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Redcrimson
Mar 3, 2008

Second-stage Midboss Syndrome
I don't think I got more than 4 episodes into this thing. The amount of cringe was actually causing me physical pain. It's such a transparent amalgamation of every superficially "cool" anime and videogame cliche that if you told me RWBY was honest parody, I'd probably believe you.

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Redcrimson
Mar 3, 2008

Second-stage Midboss Syndrome

Yasser Arafatwa posted:

I don't understand the appeal at all.

It's pretty much some ultra-chuuni 7th-grader's Soul Eater x Final Fantasy fanfiction magically brought to life through the power of internet memes.

It's unbelievably terrible, but it's actually not that hard to understand the appeal of "This is just like my awful teenage Anime/Comic Book/Videogame hybrid monstrosity, except for real! Awesome!"

Redcrimson
Mar 3, 2008

Second-stage Midboss Syndrome
At the very least, they made money selling the streaming rights to Crunchyroll.

Redcrimson
Mar 3, 2008

Second-stage Midboss Syndrome
The scythe in Soul Eater literally has more personality than the cast of RWBY

Redcrimson
Mar 3, 2008

Second-stage Midboss Syndrome

Butt Ghost posted:

So is Soul Eater good, or does it just enjoy the virtue of not being RWBY?

Genuinely quite good, at least as far as Battle Shounen goes.

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Redcrimson
Mar 3, 2008

Second-stage Midboss Syndrome
RWBY probably has a larger budget and staff than most anime productions. It's a professionally produced product, it's not just Monty animating stuff by himself in a basement.

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