Series of posters for 2019's Fei Ren (Nonhuman) character popularity contest (includes all characters from Fei Ren Zai, All Saints Street, and You Shou Yan (There Be Beasts))
Director: Monty Oum
Screenwriters: Monty Oum / Miles Luna / Kerry Shawcross
Starring: Lindsay Jones, Kara Eberly, Barbara Dunkelman, Alan Zeck, Miles Luna, Samantha Ireland, Neath Oum, Aaron Dismuke Shannon McCormick / Vic Mignona / Jessica Nigri / Jason Rose / Katie Newville / Michael Jones / Jen Brown / William Orendorff / Elizabeth Maxwell / Uri Lowenthal / Jane Taylor / Christopher Sabat / Dawn Michelle Bennett / Jason Librecht / Melissa Sternberg / Christina Valenzuela / Kerry Shawcross / Christopher Wehkamp / Jason Douglas / Lucy Christian / Amber Lee Conners / Kent Williams / Monty Overwood / Cherami Lee / Wang Shihao / Tara Platt / Dave Fennoy
Genre: Animation
Official website: https://roosterteeth.com/series/rwby
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Language: English
Date: 2013-07-18 (USA)
Number of seasons: 9
Episodes: 116
Single episode length: 4–28 minutes
IMDb: tt3066242
Type: Appropriation
Summary:
The story takes place in the fictional world of Remnant, composed of four kingdoms (Vale, Mistral, Atlas and Vacuo), that are invaded by malevolent monsters known as the "Creatures of Grimm".[23] Prior to the events of the series, the world was overseen by two opposing deities, the God of Light and the God of Darkness. Humanity was obliterated by the gods, due to the actions of Salem, a vengeful woman cursed with immortality for trying to manipulate them into reviving her beloved Ozma. Ozma was subsequently reincarnated by the Gods to guide a new human race toward harmony and after succeeding, summon the gods back for judgement using four relics, the Staff of Creation, the Sword of Destruction, the Crown of Choice and the Lamp of Knowledge, leading to an endless conflict between him and Salem. The discovery of the element, Dust, triggered a technological and industrial revolution for humanity. The deity brothers themselves were born in the Ever After, a world that is the setting of the fairy tale The Girl Who Fell Through the World. They were created by the world's Great Tree to help it make the Ever After, with their first creations being the Curious Cat and the Jabberwalker, the brothers' differences and arguments forced the Tree to send them out of the Ever After, where they could create and experiment until they understand the true nature of balance, eventually leading to the creation of Remnant. The Curious Cat wished to leave the Ever After with Alyx, the main character of the story, and learn why their creators left, but she decided to stay behind and make up for the damage she had caused, breaking the Cat's heart and driving them to insanity who killed Alyx, with her brother Lewis returning to Remnant and telling the story as he wished it had happen.
In the present day, having formed a cabal to guard their world's secrets, one of Ozma's incarnations, Ozpin, establishes academies in the four kingdoms of Remnant to train Huntsmen and Huntresses against the Grimm, with each academies concealing one of the relics. The series focuses on four girls attending Beacon Academy in the kingdom of Vale: Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long. Together, they form Team RWBY ("ruby").[17][24] With their friends Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos and Lie Ren forming their own team, JNPR ("juniper"). Ruby becomes the team leader and promises her friends to keep running their team. Blake reveals herself as a cat Faunus (a human possessing animal traits) and resigns from working with the White Fang organization. Cinder Fall, Roman Torchwick along with his assistant Neopolitan and the White Fang led by Adam Taurus, invade Beacon Academy. Roman is killed in the chaos. Yang loses her arm after seeing a conflict between Blake and Adam. Cinder becomes the Fall Maiden, and kills Ozpin and Pyrrha. Ruby defeats Cinder with her Silver eyes, forcing her and her minions to retreat.