#Rwby haunted space battles series#

Nor is there any of the generic background filled such as flowers or bubbles that can be found in genres like shojo. Character’s largely exist in white space with no floor, walls, or scenery to speak of. The majority of backgrounds are completely blank. However, none of this can be fully utilized in the manga for one important reason. Their strengths are played off one another, and grand plans concocted that are always highly entertaining. And, unlike many battle anime and shonen in particular, the characters all fight together. The environment is used to great effect during battles. The fairly tall boy with round cheeks who fell on the bulkier side of things was suddenly a completely generic looking, slimmed down character with nothing visually in common with his animated counterpart.īesides having very memorable characters, RWBY also boasted some of the more entertaining fight scenes a person could find, especially in seasons 1-3. I was honestly unsure of who the character was the first time he appeared in the manga. But the character’s whose appearance changed the most was Juane Arc. Ren, an already slim character, looked downright bony. Ruby certainly suffers from this, her face being much less rounded than usual. Many characters are slimmer, sometimes in body, sometimes in face. However, some of the characters looked so very different from their original renditions that they were completely unrecognizable. This does happen, sometimes, and I can appreciate a creator rendering a story within their own style. The characters are differently styled, something that isn’t an issue in its own right. A lot of characters are introduced quickly and some (but not all) pertinent information about the world is relayed within a handful of pages before the manga jumps about from one shorter story to another. Those who haven’t seen RWBY will definitely be at a disadvantage. This means that the overarching narrative is a bit difficult to follow, doubly so for those who aren’t familiar with the franchise at all.

#Rwby haunted space battles series#

The story jumps around quite a bit, sometimes showing content from before the start of the series and sometimes showing content quite a bit into story. Those who have watched RWBY will get the most out of this manga. Original, manga only content is also sprinkled throughout the volume, most notably at the beginning and the end with whole chapters of new content. The story follows the original four trailers of the anime, short features which introduced the characters – Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang – as well as their abilities, and what our protagonists are fighting against. Like many other manga-second franchises, the manga does not quite hold up to the original anime.

RWBY is the manga version of the animation (lets just call it an anime for simplicity’s sake) of the same name. Unfortunately, RWBY by Shirow Miwa ignored much of the animated versions strengths to the manga’s detriment. I love the anime and I wanted to see how the story was handled within the anime. I cannot describe how excited I was when the RWBY manga appeared at my door. By: Shirow Miwa Rooster Teeth Productions Monty Oum