"Gotham Knight" written before the release of Dark Night is quite similar to the "Matrix Animation" of the year in terms of operation concept. Before the release of the new film, a short animation compilation (non-theatrical version, only for DVD release, but not OVA) produced by Japanese animators and inextricably linked to the live-action film was launched to warm up, or It is intended to be close to the Asian market. However, from the perspective of the scene and level, Warner's attention is definitely not as diligent as the matrix last time. In the early stage of publicity, the big names to appear, such as Uncle Kawajiri and Uncle Jin Min, did not appear until the end, and the top ones were all second-tier people from famous companies.
Among them, the somewhat-named supervisor may be Shoshiro Nishimi of studio 4°C. The first story at the beginning, "Have I Got a Story For You," and one of my favorite stories, was made by him. I laughed when I saw the painting style, it seemed familiar. Checking the information, sure enough, the painting supervisors of "Mind Game" and "Evil Boy" are both.
The story is about the Batman from the perspective of four teenage skateboarders. Moreover, the conversations of several children can actually be connected into a line. That is, as soon as Batman and the villain finished fighting in front of a child, they quickly switched to another battlefield, and another child happened to exist in the latter environment. In addition, they all believed that the Batman they saw was the real Batman, so they debated whether Batman was a shadow monster, a big-winged flying insect or a Robocop. The most interesting thing is that when it was the last child's turn to tell the story, but he couldn't hold back the Batman he had seen, the glass outside shattered, and Batman and the villain rolled over and happened to fall back to the skatepark where they were. Although the time logic is not rigorous, but from the story structure, there is a wonderful effect produced by the different opinions of "Rashomon", which is very interesting. Especially at the end, the embarrassed Batman was almost stabbed. Fortunately, the last child helped the villain and beat the villain with a sap, which was very dramatic.
There are a total of 6 stories in the compilation, 2 from studio 4°C, 2 from madhouse, and the remaining 2 are produced by BEE TRAIN and Production IG respectively. Overall, the studio's 4°C level is relatively high, and the story is vividly depicted, with a bit of stamina. And the worst thing is BEE TRAIN's story "Field Tes", the plot is thin, the character is actually a handsome man with big eyes, he is definitely Shu Ke's tolerance, and Beta can't bear it. Another story from studio 4°C, "Working Through Pain", is about Wayne's study in India. On the one hand, Batman was shot and grinned, while recalling how the Indian female teacher taught him to accept the pain. It has the feeling of seeking Taoism in "Batman Begins", and it reminds people a bit of "kill bill". Problems that cannot be solved by Westerners will eventually have to be solved by Easterners. Hollywood heroes also increasingly have the oriental complex of the hippies of the 1960s.
The two films of madhouse are very different in style. The latter "Deadshot" seems to have been tossed out by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. However, the cold weapons moved less, and the murderous aura was almost too low. It's a bit like "Skull 13". The previous "In Darkness Dwells" is worth a look. Weird style, imposing manner. It feels like one of the 6 films with the style closest to the live-action version.
It's still interesting to watch this not-so-heavy cartoon until The Dark Knight really comes to us. One explained the relationship between several important people in it. For example, Wayne and the police, the entanglement between Russian and Italian gangs, Marshall and Wayne, the mastermind behind the scenes, etc. Second, you can see how Japanese-style anime depicts authentic American heroes. In fact, sometimes I feel that it is difficult for Japanese animation to make this kind of American goods. Japanese people like to freeze-frame close-ups, but American comics like to move around all the time. It is really unfortunate to tell a story with a normal narrative and the perspective of the protagonist. With the live-action version and the original animation first, it is difficult to make a big breakthrough. My favorite "beyond" in the matrix animation version, Koji Morimoto completely abandoned the matrix, which we believed to exist, and pretended to be ignorant to describe it, but it was a great success. Compared with this Batman, there are several good stories in it, which basically give up the protagonist's perspective, so it looks a little more interesting.
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