RWBY General Discussion

You know what I really, genuinely appreciate about this series?

Nobody calls out their own attack names like characters in shonen manga do.

I have a feeling only Ruby and Jaune would come up with attack names. But I think what team RWBY did when they fought that Atlas Mech piloted by Roman kinda sorta counts as Calling Your Attack.

... And now I'm wondering what names the teams come up with for attack names.

It amounts to the same thing, but is in one important respect significantly different; these were the names of team plays. When a move requires coordination with another person you have to make sure they know what you're doing. Barring telepathy, shouting out the name of the play makes as much sense as anything.

Funny thought: Turns out they'd all been naming their attacks in their heads, they just thought that actually shouting them would seem dorky. They then spend the next few minutes spitballing attack names at each other.

edited 31st Jul '15 6:27:57 AM by Ernie

Say, guys... I heard RWBY V3 is around November. That true, or did I remembered it wrong?

@dRoy some shonen have justifications for that. For instance in Bleach were saying the attack increases its power. or Fairy Tail were the character are wizards so calling the attacks is merely them reciting spells.

Not to mention in almost ANYTHING related to martial arts, the practitioners will almost ALWAYS cry out their attacks.

Street Fighter, anyone? Not to mention Hokuto No Ken. I doubt Calling Your Attacks will ever go away completely.

Having names for attacks is cooler than not having names for attacks, and calling them when you're using them is the easiest way to show that off. So no, not going to go away any time soon.

I believe that is currently expected, yes.

edited 31st Jul '15 3:07:21 PM by VutherA

Being an amateur martial artist myself, I always find calling out your attacks dumb as hell.

Can you ever imagine boxers/MMA fighters/etc calling out "Hook!" "Flying knee kick!" "Dempsey Roll!" "Juji-gatame!"whenever they perform a move?

Also, as animation series like A:TLA, FMA, RWBY, Attack on Titan, etc shows, calling out your attacks is most definitely not needed to make cool action scenes.

Hell, in fact, even among shonen mangas, sometimes when things get the most dramatic and serious, the fighters drop the calling out attack things.

Action movies from all over the world have shown awesome action scenes without ever calling out the attack names for almost a whole century. I don't see anime needs to do that.

Really, calling out your attacks thing is pretty damn behind the time.

edited 31st Jul '15 5:40:54 PM by dRoy

Honestly, I'm fine with calling out attack names.

Plus, anime and video games have been doing this for decades, it will not end anytime soon.

edited 31st Jul '15 5:43:07 PM by Ssj3Gojira

If the characters don't give their attacks names then the fandom will, which is probably worse.

I'm perfectly okay with techniques have names: even real professional combat sports techniques have name. I'm also okay with commentators using the names as part of commentary or partners/coach calling the names.

The performers of the techniques themselves shouting the name, however, I find it behind the time.

Here's the simple solution: if you want to give your characters special techniques and your fandom to know how they're called, use text boxes.

or you just add it in the DVD commentary.

Never watch a kendo match then. The fighters have to call their strikes (men for the head, dou for the torso, kote for the arms and tsuki for the throat. And a fifth one added for naginata matches where the shins are valid hits as well). And while they don't have to call the specific techniques themselves, it is believed to be the origin of such a convention.

Well, kendo is a sport, not a martial art. Sports have weird rules and stuff that probably have some meaning within the context of the sport.

And whether you can make cool scenes without them doesn't really matter if calling the names has an additional purpose, like reminding the audience what the name of the attack is or making it cooler. Most people don't really seem to care about it, so for them it doesn't detract anything.

Blake looks really cute as a guitarist

No need to add the qualifier.

Heh, I found a pair of (really long) reviews that criticize RWBY while sounding like Mr. Plinkett. Here is his (largely comedic) take on "Yang and the audience's perception of her.

The reviewer/critic actually has experience in script-writing, so he knows his stuff and his criticisms are usually on point, and he's mostly doing this for fun.

To his credit, he does give out a ton of different ways on how to change the series - his biggest problems come from the school setting, the enormous cast, and what he views as inconsistencies on the part of the characters (although I countered his points in that regard in the comment sections).

edited 4th Aug '15 7:41:38 PM by Serocco

"Torchwick's Semblance is the writers not giving a f'ck."

droy, you'd get a kick out of these.

Hey, any of you RWBY fans play League of Legends? Wanna mix the two?

I'm asking because we've got an easy comp for Team RWBY in the current lineup, including some fitting skins. We'd have:

• Fiora as Weiss in top lane.
• Neon Strike Vi in the jungle
• Silverfang Akali as Blake in mid lane.
• Blood Moon Kallista and Thresh in the bot lane.

There wasn't a full analogue for Ruby and I wanted to stretch out four characters into a team of five. So yes, blame my vanity for not including Orianna as Penny or whatever. I wanted a comp that only included the four members of Team RWBY, so I made both bot laners shout out to Ruby in a way.

So, any League players and RWBY fans willing to try this out? I don't play any of these champions, but I am willing to learn.

edited 4th Aug '15 8:02:59 PM by Insano

So yeah, that reviewer is pretty funny, but some of his criticisms (or hell, a lot of his criticisms) are off-point, I would say.

Now, here's something that just popped in my head. When Pyrrha was talking about how people put her on a level they can't reach.... she was directing that at Jaune, because he was acting the same way for as long as he tried going for Weiss.

He did say he would wear a dress if she couldn't get a date, not knowing she wanted him and unintentionally putting her on that same unreachable level. That's why I think she left after saying he's the kinda guy she wanted as a date, because leading up to the dance, he actually acting more like the people who regarded her as untouchable, and she was disappointed.

edited 4th Aug '15 11:51:23 PM by Serocco

Not quite the same. What she'd dealt with before, in a romantic light, would be "a girl like that wouldn't be interested in me." Jaune's was "I'm interested in a different girl."

I kinda liked that, gotta say. If Weiss hadn't behaved as if touching him would send her into anaphylactic shock and Jaune had kept pursuing her instead, while I would've felt bad for Pyrrha, it would've felt perfectly reasonable to me. When fiction treats reciprocating attraction as an obligation, I feel like the characters are being robbed of control of their love lives. I'm not a fan. If the situation had ended up being "sometimes teenage crushes just don't work out," I'd have been cool with it.

Jesus, those reviews are long.

I much prefer reviews in text form. :/

Me too. I have lag and data issues.