Would You Like a New TMNT Anime?
 

I've been toying with making this thread for a while, and finally just decided to do it.

I'm not sure if anyone else here knows about them (surely I'm not the only one though), but Marvel has been working with Japanese animation studio Madhouse to produce some short series inspired by their characters. From what I've seen, they're mostly taking the characters and doing their own stories for them. There's supposed to be four or five of these done, with two of the latter ones being X-Men and Blade if I recall.

The first ones though, are Wolverine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLYjywXyyDI

And Iron Man - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Q7xgxDJh4

I know it's incredibly unlikely for it to happen, especially after the Nick buyout, but would you like it if something similar were to happen for the TMNT? It's my understanding that these Marvel ones are made more for a US audience, so I don't think the seeming lack of popularity of the TMNT in Japan other than the old toon would matter much in the production.

I for one, think it'd be really cool to see something like this...hopefully more in the vein of the Iron Man trailer though. Bishonen Wolverine is terrifying, I don't want to see bishonen Turtles too. *shudders* Heck, I even liked the old anime that they did do well enough - the Super Mutants thing, minus...well...the 'Supa Mutation!', was pretty much just two episodes of the old toon. So I think this'd be awesome.

I think it would be pretty cool to see something like this...

The more TMNT stories the better in my opinion...

-ms

Definitely Yes!!!! :D:D:D I will like to see something like that with TMNT....Its logical ninjas=anime its a good combo!!!....we had a lot of examples !!!:twink:

I didnt see the "Mazinger-Z-turtles" just the pics on Forums/internet...Not something like that...I prefer something like that Ironman Link you posted!!! (Wolverine link its very similar to InuYasha for my taste ...).

I'd like that.

oh, yes I'd love that

No. Not really.

I hate it when American comic books are given the "anime treatment," its just wrong.

Wolverine looks like Dracula in that clip.

the wolverine anime looks bad, but I really like the Gotham Knight shorts, having that style and adapted mirage story lines would rock

The Wolverine one does look bad, I'll admit, but the Iron Man one just looks awesome. And the TMNT story is already pretty steeped in Japanese as it is, so I think it could work done right, hence why I brought it up.

I mean, you all seem to want a brutal version like the comics. You're probably never going to get that in animated form from the US, where animation is deemed as 'childish' unless it's like Family Guy or something. In Japan, they give animation much more respect, so an anime adaption of the Mirage comics would work well.

This would totally have the potential to be awesome...but, like with most things, It could go either way. Japanese animation tends to really divide people in the states, and depending on who was directly behind something like this, it could very well also turn out something like that...weird...wolverine.. thing.

I would definitely be excited to hear that something like this in the works, despite the fact that it could go horribly wrong.

TMNT anime directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and animated by Manglobe. That's about all I'd go for.

No, I would not like that.

Agreed.

I just wish I (or somebody!) could find Super Turtles #1 so DrSpengler could translate it!

Wow, that is utterly hideous. With very few exceptions (Cowboy Bebop), anime is a cancer on American animation and intellectual properties. Things like this, and even worse, American companies trying to ape Japanese troupes (usually the worst, most annoying of them, as in Teen Titans) make me dispair for the future of American animation. The corporate shills that inported all of the dross like Naruto because it was cheap and already made nearly killed the western studios in the 90's, and it seems like we are still trying to finish the job.

I think they should have more of an 80's esk style to the show, concrete cartoon design and not pointy. Smooth animation, anime is not well known for this factor. I love a great background, perspective in key.

Frankly the more anime we get in the USA, the more weabos we get. And anime has its weird freakish eyeball thing going on, and you can't tell the difference hardly between a female and male character, I don't know. I just see a downfall in a lot of things when people mention anime.

Have you ever seen Samurai Champloo or Cowboy Bebop? I think you'd like them, they're great anime shows.

I have they are really good, I also like Trigun. But I have never liked the style of anime... So that is my main reason I wouldn't want it.

I hate anime. I would never wish to see any TMNT anime. The OG one, I like it because it was absurd, and at the time, nothing could harm their integrity as they were at the height of their popularity. At this point the turtles are very sacred & must be handled carefully. We don't want another bomb like TNM do we? No. As someone else stated, when americans make 'anime' its ****ing stupid (& it makes me facepalm).

If a japanese company far far away wanted to take a crack at it, maybe I'd be more open minded. Or if adult swim wanted to do something with it...

I just think the fact that they are ninjas and the way the first issue was would work well in anime style. It would be awesome to see something like that done. I mean whats the worst that happens? They would botch it and no one would watch it at least we'd be getting some new tmnt stuff.

If they put this in the hands of a good studio (of which there are very, VERY few), a TMNT "anime" could be good. However, that would be predicated on them not being more concerned with making it anime-ish rather than capturing the essence of the Turtles.

Not to be rude, but it seems like a lot of you have this 'sterotype' thing going on about anime. Not all of it is exactly alike you know. As mentioned by ToTheNines, there's some really cool stuff out there like Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. And heck, I even DO like Naruto and DBZ and the like, but I'm not saying I'd want a TMNT anime like that.

I just think it'd be a cool way to see the characters and situations in another new light.

The Wolverine one yes, but how you could say that about that Iron Man trailer is beyond me... *drools over the gorgeous animation*

It is bad to stereotype.... not to be rude.

People have their right to opinion and you have yours, no need to stereotype people who have different opinions than you. I just personally dislike the style of anime and its non fluid like motion.

So, you're stereotyping anime as all one style because "it is bad to stereotype"? I'm not complaining about your opinion, but your logic is rather unappealing.

Well...inside of "Anime world" there are a lot of different styles...:tsmile:
Not the same: movies of Hayao Miyazaki with for example " Princess Mononoke", or "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" (with "soft draws"..sorry I dont have better words to describe it, and a good fluid motion)... than others like Tetsurō Araki and "Death note"...:embarass:
If someone in this Drome is fan of manga-anime im sure he/she could explain much better that Im trying to say....:idea:

Well, I'm not particularly good at explaining animation, since it's the great stories present in anime that get me, noticing the pretty pictures comes after - but I'll give it a shot.:D

As you said, there's even some great anime out there that's even respected by big-time movie directors here. Miyazaki's films, and the other stuff from Studio Ghibli, are pretty much renowned world-wide for their beautiful animation and good (albeit preachy sometimes) stories. Lupin the 3rd is another such title that gets a lot of respect, and the one time these two examples coincided, Miyazaki's film 'Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro' has been praised by Stephen Spielberg as one of the best adventure films of all time, and the best animated adventure film.

Exhibit A on that, the trailer for Castle of Cagliostro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHzyjBfEyj8

I tried to find the dub trailer for those who don't like subs, but the best I could find was it subtitled in English. Even with how old this film is, and bad YouTube quality, you can still see how beautiful the animation is.

Another common mistake some of you may be making (since a lot of people do) is thinking anime is all like Pokemon or Dragon Ball. It's not, anime has darker stories and undertones than you normally see in US toons, even ones based on comics. They're not afraid of letting the fact that something is dark get in the way of telling a story, even if kids are going to be seeing it.

A great example of this is my favorite anime, Fullmetal Alchemist. You'd be hard pressed to find a better story with characters you care about deeply, with such depressing ups and downs.

For showing it, I give you the Season Two DVD set trailer, because it actually seems to get across what the shows about better than the Season One trailer, which just did some weird rewind gimmick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1A1W53zVw

This show is only from 2004, so the animation is much more recent than the other I showed, and is no less or more beautiful in motion. Actually, since someone mentioned a studio they'd want to do a TMNT anime if they did one, this is my personal pick - Bones, they did the animation on this one.

Sorry if any of this comes off like I'm full of myself, or a know-it-all or something, but I just wanted to explain further why I think it would be an AWESOME idea, done right.

I think the idea of a Ninja Turtles anime has potential, depending on how they approach it. I'd prefer if they stuck to a more mature tone, keeping the feel of the original turtles instead of trying to shoehorn them into existing anime genre cliches. The turtles aren't transforming crimefighters or mecha pilots or bishonen. While they're ninja, they don't turn into logs. The biggest problem with American-anime is they tend to copy what they see as an art style, when, at its very best, it's a storytelling style.

The more popular anime series (here in America at least) are generally made quickly, but movies and mini-series can be done with a great deal of care and art. A serious, stand-alone movie could be really awesome.

(But I do kinda want to see a series of shorts that place the Turtles in a variety of alternate universes in the style of different genres, as long as it's tongue-in-cheek.)

yeah there's quite enough bishie turtles on deviant art:lol:

I'm gonna agree with this sentiment.

LOL. Yeah, as I said, please no bishies. And I'm definitely not big on mecha, so no Gundam TMNT please. :P

I'm not at all trying to say that anime doesn't have it's own cliches and niches that it's easy to just be like 'well, let's shove it in THIS kind of format'. I was just saying that's not ALL anime is. Kali said it way better than I did already.

Which is exactly what I like anime for, the stories.

And what exactly do you mean by TMNT anime? Something adapting Mirage's stories with could dark-atmosphere visualization like Spawn? Or something completely new and as far from the source as possible, a-la Witchblade anime or crappy Sailor Moon-ish "Mutant Turtles: Choujin Densetsu-hen"?

If first, I'd really be interested, but of course that'll never happen. If later, I pray that it will never happen. We already have too much funked up adaptations of TMNT and there's still two more to come.

Anime is not a human object I am not hurting its feelings.