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RWBY: Ice Queendom

Japanese anime television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ112876230
Source-derived summary

RWBY: Ice Queendom (Japanese: RWBY 氷雪帝国, Hepburn: Rubī: Hyōsetsu Teikoku; lit. "RWBY: Empire of Ice and Snow") is a Japanese anime television series produced by Shaft, based on the American web series RWBY created by Monty Oum for Rooster Teeth. The series aired from July to September 2022. A manga adaptation illustrated by Kumiko Suekane began serialization in ASCII Media Works's shōnen manga magazine Dengeki Daioh in June 2022.

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Production and release

In February 2022, a website for a RWBY project, dubbed the "Team RWBY Project", was opened with future announcements listed to come. The following month, an anime series was announced on March 25, 2022. It is produced by Shaft and directed by Toshimasa Suzuki, with chief direction by Kenjirou Okada, visual director by Nobuyuki Takeuchi, animation concept by Gen Urobuchi, scripts written by Tow Ubukata, and music composed by Nobuko Toda and Kazuma Jinnouchi. Nobuhiro Sugiyama (Shaft) designed the characters for animation, based on character concepts by illustrator Huke. Sugiyama was the chief animation director alongside Hiroki Yamamura (Shaft), Yoshiaki Itou (Shaft), and Rina Iwamoto. Kana Miyai, Hiroto Nagata, and Kazuki Kawada (the latter both of Shaft) are the main animators.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “RWBY: Ice Queendom” as japanese anime television series. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where RWBY, Queendom and Japanese can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as japanese anime television series. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q112876230. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from RWBY: Ice Queendom” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.