Meta Runner - Esports: RWBY Edition

Activelo

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I haven't seen anybody talk about this show, so I figured I might as well make the thread.

Youtube channel [A]

It's created by Luke and Kevin Lerdwichagul, the former of whom created the web series some of you may know as SMG4 (Super Mario Glitchy 4). His thread can be found here. The wiki page on the series is considerably more detailed if anybody is interested. [A]

The general synopsis is that it's set in a world where video games are basically everything. Live streaming, speedrunning, you name it. Since it's competitive as hell and people's social status is determined based on how well you play, it's enough for them to replace their limbs with cybernetic ones to boost their performance. These people are called Meta Runners.

One of them is an amnesiac woman named Tari who finds herself in Silica City after an accident that caused an explosion. Unlike the other Meta Runners, she quickly learns that she has the ability to enter the games she plays. However, this gets the attention of Lucks, the CEO of the abusive and corrupt TASCorp, who wants to recruit her. With the help of a group called MD-5, they work to bring down Lucks and the company by exposing their actions to the public.
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Season 1 and Season 2 can be watched here and here, respectively.

There's also a movie cut of Season 1 if you want to watch it in one sitting.
 

Pixy

Yo, buddy. Still alive
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Considering it's made in Australia, it was a bit odd to see the initial media coverage bill it as an anime. It's partly indirectly funded by taxpayers via grants from Screen Australia (as well as AMD, Epic Games, and Crunchyroll among others), a bit of an oddity considering the federal government's weird disdain for fostering creative industries.

It's a decent step-up from most post-Flash Australian animation.
 

Activelo

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New video on the channel. Mostly just an advertisement for their merch with an animation making fun of memes.
Can't wait for this to become dated.

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Life is Hell...

kiwifarms.net
New video on the channel. Mostly just an advertisement for their merch with an animation making fun of memes.
Can't wait for this to become dated.

Archive (480p):
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Not trying to shit on James Bailey, but he makes for a horrendous VA in my opinion, especially when he became the voice of SMG3, he just sounds really bored whenever he voices a character
 

Activelo

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Season 2 OST is out.

And it is today I learned that I simultaneously love and hate the subreddit.
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If you don't want to see the spoilers, don't go to the subreddit. There's a TON of posts like this that don't have the spoiler tag on them, despite there being a goddamn rule about it, and the mods are either incompetent or lazy as hell.

And for those that didn't like the numerous cliffhangers, they don't like them either.
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It's been surprisingly chill for the most part. The closest thing to drama that I could find is that somebody's been allegedly stealing artwork and plans on "terrorizing" the people who called them out. Judging from their response, claiming that they're only doing it for that precious reddit karma and that Lil_Gem is in on the scheme, I'm 99% sure that they're a kid.
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Moving on from reddit, I've watched this review and it does a pretty good job of summarizing the season, although the guy's hard to understand sometimes. It is kind of funny how he makes some obvious typos, though. (Stroy telling, everyhing)

 

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