Something of a Substitute

[krpalmer]

For a little while now I’ve been glancing at my RWBY Blu-Rays waiting to be watched and wondering just when the ninth series of computer-animated episodes will start showing up. I can get uncertain thoughts about whether the show’s creators have been stuck on how to bring things to or towards a close. Just today, though, I ran across an item on Anime News Network that got my attention to start with and kept it as I looked a little deeper. Japanese dubs of the computer animation, short manga, and merchandising might be one thing so far as “even ‘anime-esque’ efforts can get a bit of attention in the country where the real stuff comes from”; an actual anime series seems something else. While I’ve just been cautioned about making too big a deal of mere initial announcements, the studio and people attached to the project look a bit more significant than (for example) those who’ve drawn the manga. In one important case, however, that “established record” seems to have its own problems. As if trying to distract myself from that, I did wonder whether some of the names amounted to “selected to get the attention of (North) American fans; what have they done lately?” There, though, I have to face how I might be missing out on Shaft’s series just because of their association with Aniplex and have to consider how Gen Urobuchi (who’s “contributed” to certain other series other people wind up being blamed for) has been writing a Taiwanese-Japanese fantasy series performed by puppets, which would be yet one more option when it comes to “you could watch other things than anime, or even ‘anime-esque’ stuff you’ve long been indulgent towards, in some small part by avoiding what others say about it.”