April O'Neil's character design

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Originally Posted by AlZarkovski

I don't think David Wise was lying. He just made a mix of designs from April Mirage and Fujiko. The basis of the design was definitely taken from Mirage, but some of the elements (yellow jumpsuit, white boots and light anime styling) were taken from Fujiko. There is one particular episode that Wise was talking about and I definitely see similarities in this particular version of Fujiko with April.

Agreed!

Here are a couple of archived Facebook posts where Wise talks about the April-Fujiko connection:

Spoiler:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H4R...w?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EQF...w?usp=drivesdk
Aforementioned article:
https://screencrush.com/teenage-muta...imated-series/

Edit: updated Drive links sharing settings, should open now