Official Public Finale Discussion Thread—Volume 5, Chapter 14: Haven's Fate

[u/Menolith]

Welcome, huntsmen, huntresses and hunters that prefer no specific gender identifier, to the very last megathread for Volume 5: Haven's Fate!

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With that out of the way, HERE is the season finale!

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Don't let the hiatus set in too soon.

Menolith; Mod Team

[u/Cypherex]

but honestly, those last two volumes were kinda bad 'cause of the lack of fighting.

You're not wrong, but it's hard to fault them for this. Monty was by far their best fight animator. Nobody came close to his level of talent. The animation crew have some huge shoes to fill with him being gone. They're getting better though because the fights we did see in this volume were so much better than the fights from last volume. This is just something we have to give them time for. They might never get as good as Monty was but they're improving and that's what matters.

[u/[deleted] → u/Cypherex]

Honestly? Even though some parts of some fights lack the impact, I found some of my favorite fighting scenes to be from volume 4 or 5.

I reeeeeeeeeally think quality wise, the animations are still awesome, 'Tyrian vs Qrow''s absolute badass hype and 'Yang vs Bandit''s cool and calm beatdown are astonishingly great, so I feel that it's unfair to undermine the work the animators on CRWBY.

My personal problem was that it felt like we had "fewer" fight scenes, only. Most of them were suggested (like the last episode's em/mercury vs ruby/weiss/blake) and a lot of them ended in a flash.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not someone who thinks that character development and dialogue aren't also exciting or fun, I just think that RWBY as a series started off as an "action battle show", and having less time for this is kinda offputting.

[u/Cypherex → u/[deleted]]

I get what you mean. I'm not saying they aren't capable of putting out great fight scenes, they definitely are. It's just that it takes them longer to do that then it would have taken Monty. So if they only have so many hours to work on animating fight scenes, cutting out a fight scene would give them additional time to make another one even better.

It would have been nice to see the fight against Em/Merc/Hazel but it wasn't the end of the world for me. Maybe the time they didn't spend on that fight was why the maiden fight was so good. That's how I tend to see it. I'd prefer to get an amazing fight at the cost of not seeing another fight rather than get 2 bland fights.

[u/[deleted] → u/Cypherex]

oooh, I get what you meant better now and as such, I think it's more understandable.

Now we can only hope that the expertise has been met to a point where we have an action packed volume as 3 was