RWBY Getting A Manga Series In 2017
Most of you may know RWBY from seeing on YouTube. Rooster Teeth’s award-winning anime series that tells the story of four different girls brought together for one legendary purpose. Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang are students at Beacon Academy, an ancient school designed to train the monster-slayers knows as Hunters and Huntresses.
Unfortunately, monsters aren’t the only threat in the world of Remnant, and if these girls want to graduate, they’ll have to learn to work together – both on the battlefield and in the classroom.
This week VIZ Media announced that the will be partnership with Rooster Teeth, the Austin, TX-based entertainment and media company behind the globally acclaimed animated series RWBY, the first western anime series to be distributed to Japan.
“The Rooster Teeth-VIZ Media partnership will showcase the strong creative vision and production expertise between our two entertainment companies to expand the vivid and exciting world of RWBY globally in bold new ways that fans will love,” says Beth Kawasaki, Senior Editorial Director for VIZ Media.
“Through RWBY’s manga, readers will discover more about the RWBY universe and delve deeper into the characters and story-lines they love, as well as go on all new adventures,” said Rooster Teeth Head of Animation Gray G. Haddock. “We are thrilled to be working with VIZ Media to bring such a beautiful manga to RWBY’s audience.”
VIZ Media and Rooster Teeth will focus on developing products across a variety of publishing formats based on RWBY, starting in 2017 with a release of the RWBY manga series.
