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Some of the more janky bits aside, this fight makes me realize that in the first 3 seasons, they really gave everyone a unique fighting style. Even with simple weapons, they went extra hard on a creative fighting style, making them as interesting as the more mechanically interesting weapons. Here’s hoping it comes back in the next volume!
2:30 maybe the intent was that Weiss was using the glyph to push herself forward against Flynts attack, and that's why she stumbles forward once he stops?
If I remember correctly, the black glyphs are meant to hold stuffs with greater force than the white's because it is infused with gravity dust. And when Weiss moves forward with greater gravity, against Flynt's attack, she must have use a much greater force. So after that she would stumble forward because of inertia, which she did
@@OzyLellowen This; in both clips she showed, the black glyphs clearly change color before launching anything. Black glyphs hold objects down so they can then be launched by changing its nature at the last second.
Okay embarrassing confession time about this fight. When I first watched this fight I SOMEHOW didn’t know about Neon Cat and so thought she was a Golden Lion Tamarin monkey Faunus because her hair for SOME REASON looked vaguely like the fur on their heads. I deadass thought because of this that she was a reference to a dancing monkey and that Flint was her music player. Which is so mind boggling now because a dancing monkey isn’t close to a fairy tale.
Can I just say, that I love Neon's weapon! Despite being such as simplistic design, it's creative to see a pair of glow stick nunchaku that actually bend and snap, and that's even how she activates the dust inside her weapon. RWBY today could use more weapons like Neon's if they're going to keep giving important characters more seemingly mundane weapons.
Science nerd here, Yang probably couldn't float in the instance you remarked on, unless the vortex from flynt was causing a significant amount of lift. Of course, this can be hand waved my dust magic. Also, I cannot count the number of times I have watched this fight just because of how fun it was. A lot of the small details pointed out in this video were things I already noticed, but it was great to see things I also missed. One fun thing that I always remarked on during the fight was whenever flynt was actively playing his trumpet but had some kind of facial reaction, his mouth would move and even show teeth behind the mouthpiece. Can't really make mouth movements while playing a trumpet, and showing teeth would just stop playing altogether. I play trumpet, so these are the little things I notice.
I think its supposed to work like a faster version of those things from Portal 2, where its designed to keep the target inside the cone while it pushes you away. But yeah, that's not really something that is easy to justify with physics . . . "Its -magic- dust, we don't have to explain it"
My favorite fight will always be team JNPR's first fight. Jaune calls out "Flower Power" and everything just stops while the team try to figure out what he's talking about. Just the meta humor poking fun at team RWBY's combo moves, only for Nora to one-shot the opponents.
I just wish Flynt had a more interesting fighting style. At the end of the day he essentially just has a gun that he points at his enemy, he doesn't really show any particular skill other than his one duo attack with Neon. The random flips he sometimes does before attacking just make me seethe because they're clearly trying to inject some style with absolutely no purpose, as opposed to everyone else who incorporates styles into their fighting naturally; it just comes across as lazy. Of course his weapon also brings up the question of, if a person just standing still and playing the trumpet can rival other huntsmen, why pretty much everyone doesn't use this weapon.
It would be cool if his weapon could shapeshift into different brass instruments, like a tuba with such a low pitch that it causes the earth to quake. Or maybe a tenor horn that functions as a portable mortar, or perhaps a saxophone that can hypnotize your opponents. Maybe even a vuvuzela that can play the most annoying tune in the world at earsplitting volume.
After watching this again I can't help it laugh at the two yangs because it looks like the other one is trying to talk to her and she just throat punches her
Flint has the best design and weapon and I’m totally not biased because I’m a trumpet player. The drip is too much, and the overconfidence on this man is so accurate to us trumpet players. Because we are the coolest in the band, I don’t make the rules, but thems the rules Also, my favorite fight strategy is the ‘piss them off’ strategy. It’s something I use in my writing all the time cause it’s a great strategy for an MC to use
He also has a solid design too. Black white grey and a pop of cilor on the hat and collar. But the layering on the outfit is just *chef kiss* and the way his pops of color change whenever he uses his semblance.
I would like to point out that Flynt's Killer Quartet clones do exactly what he does, each one slightly delayed from the one before. This means that Flynt can play a single line of notes in such a way that when the delayed repetitions overlay with each other, it actually sounds better than his solo playing.
I miss how Yang shoots her gauntlets. Proper haymaker swings to launch those projectiles instead of the current ones where she throws kiddie punches or hell shoot as if she's megaman
14:40 I don't think that was a goof, I think that's meant to be the 3D equivalent of a smear frame; when it's playing at max speed you read the movement properly and it looks smoother; yeah it doesn't work if you slow it down, but it's not meant to be slowed down; it's meant to be watched at normal speed. They've done it before, I'm sure Adam had like 6 arms in shot because it was moving so fast.
yeah that's why its hard to judge animations frame-by-frame, if it looks fine in real time that's really the only thing that matters. some of these points seemed to overlook that aspect of animation
I love Weiss’s reactions and general “what the fuck?” look when something strange happens. Flint could've dropped kicked Weiss in the face when she was on the floor, hell anything then just turning his back to her all so she can try and take him out.
Man this fight became my personality for a bit when I first watched it. I muttered "never miss a beat" when working and STILL listen to Neon to this day. I even tried taking the advice of the song for a while to smile more and calm the hell down lmao
7:14 Well I can only imagine being a cat Faunus means she’s “naturally limber.” Still I never really got what the point of her “rainbow semblance,” was. Did it add to her evasiveness? Or was it just a nod to her Nan cat inspiration and that’s it. 8:16 Somebody call the burn ward, cause Weiss just got a third degree. 😲 Definitely points to Flint and Neon for using the strategy of intentionally pissing off you’re enemy’s. After all it’s said that “if you can get you’re opponent angry, there already 20% less effective.” And not allot of people do that.
Apparently it is similar to Rubys ability where it is produced by her going at full speed although it probably does make it harder to hit her because you know there’s a giant rainbow trail
Looks like an acceleration Semblance to me, what with one shot of her coming to a full stop before instantly boosting to max speed for a charge like she's in a modern Sonic game
One of my favorite fights of the entire series, instantly became one of my favorite episodes when it came out for the music, vibes, and awesome use of powers ^^
The double Yangs could have actually been an attempt at an animation smear in 3d? It's hard to tell but it's not always a goof when you see something odd like that.
2:30 weiss' glyphs are imbued with dust. The black glyph is gravity dust that she uses to manipulate the gravity around the glyph, to make something heavier (like how gravity dust bullets hit harder). & when she launches off of it, she immediately switches to wind to launch. You can see the black glyph turn white when she launches something
Making your opponent angry can backfire severely and it's what caused them to lose the fight since that's what that emotion is for They're making a angry made her focus even more and think even smarter Also Weiss was using those glyphs to prepare her for its awards him not to hold her in place that's why she stumbled forward like that Also please do more of these I love these fight sences videos so much
I really enjoy the singing coming from Weiss's gliffs, and the following vocals in the music, it's a fun way to highlight her fight with flynt and call back to how she's canonically a singer.. dispite us rarely seeing that in the show.
Perhaps regular glyphs and gravity glyphs can do the exact same things, gravity is just much stronger. However I think only gravity glyphs can be passed through, they have a pull to them that keeps people in the center of the glyph, or they can launch people, so basically glyphs can do anything lol
i love how neon and flint make weiss and yang angry, while they both remain in a somewhat happy state. which... gives them an advantage.... well now it just sounds like the emotion system from omori
Gonna propose here: Notice how after the force from Flynt is gone, she goes lurching forward? I think instead of locking herself down, Weiss was using it to push herself forward. (Oh, I'm noticing people are also catching this) Also yes, animation clones in a particular synch, or delayed synch is not fun, nor easy and it's one of those subtle details I always go "Fuck yeah bro" when I see it.
Another great analysis. I love Neon as a character but I'm also glad you called out all the things that made this fight look janky or feel wrong because of the characters' logic. When Yang charged at Neon, it could've been much more dynamic AND drawn Flynt's attention if Neon had dodged/grabbed onto Yang and twirled them into an insanely fast spin, completely controlling Yang's attack and turning it to Neon's advantage, THAT could've been the "uh oh!" moment that made Flynt abandon his finishing move with Weiss. This season was plagued with si many strange narrative choices when it came to the fights and the characters' logic in them. Not only did things feel too long AND too janky-fast at times, but the fighters' actions and responses didn't match up with what we'd been shown of them so far.
Yeah I don’t think they were much of an upgrade. And her long range blasts are first seen in her trailer before the show itself. And that trailer is supposed to be canon but eh I guess.
Being able to detonate on demand is a pretty useful ability. For one, she doesn’t have to aim as long as she secured an attachment, and even if she didn’t, she could simply lay a trap. It might not be necessary all the time, but it could give her an edge against something impervious to bullets or against tunneling foes that spend less time in a state where they can be hit. Slip a mine on them and blow them up when they try to hide. Bomber Man has remotely detonated bombs as an upgrade that let you control when explosions happen instead of racing against your fuses. It takes a lot of risk out of laying your bombs, so I can picture similar utility for Yang.
Can you analyze the bestest fight (in terms of choreography imho) Pyrrha Vs. team Cardin. It’s truly a master class in establishing op characters without making the enemies dumb.
I can agree the mistakes were made but it helped them fix some of there flaws and this was a fun fight because I saw these in so many amvs but mine was sssn vs indg I'm not sure how to spell but yeah and it's actually fun to see the team actually interact with each other than their love interest
As a rollerblade skater like Neon, I really don't think she should have been able to do even half of what she did but I love it nonetheless because she is such a fun character and also anime logic is a good enough excuse for me. This was a super fun fight and still probably one of my favorites.
I would Absolutely Love to see this Reanimated in the Maya engine, I hope thats something RT does in the future is go back and Reanimate some fights from volume 1, 2 and 3 just for like a one off video on their website or CZcams.
Okay but imagine if they took the most interesting characters from both of the RWBY team fights instead of having half of either one being random extras Arslan, Reese, Flynt and Neon… no idea wtf acronym you could make with that, but it’s there.
Yess great analysis as always and wow idk why I just realized Neons sleeves are designed to look like piano keys!! This fight is and always will be iconic and I hope to see/or have confirmed that FNKI is still around in future volumes
Ikr. There's a fanfiction I found a while back in which the other two were based on the Kool-Aid Man and Inigo Montoya and they're so cool. It makes me so disappointed that we got stuck with such uninspired trash as Kobalt and the other one I can't remember the name of.
Yes thank you so much! I remember first watching this fight and having to replay the little scat rendition oof this will be the day a thousand times over because its so GOOD
I wouldn't consider that Yang clone an animation goof, it's just one if those tricks we animators use sometimes to better show trajectory, movement and speed
Im mixed about the double yang thing, because I cant tell if it was a goof, or an attempt at doing a smear frame. you already pointed out how they did the weird stretch smear for neon, and doubling is another way to do it. But its weird that they only did it once if they were trying to do it. overall though i did like this fight alot when i first watched rwby. It was probably one of the more fun fights and it didnt have another stomp ending (the rwby, jnpr, AND SSSN fight kind of end with everyone being taken out at once which kind of sours the fight for me). This one felt like a more balanced fight. My biggest gripe is that I wish flint could have had an actual fighting style. Standing his ground and playing the trumpet is cool, coco kind of does that, but she can also fight up close. Imagine Flint skillfully dodging while he plays or fighting with his feat when people get close. Maybe even go the basic route of having him beat people with his trumpet, or use the trumpet for movement
14:40 "I've never seen an animation goof where there's two of the same character" in one piece's Davy Back Fight, there's an specific frame where there's two Zoros, One is fighting and the other is standing there looking 🧍♂️
This was one of the first fights I've seen of rwby it was different from the others and very enjoyable seeing our main characters have to resort to a completely different fighting style Also blake and ruby running to sit down was too funny
Also we can see that the model of Weiss has nothing in between her legs literally as in like there's just nothing of a atmospheric destruction! Look I know that they could like be worried about Underwear shots, But Yang wears shorts I feel like Weiss would be someone who would wear something underneath that skirt to keep her dignity about! This is the real reason why 95% of all anime Magical girl shows have the magical girls wearing swimsuits as part of their uniforms! It doesn't look good when your legs look like they're literally coming out of the ether! Also isn't it Interesting that neon is focused on taunting Yang, When she has a bigger connection to Weiss being you know former family friends and all! PS: Also cats are liquid I should know I have two and she is a cat girl
I wanted to ask if you could take into concideration reviewing a fight animation clip called kate in circusland? (by hyun's dojo community) I find it pretty fun.
Okay, about that jump. You're right but Im really dusty in my math/physics stuff. Yang jumps for a second, a normal jump might I add, goes off screen and then the next second she hovers back from she came from for another second. For this to happen in the way it does Flints trumpet must exert enough force to cancel the force of the initial jump from Yang but that doesnt explain the hover. Since Flints is a constant force and Yang isnt she should either slide to the ground or be sent flying depending on the force impose on her by Trumpet. For yang to hover like that she would have to need something exerting force behind her or below her. Gravity it still pulling everyone down at all times. This makes me think Flint's (weapon)Trumpet might act as a sort of wind tunnel on its own. Which implies Flint has to have some mighty lungs to be able to destroy the concept of physics like that!
@@Mike_Dubo I was trying to capture more of a real world physics parallel rather than speculate on show lore. Closer thing I can think of for an horizontal zero gravity hoover is one of those planes that go high altitude for 0g.
At around 2:40 I think Weiss is using the black Glyphs to push herself forward, because the wight ones would only keep her in place and she wants to overpower Flynn's trumpet
At 14:40 I don’t think that’s an animation goof. I think that it’s actually supposed to be a smear frame, witch is a frame meant to convey motion bluer when you can’t . A common technique when doing smears is two have two of something which you can see often in cartoons from the 30s or more recently in frozen 2 with the wolf chase scene on some frames Olaf has multiple of the same limb. Though I can’t say for certain we would need to ask whoever animated that scene to know for sure
"Shotguns aren't known for their accuracy" yes, that's why they're used to hunt flying, moving small targets called "birds". Shotties are commonly perceived as inaccurate high-power close-range guns because game balance needs them to be. In reality, they're anything but. The problem with them is that you need smart ai to take advantage of your far wider windows of vulnerability. Plus, they don't have nearly as good armor and cover penetration, even if they blow thinner things way harder than ARs (like doors when breaching). Overall, shotguns deal less damage when up against armored targets (which is safe to assume most modern warfare participants are, to a certain degree) but excel at utility and are much more reliable. And to go off on one, I mean just look at the nozzle of a shotgun does that long steel tube look just for decor to people? I mean for real, if the pellets get blasted out at the chamber part (aka the beginning of the shotty barrel idk I'm not good with fancy gun structure words) and their momentum moves them forward, is that nozzle there only to, like, make them reach farther by a distance equal to its length? It's there to diminish spread so the fucking thing can hit at a reasonable distance the small unarmored targets it was made to hunt. In fact, snipers are less accurate than shotguns. Yeah, I said it. A sniper needs not only a shooter but also a spotter. That isn't just for company so the sniper doesn't get lonely. The thing has monstruous range and damage, yes, but when you need more skill to hit shit with it than you need with just about any other ballistic weapon then it's the point you realize the weapon isn't accurate. The shooter needs to be in order to compensate.
Flynt didn't hate Weiss he hated her dad, she was unfortunately the only Schnee present so he took his frustration out on her I liked Neon but i found her constant insults got a bit old really fast It cut to Jaune as he also cares about Weiss
@@grubhubgenjutsu I know. I just think it's funny that her last name is a homophone for the animal that she has the attributes of. Lionheart is another example of this
Honestly I didn't even care about the small technical errors in this fight. I've watched it a million times because it's my favorite, so of course I noticed some of them, but this was still when CRWBY was getting their bearings with animation. I freaking loved the music, the taunts, and the parings. To me, this fight was RWBY at it's peak, even if Rooster Teeth was still figuring out the technical aspects. Also, while Weiss's white glyphs are meant to serve as platforms, they have yet to be used to keeping her upright when there's a strong force pushing against her, like the force from Flint's trumpet. The black glyphs repelling her serve to counteract the force that's pushing her backward. This is also why she rushes forward so much when he stops attacking her. I think it would've been a little clearer if the glyphs were slightly angled towards Flint to demonstrate them pushing Weiss towards him.
That roast was so powerful it made Weiss switch up her entire fighting style.
Some of the more janky bits aside, this fight makes me realize that in the first 3 seasons, they really gave everyone a unique fighting style. Even with simple weapons, they went extra hard on a creative fighting style, making them as interesting as the more mechanically interesting weapons. Here’s hoping it comes back in the next volume!
Unless you know a necromancer, that's not happening.
Flynt and Neon are the best characters. I'm not biased or anything.
Apart from that. Great analysis! I'm really enjoying your videos!
"Ay" - Houston 2013
A little biased, are we mr. Coal.
2:30 maybe the intent was that Weiss was using the glyph to push herself forward against Flynts attack, and that's why she stumbles forward once he stops?
If I remember correctly, the black glyphs are meant to hold stuffs with greater force than the white's because it is infused with gravity dust. And when Weiss moves forward with greater gravity, against Flynt's attack, she must have use a much greater force. So after that she would stumble forward because of inertia, which she did
White propells/accelerates things, black holds stuff down. The black glyphs were ment to anchor her in place and keep her from being blown away
@@OzyLellowen This; in both clips she showed, the black glyphs clearly change color before launching anything. Black glyphs hold objects down so they can then be launched by changing its nature at the last second.
Okay embarrassing confession time about this fight. When I first watched this fight I SOMEHOW didn’t know about Neon Cat and so thought she was a Golden Lion Tamarin monkey Faunus because her hair for SOME REASON looked vaguely like the fur on their heads. I deadass thought because of this that she was a reference to a dancing monkey and that Flint was her music player. Which is so mind boggling now because a dancing monkey isn’t close to a fairy tale.
ME TOO! I thought she was a monkey Faunus too! When I was told she was Nyan cat I was like, “then… why is she a monkey?” Lol
If it wasn't for the rainbows I would have thought she was a monkey just by how her tail looks similar to Sun's tail.
Dude same. Her tail looked like Sun's too much imo.
Thinking about it, why haven't they made more Faunus based on modern online animals?
@@JanizMakudomaru I want convinced for the longest time one of the other members of Team FNKI was going to be the unicycle frog
I appreciate that Neon wears proper knee and elbow protectors.
Very cute. And proper Battlegear in case she does get knocked over.
Can I just say, that I love Neon's weapon! Despite being such as simplistic design, it's creative to see a pair of glow stick nunchaku that actually bend and snap, and that's even how she activates the dust inside her weapon.
RWBY today could use more weapons like Neon's if they're going to keep giving important characters more seemingly mundane weapons.
Science nerd here, Yang probably couldn't float in the instance you remarked on, unless the vortex from flynt was causing a significant amount of lift. Of course, this can be hand waved my dust magic.
Also, I cannot count the number of times I have watched this fight just because of how fun it was. A lot of the small details pointed out in this video were things I already noticed, but it was great to see things I also missed.
One fun thing that I always remarked on during the fight was whenever flynt was actively playing his trumpet but had some kind of facial reaction, his mouth would move and even show teeth behind the mouthpiece. Can't really make mouth movements while playing a trumpet, and showing teeth would just stop playing altogether. I play trumpet, so these are the little things I notice.
I think its supposed to work like a faster version of those things from Portal 2, where its designed to keep the target inside the cone while it pushes you away. But yeah, that's not really something that is easy to justify with physics . . . "Its -magic- dust, we don't have to explain it"
My favorite fight will always be team JNPR's first fight. Jaune calls out "Flower Power" and everything just stops while the team try to figure out what he's talking about. Just the meta humor poking fun at team RWBY's combo moves, only for Nora to one-shot the opponents.
That scene firmly cemented Nora as my favorite character
"Nora, just hit them with the hammer"
Oh yeah!
"We are trying to have a fight"
"AND WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION, thank you very much"
"Too bad all that money can't buy skill" apply cold water to burned area
I just wish Flynt had a more interesting fighting style. At the end of the day he essentially just has a gun that he points at his enemy, he doesn't really show any particular skill other than his one duo attack with Neon. The random flips he sometimes does before attacking just make me seethe because they're clearly trying to inject some style with absolutely no purpose, as opposed to everyone else who incorporates styles into their fighting naturally; it just comes across as lazy.
Of course his weapon also brings up the question of, if a person just standing still and playing the trumpet can rival other huntsmen, why pretty much everyone doesn't use this weapon.
It would be cool if his weapon could shapeshift into different brass instruments, like a tuba with such a low pitch that it causes the earth to quake. Or maybe a tenor horn that functions as a portable mortar, or perhaps a saxophone that can hypnotize your opponents. Maybe even a vuvuzela that can play the most annoying tune in the world at earsplitting volume.
After watching this again I can't help it laugh at the two yangs because it looks like the other one is trying to talk to her and she just throat punches her
For a single frame, there was a battle of "Which Yang gets to be the real one" lol!
Oh my God she was shooting ice shards? My stupid ass thought she was doing that spam move like she did on the train this whole time!
17:08 I never noticed but the explosion has some rainbow sparkles on it, I guess because of Neon's semblance. Great analysis, I love watching these
Flint has the best design and weapon and I’m totally not biased because I’m a trumpet player. The drip is too much, and the overconfidence on this man is so accurate to us trumpet players. Because we are the coolest in the band, I don’t make the rules, but thems the rules
Also, my favorite fight strategy is the ‘piss them off’ strategy. It’s something I use in my writing all the time cause it’s a great strategy for an MC to use
He also has a solid design too. Black white grey and a pop of cilor on the hat and collar. But the layering on the outfit is just *chef kiss* and the way his pops of color change whenever he uses his semblance.
Cant argue with the drip.
There's a reason Spider-Man does it
Flint has an amazing design to me as a black trumpet player too. Shame his name is from a racist joke
@@Asch72611 it is a shame, cause Flint is a cool fist name.
8:17 "Someone get some Ice for the Icequeen, that burn was severe"
Okay. I loved this.. it may be from a later season.. but I Really wanna see Qrow vs Tyrian. ~♡♡
As for my favorite fight in the tournament.... mercury and Emerald vs Coco and Yatsuhashi
i second this
That was actually a pretty good fight to me.
@@theamazingmaymay123 right. It proved that raw power doesn't win a fight. It even showed how formidable Mercury is even when outnumbered.
I would like to point out that Flynt's Killer Quartet clones do exactly what he does, each one slightly delayed from the one before.
This means that Flynt can play a single line of notes in such a way that when the delayed repetitions overlay with each other, it actually sounds better than his solo playing.
I miss how Yang shoots her gauntlets. Proper haymaker swings to launch those projectiles instead of the current ones where she throws kiddie punches or hell shoot as if she's megaman
2:25 I think Weiss is using the black glyphs to push herself forward against Flyns attack,
14:40 I don't think that was a goof, I think that's meant to be the 3D equivalent of a smear frame; when it's playing at max speed you read the movement properly and it looks smoother; yeah it doesn't work if you slow it down, but it's not meant to be slowed down; it's meant to be watched at normal speed. They've done it before, I'm sure Adam had like 6 arms in shot because it was moving so fast.
I was about to say that, I think it's straigth up called 'duplicates' in animation, is pretty similar to smear and stretch effects.
yeah that's why its hard to judge animations frame-by-frame, if it looks fine in real time that's really the only thing that matters. some of these points seemed to overlook that aspect of animation
Don't forget Blake in practically every fight she has(though in her case it's diagetic)
I love Weiss’s reactions and general “what the fuck?” look when something strange happens.
Flint could've dropped kicked Weiss in the face when she was on the floor, hell anything then just turning his back to her all so she can try and take him out.
Man this fight became my personality for a bit when I first watched it. I muttered "never miss a beat" when working and STILL listen to Neon to this day. I even tried taking the advice of the song for a while to smile more and calm the hell down lmao
7:14
Well I can only imagine being a cat Faunus means she’s “naturally limber.”
Still I never really got what the point of her “rainbow semblance,” was. Did it add to her evasiveness? Or was it just a nod to her Nan cat inspiration and that’s it.
8:16
Somebody call the burn ward, cause Weiss just got a third degree. 😲
Definitely points to Flint and Neon for using the strategy of intentionally pissing off you’re enemy’s. After all it’s said that “if you can get you’re opponent angry, there already 20% less effective.” And not allot of people do that.
Apparently it is similar to Rubys ability where it is produced by her going at full speed although it probably does make it harder to hit her because you know there’s a giant rainbow trail
@@charlottewalnut3118
Really?
I’d have thought leaving a trail would make it easier to lead the shots.
Looks like an acceleration Semblance to me, what with one shot of her coming to a full stop before instantly boosting to max speed for a charge like she's in a modern Sonic game
One of my favorite fights of the entire series, instantly became one of my favorite episodes when it came out for the music, vibes, and awesome use of powers ^^
I like this fight because despite still having her "punch first ask questions later" attitude with fighting, yang is still willing to fight smartly
The double Yangs could have actually been an attempt at an animation smear in 3d? It's hard to tell but it's not always a goof when you see something odd like that.
"Plot" won the day. My boy Flynt and home girl Neon shoulda won
2:30 weiss' glyphs are imbued with dust. The black glyph is gravity dust that she uses to manipulate the gravity around the glyph, to make something heavier (like how gravity dust bullets hit harder). & when she launches off of it, she immediately switches to wind to launch. You can see the black glyph turn white when she launches something
Making your opponent angry can backfire severely and it's what caused them to lose the fight since that's what that emotion is for
They're making a angry made her focus even more and think even smarter
Also Weiss was using those glyphs to prepare her for its awards him not to hold her in place that's why she stumbled forward like that
Also please do more of these I love these fight sences videos so much
I really enjoy the singing coming from Weiss's gliffs, and the following vocals in the music, it's a fun way to highlight her fight with flynt and call back to how she's canonically a singer.. dispite us rarely seeing that in the show.
I would love to see this fight (and many others) remastered in Maya
Ah, the old animation fills me with nostalgia.
Is it wrong I kind of like it more than the current style?
No, the animation made everything feel defined and really enhanced the fight choreography early on. The action just feels meh now.
14:22 Yo look at that gradiant on Yang for this frame, it'd actually look pretty cool to see that as a design for her ngl.
"I wasn't saying you should go on a diet I was saying you really kneed to go on a diet"-Neon Kat
Ruby and Blake sitting in that scene always gets me. They look so funny.
Heck yeah, another fight scene analysis video! I was excited for when this'd come out
Perhaps regular glyphs and gravity glyphs can do the exact same things, gravity is just much stronger. However I think only gravity glyphs can be passed through, they have a pull to them that keeps people in the center of the glyph, or they can launch people, so basically glyphs can do anything lol
Your’s and Twins videos are the only thing getting me through this long hiatus for the next volume, so thank you for the content!
I love how the music finally fit the scene in this fight. It was *mwah.*
i love how neon and flint make weiss and yang angry, while they both remain in a somewhat happy state.
which... gives them an advantage....
well now it just sounds like the emotion system from omori
Came from the Volume 7 Watchalong to see that The Crow meme.
Gonna propose here:
Notice how after the force from Flynt is gone, she goes lurching forward? I think instead of locking herself down, Weiss was using it to push herself forward. (Oh, I'm noticing people are also catching this)
Also yes, animation clones in a particular synch, or delayed synch is not fun, nor easy and it's one of those subtle details I always go "Fuck yeah bro" when I see it.
ah yes, my favorite character, "Weapon: Trumpet"
Imagine if Yang used the loose shotgun shells from all the shots she fired to make the ground uneven for Neon's roller blades
I thought the circles on the floor were where Neon was doing circles around yang
18:38 gave me "Infiltration Cinder running on the rooftops" animation vibes.
Another great analysis. I love Neon as a character but I'm also glad you called out all the things that made this fight look janky or feel wrong because of the characters' logic. When Yang charged at Neon, it could've been much more dynamic AND drawn Flynt's attention if Neon had dodged/grabbed onto Yang and twirled them into an insanely fast spin, completely controlling Yang's attack and turning it to Neon's advantage, THAT could've been the "uh oh!" moment that made Flynt abandon his finishing move with Weiss.
This season was plagued with si many strange narrative choices when it came to the fights and the characters' logic in them. Not only did things feel too long AND too janky-fast at times, but the fighters' actions and responses didn't match up with what we'd been shown of them so far.
Omygod the neon song is my everything, this is the most fun fight, and this season is the best season.
Edition: Neon's rainbow trail is 100% necessary to complete the reference. Neon Katt is Nyan Cat
Hehe poptarts.
So yang has always had long range blasts? So what was the point of her detonators in volume 7?
Yeah I don’t think they were much of an upgrade. And her long range blasts are first seen in her trailer before the show itself. And that trailer is supposed to be canon but eh I guess.
@@danyh12 She did use the same shots when the team fought the giant nevermore
@@Awesome_Pichu oh yeah I remember that she shot it in the face lol.
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Being able to detonate on demand is a pretty useful ability. For one, she doesn’t have to aim as long as she secured an attachment, and even if she didn’t, she could simply lay a trap. It might not be necessary all the time, but it could give her an edge against something impervious to bullets or against tunneling foes that spend less time in a state where they can be hit. Slip a mine on them and blow them up when they try to hide.
Bomber Man has remotely detonated bombs as an upgrade that let you control when explosions happen instead of racing against your fuses. It takes a lot of risk out of laying your bombs, so I can picture similar utility for Yang.
Can you analyze the bestest fight (in terms of choreography imho) Pyrrha Vs. team Cardin. It’s truly a master class in establishing op characters without making the enemies dumb.
I never noticed that small detail of Flint changing the direction of Neon! That's crazy
Just to bring up the double Yang thing, it’s a very common animation trick for 2D animation
I can agree the mistakes were made but it helped them fix some of there flaws and this was a fun fight because I saw these in so many amvs but mine was sssn vs indg I'm not sure how to spell but yeah and it's actually fun to see the team actually interact with each other than their love interest
16:30 hey wait a minute, I recognize that shot, that's from Gurren Lagann, nice reference.
And the fact that when Yang lands the final shot on Neon, she OBLITERATES her. She just disappears
As a rollerblade skater like Neon, I really don't think she should have been able to do even half of what she did but I love it nonetheless because she is such a fun character and also anime logic is a good enough excuse for me.
This was a super fun fight and still probably one of my favorites.
To be fair, she is a cat, and her tail would allow her to balance in all sorts of ways humans couldn't
@@onyxcummings6115 oh its not the balance stuff, its more so the jumping, you do not lift that much when you try to jump* in skates lol
It's not my favorite fight, but I'm happy people like it! And hey, at least this fight is funner then most of the fights in volume 8.
I would Absolutely Love to see this Reanimated in the Maya engine, I hope thats something RT does in the future is go back and Reanimate some fights from volume 1, 2 and 3 just for like a one off video on their website or CZcams.
Maybe in the bit where yang got duplicated they were trying to do some classic smear to show the speed of her movement
Okay but imagine if they took the most interesting characters from both of the RWBY team fights instead of having half of either one being random extras
Arslan, Reese, Flynt and Neon… no idea wtf acronym you could make with that, but it’s there.
I can't wait for winter vs qrow
Wow yang used shadow clone jutzu 😂
flynnt and neon are my favourite characters
Yess great analysis as always and wow idk why I just realized Neons sleeves are designed to look like piano keys!! This fight is and always will be iconic and I hope to see/or have confirmed that FNKI is still around in future volumes
bro how you not gonna talk about Neon just disappearing after yangs shot x))))
I’m going to be honest I always thought neon was a monkey faunus and not a cat faunus
"u bad" -neon kat
God, this fight was great.
FNKI fight best fight. shame that the other 2 members of their team ended up being super lame
They don’t even speak.
Ikr. There's a fanfiction I found a while back in which the other two were based on the Kool-Aid Man and Inigo Montoya and they're so cool. It makes me so disappointed that we got stuck with such uninspired trash as Kobalt and the other one I can't remember the name of.
I was doing an experiment involving rainbows and my cat
One of my favorite fights from the entire series
It would have been cool if weiss sacrifice had made flint being out of match but the fight is still cool
Yes thank you so much! I remember first watching this fight and having to replay the little scat rendition oof this will be the day a thousand times over because its so GOOD
I wouldn't consider that Yang clone an animation goof, it's just one if those tricks we animators use sometimes to better show trajectory, movement and speed
Im mixed about the double yang thing, because I cant tell if it was a goof, or an attempt at doing a smear frame. you already pointed out how they did the weird stretch smear for neon, and doubling is another way to do it. But its weird that they only did it once if they were trying to do it.
overall though i did like this fight alot when i first watched rwby. It was probably one of the more fun fights and it didnt have another stomp ending (the rwby, jnpr, AND SSSN fight kind of end with everyone being taken out at once which kind of sours the fight for me). This one felt like a more balanced fight. My biggest gripe is that I wish flint could have had an actual fighting style. Standing his ground and playing the trumpet is cool, coco kind of does that, but she can also fight up close. Imagine Flint skillfully dodging while he plays or fighting with his feat when people get close. Maybe even go the basic route of having him beat people with his trumpet, or use the trumpet for movement
this and Qrow v.s. Winter are the best fights hands down
14:40 "I've never seen an animation goof where there's two of the same character" in one piece's Davy Back Fight, there's an specific frame where there's two Zoros, One is fighting and the other is standing there looking 🧍♂️
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This was one of the first fights I've seen of rwby it was different from the others and very enjoyable seeing our main characters have to resort to a completely different fighting style
Also blake and ruby running to sit down was too funny
18:39 whenever i see little animation errors like this i just imagine hearing like little cartoon bone snaps.
kinda funny :)
Also we can see that the model of Weiss has nothing in between her legs literally as in like there's just nothing of a atmospheric destruction! Look I know that they could like be worried about Underwear shots, But Yang wears shorts I feel like Weiss would be someone who would wear something underneath that skirt to keep her dignity about! This is the real reason why 95% of all anime Magical girl shows have the magical girls wearing swimsuits as part of their uniforms! It doesn't look good when your legs look like they're literally coming out of the ether! Also isn't it Interesting that neon is focused on taunting Yang, When she has a bigger connection to Weiss being you know former family friends and all!
PS: Also cats are liquid I should know I have two and she is a cat girl
I saw the community post and I have been excited to watch it ever since.
I've always pronounced it as finicky for some reason lmao. I have no clue why.
Maybe black glyphs is weiss using gravity dust since they both attract and repel her and others like and super glyph
I wanted to ask if you could take into concideration reviewing a fight animation clip called kate in circusland? (by hyun's dojo community)
I find it pretty fun.
Okay, about that jump. You're right but Im really dusty in my math/physics stuff. Yang jumps for a second, a normal jump might I add, goes off screen and then the next second she hovers back from she came from for another second. For this to happen in the way it does Flints trumpet must exert enough force to cancel the force of the initial jump from Yang but that doesnt explain the hover. Since Flints is a constant force and Yang isnt she should either slide to the ground or be sent flying depending on the force impose on her by Trumpet.
For yang to hover like that she would have to need something exerting force behind her or below her. Gravity it still pulling everyone down at all times.
This makes me think Flint's (weapon)Trumpet might act as a sort of wind tunnel on its own. Which implies Flint has to have some mighty lungs to be able to destroy the concept of physics like that!
Lets just say it was the wind dust.
@@Mike_Dubo I was trying to capture more of a real world physics parallel rather than speculate on show lore. Closer thing I can think of for an horizontal zero gravity hoover is one of those planes that go high altitude for 0g.
At around 2:40 I think Weiss is using the black Glyphs to push herself forward, because the wight ones would only keep her in place and she wants to overpower Flynn's trumpet
Woo! An analysis of one of the most creative fights in RWBY
I can't wait for an analysis about Yang vs Mercury!! or Emerald and Mercury vs Coco and Yatsuhashi
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I would love to see your analysis of some of Arcane’s fights
At 14:40 I don’t think that’s an animation goof. I think that it’s actually supposed to be a smear frame, witch is a frame meant to convey motion bluer when you can’t . A common technique when doing smears is two have two of something which you can see often in cartoons from the 30s or more recently in frozen 2 with the wolf chase scene on some frames Olaf has multiple of the same limb. Though I can’t say for certain we would need to ask whoever animated that scene to know for sure
"Shotguns aren't known for their accuracy" yes, that's why they're used to hunt flying, moving small targets called "birds". Shotties are commonly perceived as inaccurate high-power close-range guns because game balance needs them to be. In reality, they're anything but. The problem with them is that you need smart ai to take advantage of your far wider windows of vulnerability. Plus, they don't have nearly as good armor and cover penetration, even if they blow thinner things way harder than ARs (like doors when breaching). Overall, shotguns deal less damage when up against armored targets (which is safe to assume most modern warfare participants are, to a certain degree) but excel at utility and are much more reliable.
And to go off on one, I mean just look at the nozzle of a shotgun does that long steel tube look just for decor to people? I mean for real, if the pellets get blasted out at the chamber part (aka the beginning of the shotty barrel idk I'm not good with fancy gun structure words) and their momentum moves them forward, is that nozzle there only to, like, make them reach farther by a distance equal to its length? It's there to diminish spread so the fucking thing can hit at a reasonable distance the small unarmored targets it was made to hunt. In fact, snipers are less accurate than shotguns. Yeah, I said it. A sniper needs not only a shooter but also a spotter. That isn't just for company so the sniper doesn't get lonely. The thing has monstruous range and damage, yes, but when you need more skill to hit shit with it than you need with just about any other ballistic weapon then it's the point you realize the weapon isn't accurate. The shooter needs to be in order to compensate.
Flynt didn't hate Weiss he hated her dad, she was unfortunately the only Schnee present so he took his frustration out on her
I liked Neon but i found her constant insults got a bit old really fast
It cut to Jaune as he also cares about Weiss
I find it really convenient that Neon is a cat faunus, and her last name just so happens to be Katt. That can't just be me 😂
Her whole design sthick/gimmick and semblance were designed intentionally.
@@grubhubgenjutsu I know. I just think it's funny that her last name is a homophone for the animal that she has the attributes of. Lionheart is another example of this
Honestly I didn't even care about the small technical errors in this fight. I've watched it a million times because it's my favorite, so of course I noticed some of them, but this was still when CRWBY was getting their bearings with animation. I freaking loved the music, the taunts, and the parings. To me, this fight was RWBY at it's peak, even if Rooster Teeth was still figuring out the technical aspects.
Also, while Weiss's white glyphs are meant to serve as platforms, they have yet to be used to keeping her upright when there's a strong force pushing against her, like the force from Flint's trumpet. The black glyphs repelling her serve to counteract the force that's pushing her backward. This is also why she rushes forward so much when he stops attacking her. I think it would've been a little clearer if the glyphs were slightly angled towards Flint to demonstrate them pushing Weiss towards him.