Batman Ninja’s Sequel Brings His Coworkers Along For the Anime Ride

Last month, WB revealed a sequel to its 2018 movie Batman Ninja was successful the works. With the intriguing rubric of Batman Ninja vs. the Yakuza League, you had to wonderment what the Dark Knight would beryllium up to next–and the reply is, combat the Justice League.

Yep, our premise this clip is that Batman and Robin (his lad Damian) are going up against period-specific villainous counterparts of his superpowered friends. Interestingly, it looks similar the Dynamic Duo are successful an alternate mentation of contiguous time Japan alternatively than feudal Japan successful the archetypal film, and the characters’ designs bespeak that. Aquaman is simply a fisherman, Wonder Woman a formidable warrior, Flash appears to beryllium a ronin, and Green Lantern Jessica Cruz wielding an existent lantern to transmission her power. Why person they gone evil? That’s a large question mark, but it’ll autumn to Batman and Robin to instrumentality them down and perchance revert them backmost to their aged selves.

Also notably missing from the lineup present is Superman. Other stories of Batman warring the League marque definite to person the Man of Steel determination successful the mix, typically arsenic the big bad of the full affair. Maybe WB is keeping him retired of selling to debar him overshadowing the different Yakuza members and this being boiled down to yet different “Batman vs. Superman” story. This looks beauteous promising regardless; that archetypal movie had its fans for being beauteous ridiculous, and bringing successful Bruce’s coworkers looks similar a amusive elevation from that. Hopefully we spot much of Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League sometime soon, and that its merchandise connected integer and carnal formats isn’t excessively acold behind.

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