Anyone think Leonardo is Japanese?

[Cowabung-Gal]

Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

Is everyone who plays ice hockey a Canadian?

You better believe it, eh.

[The Great Saiyaman]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

https://blog.centurymartialarts.com/...awKata_004.jpg

This is how Leonardo would look if he were human.

In my ongoing comic, I made Leo mutate into a human being and I based him on the actor Hiroki Narimiya.

The reason being the scene at around 11 minutes 42 in the movie Azumi.

Narimiya plays the guy who, after receiving the order from the sensei, is the first to draw his sword and do as he was ordered.

In my story, Leo is conflicted by him now having a future in Japan as the new head of the Foot Clan and his roots as a New York native.
So is Shredder's helmet a piece of bling?

[Jeff]

this is a weird question. If you prefer the IDW origins, then yes, he and his brothers are Asian.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Jeff

this is a weird question. If you prefer the IDW origins, then yes, he and his brothers are Asian.

No they're not. They're turtle. If I'm a reincarnation of a squirrel from 300 years ago that doesn't make me a squirrel now. It doesn't even make me a squirrel a little bit. They'd only be Japanese if they were, like, Japanese mata mata turtles.

Which are really interesting look turtles, by the way. Imagine what a mutant mata mata turtle would look like.

[Prowler]

My mother once asked me "aren't they(the ninja turtles) Japanese?"

Well they've been raised by a Japanese man who turned it o a rat, or the rat pet of a Japanese man depending on the version you saw/read. So they definitely been influenced by Japanese culture to some degree. Perhaos Leonardo more than his brothers. But I still wouldn't call him Japanese.

I think the Turtles are simply Americans. It's a country of immigrants, so them being raised by a Japanese rat doesn't mean anything when their nativ language is English and they don't act any different from other American teenagers.

[Monty Mole]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

No they're not. They're turtle. If I'm a reincarnation of a squirrel from 300 years ago that doesn't make me a squirrel now. It doesn't even make me a squirrel a little bit. They'd only be Japanese if they were, like, Japanese mata mata turtles.

Which are really interesting look turtles, by the way. Imagine what a mutant mata mata turtle would look like.

I'd pay to see you as Squirrel-Boy