We’ll see how long THIS remains up. I just had to RE-re-do the first CBS intro. For crying out loud, Paramount, it’s easier to get Japan to allow us to promote their shows than it is this one. The moment they announce…eh, I already went over this. Let’s get back track…IF I’M ALLOWED TO, NICKELODEON!

So if it’s still up there, this is the Japanese intro to the original Ninja Turtle cartoon. I don’t know if they changed the lyrics or just translated them. The music is the same, but now April has a line I guess. The show was big around the world and it’s not surprising that the home of ninjutsu took a shine to it. So much so that when the series ended they took it upon themselves to do a two episode Original Video Animation (what Japan calls direct-to-video but I don’t call it an OVA the otakus who didn’t learn reproductive terms freak out) duo of adventures based on the Super Turtles, or rather Supermutants.

Created to refresh the toyline and give Playmates early access to the 90s, The “Supermutants” were jacked up versions of the Turtles and Shredder and his goons. They never made it to the US show, as the “red sky” seasons just gave us unstable mutations that turned the heroes into monstrous forms whenever the plot could best mess with them. That subplot was never resolved before the series ended.

Mutant Turtles: Legend Of The Supermutants (or ミュータント　タートルズ　超人伝説編, Myūtanto Tātoruzu Chōjin Densetsuhen; lit. “Mutant Turtles: Superman Legend” if you’re that nitpicky person that made me copy/paste all that from the Turtles wiki) is a show with an…interesting plot. I can’t do it justice in this article so I encourage you to check into it. The short version is that the Turtles find a shrine built on Earth by the Neutrinos…which raises a whole bunch of questions like “why would a race of happy punk pacifist teenagers from a war-loving dimension who talk like the 1950s just started over there build a temple on Earth?”, but I digress. In the temple they find a fairy named Kris Mu who gives them powerful Mutastones that not only turns them into the Super Turtles but allows them to temporarily combine into one being, the Saint Turtle, for I think 60 seconds. Meanwhile Shredder, BeBop, and Rocksteady get their hands on Dark Mutastones thanks to an evil fairy named Dark Mu (why not) that turns them into various creature-based armor. I think everyone gets more armor in the second episode to promote one of the other Playmates refresh attempts that didn’t make the show. Seriously, look this thing up some time. I’m just here to talk intros and we’re overdue to start on this one.

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