Hey it's been a while since I reviewed one of these episodes but I'm back now to review the volume as a whole. Also this will be my last review for RWBY volume 6. I know that's going to disappoint a lot of you but honestly I just have to much on my plate right now with school and my ship opinion requests, RWBY one shot requests, and fandom one shot requests to go back and rewatch the show and review. So I had to decide what to drop and I chose this. Plus I want my reviews to be fresh so it works better if I do right after the first watch. So I'm sorry if you're upset with me I just have to do this for me. When I have less to do I'll continue with my reviews for FMAB and hopefully I can do better with RWBY reviews once volume 7 rolls around.

Three things I loved about Volume 6.

The pacing: I was one of the people who agreed that volume 5 had really bad pacing. Heck we spent an entire volume in Mistral, a new kingdom, a new place to explore and see and what do we get? Ten episodes in a house, and four episodes of, if I'm being honest, mediocre fight scenes while they tried to save the academy, (except the Cinder v. Raven fight that was amazing). Volume 6 was definitely much better in the pacing department. We never spent to much time in one area and each time we did get to a new area we got some exposition that actually made the new scenery actually sound, you know, like a part of the story. Go figure.

Character development: again go figure. Actually finding out about our favorite characters? What a crazy contempt. Jokes aside a lot of characters got a great amount of growth this volume, not all of them but I'll get to that later. The highlight for me being Jaune, we know he's still torn up about Pyrrha's death, we've seen how he's battling those inner demons. But we never knew the extent of how much he was hurting. So finding out that he actually wishes that he died instead of her was huge for me. He really did need that scene with Pyrrha's mother to understand why Pyrrha did what she did and understand why she was ok with sacrificing herself. I also loved the team JNPR scene in front of Pyrrha's statue in Argus that was a really touching scene and it really felt like the finally got closure about what happened. Very touching indeed.

The music: ok I know this one seems silly but ya'll do not understand how much I LOVE this volume's soundtrack. We have amazing villain songs with Adam's theme Lionize and Neo's theme One Thing coupled with the rock song Big Metal Shoe. Then we have the inspiring opening Rising and the great fight theme Miracle. This volume soundtrack just has so many different styles of music and I love it. Also I'm glad Weiss didn't get another song this volume, spread some love girl.

Now let's get to the negatives of this volume:

Ruby's character development: this is something that everyone has been craving for, character development of the main protagonist. At first I was glad that she was getting development, she finally got a mentor in the silver eyes, took charge when Ozpin was being shady, helped make plans whenever the team was lost. But that's where the good stuff ends. Ruby had too many freaking inspirational speeches. Now you may be saying "what? Jenni that doesn't make any sense" hang on. What I mean by this is, not many of her speeches worked. They were either echoing everything in a previous speech or they were full of holes that made the speech lose some leverage. For example "Uncle Qrow we've done crazy things before and we didn't need an adult to come save us" uhhh you needed Qrow to save you from Tyrian Ruby remember that? Or when Glynda had to save you from Cinder? Ringing a bell? No? Whatever. In fact her final motivational speech I actually rolled my eyes and groaned, I feel like it was a bit overdone toward the end.

The entire Blake and Yang arc: now hang in there shippers here me out. This arc, bothered me, a lot. And it's not because I'm one of those people saying "oh Bumblebee is stupid and shouldn't have happened" or "CRWBY is ruining Monty's vision" this is honestly a problem I've had with the bumblebee ship from the start even when I shipped it and the problem is really with Blake herself. Blake has FOUR canon love interests. That's too many. And it's teased so much with who she could get with which honestly really annoying. By the end of volume five it seemed like Blake had finally chosen Sun as the person she wanted to be with. Which I would've been fine with. But no they have to add so many Bumblebee hints this volume and at the end they're holding hands and giving loving looks to each other. Just UGFFHHGJFJFBBB!!!! *inhales exhales* ok I'm good. Now I've seen people from CRWBY tweet out or say "some things were planned from the beginning" when it comes to BMBLB which is all fine, if they didnt make it look like BlackSun was going to be canon or even Freezerburn for that matter. Heck they even had Blake kiss Sun in the cheek and Yang blush around Weiss multiple times. If they really intended for BMBLB to be canon then they shouldn't have made other ships so obvious after making it seem like Yang's crush on Blake had faded.
And now for the worst thing to happen this volume

Adam's death: You all probably saw the post I made about this. So I'll reiterate what I said there, I'm not happy this happened but I understand why it did. But the reason why I think it's the worst thing to come out of this volume is because it was executed (get it executed?! Huh huh? Sorry I'll go) very poorly. Now I was part of the mindset that maybe Adam could be redeemed but after seeing him in the first episode of volume 6 that went down the drain. Unfortunately Adam was part of a very bad trend. I'm just gonna come out and say it: villains are written poorly in RWBY. There I said it. Any plot we may get for them. Any character development we may get from them is reset each volume, heck even each chapter and acted like it never existed. As soon as we saw Adam's face it opened up a whole new realm of possibilities for his character. But no he dies instead. Honestly ever since volume five his character went downhill. He went from being this amazing fighter and a real threat to our heroes to a yandere ex boyfriend who got jealous whenever he saw his girl with another person. Heck he even screamed at Yang "WHAT DOES SHE SEE IN YOU?!" I think the biggest detriment to his character though was the nerfing of his fighting. Adam has always been a great fighter. We saw him one v one a group of humans in his character short without even getting a scratch on him, and you mean to tell me Yang can withstand an extreme blast from his semblance with only a few scratches to her robot arm? No. As much as I love Yang she should've been obliterated. I get that both her and Blake had more training but they beat Adam way to easily. It just doesn't make sense. And also why did Yang and Blake have to kill him? Because he's their shared nightmare? Well that's stupid. If Adam was really going to die then he should've fallen on his sword or something. I mean heck his fighting style and sword are based on Samurais which are known to have falling on your sword as a way to have an honorable death. Yang and Blake aren't murders it just made no sense. And also where was Yang's PTSD? She has visions of Adam coming for her, her hand twitches whenever she just tries to fight and what happens when she finally faces him? She fights him without any problem and has maybe one hand twitch. Just why?! *sighs* anyway that was what I found good and bad about the volume. Let me know your thoughts.