History Anime / RWBYIceQueendom

** A few background elements and some generic Mooks are rendered in 3D, compared to the main series, which is almost completely 3D. Yang's bike also remains CGI in this series.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Creator/MegumiToyoguchi's cover of "Mirror Mirror" in Episode 5, while heavily accented, is sung in incredibly good English with little to no grammar issues present.

''RWBY: Ice Queendom'' is an anime based on Creator/RoosterTeeth's ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' by Creator/StudioShaft and co-produced by Rooster Teeth that premiered on July 3rd, 2022; an early preview of the first three episodes premiered on June 24th, 2022.

* AdaptationDistillation: By the third episode, all of the first volume's main events are covered, with multiple scenes and plot elements either severely truncated or skipped. For example, the leadership argument between Ruby and Weiss is truncated, and Ruby's talk with Ozpin severely distilled in favor of focusing on Weiss having an expanded learning curve; Jaune's bullying plotline with Cardin is limited solely to the class fight that introduces Aura bars and a new storyline involving him that helps introduce the show's AU plot.
* AdaptationDeviation: While a few things are shuffled around, truncated, cut or glossed over to speed things up the main differences start with the introduction of Shion Zaiden, a Huntsman who is specialized in chasing a unique type of Grimm called a Nightmare.
* AdaptedOut: Certain events of the original show are cut. Examples include Ruby's lone battle in the Red Trailer, the Yellow Trailer, and the "Jaunedice" subplot; although Cardin gets a cameo, Velvet is one of the few Volume 1 characters who does not appear in the first three episodes, with the "traumatized Rabbit Faunus" storyline instead being given to Jaune as a way of introducing the powers of the Nightmare.

* OffModel: A Studio SHAFT tradition; The animation has a habit of switching between amazing to awful from scene to scene. Made worse by some scenes like Yang's introduction in "Red, White, Black & Yellow" or the fight with the Death Stalker in "This is Beacon" looking like the in-betweening is melting at points.

** Ruby is at the Dust shop Roman tries to rob because she's looking for a present for Yang, who just got into Beacon.

%%* OutOfFocus: Team JNPR in Weiss's Nightmare are treated as little more than LivingProps, with Pyrrha visibly taking center stage while the rest of the team stands off in the background as little more than backup dancers. The show also ends up having Ren and Nora only making token supporting appearances in both realities after Episode 3, with their roles doing very little to advance the story. They don't even take on their Dream Actor forms to help their friends save Weiss.

* OffModel: A Studio SHAFT tradition; The animation has a habit of switching between amazing to awful between scenes. Made worse by some scenes like Yang's introduction in "Red, White, Black & Yellow" or the fight with the Death Stalker in "This is Beacon" looking like they're melting at points.

* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: The Nightmare world has locked away the feelings and desires that Weiss has suppressed for being childish, personified as a jail with a carnival atmosphere populated by child versions of herself. While some of the feelings they express ''are'' childish, such as wanting sweets or to play all the time, others decidedly aren't, like wanting a happy family, freedom, and to make friends with all types of people. The fact that Weiss has lumped them all in together indicates how she views those parts of herself, and team JNPR frees the children to wreak havoc and help Weiss.

* WorldOfSymbolism: The plot takes place inside Weiss's mind, a dream-scape that symbolises her fears, prejudices and perceptions of the people and world around her. A few examples include: the White Fang becoming unstoppable Grimm-Faunus hybrids; the alcoholic Willow is a haunting, inaccessible shadow; Whitley as a pesky bat and Winter, a book of rules; Jacques as a dictator with eyes everywhere while Nicholas is an enormous, worshipped idol; Pyrrha as a projection of an idealised Weiss whose team-mates are reduced to minor irritants; and Ruby as a snowboarding child with a chaotic weapon.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The show ends with school continuing as normal and the Female Narrator and Ozpin reiterating their pilot episode debate about how victory doesn't lie in strength, but in a simple soul. [[spoiler:The narration occurs over a recreation of the FoodFight that opens the original show's Volume 2, but with an extra scene to show how Weiss kicks off the fight in a manner that proves how much she's grown.]]

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The series ends with a recreation of the iconic food fight that kicks off Volume 2, now with a OnceMoreWithClarity angle to show Weiss’ growth]].

* BodyHorror: When a Nightmare escapes, it opens a clean, black hole in part of its host's body.

* CallForward: The dream version of Pyrrha wears Weiss' Anima arc outfit, palette swapped to match her own colors. The outfit itself appears at the center of Weiss' dream world.

* LetsYouAndHimFight: [[spoiler:Since Weiss' Nightmare form is basically invincible, Blake allows herself to be infected to create one just as strong, leaving the two of them to fight it out.]]

* ShoutOut:
** While walking through Vale, Ruby flashes back to a scene of her rocking out in front of a TV set up showing ''Franchise/BlackRockShooter''[[note]]huke, the artist behind ''Black Rock Shooter'', also did the designs for ''RWBY: Ice Queendom''[[/note]].
** In "Dreams come Rued", the child versions of Weiss grow gigantic and lumbering once unleashed, making them look like Titans from ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''.
** The MentalWorld itself bears some resemblance with the Labyrinths of Witches from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', as they are also highly symbolic and abstract representations of the subjects' worst mental states and bearing some artistic similarities. Particularly when [[spoiler:Blake's own Nightmare attacks Weiss']], crumbling the Nightmare.

** A couple of wide shots in Episode 6 render Ruby and Yang in 3D as they encounter Nega-Weiss. Some of the fighting that happens afterward also have the girls' actions done with CG.