''RWBY Chibi'' is an American animated

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produced by Rooster Teeth Animation for

Rooster Teeth Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC is an American digital media company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman, Rooster Teeth is a subsidiary of W ...

. It is a spin-off of ''

RWBY ''RWBY'' (pronounced "Ruby") is an American anime-influenced computer-animated web series created by Monty Oum for Rooster Teeth. It is set in the fictional world of Remnant, where young people train to become warriors (called "Huntsmen" and ...

'', where each episode consists of several scenes where aspects of RWBY's characters are usually exaggerated for comic effect. The series was first announced as part of Rooster Teeth's 13th Anniversary celebration on April 1, 2016 and premiered May 7. In January 2017, Rooster Teeth confirmed the second season's premiere on May 13, 2017 on Rooster Teeth and May 20, 2017 on YouTube. A third season premiered on January 27, 2018 on Rooster Teeth and February 3, 2018 on YouTube. While the show has yet to be officially renewed for a full fourth season, a trailer released on May 13, 2021 revealed that ''RWBY Chibi'' would continue via Rooster Teeth's upcoming animated anthology series ''Neon Konbini'', which premiered on May 27.

Voice cast

* Lindsay Jones as Ruby Rose *

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as Weiss Schnee *

Arryn Zech Arryn Zech is a Spanish-born American voice actress. She is best known for voicing Blake Belladonna in the original anime-style CG-animated web series, ''RWBY'' and Dr. Emily Grey in '' Red vs. Blue'', an American web series also created by R ...

as Blake Belladonna *

Barbara Dunkelman Barbara Julie Dunkelman (born July 2, 1989) is a Canadian actress and internet personality. She is known for her work with the production company Rooster Teeth, where she serves as a Creative Director and was formerly the Director of Social and ...

as Yang Xiao Long * Miles Luna as Jaune Arc *

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as Pyrrha Nikos *

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as Lie Ren * Samantha Ireland as Nora Valkyrie * Michael Jones as Sun Wukong *

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as Neptune Vasilias

Development

''RWBY Chibi'' was announced by

Gray Haddock Gray G. Haddock is an American actor and film producer. He is the former head of animation at Rooster Teeth, a production studio in Austin, Texas, where he created the 2019 mecha web series '' Gen:Lock''. He is known for voice roles such as Locus ...

in April 2016. ''RWBY Chibi'' can be described as a comedy series consisting of two to five segments per episode. Each episode has a run time of about three to seven minutes. The series uses both the ''RWBY'' characters and world, but is animated in a different art style. ''RWBY Chibi'' is not considered to be canon, with characters repeatedly breaking the

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. The first season premiered on May 7, 2016, and consisted of 24 episodes, which were aired weekly at the usual ''RWBY'' release time on Saturdays. It concluded on October 15, 2016, just one week before the release of the ''RWBY'' Volume 4 premiere. A second season of ''RWBY Chibi'' premiered on Rooster Teeth's web site on May 13, 2017. The third season premiered on January 27, 2018. The show was thought to have been cancelled midway through Season 3 due to the show's production workload being too much for the company on top of additional projects being undertaken by the animation department at the time. However, this rumor was then disproven when a fourth season of sorts was revealed as part of

's new animation block ''Neon Konbini''.

Episodes

Season 1 (2016)

Season 2 (2017)

Season 3 (2018)

References

External links

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