Holy crap this is long for fan work (which is great).
Also, I still haven't watched RWBY. Should I?
Volume One Pros and Cons
Pros: Its Monty Oum so the fight scenes are basically the best you'll see pretty much anywhere and the characters are fairly believable and likeable, something I fell a lot of similar shows fail at creating. Its also fairly easy to shotgun the show's first volume in one go. Also, the musical score is actually really good, something you typically don't expect from such a small development team.
Cons: Volume One is pretty cliché and predictable, the fact its being developed by a small team rather than a full blown animation studio means the animation can get rather clunky from time to time and Jaune's little story arc is seen as a little derailing by some.
Volume 2 isn't over yet so I can't say anything about it yet but it seems to have fixed many of the complaints about Volume One. Smoother animation (though still clunky here and there), more fight scenes, it seems to be setting up to deconstruct and/or subvert many of the clichés common to the genre and wider character focus.
I personally like the show and ship the fuck out of Blake and Yang (aka "Bumblebee")
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