Hello everyone and welcome to the Ruby volume nine round table. I am your host Jack Patillo You might know me as the voice of junior from volumes one and two nine years ago. I guess at this point Let's introduce everyone starting over here who were you sir? I'm Eddie Rebus head writer of Ruby I'm Barbara Dunkelman voice of Yang Shou Long. I'm Carrie Shawcross and I'm the showrunner. I am Lindsay Jones and I voice Ruby And I'm Aaron I'm the art director Yay Claps for us round table claps Let's dive into it. So volume nine a little bit different from the rest of Ruby that we've seen before So where did the idea forever after it come from? Whew, that's okay. That's a big question. There's a lot of history there So way way back in the day. This is like I think between volume one and two We had this idea of like yeah, we could maybe do that Alice and Wonderland kind of themed thing That was actually going to be a tangible place that was between the fall of Atlas and what came next And that was Eight years ago at this point We kept writing we kept writing and we got to the end of volume eight and Atlas falling and we're like well We still want to do this But maybe we'll do it a little different Yeah, the idea with volumes seven through nine was always that it was going to kind of culminate in like a personal story with team Ruby Okay, maybe this island ever after idea could be worked into at the end of volume eight And it would be a really great place to kind of reset get away from the main narrative and and actually let team Ruby all have some time together make it feel a little bit more like volume one just in the sense of being more focused hair things down a little bit, you know most crazy You're a down a little back to basics. Yeah extreme visuals simple themes Yeah, yeah So is that why you want to do it right now like it's a good spot to fit it in? I'd say so yeah, I think we knew even before we wrote them that volume seven and eight the fall of Atlas was going to be It's gonna be a low point It's gonna be a low point and it was gonna be a lot. Yeah, I think we all kind of felt like Let's let's take a little bit of a breather, you know, and do something different So you're saying this is like a pressure valve essentially where you can have some fun with it sort of brings some energy and some positivity back A little bit. I mean, I think this is probably something we'll get into later But it's it can be kind of hard to get to some of these more like character driven things when the world is also in Yes, right. How do we take away that threat a little bit or at least temporarily so that we can address these things without it feeling like Hey, I know this character sad, but the things are on fire. Yeah What are you gonna do about everything kind of stuff? Yeah So this is the way for us to balance that a little bit. Yeah, it would feel really weird to kind of Pause it while everyone's kind of still on remnant, you know, trying to figure things out We really wanted time for the four main girls to be able to do that with themselves Yeah, yeah acting standpoint just from Ruby's perspective I like that we already had her kind of attempt to escapeism or a little bit of a pause on all that disaster This happening front of her through the wishes with gin now we get to experience that in a bigger playing field The literal world that they're exploring and where you can divulge into your feelings Yeah, when you cry at rains and maybe we're gonna get in some feelings. I don't know maybe It also felt really good to get a little bit more meta with it and dive into a fairy tale setting And it just felt like a really appropriate place for it That's always been such a core of Ruby and the creation of all the characters and the plot lines and everything like that Like every character is based off of storybook character mythology everything like that And so to like really dive into that fairy tale atmosphere I think is like so cool for this volume cats are real Cat ears Sorry, I should have known I've seen plenty of cartoons. It's the ninth volume, you know And I think we want to take a step back and kind of ourselves look at this series and and these characters and this world and and be able to have like a little Commentary on that too. So I think with all of that and all of this this production going on during the pandemic I think this is a volume that we all needed and that'll become more clear as you watch Oh Come on Oh Ruby arrow fell What what the heck's an arrow fell Thanks for watching this deeper dive into this week's episode of Ruby if you want more come back every Tuesday after episode And we'll talk about it and have fun and go watch the episodes on Crunchyroll every Saturday. Please go watch it by You