'RWBY: Hyousetsu Teikoku' TV Anime Announced for 2022

by Vindstot
Mar 24, 2022 6:21 PM | 64 Comments

A television anime based on Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth's RWBY 3DCG web series was announced by Bandai Namco Arts on Friday. The anime series, RWBY: Hyousetsu Teikoku (RWBY: Ice Queendom), is scheduled for a 2022 broadcast. The official website also revealed the main staff, cast, and a key visual (pictured).

Staff
Chief Director: Kenjirou Okada (3-gatsu no Lion, Monogatari Series: Second Season episode director)
Director: Toshimasa Suzuki (Heroic Age, Bakemonogatari episode director)
Animation Concept: Gen Urobuchi (Aldnoah.Zero, Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica)
Series Composition, Script: Tow Ubukata (Psycho-Pass 2, Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor)
Original Character Design: huke (Black★Rock Shooter, Steins;Gate)
Character Design: Nobuhiro Sugiyama (Nisekoi)
Visual Director: Nobuyuki Takeuchi (Natsu no Arashi! design works)
Chief Animation Director: Nobuhiro Sugiyama, Yoshiaki Itou (Hidamari Sketch), Hiroki Yamamura (Bishounen Tanteidan)
Main Animator: Hiroto Nagata (Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden 2nd Season - Kakusei Zenya), Kazuki Kawada (Assault Lily: Bouquet key animation)
Production Design, Alternate Space Design: Rui Tomono (Black★★Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall concept design)
Art Board: Hisaharu Iijima (Mekakucity Actors)
Art Director: Ken Naitou (Muv-Luv Alternative)
Color Design: Hitoshi Hibino (Dance in the Vampire Bund)
Director of Photography: Takayuki Aizu (Fate/Extra: Last Encore)
Editing: Rie Matsubara (Vanitas no Karte)
Music: Nobuko Toda (Isshuukan Friends.), Kazuma Jinnouchi (Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045)
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa (86)
Studio: Shaft

Cast
Ruby Rose: Saori Hayami (Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei)
Weiss Schnee: Youko Hikasa (Rokka no Yuusha)
Blake Belladonna: Yuu Shimamura (Shingeki no Kyojin)
Yang Xiao Long: Ami Koshimizu (Macross Δ)
Jaune Arc: Hiro Shimono (Musaigen no Phantom World)
Nora Valkyrie: Aya Suzaki (Happy Sugar Life)
Pyrrha Nikos: Megumi Toyoguchi (Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei The Animation)
Lie Ren: Souma Saitou (Yuukoku no Moriarty)
Ozpin: Kazuhiko Inoue (Natsume Yuujinchou)

Void_Chords feat. L is performing the opening theme "Beyond Selves." Saori Hayami is performing the ending theme "Awake," composed and arranged by TK from Ling Tosite Sigure (Psycho-Pass).

Rooster Teeth Productions released the 16-episode first season on their website between July and November in 2013. Crunchyroll began streaming the season on their catalog in August that year. The eighth and latest season premiered in November 2020 and ended with 14 episodes last March. A ninth season is currently in development, scheduled for a 2022 debut.

Shirow Miwa (Dogs: Bullets & Carnage) serialized a manga adaptation in Ultra Jump from November 2015 to February 2017. VIZ Media released the manga in English weekly on their Weekly Shounen Jump magazine and published the single volume in January 2018.

Synopsis
In the world of Remnant, humans and Faunus—human-animal hybrids—carry on their everyday lives despite the omnipresent threat of the monstrous Grimm. Dedicated Huntsmen and Huntresses battle Grimm with both customized weapons and their own "Semblances," unique abilities derived from the energy of one's soul. Some warriors also utilize a crystallized energy propellant, "Dust," to bestow their weapons with elemental properties. In this dangerous line of work, rigorous training is required to stay alive. To that end, each of Remnant's four Kingdoms have established schools to properly groom children holding aspirations of becoming licensed Huntsmen.

At Beacon Academy in the Kingdom of Vale, a promising group of future Huntresses make their debut as Team RWBY. Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long each come from different backgrounds and often butt heads as a result. However, when they cooperate, they are a formidable force who have even attracted the attention of Beacon's headmaster Professor Ozpin. Alongside fellow students such as those in Team JNPR, the young prodigy Ruby and her friends engage in adventures which pit them against an extremist Faunus group known as the White Fang. Every explosive encounter also brings them closer to the true villains orchestrating conflicts from the shadows. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Official site: https://anime.team-rwby-project.jp/
Official Twitter: @TeamRWBYProject

Source: Moca News

RWBY: Hyousetsu Teikoku on MAL

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20 of 64 Comments Recent Comments

Never saw Rwby.
I was a fan of Red Vs Blue and Monty's own Dead Fantasy Fight series.
But never found Rwby to be for me.

Apr 12, 2022 7:48 AM by HyouwaStudios

Now finally, we can refer to RWBY(this one anyway) as anime.

Apr 12, 2022 6:04 AM by Lolicon

This reality is a bad joke, in the past I would have been thrilled about Shaft doing RWBY but now I cant help but feel worried.

If nothing else this seems to be the real start of the story so it will serve as a good starting point for finally getting into RWBY for real.

Apr 12, 2022 2:32 AM by Comander-07

PixiePuffer said:
Never heard of RWBY, but the art looks gorgeous and if features some good voices as well as Shaft being in charge. Does anyone know if you should start with the source material first or if this is more standalone?

Stick with this new one first, and then depending on how it goes, you can probably watch the original after

Apr 4, 2022 8:15 AM by Tokoya

Never heard of RWBY, but the art looks gorgeous and if features some good voices as well as Shaft being in charge. Does anyone know if you should start with the source material first or if this is more standalone?

Apr 1, 2022 3:02 PM by PixiePuffer

Oh Lord. So it was true, it really did limp its way over to being an anime. Well, that Shaft is dealing with such junk it is a rather comic example of like attracting like.

I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for now, on account of the fact that the cast's redesigns lead me to believe it's stepping away from the original story, and that's only ever a good thing.

Mar 29, 2022 3:33 AM by O_T_T

I know nothing about RWBY but new Shaft anime let's go

Mar 28, 2022 12:55 AM by mazuchi

Moomochi said:
I mean, it literally is impossible for this to be worse than the source material. So, cool I guess?

This will probably focus on volumes 1 to 3 (maybe even less). The actual fall from grace of RWBY is around V6-8 (when character assassinations and protagonist centered morality go up to eleven).

Not to say that those earlier volumes were that perfect (Jaunedice arc drag, for most obvious example), but they had soul, and were a good enough skeleton for others to do their own thing (the multiple official mangas, this anime, not to mention 80%+ of RWBY fanfiction being V1-3).

Also the japanese kinda liked vols 1-3, yet vol4 had trouble getting jap dub, and v5 just got one last year. TL;DR, chances of anime!RWBY focusing on the current (sad) state of RWBY, like

are almost zero, as they are not spoiling OG show.

Mar 27, 2022 8:06 AM by Fabris

Saw someone on Twitter complaining about this because the EN VAs will have no input for this one, as if it's a bad thing. Having EN VAs having no input is the upside. I'm gonna watch this just because of that even tho I'm no RWBY fan.

Mar 27, 2022 7:57 AM by Raibyou

I mean, it literally is impossible for this to be worse than the source material. So, cool I guess?

Mar 26, 2022 9:43 PM by Moomochi

RWBY becoming an actual, full-fledged anime, never thought I'd see the day.

Mar 26, 2022 4:40 PM by HatsuneYugi39

Definitely didn't expect this. Welp, I dropped RWBY after finishing volume 4 but will still check this out.

Mar 26, 2022 12:47 PM by bloomichigo

...Is this reboot/remake, from S1 material, if I guessed right?

Dropped Rwby after S5 (last 2 seasons pacing was just not great, and fandom getting into a bizarrely rude and childish shipping wars and dramas from S6 and after actually reinforced my decision). MAYBE I will watch the first episodes, just for curiosity.

Mar 26, 2022 11:44 AM by Fabris

it's 2022 and anime elitists are still going out of their way to mald about rwby? lmfao

looking forward to this series, it's really cool to see how rwby has grown as a franchise

Mar 26, 2022 11:15 AM by NEROJIRO

Now that this is actually an anime i might give it a try.

It's quite clear that a lot of care went into it's production just looking at that impressive staff list.

Actually looks pretty good from the PV, the character design is good too and the music is just epic perfection!!!

Mar 26, 2022 9:30 AM by Dauphine

Shaft. Mmmmmm yea

Mar 26, 2022 7:02 AM by Raikou239

VanishingKira said:
I didn't care about this enough to notice at first but...
Main Animator: Hiroto Nagata (Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden 2nd Season - Kakusei Zenya), Kazuki Kawada (Assault Lily: Bouquet key animation)

damn.

Don't know about story, but it'll have god like animation (atleast after they fix it in bluray).
I guess it's after a long time (if not for the first time) that Shaft is working with someone not called Aniplex.

Mar 25, 2022 9:36 PM by salarx

I like RWBY already, but done in true anime style? I've gotta watch this.

Mar 25, 2022 9:06 PM by malvarez1

of course frikin RWBY would be animated by studio Shaft of all things...of course...why did I not see this coming? of freaking course.

Mar 25, 2022 8:32 PM by VivavideoUser2x

oh wow, I never expected this getting an anime adaptation. It's quite nostalgic since i watched the CGI animated one like 5 or 6 years ago. I don't know if I still like it up to this day because it gets pretty worse later from what I've heard from some people.

The staff looks packed, even TK is composing the op theme. That's double the points

I might take a look on this one

Mar 25, 2022 4:53 PM by PandanLeafSan

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