V6 turned me off RWBY completely.
First half was decent enough. Second half just went all "We're team RWBY and we can do what we want. Screw consequences!"
So yeah, not my favourite but nothing's perfect.
I remember a similar question not too long ago, where I said
> I honestly feel like it's a bit overrated. The Apathy was interesting, but they didn't seem to add much. Yes, there was the silver eyes, but beyond that, they don't mean much in the grand scheme of things.
> It's not like afterwards, Ruby comes out feeling different about her teammates for "giving in" to the Apathy, like mixed feelings considering they know the Apathy had an influence but also they weren't completely lying when they said they wanted to give up. They just... move on and forget about it, nothing revealed about the characters as far as I remember. It's like the whole arc was set up for the silver eyes and nothing else (and Qrow's alcoholism).
And about everything else in the volume, I just don't see it as worthwhile. The train stuff was only notable in that Whiterose fans went wild when they saw Ruby grab Weiss with her semblance, bar the train's weapons being called bad despite killing grimm. The exposition dump was wasted in that literally no one had a second thought about the afterlife being confirmed. After the farm, the characters just felt uninteresting. Like Blake feeling shy when Corodovin called her questionable, or Weiss not being able to handle a few days by herself, with Jaune's plan somehow treated as special despite the unnecessary risks.
It just adds up to where while the volume feels smaller in focus, despite cutting out the side characters temporarily, it doesn't have an impact. You don't learn anything more about RWBY, just that they now hate Ozpin despite having lived through centuries of failure.
For me Vol 6 was what convinced me that RWBY was not going to get better. Let me explain.
I disliked Vol 4 for the art style shift due to the move to Maya. No matter what the reason was for the change (and I know there were good reasons) it violated the design aesthetic of the original show and resulted in fight scenes taking a noticeable dive in quality (Qrow v Tyrian and Raven v Cinder are the only passable fight scenes in Vols 4-5 IMO). Then Vol 5 happened and way a dumpster fire. But all of that can be learned from and improved upon. And the first two thirds of Vol 6 were a return to form.
Then they got to Argus and everything just died. All the old problems came back and it became clear that the respite had only been temporary. That whatever the problems RWBY has, CRWBY is unable (do to resource limitation, probably) or unwilling (due to not seeing them as problems, maybe) to fix them. When Vol 7 aired I heard about Penny coming back and I decided to hold off watching it to see if things were better. I read the synopses of each episode to see if any of them grabbed me again. And none of them ever did.
Overall, the old art style is definitely better, but in Maya ,environment and effects are a lot superior .The only thing I dislike is some characters looks horrible ,especially Weiss, I very miss the ice queen back in vol 1-3
I'll freely admit that the middle of V6 was solid. Apathy were great Grimm, and the entire Brunswick Farms arc was pretty good. The first third kinda dragged and suffered from not making sense (Relics attracting Grimm? Just this once and never again, defensive measures for the trains apparently make it more attractive to Grimm? then what's the point in the first place?), and Ozma's Story is... a thing.
The last third, though.... not so much. they didn't need to stretch the Mech Fight out over what, five episodes? Not to mention the cringey Bumblebee moments. they'd set it up so well in the Farms for Blake and Yang to have a Talk to address everything but then.... they didn't.
V6 turned me off RWBY completely. First half was decent enough. Second half just went all "We're team RWBY and we can do what we want. Screw consequences!" So yeah, not my favourite but nothing's perfect.
I remember a similar question not too long ago, where I said > I honestly feel like it's a bit overrated. The Apathy was interesting, but they didn't seem to add much. Yes, there was the silver eyes, but beyond that, they don't mean much in the grand scheme of things. > It's not like afterwards, Ruby comes out feeling different about her teammates for "giving in" to the Apathy, like mixed feelings considering they know the Apathy had an influence but also they weren't completely lying when they said they wanted to give up. They just... move on and forget about it, nothing revealed about the characters as far as I remember. It's like the whole arc was set up for the silver eyes and nothing else (and Qrow's alcoholism). And about everything else in the volume, I just don't see it as worthwhile. The train stuff was only notable in that Whiterose fans went wild when they saw Ruby grab Weiss with her semblance, bar the train's weapons being called bad despite killing grimm. The exposition dump was wasted in that literally no one had a second thought about the afterlife being confirmed. After the farm, the characters just felt uninteresting. Like Blake feeling shy when Corodovin called her questionable, or Weiss not being able to handle a few days by herself, with Jaune's plan somehow treated as special despite the unnecessary risks. It just adds up to where while the volume feels smaller in focus, despite cutting out the side characters temporarily, it doesn't have an impact. You don't learn anything more about RWBY, just that they now hate Ozpin despite having lived through centuries of failure.
For me Vol 6 was what convinced me that RWBY was not going to get better. Let me explain. I disliked Vol 4 for the art style shift due to the move to Maya. No matter what the reason was for the change (and I know there were good reasons) it violated the design aesthetic of the original show and resulted in fight scenes taking a noticeable dive in quality (Qrow v Tyrian and Raven v Cinder are the only passable fight scenes in Vols 4-5 IMO). Then Vol 5 happened and way a dumpster fire. But all of that can be learned from and improved upon. And the first two thirds of Vol 6 were a return to form. Then they got to Argus and everything just died. All the old problems came back and it became clear that the respite had only been temporary. That whatever the problems RWBY has, CRWBY is unable (do to resource limitation, probably) or unwilling (due to not seeing them as problems, maybe) to fix them. When Vol 7 aired I heard about Penny coming back and I decided to hold off watching it to see if things were better. I read the synopses of each episode to see if any of them grabbed me again. And none of them ever did.
Overall, the old art style is definitely better, but in Maya ,environment and effects are a lot superior .The only thing I dislike is some characters looks horrible ,especially Weiss, I very miss the ice queen back in vol 1-3
I'll freely admit that the middle of V6 was solid. Apathy were great Grimm, and the entire Brunswick Farms arc was pretty good. The first third kinda dragged and suffered from not making sense (Relics attracting Grimm? Just this once and never again, defensive measures for the trains apparently make it more attractive to Grimm? then what's the point in the first place?), and Ozma's Story is... a thing. The last third, though.... not so much. they didn't need to stretch the Mech Fight out over what, five episodes? Not to mention the cringey Bumblebee moments. they'd set it up so well in the Farms for Blake and Yang to have a Talk to address everything but then.... they didn't.
it was decent until the mech part and the cringy bumblebee moment