BANDAI NAMCO, Good Smile Company and Rooster Teeth have announce that a Japanese anime inspired by Rooster Teeth's popular animated series RWBY. The new anime, entitled RWBY: Ice Queendom, will premiere on Japanese television, with both subtitled and dubbed versions available on the same day for U.S. audiences on Crunchyroll and Rooster Teeth FIRST. New episodes will pemiere each week.
An official trailer was released to celebrate the announcement earlier this week. Make sure and check it out below!
RWBY: Ice Queendom will include a new RWBY story using 2D animeation. It imagines a world fillwed with horrific monsters bent on death and destruction. Humanity's only hope is dependent upon powerful Huntsmen and Huntresses. Four such huntresses in training are Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao. While each is capable and powerful in their own right, they must come together and work as a team if they hope to become the next generation of Remnant's protectors and overcome the dark forces that threaten their world.
RWBY is one of Rooster Teeth's most beloved, viewed, and shared series. It was created by the late Monty Oum (Red vs. Blue) and is the first western-produced anime series to be distributed in Japan. To date RWBY episodes have accumulated more than 300 million views since its premiere in 2013. It has also spawned video games, comic books, manga, celectibles, and more.
RWBY: Ice Queendom stars Saori Hayami as Ruby Rose, Yoko Hikasa as Weiss Schnee, Yu Shimamura as Blake Belladonna, and Ami Koshimizu as Yang Xiao Long. The English dubbed version will star the original cast of RWBY, Lindsay Jones as Ruby Rose, Kara Eberle as Weiss Schnee, Arryn Zech as Blake Belladonna, and Barbara Dunkelman as Yang Xiao Long.
The creative team is led by Gen Urobuchi (NITRO PLUS, Fate/Zero), Tow Ubukata (Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer), huke (Steins;Gate), and Toshimasa Suzuki (Fafner in the Azure: Heaven and Earth), with additional collaboration from Rooster Teeth’s Kerry Shawcross, Eddy Rivas, and Erin Winn.
The new anime series is produced by BANDAI NAMCO Arts Inc., Good Smile Company, SHAFT, Warner Bros. Japan, KLab Inc., and Rooster Teeth.
RWBY: Ice Queendom is being animated by Studio SHAFT (Puella Magi Madoka Magica).
In the world of Remnant, a place where science and fairy tales coexist, human civilization is plagued by deadly monsters known as the Grimm. For a time, victory by the Grimm seemed all but certain, if not for the heroism of those sworn to protect humanity -- Huntsmen and Huntresses. These warriors are trained and assembled into teams at schools like Beacon Academy, where Ruby meets Weiss and Blake -- forming Team RWBY along with Ruby’s sister, Yang. While team RWBY studies to become the greatest Huntresses the world of Remnant has ever known, they are faced with a horrifying threat...