Back in 2018 , WB released the CG movieBatman Ninja , its first real foray into anime from production company YamtoWorks and Kamikaze Douga . In the year since , there ’s been a lot ofanimated Batman movies , and you ’d be middling in thinking Ninja was just an interesting one - off to have in the Bat - depository library . And you would end up being haywire about its status as a one - and - done , because it deform out there ’s a sequel in the works .
Dubbed Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League , the continuation will once again see Batman travel back to feudalistic Japan to deal with a young geological period - appropriate threat . While patch specifics are presently under wrapper , WB did give away through the film’swebsitethat Koichi Yamadera would return to run Batman in the Nipponese dub , and that it ’d once again be directed by Junpei Mizusaki . product - wise , the key creatives from the first film — namely author Kazuki Nakashima ( Promare ) , character decorator Takashi Okazaki ( Afro Samurai ) , composer Yugo Kanno ( Jojo ’s Bizarre Adventure : Stone Ocean ) , and co - director Shinji Takagi — are all returning alongside Mizusaki .
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At the time of its outlet , Batman Ninjawas fairly well - received , mostly for how well it adapt the Dark Knight and his retinue and villains for the feudal menstruation . It was later adapted into a manga that won Best Comic at the Seiun Awards , and also inspired a suddenly - live stage frolic in 2021 . The sequel comes as WB is judge to bring DC characters into the anime outer space with theSuicide Squad : Isekaiseries airing in Japan this July .
That same calendar month , WB will have a dialog box at Anime Expo on July 4 . Hopefully we get a first looking at at the film there , and an actual look at how Batman ’s war against the Yakuza in whatever year he ’s been overstretch into this time .
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