I think it's important to start by pointing out how much I'm a fan of the RWBY series and I was very hopeful about its anime adaptation, for being from a studio, which until then, I considered extremely competent.
I cannot express how disappointed I am.

The series has several production problems, as it decided to make the anime on an extremely poor schedule, and that from the beginning shows that they barely had time to correct scenes and send purely unfinished scenes, even though there are a lot of competent people in it.

All this would be easily resolved if the production decided to postpone the anime to give us quality work, however, they chose not to do that.

I believe everyone is aware that the first three episodes came out early and at the same time. They finished the first three eps simply so they could preview, and because of that many unfinished scenes in the Pre version were fixed on the TV.

I started talking about the production initially because it was extremely necessary for me to establish from the beginning that the Japanese adaptation of RWBY had problems, but later on I will approach the production again.

The first 3 episodes of RWBY together are about an hour long and that's basically the same amount of time the original had for an entire volume.

Volume 1 of the original has 16 episodes that are around 1 hour in total.

The first 3 episodes of the anime are approximately the same in length and 'adapt', in a type of copy and paste, totally rushed, without any depth and that still cut a Jaune plot to work on aspects of the character and inserted another original plot where nor did it have time to be properly aborted.

The first volume of RWBY, like the entire series, is low production, they didn't have the budget to do everything they wanted, especially the first volume. So during the 16 episodes that complete 1 hour, there were episodes of 3, 4 and 5 minutes.

One of the most enjoyable aspects of RWBY's production for me is its use of time. Even due to its low production with this little time that the series has to work, it doesn't waste time, it doesn't roll around, everything on screen is important, the series knows how to enjoy its time, it really works something and explores it in the way whatever is possible.

16 episodes that complete 1 hour were much more productive and deeper in terms of narrative than 3 episodes that make up the same timing and address the same subjects and characters.
(I won't even talk about charisma and other factors)

The RWBY adaptation made a simple and stupid mistake in logic. RWBY: Hyousetsu Teikoku shouldn't be an adaptation entirely faithful to its original, an animated copy and paste, it doesn't work. The anime had time to reimagine, work on, improve and deepen everything the original couldn't due to low production. There's no way you can take 1 hour of the original, a webseries/murikanime, play in the anime and think it will be acceptable. They are different media, different ways of approaching the narrative as well.

RWBY's narrative doesn't just rely on what we see on screen, RWBY has a narrative structure together with its songs. RWBY's songs address a lot of the introspective characters, they work the plot; characters, explore and deepen their relationships, their emotions, add substance and layers. RWBY compensates for its low production with this exemplary and admirable work!

And yes, even though they forgot the RWBY songs, we still had "Mirror Mirror" in one of the episodes, but that was more fanservice than a narrative use, to add substance to Weiss.
By the way, I'm not saying that they put "Mirror Mirror" there for fanservice and not for the narrative is something necessarily bad, because although I thought it was misused, I can't deny that it increased Weiss' character a little more. , after all it's "Mirror Mirror", it's a song that works and explores the Character. But I will emphasize that the music is not the merit of the anime but of the original, as well as its use within the work is something basic, which they only did with "Mirror Mirror". After all, we didn't have "Red Like Roses II" among other songs.

The anime should be an ORIGINAL adaptation, a reinvention of something that already exists!
And with that they see the following point: "The anime has already done that, the anime has created an original plot."

I was really happy with the announcement of the original plot, but unfortunately it was too late to introduce it.
I don't want to get too much into this topic, but earlier I said that due to the lack of something original, depth and character work made everything empty and this original plot reflects exactly that.

As much as they try to bring us something that should be the basics, the problem is at the beginning, the anime has not worked at all since it started, it failed to make us create emotional bonds with the characters and work on their own relationships, but instead of trying to fix their mistake, they decided to work with Weiss' relationship with Ruby, her problems and her prejudice with the Fauns, things that are empty, because the story/production decided to do it that way.

The original plot should have been established from the beginning and not later. At the very least, he should try to hide and fix the flaws of the first three episodes, but all he does is highlight them.

To be honest, the idea of ​​this dream Grimm, Nightmare, is VERY interesting, it's something I would love to see in the original, I think it would have a lot to add and it would be a great way to introduce aspects of the characters, just like with Weiss, no we can't escape that Weiss' dream reflects the same; We have the psychological pressure from the family, the extremely abusive father, the alcoholic and distant Mae, her lack of freedom, we even have her affection for her friends and how much they mean to her. To see that in the original, with all that Rooster teeth narrative, with Casey bringing the introspective to life, would be an amazing thing to watch.
But that's only because the Rooster Teeth narrative of the original allows things to be that way, there was character work already, so things would be possible.
Volume 7-8, when Weiss returns to Atlas with the RWBY team, would be an ideal time for this, because that's when she finally and truly breaks free from the family shackles created by her father.

The point in RWBY: Hyousetsu Teikoku is that it lacks substance, lacks script work, everything I've already mentioned in terms of adaptation, demonstrates why this original arc was bad and as I don't want to say it was empty, I'll just say that was shallow and superfluous.

Seeing Blake's drama about Fauns and humans, apart from Adam and his influence on her summed up like that by the anime hurt me SO MUCH, the desire was to simply close the tab and never touch the anime again out of disrespect

I doubt there will be another season, and I honestly don't even want to, but if there was, maybe, who knows, this arc gains relevance and is something that really changes the course of the work, it could maybe straighten out the characters' relationships and in the next season, they learn how to work them.

RWBY: Hyousetsu Teikoku is certainly one of the most broken projects in production. Their schedule and planning is abysmal to the degree that they can't quite get it right.

The point of the anime adaptation of RWBY was to bring the work that was originally done in CGI, to 2D. But what about a third-party anime episode with a bad schedule coming from an extremely limited studio? Animate everything with bad CGI.

Perspective and continuity errors;
Scenes with almost no politeness/consistency;
Broken and clumsy movement, in addition to a dysfunctional composition.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BRO, LOOK AT THIS

ALL DEFECTIVE, CROOKED TRACK.

All management proved disastrous. They don't have any time and their staff is desperately looking for ANY artist who will accept to work on the production. There are so many accumulated problems that I'm not even surprised by errors like this:

It's almost unbelievable that in the midst of a catastrophic production schedule, we have animators like Hiroto Nagata and Kazuki Kawata who bring us satisfying scenes to watch. Although sometimes the result is not so polished, we can say that both worked a miracle in producing something as good in a production as bad as RWBY.

Anyone looking at these scenes should not expect such an unhappy production, whether in terms of animation or script.

I am immensely saddened by the news that the original voice actresses will go to the trouble of dubbing this. I, out of respect for the work that is RWBY, wouldn't do it. They who gave life to these characters, created them from their beginnings, are now dubbing something that, in my view, disrespects this work. They deserve so much more.

As I said initially, I'm a big fan of RWBY, it's one of my favorite works without a doubt.

I even have a text on Medium, in Portuguese, my native language, where I explore the narrative of RWBY, all that it is, leaving out spoilers and a little bit of the approach to character arcs, something I intend to do separately in the future. There I talk about structure, mythology, symbolism, characterization, music, substance and about the essence of a story and a good story, and why RWBY fits into that.

For those interested, the link will be there for anyone who wants to use a Google Translate to be able to read.

And having to look at an anime so problematic, flawed and with the sole purpose of being profitable, when its creator just wanted to tell us all a story, is saddening.

At that time, while I currently wait for the release of Volume 9 of the original, this anime despite the problems and headaches it gave me, was to some extent a fun fanservice.

However, I should point out that if the anime has disappointed you too or given you a false impression of RWBY, or perhaps made you interested in the work, I highly recommend consuming the original, it can be difficult to get used to the CGI initially, but currently I think it's beautiful, and the work is one of the best things I've ever consumed and easily the most 'Soul' work I've ever seen, Monty gave his soul to the project and it's a series that deserves even more prominence than it already has.

This is my reaction to this adaptation: