RWBY Manga, RWBY Comics

Viz keeps publishing “RWBY manga,” and that keeps getting my attention. Call them “anime-inspired” or “anime imitations” depending on your mood, but works of that type have been easy enough to find for a while; evidence one of them has attracted attention where the genuine article doesn’t need to be translated seems more unusual. With that said, however, my own reactions to the first five volumes of RWBY manga could amount to a sustained demonstration that while “official manga” of it is being drawn in Japan, it’s not being assigned to top artists.

Hope does keep springing eternal, though, and when I heard a third variety of RWBY manga was starting up with the bold subtitle “The Official Manga” (however necessary that might be to distinguish it from the one-shot initial manga) I did think about taking another chance. However, before I quite had the chance to read it I’d run across an Anime News Network review dismissive of both the volume and the franchise in general. I did manage to shrug that off anyway, telling myself that regardless of my own reactions to this latest manga I’d have the chance to follow it up with another “sequential art” interpretation in the franchise, and this one didn’t need to be translated.
( The Official Manga )

( Comics from DC )