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RWBY: Volume 7 (2020)
The Return to Form Continues
Following up the excellence of Volume 6, Volume 7 continues by giving us an interesting extended cast to interact with while our heroes venture through Atlas. Their fortunes seem to be finally reversing as they form an uneasy partnership with General James Ironwood who grants them huntsman licenses and a goal to work towards, but they are soon swallowed in the nation's political turmoil.
RWBY volume 7 sets up a massive theater for events to come. You get a new design for all of the characters as well as some upgrades and training to level up their skills and abilities. The brief flirtation with lightheartedness is cut short by the darker themes that come creeping back halfway through the seasons and raise the stakes back up and further than they were before.
RWBY (2012)
A testament to the durability of loving and idea and sticking to it
This is a series that has grown and changed much since its earlier days as a youtube-only series. It has since grown into a behemoth worthy of sharing billing with some other top billed and popular characters from the like of DC of Blazblue.
And there's a good reason for that.
The world of RWBY is filled with quirky, charming characters and unabashed, over-the-top anime style action. It is one-part fairy tale homage, one part gritty urban fantasy action and the way those get blended even as late as the most current volume as of my writing this (volume 9) is fantastic. The one thing the show has from top to bottom is heart and it wears that heart on its sleeve. A truly great time.
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen Part One (2023)
An unexpected and delightful crossover
RWBY and DC comics has been doing this dance for a while.
And whether its DC authors and artists writing stories within the RWBY world a la the 2019-2020 run of the comics, or the two crossover comics (one with RWBY characters in DC and the other with DC characters withing the RWBY-verse) I've yet to be disappointed and this movie is no exception!
The playful banter and teasing that was going on was very reminiscent of early RWBY. The movie also did a good job scaling the overwhelming powers and abilities of the DC characters so that way they weren't so powerful they inundated the threat of the movie.
The dynamic between the various mixes of DC and RWBY characters worked well! Jaune and Jessica Cruz had the best showing with Wonder Woman, Blake, and Yang following just after that.
There is a conclusion to the plot, but there is a pretty big sequel hook. As expected from a movie that labels itself as part one of a story.
RWBY: Volume 8 (2021)
The Tensions Boil over, and it changes everything
The tensions that were boiling over last volume have finally blown over the top. The Nation of Atlas is stuck between a three-way war. Ironwood and his military, Salem and her forces, and Team RWBY and friends.
Everyone's thoughts and feelings on how to proceed forward are just as divided causing our heroes to make some tough choices.
This volume was massive in both scale and what it wanted to accomplish. And for all of that, I think it managed these goals rather well. The chaos and stress the characters were in and under was very evident from even the start. Couple that with hard-hitting reveals and powerful moments and surprises and it was a fantastic volume. Only thing it could have done differently is let a couple of moments breathe a little longer, but, other than that, another great volume!