YMMV / RWBY (2019)

• Alternative Character Interpretation: There's some mild inconsistency in both the show and supporting material such as the DC comic and Adam's Amity Arena bio over his exact motivations for joining the White Fang and if he ever truly cared for equal rights or if it was just a smokescreen to cover his bloodlust and revenge. Adam in-series is suggested as both, with Blake saying he started good but gradually began killing more and more, while Yang hypothesizes that he never really cared and just used the White Fang as an excuse to get away with murder. The comics do the same but frame it more as Adam being an Unreliable Narrator who's changing the story due to his declining mental health warping his memory. The mobile game goes for it being entirely genuine but warped as he fell deeper into a cycle of violence until he decided to become the monster that he'd been cast as.
• Broken Base:
  • The artwork for most fans. The comic goes for a blend of a pseudo-anime and comic book-like style from the usual series. Some didn't mind it since it wasn't too off model of the characters. But others likewise didn't cotton to it, both wanting it to be similar to the series and, for some, a bit odd from the main style.
  • The comic itself was a bit divisive. Some like that it covers some of the characters more in-depth and even find it being in a comic book (published by a major comic book company no less) was quite novel and interesting. On the other coin though, some fans weren't keen on anything less than a manga format and found the errors from the show sloppy enough to not consider worth reading. The flashback format likewise being a sticking point as well since it's just covering ground already treaded.
• Ho Yay:
  • In chapter one, Ruby describes her teammates in brief, summarizing her relationship to Yang and the read she gets on Blake, before gushing praise for Weiss' hard-working nature and how accomplished she is.
  • When Ruby's narration muses on the beauty of life, the text is framed in the same panel as Weiss, similar to previous moments in the show such as her V4 letter or Maria's instruction in V6. The same narration talking about the beauty and color of life also mentions stories; the comic opens on a young Ruby describing her love of stories.
  • Weiss mentions wanting Blake to look at her. She glances at Blake as she walks away, then the next panel shows Blake glancing at Weiss while she walks away.
• Memetic Mutation: Raven yelling about Summer as a bird has caught on.
• Narm:
  • It's hard to take Raven speaking ill of Summer when she's ranting in bird form seriously. Especially after knowing of a web animation that had Qrow singing and ranting as a bird.
  • Ruby saying "Birds that don't hatch just die in their eggs!" sounds completely edgy and out of character on its own without context and it doesn't help that the art portraying her makes her look less like Ruby Rose and more like a younger Nathan Explosion or a female Kevin Levin.
• So OK, It's Average: The general reception to the comic has been mixed but veering on cold from the fandom. While exploring the Volume 3 to 4 Time Skip has been a much-requested series of stories from the fandom, the comic's frequent continuity errors (despite being said to be canon by series director Kerry Shawcross) and awkward art style have hampered the execution.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The flashback of Blake's past and the aftermath of fall of Beacon. All of it leads to what her one word is for herself. That word? Toxic.
  • Willow Schnee struggling to use her Semblance to catch a deer is this.
    Willow: I don't need rest, Klein! I'm not broken! I can still do this!

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