VIZ Media becomes the new home for RWBY (2024)

crimzonflame

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This show didn't end?

Bradbury

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crimzonflame said:

nope Rooster Teeth the studio behind got closed down by Warner Media

Happy to see they found a new home, hope we get vol 10

RRW

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Realistically. How long until we get the ending?

SaberVS7

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Wonder if that means they're also buying what's left of RT Animation. Has VIZ produced anything other than dubs/localizations prior?

Morlas

Looking for a better cartoon show.

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Hopefully they're able to get enough budget to produce more seasons

Harpoon

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SaberVS7 said:

Wonder if that means they're also buying what's left of RT Animation. Has VIZ produced anything other than dubs/localizations prior?

They've got VIZ Originals for manga, but animation-wise? I don't think so, which certainly makes this a peculiar acquisition.

I expect any future RWBY content will either all be manga or they'll have to find an animation studio to partner up with.

thephoenixbeast

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Yeah, I'm not celebrating it as a true return until they can say how they are approaching the 10th (and likely final) season. Would it be cool? Yeah, but the team was scattered and trying to either create a new one, regroup, or license out/partner is likely to be rough. Much more likely to be the home for the past seasons and being the owners for the rights for merch.

SamAlbro

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RRW said:

Realistically. How long until we get the ending?

Given the pace of the show, it's natural ending probably would have been Volume 12.

They made it to 9 at Rooster Teeth before running out of money.

Lucia

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Now the big question is where will the show be streamed, and hopefully it won't screaw fans outside NA.

firehawk12

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That makes sense.

That reminds me though, what happened to RvB?

ContractHolder

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firehawk12 said:

That reminds me though, what happened to RvB?

No news has been announced for the Red vs Blue IP at this time. Only that Warner Bros was looking into buyers at the same time they were for RWBY.

TheGamingNewsGuy

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ContractHolder said:

No news has been announced for the Red vs Blue IP at this time. Only that Warner Bros was looking into buyers at the same time they were for RWBY.

RvB ended pretty defintively so i am not sure if they want to continue it

SamAlbro

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firehawk12 said:

That makes sense.

That reminds me though, what happened to RvB?

They brought back Burnie to write a final season (which retconned everything after the end of the Chorus trilogy into simulations run by Epsilon-Church before the Meta fight)

Since the studio closed before the final season could run, they released it as a movie for digital purchase:

firehawk12

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Oh wow, I forgot all about the movie. At least it came out.

Flame Lord

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ContractHolder said:

No news has been announced for the Red vs Blue IP at this time. Only that Warner Bros was looking into buyers at the same time they were for RWBY.

Honestly who would even buy it but 343i/MS? Would anyone ever bother with an IP so intrinsically linked to an IP they don't own? Actually, has any Machinima property ever been sold? Is RvB the only one with enough notoriety to be worth selling?

SaberVS7

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I always assumed the uh, everything around RvB was a special-deal for Rooster Teeth and Rooster Teeth only that implicitly reverts-back to Microsoft's discretion in the absence of a Rooster Teeth.

Actually I suppose something comparable is the rights to Baldur's Gate and other D&D video-games that were handled by different publishers over the years.

...Of which I know nothing other than that Larian got the rights for BG3 directly from Hasbro/WOTC; But I don't know what the arrangements were concerning BG1/2 and other legacy Infinity Engine titles and their re-releases/where the rights for those were after Interplay imploded.

ContractHolder

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TheGamingNewsGuy said:

RvB ended pretty defintively so i am not sure if they want to continue it

Someone would have eventually wanted to reboot it. Show ran waaaaaay too long to go away forever. Even if Rooster Teeth survived, I imagine they would have eventually rebooted it.

Also they hinted in one scene that the final season could have been a simulation with "I'm not sure if I got his voice right this time" line.

Flame Lord said:

Honestly who would even buy it but 343i/MS? Would anyone ever bother with an IP so intrinsically linked to an IP they don't own? Actually, has any Machinima property ever been sold? Is RvB the only one with enough notoriety to be worth selling?

I don't know who would buy it. But yes, it's the only one legally that could be sold. Because it's the only one a video game company actually gave approval to legally exist.

Fj0823

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Are they finally going to move from "Despite their best efforts the heroes get absolutely destroyed and accomplish zero of their objectives" as the plot of each season finale?

Pop-O-Matic

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ContractHolder said:

No news has been announced for the Red vs Blue IP at this time. Only that Warner Bros was looking into buyers at the same time they were for RWBY.


Flame Lord said:

Honestly who would even buy it but 343i/MS? Would anyone ever bother with an IP so intrinsically linked to an IP they don't own?

Sony has the chance to do the funniest thing of all time…

ContractHolder

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Morlas

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Fj0823 said:

Are they finally going to move from "Despite their best efforts the heroes get absolutely destroyed and accomplish zero of their objectives" as the plot of each season finale?

Even being generous that's the plot for less than half of the season finales

Naijaboy

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Let's hope the wait for the next volume isn't too long.

SamAlbro

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Morlas said:

Even being generous that's the plot for less than half of the season finales

Just looked over episode synopses and only three of the nine end it failure. It could be recency bias leading to the impression that it's more, because the three volumes are 3, 7 and 8.

Naijaboy said:

Let's hope the wait for the next volume isn't too long.

I would expect it to take a while, because Viz will either need to find an outsourcing partner or build a new studio. If they go with building a new studio, they may be able to get a lot of CRWBY back given the state of the animation industry in this country.

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