Rooster Teeth's RWBY anime has its first trailer

Rooster Teeth’s RWBY anime has its first trailer

Rooster Teeth’s animated web series RWBY gets an anime spinoff from the Japanese studio behind it Puella Magi Madoka Magica. The series will apparently be called RWBY Ice Queendom and is produced in collaboration between Rooster Teeth and Japanese animation studio Shaft.

But the announcement of this new series is a bit complicated so far. Crunchyroll originally posted a statement on Thursday, but later deleted it. according to Anime News Network

. However, the project also seems to have both English and Japanese Twitter accountsalong with some official posters and a whole Japanese website with news and details about the series. Despite all of this, there doesn’t seem to be any major announcement from Rooster Teeth himself yet.

RWBY was created by Rooster Teeth (red vs blue, Gen:Lock) in 2013. The series is now entering its eighth season. Rooster Teeths partner for ice queen is Shaft, a Japanese studio that has been making anime series since 1995, including Puella Magi Madoka Magica, nisekoiand the Monogatari series.

According to the show’s website, fans will likely learn more about the project during this weekend’s AnimeJapan 2022 festival, although it’s unclear if that will also feature a trailer. The website also says the series is set to launch sometime later this year.

Update (March 26): This story has been updated to add the first trailer of the series, which was released on Saturday morning.