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Manga Notes: RWBY The Official Manga 3
Aug. 27th, 2021 06:41 pmIt’s a small weakness of mine (but safer therefore to make a show of admitting) that I maintain some interest in “RWBY manga.” The evidence that even “imitation anime” can attract some attention in the country the genuine stuff comes from is one thing, but perhaps I can get that much just from knowing the manga exists without actually buying and reading it. When I took a chance on the third iteration of it to bounce back across the Pacific, though, I liked the first volume of “The Official Manga” well enough to buy its second, even if a few initial thoughts didn’t add up into a post about it. In looking ahead to the third instalment, however, I saw its blurb mention “final volume,” and that sent me straight from “evidence of some attention” to a demonstration “some” isn’t “a lot.”
I bought and read the third volume all the same, and noticed it managed to get to the end of the second block of animation. A few thoughts did spring from that. Even with comments tossed in to the effect of “Gee, we didn’t catch this person, and we don’t even know who that other person is” (I looked back to the second volume and didn’t have a sense of efforts being made to wrap up then), I did get to thinking the second series was just about the last point where you could break things off without ending on a cliffhanger or at least a wide-open and perhaps quite ominous situation. I’m also stuck remembering thoughts Monty Oum’s unfortunate death had followed the completion of that series, and how I’d wondered if it had run through its novelty before the third series had thrown in enough complications to catch at least my own interest more securely. “Comics” do seem quicker to get through than “animation,” but at least I know more animation exists in this case. At the same time, I am contemplating thoughts I’ve had of late about becoming detached from “spinoffs in other media” and wondering now if that’s more just a case of having become detached from the stories I used to follow through multiple media.
I bought and read the third volume all the same, and noticed it managed to get to the end of the second block of animation. A few thoughts did spring from that. Even with comments tossed in to the effect of “Gee, we didn’t catch this person, and we don’t even know who that other person is” (I looked back to the second volume and didn’t have a sense of efforts being made to wrap up then), I did get to thinking the second series was just about the last point where you could break things off without ending on a cliffhanger or at least a wide-open and perhaps quite ominous situation. I’m also stuck remembering thoughts Monty Oum’s unfortunate death had followed the completion of that series, and how I’d wondered if it had run through its novelty before the third series had thrown in enough complications to catch at least my own interest more securely. “Comics” do seem quicker to get through than “animation,” but at least I know more animation exists in this case. At the same time, I am contemplating thoughts I’ve had of late about becoming detached from “spinoffs in other media” and wondering now if that’s more just a case of having become detached from the stories I used to follow through multiple media.