Batman Ninja Collection

Koichi Yamadera

Wataru Takagi

Rie Kugimiya

Ai Kakuma

Hochu Otsuka

Daisuke Ono

Akira Ishida

Kengo Kawanishi

Yuki Kaji

Junichi Suwabe

Takehito Koyasu

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Atsuko Tanaka

Kenta Miyake

Anna Mugiho

Juri Nagatsuma

Satoshi Sawada

Kozi Hashiguchi

Shuhei Morita

Takanobu Mizuno

Takashi Okazaki

Junichi Yamamoto

Hiroya Iijima

Yasumasa Koyama

Masanobu Nomura

Tatsuya Sasaki

Jumpei Mizusaki

Yugo Kanno

Kazuki Nakashima

Bill Finger

Bob Kane

Kamikaze Douga

Ryusuke Chayama

Jumi Lee

Nahoko Iiyama

Hokuto Sakiyama

Keiichiro Watanabe

Michael Uslan

Ayumu Miwa

Doug Moench

Tetsuro Satomi

Ittatsu Shimizu

Kiyoshi Hirose

Romanov Higa

Ryusuke Sakamoto

Masuya Takahama

Hideaki Abe

Kouta Sugawa

Hiromitsu Saito

Midori Kato

Yoko Miki

Toshihisa Yokoshima

Chalermpol Inlom

Graham Nolan

Mai Aragaki

Akira Gonpei

Makoto Kanemoto

Hiroki Saito

Kouya Takahashi

Masaki Urakami

Ichizo Kobayashi

Norifumi Kiyozumi

Syouhei Nishitani

Takahito Okawa

Kazuya Saito

Yoshihiro Sono

Takuji Yoshimoto

Keisuke Shiraiwa

Muneyuki Hatakeyama

Saori Honda

Yuki Ishikawa

Yutaka Araki

Thanasit Chaipanyawong

Takuya Saito

Kazuya Yamanaka

Morihito Abe

Yoshihiko Ishiguro

Shunsuke Yoshida

Yasutoshi Iwasaki

Yukina Kosaka

Dai Matsuzaki

Takuji Miyamoto

Fuminori Kizaki

Yuki Narita

Yoshikazu Iwanami

Koji Nozaki

Shunya Iwamoto

Akiko Fujiwara

Tsubasa Goto

Satomi Takizawa

Tatsuya Asakura

Miwako Hida

Manop Jangsataen

Kei Masaki

Chie Saito

Satoshi Sakai

Hiroshi Mitsuhashi

Hayata Inagaki

Koichi Yoshino

Yasuhiro Itō

Kenji Sakai

Maki Yamakoshi

Naoki Yoshibe

Bruce Timm

Haruko Kitakura

Daisuke Sajiki

Animation

Action

Science Fiction

ニンジャバットマン

DC Entertainment

Warner Bros. Japan

YAMATOWORKS

Japan

United States of America

Gimly

Okay, so I'm about to totally rail on _Batman Ninja_, but before I do that, I wanted to open it up with the following disclaimer: I thought multiple times throughout watching this "I wonder if this could be the sort of thing that's fun if you watched it in a group setting?". Personally, I watched it by myself, on a bad day, bedridden, feeling very, very unwell. And that's the experience I'm reviewing.

Movies don't have to be grounded to be good. They don't have to be be standardised to be good. They don't even have to make sense to be good. Sometimes a movie is just silly fun and everything else is moot. But most of the time, the better a movie is (ie. The more you as the individual viewer are appreciating your experience) the more nonsense you are willing to forgive. It's easier to suspend disbelief, even a great big fat disbelief, if everything else in the movie is working. If not everything is working, but you're only called upon to accept a small amount of ridiculousness, then that will generally fly. But in some movies... In some movies, there is absolutely nothing that is working, and yet those same movies will ask you for the biggest, fattest suspension of disbelief of them all. _Batman Ninja_, is one of **those** movies.

I could probably pick any one aspect I disliked about _Batman Ninja_ and write a full length review based on that single issue, but I generally try to keep these things pretty short, so rather than get into the plot, the deviation from source, the character choices, the dubbing, the animation style, the sexism, the science, the lapses in logic, the design choices, the dialogue, the nonsense, the inconsistencies within its own defined setting, the fact I was so bored at one point I literally fell asleep, or any number of the problems I've either blocked out or to list would require spoilers, I'll skip over all of that and simply say: This is the worst Batman movie I've ever seen.

_Final rating:★ - Of no value. Avoid at all costs._

**TOTAL CRAP**

TLDR

The story itself has a lot of potentials. The outcome is in short total crap. Dialogues are childish and silly. I was wondering if I saw a Power Rangers movie. Seems to me a cultural obsession of Japanese people with Robots. Instead of a focus of deep characters, too many figures made it more confusing. There was slightly nothing about Japanese culture in the movie. Somehow it seems that the whole film was produced by 8 year olds. It has to just be a Ninja movie. If you go that road just add zombies, aliens and Godzilla to it. Total trash in short. Good animations don't make up for a silly and childish fantasy.

It's Batman Manga. It's Batman Japanese style and that really doesn't work.

Some of the character redesigns are good, the Joker and Two-face look great, but the rest are meh and only really work because of the setting, but are otherwise a little less than inspired. I mean, Nightwing they phoned in, his redesign looks like, well, Nightwing present era. Red Robin also has the bare minimum of effort to change from present era Gotham to ancient Japan.

But I guess... Voltron was the reason why it really flopped with me and when the monkeys hit it was just too out there, too manga, too anime, and not batman enough for me.

And the thing is, for a character, Batman would lend himself to Japanese comics a lot easier than a lot of other characters, so to watch it fail like this was painful.