It's Batman Manga. It's Batman Japanese style and that really doesn't work.

Some of the character redesigns are good, the Joker and Two-face look great, but the rest are meh and only really work because of the setting, but are otherwise a little less than inspired. I mean, Nightwing they phoned in, his redesign looks like, well, Nightwing present era. Red Robin also has the bare minimum of effort to change from present era Gotham to ancient Japan.

But I guess... Voltron was the reason why it really flopped with me and when the monkeys hit it was just too out there, too manga, too anime, and not batman enough for me.

And the thing is, for a character, Batman would lend himself to Japanese comics a lot easier than a lot of other characters, so to watch it fail like this was painful.