#rwby volume 7 trailer spoilers

[crimsonxe]

Light spoilers I guess for volume 9 under the cut:

Since the subject of slowburns has been brought up, I want to give proper credit to probably the longest running one: Ruby’s break. Like BB and Renora are ofc up there too since happening from like v1; but Ruby’s break has been going from arguably the Red trailer since I’d count her visiting Summer’s grave as part of it. I find it funny seeing ones thinking it’s only started happening in v9 or even 8 (no shade just I find it amusing, like ones saying their favs are Penny and/or Pyrrha going into v3 and you know what’s coming vein amusing); it’s like nah take a look back at like v2 for some cracks forming and 3 for sure broke those open with 4-7 adding even more in subtler aspects. No particular order cause I’m listing them as I think of them:

Holding Penny’s secret

Being the one that confronted Cinder (though she didn’t know her identity at the time cause masked)

Everything that went down with Yang, because of the setup against her and seeing her affected by it

Penny’s death followed by Pyrrha’s later

Beacon’s fall

Yang’s depression

Her team being broken apart

Seeing Jaune and the rest of JN_R’s depression over Pyrrha

Dealing with her pain over the loss Pyrrha and Penny’s

Finding the dying huntsman

Seeing Ren having to deal with “Nuckles”

Betrayal by a headmaster

Coming face to face with Raven her mom’s teammate

Coming face to face with Cinder again

Seeing Jaune throw himself at Cinder in a self-sacrificial way

Qrow’s alcoholism

Being hit with the effects of the Apathy

Being forced to clash against Atlas authorities in Mistral

Having to think about all those she loves and wants to protect to power her Silver Eyes, but slipping into “depression alley” till finally being able to stick to the good (which actually probably serves as one of the nudges about her mental state and burden)

Finding out the truth of the world and just how big of a weight is on her shoulders. Like going from carrying a baseball to actually it being a skyscraper 

And I’m sure I missed some or plenty cause I was going more for a rough idea. Regardless once again RWBY loves it’s slowburns and putting in small details/seeds that pay off later. v9 like with BB has just made things like Ruby’s break more blatant.

[real-jaune-isms]

Admit it, she looks a lot like Kairi in Kingdom Hearts II. And her skirt literally has hearts on it. It’s so close.

Honestly though, I think this is a great outfit. The exposed shoulders and thighs are a little head scratching since this is a colder climate, but Nora has never been one for making sense. The blue in her color scheme is more pronounced this time and I too have heard the pitch that this matched the transgender flag so Nora might be a trans girl. It’s a nice headcanon, but I get the feeling it’s not what they were going for. Still, feel free to go with it. The world is a happier place with people who believe in things. The fingerless gloves, sleeves and armor bands are also pretty cool, and in all it seems like a great new look.

Meanwhile...

Don’t tell me he’s not turning you the more you look at him.

This majestic man. A fusion of his 1-3 and 4-6 outfits with the white pants making a return, plus a single black sleeve/pauldron with magenta accents for a nice asymmetrical look vs the all white left sleeve and the green vest to bring it all together. I know that’s a big run on sentence, but it’s a lot to take in. Plus now he has the ponytail again and it looks great. And who could ignore the knife? Clearly his father’s, last seen in V4, now displayed proudly on his upper arm. It’s a beautiful aesthetic and Lie Ren does it marvelously. 10/10

And then... their fearless leader.

I’ve had that hairstyle before so I know it’s not the worst thing ever and I really don’t mind it much. I just don’t see why he would get his hair cut shorter and expose his ears (a new sight for us) when they’re in the icy north and you’d wanna keep your ears and head warm. Aside from that it’s growing on me.

The rest of the outfit seems fine to me. A second shoulder pad finally. New jeans and a new belt with a strap extending down to a loop around the left thigh for some reason... and some additions to his chest plate. Also... the end of the pumpkin Pete’s hoodie in favor of some black wrap clothing thing with orange on the inside that give him a little collar boost. It’s a good looking outfit. They all are. I’m excited to see they in action.

[lil-pillow]

Hype for volume 8 :))

[jonthejournalist]

“She will keep returning, stronger and stronger, unless we destroy her”

“Tell us how we can help”

James Ironwood and Ruby Rose, RWBY Volume 7 trailer

[dankrwbymemes]

i’m calling out the villain of volume 7 right now

[glassygate]

Blake’s new style seems to have similar colours as the two new characters, at least one of whom is a faunus. I wonder if there is a connection.

[hollow-plume]

Omg...the animated models are just...wow

[the-kiwi-is-not-a-pewee]

the opportunity was too good to pass up.

[sapphic-yang]

RWBY Volume 7 Trailer

Thoughts and Theories:

1. So as others have shared, the 12 minutes show at NYCC cover landing in Mantle (which is in chaos) and the team meeting Penny’s dad (who made Yang’s arm and Maria’s eyes) and then the street fight first teased at RTX. Possible Penny intervention here but that’s unclear, I’ve seen conflicting statements from people who were at NYCC. Then it seems the atlas specialists capture them because they’re awful as expected (notice the volume 4-6 outfits).

2. I think the rest of chapter 1 (form are main heroes at least, not telling who they cut away to) will be them meeting with Ironwood. Probably a fair bit of tension here especially considering them getting bound, but the trailer dialogue seems to indicate Ruby really wants to give him a chance (though i think we all know how that’s gonna end). 

3. The scenes of them jumping (yeeting really) out of the ship towards the abandoned dust mine are probably from chapter 2 or 3 (leaning towards chapter 3, we need a breather and a chance for team FNKI to help the crew shop and go to the salon, I’m calling it!). Whether this is on Ironwoods orders or something/someone else has lead them there is unclear, but unless they were allowed to keep the gunship from last volume they either have his permission or they’re being gay and doing crime again.

4. A Geist possessing...Dust? Ice? Rock? Some combination? This will be an interesting fight to be sure. Are they in the mines because the Grimm are consuming the Dust? Is that the real reason Ironwood wanted to stop exportation? Or is this why people are rioting? The two newbies here could be tagging along to make sure RWBY and JNR don’t screw up, or they might be White Fang they run into (I’d didn’t spot it at first but the guy pretty clearly has a tail) I’ve seen people say that Blake’s outfit is similar to theirs, but there’s going to be so much white clothing in Atlas I dunno if it’s a connection.

5. Two new Grimm, Sabyrs and what ever our many legged friends here end up being called.

6. Atlas in chaos is interesting. I’ve been thinking about the show’s future a lot lately and I have an outline. RWBY works in three Volume arcs, with each being collected into a season. 1-3 are the Beacon saga, 4-6 are the journey towards reunion and reconciliation for the heroes with each other, so what is 7-9 as a season going to be about, as an arc? I think Volume 7 is uniting Atlas, getting rid of Jacque, bring the Faunus out of the shadows and maybe even disposing Ironwood. I think there will be a major showdown at the end but I think it will only be a prelude to a larger war for Atlas in Volume 8. Both of which I think will be overall victories for our heroes, though with losses (Winter, calling it!). Volume 9 I think will be an assault on the dark continent (don’t know what else to call it) that WILL end badly (think day of black sun in ATLA). But we’ll see!

[miki-13]

IF WE DON’T GET SOME OSCAR/OZPIN TAG-TEAM IN THE NEXT TWO CHAPTERS I SWEAR TO GOD—

I agree but am too stressed about my son’s well-being to go further into detail.

[undine66770]

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[ashigecross]

I love RWBY and I'm gonna stick by it till the end but I gotta admit I'm a bit disappointed by the hair situation coming up in volume 7. Team RWBY's hair looked great in the promo art, but I expected Weiss's braid to be longer. And Jaune's hairstyle makes me want to throw the whole volume away already. I'm really gonna need this to be the whiterose volume to make up for what they did to the hair.

Blake's hair is looking a bit less than ideal in 3d too but it might have just been a bad shot of her so I'm not going to get on that just yet.

[real-jaune-isms]

Wow, it took 9 memes before I made a joke about shipping the members of Team RWBY. Must be a new record. And she is falling ever so gracefully and with purpose. She knows where she’s going and she is okay with it. After all...

I doubt it. Weiss is pretty damn amazing and anyone with half a mind would fall for her. Pun intended.

I can go on and on about the team’s new outfits, and I plan to with a later meme. For now though, let’s just compliment how badass all these girls are with their landing strategies for jumping out of a plane. Ruby is clearly planning to pogo with Crescent Rose again to slow her momentum, and Weiss is showing off the control over her summons by skating along her knight’s sword. Very awesome.

[autistic-swanprincess]

Awesome!

RWBY 7 Pre-Trailer Teaser!

[jonthejournalist]

Bumbleby y’all! AND THE TRAILER IS NEARLY HERE AUEIGUIHGIOEASHIGF

Also don’t worry Whiterose shippers, got you lot covered too

[rainbuckets8]

Why you should watch RWBY

TL;DR:

Summary: RWBY is an epic fantasy with themes like found family, the struggle to remain hopeful, the younger generation growing up, villain redemption, and systemic evils.

Strengths: RWBY has unique and memorable characters. The show is smart. It has excellent cinematography and animation. It has representation. It tackles hard topics. It’s got incredible music and it’s free on RT’s website.

Weaknesses: RWBY has some early growing pains, specifically volume 2’s finale, as well as budget and polish. Later on, volume 4 is weaker than the rest. Volume 8's finale is extremely distressing for a lot of viewers (and we haven't seen the follow up to those events yet). The fandom can be bad at times.

Misinformation: The early volumes being bad, the racism plot line, and the animation (not the same as “budget and polish”) are not as bad as you may have heard from YouTube.

Suggested viewing order

Red Trailer, White Trailer, Black Trailer, Yellow Trailer

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

Volume 4 Character Short

Volume 4

Volume 5 Weiss Character Short, Volume 5 Blake Character Short, Volume 5 Yang Character Short

Volume 5

Volume 6 Adam Character Short

Volume 6

Volume 7

Volume 8

(I did my best to make this spoiler-free. When there are spoilers, they’re worded ambiguously enough that someone new to the show would never guess what’s going to happen just by reading this.)

What to expect

The world of Remnant is filled with monsters called the creatures of Grimm. Warriors called Huntsmen and Huntresses defend humanity. Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang go to school to become the next generation of heroes. Together they make Team RWBY (pronounced, “Ruby”)! Joining them is team JNPR (“Juniper”), made up of Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha, and Ren. But evils even more dangerous than the Grimm are ready to make their move, and school quickly becomes an afterthought…

(I mention these next two topics specifically bc they can immediately turn someone away based on bad expectations.) There is a fantasy school setting, but RWBY is not a show about school. School topics are not a dominant idea: it seems to resemble a setting like Harry Potter, but the actual focus of the show rarely touches on things like classes or homework or tests, and we quickly move on. There is romance and it has a role in the plot, but RWBY is not a romance show. On the scale of romance in FMAB to She-Ra, RWBY falls somewhere in the middle.

What is RWBY about, then? RWBY is like an epic fantasy or high fantasy, despite first appearances. Perhaps not every genre convention is followed, but at its core, RWBY is about an epic struggle of good and evil.

RWBY contains themes such as found family, the struggle to remain hopeful, the younger generation growing up, villain redemption, and systemic evils.

Strengths of the show

The characters are unique and memorable. One of the cool things is that they all draw inspiration from a real life fairy tale, myth, or something else. They designs are all top notch. One character who died with extremely little screen time even got so much fandom love, they included the character in a mid-hiatus short later. The characters have unique weapons, too; in the world of Remnant, a weapon is an extension of ones’ soul, and they reflect the variety of their owners. They’re also just plain cool; Monty was famous for following the “Rule of Cool.” And their individual stories are all compelling and interesting.

The show is smart. As a fandom, we generally pick up on the narrative hints the creators are dropping. And our predictions usually come true, but not in a way that makes the show predictable and boring. We very rarely guess exactly what will happen, but we have some similar idea of it. It’s just excellent foreshadowing.

RWBY also likes to play with tropes, as an extension of this. Often it will challenge them, or subvert expectations. In other cases, RWBY uses tropes to avoid showing us what we already know will happen. This occurs in both characters and plot. For example…

SLIGHT SPOILERS FOR VOLUME ONE FOR THE REST OF THIS PARAGRAPH: Jaune’s entire character arc is about trying to be the anime protagonist, and learning that he doesn’t have to do things alone, and it’s ok to be a support main. The show sets up the narrative in a way that looks like, oh of course the direction it will go is him becoming the main character, but then it destroys toxic masculinity instead.

Our characters are smart, too. Plot-induced stupidity generally doesn’t happen. (A few big mistakes or errors in this regard aren’t actually the fault of the narrative, either, but animation and miscommunication and failure to execute. And those aren’t common.) It goes beyond just “not being dumb,” however. The villains’ plans are incredibly clever, and our heroes sometimes even guess at the usual “plot twists.”

The cinematography is just incredible. There are numerous freeze frames with extreme attention to detail that reveal character motivations or arcs or foreshadowing, there are many effective cuts and moving parts, there are soooo many parallels and callbacks, and visual cues such as lighting and color all are used appropriately to convey emotion and assist the narrative. It is one of the biggest overlooked strengths of the show, imo, simply because a lot of people in the fandom don’t notice these things as much for whatever reason, or else don’t give as much praise about them.

The animation is extremely good as well. Budget issues and technology issues aside (which means a lack of polish), the actual animation? The fight choreography, and all the other parts of animation that aren’t just “expensive CGI” are all wonderful. You can have very shiny, polished turds after all, and RWBY is like the opposite: not very polished, especially early on, but very well animated. All the trailers, volume 1 episode 8, the volume 1 finale, the volume 2 penultimate episode, and basically everything else hold up extremely well even today. If anything, the worst fight animation was in volumes 4 and 5 because of Maya growing pains, and those are an example of being more polished, but not necessarily better animated. Animation of faces has always been good, animation of characters has always felt lively. Aside from a few small actual hiccups (that one person running across rooftops for instance), it’s well done.

There are LGBTQ+ characters. The treatment of one of the recent trans characters, in volume 8, was nothing short of amazing. They worked with a VA who was trans. The moment of canon confirmation was important to the character for backstory, because of course that affects the character’s life, but not the only important thing about the character. The representation is not in-your-face or pandering. And there is a split of representation among the main cast and the minor characters, with promises of more to come (notably they’ve said they’re working on more mlm for future volumes, too).

RWBY is not afraid to tackle hard topics. It deals with things like mental illness, systematic racism, and cycles of abuse. It’s not because the show is trying to earn “gritty and dark” points, it’s because those are some of the topics that real people have to struggle with as well. And the show handles most or all of them very well, in a way that shows respect and an honest attempt to depict these things as best they can. (NOTE ABOUT VOLUME 8: THERE IS A VERY DIFFUCLT CONVERSATION CURRENTLY HAPPENING. I am on the side of, let’s wait and see what happens next because the story isn’t over, so we haven’t really seen the fall out. But I understand why this paragraph feels really difficult to agree with if you've seen the volume 8 finale. I trust the track record of the rest of the show, personally.)

As an example, the show has a theme that villains are rarely evil just because. A lot of villains choose to do bad things because they were hurt in some way. Some lived in poverty; some were hurt by racism; many of them are victims of abuse. But the show doesn’t make excuses for them. It’s possible to be both sympathetic and still choose evil over and over again (that’s called tragic). The ones who eventually do try to do good again are not always forgiven, either.

The music is amazing. I can probably count on my hands the number of times I’ve heard someone say otherwise, which is astonishing when you consider this fandom.

It’s also free on RT’s website. (A paid, “FIRST” subscription removes ads and lets you see new episodes one week early, but they all eventually release for free.)

Weaknesses of the show

Early volumes’ growing pains exist, much like most or all other shows. (Even some of the greatest were not immune to this, like ATLA.) In this case, however, it’s a little bit rougher. A large reason why is that this was kind of the first big thing from RT to ever come out. If you remember back almost a decade ago, their only other big thing at the time was RvB, which was machinima. They pretty much started from scratch with everything, from assets to VAs to animation to writing. Imagine if a random twitch streamer, like Ninja (idk who’s popular these days) said one day, “OK let me just direct something that’s intended to be the next great movie series of all time, like Star Wars, with a $4 bill and an iPhone camera.” Then went out and actually made something. Of course it would be rough…but then it turns out the movie is actually really good. And then you get to watch over the next several years as everything gets better and better until it’s honest-to-god comparable to the MCU. That’s kind of what happened with RWBY.

One specific growing pain was the volume 2 finale. Pretty much everything else up until that point, I love about the show. But the finale just fails to deliver on the build up of tension from other episodes. Some of it is because of later plot developments that we didn’t know at the time; some of it is because of just not great writing; some of it is because of just not great animation; and yes, some of it is budget. Regardless, it’s a low point for the show.

Speaking of, the budget for the early volumes is super small. The infamous volume one shadow people, the infamous person jumping across the rooftops in volume two, and just production quality isn’t high compared to a major release from some established studio. These are real weaknesses of the show that for some people, make it unwatchable, and if that’s you, that’s ok.

One last weakness of the show, the screen time per episode, especially early on, is NOT a full 20 minutes like you may expect of an anime (or anime-inspired-western-media, for those of you who will die on the “RWBY is not an anime” hill). This is a trend that has stuck with the show, a shorter run time per episode, for generally the entire lifetime. On one hand, it means it’s a little less daunting to catch up or rewatch than the number of episodes might imply. On the other, early on, some episodes have a little weird pacing. It also means the writing had to adjust for this, so while RWBY got really good at telling a story within a shorter amount of time, there’s also challenges with that too. Perhaps one of the notable ones is the pacing, with slower moments sometimes feeling like it takes up too much screen time, or not enough. Volume 4 was a particular struggle for the crew, both because they switched animation engines and also for the story.

Common complaints that I don’t agree with

I don’t agree that the early volumes were actually bad overall. Growing pains, yes, but not bad. I attribute that complaint to overly focusing on one character’s storyline, back when it wasn’t clear there was so much more to come and before people realized the show would challenge the tropes instead of falling into them. It’s pretty much just volume 1 when people say this anyway, most of them I’ve heard admit that volume 2 was a lot better (except the finale) and almost everyone loves volume 3. And looking back on it, I do think volume 1 holds up.

Tying into this, the racism plot line is another common complaint. I don’t think it’s actually executed quite that badly. I think it makes sense for there to be regional differences in the amount of racism we see, it just so happened that we only saw a very small and isolated environment, Beacon, for much of the early volumes. (Incidentally, that’s actually similar the environment I myself grew up in.) It’s not perfect, though. But there’s no doubt that the later volumes do a better job portraying this. Again, I attribute it mostly to people not knowing how long the show would run for at the time, so of course if that’s all we saw, it would’ve been bad. But it’s not. I have a lot of respect for Miles and Kerry for even attempting to handle the racism topic in the first place. And for the faults that DO exist in this plot line, I credit them for learning and growing past that too, and doing better in later volumes.

The animation is not bad. I’ve already touched on that earlier, but people confuse “budget and polish” with “animation.” Give me RWBY any day over Michael Bay’s Transformers: no matter how much polish those robots have, they’re still a confusing mess to try and follow. And the polish isn’t even an issue once we get past the growing pains of Maya and get a bigger budget, because wow does this show look good now.

Between these three complaints I hear about often, I think those are the biggest ones. And they’re all generally done in bad faith, based not on just those but on other more provocative statements people also make with them. That’s part of my issue with the fandom, specifically the vocal but small parts of the fandom, because they’re just repeating these things from early days that aren’t true. But YouTubers gotta get those rage and hate clicks somehow, right? Unfortunately it discredits the show a lot and influences other people’s opinions into not giving it a fair chance, because it’s become a narrative of “RWBY IS BAD” when they all won’t shut up about it. So yeah, fandom can be bad, join at your own discretion. (Of course, all fandoms have annoying parts, and my interactions with the fandom have been good overall, otherwise.)

Onto other complaints, some say the cast is bloated. I don’t agree, but I don’t think this one is in bad faith. I think we get the important characters as much screen time as we can, and the minor characters don’t actually detract from that; one of the differences between good minor characters and bad ones, is that bad ones take up too much time. RWBY has a ton of characters but many of the minor ones don’t actually take up too much time. So it appears bloated, but actually I don’t think it is.

Finally, a small word on the no-no topics. Adam, and Monty. Adam is like the champion of the Monty topic. Which essentially boils down to “Miles and Kerry are ruining Monty’s vision for the show.” Toxic fandom is truly awful and I have no respect for anyone who says anything like that. Shame on all of you. This isn’t really anything negative about the show, but the fandom, and tbf all fandoms have toxic parts. But toxic fandom can be a real and valid reason to not watch a show. Thankfully they seem fewer in number these days, but I think they’ve evolved into hiding behind other characters or topics, so you know. Beware. Again, it's not too hard to avoid them or block them, and my interactions otherwise with most fans have been good.