Batman: The Animated Series Japanese Opening / バットマン アニメ 日本語版ＯＰ

[theZodiacDigital]

the narration totally ruins the mood and the whole point of the opening. i understand the idea that japanese kids may have been less familiar (or not at all) with batman so a little monologue may have helped clue them in... but i think the opening scene is good enough on its own at explaining it. shady figures blow something up, a guy in a mask disarms them and ties them up for the police to arrive. that's enough for the opening, stick around for more. they underestimated the japanese kids maybe

[nekrokulter]

BATTOMAN >:C

[getternurek]

whatis better then batman tas op?batman tas with epic japanese narrator

[deoxysfan10]

I liked the dialouge when Batman is going through the tunnel in the batmobile, but the rest, not so much

[milenioscuro]

Battoman !!! xDD maybe he is a friend of El Barto

[sithamon1985]

quien chingados es batoman? esos gueyes rebusnan el ingles

[DaggonX]

Suddenly, I feel that life is meaningless... :(

[extrapressure]

sorry but when you talk over the batman theme, you deserved to be punched in the face.

[MOHZAKI89]

0:38 he said "Battoma" LOL, His name is Batman, noob

[NorfairPrince]

Gosham Shiti. Battoman! lol

[adrius]

Batman is fantastic in any language.

[Sailorsega]

Anyone have a translation for the monologue?

[srshiroma]

@Sailorsega Check out the captions. Click the CC button to see them.

[m00m00]

notice how it's 16x9 O_o?

[Sailorsega]

@m00m00 Yep, the Japanese are always ahead of the West

[0BatGirl0]

Kind of defeats the power of the imagery's ability to tell the story on its own. But I think it shows an interesting difference in audiences.

I assume most people in Japan wouldn't be as familiar with Batman as western audiences.

We see the pointed ears and cape, we see the logo and hear the dramatic music and we instantly know who it is.

Where as Batman needs more introduction in Japan.

[darkservantofheaven]

@0BatGirl0 they know who he is, but he is not very popular, something about him being to dark and depressing for a superhero(when they have super heros like Ultraman Kamen Rider and super sentai, the power rangers for us westerners, those super heros are all bright and colorful, only in a handful of manga and shows are the charectors dark and brooding, Batman isnt their thing, but he has a small fanbase, as there were a few batman mangas in the early 2000s and gotham night was pretty popular

[500krg]

@darkservantofheaven thanks for the little clarification, what you say makes sense from what I have seen, the japanese seem to imagine heroism as something brighter, and often as the result of a team effort. that and obviously the fact he is a westerner does not facilitate the identification to this character too. I don't know if a dubbed version of zooranger would have been as successful as power rangers here. good to know he still has some fanbase.

[FlameG102]

@darkservantofheaven the dark and brooding hero in japanese anime and manga seems to be more of a recent thing, possibly gaining it's start in the 90's or around there, and seeming a bit more common now, (though still not exactly in the batman dark mold, but you get my point)

[Kenko706]

@0BatGirl0 Precisely. It's kind of like Ninja Warrior.

No, seriously. In Japan, Ninja Warrior is called Sasuke, a famous legendary-mythical-possibly historical ninja in Japanese folklore. EVERY person in Japan over the age of six knows who Sasuke was. The US? Not so much. So they renamed that show Ninja Warrior-- because even though we don't know who a Sasuke was, we DO know -- to an extent-- what a ninja is.

It's the same thing. WE know Batman. They... again, not so much...

[Agux732]

BAT O MAN? lol

[Cakeftw24]

....why did they add the talking? that completely ruined it -_-

[supiliuliumas]

The Best opening for "Batman : The Animated Series" ever! Extremely gothic! Extremely 1950 noir style!