Review: RWBY Fairy Tales “The Grimm Child”
Overview
In this particular story, siblings Poppy and Oak are playing outside a forest despite their parents’ wishes for them to stay close to home. Poppy dares her brother to go into the woods and finds him with his face pale-white and eyes blackened, with a terrified look on his face. The two rush home, terrified…
Our Take
Adapted from the “Fairy Tales of Remnant” RWBY novel that serves as a series of “Stories within stories” tied with the RWBY universe, and narrated by Professor Ozpin (Shannon McCormick). This new series attempts to fill the void left behind that the “World of Remnant” side-stories within RWBY attempted to do by filling in the gaps of RWBY’s yet-to-be-fleshed-out history that completely stopped after the proceedings of volume 4.
Given that this is supposedly adapting the 6th story within the novel, it also tells us that some of these stories are being adapted in a non-linear order I guess to mix things up. The art style & aesthetic works to convey the colorful story-book feel the show is going for, in combination with decent voice acting that sells the mischief, drama, and genuine terror that progressively escalates towards terrifying levels.
Overall, as far as cautionary tales go for the whole “kids disobeying their parents” lesson, this was kind’ve the extreme of it. People often forget the misconception that fairy tales and nursery rhymes are cautionary tales that all came from dark places that over the decades & centuries were either slightly changed around to be less depressing than they actually were, or changed out of either cultural or artistic interpretation (For example, “Ring around the rosies” was about a plague that killed people or the fact that Hans Christian Anderson’s version of the Little Mermaid had a gloomier ending than Disney’s version), but for a very short 5 min episode, this was a decent jumping-on point for Halloween. And if you wish to see the episode itself which was released for free by Rooster Teeth themselves, click here.
Do we know if Hulu will be the only entity to have the dub, or if it will be on other platforms, too? The show in general is definitely going to be on multiple platforms.