Started watching The Batman again after Beware got me on a Batman hype, despite being almost ten years old, I'm amazed by how well this has aged. The art direction is so cool and it is just wonderfully animated, the fight scenes are so fun, even obvious corner cutting is done in such stylish ways that it seems deliberate.

The characters are all great, Ethan is great fun, this version of Alfred is just awesome, I actually think this is one of my favourite Jokers, mixing his trademark insanity with a formidable fighter. Ironically the one character I don't really care for is Bruce, I think they did the whole rookie young Batman thing way better in Beyond. The Batman Bruce is no Terry, that is for sure.

Honestly, I think Beware does a much better job of capturing a younger Bruce Wayne more so then The Batman could ever hope to accomplish.

The Batman is a series that felt pretty disjointed, it felt like it could never decide if it wanted to be The Animated Series, it's own unique light hearted take on the Dark Knight a thirty minute toy commercial, or Justice League.

That said…I despite my gripes…I do like Batman's design in the show, I like the longer ears how his cape wraps around his entire body that makes for some pretty cool imagery. Batman VS Dracula also was a pretty enjoyable movie.

I'm only a couple of episodes in and it's been a few years since I've last watched this, I've changed a lot as a person so time will tell how much I like it but I've watched through the whole show quite a few times.

Vampire Joker, fuck yeah!

Also just putting it out there but…The Batwing in TheBatman is pretty much a Tie Fighter :lol

YUP! My buddy Jeff Wong designed that batwing...and he loves the tie fighter design..so it was his tribute. hehehehe. He was sooooo disapointed when he saw the toy at Comic-con...

Uhhmm...the action sequences in Man of Steel were done by Jay Oliva. He coordinated/storyboarded and directed those sequences for Zach. This is the same guy that directed Dark Knight Returns, Flashpoint and some YJ episodes. He's now doing the action sequences for the 300 prequel and next MoS action bits. So the action is the same and done by the same people.

The first Teen Titans show was great. Anime-esque, but still great.
TTG is too humorous for fans of the original. But it might work very well in Japan.

Yeah I saw an episode and thought, "This looks like a Widget Series version of Teen Titans."

What's strange is that my favorite (same with Bruce Timm and all the other animation folks) Superman animated movie is probably the one that the general audience hated the most. Superman Allstar.

and for some reason, the major population think that Superman Public enemies is the best one...cause muscles ontop of muscles ontop of bulging veins McGuinnes style seems to appeal to the masses. We're still stumped by it. I guess thats what makes this an intersting world. Different tastes. Same goes for New Frontier. Those of us that worked on it, HATED it..find it to be one of the worst ones. We love Darwin Cook's original material...but the script and animation was just horrid. Ah well. Different strokes for different folks. :)

I thought Public Enemies was fine, except for Luthor going crazy in the end. Not only was it forced, but predicable as well.

The First Teen Titans show was great. And so were Young Justice and Green Lantern were great. And then they replaced them with this log.

If that doesn't explain Cartoon Network, I honestly don't know what does. Taking your Favorite Shows and replacing them with Logs.

President Luthor: A GIANT ROCK OF KRYPTONITE IS HEADED DIRECTLY TO EARTH! THIS IS ALL SUPERMAN'S PLOT TO RULE THE WORLD!

Superman: That's ridiculous. I'd be the first one to suffer from...

President Luthor: SUPERMAN DID IT DEFYING ALL LOGIC! THERE IS NO LIMIT TO HIS MADNESS! AS PRESIDENT I AM ORDERING ALL SUPERHEROES AND SELECT VILLAINS TO BRING HIM and Batman DOWN!

Yup. That was Loeb's writing at its best right there:(

Oh, that is odd, I wonder why the action in MoS was so epic and awe inspiring while Unbound was repetitive and flat.

Also I thought Public Enemies had awesome fight scenes but I wasn't really impressed with much else, it was better than Apocalypse though which was only worth watching for the Darkseid fight right at the end.

Watched more of The Batman. It's a weird experience, it's heavily censored in that way that so many shows from the last decade are and yet in other senses it feels like a real call back to the 90s.

Bruce's tragic backstory is here in full glory, along with the constant questions of his mental state and the show doesn't pull any punches or soften it in any way, it just has to find new ways to present it to get past censors.

The villains are damn twisted as well, the show gets really dark and really allows the villains to get away with more than you'd think would be allowed, whether it be Bane breaking Bruce to pieces, Penguin unleashing his birds to feast upon Alfred or Man Bat flying around draining the blood of animals or whatever else.

I checked out the first episode of that Kaijudo show after my interest was peaked by this thread (it took ages to download) and I was pleasantly surprised. I'll be the first to say that I hate the modern trend of Western Cartoons trying to emulate anime, it rarely works and usually comes across feeling like one of 4kids abortions they call dubs but Kaijudo really worked very well, at least the first episode did thanks to some solid art direction, really cool monsters and great animation.

Sooooo now it looks like Simpsons is crossing over with Futurama

What next? American Dad?

I am absolutely smitten with Kaijudo! The characters in this are so good and I love the dialogue and chemistry. It's rare a show has me roaring with laughter but this is just fantastic.

I tried watching this show but i just didn't get invested as i did with the original Duel Masters.

I didn't know this was a sequel.

More like a remake. Though honestly, I thought the original Duel Masters had some pretty horrid and nonsensical dialogue

Wait, this is a remake of that YuGiOh knock off anime? But there are like no similarities between the two shows...

Well it is, the card game made for this show has the same gameplay and card layout.

But this cartoon is nothing to do with cards...

There is a card game, actually…but like I said the last time Kaijudo was brought up: The show does a good job of making it not blatantly obvious that it's suppose to be advertising a card game.

I wouldn't have known at all if you guys hadn't have said. Nor would I have guessed the connection to the other anime.

Hopefully the next thing is to finally cancel the Simpson. For the love of god please put that show out of it's misery.

Ew...

Probably.

It will keep going for eternity!

*Evil laughter with thunder in the background.*

Isn't it awesome?!I blew through the first season in about a week. I love that there's at least some part of every episode that has to do with the main plot. Even if an episode was more on the filler-side, it generally built on the background of the creature realms or human characters.

While it's easy to tell what the season's twists are going to be early on, they draw them out and that make the big reveals much more meaningful and fulfilling.

Yeah I'm loving it so far! I've sat through and watched like five episodes in a row haha.

I just love all the characters and the chemistry between the characters, it's clichéd and predictable but it just has so much life. The action scenes are fantastic, the animation is great and the banter between the characters - especially Raiden and Bob has me roaring with laughter unlike really anything, I'm loving this.

You know what kind of impressed me? The diversity of the characters. You have the main character that's half asian/caucasian, an african american, a hispanic, a russian, an indian woman, a british guy, an old woman, and a ginger.

I can't even begin to think of another show that has such a diverse group. It's nice to see and really widens the scope of the show.

Uuuggghh...wow...I don't know. I mean, I know all the guys over there working on it...and godbless them..but we all find Kaijudo to be one of the worst shows ever. :( They had such a hard time finding people that wanted to work on it. They have one Moi doing the animation, but its Moi's "D" team...the worst of that studio..cause none of the animators wanted to work on that atrocious show either. But hell...if it keeps my buddies employed, I'm all for it.

I guess that says everything, I couldn't stand shows like Young Justice but I adore Kaijudo, it has better animation, better action, better writing, better characters...better everything. If Young Justice is the A game and Kaijudo is the Z game, give me more Z!

And that racism and the dynamics of different cultures all have a direct impact on the story and the characters, so it doesn't just all feel token.

Seriously? But it seems like such a well done show made by people that care about things like a cohesive plot and character development.

I will admit that I wasn't crazy about the character designs at first but I got used to them.

I think my favourite monster is Razorkinder so far, that thing is nightmare fuel for something out of a kids cartoon, looking at what happens when it removes its mask, I mean that literally....

For a kid show advertising a card game, I quite like how adult Kaijudo feels. It doesn't seem like there's any sugar coating involved at all, and I liked what I saw of the opening, but my plate is full enough as it is and I really don't need to add another show ontop of what I'm watching.

I honestly didn't expect much from it to be fair but now I don't want to watch anything else, I'm in love.

I miss network television having really good cartoons on Saturday morning. Now a couple of things ruined it, I know. Cartoon Network was one of them. It made Saturday morning less special, because now you can see SWAT Kats all the time (Boomerang, Love it). But what really destroyed the quality of Saturday morning cartoons was 4Kids.TV and heavy-handed censorship. Blatent heavy-handed censorship.
I really miss FoxKids having cartoons on in the afternoon instead of some stupid ignorant sitcom. One thing you should know about me, upfront, I hate Sitcoms. I hate sitcoms with the same frothing furver as I hate Quantam Ranger. But that's neither here nor there.
I really wish why we assume kids are so delicate now and need constant coddling. I grew up watching Gi-Joe battle Cobra, Optimus Prime stomping mudholes in Mgeatron's backside, Exo-Squad and it's excellent storytelling, and Jem teaching me women can transform into pop stars. I turned out alright.

It's just sad is what it is. Now we do have some decent cartoons now, some. Clone Wars is alright, and I enjoyed Young Justice before it was cancelled for that steaming pile of Titans. But The Batman (Sorry in advance Locke) will never hold a candle to the beauty that was Batman: The Animated Series. Teen Titans Go! will never be Exo-Squad. And Sonix X wishes it was Phantom 2040. By the way, I loved Phantom 2040.

When I have children? They'll learn about the One Ring, the Madman in a Blue Box, the many Ways of the Force, how to play Quiddich, and that Sherlock can solve anything. They'll learn the Power of Greyskull, about the wisdom contained inside the AllSpark, about the Batman who defends the night, that as the sunsets Gargoyles come to life, and that Friendship is Magic.

Parenting. Do it right. Okay, half-asleep rant over. Resuming normal service.

Man I dunno how Kaijudo gets away with some of this stuff, these monsters actually...kill each other, even if they don't die and some of them are armed with real weapons. Plus the Shadow Spies, with the nails sticking out of their heads... *shudder*, I know it's just a kids show but the Dark Civilisation gives me the willies. Although Razorkinder is my favourite ironically :lol

Although Bob's sister, being a dragon with gatling guns comes in a pretty close second.

... I think I have to start watching this show.

It's absolutely fantastic bro! It mixes the 90s animation maturity (basically it doesn't assume kids are retarded) with the kind of characters and banter that would make Joss Whedon nod his head approvingly, complete with wonderfully consistent animation, fantastic monster designs and an awesome blend of stunning action and great character drama. I wish I didn't have to go to bed, I don't want to stop watching.