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Isekai - they started with dude getting power to defeat dark Lord and get hot girls,but now we have versions with good Demon Lord, bad aristocrats,and slow life eating tasty monsters.Basically whatever could be done,arleady was done.
The genre has basically evolved to try to survive like most fiction stories have [for example, the original Dracula novel compared to vampire fiction of all flavours now], and, amusingly enough, a good few of them are trying to subvert typical isekai cliches -- How Not to Summon a Demon Lord is one, and Demon Lord: Retry is another.
 
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The genre has basically evolved to try to survive like most fiction stories have [for example, the original Dracula novel compared to vampire fiction of all flavours now], and, amusingly enough, a good few of them are trying to subvert typical isekai cliches -- How Not to Summon a Demon Lord is one, and Demon Lord: Retry is another.
I only watch first one,and it is actually good.Poor dude knew that he is in game,but must pretend to be powerpuff Demon Lord to survive.
 
I only watch first one,and it is actually good.Poor dude knew that he is in game,but must pretend to be powerpuff Demon Lord to survive.
You mean How Not to Summon? Strange thing is that he's not sure if he's in a game world or not, since the world he's in resembles the game in many aspects but isn't a copy.

Although, his dungeon and stuff does carry over, and his robot fetish maid also comes over from the game and remembers being a character in said game...
 
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Lindsey and ither VAs had been teasing about RWBY on Instagram.
Fun fact, Lindsey, Ruby's VA looks completely diffrent then she did as of the last stuff she promoted for any VA stuff.
But what is Viz known for?
Anime and Manga. they translate it and port it over. if you look them up you will find they have been doing it for some very big names. they picked up RWBY for what amounts to chump change for them considering how much they have been kicking the American comics asses.
Something that isn't well know about Viz Media, is the fact that they're actually a subsidiary of two of the biggest publishing conglomerates in Japan; Shueisha and Shogakukan, as well as Japanese production company Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (Japanese companies are incestuous as heck).

They also bought up Homestuck a while back, strangely enough, so there is precedent for them buying dying webseries to continue producing them; which isn't exactly good news for RWBY, considering what's become of Andrew Hussie's magnum opus since.
 
I bet you watched the MCU in the Japanese dub with Bulgarian subtitles. :p
You lose, I didn't even watch most of the MCU, I stopped paying attention to what is going on with it around Age of Ultron, the last Marvel capeshit I saw was IIRC either the last Iron Man movie or the first Captain America movie.

Those I watched in a cinema.

I lost interest in cape shit a decade ago, with the only superhero movies I have seen since being Batman vs. Superman, the first Wonder woman movie, the Deadpool movies and the Joker.Ok, Deadpool is still Marvel capeshit, guess it was the last marvel capeshit I saw.

For the most part I have given up on live action stuff and Hollywood crap, oh and by the way, I literally learned English from watching movies on Cartoon Network, so no, I don't need bulgarian subtitles.
And for anime the situation with those is pretty bad and I usually use english subs.

Also, most bg subs are non-official, I even tried translating some for DS9 when I was a kid, myself.
 
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You mean How Not to Summon? Strange thing is that he's not sure if he's in a game world or not, since the world he's in resembles the game in many aspects but isn't a copy.

Although, his dungeon and stuff does carry over, and his robot fetish maid also comes over from the game and remembers being a character in said game...
Yes,i wrote about it,and i watched only manga till 100 chapter.But yes,it is not copy of game ,and in some matters it is different,which made surviving harder for him.
But - he manage,and even get group of friends.
 
As has been said before, Viz is a publisher & distributor, not an animation studio. If they do revive the actual RWBY show (as opposed to, say, continuing to churn out merch and only ever making new RWBY content in the form of more manga & comics/graphic novels - they snapped up Homestuck some years ago but then have done pretty much nothing of note with it to my knowledge, as an example of what might well happen instead) then they'd need to call in an actual studio to do the work. Kerry Shawcross still being involved is a red flag (and him claiming to be RWBY's 'co-creator' is quite lolworthy) but I notice there's no detail on what his 'involvement' is going to look like going forward. For the property's sake I can only hope Viz Media has the sense to keep it to an absolute minimum.

My hope is still that Viz Media will reboot the whole mess & reach out to Dillongoo Studios to do the animation. Longshot bonus: they also bring Vic Mignogna back. Not only are those guys talented, the cope & seethe from the ex-RT assholes who backstabbed and fucked them over all those years ago will be almost as entertaining as any RWBY reboot they create.
 
Viz media seems to be actively doing something with RWBY.
Lindsey Jones has posted about it on Instagram
 
Viz media seems to be actively doing something with RWBY.
Lindsey Jones has posted about it on Instagram
Wouldn't surprise me if it turns out to be a(nother) manga. Viz Media's a subsidiary of Shogakukan-Shueisha and was already the publisher of the 2015 RWBY manga by Shirow Miwa, after all. Even if he doesn't pick it up again (because it has been almost 10 years), a manga's got to be far cheaper than an animated show. Considering the severity of terminal-stage RT's financial woes and Barbara Dunkelman's complaints about how much even one episode of RWBY was costing them by the end, I think it'd make a lot more sense for Viz to want to test the waters & determine the size of the potential remaining audience with a renewed low-cost manga/graphic novel adaptation first than to immediately jump head-first into greenlighting a new animation.
 
Wouldn't surprise me if it turns out to be a(nother) manga. Viz Media's a subsidiary of Shogakukan-Shueisha and was already the publisher of the 2015 RWBY manga by Shirow Miwa, after all. Even if he doesn't pick it up again (because it has been almost 10 years), a manga's got to be far cheaper than an animated show. Considering the severity of terminal-stage RT's financial woes and Barbara Dunkelman's complaints about how much even one episode of RWBY was costing them by the end, I think it'd make a lot more sense for Viz to want to test the waters & determine the size of the potential remaining audience with a renewed low-cost manga/graphic novel adaptation first than to immediately jump head-first into greenlighting a new animation.
They might even reboot the whole thing from scratch with a more organized story structure/long-term plan than RT's "bolt everything on per season" approach post-Volume 3.
 
They might even reboot the whole thing from scratch with a more organized story structure/long-term plan than RT's "bolt everything on per season" approach post-Volume 3.
That's my hope regardless of what Viz does with the IP, assuming that they do make anything new with it at all & aren't just going to treat it as a new merch shop. The fact that RT tanked in the first place partly due to RWBY's costs ballooning out of control even as its audience numbers collapsed and nobody else - not Crunchyroll, WB, etc. - could justify burning even more money on a V10 already proves that the trajectory the show had been on since 2016 or so was utterly unsustainable.

That Viz Media's keeping Kerry Shawcross (but mercifully not the rest of CRWBY) around in some capacity is definitely a cause for concern, but I don't regard it as a dealbreaker yet. If his involvement is just going to be limited to PR & small-time consulting purposes, then the damage he can do will be minimal. Of course if they're making him the lead writer & showrunner again, then any new RWBY will already be finished before it even begins, but I'd like to think the suits at Viz are intelligent enough to do at least cursory research into why the new property they just acquired failed to begin with.
 

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