Batman: Gotham Knight

“Get ready... to rage against evil.”

6.7

2008

1h 16m

Science FictionActionCrimeAnimationDrama

Director: Futoshi Higashide

Overview

Six interlocking stories reveal Bruce Wayne's earliest adventures as Batman and the steps he took to become the grim avenger of Gotham City.

Trailer

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Cast

Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)

Kevin Conroy

Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)

Thomas Wayne / Cop / Doctor / Youth 2 (voice)

Jason Marsden

Thomas Wayne / Cop / Doctor / Youth 2 (voice)

B-Devil / Cop (voice)

Scott Menville

B-Devil / Cop (voice)

Man in Black / Guido / Man / Youth 3 (voice)

George Newbern

Man in Black / Guido / Man / Youth 3 (voice)

Porkchop (voice)

Corey Padnos

Porkchop (voice)

Meesh (voice)

Crystal Scales

Meesh (voice)

Dander (voice)

Alanna Ubach

Dander (voice)

Crispus Allen (voice)

Gary Dourdan

Crispus Allen (voice)

Woman / Young Cassandra / Young Bruce Wayne (voice)

Hynden Walch

Woman / Young Cassandra / Young Bruce Wayne (voice)

The Russian / Marshall / Scarecrow (voice)

Corey Burton

The Russian / Marshall / Scarecrow (voice)

Gordon / Deadshot (voice)

Jim Meskimen

Gordon / Deadshot (voice)

Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

David McCallum

Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

Reviews

GenerationofSwine

Anime USUALLY doesn't work with American comics. I sort of like to keep them separated from Manga, but this didn't feel like Anime. It also didn't work. I thought it was beautifully done, but the deformed people don't work with American superheros. The backgrounds were beautiful, but it all came across as is too ugly and unpolished for a comic. Distortion has it's place and I will argue all day that Jae Lee was the best Batman artist (an one of the best artists period) to grace the comic, but this didn't look like Jae Lee distortion, it just looked ugly and lazy for an American style comic. There has to be an element of POP to an American comic, and Gotham Knight lacked that pop.

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