I encourage anyone who despised this movie to watch this video. I think there's a lot of important context we're missing.

From the perspective of "this is to expand the audience, not to appease it", it makes more sense.

If you think about it, the new Batman anime is just one long JoJo opening, since it was animated by the same studio that animated the first 3 seasons of JoJo openings.

If you watch the BTS stuff on the home release, you'll actually learn a lot of the mindset behind the director and screenwriter. They didn't want to just make a Batman film that took place in Japan. In fact, they didn't want to make a typical batman film at all. They wanted to make something distinctly Japan; something only the Japanese could make. They literally say "This isn't Japan through the eyes of Batman; its Batman through the eyes of Japan." Its not surprising at all that some would hate this film as its not at all a typical Batman story. Its just a dumb fun Japanese story using pieces of something westerns know to tell a story that couldn't be made in any other situation.

For all the strangeness in this film and out of character writing/odd adaptation choices I'll at least give these writers credit for recognizing and adapting my favorite thing about Damian Wayne; his almost super human ability to befriend random animals. I swear if you don't know about it you should look up this kids menagerie last I checked he had a pet cow, a great dane, and a what I can most easily describe as a bat-gorilla-cat hybrid called Goliath a pet monkey ninja is exactly the kind of friend I would expect Damian to make on a trip to feudal japan.

I've always been curious about how Japan see's American comic book characters. I like imagining a strange mirror world over there where a small section of Manga shops have place for American Comic books, a Japanese version of Toonami plays dubbed Batman: the animated series and Spectacular Spider-Man, and an ongoing debate in the community over wither or not the subbed version of Justice League Unlimited is better then the dubbed version.

I find it funny that nearly every time America tries to interpret a Japanese character we seem to always wind up with Dragon Ball: Evolution. But when Japan does it and fails we get something terrible but enjoyably cheesy like japanese Spider-Man and Batman Ninja.

Was it a good "Batman" movie? Meh I can see why it would disappoint, was it a stupid fun over the top action fest, heck yeah.

Gaijin: Harley Qwin is a combination of Oichi (Nobunaga's Sister) and Ranmaru Mori (his squire, boifriend, lover and heir apparent) this is shown by her serving sake to him (something both famously did) the ball toy thing (which Oichi is sometimes depicted with) her acting as his aide in battle (like Ranmaru) and of course choosing suicide with the Joker on the boat (also like Ranmaru). And was Mitsuhide Akechi's betrayal really out of nowhere? Nobunaga constantly abused Mitsuhide, called his kumquat head, let his mom get killed in a hostage exchange, and the cherry on top: the burning of that one famous Buddist Temple I can't remember the name of right now. Actions that should be unthinkable for a Samurai are understandable (but perhaps not excusable) if you remember that he is a Man as well. Steadily chipping away at Mitsuhide's pride and face, Nobunaga subverted his retainer's honor and lay the ground work for his own death in Kyoto. Though Mitsuhide lit the flame, Nobunaga had built his own funeral pyre.

I think a lot of people take this movie too seriously, people have gotten so used to the serious edgy Batman they forget there is a ton of ridiculousness in both the comics and cartoons. I really want to see more of this world, DC has enough grim dark movies... And they have suffered because of them

So THAT is why a Warlord with a Chimchar line as a partner is named Hideyoshi in Pokémon Conquest

Honestly, I don't know why people are so down on this movie. It was over the top insanity, and after the first giant robot if you're still watching, you've probably already embraced it. Like Gurren Lagann, you just want to see just how far this insanity can go.

Tbh, I loved that movie. It's insane, colorful, oftentimes random and would make for an incredibly fun videogame. I'd rather have these takes on Batman than seeing another mediocre animated adaptation of a beloved graphic novel like Killing Joke.

*IT HAD FREAKING SUPER SENTAI SHENANIGANS!* *I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE HECK WAS GOING ON.*

*I love this **_Batman Shippuden_*

For an art buff like myself, I _loved_ it! That is some extremely creative design work and passionate animation! Plus it's always great seeing classic villains represented with new visual flair. They killed it with the expressions on Harley and the Joker! I also learned that any problem can be solved with enough monkeys and bats!

the fun begins once you remember "ok this is Over the Top anime meets 60's/Brave&theBold Batman" & then pretty much everything just clicks also i love all the actual JP culture references

I had a fun time with this since it's like one long JoJo op.

That One Punch Man cover, tho.

Boy if Angry joe got his hands on this video, he’d LORD it over his downer friends and proved why he was in the right to enjoy. Goes to show the angry one really has more good taste in Japan than you’d think from a glance.

You know what I'd like to see? Pokemon Conquest has a bunch of Warlords based on figures such as Nobunaga, Ranmaru, Hideyoshi, etc. It would be interesting to see how accurately you believe they (or at least the major ones) match their historical counterparts.

As someone who grew up with Batman since early childhood and anime as well.I really admired what Batman Ninja did and its golden for me in concept and with its nods.Not to mention some of the little details from the art style and design choices.

Heard about this episode at Momocon! I'm glad it came out finally! :D

I see this movie (that I still havent seen) as kind of art project where a artist gives some of his stuff to a another artist and says: "make something cool and have fun" And boi does it deliver, at least for me

The red spider lily (AKA Lycoris) is my favorite flower and I'm so glad you brought it up!

??? One Punch Man theme in the background? Edit: just looked in the description: I KNEW IT! 👊

OMG thank you for the awesome shout out

Batman Ninja was just good dumb fun. It's basically just a self-imposed contest to see how zany it can get before the credits roll.

You know with anime like my hero academia and one punch man becoming very popular take a lot of inspiration from western culture (notably superheroes) while shows like Thundercats 2011, teen titans, the boondocks, and The Last Airbender take influence from Japanese animation. i'm now curious on how people in japan views comic books are similar or different to how we view manga here. i have friends who big fans of anime and manga who only watch like 5 or less marvel movies and comic book friends who only watched dragon ball z and Pokemon so, this sounds like a great topic to discuss in a collaboration with a comic book focus channel like maybe comic drake or linkara or Arris from variant comics. i got this idea when i realize the character Twice from My Hero Academia almost feels like a copy of deadpool from appearance and behavior so i wonder if there's more You're welcome to use this for a future video

So basically the Batman Ninja movie is just Japanese history told with a Batman flair, canon be darned. Alright, that's pretty cool.

I Love that you have Hero playing in the background. Great video

I wanted to watch this, but after seeing this, now I really want to watch it.

The Bat clan is a reference to a story line where Bruce is sent back in time and time jumped forward in time to different periods inivetently creating the bat cult in the process. See dark knights metal story line

Doing a LIVE Q&A on today's video over on my Twitch for an hour or two! www.twitch.tv/gaijingoomba

As an American comic book fan... This actually isn't that weird in terms of the batshit insanity that you can find in comics. Vampirella had a story arc where she had a Mad Max style road trip mutilating people attacking her in a world where nobody could die. Superman had some insane stuff happening during the Silver Age. Spider-Man had the Clone Saga. Comics by their very nature are silly and often insane.

Another brilliant video! On the subject of karakuri puppets, have you ever considered doing a video on the cultural links to both karakuri and bunraku theatre behind the puppet jutsu (kugutsu no jutsu) from naruto? I think it would make a great video

The "Bat Clan" didn't really faze me, due to trying to wrap my head around "Dark Knights: Metal". Imagine Bruce still did that time hopping during "The Return of Bruce Wayne", but Barbatos never subverted the prehistoric Bat Tribe, and as such the Court of Owls was never formed. Instead, in this continuity, we get the Bat Clan. Because comic book logic. Still confused? Good. That means that you are still sane.

:( Why don't I get notifications anymore.... Also thanks for making these videos GG.

I remember playing a lot of Samurai Warriors when I was younger, a bit of a spin-off to the Dynasty Warriors series. But thanks to those games (mostly the first one) I actually knew Every single person you talked about here, and what they were well known for! My first thought when you mentioned Harley was actually Lady No (or Noh), but I haven't actually seen Batman Ninja, so I'm not sure how close the reference would be. Still, keep up the great work, Gaijin! This is still my favorite series on YT

I’m so happy you mentioned karakuri puppets and the shogi pieces

@Gaijin Goombah Media dear gaijin goombah, i love your videos and i hope you and your little goombah buddy keep up the great work and i hope you do genji please

I liked it...

so glad you made this people often forget that context is king especially when judging something as artistic as this

That hidden content thing happened to me, too! I'm subscribed to Chuggaaconroy, NicoB and BaerTaffy, among others, and when I go to the Playlist tab on their home pages, everything is missing that isn't in a group or a liked video of theirs. KZfaq HAS to fix this.

Please do a Samurai Sentai Shinkenger video.

Hey can you please do a which ninja episode on Ayame from Gundam Build divers.

Trying to learn, but too distracted by the awesome One Punch Man theme in the background! That flute work is amazing!

I saw the trailer for this anime and i totally got hooked on the style and the plot as shown in it! That would great to see!

nice touch.

I thought the movie was cool anime+comics cant not like it even if it isnt accurate with batman

I'm a little surprised you didn't mention the Aomori Nebuta Matsuri references. Especially as you showed bits of the exposition sequence that featured figures in that style.

Nice, I tweeted at you asking about more the movie. Thanks alot, glad its worthy content. Watching it, it was silly and over the tops, but it also felt very authentic somehow. Hearing about all it got right thematicly makes sense.

one punch man music/(theme)\ acoustic style?

So how about a review on the Super Sentai that focus on Ninja themes?

You should check out the Batman Manga. It was written during the time of the Adam West Batman. It’s interesting, I found and read the copy’s that were available in my towns public library. Oh and it was awesome meeting you at Momocon. Can’t wait till you do your Golden Kamui video.

I actually gained an interest in Feudal Japan from the surprisingly semi-accurate depictions in the "Samurai Warriors" games, so I totally fanboyed when you showed the Akechi vs Oda fight cutscene. :)

I can't understand the shift in animation when Red Hood finds Joker. I saw something similar in the dlc mission in Asura's Wrath and part of an episode of Samurai 7. Is it just lazy animation or supposed to mean something more?

Does this mean Despacito 2 confirmed?

I freaking new it about the Daimyo's! I was not sure cause maybe I was over thinking it but you definitely confirmed it.

Seeing the Batman Rouges getting into Mechas was friggin hilarious

I agree on the point of this movie being made for japanese audience and not so much for americans, it's a good movie in my eyes, but probably because I just saw it as it's own thing and didn't directly saw it as another batman movie

As a Batman fan I couldn't really enjoy it. Hell I clocked out at the monkeys gathering together to form a monkeyzord. Red Hood was waaaay to psycho and Damian was too nice. Dick and Tim at least seemed the same. It wasn't a bad movie. It was just a bad Batman movie in my opinion.

I feel like some one told the animators "here's these characters, here's these anime tropes, have fun" and have fun they did

I think the Hide Bat Clan is a reference to the Bat Clan in DC Rebirth. When Bruce was hit with Darkseid's Omega Beams, he was sent back through time all the way up toward the Stone Age. Through many exploits (though not anything drastic) he unknowingly gained followers right up until the point he was returned and the Bat Clan was able to survive until the modern day.

Yeah, I still hate this movie. I appreciate you digging into the culture tho.

It isn't good. Under The Red Hood is good, Mask Of The Phantasm is good. Batman Ninja isn't.

In the scene were Batman was surronded by jokers soldiers there is one of those soldiers to the bottom right that uses kendo techunice and i love that detail that just means the creators really took it seriusly

I finally got around to watching the movie and it certainly was a wild ride, then came here. The black tea actually still made sense, as when you go to the past it is natural to get if someone reacts with surprise to something, it must be something not available in that time/location yet. And I perfectly understood the lycoris flowers reference thanks to .hack//AI Buster using the themes of lycoris flowers, especially given how one character is named Lycoris. Good stuff.

I love that you're using a cover of the One Punch Man theme in the background. it sounds really good

@Gaijin Goombah Media I know I’m not a Patreon, but for the next episode of Which Ninja, I really think that you should do the Ninja Monkey from Bloons Tower Defense 6. The game just came out today, and Ninja Kiwi slipped in lots of cultural references that I think you’d really enjoy. I won’t spoil them, but they’re awesome, definitely check it out!

This is my i love your Video's Gaijin it make's me want to do my own research into the history and culture of Japan and other countries! Keep up the amazing work!

Digging that OPM opening cover in the background at the start, and this video makes me excited to see this. (which I was.... a bit less so, after hearing how much they crammed into it's relatively short run time.)

Excellent choice of music

I figured this movie was made more for Eastern Audiences from the start. However, it was nice to see some cultural and historical context unveiled for the daimyo Penguin, Ivy and the others superseded. My favorite reference though has got to be the black tea as it relates to Alfred, my favorite member of the Bat family. I figured that green was a staple until the Meiji restoration, whether or not there was an isolationist ban on travel/trade. P.S. Oh my Hideyoshi! Grodd actually has the political savvy and the same headdress as his Japanese counterpart. And I remember you explaining this "first anime from Japan" thing with Hideyoshi caring for Nobunaga's sandals before, so that is a timely reference with that clip before cutting to the "Joker outright stealing Nobunaga's thunder" section.

Dude, I love the cover of OPM's opening you put in here. Reminds me of something I'd hear in Naruto.

I nerded out the entire time. I agree with what you have said that is more just a good. But the historical parallels are amazing. And the mixing of genres was immaculate, especially animation and style changes and differences like we see in modern anime.

Hey, Gaijin Goombah Media , re: your questions ending at 9:20; except for Giant Batman, I was under the impression that he was switching back and forth with the bat swarm... more of a combination of Bushin and Kawarimi no jutsu

I've only watched clips of this movie on youtube, so I've not seen the hole thing yet. From what i can see this movie does give a new twist on Batman an giving a different twist on the characters.

Enjoyed the collaboration panel at Momocon.

I had a feeling about tat theme in the background being the Hyuman remix of the One Punch Man theme One Slash Man

I may not have seen the movie before, but I can't help but be amazed by the art style. It's so beautiful to me! 😍

that on punch man theme in the background is just perfect

I remember encountering a statement about Batman. That Batman can interpreted many ways. As someone who had seen many visions of Batman, as well as enjoying Japanese culture as well as enjoying giant robots, this movie was fun.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the Drifters anime.

Yo you gotta do a Which Ninja on ninja Kikyo from Bravely Default. What immediately caught my eye about her is that she emotionally can’t speak unless disguised. Not even when only around coworkers. What next caught my eye is her boss fight where she personally handed me my ass like it was enemy intel and I was her boss

that background music, One Punch Man :D, that aside, great episode. I'm actually going to watch this movie as soon as I possibly can.

This is awesome, I don’t think I’d be into the movie all that much but I love all points you made

You know, I watched some of your videos about ninjas and then watched some of the previews. I saw Red Hood and realized that it was a Kummaso Monks mask.

I was waiting for this video and I was not disappointed.

i love that they reference the bat tribe in the movie from when bruce was shot thru time to primitive human days and unintentionally became a legend used as their deity as they spread across the world all the way to present day in the comics.

Literally just finished watching it and then your video came up in my subscription feed

The Bat Clan in the movie lines up with a lot of Grant Morrison stuff, particularly the Miyagani Tribe indigenous to Gotham.

First seeing commercials for this movie I thought "I might get it. See what it's like". Now after seeing this..."I'm so getting this movie!"

I had to check the voice actors, because Joker saying "Joker-sama da" sounded so familiar. And, well, of course it did. Shout outs to my man Oku (also gorilla grodd is dio so yea)

Hey for your next which ninja episode you should look at Blackstar from Soul Eater

Batman Ninja is my fave animated Batman story ever when it comes to the look and execution of it all. Now put that in a US story and you'd really have something. 😎

Only thing I really want to add, Bats starting to doubt himself was supposed to be a dramatic narrative showing that Batsy had become too reliant on his Tech (which they have actually done once or twice in the Batman comic line), and his coming to realize both that and that he will have to rely more on his original training and ingenuity.

Love the “hero” in the back round

the flute instrumental of one punch man OP in the background is all I can focus on while watching this.

Nice review.