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Manga Notes: RWBY Anthology 4
Having made it through three volumes of the “RWBY Anthology” manga did make “finishing the set” seem a little more inevitable. I glanced inside the fourth volume when I saw it in the bookstore, but I suppose it was only a “glance before buying it anyway”; I was still a bit uncertain as I started reading. That the “four-panel manga” that had seemed one of the few really good-looking pieces in the somewhat unfortunate first volume returned quite near the beginning of the fourth wasn’t quite encouraging, somehow.
I was ready to suppose Yang Xiao Long wasn’t that complicated a character in the first part of the animation these pieces are set during, a swaggering, hard-punching, big-sister type. There are a few jokes spun from the unfortunate complications that build up for her near the end of the first plot arc (and that did help make what I’ve managed to see since more interesting), and one piece does invoke the very end of that arc in a more serious way. Still, I got through the volume even with a comment or two at the very end speculating about doing something similar for the villains and supporting heroes. My own thoughts for the moment are just wondering when I might have the chance to see the animation that has been released but not on Crunchyroll; if it is going to get on Blu-Ray the same as the five previous parts, that might be as good as anything for me.
I was ready to suppose Yang Xiao Long wasn’t that complicated a character in the first part of the animation these pieces are set during, a swaggering, hard-punching, big-sister type. There are a few jokes spun from the unfortunate complications that build up for her near the end of the first plot arc (and that did help make what I’ve managed to see since more interesting), and one piece does invoke the very end of that arc in a more serious way. Still, I got through the volume even with a comment or two at the very end speculating about doing something similar for the villains and supporting heroes. My own thoughts for the moment are just wondering when I might have the chance to see the animation that has been released but not on Crunchyroll; if it is going to get on Blu-Ray the same as the five previous parts, that might be as good as anything for me.