RWBY (ルビー,Rubī) is a web-anime-styled cartoon series created by the-late Monty Oum, the original English Voice Actor of Lie Ren who is succeeded by one of his brothers, Neath Oum in post-Season 2, around the time after Monty passed away caused by illness in 2015.
As part of the tribute to the late-Monty Oum, he was a fan of BlazBlue games, leading the inclusion of almost every RWBY cast in BlazBlue crossover, Cross Tag Battle. The characters are highly based on pre-Volume 3 incarnation, with a bit from Rooster Teeth's own video game RWBY: Grimm Eclipse and post-Volume 2. However, due to being completely new to the cast’s 2D fighting game debut, the differences are:
- The cast’s sprite renders are more detailed due to being drawn in 1080p resolution, unlike 3 other series cast (from BlazBlue, Persona, and Under Night In-Birth) who uses 720p resolution
- Additionally, they don’t have an unused walk forward sprite animation, and like Under Night In-Birth do not have air throw sprite animation. This also applies to sprites of additional franchises which are made for this game.
Arc System Works continue their co-operations with Rooster Teeth in developing a 2D Metroidvania licensed RWBY game alongside WayForward (known for developing its original IP, Shantae, including Arc System Work's River City (Kunio-kun in Japan) series latest game, River City Girls) to be released on November 15th, 2022, RWBY: Arrowfell, which takes place during the events of RWBY: Volume 7, after the episode "Pomp and Circumstance". The game has been written by RWBY writers Kerry Shawcross, Miles Luna, and Eddy Rivas. Many moves from Cross Tag Battle are also present.
Previously, it was first owned by Rooster Teeth, in which Monty previous worked with and created the series prior to his passing. Until, March 6, 2024, Rooster Teeth general manager Jordan Levin told employees the company has been shutdown at May 2024. However, in response to the news of the Rooster Teeth IP rights, including RWBY planned to be sold, a former fight animator of the said animation studio, now the head of Dillon Goo Studios, Dillon Gu express on his Twitter post interest to acquire them, due to their past collaboration with the late-Monty. Until Viz Media owns the rights of RWBY characters in July 4, 2024. It is unknown whether RWBY can still appear in Warner Bros. media, due to Viz Media's connection with Warner, who focuses on handling the distribution of both Viz's new and existing catalog releases.
This makes RWBY to be one of the two series (first being Arcana Heart) appearing in Cross Tag to be previous owned by respective original creators.
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