Grownup Swim‘s Toonami programming block introduced on Thursday that it’ll air the Batman Ninja CG anime movie on the programming block on October 16 at 12:30 a.m. The movie will take up two hours of the weekly programming block.

Warner Bros. launched the anime movie digitally in April 2018, and on dwelling video in Might 2018. The discharge included the Japanese audio observe in addition to the English dub. The anime debuted in Japanese theaters in June 2018 with the Japanese voice forged.

Junpei Mizusaki, the producer of the opening animation sequences for JoJo’s Weird Journey and JoJo’s Weird Journey: Stardust Crusaders and Kamikaze Douga CEO/founder, was the movie’s director. Kazuki Nakashima, who was answerable for the sequence scripts for Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill, was the screenwriter. Takashi Okazaki, the creator of the Afro Samurai manga, was the character designer for the movie. The undertaking additionally concerned English-language screenwriters Leo Chu and Eric Garcia, the chief producers for the Afro Samurai sequence and Afro Samurai: Resurrection movie.

Kamikaze Douga labored on the undertaking, and Yūgo Kanno (Psycho-Go, JoJo’s Weird Journey: Diamond Is Unbreakable, Ajin) composed the music. The anime’s web site acknowledged the undertaking was three years within the making.

Masato Hisa (Nobunagun, Space 51) launched a manga adaptation of the anime in Month-to-month Hero’s journal in June 2018, and ended it in September 2019. The manga gained a Seiun Award in August 2020.

The anime movie is inspiring a stage play that may run from November 6-30.

Supply: Toonami‘s Fb web page