Comments on: A Batman Anime?

By: Anime Freebies & Sales at The Anime Blog

Anime Freebies & Sales at The Anime Blog — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:48:59 +0000

[...] A Batman Anime? [...]

By: Spiritsnare

Spiritsnare — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:36:32 +0000

Rather than do an anime, they should try for the same art style as Batman Beyond, which had some anime-style elements in it and was quite good.

By: griever

griever — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:49 +0000

I thought the whole point of the Batman movie industry was expensive rubber nipples…how’s the anime going to sell without that kind of appeal?

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:19:57 +0000

In general I don’t like US companies monkeying with anime trying to create anime, but that aside, is this actually going to be produced in Japan, or is it going to be made in the US but in Japanese style?

If it is going to be made in Japan then I think that how good it is will depend on the animation company and director. Madhouse seems like it would be the best animation company for a Batman movie. And for some reason I think Oshii would do an interesting job directing a version of Batman — but that’s just never going to happen.

By: Kidan

Kidan — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:11:12 +0000

Frankly, I think it’s just an effort by WB to get more of our money out of our pockets. There’s nothing wrong with that, and I own a few Batman DVDs (including some of the animated stuff), but all that aside, I think Batman would make a fairly decent anime-style protagonist.

My only issue, is that they’re aiming it at such a young audience. Ignoring the core fans, who’ll buy it just because of the giant bat on the package, aiming it at ‘tween boys, means a number of things, mainly the fact that it won’t be that dark of a story. Something more in lines with what we see in BATMAN TAS rather than Miller’s awesome The Dark Knight Returns.

Of course, that could just be me being cynical over American animated fare.