Mutant Turtles (manga) Chapter 4 translated! (it's a weird one)
 

http://tmntentity.blogspot.com/2009/...ver-japan.html

And that's the last of the Mutant Turtles Gaiden series. Only lasted 4 chapters and one volume. Too bad, since I was starting to enjoy it.


Next up will be the Super Mutant Turtles stuff. Unfortunately, neither Adam Winters nor myself have been able to track down the first volume (out of 3) in the series. Adam's managed to gets his mits on Volumes 2 and 3, so I'll have to start there.


If ANY of you know where I can find volume 1, or can hook me up, please please please drop me a line! Gaps in collections always bug me...

Teenage Mutant Racist Turtles....

Well...it was more a joke targeted toward Americans, who are rather infamous in Japan for being completely incapable of distinguishing on Asian person from another.

And it's also a joke aimed at the Fred Wolf cartoon, which wasn't too kind in its depiction of Japanese people (attachment related).

*I* thought it was funny.

It was shockingly hilarious!

I never thought about this story being a satire of the Fred Wolf cartoon. That's a good point.

Also, I knew it was poor taste to mistake a woman's name. But I never thought it could cost you your head! Yikes! That crazy Irma...

Looks like in this comic the racism works both ways. The claim is Americans can't tell orientals apart, but neither can orientals tell Americans apart. Man, the people who produced this comic were anything but politically correct!:lol:

Hey, Spengs, what is the joke as to why Splinter wears a non-conventional style of mask (somewhat western style with big eyes, a moustache, and goatee) than the Turtles were expecting (stereotyped mask with squinted eyes, buck-teeth, and glasses)?
http://tmntentity.blogspot.com/2009/09/page-8.html

Also, is there a particular reason why April starts coughing when she sees Splinter in disguise?
http://tmntentity.blogspot.com/2009/09/page-11.html

*rotflmao* Go Irma Go!! :lol:

The Muramusa blade in this....I wonder if that's the same one that has the ability to harm Wolverine's healing factor?? :lol:

If there's any extra joke aside from the absurdity of Splinter fooling the entire populace of Japan with such a cheap mask, I'm afraid it escapes me.

I believe she's coughing because Splinter's disguise is so ridiculous it caught her off guard.

Canonically the only universe in which Irma kills the Shredder?

I think so.

Come to think of it, maybe that's why there wasn't a follow up volume!:lol:

OK I just saw this thread, and I could just...

LOL. Just this. Japan does a sense of self-depreciation going on there, parodying its own stereotypes...

Thanks for cheering me up with this manga. Really needed that.

i love reading this stuff