The essential episodes of RWBY
Watch these 15 in order and you've got RWBY — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Ruby Rose finds herself in the middle of a robbery committed by famous criminal Roman Torchwick. Her efforts to stop him attract the attention of Professor Ozpin, head of Beacon Academy, who grants her special admission to his school.
- 02
Jaune makes the mistake of flirting with Weiss but finds a friend in star athlete Pyrrha Nikos, while Ruby is horrified to learn the details of Beacon's initiation ritual.
- 03
Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Jaune, Pyrrha, and fellow students Nora and Ren fight for their lives against the monstrous inhabitants of the Emerald Forest in their first true test as Huntsmen and Huntresses.
- 04
The Badge and the Burden, Pt. 2
While Weiss struggles with her pride, Ruby begins to really wonder if the headmaster made a mistake in making her leader of team RWBY.
- 05
A new semester at Beacon begins in a messy way as teams RWBY and JNPR go at it in a knockdown, drag-out food fight. Meanwhile, sinister forces gather, ready to strike at an unsuspecting kingdom.
- 06
Blake, restless ever since her encounter with Torchwick, convinces the rest of team RWBY to help her hunt down the criminal. Cinder initiates the next phase of her plan.
- 07
Blake and Sun find Torchwick supplying advanced armaments to a group of radicals, but the two are discovered. All of RWBY must unite to defeat their enemy's newest weapon.
- 08
As the battle for beacon reaches a close, Pyrrha makes a decision that changes everything. When it ends, Ruby discovers there is more to her than she thought.
- 09
Yang still deals with the events of the battle but then finds some enjoyable company and wise words from her father. Team RNJR travels to the next town with surprising ease, is luck on their side?
- 10
Ruby and Oscar begin training in hand-to-hand combat. Yang finds Raven's camp, but the discovery of Weiss' kidnapping sours their reunion.
- 11
Ruby and the rest of the gang meet with Professor Lionheart at Haven Academy, unaware that they are walking right into a trap.
- 12
What is your favorite fairy tale?
- 13
How far would you be willing to go to do what's right?
- 14
The clock is ticking on Jaune, Ren, and Yang's rescue mission. The Ace-Ops hold the line against Salem's forces.
- 15
In which a dessert is assembled.
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