Kevin Conroy Reveals Why He Thinks BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES is Still Highly Revered

Kevin Conroy is the definitive Batman for many fans. Batman: The Animated Series is remarkable, and many consider it to be the best iteration of the Caped Crusader.

While it came out 25 years ago, it still is praised for being amazing even now. This led to Conroy being asked why he thinks the series has been able to endure for so long and he essentially chalks it up to everyone behind the show, but with emphasis on the approach taken by Bruce Timm, Eric Radomski, and Paul Dini to not turn BTAS into a “kid’s show.”

“I was really serviced so well by the scripts they wrote. They never condescended to the audience. And they never condescended to the material. They respected the audience, and they respected the material.

And that’s why when you look at it now as an adult, I look back at these shows and I think, ‘This still looks so new, this still looks so fresh.’ Because it was always created to appeal to people on many different levels.

There is something there for kids of 10, but there’s also something there for people of 60. It’s just lots of different levels.

I was encouraged — in fact I was pushed, by Andrea [Romano] — to be as genuine and as sincere, to go to the depths of my emotions, to really pull something up.

People were giving really full-out performances in there. And I watched Mark go crazy, crazy, and you think, ‘No one can see these performances! But they can hear them.’ And it’s why the show resonates with people, because we were really giving full-out performances in there.”

I love this show and I can’t wait for my children to be old enough for me to show it to them. The Blu-ray version looks amazing and a must-have for fans. Why do you love the show?