Jakey

So a funny thing happened. AGAIN (Spoilers for the title of the RWBY anime. If you don't wanna find out now) So I have a personal Startpage I run locally on my computer, it has a custom RSS feed and weather and whatever. The point is I was trying to find RSS newsfeeds for things I care about. Podcasts, entertainment news. So I get the bright idea of seeing if there's an RSS feed for Team RWBY project, They seem to have some kind of WordPress type feed thing so should be easy enough. I go to the site subdirectory for news that's open and public (team-rwby-project.com/news) And of course, there's no RSS feed button cause the year is 2022. So I get the idea to add something to the end of the URL, I write team-rwby-project.com/news/rss and voila I find the RSS feed text.

As I'm adding it to my site I spot something weird.

It says RWBY and some Japanese text as the title. Looks like it was put there around October last year when the RSS and news feed was made. I wonder what that translates to...

Holy fuck

I can’t sleep, so we’re doing a sleep-deprived political reading of chainsaw man part 1, Spoilers inbound.

Alright, the simplest reading of chainsaw mans political messaging is about the meaning of labour and worker abuse.

It's about how Japanese society directly breaks people in the way they are treated and expected to work. The phrasing of "contracts" being made with powerful devils seems pretty deliberate. Especially in the way that the literal bosses of every organization are either literal devils (Makima) Or will do things just as bad. The theme of, "You have to be crazy to work here" is one phrase that's shown and expanded upon with each of the characters. The problem is that “here” means everywhere. You have to be crazy to work, period.

Denji

Denji enters the story missing parts of his body and living in poverty. Eating cigarettes because it’ll get him cash. Unable to ask for a happy life because he’s barely even living one. In a conventional story, Denji would rise to higher ranks to make more money or suddenly come into massive wealth, but that isn’t what happens.

Pochita is seen as an asset, something to use for just his value and nothing more until he meets Denji. 

Something special about Denji nobody really talks about is that he never dreams of labour, he only ever dreams about living a normal life, never the means to which he’ll get it.

He simply does what he can to survive. When Pochita brings Denji back to life he doesn’t tell him to get to work or to put his powers to use. A key difference between the contract Denji and Pochita make is that it’s not an exchange. Nothing is lost the same way other devil hunters make contracts. He leaves all of it up to Denji and simply asks to see his dreams. He only ever wants Denji to keep on dreaming.

So he does.

Until Makima comes in, at least. See, there's also the very subtle subtext about how Makima literally controls the uneducated worker with promises that can never really go anywhere. 

Taking control of his desire and motivations to make him a better worker or, as she phrases it, “dog” (Check out my writeup about Denji and Boobs for a little more about that.)

The System

Most characters who play directly into the system or accept it end up dying pretty horrible deaths that can be blamed on someone above their level. Makima is untouchable because she can move any damage to her onto the average citizen. It’s a method of avoiding responsibility. Governments try and create a tax on shitty practices? The company still does it and just raises prices on people to compensate. Wanna raise the minimum wage? Hope you enjoy an unnecessary price increase on your coffee because some dickhead can always offshore the cost to the average person.

Aki and Power both end up playing into the system and suffer for it. Makima gives the trio a healthy situation and living space and promotes the idea of a family that the system can ultimately take away at any time if you aren't working the way she wants. It almost seems to mimic how the current Japanese obsession with work is almost entirely responsible for the low birth rates because these big companies and governments are the only ones who can give you the chance to start a proper family. They’ll never give that because the culture is so backbent in their favour in the obsession with work.

Also, Denji sings about unions once, which quite literally is the process of workers coming together to use their power to benefit and control their future. 

But what’s the point? What’s the point of Makima’s fascism? The point of Leftist Denji and everything. 

Well, the answer is in cinema.

Makima mentions that in her perfect world, there are no bad movies. Denji rejects this. Denji knows that the world isn’t that cut and dry and that people will find love and value in different ways. Makima is an agent of modernity. The ideology of “everything has a purpose.” In Makima’s perfect world, there are no weak people, there is no suffering, and there are no weak humans, there is no Denji. There are no bad movies. 

Makima is every producer, she’s every studio note and screen test. She’s not on the side of art or humanity, she’s on the side of whatever the system deems correct.

Denji doesn’t give a shit. He isn’t the post-modern hero that needs to understand and question the system. He’s honestly maybe even past that point. I’m 100% certain he doesn’t have an answer to fixing the world, but he knows Makima isn’t it. So Denji breaks free and does what he wants to. He decides to go to school to learn. (Realistically, he is not paying attention in classes, but you learn more than just the curriculum at school)  He decides that his life is gonna have all kinds of movies, and nobody’s gonna decide how he makes his. 

Someone made a youtube video about the leak which is pretty wild. I'm not a leaker or anything like that so I appreciate them going over it either way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTDFl70DrVA

In other news, I once again accidentally came across information that actually somewhat lends itself towards which studio might be doing the team rwby project anime. I'm still looking through more info but I likely won't make a formal post giving sources because I don't want some overexcited animators to lose their jobs because they might have broken an NDA on twitter.

One piece of useless information is that the Japanese marketing firm Junni most likely made the website.

So for anyone unaware, I made a few discoveries that kinda heavily prove Team RWBY Project is going to be an anime. I saw some confusion about the stuff I found so I might as well clear up some info.

What the hell is a subdomain

I gave a brief explanation of it in my last post but basically, a subdomain is something you add before your regular URL that takes you to a different part. It isn't a separate domain or a new site. More like your homepage vs a link to a specific tweet. Like how Roosterteeth.com leads to... itself but store.Roosterteeth.com takes you to the merch store.

What if they're just doing it for copyright like Nintendo?

This isn't like Nintendo buying fake pokemon or mario game sites like "pokemongray.com to never use them" you will only find a subdomain if it's supposed to be there and is usually intended for use.

More subdomain information

These were the subdomains I mentioned last time:

I did not find these myself. I am not a hacker. I simply found out that Virustotal automatically does it to all sites it scans.

The test.team-rwby site has a login popup meaning unless you have a username and password you cannot get in. This is where they most likely tested the site before making it public on the normal URL. I actually left out a specific detail. There is a fourth subdomain called test.anime.team-rwby-project.com This is likely where they are holding the anime site and information where people like us can't reach it. I didn't share it because I didn't want anyone to spam it. But just it being there is proof.

How is it proof? What if the subdomain is for something else like recaps about [American] RWBY?

Alright, this'll be a doozie here. So stay with me; and take this long-ass list

I mentioned last time from passive DNS replication the Team RWBY site is connected to other various anime/film sites. I mentioned the slime isekai and healer girl but the list is very long and includes a lot of anime and even live-action film. I included a list of every website that touches the same IP. Specifically, I'd like to look at a recent example.

ten-sura.com is the regular site for the slime isekai franchise. But it has a subdomain called movie.ten-sura.com this site is up and active and is to promote the upcoming film. Just based on that I think it's reasonable to assume the Team RWBY site is intended to be a sort of hub for this General-Weiss/future/whatever AU and the anime project is the first major announcement we're getting from it.

Something you'll notice in the list of Url's is that the ones about anime specify it. Like pripri-anime.jp or burn-the-witch-anime.com

It does not seem like they use the word to describe anything else besides anime. So I personally 100% believe this means we are getting an anime set in this AU or whatever.

Why not an OVA?

OVA's are incredibly expensive and blu-ray sales cannot support them alone. The anime industry is heavily pointed towards film and series production so I'm placing my bets on a 12-24 episode anime to fill the time before/after volume 9.

What about the Bandai Namco connection?

For anyone unaware, my last post mentioned that a sizeable amount of the passive DNS replication sites had something to do with Bandai Namco, in most the connection is really strong, Rifle Is Beautiful, My Name is Yours, One Punch Man S2, Eureka Seven, Burn the Witch, New Black Rock Shooter and many many others all have Bandi Namco Arts or another Bandai Namco company attached. I have gone through many of them and besides 1 or 2 anime nobody cares to translate information for it looks like Bandai is involved in almost every film/anime and are be involved in funding/production for each of the sites. You guys are free to check it as well. Anime News Network has a comprehensive wiki on all things behind the scenes for anime.

Goodsmile?

I remember some tweets mentioning GoodSmile retweeted the RWBY announcement. And while we typically associate them with figures. I also found out they really enjoy funding/producing anime. Now some of the anime mentioned in the list are Black Rock Shooter and One Punch Man. You guys can do with that information what you will.

Which studio will animate it?

IDK lol. Someone could go through and figure out every single studio and what they're currently working on but both companies have worked with what feels like every studio. So someone else can handle that. We're probably gonna find out in March anyways.

Where does that leave us?/Conclusion

Well, hype. In a single sentence it's just:

We are getting a RWBY anime based on some sort of new AU they wanna start and build in Japan, also maybe Bandai Namco Arts and GoodSmile are involved in some way.

Yeah so I was looking into some guy claiming the site had malware (Which I still doubt) and ended up finding a list of subdomains for the site.

If you don't know already; a subdomain is something you add before your site that goes to a different part. Something like store.yoursite.com

So I found a small list of subdomains in my search for malware on team-rwby-project.com I didn't find malware but I did find this.

So yeah. I may have spoiled the surprise but it is 100% an anime series.

But that's not all, I decided to look into it further and found some connections to other websites from passive DNS replication. Basically other sites that contact the same main IP. And it ranged from websites about that slime isekai anime to "healer girl" and others. And through each site, I found a many of them had to do with Bandi Namco being involved so it's maybe they'll be the co-producers/funders of the anime? Either way, I'm certain we are getting an RWBY anime based on the subdomain.

Speaking of which I actually did try and view the website but the only thing there is a placeholder text on a white screen saying the URL. But the fact that it doesn't go to a 404 and it actually sends that back is huge. It likely means the site is hidden behind the test subdomain concealed by a username and password. It's most likely going to be revealed during the march anime convention thing.

Another part I found is that the regular team RWBY site was possibly made around October or November of last year.

Pranked my sister??!! (GONE WRONG?): Yang plays a prank on Ruby telling her that in second year it's customary at Beacon to kiss your close friends goodbye on the cheek. Weiss is flustered. Jaune is confused. Penny is just vibing and 100% ok with this.

Heat sink: Penny: I believe I feel something towards Ruby, I am unsure what to do... Jaune: Just tell her how she makes you feel. Penny (unprompted): Ruby when I'm around you, my heat sink becomes 5 Percent less efficient. Ruby: ... Penny: That is all

Bad hair day: Blake finds out that everyone except her dyes their hair as she proceeds to get her mind blown by her friends and mentors with drastically different hair colours. All the while she keeps her own secret... Blake is bald.

Crazy Stupid RWBY: A mid 40's Taiyang is distraught when his second wife files for a divorce. Left to wallow in his sadness in a nearby bar he is helped up by a Sun Wukong who can't help but pity him. Sun helps to teach Tai his mildly problematic dating methods while Sun finds himself actually falling for an unconventional gun-obsessed red-head who his techniques don't work on.

Eye spy: Adam is a "handsome" assassin who's doing what he does by seducing his targets and killing them at their most exposed. In reality, he's horrible at this and the story is just various chapters of him trying to be an "alpha podcast guy" but failing every single time to disastrous results.

Film production AU: Oscar is a young director hot off the press on his first indie film and has been handed a blank check by SDC entertainment to make whatever the hell he wants for his next film. Join him through the process of trying to make a movie with an unusual cast and crew.

Best Boy: Ruby Costuming: Blake Writer: Jaune On-set facial-body FX and makeup: Pyrrha On-set sound and post-production sound design: Ren FX and Ballistics: Nora

Also featuring the (strange) lead actors! Cinder Fall, Yang Xiao Long, Weiss Schnee, and Mercury.