The Batman Anime You Forgot About

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It's time to talk about Batman: Gotham Knight — no, not Gotham Knights, the new Batman game, and no, not Gotham Knights, the ill-timed CW series coming out in the same year. It is time, however, to talk about Batman: Gotham Knight, an anime anthology from 2008 that is a high point in the caped crusader's history of animated stories.

Gotham Knight was a hype vehicle in many ways, meant to hype up the release of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight while featuring the talents of Kevin Conroy as Batman from the animated series. The project was six short films, produced by four different animation studios and seven directors, each with its own unique take on the caped crusader, both the man and the myth. Nowadays, animated anthologies are all the rave, between Love, Death + Robots taking the internet by storm or Star Wars Visions breathing much-needed life into the franchise, with season 2 on the way. Even when anthologies weren't as prevalent, the ones that were released, such as the Animatrix, were well regarded and got even more praise as the years went on.

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This first entry is amusing, not only for its plot setup but how it's one that Batman has done previously. In the Batman Animated Series, there was an episode where a bunch of kids share their stories about the caped crusader. Each one is drastically different from the last, as the kids aren't the most reliable narrators and their imaginations take over.

This first short film is the same premise, but whereas the animated series' take used each kid's story to parody a distinct era of Batman media, this short creates wholly unique portrayals of the character. The kids are a group of young skateboarding street