That could be but at the same time, even looking at a glance, I'm not the only one skeptical about the idea that animation alone costs that much. Certainly I have no doubt it's expensive to make considering the quality but I agree with the idea that the 25-35k figure (per minute, apparently was the quote?) was likely factoring in upkeep and some other factors. That said, I don't have a hard time believing it's costly to animate and that's partly why Viz is still looking for a solution.

25 to 35k for crappy animation and barely any fight scenes?!? Yeah, they need to hire new animators or if the animators really were being underpaid then they need to figure out an easier way to do things. Also, I hate to say it, but if they are going to keep most of the core cast and writing team for the show then I don't think that any of that RT drama and baggage that came with the show is gonna go away. Honestly, I really want whoever is still going to be working on the show to just write an ending at this point, so that they don't continue to take a dump on Monty Oum's grave with every new season of slop that they churn out.

That... doesn't sound quite right unless they are literally spending TENS of millions on a single episode which I don't think is feasible.

If true, that's some serious money-laundering going on right there. They could easily get a season of anime per the prices of 1 RWBY episode.

35.000 dollars for a joke.

That would be awesome! I imagine there wouldn’t be as many established anime voice actors if Viz had to make their own studio to produce more but it’d be cool if they can keep most of the cast they have now.

@IgKnightedSpark That probably wouldn't be too hard to keep the O.G V.A since they can record lines anywhere. The animation will be the hard part like you said.

@@compareandcontrast9833 I think one ideal short of the time and money consuming idea of a lot of the old RT crew forming a new animation studio for RWBY would be something like Amazon or another partner helping to produce! A lot of people were speculating that Amazon might get the rights before the Viz announcement and they do seem to let the production crews of their shows have a lot of freedom.

Thank you! Yeah, I've been seeing some suggestion of a "reboot" of some kind but I can't say I'd find that to be a practical or "popular" solution compared to continuing with Volume 10.

Well, they’re interested in trying, which I’m grateful for! Just a matter of seeing how and when that manifests.

@IgKnightedSpark true. Even though Viz has worked with RWBY before, I don't think Vol 10 will be for another year or two. Unless they brought the ENTIRE CRWBY team (unlikely, probably only a few production members, and most of the VAs), Viz will have to either learn the animation of RWBY, or make a new animation style for it.

I’m sure they at least also have all the models and assets from the acquisition but indeed, I doubt they’d feasibly be able to retain the entire crew so even with the same model and engine, they’d need a lot more new people to work with it, I think.

American leftist rightist game? Is this a serious thing, or is a Pech wore pants type thing?

Don’t think that’s gonna be a tall order for any company: make merch to sell lol Just a matter of how long it takes before we see new stuff, I think

@@IgKnightedSpark hopefully its actual good high quality merch not cheaply done ones damn those old merch sucked tbh

@@yuukianimates3318 It would be nice to at least see some of the higher quality stuff continue, like getting Blake and Yang Figma releases. Or maybe Nendos of later season designs/Team JNPR

@@IgKnightedSpark those RWBY Nendroids would sell like hot butter, we need merch that would make fans want to buy them, limited merch would trigger them to buy them

I agree. To me,RWBY 's writers from the beginning have made so many bad decisions in every way possible writing-wise that the foundation is rotten. Because of that,I doubt they'd be able to give an ending that's satisfying or not contrived.