RWBY - Final Thoughts Table of Contents

RWBY

Created by Monty Oum
Written by Monty Oum (V1-V3), Miles Luna, Kerry Shawcross, Kiersi Burkhart (V7-V9), Eddy Rivas (V7-V9)
Directed by Monty Oum (V1-V3), Kerry Shawcross
Music by Jeff Williams (V1-V8), Steve Goldshein (V1-V3), Alex Abraham (V1-V8), Casey Lee Williams (V8, V9), Martin Gonzales (V9)
Starring the voices of Lindsay Jones, Kara Eberle, Arryn Zech, and Barbara Dunkelman

Show’s over, guys. You witnessed the end with me. The slow and steady disintegrating of a titan and now we're standing amongst a pile of rubble.

But when it came time to write my final thoughts for the series as a whole, I just kept writing, and kept writing...it never stopped. So, fuck it, we might as well give it its own Table of Contents. Throughout this recap, I kept up a steady stream of supplied history and context, and I continued to do so here, so there was a lot to say.

• RWBY 2023 Retrospective, Part I
• RWBY 2023 Retrospective, Part II
• Final Thoughts: Story
• Final Thoughts: Characters (Part I)
• Final Thoughts: Characters (Part II)
• Final Thoughts: Style
• Final Thoughts: Legacy

 

RWBY 2023 – Volume 9 Retrospective (Part I)

Volume 9 Final Thoughts | Table of Contents | RWBY 2023 Retrospective (Part 2)
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Back in June of ‘23, I posted a retrospective on RWBY, with the total point tallies and examinations of what they were saying about the show thus far. I also included a lit of my top 15 moments from the series up until that point, with a fond nostalgia for what I used to love about the show. I openly wondered whether such a list would be possible to make using material from Volumes 5-9.

So, with RWBY finally behind us, did I find more standout moments to applaud as I did when looking back over the first five volumes? Did I find anything worth returning to more than once for the sake of a spork?

Well, not many. I found ten in total and even then it was kind of a stretch. All eligible moments are sourced from any point later than the latest examples cited in the last post like this, since we already did one. The other twenty...well, let’s just call them the ultimate disappointments—twenty reasons not to watch RWBY at all. Those will be sourced from the whole show.

( Some good? Maybe if you look hard enough. )