BATMAN NINJA - New Anime Feature (2018)

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

October 05, 2017, 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

Main Stage 1-D Presented by AT&T

Warner Bros. Japan and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment team for an eye-popping addition to the Batman animated legacy with Batman Ninja, a spectacular, all-new anime film coming in 2018. Be among the first to witness the premiere of colorful footage from this imaginative take on Batman and many of his connected characters. Panelists will include director Jumpei Mizusaki, character designer Takashi Okazaki, screenwriter Kazuki Nakashima, English-language screenwriters Leo Chu & Eric Garcia and some potential special guests.

All we know so far...

 

[extra skater]

Batman Lego... Lego Ninja...
And now, Batman Ninja t:

I think it will be good, Batman always had a ninja thing within.
I can even picture Batsy wielding katana swords and throwing those shuriken star darts.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Well he was trained by ninjas like Ra's al Ghul so I guess this will work out fine...

No... No he wasn't. In the TDKT that was so, but there and only there was Ra's a mentor.

 

[super85]

The part about Ra's was "only" in The Dark Knight trilogy, but the parts about Bruce travelling the World and training with various monks/ninjas etc pre-date the Nolan films with like 15-20 years anyway.

I mean Denny O'Neill wrote "The Man Who falls"(Bruce is shown doing martial arts and meditating somwhere in Asia, possibly Korea) in the late 80s and that story was included on the Batman Begins DVD as one of those stories that inspired the film. Chris Nolan even namedrops it (one of the few times he namedropped comics) when being interviewed.

 

[Omegabat]

Batman was trained by Kirigi and David Cain among various others. Both of them were LOA members.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Could be good...

I remember back in the late 80s/early 90s there was an article in a US martial arts magazine entitled 'Is Batman a Ninja?' that went through the pros and cons pretty well. I kept it for years but can't seem to find it now. Doesn't seem to be online either.


Edit: Okay this was the magazine...

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/90-original-ninja-karate-batman-115182478

... but can't find the article anywhere

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Looking forward to seeing Batman's design...

 

[Dark_Lord]

 

[eon001]

If it's anything like Batman Of Shanghai, then I'll be down.

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[Milk Tray Guy]

That artwork is

 

[Boom]

Oh my.

 

[Pennywise]

Collider has a livestream from NYCC where they had the panel. They obviously don't show the trailer during the stream, but there's a lot of interesting info on the project. The timestamp for the link isn't working (I'm guessing because it's still live as of now), but it's the first panel of the livestream. It's easy to find by hovering the mouse over the video's timeline and watching the thumbnail preview.

 

[Mindreaper21]

Batman with a sword in an Anime?!?! This is a dream come true!

 

[Dk1201]

I need to buy this now!

 

[Pennywise]

Batman Ninja, the upcoming animated film coming from Warner Bros. Japan and directed by JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure’s Jumpei Mizusaki, is a simple enough idea to wrap your mind around: Batman and co. are flung back through time to medieval Japan. But the few seconds of footage screened today at New York Comic Con showed that the story writer Kazuki Nakashima (Kamen Rider Fourze) and character designer Takashi Okazaki (Afro Samurai) have crafted is unlike any Batman story we’ve ever seen. Though the movie isn’t quite done yet ahead of its 2018 release, it’s already one of the most visually daring and astonishing Batman stories Warner Bros. has ever produced.

Picture Batman, decked out in shogun’s armor and wielding a katana, charging at the Joker, who’s also brandishing a sword, but draped in a fanciful, ancient Japanese courtier’s outfit that’s overflowing with tattered ruffles that bounce along with his maniacal laugh

On a tiled roof, the pair crash and slash at one another in a dizzying flow of gorgeous swordsmanship and the Joker taunts Batman that, even in this unfamiliar time and place, he’s still every bit the bloodthirsty killer he was in Gotham. The scene jumps to a quick montage of fight scenes and we see that it isn’t just Batman and the Joker who have been displaced. Nightwing, one of the Robins, Harley Quinn, Penguin, and Gorilla Grodd are there as well, and they all look like avant-garde, high-fashion, concept-art versions of themselves.

Harley takes on a group of enemies with an impossibly large mallet on what looks like a boat, and her fighting style here is less focused on just smashing things to smithereens and more about gracefully confusing the hell out of anyone silly enough to take her on. The animation style is an interesting blend of traditional 2D and subtle hints of CGI that give certain elements of the film—like the Joker’s hair—a dreamy, eerie weightlessness.

Just when you think things can’t get anymore fantastically off-kilter, the Batmobile revs onto the screen, crashing through the scenery and wreaking all kinds of mayhem before the teaser cuts to black.. While DC and Warner Bros. have yet to post footage of Batman Ninja online yet, here’s a look at NYCC’s exclusive promotional poster for the film:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-batman-ninja-anime-shows-a-dark-knight-weve-never-s-1819185984

This sounds amazing!

 

[BestGirl]

When I saw the title "Batman Ninja" I thought it was going to be the next lego movie.

 

[Lencho01]

This actually sounds cool.

 

[Silvermoth]

I dislike the bat but this is intriguing

 

[Drseuss]

anime style? umm interesting

 

[Boom]

This looks ****ing insane.

 

[Abudefduf]

Lack of animu Batgirl makes me sad, but aside from that, this thing looks stupidly cool.

 

[Lencho01]

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[jondoe]

 

[2kt09]

Didn't realize other villains were showing up...is that Grodd?

 

[Mani-Man]

Looks cool but i would have really loved to see a japanese studio doing a Batman movie in gotham.

In general would it be a sweet idea to have japanese anime studios do some of DC shows.
Its been quite a while since i last enjoyed a animated DC show or movie, if someone can pull it off then its to be found in the japanese anime industry.

Are the DC characters known well in japan? Maybe put some bigger focus on the japanese market from WB/DC.