User blog comment:QuasimodoBellringer/Quasi's NEXT Top 10 Favorite Characters/@comment-26198742-20171008161337

"he natural progression from lighthearted and whimsical, to dark. Unlike shows such as Puealla Magi, where it felt forced, in RWBY it flt like a natural progression, with Pyrrha's death being the tipping point."

Alright so, I honestly like this list a lot and your picks are pretty nice however I kinda gotta disagree with the point of RWBY's Tone shift being natural when compared to Puella Magi (It's spelled Puella btw but I digress), because it honestly didn't feel that natural when compared to it Puella Magi.

The thing about Puella Magi from my experience was that the tone shift honestly happened the moment that Homura first appeared, it wasn't anything completely obvious and it wasn't anything discreet, the moment that Homura appeared there was something that you could tell changed in the tone just because of Homura's presence while in contrast while the dark tone for RWBY became visible after Yang "breaks" Mercury's leg and the episode following it....the tone for RWBY wasn't natrual and it wasn't force but it was....sudden.

The suddenness of the tone shift for RWBY honestly felt strange because of just how sudden it was and was honestly a bit off-putting in a rather bad way due to the lack of any real build up or any real noticeable hints of the tone going to shift at all, while Puella Magi's tone shift was honestly more developed and had a bit more build up courtesy of Homura and when the tone completely changed with Mami's death it felt more heavy and surprising even though it did feel rather sudden, it was sudden in a way that it could be due to the build up that was already added prior.

Don't take this as me disagreeing heavily with the rest of your reasoning and list, I honestly respect it a lot and I also really enjoy the picks however I gotta disagree with that PMMM part because while I'm not that heavy of a PMMM fan when compared to possibly Para or Soul, I honestly don't think that the tone shift for RWBY was natrual when compared to PMMM.