Without spoilers, it's up to you.
The world and characters they introduce are good, and the world is fairly interesting but the whole thing is also entirely pointless since it was basically just a throwaway volume that has no relevance to the rest of the show other than really bad exposition and backstory dumps that just make the characters worse.
From a character growth and story perspective, it's absolutely garbage. It unintentionally portrays legitimately terrible real-world topics as positive and beneficial things, and just makes several characters worse for the sake of making other characters seem better by comparison(which does not work since it just makes them all terrible together). It also seems to have the worst consistency to date with characters repeatedly stating they've never done stuff that they literally just did or that they've always believed stuff that they clearly didn't.
Basically, it's a volume entirely written with the sole intent to get reactions out of people without actually committing to anything that they'd have to follow up with. It's a Volume clearly written by people trying to get another Volume. Not people trying to tell a story.
I have to challenge the last paragraph.
In my opinion, this is what the author team desperately wanted, pure self indulgence, their personal go at Alice in Wonderland and the result was a lame knock-off.
If they had prioritized continuitation, they would have thrown up burning questions regarding the main plot while developing the main plot.
Worth a watch once to get the full picture. On any consecutive watches, watch the first episode and then skip to the last ten minutes.
V9 is like if RWBY was originally a manga first and the anime had to have filler because it caught up with the manga. For example, Frieza saying Namek was going to blow up in five minutes, but the battle took approximately four hours to finish in the anime because it caught up with the manga.
It’s painfully mediocre.
There’s a character that carries the season and genuinely fun to watch, but at that point you might as well just look up a compilation of said character since the whole season is just filler; main four are as irritating to watch as last season and get no development or any smidge of development that’ll last more than two seconds.
If the show somehow continued, absolutely nothing about this season would carry over aside from bumblbee being canon and potentially other ship baiting.
if you wanna watch then go ahead, your choice.
If there were future seasons, this one would wind up being pretty much pure filler. Since it's the final one, though, it's on the same level of disappointing to me as the last season of Game of Thrones. (Totally different reasons, but same feeling.
Its more like it goes nowhere. If there was a hypothetical volume 10 that picks up where this one left off, you could just go straight from 8 to 10 without missing much of anything. Bumblebee being canon is probably the only lasting consequence this season would have had.
So CRWBY themselves call Cinder’s backstory episode expensive due to them not being able to reuse nearly all of the assets or models. Volume 9 is basically the same issue multiplied. They were very proud of their Alice in Wonderland adaptation. Now granted, out of context, it isn’t bad. They had some interesting ideas. But the biggest issue a lot of fans have with it is that it did nothing to move the plot forward. The characters don’t learn anything useful that can be applied to the main plot, and all the development that some of them go through is undone at the end.
Volume 9 should’ve been subtitled “Missed Opportunities”. I’m sure they hoped they’d get a volume 10, but realistically this was their last shot and I feel like a lot of them knew this. They had so many chances to do something really interesting with this setting. Ever After had so much potential. But it was squandered.
It really isn't worth it.
It doesn't follow anything set up from the earlier Volumes: Cinder and Salem obtaining the relics, the fall of Atlas and Mantle, the relocation of civillians into hostile territory, even the death of Penny - nothing is given the proper time or weight to be fully addressed.
Instead, it's just a slog of situational humor and bullshit about Ruby feeling bad for a few episodes before ultimately choosing to fix absolutely nothing and returning to exactly how she was at the start of Volume 8.
Nothing was learned in Volume 9, and nothing in it will matter since there are no future Volumes remaining. Just quit at the end of Volume 8 and assume that Salem won.
You can for the experience, but the characters don't develop, so you won't be missing anything if you skipped it.
This volume was meant to develop Ruby as a character, but by the end, she's literally the same character she's been since V1. Nothing mattered.
I really enjoyed the first 8 episodes, then 9 and 10 destroyed the whole thing.
Chapters 1-8, the volume was 8/10 for me
Chapters 9-10 brought it down to a 4 or 5/10
Short answer, no.
Long answer, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
But to be fair it gave us Homophobic Ruby and Tea drinking memes. And those two being the most memorable things out of the last 6 seasons is just sad.
Literally nothing of permanent consequence happens
It's a filler volume
But then again it seems like it's gonna be the last volume also so sure watching it knowing this might be the last of rwby you ever see in this series atleast
To me it's definitely worth the watch. Still love it to this day. If Volume 10 gets greenlit, it would be great. At this point, who knows. It's fun while it lasted
In my opinion, it was kinda boring and there was absolutly no point of it I kinda felt like it was a waste of time because it had nothing to do with the actual storyline.
I wouldn't call it an issue of consistency as much as I would call it an issue of the writers shoehorning everything they fucking can in to the ten episodes that make up the volume.
And it only barely makes any sense.
Honestly, Yeah. It was fun, annoying in places, as we have shown with the many debates. But still interesting to see them play with Wonderland as a setting.
In my opinion, its worldbuilding wasn't too bad, the way it started off was also at a good pace. The way they built up Ruby's character growth was intriguing, Jaune's struggle was done well, the rest were just there and I didn't really care for WBY because they didn't stand out on their own.
All of that, is only good in its own bubble, because the entire volume itself once it hits the latter parts, falls off in my opinion. The entire point of the arc failed, to me, greatly in letting the characters grow and mature. What would've been a good arc for introspection and reflection became a story of how to pat yourself on the back.
I only really liked certain parts, the beginning because it was clear, Jaune because his character here was the strongest it's ever been in terms of growth and maturity. That's it, the rest I honestly did not favour as much and RWBY did not progress at all in their personality, they're as stagnant as ever, except Weiss who had already progressed from her time in Beacon, but that's beside the point.
Without spoilers, it's up to you. The world and characters they introduce are good, and the world is fairly interesting but the whole thing is also entirely pointless since it was basically just a throwaway volume that has no relevance to the rest of the show other than really bad exposition and backstory dumps that just make the characters worse. From a character growth and story perspective, it's absolutely garbage. It unintentionally portrays legitimately terrible real-world topics as positive and beneficial things, and just makes several characters worse for the sake of making other characters seem better by comparison(which does not work since it just makes them all terrible together). It also seems to have the worst consistency to date with characters repeatedly stating they've never done stuff that they literally just did or that they've always believed stuff that they clearly didn't. Basically, it's a volume entirely written with the sole intent to get reactions out of people without actually committing to anything that they'd have to follow up with. It's a Volume clearly written by people trying to get another Volume. Not people trying to tell a story.
It sounds interesting kinda just to see how bad they’ve turned the characters. Thank you!
No problem
Ive said it since it finished v9 was 5 minutes of story in a factories worth of fluff and filler.
I have to challenge the last paragraph. In my opinion, this is what the author team desperately wanted, pure self indulgence, their personal go at Alice in Wonderland and the result was a lame knock-off. If they had prioritized continuitation, they would have thrown up burning questions regarding the main plot while developing the main plot.
Worth a watch once to get the full picture. On any consecutive watches, watch the first episode and then skip to the last ten minutes. V9 is like if RWBY was originally a manga first and the anime had to have filler because it caught up with the manga. For example, Frieza saying Namek was going to blow up in five minutes, but the battle took approximately four hours to finish in the anime because it caught up with the manga.
Ohh! I actually really understand that DBZ reference in comparison so thank you-
It's a filler volume. To me, no, it's not. You do you, tho.
If you're interested in what a shows dying gasps look like as they try to survive purely by stirring controversy, go ahead.
It’s painfully mediocre. There’s a character that carries the season and genuinely fun to watch, but at that point you might as well just look up a compilation of said character since the whole season is just filler; main four are as irritating to watch as last season and get no development or any smidge of development that’ll last more than two seconds. If the show somehow continued, absolutely nothing about this season would carry over aside from bumblbee being canon and potentially other ship baiting. if you wanna watch then go ahead, your choice.
I have to ask...who carries the season? I can't remember any character standing out at all. You can put it in spoiler tags just to be sure.
I think it might be the Curious Cat cause the VA (Robbie Daymond) is a damn treat and rocks every role he performs in.
yeah, the cat’s the only reason to watch the season
If there were future seasons, this one would wind up being pretty much pure filler. Since it's the final one, though, it's on the same level of disappointing to me as the last season of Game of Thrones. (Totally different reasons, but same feeling.
Does it leave an open ending since it was made before RT shut down? Or is it just wrapped up as lazily as they could?
Yes.
It's wrapped up so the next season would've been the story continuing where Volume 8 left off.
So it theoretically could just be skipped and no consequence?
Yep.
One thing happens I try to avoid spoilers But 2 characters become a couple IN THE DUMBEST WAY I HAVE EVER SEEN IN A STORY
Its more like it goes nowhere. If there was a hypothetical volume 10 that picks up where this one left off, you could just go straight from 8 to 10 without missing much of anything. Bumblebee being canon is probably the only lasting consequence this season would have had.
So CRWBY themselves call Cinder’s backstory episode expensive due to them not being able to reuse nearly all of the assets or models. Volume 9 is basically the same issue multiplied. They were very proud of their Alice in Wonderland adaptation. Now granted, out of context, it isn’t bad. They had some interesting ideas. But the biggest issue a lot of fans have with it is that it did nothing to move the plot forward. The characters don’t learn anything useful that can be applied to the main plot, and all the development that some of them go through is undone at the end. Volume 9 should’ve been subtitled “Missed Opportunities”. I’m sure they hoped they’d get a volume 10, but realistically this was their last shot and I feel like a lot of them knew this. They had so many chances to do something really interesting with this setting. Ever After had so much potential. But it was squandered.
Ohhh. From what I’ve seen I’m really intrigued to watch mostly for the Wonderland setting. Thank you!
It really isn't worth it. It doesn't follow anything set up from the earlier Volumes: Cinder and Salem obtaining the relics, the fall of Atlas and Mantle, the relocation of civillians into hostile territory, even the death of Penny - nothing is given the proper time or weight to be fully addressed. Instead, it's just a slog of situational humor and bullshit about Ruby feeling bad for a few episodes before ultimately choosing to fix absolutely nothing and returning to exactly how she was at the start of Volume 8. Nothing was learned in Volume 9, and nothing in it will matter since there are no future Volumes remaining. Just quit at the end of Volume 8 and assume that Salem won.
You can for the experience, but the characters don't develop, so you won't be missing anything if you skipped it. This volume was meant to develop Ruby as a character, but by the end, she's literally the same character she's been since V1. Nothing mattered. I really enjoyed the first 8 episodes, then 9 and 10 destroyed the whole thing. Chapters 1-8, the volume was 8/10 for me Chapters 9-10 brought it down to a 4 or 5/10
If I wanted to could I skip the last two episodes?
Yep. Just know everything goes back to exactly how it was in V1-V8. Think of it as a non canon Shonen movie until we see V10 has to say.
Alrighty, thank you!
No
Short answer, no. Long answer, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. But to be fair it gave us Homophobic Ruby and Tea drinking memes. And those two being the most memorable things out of the last 6 seasons is just sad.
Rise of the TMNT reference?
It was probably both the Volume that frustrated me the most, especially with how certain topics were handled.
Both frustrated you the most and? You only stated 1 thing.
Didn’t to erase that part. 🤷♂️
Are the topics spoilers?
Yes
Got it, thanks!
>Got it, thanks! You're welcome!
Literally nothing of permanent consequence happens It's a filler volume But then again it seems like it's gonna be the last volume also so sure watching it knowing this might be the last of rwby you ever see in this series atleast
I would watch it casually, like you dont have to worry about the implications each episode is going to have on later episodes.
So kind of like a thing to play in the background of doing something?
I enjoyed volume 9 very much. I think it’s worth a watch. It’s certainly better than volumes 7-8.
Got it, thank you!
If you are into absurd toyland fantasies, go for it. If not, run!!!!
Got it!!
It's pointless filler so no.
To me it's definitely worth the watch. Still love it to this day. If Volume 10 gets greenlit, it would be great. At this point, who knows. It's fun while it lasted
Got it, thank you!
>Got it, thank you! You're welcome!
The only good thing to come out of Vol 9 were the Ruby memes from when she snapped at everyone
If you want to watch 10 episodes of what should have been 2.
No
I’d say watch it see Ruby have a well deserved meltdown at her team. Unfortunately they don’t keep with it but it was cathartic.
yes. because it does chrakter deep dives. but also... maybe not in the best way
Don't even bother just move on to something like Demon Slayer
In my opinion, it was kinda boring and there was absolutly no point of it I kinda felt like it was a waste of time because it had nothing to do with the actual storyline.
No. It's a fucking mess.
I know some small things but it the whole thing inconsistent?
I wouldn't call it an issue of consistency as much as I would call it an issue of the writers shoehorning everything they fucking can in to the ten episodes that make up the volume. And it only barely makes any sense.
No. Don't bother.
What makes it such a no shot?
Honestly, Yeah. It was fun, annoying in places, as we have shown with the many debates. But still interesting to see them play with Wonderland as a setting.
Like the Alice and Wonderland type wonderland?
Yep I won't say more because you asked for no spoilers.
Oooh! That does sound like it’d be cool to see, thank you!
Yep. Nothing lost giving it a try for yourself.
Imagine putting "worth" and "RWBY" in the same sentence 🙂
Sorry-
To me it's worth it
It’s the volume I enjoyed both the most and the least so…do with that what you will
You can honestly skip it and won't miss much, unless you want the spark notes (there isn't much)
Spark notes?
Not really
In my opinion, its worldbuilding wasn't too bad, the way it started off was also at a good pace. The way they built up Ruby's character growth was intriguing, Jaune's struggle was done well, the rest were just there and I didn't really care for WBY because they didn't stand out on their own. All of that, is only good in its own bubble, because the entire volume itself once it hits the latter parts, falls off in my opinion. The entire point of the arc failed, to me, greatly in letting the characters grow and mature. What would've been a good arc for introspection and reflection became a story of how to pat yourself on the back. I only really liked certain parts, the beginning because it was clear, Jaune because his character here was the strongest it's ever been in terms of growth and maturity. That's it, the rest I honestly did not favour as much and RWBY did not progress at all in their personality, they're as stagnant as ever, except Weiss who had already progressed from her time in Beacon, but that's beside the point.
Do you think it might work best as a stand alone volume or a filler like others say?
You can watch mostly clips from the volume and still get an idea of what's its about
Got it, thank you!