From comments "Pretty sure nobody who watched RWBY was impressed by the plot, though. The story was mostly an excuse to bring about insane fight scenes - I still remember Black's intro and the gunchucks monkey after so long. Half the stuff between the fight scenes are cringey, sure, but at least it's cringey harmless in a children's show way where you learn morals and friendship rather than all the gritty dark stuff coming out these days.
I call bullshit on this. It has both good plot and character development, and it's not a excuse for fight scenes. To go even as far as to call half the stuff between fight scenes "cringey" is BS. I am not saying RWBY has the best plot and character development of all time, but its better then it's fight scenes IMO.