Shinigami Appreciation Thread
 

Does anyone else really like this Shinigami character? She's got kind of like a Christina Ricci/(Teen Titans) Raven thing going on. I really hated the fourth season during the outer space arc. But her alone is enough to keep me watching the show. I hope her character doesn't disappear at the end of the season.

I can appriciate that if you know what I mean uh huh

She's definitely going to spawn a whole new wave of Karai/Shinigami lesbian yuri shippers if it hasn't already. Tumblr and deviantart are bound to be filled with Karai/Shinigami art.

Its amazing how every show has one big lesbian ship. TMNT never had anything like that before, but now with Karai and Shinigami being close friends from Japan and how close they are together...I guess this will be the TMNT version of "yuri ships."

Don't worry she will be in season 5, Gwendolin Yeo has been doing season 5 recording sessions.

But yeah Shinigami is awesome even though I don't trust her.

I think it's too soon. She's only been in 2 episodes, she needs to either be in more or have a really standout moment or two (perhaps an episode that centers around her) before she can make a mark in this franchise. I thought that she would be this series' version of Kitsune, Brandon Auman really likes her (of course he said "The Ever Burning Fire" was his favorite ep, give me a break!), so only time can tell.

Appreciate Shinigami? Oh, I appreciate her... for making Mikey a love sick puppy again and nearly reducing the other characters to struggle against her despite being captured in the previous episodes. :lol:

Literally, the only things I like about Shinigami are her voice and her design, though I'm indifferent to the hat. She's just not interesting at all right now besides serving as Karai's second in command, just as Tiger Claw is to Shredder. Dig into her character besides Karai and Mikey, delve into the backstory or give her an episode of her own. Establish what is said: a character who's neutral, not bad but not good.

Yup... didn't take long for the thread to start becoming what I figured it would be.



She's okay. Not a bad character, but can't say I'm a fan yet.

She confirmed that she's younger than Karai in "Broken Foot".

So if Karai is 16 in this show, Shinigami is probably 15?

That's even better.

Shut up, A Day Inside May

I need a smiley that raises an eyebrow.

Missed that piece. Goodness. Yeah, the 20s+ Shini fanboys may need to learn to keep it under control. :lol:


http://i.imgur.com/GMFr71Z.gif

I mean what were some of you expecting? They're teenage girls. The entire main cast is younger in this version.

If you want to see 20+ year old Karai, April, Casey etc. watch the 2k3 series or any other series for that matter. Read the comics.

I don't think anyone was expecting anything.

LOL, a 5 second search on deviantart brought this up:



The shippers have already started and its only been 2 episodes! Batter down the hatches everyone! :lol:

Spoiler that sh*t or atleast resize it

No one cares about what shippers think aside from you, Cubed.

If shippers mean more Shinigami artwork I'm all for it :lol:

Of course it did... And of course it took you only about that long to go looking for it, too, huh?





This:
Not this:

Just like the fan-girls and their love of the turtles?

this isn't a one way street mate.

I don't recall her mentioning that she was younger. I mean yeah she called Karai sempai, but Sempai is an honorific that means Upperclassmen. So that mearly could have meant that Karai was at a higher rank within the Foot then Shini.

Senpai- An upperclassman, someone of a higher age.

As for upperclassmen, you just proved Karai is older than Shinigami by mentioning the definition. The word is often to address someone older like a freshman student to a senior in high school. It's only one episode, but either way Karai is at least one year or a few months older.

Thats not really her fault. Thats the writer's fault.

Anyways yeah she seems pretty cool so far, I hope she gets fleshed out eventually.

Or Karai outranks Shini, an upperclassman being younger than a youngerclassman isn't too uncommon

Oh no, I play entirely fair on this one, those Nick Turtles are portrayed far too young. I could still hug them to pieces, but any day dreaming of snuggling up with any of them imo belong to kids of their actual age group.

(Now versions that are portrayed like young adults and age can be pretty disregarded, well that's a different matter. :trazz:)

She wouldn't have called her sempai if Karai weren't older.

After all of these years, this knowledge has finally provided me with the information needed to at last find a photograph of Cubed.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...5/Pedobear.png

More of an Ephephile

(sigh) Fine.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Family_Guy.png

Is this the one single topic where Cubed actually forgets how old he's getting? :tlol:

Sempai doesn't always apply to one's age though. Yes it means upperclassmen, but an upper-classmen doesn't always have to be older then people under them. A white belt student in any form of martial arts would call any other color belt Sempai regardless of how old or young they were.

I believe Hebephile is the correct term, Greglactus destroyer of jokes.

Soooo Shinigami's age range is 11-14 also if I was Greglactus I would be eater of jokes

Eater of jokes wouldn't be as funny. But you're right. I feel like I have to clear my history after fact checking that one lol

Actually Shini would be older then 11-14,

Karai was 16 years old at the start of the series and the Turtles are celebrating their 15th mutation birthday Day. While they don't often talk about time passing, they do point out events occurring in previous years. Such as KSP saying that it took 2 years to fix the technodrome.

So if the Turtles are roughly 18 now, that would make Karai 19. So if Shini is indeed younger the Karai rather than Karai being at a higher rank within the Foot Clan, then she would be 18 year old.

No snake tried to correct me and said the correct term was Hephephile so I made a joke that Shini's age range would be 11-14 I already knew Shini was older than 14

Funny but I was thinking of this

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...20130424160738

So that time travelling bimbo Renet is out of the picture for Mikey then? Well can't blame him, she's not from this world's time era.

Ah Hisoka...I know he's a psycopath. But some of the things he says as well as some of the stuff he does while Gon and Killua are around does come across as "I need an adult" creepy.

He isn't the only character in Togashi's work that has that has that trait.

I doubt she's out of the picture. As she said...She hasn't been born yet and it's not really known if she will be in Mikey's lifetime. So he's seeing Shinigami as a more immediate love interest.

If Shinigami referred Karai as Senpai/Sempai with Martial Arts terminology in mind, that indicates Karai is below Dan level. Which seems unlikely if she is to rebuild and take over the Foot from Shredder.

Shini used "senpai" to address Karai, so either Karai is slightly older or she's doing it based on rank...or the writers of this show don't know what they're doing.

I like Shinigami. I like her style, I hope her character gets expanded on, like where her powers come from.

Get a grip, they're not even that big, and a show like that isn't going to show boob jiggle fysics.