Final month, Rooster Teeth was shut down by Warner Bros. after a reasonably lengthy 21-year run. Earlier than and after its finish, there have been questions on what would occur with Red vs. Blue and RWBY, its two flagship animated reveals. The previous formally wrapped issues up with a feature-length movie again in Might, whereas RWBY was in a bizarre little little bit of limbo after it’d moved over to Crunchyroll with its closing season final yr.
However the story isn’t over for the anime collection fairly but. Throughout this weekend’s Anime Expo, Viz Media revealed it picked up RWBY utterly, together with an eventual return of the present. Sequence co-creator Kerry Shawcross stopped wanting saying they’d been given the greenlight for a tenth season, however Viz defined that it was “exploring the manufacturing of recent chapters within the RWBY saga.” Discussions about what occurs subsequent with the franchise are at present ongoing, however a chunk of idea artwork from longtime artist Erin Winn signifies Viz desires the present to select up with the characters going up in opposition to longtime collection massive unhealthy, Salem.
Viz already had a preexisting relationship with RWBY because it was publishing the collection’ varied manga spinoffs over time, together with a compendium ebook. In its blog concerning the present’s future, Viz hinted it was planning to go all-in with “much more nice tales” within the works. It additionally notably mentioned that Shawcross would nonetheless be concerned with the present’s “subsequent section,” whereas making no point out of any returning staffers like longtime co-writers Miles Luna, Kiersi Burkhart, or Eddy Rivas. Likewise, it was tightlipped on bringing the present again to streaming after it and its soundtracks have been pulled earlier within the week. (On the music entrance, singer Casey Lee Williams assured these soundtracks would return to all of the common platforms “quickly.”
There’s loads of questions surrounding RWBY’s future, solely a few of which Viz simply barely answered. However for now, the present’s acquired barely clearer skies forward than it did with WB, so for those who just like the present, that’s one thing to have fun.
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