Clockwise from bottom: Ruby Rose, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, and Weiss Schnee.
RWBY
(pronounced "Ruby") is an Animesque CGI animated series created by Monty Oum and produced by Rooster Teeth. It is also Rooster Teeth's first original IP and has since expanded into a multi-media franchise.
Once Upon a Time, in a world known as Remnant, mankind became the target of the "Creatures of Grimm": malevolent creatures that are attracted to negative emotions and who emerged from the darkness to attack humanity for reasons unknown. To fight back, mankind used a mysterious energy source known as "Dust" to not only drive back the Grimm but catalyze the growth of civilization across the planet.
In the present day, Huntsmennote are trained in special schools to harness the Dust and become protectors of the peace. One such trainee, an idealistic girl named Ruby Rose (Lindsay Jones), is scouted by the elite Beacon Academy and allowed to skip two years' worth of training to attend after its headmaster, Professor Ozpin (Shannon McCormick), meets her and learns she stopped an attempted robbery by crime boss Roman Torchwick (Gray Haddock). Once there, she is placed into a team with three other students: Yang Xiao Long (Barbara Dunkelman), her boisterous big sister; Weiss Schnee (Kara Eberle), the proud heiress of the Schnee Dust Company; and Blake Belladonna (Arryn Zech), a mysterious and aloof girl. Though initial tensions are high, the forces of darkness are preparing to return and the four girls must learn to work together to survive. Eventually, they discover an even larger conspiracy by the villains and that the headmasters of the other Academies have their own secrets as well.
The four main characters were individually introduced in four trailers — Red (Ruby Rose), White (Weiss Schnee), Black (Blake Belladonna), and Yellow (Yang Xiao Long) — to much anticipation and speculation. The series premiered on Rooster Teeth's official website on July 18, 2013.
During seasons (referred to as "volumes"), new episodes are released weekly on Rooster Teeth's website (Saturdays for Rooster Teeth First members and a week later for normal account users), with episodes of a miniseries called World of Remnant dedicated to giving more information about Remnant sometimes being published in between episodes. The series is also being simulcasted on Crunchyroll, and the first episode is available on YouTube. Home video releases are also available from Rooster Teeth's United States, and Australia/New Zealand online stores. A Japanese dub was additionally produced by Warner Bros.
After Monty Oum tragically died during Volume 3's production in February 2015, the series' creative team announced they had the required information to carry on. True to their word, on October 15 of that year, Rooster Teeth released the intro animation of the volume, which premiered a week later. The series finished releasing its ninth volume for streaming on Crunchyroll in April 2023; it will release on the Rooster Teeth website in early 2024 after a one-year period of exclusivity. A tenth volume is in development.
Previews: Volume 1 Trailer, Volume 2 Trailer, Volume 3 Trailer, Volume 4 Trailer, Volume 5 Trailer, Volume 6 Trailer, Volume 7 Trailer, Volume 8 Trailer, Volume 9 Trailer
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