The Forgotten TMNT Anime

Yes this really happened, in Japan they did an anime continuation of the 87 TMNT show where they gained new super mutations. I go over this and the manga version of these Super Turtles!
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[@jfinley91]

I think Japan missed the opportunity to call the stones "Mutagems".

[@megatron6713]

I think the whole "personality of a kitten," thing is krang implying he likes to toy with his prey before killing it......hence him putting off earth's destruction, still makes no sense and is stupid but at least it makes BIT more sense

[@FrenchPaul1988]

Wabuu: yes, I have known cats and even dated a kitten, so I know they are sooooo stupid. 🦝

[@gracekim25]

Ooo I love it🤣 as much as the adorable take that he’s as lazy as a kitten so will do it later

[@NeoDragonCount]

It'd sound better if it was said as "I have the curiosity of a kitten."

[@megatron6713]

@@NeoDragonCount well anything but what was actually said, it's far to confusing as to what he's trying to convey

[@Poever]

It’s a culture thing

[@thenumberquelve158]

The crow that just shows up to a huge conflict without any context, swears at the characters, then leaves, must have been a HUGE inspiration to Dingo Pictures. We gotta thank that second episode for something.

[@ColonelMustache]

I like that there's a throwaway gag establishing 1. Foot soldiers are apparently sapient beings with emotions and desires, and 2. Krang is a nice enough boss to allow them to go on vacation, and is even seemingly appalled at the idea of interrupting their time off. Really frames the original show in a bit of a different light if you take that to be canon.

[@gracekim25]

The foot soliders are human now?!

[@ApexOceanPredator]

@@gracekim25 You don't have to be a human to enjoy a good vacation

[@gracekim25]

@@ApexOceanPredator Hmmm well they seemed to do odd things in that game ….🤔

[@pompousproductions]

Fun Fact: In one translation of this anime, the Footclan do infact say “The Footclan are blasting off again”. It was probably a translator joke, but it did happen.

[@ShinSeikiEvan]

It's a Japanese pun that doesn't translate well into English. "Foot" kind of sounds like the Japanese word for "blown away".

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@ShinSeikiEvan Yeah that's stuff you'd really have to either have translator notes or really know Japanese culture to get that. That scene is definitely funnier knowing that. And I get the feeling a lot of the the jokes in these episodes just don't translate well.

[@EdmondDantes224]

@@ShinSeikiEvan Sounds like they could've translated it as something like "time to hot-Foot it!" or something.

[@princess_of_heck]

An octopus or squid being in your head and blocking your thoughts is a common idea in Japan so that was actually a decent joke

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Yeah context is everything with some of these jokes. That and the cultural references which without translator notes would just fly over most people's heads.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

I'll give the Japanese Ninja Turtles Manga and OVAs this: They did "Next Mutation" better than Saban's Next Mutation ever could!

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

Tell someone that THIS was Next Mutation and see if they buy it. XD

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I'd have taken this version over next mutation any day of the week. Of course I also would have taken Powerpuff girls Z, over the atrocious 2016 version.

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu I wish I could fave this 100 times because BINGO!

[@VerdantRange]

25:14 The thing with the bird in the second ep is that it's a crow. In Japanese, the sound crows make, "aho aho" sounds like the Kansai term for idiot, "aho". There are other anime that do this joke when someone realizes they did something stupid.

[@nousukas]

For example, it sometimes happen in Dr. Slump.

[@abbybraun7019]

@@nousukas Kind of random and off topic, but would you happen to know where I could find a subtitled version of the original Dr. Slump anime? I've been wanting to watch the series for a long time, but I haven't found a subbed version. This is the only time Dr. Slump has come up in casual conversation lol.

[@thewildblueone5341]

So it's basically the Japanese equivalent of that American animation gag where a donkey appears over a character's face when they realized they were an idiot.

[@ryun.8072]

ahoudori

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

Holy shit, I've been wondering about that gag for YEARS. Thanks for the break down.

[@darkron288]

I find it amusing how in japan they basicaly turned it into a super sentai, which makes sense as super sentai was incredibly popular still and with the mulit color bandana it makes sense, but what i find amusing is that they turned it into sentai while at the same time tmnt's biggest rival was infact power rangers, so japan turn tmnt into what would eventionally end up being one of the many factors to end up killling the franchise during the 90's

[@redstreak9430]

Plus TMNT was inspired by Marvel comics like Daredevil and Super Sentai was made as a result of the success of Toei’s Spider-Man adaptation which then inspired both this and of course Power Rangers and The Next Mutation. It’s funny how things tie back each other if you dig hard enough.

[@monstersinthecity]

it actually has more in common with saint seiya with the turtles having similar armor, to the pheonix ikki

[@monstersinthecity]

i mean SAINT turtle?!!?! any 80s anime fan would catch the reference

[@dvader518]

@@redstreak9430 Sentai existed before Toei's Spider-Man. They just didn't have any giant robots until after that.

[@gracekim25]

Wow

[@TruKriegsaffeNo9]

Something I've learned from Legends of Localization is that Japanese swearing is context-based, so the less polite the context, the more intense it is. It's unlikely the characters are "really" swearing in Japanese, but because it's so situational many translators just go with the average intensity of the swear word in question (e.g. "bastard" or "shit").

[@misssanx6227]

Yeah, also "shit" is not so strong for them as far my boyfriend explained to me since he is Japanese, "kuzo" is not really strong they said it even in the Sonic X cartoon and I was little when I watched. These parts in french (the way I watched as little) were actually translated differently for not sounding too rude. Saying "shit" in French was too strong for kids so in the translation we had another meaning.

[@YMasterS]

Half of the time someone is being called a swear in subs or dubs, they're just being called one of the impolite versions of the 'You' pronoun. There's just no good way to translate that.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@YMasterS Yeah we've come a long way since the early fansubs of like the '80s/90's but it's true translating from Japanese into something like english takes quite a bit of the nuance out of it. Also there are a lot of little things that just don't work or translate or localize well. Not only with certain humor and puns and stuff but cultural stuff really is difficult for anyone outside of Japan to truly understand or comprehend. The whole politeness this thing is really baked into it and names and honorifics (I think that's the word I'm looking for) that show either respect or lack of respect or are things like a casual relationship are very difficult to convey if you don't get it.

[@gracekim25]

@@YMasterS hmmm I guess that makes sense

[@BigBossMan538]

That’s still pretty confusing to me but then again I’m not Japanese

[@kimifw58]

Crows calling the characters "baka" and "aho" are common in anime because both words mean "idiot" and both sound like crows cawing.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

And of course because these are early 2000s translations it's kind of accurate and also full of swears.

[@gracekim25]

So it’s a pun

[@NarwhalEntertainment]

"Devil Shredder" sounds like a move in a fighting game, or a combo in Devil May Cry.

[@NarwhalEntertainment]

@AT Productions Yep, in the last season, a demonic/mystical Shredder that Utrom Shredder was inspired by, but they never called him "Devil Shredder".

[@Optimegatrongodzilla]

@AT Productions He was a tengu demon.

[@brianhebert6152]

It also sounds like the name of a character in WCW's Blood Runs Cold angle

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Finally, the _real_ Next Mutation.

[@MrAlman8]

A bizarre TMNT anime indeed. Its a shame it they didn't adapt the whole manga into a full series. Still it was a wild ride & an ACTUAL next mutation than the next mutation. Thanks for the TMNT review.

[@matthewjones6786]

The animation in this is pretty fun, particularly the comedic bits. They made the NASA space shuttle look so cute!

[@ShinGallon]

I was just thinking that the visuals aren't bad, weird designs for the super forms aside.

[@ShinGallon]

Hey, the theme song is done by Hironobu Kageyama, AKA the man who gifted the world with Cha La Head Cha La, We Gotta power, and basically every DBZ movie ending theme song, as well as the Trasformers: The Headmasters OP. Now I have to find this song to add to my "cheesy but awesome anime OP" playlist.

[@peucoman]

"prism-like object transforms heroes into super versions for only 3 minutes" I see TMNT took some notes from Ultraman, it would seem

[@ToonGal12]

11:16 Can we all pause to marvel at Porteous' spot on Krang voice?!?! Like, I legit thought that was the actual voice actor at first! 0,0

[@SiRenfield]

Okay if you are actually curious as to why that bird was there, it’s because if you were to ask a Japanese person a crow’s call is “aho aho” (although sometimes “Baka” much like how westerners would say that’s “kaw”) which is similar to a Japanese word for “idiot” or “dumbass” so that pun tends to be a common gag in some Japanese media

[@planescaped]

It really is just like a random super sentai wearing TMNT skins. Down to the freaking combiner pose. O_o

[@sodokami6347]

Wolverine looking TMNT

[@ironmaster6496]

idk at least they get how the characters are supposed to act and tone and jokes are almost on par with 87 cartoon. It's not like headmasters where they literally di whatever they wanted and turned the characters into weird and weak idiots

[@BugsyFoga]

Their super forms honestly kind of look like Wolverine.

[@mitchfletcher2386]

OH! That's Mr. CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA himself, Hironobu Kageyama!

[@Santoryu90]

This kind of reminds me of the Beast Wars anime something I hope you talk about one day, which is weird because I’m pretty sure this came out before Japanese Beast Wars. Also it’s not the same voice actor but Krang’s voice sounds like Japanese Meowth to me.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Yeah I was getting a weird cat vibe from the way they were doing the lines.

[@chymos6628]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Well, it matches his personality then... apparently.

[@Aeonova]

"Chucklef*ck ghost". That's awesome.

[@Uncle-Jay]

Honestly, I kinda would have liked to see a longer running version of these turtles. Not with the power armor, but I mean, the whole mirror thing is cool and they could have used more episodes where they get out of the city.

[@FrenchPaul1988]

Like when they went camping in Arizona ? 😁

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

@@FrenchPaul1988 Or when they were getting down in our town?

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Ah this has both episodes, the sequel too, where they turn into transforming metal dragons. I liked how the 2003 show referenced those in the Ninja Tribunal season, even the Tengu Shredder got a dragon form like the transforming anime Shredder toy. What I find the funniest in this first episode/part is how Krang is actually competent for once. He used the Technodrome to flood the whole city! But yeah the superhero designs for the Turtles look horrifying.

[@171QA]

I’m glad there is an anime that instructs turtles to chew their gum properly. I felt like that was something that seriously needing addressing. XD

[@Etherman7]

I never wondered what the Turtles would look like as JoJo characters, but now I know.

[@shimyku7820]

Honestly, I had been waiting for years for that video... and you didn't disappoint us.

[@AnimeLover9108]

The call of that bird sounds like 'Aho' which is a word for idiot in japanese, so it's a common joke that one flies by in a comedic moment in anime.

[@GarthTheDestroyer]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet, but the reason for changing Shredder's name from Saki to Sawaki was because Saki is actually a girl's name.

[@Falcovsleon21]

That explains why Krang refers to him as Sawaki chan.

[@PikaTheProsperous]

When you showed the turtles picturing Splinter dying, I expected the "I hate Splinter!" clip.

[@shoestringVA]

Gotta say, really disappointed in the lack of transformation sequences for the turtles. This was the height of tokusatsu and magical girl popularity, and the best they could do was fade in to them in their new forms?

[@MezTZO]

Methinks they didn't have the budget for it.

[@badman3000]

Always down to hear Phelous talk turtles.

[@CommanderViviax]

The transformed Turtles are terrifying. They're disturbing looking.

[@AutovoltGTS]

Fun fact: the TVTokyo dub was directed by sound director Yoshikazu Iwanami who directed the dubs for Beast Wars, X-Men, Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse and anime like Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, Konosuba and Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night.

[@duncananderson2113]

Well it's nice at least see Phelous talk about a TMNT property that's at least fun.

[@vgtrp]

As weird as this Turtles OVA is, it's almost a normal Turtles episode compared to some of the videos that had the Turtles that you reviewed. It's also fun to see what they can get away with in Japanese kid shows compared to the U.S.

[@JohnDoe-uf3lj]

The Manly Mutant Ninja Turtles designs really make me feel uncomfortable… I remember my sister showing me this ages ago and it was like a fever dream.

[@Geospasmic]

I've never heard of this before, and I kinda dig it. The weird jokes got me laughing a few times.

[@anabeatrizcaetano3121]

Japan really knows how to make weird stuff.

[@dyl_pickle16-mta48]

I found you Lupin! You thought you could hide from Zenigata in the comment section, but you thought wrong! You’re under arrest!

[@anabeatrizcaetano3121]

@@dyl_pickle16-mta48 oh hey pops.

[@Poever]

What’s normal to them is what’s weird to the west and vice versa

[@Miyakolover]

I mean...TMNT is a bizzarre concept to begin with. I mean think about it...a bunch of turtles mutated by some ooze into ninjas and are trained by an oversized rat (that used to be human) and are fighting against a shredder and an alien brain inside a robotic suit...who's henchmen are a warthog and a rhino...among other insane stuff.

[@Santoryu90]

Your not wrong, but all that other stuff the anime added just made it even more bizarre and weird.

[@Miyakolover]

@@Santoryu90 That's like adding sugar to an already sweetened beverage lol.

[@felipechalreo]

Remember kids... Always chew your gum properly.

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

Shredder's design in this really reminds me of the 2003 Shredder

[@EmeraldCityVideo]

The "Only rental" designation is likely because there were different UPC codes and different ads on the official releases of the rental vs. retail tape. IIRC, advertisers would pay more to get on rental tapes, with the logic being that the ads would be seen by potentially hundreds of people instead of just one family. The practice effectively died out when Blockbuster started to buy dozens of copies of something per store, and then selling them pre-viewed as soon as they turned a profit. Suddenly your "rental only" tape could plausibly be seen by only 4 or 5 people before becoming a retail product, and it was really hard to track.

[@Swiftbow]

When our Blockbuster went out of business, I bought a few of their "rental only" DVDs. Most of them were normal, but one or two had unskippable ads/trailers before the main menu could be displayed. Obviously such functions would be impossible on a VHS. The ads always display, but they can't disable fast forward!

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@Swiftbow Yep, sadly except for a few exclusive games most exclusives were garbage at Blockbuster. I can't imagine being stuck with unskippable ads.

[@sapientcube9788]

Huzzah!, The weird anime has finally been covered!

[@houldenmelville5530]

Only Japan can make a concept like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles more confusing, and they fought a time-travelling demon armed with actual magic and old-timey monsters in three separate continuities.

[@GloryHulle]

Wow, this was bizarre. But hilariously fun! Thank you for sharing this with us, Phelous! Great work as always. 🖤

[@mkdemigodzillawarrior]

Wow, I'm kind of surprised this hasn't been released a long time ago! Also, for those who don't know, these two TMNT anime episodes also cameoed in Turtles Forever as two of the TMNT universes, and yeah, they are considered "separate" universes too. Next Mutation or the TMNT Music Tour aren't included; guess 4Kids even hated those two as well. Oh, speaking of the TMNT Coming Out of Their Shells Tour Phelous, do you plan on reviewing that Behind the Scenes TMNT Music Tour video?

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Yeah, I remember Forever showed them in the Shredder's monitor screen showing alternate universes. The dragon modes for the Turtles and Shredder were also used as their ultimate transformation in the 2003 TMNT's Ninja Tribunal arc.

[@mkdemigodzillawarrior]

@@SwiftNimblefoot Oh yeah, I remembered that. Guess 4kids really liked that concept or something.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

From what I've heard 4kids didn't really have all that much involvement with the 2003 version besides it being on their programming block. Which if I'm to understand correctly was just a period of time the network literally sold to 4kids. It explains why the show was so accurate because they had no real involvement with it.

[@Safersephiroth777]

I actually like both of these episodes because of how bizzare they are. I mean did anyone expected these to be official releases? But man are they funny!

[@MrDarksol]

I never knew this was actually real until watching this video confirmed it. This was a weird set of OVAs but the first one was enjoyable while the second one just made me faceplam at how stupid the 'ninjas' were in comparison to the turtles and everyone else. Thanks for talking about this Phelous!

[@ShadeMeadows]

We need a proper TMNT anime... 🤔

[@TheTogoRojo]

I had a really terrible week. Thank you so much for this glorious content. Still hilarious amazing on the oddest of finds.

[@arkhivedfaulkes1762]

So the Turtles went from fighting an evil space fairy Super Sentai style to helping an incompetent ninja protect a magical mirror from a laughing ghost? Somehow that's both the best and dumbest thing ever.

[@pixelklubben6453]

Thank you Phelous for this video! I wouldn't have any other KZbinr talk about this OAV than you! And thoroughly as always, nice choice to dive into the manga well. Again, thank you - you are the best!

[@redstreak9430]

18:35 Shredder throws a “Kamehameha” while using a battlecry that is made most famous by JoJo. Makes sense.

[@kellygallagher7148]

The Japanese Krang actor says "Can we wrap this up? I have to go down to studio 12 and record Japanese Elmo."

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

That second episode was great as just, like, pure comic relief. I really want to watch these, now.

[@boraxkid1097]

The Footsoldiers on vacation is JUST my speed. THAT'S the episode I wanna watch. Like something outta Venture Bros or Harvey Birdman

[@lidoeg2]

man, does anyone else really wish Phelous would release his OWN bootleg of TMNT weird materials as a box set? something with like mystery of the cliffs, metro blue line, the anime, the coming out of their shells & getting down in your town videos, Turtles christmas

[@mightyfilm]

I have to admit. The more I revisit this OVA series the more I appreciate how it at least manages to capture the spirit of the original better than dull, directionless Transformers Headmasters or that lame PPG anime that fanbase somehow swears by. Though I honestly can't tell if they're trying to parody anime tropes or just rip them off. The Metal Mutants seem to be heavily inspired by (or ripping off) Saint Seyia. There's a LOT of DBZ in here down to the theme music being the same guy who composed the theme to DBZ. And at least the TMNT characters seem authentically like their original counterparts, as far as the dubs they're based off of go. And gotta love those early 00's English subtitles. Chock full of cussing that's probably like 50% accurate. Love how they translate "yare yare" as "Oh God" instead of "Good grief." I really wish Playmates or someone would rerelease those Wolverine looking Turtles, though.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

So true. Headmasters was the epitome of boredom, and Masterforce and Victory are not that much better. The bad dub at least made it mildly entertaining. PPG anime is just unfunny. Really doesn't add anything new to the show. And yeah, the metals line was a sort of Saint Seyia ripoff. Fun fact, the "Lost Season" of the 2003 show, the Ninja Tribunal, has these same metals dragon forms as the ultimate Chi powers of the turtles, and they fight the Tengu demon Shredder who can turn into the same giant dragon form as the metals Shredder toy.

[@mightyfilm]

​@@SwiftNimblefoot I do think they're both better than Masterforce, but only because they dropped the main problem with Headmasters. They weren't trying to follow an American sensibility when they were writing the series. Headmasters was trying too hard to be the first 2 seasons of the American cartoon, but slipping in some shonen anime tropes here and there. Where as, for all the faults of Masterforce and Victory, embracing the fact they were Japanese exclusive made the writing a lot smoother and far less awkward. Of course, both shows took forever to find their footing when Headmasters never actually got to. Still, not nearly as good as the Brave Saga or even Car Robots. I just wish Victory didn't have such an abrupt ending. As for PPGZ, they took a bog standard Magic Girl Warrior show and slapped the PPG license on it. It wasn't even a Magic Girl parody, but very much a straight up generic series. The whole point of PPG is that it's a super hero parody. I'd say that the closet thing Japan got to a TRUE PPG Magic Girl show is Panty Stocking and Garterbelt, even if it's for a different demographic.

[@ShinSeikiEvan]

The singer Hironobu Kageyama also did the second theme song for Saint Seiya. I agree that the Metal Mutants concept is a huge ripoff of Saint Seiya.

[@MathematicalVoid]

I don't know where you got the idea that the PPG fanbase "swears by" the anime, when popular opinion among the fanbase is that it's not great, just better than the 2016 series.

[@mightyfilm]

@@MathematicalVoid I'll be the only one to say this, but the anime annoys me a hell of a lot worse than the reboot. It was made at the wrong time by the wrong people for the wrong reasons for the wrong demographic. There was a fan fic understanding of the original, giving the series a photocopy of a photocopy feel, and I'd liken it more to, say The Simpsons or Family Guy when they get a new batch of writers after the old writers ruined the series a few seasons after it should have ended. PPGZ is basically a lame Tokyo Mew Mew clone with PPG names slapped on there. They had NO understanding of what made the original funny or special, not even the "I grew up with it and interpreted it as such" way. Just... and I do know fans that LOVE the anime and act like it's a parody when it's not even smartly written enough to be one. Actually, I'd liken it to Loonatics Unleashed, but without the apology of a second season where they fought versions of their own villains instead of the stock bad guys that could have been in any action cartoon at the time.

[@BATCHARRO]

Man, they should have made an anime episode for every dumb TMNT toyline there was. "Alright! The Mutastones transformed us into Star Trek(tm) characters, but only for 600 seconds!"

[@brianhebert6152]

"Fantastic! The Mutastones turned us into birthday party entertainers, but only for a half-hour!"

[@bradendeems6845]

@@brianhebert6152 alright the mutastones turned us into the universal monsters but only for an hour

[@brianhebert6152]

@@bradendeems6845 "Radical! The Mutastones turned us into professional athletes, but only for 23½ hours!"

[@bradendeems6845]

@@brianhebert6152 sweet the mutastones turned us into military personnel but only for an 2 hours

[@brianhebert6152]

Let's extend it to knockoffs as well! "The dark lord be praised! The Mutastones have recrafted us as the Turtles Fighters, but unfortunately this transformation only lasts 1 minute"

[@latviandragon2718]

ngl i do like shredder's redesign

[@SammEater]

The Saint Mutation with a giant timer reminded me of GARO, it does create potential for some creative fight scenes when you're limited by a timer. Maybe with a bigger budget, better writters and more episodes they could have come up with some better fights in that form.

[@macuna1995]

Finally! I've been waiting for *this* to be talked about. Phelan always delivers.

[@RettMikhal]

To me this was all Ninja Turtles apeing on the recently dubbed Ronin Warriors/Yoroden Samurai Troopers. Right down to the commercials mentioning their mystical armor.

[@Antonio_Martinez]

25:14 missed opportunity for “SCENE INTERRUPTING BIRD”

[@geardog24]

But did that astronaut ever find his glasses?

[@MrTheMighty]

Glad you mentioned the "unstable mutation" thing from the tail-end of the American series. I'd half convinced myself I'd dreamed that up back then.

[@RaphBlade7]

OH THANK YOU PHELOUS for FINALLY REVIEWING the TMNT ANIME! (I've been waiting for you to do this one) Considering you've already endured the Dumpster Fire that is The Next Mutation, this has gotta be a step up. At least it should be entertaining to see Japan's take on our four favorite ninjas who happen to be mutant turtles named after four Renaissance artists that live in the sewers. Its hopefully going to he a weird and zany ride (as both TMNT and Anime should be).

[@FullmetalNinja25]

I remember watching Super Turtles (Or Ninja Turtles Superman Legend as its known in Japan) in my Anime Club in College.

[@gracekim25]

Laughing ghost problem? Who ya gonna call?😜😎

[@garrettcarter5622]

Leonardo: Ah! So damn cool. Raphael: DAMMMMMMMMNNNNNN!

[@BigK13372]

Oh goody! A Phelous and The Movies video. To quote New Soundwave for such an occasion: “It’s been a while!”

[@RaphBlade7]

The crow calling someone an dumbshit (idiot) gag is an anime classic (I think its got something to do with how a crow's caw sounds in Japanese), and was also popular in another little ninja anime called "Naruto". Master Splinter's protege would be right at home in Naruto anime filler (which is where the crow gag was often used).

[@joeberryman3563]

Turtles chew gum with honour!

[@connorbeith3232]

If the Turtles ever do another crossover special someday, I'd love to see these turtles return even for just a quick gag.

[@neogotham2k395]

At least it's a little better than Next Mutation

[@phelous]

A lot better!

[@HordikaNate3821]

That's not a high bar to cross at all though

[@egateqa1351]

"I always thought this is what turtles needed to be". Considering that Phelous like 2012's TMNT, he should know that the show was full of weird anime moments because it was a western anime.

[@Nergalsama01]

This feels like the Japanese take on some of the US-centric Transformers series, like Beast Wars which in the Japanese dub was a lot more gag-heavy compared to the original script.

[@Dr.Gold-Dry-Bowser]

I waited for so long for you to review this and boy was it worth it. Personally I like Shredder's designs. This was indeed an interesting anime.

[@rodrolliv]

That ghost needed a Buster Rush! (Super!)

[@92Raider-art]

I've been longing for this day to come. Great job as always man 😉👍

[@mattr75]

I knew this would eventually be covered when it comes to Ninja Turtles related oddities. Great review!

[@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario]

I would love to see the 87 cast redub this in English

[@mathieuleader8601]

the super mutant variants of the turtles looks like the Turtles are all cosplaying as Wolverine

[@BATCHARRO]

Also, you know, kudos on the research into these. I knew they existed, and even watched one years ago, and it would have been real easy to just make a video where you say "whoa that's weeeird" but the background information really adds to it. That's what I like about your vids.

[@meadowdaydream5165]

It's great that you tackled this version of TMNT.

[@diehard7517]

I think the reason they changed Shredder's name is not that it's just better but because, as far as i know, in Japanese language, Saki is a female name.

[@CanIswearinmyhandle]

Yeah I was also thinking that. Also it's often spelled with the kanji for "bloom", so maybe they thought it was a bit too cute for the villain.

[@motherplayer]

My favorite bit was at the end when the fairy committed the raditz maneuver to defeat the enemy. And there was a time that, without context, just seeing the transformation would be enough to say this is bad, but actually watching it, it wasn't all that off from the silliness of the original show at that point.

[@drewhertel2462]

Been waiting for THIS review for a couple years now! :-) happy to see the super turtle toys!

[@sunstar4559]

OH MY GOSH. They were doing megastone evolution before Pokémon did!

[@beastmaster0934]

I love how everyone else looks more or less the same. And then there’s Shredder. What the hell happened to Shredder!? He looks like a rejected Power Rangers/Super Sentai villain.

[@genyfear]

I love that you can say, “because Japan” and everyone watching collectively just goes, “yeah.”

[@TheArceusftw]

It's par for the course.

[@ashrobin1767]

I watch all of your tmnt reviews I literally love how much you know about them and I always learn some new things about them❤😂

[@Sleesus]

I'm pretty sure They also released the Transforming ones in the US. I only know this because I had a mikey one as a kid. He gotkinda messed up in the sandbox and has been rotting somewhere in the basement of the house for the last 2 decades.

[@AndrewAmbrose]

This was a great review! That OVA looks quite fun

[@GlenLentz]

I've been waiting for you to talk about this one

[@Maruyamacho]

The second one relies a lot more on Japanese folklore/history to work (their armors being based on the guardians of Kyoto for example), I love both myself tbh Was really good to see you reviewing these at last, you rock phelous ✌️

[@pandorasangel2747]

Saint Turtle & themed armor? Did they turn TMNT into Saint Seiya!?