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Moving Along: RWBY series 6
I was interested enough in seeing where RWBY would go with its four main characters reunited at the close of its fifth series. My expectations a sixth series would be shown on Crunchyroll soon after premiering didn’t turn out, though. Instead, the new instalments seemed to be streaming in ways I hadn’t already worked out how to access. Instead of chasing them all the way there, I fell back (even as I was plugging through some not that enthralling manga takes on an “overseas property”) to looking and waiting for a home video release and finally “taking a chance on something bought sight unseen.” In the meantime, a new series from Rooster Teeth did appear on Crunchyroll, but having already decided to spend a good chunk of this year watching mecha anime from the 1980s left me wondering if I should wait as well to take in their effort at the genre (as opposed to the giant robots thrown into RWBY every so often as part of the general “anime-esque” mix) a bit more uninfluenced by comparisons to the stuff everyone else always seems to let overshadow anything merely recent.
Just as the wait for a new RWBY Blu-Ray was coming close to an end, however, the sixth series did turn up belatedly on Crunchyroll. I shrugged and started watching. The first instalment being as long as an ordinary “half-hour less commercials” animated episode left me wondering about the series “moving to another level,” but the instalments that followed were a bit shorter again. Beyond that, I had been reflecting on how the third series of RWBY had “closed out the opening” and really caught my attention; on starting the sixth series, though, I did get to thinking things were more in transition again, but realise again there’d been some weight to the close of the fifth series. There was one new character just happening to get caught up in the action, whose colouring in the setting did have me thinking of the Water Tribe from Avatar: The Last Airbender; it was only later that I managed to draw on my perhaps limited knowledge of world cultures and think there was something Mexican about her, too. In any case, I did wind up realising a few characters left behind by the third series were being acknowledged again (although one comment noticed that had left me wondering if all of a sudden we’d get “oh, she’s actually all right” didn’t come to pass after all; as much as I acknowledge “every fictional character is someone’s favourite” and “there are risks to casually striking characters off a list, too,” I’m not sure how I would have reacted to my speculation being correct). Along with all of that, a large bit of the backstory filled in (even if it could include “I deserve to avoid something everyone else has faced”).
I did wind up finding the sixth series Blu-Ray in a local video store and buying it before I’d seen all of the episodes themselves, but on finishing the last one (back to about the length of the first, even if it included end credits lengthy enough to suggest it’s been a while, if ever, since this series was “a handful of people with some personal computers and therefore impressive just for existing”) I did remain interested in seeing what’ll happen next. It’s still a bit of a question, though, as to whether I’ll ever find the time to watch the three RWBY Blu-Rays I haven’t opened yet and retrace this for-the-moment latter half of the story.
Just as the wait for a new RWBY Blu-Ray was coming close to an end, however, the sixth series did turn up belatedly on Crunchyroll. I shrugged and started watching. The first instalment being as long as an ordinary “half-hour less commercials” animated episode left me wondering about the series “moving to another level,” but the instalments that followed were a bit shorter again. Beyond that, I had been reflecting on how the third series of RWBY had “closed out the opening” and really caught my attention; on starting the sixth series, though, I did get to thinking things were more in transition again, but realise again there’d been some weight to the close of the fifth series. There was one new character just happening to get caught up in the action, whose colouring in the setting did have me thinking of the Water Tribe from Avatar: The Last Airbender; it was only later that I managed to draw on my perhaps limited knowledge of world cultures and think there was something Mexican about her, too. In any case, I did wind up realising a few characters left behind by the third series were being acknowledged again (although one comment noticed that had left me wondering if all of a sudden we’d get “oh, she’s actually all right” didn’t come to pass after all; as much as I acknowledge “every fictional character is someone’s favourite” and “there are risks to casually striking characters off a list, too,” I’m not sure how I would have reacted to my speculation being correct). Along with all of that, a large bit of the backstory filled in (even if it could include “I deserve to avoid something everyone else has faced”).
I did wind up finding the sixth series Blu-Ray in a local video store and buying it before I’d seen all of the episodes themselves, but on finishing the last one (back to about the length of the first, even if it included end credits lengthy enough to suggest it’s been a while, if ever, since this series was “a handful of people with some personal computers and therefore impressive just for existing”) I did remain interested in seeing what’ll happen next. It’s still a bit of a question, though, as to whether I’ll ever find the time to watch the three RWBY Blu-Rays I haven’t opened yet and retrace this for-the-moment latter half of the story.