I’m sure a lot of you have heard of the upcoming Batman: Gotham Knight. It’s an anime style look at the Batman set for release just before The Dark Knight.

It’s divided up into six segments, each directed by an established anime director and written by people like David S. Goyer, Greg Rucka and Brian Azzarello.

I’ve been a bit wary of it because anime sucks, but the writers had me interested.

Now that they’ve announced Kevin Conroy’s return as the voice of the Batman, I’ve got a little more faith. He voiced him through the entire animated series and run of Justice League and JLU. And he voiced Bruce Wayne on Batman Beyond. So now we know that at the very least it’ll sound like Batman. And that, if anything, is the only complaint I had about The New Frontier and it’s one of the reasons I didn’t watch that animated Batman show that was on recently.

In fact, now that I think about it, why would they let anyone but Kevin Conroy do the voice?

Batman Gotham Knight hits the streets July 8th, 2008.