FIF#13-RWBY Chibi

Ever wanted to see the cuter side to RWBY…well apparently Rooster Teeth sensed this before you even asked.  This kind of felt inevitable given how Anime of a style RWBY has always had.  This wouldn’t be the first time a more serious, action oriented series went the cutesy route.  Mobile Suit Gundam and, more recently, Attack on Titan, have featured their own Chibi centered spin offs.  But is this a good hold over until Season 4 shows up this year?  If the first episode is any indication, you better believe it will be.

This show is too freaking adorable.  Weve gotten little tidbits of Chibi style RWBY characters throughout the series but never like this.  These short compilation episodes of various skits are all about the big head, little body comedy versions of our core characters.  Ruby, Yang, Weiss and Blake are all present for the first part and it’s good to see them again.  Given how dark (but still incredibly well done) Season 3 of RWBY ended up being, it’s refreshing to see the girls in a more peaceful, comical light.  There isn’t too much to the first episode, just a couple of short skits.  The stand outs both featured Ruby, first trying to bake cookies in a way too cute failure fashion; then secondly denying Blake her “Ninja’s in Love” book…also delivering the best line of the episode, “This is filth…FILTH!!!”  Rest assured, joking aside, if future episodes are as on point as these jokes, this spin off will be nothing like filth, it will be golden.

I probably should have waited to view another episode before giving my first impressions.  But as soon as this finally dropped, I had to share my thoughts.  Could the episode have been longer?  Sure but at the same time, I think it’s best not to squander all of the material right away.  I don’t know how long RWBY Chibi will run for or whether or not it will air alongside Season 4.  So that makes each new episode all the more special.  It’s cuteness we could all use on a rainy day and Team RWBY is ready to make us smile again…cause Season 3 still left a lot of us traumatized so this balances the scales a lot.

BTW I cannot wait to see Chibi Zwei…the KAWAII Factor alone might kill me.