And in the quieter scenes, the drawbacks of the animation style are always apparent. It hasn’t got the same sense of stillness the characters are always in motion. While the animators use anime style in the character designs (big eyes, small mouths), and drop in gags like SD transformations and the like, it still doesn’t feel like anime to me. This is definitely a low budget affair, and it resembles 3D animation that’s some 10 or 15 years old, on a par with movies like A.Li.Ce. It’s a 3D CG toon-shaded animation, but we’re not talking Appleseed or Vexille here. But the odd pan and scroll can be jerky at times. A progressive transfer would have been preferable, although I don’t know in which format the show was animated this might be native. Picture RWBY gets a 1.78:1 widescreen transfer at 1080i 60Hz interlaced. RWBY Volume 1 is presented on this Blu-ray disc in feature length form running to 112:50, or you can watch all ten episodes individually, which with the credit sequences takes the runtime to 126:25. They’ll have to work on their communication skills though, as the four girls now comprise team RWBY (pronounced ruby), and guess who’s the leader. Antagonism is fine, but it looks like Blake Belladonna would rather not talk to Ruby at all. Fortunately, the first person on the team is Ruby’s older and exuberant sister Yang Xiao Long, but the first time she meets Weiss Schnee, it’s disdain at first sight, and it only gets worse. This isn’t good where the class structure of Beacon means first forming four-person teams before even starting training. But while she has kick ass abilities, and has made an evil looking scythe/machine gun to deal death to the monsters, she’s shy and uncertain of herself. Ruby Rose wants to be a huntress, and has managed to skip two years and get accepted into the Beacon Academy. Dust can be used to power magical abilities and weapons, and using this power, Hunters and Huntresses can fight back. Inspired by classic fairy tales, RWBY takes place in a magical world called Remnant, where humanity has long fought a desperate battle against the Creatures of Grimm, but the tide turned when the mysterious element called Dust was discovered.
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