Review: RwBy “It’s Brawl In The Family”

Overview:

The new characters are awesome so far but Qrow stole the show for me.  The way the story is developing is great and we’re finally getting closer to understand what’s really happening and where everyone stands.

The character designs for Winter and Qrow are fantastically designed I’m really loving how much the world of RWBY is coming to life 😀 I also love how the relationship between Winter and Qrow is like the relationship Wiess and Ruby had at the beginning only with much more Animosity. 😛

However Winter’s Upper-Class Bitch attitude is abit inconsistent at times. (For example she goes from “you’re an embarrassment Weiss” to “naw I don’t care about your grades, how’s your well being? Wanna show me around?”)

The truly scary bit about the way Ironwood flaunts his Atlas fleet is that it’s a giant recruitment ad against The White Fang. It gives people a boogeyman to point the finger at for radicalizing Fanus “that fleet is filled with soldiers ready to stomp down on your rights as people” and it gives them a badge of honor to use to recruit those people “Look at that fleet, its there because they fear us”.

Torchwick did a similar speech back in season 2 at his White Fang rally giving voice to their grievances in an echo chamber setting and then convinced them they can do something about it by joining their cause.

Compared to the previous Volumes, Volume 3’s action sequences at the time of this review are very “In-Your-Face” with the close up shots and angles, but it’s still noticeably rough around the edges. I know that as time goes on it’ll get progressively smoother, but the whole stop and go feeling is off-putting; it’s not as fluid/seamless as before. This new style can really work, but right now it’s new so we’ll have to wait and see how it develops. I can’t wait to see how things shape up in the next few episodes!