) Link Click
9) Ranking of kings
Volume 1: cute high school anime
Volume 2: a bit of depression but still light-hearted and funny
Volume 3: SUFFERING, PAIN AND BLOOD
Volume 4: depression
Volume 5: depression
Volume 6: d e p r e s s i o n
Volume 7: anime + shipping fluff + D E P R E S S I O N
Volume 8: SUFFERING, PAIN, BLOOD AND UNBEARABLE AMOUNTS OF D E P R E S S I O N
basically sumed up the anime for you
It is also important to note that Casey, the female vocalist, was 13 when she first started making the music for the show. Her dad is the composer of the show. She now has her own band called Okay, Goodnight and her dad have included one of their songs in the show during season 8.
And she is a Powerhouse!
Her dad actually stepped away from RWBY this volume, so Casey is also the composer.
Volume 9 FULL Casey.
RWBY started as a passion project by Monte Oum. The budget was very small to start with. As the series got more popular and progressed, the animation quality was able to improve. All the songs done for the show (not just intros, every season has full soundtracks) are done by Jeff Williams and his daughter Casey Williams. When I say the songs were just done by those two, I mean that Jeff does all the writing, composing, all the instrumentation, and backup vocals and Casey does the primary vocals. Jeff Williams enjoys breaking music norms in alot of his music which can be really interesting and cool most of the times but can be jarring for some people on some songs (like the last opening for you).
Let's not forget the freaking RANGE Casey has as a vocalist!
Jeff Williams has put a lot of good music into RWBY, but I'm not a fan of the entire soundtrack.
The first of Monty Oum's videos I ever saw was Dead Fantasy. Many people probably knew of Monty from Haloid, but I was never really a fan of either franchise so I didn't spend my TH-cam days looking up videos about them. I actually think I found out about Dead Fantasy based on a piece of artwork by Monty. "Twilight Princess", I think.
As to the animation style of the early seasons, I'm pretty sure no one really "preferred" it, but accepted it because Monty's name was on the project. After his passing and with a bigger budget, the show gained cleaner animation but the fight scenes became noticeably generic by fan standards.
Series creator Monty Oum built his career and reputation on his fight choreography and kinetic animation style. Especially in the first few season, there would be jarring shifts between the fight scenes that he gave personal attention to, and the more static "talking scenes" that were handled mostly by the B unit.
After Monty passed away, the the team has really struggled to maintain the same levels of over the top action and believable flow that made him a unique genius. He was one of the finest creative minds of my generation, taken from us too soon.
Edit: He started at Rooster Teeth choreographing the fight scenes where Tex beats up the rest of the cast, so if you recall those scenes fondly, you will probably enjoy a show dedicated to more of that.
Actually, his career really started at Rooster teeth. His animation started on TH-cam in Haloid and Dead Fantasy.
Ah I remember that scene! One of the first animated fight scenes in RvB!
The fights look epic!
So true, the show's quality took a nose dive after Monty passed away, and I, sadly, lost all interest in the show after that. It just wasn't the same without him.
@@lareolanKFP I will say that while it would be impossible to recapture Monty's choreography, they have improved a lot from where they were after his passing.
@@lareolanKFP least the, uh, 'art' has only gotten better
The fourth volume intro actually has an Easter egg in it. Series creator Monty Oum passed away before season three so they honored him the following year. The song includes the phrase "Move Onward Not There Yet". M.O.N.T.Y.
And right after it said "So let's just live" 🤣
it's also a reference to a phrase he was known for saying "keep moving forward"
Nice curiosity: the soundtrack for all seasons is indeed from the same people always, and the singers are Jeff and his daughter Casey. At season 1 album, she was only 13... 13!! And she made onde of the best songs EVER!
Gotta respect her. (the song is mirror mirror in case you want to hear)
holy shit that song is so good, if he reacts to the RWBY osts id shit my pants, red like roses pt1 and 2, this life is mine, all things must die, like holy shit all of those are so fucking good!
Yesss!!! He should definitely react to the soundtracks.
She also did Forever when I think she was 12 from RvB in season 10 or 11
Casey, not Cassey
@@peachesplums wops, my bad. Cellphone completing words on its own 😂
Oh, this show. This show is absolutely amazing. It still pains me to this day that the director passed away and didn’t get to see his creation thrive on himself. His work was something I doubt anybody else can replicate.
Rest In Peace you absolute legend, Monty Oum.
@@wolfgangkern5164 He was the creator, animator, and director of this show that he created himself. I fail to understand your need to “correct” anything.
@@LullabyeNyah yeah sorry, removed it.
I think if he saw how Roosterteeth whored out his creation, he'd probably sob for hours, I know I would. So much potential, thrown away because of writers and directors with ego issues, dismissing any and all criticism to label it hate because it made it easier to ignore it, pushing the animators to constantly work crunch hours for pennys, an obsession with trying to push narratives for certain agendas without really trying to expand on them or actually have a discussion.
You are totally within your rights to enjoy it, but honestly season 3 is pretty much when it stops being fantastic, which sucks cause that was also when the writing was trying to develop more.
@@Evokai6419 Well, and I feel like it goes a little hand-in-hand - it's much simpler to animate the non-action scenes and still make it look good, which is why episodes started to get longer and action spurts generally became both shorter and less intense
@@Evokai6419 I mean in my opinion it's kinda disrespectful to assume the wants of a person who has passed especially since some of the people who're making the show were Monty's friends and would've have been the most affected except his family. Some of RoosterTeeths practices are piss poor but please leave his creation outta it.
RWBY begins quite lighthearted. The world is always dark but in control and protected. It all goes downhill every season and becomes darker and darker. It is glorious.
I'd answer his question by saying: not much gore (rare instances we even see blood), some psychological horror, though that's not the main thing either and the first volumes are totally family friendly.
I am rewatching the series right now and I am on Volume 6. Man, I forgot just how creepy the Apathy are. The entire farmhouse section is just unsettling.
Agreed. I wish anime would do this with other shows. By far, one of the overall best series of anime style.
Until we hit Weiss' brain breaking in the Everafter.
Hell yeah... currently on volume 9 and also RWBY is back viz bought it also they have new outfits and volume 10 might be happening
Fun fact: RoosterTeeth/RWBY likes having people react to their show. So you can show it without any transparency and even make it fullscreen with your head in the corner. There shouldn't be any copyright trouble with you doing any of this.
Assuming he sees this, I can confirm, since there are a few TH-camrs who already do this. ghoxttherebel and weebs closet among them.
Thats not been true for about 5 years, lots of people have had issues. Ever since Rooster Teeth got bought and sold over and over, and lost many of their founding members, I suspect.
@@ClockworkAnomaly There have been a few people that the other commentor mentioned doing it right now, and have been for months with no problem.
But it doesn't mean it'll be true in the future. Remember, when TH-cam policy changed, people got haunted by their vids done in like 2012 or something. So if you gonna do the YOLO thing and full screen this with music, you should also be aware that "maybe" in the future, Rooster Teeth wouldn't like it and may or may not sue you.
@@ClockworkAnomaly Not really true, but also you aren't wrong that people have trouble. But thats not really on RT. People have had trouble for a long time long before RT got bought. Its just a case of TH-cam's algorithm being shit and catching stuff its not meant to. Even smaller indie studios that dont have a parent company that allow full reactions have to deal with it too. Just the way this site works. RT has some instructions for when that happens, including contacting them so they can have it unclaimed for you
You should watch all 4 RWBY trailers. Even on their own, they're really cool. If you ever watch this series, it could be fun if you included your brother. No doubt if you tell him, he'll convince you. There's a lot to like. It starts off lighthearted with badass fights through out and really short. The story has ups and downs, but it does get darker and longer episodes overtime. See if you can watch it with subtitles, the songs are tailored to seasons.
Rooster Teeth is pretty lenient with reactions, as long as it's not the newest episode out, you can post them and message them about it. They actually love seeing fans reactions.
The characters and fighting style were originally heavily inspired by Final Fantasy and martial arts movies, Monty was a beast! -
The trailers are music videos unto themselves too.
The trailers also are sort of mini episodes, providing information you otherwise wouldn't get.
Seconded. The trailers give you a bit of insight into the characters, and are really well done.
Just be sure to watch the trailers in color order: Red, White, Black, and Yellow. They tell a story in themselves when viewed in correct order, and open more than one mystery. You'll love them!
The trailers are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, the 3rd opening song still brings tears to my eye with it's lyrics no matter how many years passed by...
when it falls?
"When it falls" and "I won't fall" are still my favorite songs from the show,season 3 was just the best
RWBY has been around for about a decade, the four trailers coming out starting I want to say Fall of 2012, and the first season starting about a year after the "Red" trailer came out, the animation improving with every season they released. It is definitely a fantasy anime that goes back and forth between light hearted, action packed, and tragic. One of my favorite aspects is that each and every character is a reference to something or someone, one of the most prominent influences being fairy tails. Been a long time fan myself and hope you get to check it out some time!
Yeah, definitely gotta start with the 4 trailers!! Wow, can't believe it's been 10 years!!!
Ah so Rwby? I'm guessing that's her name is Red Riding Hood? Or at least based on in a way? I like that!
@@GOTGames Yup. The series name is pronounced like "Ruby", and Ruby Rose is the name of the Red character. It is a difficult series to explain without spoiling too much, but the Red, White, Black, and Yellow trailers would at least give you an impression of what the four pivotal characters are like and I highly recommend you react to them before starting the series itself. The music in them is great too and I know you'll enjoy them!
@@gundoru2851 the trailers are also unique because where most shows and movies would use scenes on the ahow itself as the trailer, for rwby they made its own thing that ads a bit of context about the season and or characters
@@GOTGames the traillers are also musical, they have original songs based on the characters, so it would fit the "music channel" vibe XD
The animation change you call out at 9:55 comes after Monty Oum passed away. He created the show and led fight scene choreography until his death during production of season 4. He specialized in an animation engine called Poser which very few other people know how to use well. Without him there was no reason to stay in Poser, so they moved to the more industry standard Maya engine from season 5 onward. Fights took a dip without him, but the newer engine allowed the others to do more.
He died during the production of 3 and they switched in 4
You are correct. I thought I could do it from memory, but I was off by 1. Thanks for the correction.
Really love the RWBY soundtrack and Casey Lee Williams' voice.
Throughout the different openings you can hear her voice develop and mature - first OP she was 13, on the last she was 20, irrc.
Awesome music, props to her father Jeff Williams, who wrote the songs and played the guitar.
I always listen to their songs while cycling :)
She was 14 for the first rwby op, but she was 12 in the rvb season 9 song "Falling Towards The Sky"
Volume 5 was the biggest jump for her voice to me. she went a completely different direction with it, much lower register and it sounded amazing
They’re known for their combat scenes! And the animation def took time for me to get used to but I absolutely love it now and is so cool to see it evolve over the volumes. Such a great show!
Oh, I adore RWBY, thrilled that you reacted to this. RWBY came out in 2013 and has had 8 volumes so far with a volume 9 coming in 2023. It started out from very humble beginnings, with a small team and low budget and episodes rarely being longer than 10 minutes if we were lucky. But the world and characters, not to mention the excellent fight scene animations, got a lot of attention and they just got better as the show went along. Eventually, the series got so popular that it got an actual anime studio to make their own version, called RWBY: Ice Queendom, which released this year and is more of an alternate universe fan fiction with a high budget than any official part of the RWBY universe. Tragically, the original creator passed away during the production of Volume 3, so he never got to see the full extent of his brainchild's success.
Damn the show got better as time went on?
That is a hot take if I ever saw it. I still remember everyone smack talking V4 to death.
@@mitchmitting102 lol Volume 4 is one of my favorites.
@@EdgeyvonKarma Fair enough. I appreciate it for what it is, even if it can be pretty slow at times.
@@mitchmitting102 And I can see why you'd feel that way as well.
Yep, the first 1-3 seasons of RWBY are animated and written by Monty Oum, and it indeed started as an extremely low-budget animation but it grew into something much more.
(It's a shame Monty doesn’t get to see it grow, may he rest in peace)
Edit:
The quality of the animation for the early seasons fit with the low budget. However, the fighting choreography animation from Monty Oum is unbelievable for that budget. Especially for someone who was a self-taught animator.
RWBY definitely had a shoestring budget, especially for the first season. It did well enough that they were able to put more money into it and improve the animation over time. The fight scenes (especially in the early seasons) are a big highlight of the show, as well as the music (not just the openings, it has other great songs throughout). Seconding a recommendation to react to at least the 4 character trailers (Red, White, Black, Yellow).
Mounty made gold out of thin air. He was on his own level. I still remember watching from S2 to S3 and thinking how sluggish everything felt even though the animation had gotten better.
@@tintillor do you mean 3-4? I thought he had animated most of the season 3 fights before he passed, and they didn't change rendering engines until season 4
As said in the "So this is basically RWBY" video by JellyApocalypse, they had a budget of about $7. Definitely no exaggeration. Totally not
@@ExusiaiClips S3 definitely had a couple really bad fight scenes (notably the fight with FNKI).
@@DraustTrollbaneUS yeah, only a couple though, mercury and emerald vs coco and yatsuhashi was really good, and I'm quite certain Monty animated it, or at least most of it
You know its a good show when japan is like "we need to make an actual anime of this!"
Other good thing is that im pretty sure rooster teeth actively allow people to play and react to all seasons without worry of copyright strikes. Really good show to react to.
Want a real treat then you need to also do the rwby character introduction trailers. First one with ruby is still amazing
Rwby Character Trailers are great and a good introduction.
And now I must go watch them again
Agreed! Even after all this time, the character introductions have aged really well and are still just as badass as they’ve always been. I love watching people react to them, especially Ruby’s!
Agreed
Agreed
Thanks for your enthusiastic reaction! Was introduced to RWBY by my Son at the time Volume 4 was airing and within a week became a First Member to help support the continued creation of this amazing series. There are full versions of all the opening songs and the lyrics tend to foreshadow events that are within each volume. There is a soundtrack for each volume with an additional 7-9 songs that are used in the episodes. The Voice actors bring the characters to life and love how the animation progressively improves each volume to add depth to their story. Volume 9 was promised to be released beginning early 2023 and eagerly awaiting the continuation ❤
The show is amazing. As for how dark it is the first two seasons are more light and fun but once it hits the third season and you start to find out more about everything it gets darker. I wouldn’t say it’s extremely dark but it does have some darker aspects. I think you would definitely enjoy it.
It definitely has that Attack on Titan energy of "Oh. This has actually always been very dark, but where they hinted at it before, it's fully revealed to us now."
Writers: "This isn't even 50% of my full darkness."
Everything after season 3 doesn't really feel dark though. It feels like someone who doesn't know how to write a dark story inadvertently writing a comedy.
For a story that takes place in a world of "bloody evolution" all the characters come across as as naïve and soft even the characters who have experience killing other people.
Considering how some characters die, post Vol 3 can still be pretty dark.
@@Connor-ONeill Just because characters die doesn't mean a show is dark. I've seen darker scenes from freaking Pokémon.
There is no serious mutilating trauma, No existential dread, No cosmic horrors, No body horror. No psychological horror. No exploration into the dark corners of the human mind.
Many of the RWBY deaths don't have weight and could come across as comedic with a few edited in sound effects.
This is because the people making the show refuse to commit and thus end up pulling their punches.
So your telling me Pokémon has darker scenes than **SPOLIERS** people being killed in front of their children via building crushing, people having to "deglove" one of their own limbs, people being stabbed multiple times and dying or just straight up ran through and dying, people having their eyes slashed out, people being decapitated, admitted child murder, a maniac massacring a room full of innocent civilians, people literally screaming for their lives to be spared just to be brutally killed, someone shot nearly point blank in the dome, another shot and exploaded, people being transformed into monsters while fully conscious and some pretty horrifying implications all throughout if you take half a second to think. Some happened off screen but we heard everything,some on screen but we didn't see everything. I Don't remember the last time Ash had to mercy kill Misty or James from team rocket going to massacre a political rally.
Fun fact:
The composer of the songs is Jeff Williams and the singer is his daughter, Casey Lee Williams.
Season 1 of RWBY came out when she was ONLY 14. But the song was actually recorded MONTHS before the episode aired, so she may in fact have been 13 when she sang "This will be the day."
RWBY is such a great show. Just stay away from the fandom
The show fell off
Agree. Stay away from the fandom. The show is great, just enjoy it if you are willing to watch it, and make you own guess. By the way, rwby is not an anime.
@@SilverFang95 maybe but it’s still pretty good.
@@SilverFang95I haven’t seen Vol 7-8 so I don’t know if they somehow get worse but Vol 1-3 were peak, every other Vol for me was just good
@@Cs-cp6vo it's not. They have no direction.
When it comes to show discographies, RWBY definitely has one of the most amazing ones. Every song was written with specific story points or particular characters in mind and Jeff Williams, the composer, has made these perfectly. Plus his daughter, the singer, Cassie Lee Williams, gives me chills. In my opinion, the music is top tier and is a bug part in my enjoyment of the show. That and the amazing combat scenes!
Non spoilery plot is basically: kids go to a school to fight monsters, then at some point they go on to further places. If you ever want to get into the show, they actually do have like a few mini shorts where one of the characters explains some brief background lore too
3:16 "Cartoon" is the word you're looking for
There are already spoilers and toxicity in the comments, be ready!
Questions you asked:
-RWBY is not visceral very often, but touches on dark themes (read that as death and dismemberment, alcoholism, depression, and more) nearly every season.
-RWBY is currently 108 episodes long with a new season coming out "early 2023" and talk from RT that they still plan another season after that one.
-Casey Lee Williams is the singer for all OP and a lot of the OST. Her father composes and plays guitar for most of it as well. She also sings and writes in the band "Ok Goodnight", I recommend listening/reacting to "Awake" for some amazing vocal range.
You're about to see a VERY mixed set of opinions in the comments. RWBY has been a rollercoaster from the start. Everyone has something to blame for the things they dislike, but in reality as a show it's been enjoyable from start to finish for different reasons, like you said from the fighting, the aesthetic, the music, more.
Worth mentioning, the 108 episode that are out so far are not all standard length episodes. Especially early in the series, it wasn't unusual for an episode to be only 5 or 6 minutes long. So 108 episodes isn't as long here as it would be for a normal series.
with the things going at RT right now, RWBY going out at early 2023 will be hard, they will need new VAs for some characters.
@@somacruz1912 Last I heard on the "recent" drama, no staff members had decided to leave the RT family after apologies were made and management was discussed. Is there someone specific who has said they will not return for S9?
@@Mrnick21212 Kdin Jenzen for one announced she wouldn't work with rooster teeth again, as did Josh Grelle, who voice May Marigold and Tyrian Callows respectively
about this mixed opinions. i really love the whole show, what i think happend is that there was never some sort of "moderation" with the fan base, so when it bacame "normal" to complain, it was just...common, if you dont stop hearing "oh, this is bad because..." you kinda start to beleave that. for i time i started thinking, hmmm maybe it has things wrong here and there but then i notice they were really things thaat did not really matter...now....about RT drama...jeez...i did not notice until it was late so now i feel weird out
RWBY is basically a fantastic music show with a free anime thrown in
Oh, another thing; the music is mostly all done by Jeff Williams and his daughter Casey Lee Williams. In the first opening you heard, I believe she was around 14 when she recorded it! After Monty died, Jeff wrote the song "Indomitable" as a tribute to Monty Oum. It plays during an event in volume 6 and the full version is on the volume 6 soundtrack. It's hands down the most emotional song on my playlist. Someone made a montage of Stan Lee using that song in the background after he died, and now I think of two wonderful artists that we've lost. Highly recommend listening to it.
Jeff actually wrote multiple tributes to Monty. Cold was the first, back in the end credits of volume 3.
@@ChaosDragon true, but that video kinda contains spoilers.
@@johndrisdelle9359 the song on its own doesn't, but videos for it are made using some aspect of the show that is a spoiler. So if he wants to listen to cold he can't use a youtube video for it and be safe
@@ChaosDragon hopefully he reacts to the full soundtrack after each volume ends. I think that's the best way to consume RWBY content.
Fun fact, this is a rare ‘foreign’ show that Japan has accepted as anime. They even have official Japanese dubbing for it.
Fun fact, it’s been around about a decade by rooster teeth, but beginning this or last year it actually did get a Japanese animated remake, which switched the story up a bit and gave it a fresh different anime look, the original show is still going on too, it’s just there’s now an alternate Japanese anime version too
each season is about the length of a full movie put together. Each episode ranges from about 12 minuets to 18 minuets. Makes it very easy to binge watch. Absolutely a master piece! some seasons are a bit slower than others because they are also telling the story of them traveling to the next big area.
Definitely check out the four trailers too it’s a must watch even if you don’t react to the whole show
The first few seasons were written and animated by Monty Oum who did some of the animation for Red vs Blue. He did a lot of the animation on a computer running windows xp. Sadly he passed away before the show finished.
You should definitely check out some of the other songs from RWBY, many of them are even better than the openings and feature a wide variety of genres. The original 4 trailers, "red," "white," "black," and "yellow" are all really good and full of action. They can give you an idea of what the characters are like (each color corresponds to a character, ruby, weiss, blake, and yang, from the main 4).
Part of it that volume 8 song is seem to be so mix mashed is how the tone of that volume is, very fitting
Fun fact: every one of these openings are done by the duo of Casey and Jeff Williams. Casey as the singer and Jeff as the composer.
Another fun fact: Casey started singing for RWBY when she was only 14!
About your wondering about it’s style and the budget of the animation for the show, the company started with 6 dollars for their budget for this show so considering that I think they did really well. It’s one of my favorite shows, I’ve rewatched it more than a few times. Definitely recommend to watch!!
Fun facts:
1. Characters in RWBY are based on legends, fairy tales and historical figures.
2. This series is by Rooster Teeth Productions which is located in Austin Texas. They're known for their original Series Red Vs Blue, a machima series based in the Halo game series.
3. There is an official RWBY anime which takes place before season/volume 2. It retells season 1 in a few episodes, makes certain things clear, alter certain characters a bit, and adds in a series of events that could be considered canon but aren't.
4. The series creator Monty Oum had died early into RWBY's life as a series. Causing one of the characters to get a new Voice actor and for the fight scenes to drop in quality for a while.
5. The way the story had been progressing in the last few seasons had caused the fans to dislike a lot of it. Especially with how characters react to certain situations.
6. Volume 9 will be coming out early next year. And so many hopes that it will be better than the last few seasons. But I rather set my expectations low so I'm not disappointed by how bad it could be.
Monty was a damn legend. I personally discovered him prior to RWBY, through his shorts Haloid and Dead Fantasy
Imo the fighting choregraphies will never be as good as what Monty did in Dead Fantasy and early RWBY... a shame RT didn't capture the essence of Monty's passion for martial arts.
Lmao the RWBY subreddit collectively ranked volumes 7 and 8 in the top 4. It’s literally the same handful of people loading claiming volume 6 was the worst volume ever when it came out.
Monty oum brother replaced monty as ren
Appreciate all the info ❤️❤️
You may want to see the trailers of RWBY, there are 4, and the red trailer, is just... art, for real.
whoever recommended you this is the goat man, i love rwby reactions
The biggest thing that sets RWBY apart from most things are their weapons. Almost all there weapons have 3 forms Melee, Gun, (Magic) Dust Enhanced.
I would recommend giving it a watch, the volumes get longer as the series goes on, but it's not very long to be fair. Music is a banger, so if you do end up watching it, I would love to see a reaction to the soundtrack for each volume.
RWBY is one of the best series out there. It truly is a gem. You would love it!
Rest in Peace Monty Oum.
He's done it ! RWBY openings reaction ! We said it you'd love the songs 😉
Like you suspected it, openings, endings and all the ost have been made by Jeff Williams and his daughter Casey Lee Williams (she was 13 when the series started in 2013), with sometimes the participation of her mother Sandra "Sandy" Lee Casey and the rapper Lamar Hall.
Yes, you spotted it correctly, the graphics of the series improved a lot for Volume 4 (seasons are called Volumes and episodes, Chapters) because they changed the animation software from Smith Micro's Poser to Autodesk Maya. And the combat choreraphies are excellent from the start, i'm sure you'll get into it really quickly ^^
For the scenario, it's so complex it's impossible to tell without spoiling the story, but to say things short, we follow the adventures of Ruby Rose, a 15 years old teenager who wants to be a huntress, a keeper of peace and a slayer of Grimms (the black monsters you seen in the opening), along with the friends and foes she's gonna meet during her journey. And yes, it become darker with each volume.
If you intend to react to the series, you must know two things :
1) Rooster Teeth don't mind reacters, so even if your first reactions are striked by the YTbot, you just have to ask them to unlock the rights for you and thats good, so no need for filters or other anti-strike techs.
2) In order to fully comprehend and apreciate the series, you'll have to watch it in a certain order : basically the release order. Which means you'll have to start by the Red, White, Black and Yellow trailers, during Volumes 2, 3 and 4 you'll need to check the World of Remnant shorts, and there is characters shorts before volume 4, 5 and 6. All of these little things are canon in the show.
Anyways, thanks for your reaction, I think I'll make an exception and go on your Twitch if you decide to react this show 😁
11:18 You just called the guy with red hair "King Asshole!!"
Yeah, this show is definitely up your lane!!
RWBY falls into the category of being probably more... PG-13, generally light hearted as a baseline tone, but it does include progressively darker elements as the story goes on.
RWBY is one of those series where I won't try to claim it as being the best thing ever, but it is generally very enjoyable (I'd say it is more enjoyable than it is good, if that makes sense), though quality shifts a bit season to season.
It has some of the best fight scenes you will see in... well, anything.
As some others have commented - I recommend checking out the character trailers. They're excellent showcases of how great the combat scenes are.
In regards to your question about the Japanese version, that is RWBY: Ice Queendom. It has a bit of a rapid synopsis of the first season, and then jumps into an original storyline that is nestled between the first and second seasons.
Casey Lee Williams (The singer) was only like 12 when she recorded the vocals for the volume 1 soundtrack and subsequently the first opening
Omg. I'm so happy you are reacting to this shows openings. The music throughout the series a banger! All composed by the same guy and about 90% of the songs (all the songs) are sung by his daughter. They don't really have outside music. However, Cassie did have her own band now, and even partnered with one of the voice actors from the show to create the band. Her vocal evolution has been amazing.
You should check out the trailers for RWBY (titled red trailer, white trailer, black trailer and black trailer).
The show itself is based around fairy tales.
It's awesome, you'd love it. And we'd all love to welcome you into the cult ( LOL).
To answer a few of your questions. The animation evolved as the series went on. The genre is hard to explain. It definitely has some darker aspects. However I'd categorize it under action fantasy?
The lyrics for every song is composed with a purpose. They say so much.
The general synopsis is for friends right to save the world. The series follows their journey thru the ups and downs.
Also, each episode started out at around 12 minutes each episode. As the series went on they got longer. It's an easy binge series.
I also don't know if it's still relevant, but I think Rooster Teeth was pretty easy going on the copyright for their episodes. You may not need to edit the reactions when you watch it.
Anyways. Good luck. Love your reactions.
@G.O.T Games
The head for the show was Monty Oum, he started on youtube and made the best fight choreographies you'll ever see. RT hired him to make this series, his original creation, a reality. That indie animation developed as the show progressed from season to season. He passed away and they started to cut corners when it came to the combat segments. The rest of the show's team just didn't have his vision, talent, and attention to detail. I appreciate they continue on his creation and they were doing well on the story end. His passing is one of the most unfair accidents I've personally heard of.
This show broke me at points, but it's fight scenes were crafted by the best in the business until his passing.
You should bring your brother on and do a reaction to the 4 RWBY trailers.
That would be pretty cool. As long as bro is fine with being on camera :D
his brother has probably watched them already, its "his favourite animated series," as he said
Could be for a fun contrast though, one person who is super familiar with someone who's never seen it before
RWBY Volume 6 Chapter 3 is the greatest chapter in history of RWBY and it will probably stay that way. The history of the world, the old world and the new world of remnant, the backstory of Salem and Ozpin, the reveal of the gods and much more its an episode full of lore and all secrets slowly reveal themselves it is literally a complete plot twist. This one single chapter changes everything and its all explained to us by best girl Jin.
the music is one the best parts of the show, it's also the most consistent in quality
You are absolutely right about the animation. Outside of combat it was always rough but it got much better as the seasons went on. I remember back in season 1 some scenes didn't even have proper walking animation,, they just put characters feet outside of the frame and let them slide on the ground.
RWBY was first made roughly a decade ago by Monty Oum, animation savant who hand animated the first trailer and took a lead animator/director approach to the remaining trailers & first and second seasons, though tragically lost his life due to an allergic reaction in a routine surgery. Rooster Teeth, who Monty worked for, took up the rest of his project in his name (Monty had the entirety of RWBY from beginning to end planned out so the team could complete his vision) and has been going strong since. 99% if not 100% of the fan base has nothing but sadness and condolences for Monty as RWBY was his baby that he had to convince Rooster teeth to let him start up (Even with no context, look up "Tribute to Monty Oum" a short video of the man himself talking about his passions and fear that he will never finish his work. (I cry every time, everyone does.). Some people prefer the older style of animation, some people don't like the direction the show has gone in, some seasons are lighthearted, some get dark FAST. It definitely matures over time and is a must watch; anime style fights, funny humor, serious themes about destiny and coming of age. If you started a reactions series on it, Rooster Teeth has stated if you email them asking to do a reactions series, your free to post it in full, it's all(ish) on youtube already. :)
I totally recommend this, and with Volume 9 out rn it’s collecting steam again, the music is spectacular and the show is great.
Plus, RT is totally chill with reactions and it’s an easy react. The show may be 9 seasons, but the first 3 are all under 2 hours, and the rest around 3 hours each in length so it’s a quick binge.
Music is all done by Jeff Williams and his daughter Casey Lee Williams, and some other artists feature in some songs, like Lemar Hall always does the rap bits
RWBY is such an Iceberg of a show. Every question you've asked has an hour of answers. Most people only see the tip of the iceberg in animation quality and will overlook this gem.
Anime is the japanese word for animation, true. But when we first got access to japanese animations, we learned the term without the translation, and thus in english it became a word for japanese animations. Later it has been expanded to animations done in japanese style elsewhere, though not all agree.
Something I love about the openings of RWBY is that they have hints for the plot of each season
Omg! I didn’t think you would react to RWBY!! I’m glad you’re reacting to RWBY! And RWBY is pronounced as “Ruby” so you’re correct! It’s amazing! And the songs always have a meaning behind them.
The series was premiered in 2013. And the creator passed away after Volume 2. Oum had a severe allergic reaction and fell into a coma in January 2015. He died on February 1, 2015.
The songs usually have a meaning behind them. The art style is 3D animation and the animation style gets better each Volume! I also recommend you watch the trailers.
The person who sings all the openings is Casey Lee Williams! She started singing when she was very young and the first opening, she was only 13? Or 12? I forgot but she was young when she started along with her father Jeff Williams who does the music? I keep forgetting but RWBY is amazing and it gets darker.
Hey welcome to your first step into RWBY! Hearing you call the main baddy “Medusa boob woman” was hilarious and rather succinct XD RT changed the animation software from Poser Pro to Maya in between volume 3 and 4, so from 4 on it’s a different style. The show is pg13, but touches on darker more serious themes in the later seasons as the stakes get higher and our protagonists grow. You did get one name right, Weiss is the girl in the white dress and hair and the “W” in RWBY. The title is an acronym for the four main characters!
As far as the animation changes go, the original creator started out by creating the models using Maya software, and then adding them to Poser Pro, and the first 2 seasons were all done in Poser Pro. But after season 2, the creator died due to a failed operation after he had an allergic reaction. Afterwards, a team took over the project and touched up on their skills with the initial Maya software and animated the rest of the series using it, and every season they get better at using it. So each season looks like the animation quality goes up because it actually does lol
The animation definitely improves in a lot of places. Too many people hate on all the animation after Monty died but he also only worked on the fights and was definitely a genius at animating fights
Animation quality sure goes up but story and fights? HAHAHAHAH i am so fucking mad.
The quality of things got up but the fight quality which people loves definitely went down.
@@saltylemonz258 I mean they were competing with Monty. It's not really their fault. As for the writing though...
@@orionknight4803 yeah maybe its because people got hooked when we all saw that red trailer and got shell shocked so much with how bombastic and creative it is then as the story goes on, it changed and became more... generic. Im not updated with the story anymore after Vol6 with the invasion of a m3cha for promotion from another series. Im curious if Ruby is still one shotting everyone with silver eyes. Is my girl Cinder still alive?
Hahaha this was a great video! So many places where I switched between "wow, that's prescient" and "lol that's hilariously wrong." I was worried you would get spoilers since they do drop Easter eggs in the openings, but I guess without having seen the show, it's hard to be spoiled when you don't know what's happened even a little. If you do end up watching, though, I'd highly recommend not revisiting the openers for later seasons. Once you get to know who characters are, later season openers will spoil plot from earlier seasons. Hope you watch and maybe even record your reactions!
Considering that we're doing RWBY now, can you also listen to the track "Red like roses".
It's one of the most iconic songs from the series and also just really good
Really, the extended versions of any of these songs is worth checking out.
@@MrFelblood absolutely agreed
Important to take note: Each character is derived from real life fairy tales and myths.
RWBY is definitely a fun show. All of the openings are great. Yes, the show is pretty funky in animation style at the beginning. I will say the style gets better as it goes. Overall, RWBY is definitely worth the checkout.
Gawd, I've missed this! As a RWBY fan, just seeing new people check out the awesomeness that RWBY offers, cool everytime!
The story that the songs tell of this show is amazing
It's possible that this is my comfort show. I don't recall having as much excitement for new volumes as I did for the first few volumes. The quirkiness and one off lines of the characters. The corny jokes spoken and unspoken. It's quite warming. Then there were the fight scenes. It's hard not to have a smile on while watching.
Glad you are looking at RWBY, and I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
Thanks.❤
interesting little fact: The lady singing in a lot of the songs for RWBY was only 12 and made a lot of the music with her family. Her name is Casey Lee Williams.
The sound track to this show slaps.
If you want another good watch related to it check out the 4 trailers to it.
Fun Fact: The singer in almost all of RWBY's music, including the intros, Casey Lee Williams started when she was 14 years old.
If you want to learn more about RWBY,
I would recommend you to watch: RWBY "Red", "White", "Black" & "Yellow" Trailers by Rooster Teeth
You should definitely watch it; you won't regret it, plus you can then bond with your brother over it.
As stated before,.. You really should do the RWBY character Trailers. They are listed by color. RWBY Red trailer, RWBY Yellow trailer, RWBY White trailer and RWBY Black trailer.
Not sure if anyone has said this before but Jeff Williams and his daughter Casey Lee Williams do the music for all 8 seasons of RWBY, Jeff Williams does alot of the later seasons music for Red VS Blue where Casey also joins him for a couple of the songs in RvB
The animation budget definitely gets bigger as the series progresses and the fight choreography is top notch. It’s always stood out to me. Great anime overall.
As a fellow music person i gotta say music is BIG for this show
Every album is connected to the story and and every rwby memeber (and a lot of other characters) have songs throughout the show that gives insight into their chatacters and their emotional state, thoughts and feelings
Also the songs are just fucking bangers
You gotta react to other RWBY songs too. The RWBY soundtrack is God tier
12:50 responding to your questions: the first 5 seasons were fairly tame, but seasons 6-8 got a lot darker. It is fairly family friendly, and most gore is replaced with rose petals and ash (an amazing choice imo) and a funny trope throughout the entire series is "It's also a gun" where basically every weapon has both a ranged and melee aspect to it. In the full version of opening #5(?), The Triumph theres a line that goes "Yeah i'm a girl but I'm also a gun" just referring to the trope.
Never expected you to react to RWBY. Its a pretty good series for a computer generated anime series. The intro to each series give hints to things that will happen during the respective series. Some of the songs from this series are amazing and covers a variety of music styles from ballads to hard rock/metal. Plus the main female vocalist, Casey Lee Williams, has a fantastic voice as you've heard. You should check some of the songs out, some I recommend are This Life is Mine, Caffeine and Red Like Roses part 1 +2 (theres avideo on TH-cam which combines the 2 songs).
The amazing thing with the first 3 volumes, they were using Poser which is a bit more limited, but they made it work. Some really amazing animation, especially went Monty would go ham on the fight choreography. (They had some issues with some scenes where they would constantly be crashing the Poser engine.) Then they switched to using Maya which definitely seems to have upped the quality. But even starting with the original 2 trailers which were done completely by Monty by himself (with Jeff/Casey Williams doing the music) the animation has been great and gets better with each new volume.
All the music has been composed by Jeff Williams with Casey Williams singing almost all of it. (In some of the later seasons, they've had a couple of guest singers for a couple of songs.) Casey is credited as the vocalist for the series as well as the voice for the character Neo. In scenes where Weiss (yes, you've definitely heard that name from your brother) is singing, that's also Casey. If you want to check out Casey's band, that would be OK Goodnight.
If you want a taste for RWBY without actually committing to watching the series, you can watch the 4 trailers that Monty made to pitch the show to Rooster Teeth. The first 2 trailers were animated completely by Monty. The 3rd and 4th RT did give him some help. And while RT did greenlight RWBY, at first they basically told him, sure, you can go ahead and do your pet project in your own time as long as you keep doing Red vs Blue. But RWBY has been so consistently good that the budget kept going up, more people getting assigned to the team, etc. The shame is that Monty passed unexpectedly due to complications during surgery before they wrapped up the 3rd season. But his little pet project still lives on. Monty had a story to tell and they wrote the basics for the entire story before they started fleshing out the story and it changes here and there as someone comes up with a good idea. But it's still supposedly continuing on towards the end that Monty planned. (I forget, but I think they planned on 12 seasons? That number seems to be in my head and it could very well be wrong.)
Volume 8 is rock combined with jazz. It’s a VERY unique son because of it. There’s a bit of jazz influence on a few other song but volume 8 is very jazzy especially the chorus. Honestly it’s impressive how well both genres worked together in that song. Anyways that’s why it’s bizarre there aren’t any songs like this one. Also it’s my favorite because of how unique it is.
15:44 The music is primarily (95%) done by Jeff Williams (instrumentals) and his daughter Casey Lee Williams (vocals). A few other artists key in for certain songs, but the father-daughter duo kills it for the majority of the series!!
Also, don't even consider watching the Japanese anime adaptation (Ice Queendom) until you're well into the original American-produced series (RWBY).
Yesss!! Finally. It’s such an amazing show with a great storyline. I can’t wait for you to check out more. You’ll definitely enjoy it.
All the OPs are done by Jeff and Casey Williams the OST for the series is fuckin amazing
Always nice to see more people checking out RWBY :)
While many say anime HAS to be from Japan, I see it as just a style of art/animation/story-telling. Just because a style originates from a specific part of the world, doesn't mean others can't make something in that style as well. You wouldn't tell a painter they can't do Impressionism just because they're not French or that a singer can't do rap music because they're not American. If someone, no matter where they come from, wants to make an anime, they can make an anime.
I have no issue with people thinking otherwise, but the ones that always start complaining when someone calls it anime and start insulting them are the worst people to see filling comment sections.
RWBY startet with a very low budged, releasing the short episodes on youtube and making new content when possible. Also there have been a very small team to create it and they had a kinda crap programm to animate. All that got better with each season.
It starts out super light hearted and almost feels like a slice of life anime for the first 2.5 seasons, then there's a drastic shift at the end of the third season where it suddenly gets way darker and more serious
I personally don’t consider the original rwby an anime I’m pretty sure it was a American animated show. Rwby does have a 12 episode anime though.
Yeah, it's anime inspired but definitely not an anime.
Same
*"Western anime" is a term for that.*
RWBY is much MUCH closer to anime than it is to western animated shows. So it's hard to grasp what the show is like if you call it an "American animated show" or "an anime-inspired-cartoon". I find "western anime" to be a good term for encompassing that while also separating it from actual anime. Like we all over the world outside US do with "American Football" and "Football". It's also much less of a mouthful than the myriad of different terms people tend to come up with trying to explain how "it's not an anime, but it also is just like an anime".
@@rafaelcalmon2858 I get your point but on a separate note. I do call American football- football, and what you call football I called it soccer....so
The music in RWBY goes so hard. Jeff Williams music slaps, and Cassy Williams voice is WILD
I am going to explain some things about RWBY, without getting into spoilers!
-RWBY is pronounced like Ruby(you've got that right)
-it's a anime style artwork show made in the US, it's spinoff, Ice Queendom, is a side story made in Japan. Rwby is and isn't anime.
-it's eight current volumes soundtracks have been composed by Jeff Williams with his daughter Casey Lee Williams as lead vocalist. There are occasional guest singers.
-The soundtracks slap and based on how you like the intros, you would like the soundtracks! (love them actually)
-RWBY fans are loyal, but there are also a lot of haters.
-Roosterteeth allows full reactions on TH-cam! All you must do is contact them and they will unban any reactions. RWBY reactions are very popular and often make channel ratings explode.
-RWBY is a light PG13. Low profanity, the worst sexual content is some cleavage and slightly suggestive shots. Some blood, death, and slightly darker topics are touched on. No worse than other PG13 movies and shows.
-As a RWBY fan, I would love to see you react to the show or at least some of the soundtracks. It's a great passion of mine and I think you will like it. Plot is pretty awesome, music slaps, and the fight animation is incredible. Additionally, RWBY carries Monty Oum's Legacy, so it holds a lot of significance in the hearts of those who appreciate his great work.
I have been watching you for a little while now since i found you. RWBY is one of my all time favorite shows, I've been watching it all the way back in 2012, i grew up with it basically. Im really glad you reacted to it. This is the first time im commenting on your videos and I hope you see this. This one held a place in my heart and im glad you liked the music RIP Monty. Last thing i want to say is i Recommend the Kill La Kill openings if you haven't seen them. I have many more i want to recommend but ill start with that.
I'll continue to recommend OP&EDs from "Nana" until I die 😆 This is one of those animes where you don't even think about skipping opening and ending. The story is literally built around music.
Based on what you like, you won't regret checking it out.
th-cam.com/video/hHLECHYUbXk/w-d-xo.html - link to compilation
Part of the charm of RWBY is that the budget climbed higher and higher with every season as the fanbase grew. You can visibly see the improvement from one season to the next, and around 3 is where I think the biggest quality jump is.
RWBY is not actually an anime but an production by RoosterTeeth created in the spirit of Anime.
It still bothers me that outside Japan people make a distinction about what is anime and what is not, but in Japan, it's all anime.
@@iDislikeEditThanksForTheLikes Ah yes, my favourite anime - The Simpsons.
It's pseudo anime web series
Just call it "western anime" guys. It's an anime-like show made in the west.
@@thewizardninja The Death Note episode could be considered "western anime" to some extent.
Everything else... Frankly, joke or not, if you can't tell the difference, maybe it's on you.
I mean, colorblind people don't go around mocking people who can discern red from green because both look the same to them.
There's 100 ish episodes but the lengths of each episodes varies as volume 1-2 is like around 15 only for certain episodes, the ones past volume 3 (or when the maker of RWBY passed away) are usually 16+ minutes if I remember correctly.