TPToA Podcast 407 – Batman Ninja Vs. Yakuza League
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Batman Ninja Vs Yakuza League
When it came out in 2018, Batman Ninja may not have been our cup of green tea, in fact it was definitely NOT. But is this sequel many years in the making, more to our tastes? Or has it gone off like sushi in the sun?
It’s Batman as a Ninja, with his Bat-boys in tow, going up against not the Justice League, but the Yakuza League… yes Yakuza League. It’s much easier if you don’t try to have it make sense. Just let the weird wash over you…
This one was Quinny’s choice and as such he’s willing to refund anyone the $7 Dollars* it takes to watch it. jill has already claimed hers and Dion is not far behind.
Synopsis:
Only a day after returning from the past, Batman and his allies discover that the world is not quite the same as they left it. The entire island of Japan no longer exists and neither do the heroes of the Justice League. But before they can get a handle on what is going on, yakuza literally start raining from the skies.
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hello Batman good to see you i guess they weren’t kidding about it raining Yakuza well yeah of course raining men just like it always does what the hell i went to search for deviations in modern day Japan but as you can see Japan is gone it gets worse it would seem that Superman Wonder Woman Aquaman Green Lantern and Flash have also disappeared so we now find ourselves without a Justice League which tells us that history has been changed we need to recover the Quake engine and then use it to return spaceime back to normal is that Green Lantern now say goodbye wonder Woman of course Yakuza families are all that exist there is no government nor law enforcement within the ranks of the Japanese Yakuza are sacrificial assassins sent to kill the bosses of rival syndicates stopping the quake engine is our top priority right now once we destroy it Hinamoto should go back to being part of its original world the only one who gets the pleasure of killing the Batman is me the Yakuza leaf will restore peace and harmony back to the world now let’s get this party started gotham City will be crushed hello and welcome to the periodic table of awesome my name is Dion Des and tonight we’re finally getting to the end of anime that’s right maybe that’s a little bit uh pretentious there it’s like the end of anime the end of anime as a as a whole no we’re doing the end of Andy May uh as a as a final wrap-up for our month of of anime in May does that make sense that you’re not heralding the end of an art form no maybe you start doing a pretty good job i mean I mean yeah yeah technically you know somewhat um uh we can’t have you know they can all be winners Quinny no no um and I mean okay so I shall I shall lay my cards upon the table in front of you okay um I hated the first Batman Ninja wait this Sorry i What okay so in 2018 an animated film came out from DC called Batman Ninja my god this that we reviewed is a sequel okay yeah i mean like in In the opening they’re like “Oh so we came back from feudal Japan yesterday.” Yeah and now shit’s all [ __ ] up yeah yesterday being seven years ago when the first movie came out yeah but that’s okay they’re animated so they haven’t aged at all contextually I did not know that this was a sequel oh so the bit where he said we came back from feudal Japan yesterday didn’t tip you off that there was no I was just going with it i was just like okay sure I appreciate your yes and like I came back from feudal Japan makes sense okay cool I’m with that I don’t know what what now let’s keep going more game do you say feudal Japan or futile Japan either way I’m just going to go with it uh it’s fine yeah did not know this was a sequel so all right thanks I’m yeah I’m sorry buddy uh this is very definitely a sequel I wasn’t entirely sure whether it was going to be a sequel whether or whether it was going to just be another kind of like sort of story in the vein of because honestly I’m struggling to like Jill did you watch the first one i didn’t i knew of it and I’m like not going to touch that good move like that’s culturally derivative yeah this is you know like like the there was actually a point where we did have Batman anime but it was in the Batman kind of animatrix thing do you remember that yes I do like I know that this production team that created Batman Ninja are Japanese and so they’re like “Let’s put Batman in our culture like that would be cool.” And I mean sure but but But a [ __ ] results are mixed and I can’t tell whether or not it’s because it’s about Batman or because it’s just the the two flavors together uh like Japan and Batman perhaps not together you know maybe yeah is that what I’m saying i’m not going to sit here and say “Hey you can’t use other characters in other cultures and have fun with it how dare you?” Like go off girl but like yeah I mean Turkish Spider-Man’s amazing um so I I just looked it up and uh the the first Batman Ninja um we reviewed uh in 2018 but we well I say we I reviewed it was a written review and it came out with the the sparkling score of 56% right um which to be honest I think I was being a bit generous okay um so this time rather than going back and writing another review about this you’ve made us all watch it yeah that’s right i am outsourcing my pants well at least you didn’t get an AI to write the review that’s all I’m saying yeah yeah it didn’t exist back then as openly as it does now oh right yeah it wasn’t fully integrated into things yeah no I still had to you know put the words together that was there’s a there’s a a paragraph of me talking about the concept of style over substance and then the last sentence of it is in case you hadn’t picked it up yet I did not enjoy Batman Ninja um so obviously when anime came around you were like I should do the sequel like Yes 100% because 100% batman Ninja versus Yakuza League yes and look sometimes there’s a lot of fun to be had in watching things that you know are probably going to be bad um sure sure dion you do this all the time this is your stock in trade where Dion’s like I’m going to play a piece of music that everybody kind of hates but is that mean is that like when you mean he makes us like forces us to listen to tism but that’s not that’s that’s not forcing that’s admittedly education i I d