Spoilers Batman Ninja
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^But the Teen Titans got "their own" movie fairly recently, The Judas Contract. And the Suicide Squad have "their own" movie coming up soon. So that phrasing wasn't clear.
I'm very curious to see how The Death of Superman will compare to their first animated adaptation of the story, Superman: Doomsday.I am definitely looking forward to The Death of Superman. I still remember when I was a young lad waiting in a long line with my dad to buy the comic. He dragged me along so I could buy another copy for him, as the purchase limit was one per customer, and he thought it would be worth a lot of money someday.
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Which is my point. You seemed to be talking about them as if they didn't count, but they do. It's true that for most of the DC Universe DVD series, they've limited themselves to Superman, Batman, and Justice League movies, and it's been years since the last solo Superman movie. But they have diversified beyond those three things again with the Teen Titans and Suicide Squad movies -- and really Justice League Dark too, although they stuck in Batman as insurance on that one.
Sooo...anyone else watch Batman Ninja?
One of my favorite things of total absurdity was the Batmobile turned Bat-Coach at the very end. The highlight in an artistic sense was the scene with Red Hood and the Joker.
Weird makes you sleepy?!
I don't have a lot of experience with it. i did watch some back in the early 80's. Mainly Speed Racer and Star Blazers. My 17 year old niece loves anime though. She's learning Japanese in high school because of it.
Sometimes it does. If something is too weird it can bore me which can make me sleepy.
I loved that, too! I also loved "the Batmobile turning into the Batwing turning into the Batcycle" sequence.
I thrive on weirdness, which is why I love both this film and Legion.
I can't say since I haven't watched much anime beyond a handful of films like Grave of the Fireflies and the like. From an uncritical eye, it seemed like typical anime fare to me.
I don't think there really is such a thing as "typical" anime, because it's not a single genre, it's just a catch-all term for all animation made in Japan for Japanese audiences. That can include everything from silly comedies to intense melodramas, from love stories and sports-centric shows to bloodsoaked ultraviolent action, from goofy shows for preschoolers to hardcore fetish porn for adults only. It's a much wider range of stuff than we get in American animation, since Americans tend to stereotype animation as being for only certain categories of show while the Japanese use it for every genre. Although the range of anime shows that get imported to the US is generally a limited cross-section that fits our interests and expectations, which helps create the impression among Americans that anime is more narrow-focused than it is. Although maybe that's less the case in recent years than it used to be.
Apologies for the thread necromancy but...this wonderfully bonkers film is getting a sequel!
As someone who loved the absurdities and all of the first film, I'm just as surprised as anyone that we're getting a sequel but I'm excited to see it.
Dubbed Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League, the sequel will once again see Batman travel back to feudal Japan to deal with a new period-appropriate threat. While plot specifics are currently under wraps, WB did reveal through the film’s website that Koichi Yamadera would return to play Batman in the Japanese dub, and that it’d once again be directed by Junpei Mizusaki. Production-wise, the key creatives from the first film—namely writer Kazuki Nakashima (Promare), character designer Takashi Okazaki (Afro Samurai), composer Yugo Kanno (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean), and co-director Shinji Takagi—are all returning alongside Mizusaki.
At the time of its release, Batman Ninja was fairly well-received, mostly for how well it adapted the Dark Knight and his entourage and villains for the feudal period. It was later adapted into a manga that won Best Comic at the Seiun Awards, and also inspired a short-lived stage play in 2021. The sequel comes as WB is trying to bring DC characters into the anime space with the Suicide Squad: Isekai series airing in Japan this July.
That same month, WB will have a panel at Anime Expo on July 4. Hopefully we get a first look at the film there, and an actual look at how Batman’s war against the Yakuza in whatever year he’s been pulled into this time.
At the time of its release, Batman Ninja was fairly well-received, mostly for how well it adapted the Dark Knight and his entourage and villains for the feudal period. It was later adapted into a manga that won Best Comic at the Seiun Awards, and also inspired a short-lived stage play in 2021. The sequel comes as WB is trying to bring DC characters into the anime space with the Suicide Squad: Isekai series airing in Japan this July.
That same month, WB will have a panel at Anime Expo on July 4. Hopefully we get a first look at the film there, and an actual look at how Batman’s war against the Yakuza in whatever year he’s been pulled into this time.
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