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Shaft Animates New RWBY TV Anime RWBY: Ice Queendom
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Crunchyroll briefly reported that it would stream the anime with both English and Japanese audio (with both versions premiering on the same date), but has since removed its article.
Rooster Teeth describes the anime in Crunchyroll's removed article:
RWBY: Ice Queendom' presents RWBY in beautiful 2D anime visuals. RWBY imagines a world filled with horrific monsters bent on death and destruction, and humanity's only hope is dependent upon powerful Huntsmen and Huntresses. Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long are four such Huntresses in training whose journeys will take them far past the grounds of their school, Beacon Academy. Though each may be powerful on their own, these four girls must overcome dark forces and work as a team if they truly hope to become the next generation of Remnant's protectors.
Kazuma Jinnouchi are composing the music.
According to Crunchyroll's removed article, of the original English cast and the Japanese dub would reprise the roles for the anime (the Japanese announcement revealed more voice actors beyond the four main characters). The cast includes:
Yōko Hikasa as Weiss Schnee
Yu Shimamura as Blake Belladonna
Ami Koshimizu as Yang Xiao Long
Hiro Shimono as Jaune Arc
Aya Suzaki as Nora Valkyrie
Megumi Toyoguchi as Pyrrha Nikos
Sōma Saitō as Lie Ren
Kazuhiko Inoue as Professor Ozpin 
Other staff include:
- Main Animators: Kazuki Kawada
- Production Design, Extradimensional Space Design: Rui Tomono
- Art Boards: Hisaharu Iijima
- Art Director: Ken Naitō
- Color Key Artist: Jin Hibino
- Director of Photography: Takayuki Aizu
- Editing: Rie Matsubara
- Audio Director: Jin Aketagawa
- Producers: Good Smile Company, Rooster Teeth
Void_Chords feat. L will perform the opening theme song "Beyond Selves." Saori Hayami will perform the ending theme song "Awake."
The anime will also have a manga adaptation (visual seen below) by Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine.
The original RWBY web animated series by the Monty Oum follows four girls with unique weapons and powers who are training to hunt supernatural "Creatures of Grimm."
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publishing the RWBY manga anthology series.
Update: Crunchyroll has removed its Twitter post.
Source: Comic Natalie
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