Just started watching RWBY, and finished the first season. Damn, it's short. Don't quite think it deserves all the praise heaped upon it, but it's good. Enough that I didn't regret the time I spent watching it. So far, I think my favorite characters are Yang and Jaune. Yang because of her devil-may-care attitude combined with her obvious care for her sister (a relationship all too overlooked or turned into stupid sibling rivalry) and Jaune because he's pretty much an ordinary everydude that is way out of his depth but doing his best to step up (after a bit of character development).
Sun, despite his short screentime, is also pretty cool. Can't beat a gun bo-staff that can separate into gunchucks. Also, what the fuck is Penny? That opening on her back holding the swords and her crazy strength is not normal, even in crazy awesome RWBY.