Manga Thoughts: RWBY

Hearing people in Japan were managing to see RWBY caught my attention. The further news of a Japanese-dubbed release of the "web series," computer-animated on this side of the Pacific, seemed to cut through a number of the things tangled up with "people outside Japan getting so into comics and animation from that island nation they try making something like it themselves." It was far from the only thing keeping up my own interest in the series, but it was something.

After having the chance to see at least some of the Japanese version myself, a manga version I'd also heard about became available over here too. I went ahead and bought a copy, convinced by its cover the character artwork would have more personality and liveliness than the somewhat austere computer animation. (In a calendar store closing down as the year rolled over, I saw a RWBY calendar, and as much a revival of the "novelty" that had first attracted me to the series it was on first sight, the back cover had me thinking inside it was all close-ups of the computer-generated characters, not that interesting to me.)
( With a further North American bonus )