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RWBY Web Series' 5th Volume Premieres in Fall 2017
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
Rooster Teeth announced on Monday that the fifth volume of its web series RWBY will premiere this fall. A new season of the RWBY Chibi spinoff will also premiere in May.
The Austin-based production company announced the series as part of its lineup of original animated series for 2017. All Rooster Teeth shows will premiere on First, its subscription video-on-demand service, then head to free streaming platforms such as YouTube.
Rooster Teeth also announced that the 15th season of its long-running science-fiction comedy web series Red vs. Blue will premiere this spring. The company launched the series as its debut work in 2003.
Volume 4 of RWBY will conclude on February 4. The original RWBY web series by late creator Monty Oum follows four girls with unique weapons and powers who are training to hunt supernatural "Creatures of Grimm." The American series premiered in 2013, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Japan began releasing the series on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in Japan in 2015. Rooster Teeth CEO Matt Hullum confirmed in 2014 that "This is the first time any American-made anime has been marketed to Japan."
Theaters in Japan have been screening episodes — dubbed with an all-star Japanese cast — in batches since November 2015, followed by Blu-ray Disc and DVD releases. The third set of episodes played in Japanese theaters in December.
Home-sha's Garaku no Mori online manga site announced last month that the web animated series will get a manga anthology titled "Red Like Roses" in spring. The anthology is labeled "Volume 1." Original character designer Ein Lee will draw the anthology's cover.
Shirow Miwa debuted a manga adaptation in Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine in November 2015. The manga is a prequel about the four girls who would eventually make up Team RWBY upon enrolling in Beacon Academy. The manga's story, supervised by Rooster Teeth, reveals "the mystery hidden in four trailers" presented in Japan.
Viz Media had announced in July that it would release books based on RWBY. The company later announced at New York Comic Con in October that it will publish the manga, and then began publishing the manga in the English edition of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on October 31. The manga entered its "climax" in the February issue of Ultra Jump on January 19.
Sources: Variety (Todd Spangler), Entertainment Weekly (Clark Collis)
