A television anime based on Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth's RWBY 3DCG web series was announced by Bandai Namco Arts on Friday. The anime series, RWBY: Hyousetsu Teikoku (RWBY: Ice Queendom), is scheduled for a 2022 broadcast. The official website also revealed the main staff, cast, and a key visual (pictured).

Staff
Chief Director: Kenjirou Okada (3-gatsu no Lion, Monogatari Series: Second Season episode director)
Director: Toshimasa Suzuki (Heroic Age, Bakemonogatari episode director)
Animation Concept: Gen Urobuchi (Aldnoah.Zero, Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica)
Series Composition, Script: Tow Ubukata (Psycho-Pass 2, Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor)
Original Character Design: huke (Black★Rock Shooter, Steins;Gate)
Character Design: Nobuhiro Sugiyama (Nisekoi)
Visual Director: Nobuyuki Takeuchi (Natsu no Arashi! design works)
Chief Animation Director: Nobuhiro Sugiyama, Yoshiaki Itou (Hidamari Sketch), Hiroki Yamamura (Bishounen Tanteidan)
Main Animator: Hiroto Nagata (Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden 2nd Season - Kakusei Zenya), Kazuki Kawada (Assault Lily: Bouquet key animation)
Production Design, Alternate Space Design: Rui Tomono (Black★★Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall concept design)
Art Board: Hisaharu Iijima (Mekakucity Actors)
Art Director: Ken Naitou (Muv-Luv Alternative)
Color Design: Hitoshi Hibino (Dance in the Vampire Bund)
Director of Photography: Takayuki Aizu (Fate/Extra: Last Encore)
Editing: Rie Matsubara (Vanitas no Karte)
Music: Nobuko Toda (Isshuukan Friends.), Kazuma Jinnouchi (Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045)
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa (86)
Studio: Shaft

Cast
Ruby Rose: Saori Hayami (Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei)
Weiss Schnee: Youko Hikasa (Rokka no Yuusha)
Blake Belladonna: Yuu Shimamura (Shingeki no Kyojin)
Yang Xiao Long: Ami Koshimizu (Macross Δ)
Jaune Arc: Hiro Shimono (Musaigen no Phantom World)
Nora Valkyrie: Aya Suzaki (Happy Sugar Life)
Pyrrha Nikos: Megumi Toyoguchi (Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei The Animation)
Lie Ren: Souma Saitou (Yuukoku no Moriarty)
Ozpin: Kazuhiko Inoue (Natsume Yuujinchou)

Void_Chords feat. L is performing the opening theme "Beyond Selves." Saori Hayami is performing the ending theme "Awake," composed and arranged by TK from Ling Tosite Sigure (Psycho-Pass).

Rooster Teeth Productions released the 16-episode first season on their website between July and November in 2013. Crunchyroll began streaming the season on their catalog in August that year. The eighth and latest season premiered in November 2020 and ended with 14 episodes last March. A ninth season is currently in development, scheduled for a 2022 debut.

Shirow Miwa (Dogs: Bullets & Carnage) serialized a manga adaptation in Ultra Jump from November 2015 to February 2017. VIZ Media released the manga in English weekly on their Weekly Shounen Jump magazine and published the single volume in January 2018.

Synopsis
In the world of Remnant, humans and Faunus—human-animal hybrids—carry on their everyday lives despite the omnipresent threat of the monstrous Grimm. Dedicated Huntsmen and Huntresses battle Grimm with both customized weapons and their own "Semblances," unique abilities derived from the energy of one's soul. Some warriors also utilize a crystallized energy propellant, "Dust," to bestow their weapons with elemental properties. In this dangerous line of work, rigorous training is required to stay alive. To that end, each of Remnant's four Kingdoms have established schools to properly groom children holding aspirations of becoming licensed Huntsmen.

At Beacon Academy in the Kingdom of Vale, a promising group of future Huntresses make their debut as Team RWBY. Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long each come from different backgrounds and often butt heads as a result. However, when they cooperate, they are a formidable force who have even attracted the attention of Beacon's headmaster Professor Ozpin. Alongside fellow students such as those in Team JNPR, the young prodigy Ruby and her friends engage in adventures which pit them against an extremist Faunus group known as the White Fang. Every explosive encounter also brings them closer to the true villains orchestrating conflicts from the shadows. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Official site: https://anime.team-rwby-project.jp/
Official Twitter: @TeamRWBYProject

Source: Moca News

RWBY: Hyousetsu Teikoku on MAL