RWBY Will RTRN With Some Help From Viz Media

Last month, Rooster Teeth was unopen down by Warner Bros. aft a beauteous agelong 21-year run. Before and aft its end, determination were questions astir what would hap with Red vs. Blue and RWBY, its 2 flagship animated shows. The erstwhile officially wrapped things up with a feature-length movie backmost successful May, portion RWBY was successful a weird small spot of limbo aft it’d moved implicit to Crunchyroll with its last play past year.

But the communicative isn’t implicit for the anime bid rather yet. During this weekend’s Anime Expo, Viz Media revealed it picked up RWBY completely, including an eventual instrumentality of the show. Series co-creator Kerry Shawcross stopped abbreviated of saying they’d been fixed the greenlight for a 10th season, but Viz explained that it was “exploring the accumulation of caller chapters successful the RWBY saga.” Discussions astir what happens adjacent with the franchise are presently ongoing, but a portion of conception creation from longtime creator Erin Winn indicates Viz wants the amusement to prime up with the characters going up against longtime bid large bad, Salem.

Viz already had a preexisting narration with RWBY since it was publishing the series’ assorted manga spinoffs implicit the years, on with a compendium book. In its blog astir the show’s future, Viz hinted it was readying to spell all-in with “even much large stories” successful the works. It besides notably said that Shawcross would inactive beryllium progressive with the show’s “next phase,” portion making nary notation of immoderate returning staffers similar longtime co-writers Miles Luna, Kiersi Burkhart, oregon Eddy Rivas. Likewise, it was tightlipped connected bringing the amusement backmost to streaming aft it and its soundtracks were pulled earlier successful the week. (On the euphony front, vocalist Casey Lee Williams assured those soundtracks would instrumentality to each the regular platforms “soon.”

There’s plentifulness of questions surrounding RWBY’s future, lone immoderate of which Viz conscionable hardly answered. But for now, the show’s got somewhat clearer skies up than it did with WB, truthful if you similar the show, that’s thing to celebrate.

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