I would say that this particular volume of RWBY feels the most “like anime”. This addition certainly adds more flavour to the already great pieces of music and elevates them into another different level. Bennett, Santi C, Adrienne Cowan, Caleb Hayles, and Erin Reilly) to the soundtracks, joining the previous series’ main vocalist Casey Lee Williams. This time, the team also makes this volume’s music a little different by adding more vocalists (Dawn M. In terms of soundtrack music, Jeff Williams and Alex Abraham continue their excellent work on making RWBY soundtracks with their rocking pieces of music. Yang’s Fiery Semblance effect mostly animated in 2D animation (© Rooster Teeth)
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Not just that, I found the usage of 2D animation for many visual effects to be well done and also unique as I am very much used to 3D animation for the visual effects of 2D animated series and I feel this integration as the reverse from what I already used to. They utilize their advantage of using 3D animation to make fights tenser and keep audience on the edge of their seat as the fights roll on. The animation work of this volume should also be discussed as it shows great development from previous volumes, mainly in the cinematography aspect. Shout out to #CRWBY for kicking butt this volume! /vIBYWcZALe Not just that, Jason Liebrecht, the new voice for Qrow (replacing Vic Mignogna), delivers an excellent job on continuing Qrow’s character, adding his flavour to the voice and makes it like his own.įrom the script, to the animatics, to the screen, animating an fight is not an easy task. They do not shy away from cracking their voices to stay in character for a scene. The casts successfully convey various emotions in scenes from happiness to depression. Ace-Ops, the New Characters in RWBY Volume 7 (© Rooster Teeth)Īll of those story and character developments would not be possible if not for the outstanding voice acting that the casts give. By developing the new characters, they also simultaneously develop the old characters by showing moments that further cements the relationships between the characters. Their presence greatly impacts the main heroes’ actions, which flesh those characters even more. It is easy to feel attached to the new characters because of their great character development. In this volume, they introduce the special operatives who work directly under General Ironwood, the Ace-Ops, and a running councilwoman candidate from Mantle, Robyn Hill. At the same time, they also have to continue the character development of previous recurring characters. Volume 7 introduces a whole roster of new characters and does greatly on developing most of them in only 13 episodes.
Yet, the writers choose the most unique ones and make a great twist and turn in the progression of the story. The elements of distrust and fear over someone else covering the true intentions and motivations of the characters makes a huge gap of possibilities that may be caused by one’s action. The twists added to each plot points also proven to be very clever and very surprising on their own.
General Ironwood’s embargo caused some trust issues within Atlas and its Council (© Rooster Teeth) Those themes are discussed in every part of the plot point while the writing manages to make those two themes linger in one plot point to another. Trust and fear are the major themes that run across this volume. In a very small duration of 13 episodes with less than 20 minutes runtime for each episode, RWBY Volume 7 manages to make the episodes feel like a good long time with their great pacing and storytelling. It has adventure, action, comedy, and a more serious tone of deep character development and story progression. This volume successfully integrates the identity of RWBY that has been introduced in previous six volumes and packs it with many clever twists. This new approach proves to be a great decision as it managed to surpass the previous ones in writing and direction. In the previous format, all episodes are directed by one person and written by a few same people. In RTX 2019, the team that work on RWBY (CRWBY) stated that they would have a different approach to writing and directing this volume by having different people working on different episodes.