no Japanese audio on Batman: Gotham Knight | Yes it IS there |

[WickyWoo]

I'm afraid that's not the only difference. As indicated in the above interview, the voice recording for Gotham Knight was done after the animation, not before like the above cartoons and traditional Western animation. Thus we get an awkward dub with the English voice actors recording alone in a booth instead of a pre-recorded session like for Western animation, or a group session like what's done in Japan.

That's standard Japanese process. The only anime that I can think of that was ever pre-recorded was Akira.

The flaps were still designed for English

VHD was written in Japanese and then translated into English since they wanted the dialogue in English for the theatrical release in Japan. Its animation was also done before the voice recording like any other anime, I remember people complaining it sounded as bad as a dub despite English being the "original" language for it. Never seen the Highlander anime, heard it wasn't very good.

The target language was still English. The point stands, and yes the Highlander animated movie was poor

I saw Gotham Knight today. It's....OK. What bothered me more than anything was that Conroy voices Bruce young, so he doesn't sound like he does in TAS.

Awkward English dubbing is 9 times out of 10 the result of using poor, bargain basement actors who are not trained for voice work, bad scripting (on either side of the ocean), bad direction, and/or a rushjob.

This is not dubbed, you're supposed to watch it in English. This movie is designed for English just as much as any Japanese movie is designed for Japanese.