Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles



Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 2D-animated television series, set for first airing in September of 2018.

Development
The new 2D series is co-executive produced by Andy Suriano (character designer for Samurai Jack) and Ant Ward (supervising producer of the 2012 TV series). The series is said to be lighter and more humor-oriented than the 2012 series.

Characters

 * (Kat Graham)
 * Baron Draxum (John Cena)
 * (Josh Brener)
 * (Ben Schwartz)
 * (Brandon Mychal Smith)
 * (Omar Benson Miller)
 * (Eric Bauza)
 * Meat Sweats (TBA)
 * TBA (Maurice LaMarche)
 * TBA (Rob Paulsen)

Production crew

 * Alexis Page - Character Designer
 * Andy Suriano - Executive Producer
 * Ant Ward - Executive Producer
 * Christine Liu - Storyboard Artist
 * Erik Elizarrez - Prop Designer
 * Rob Paulsen - Voice Director
 * Frank Verderosa - Sound Mixer
 * Chris Viscardi - Supervising Producer

Episodes

 * List of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes

Trivia

 * This is the first time April O'Neil is officially portrayed as African-American, but not the first concept of April as African-American. The original Mirage was inspired by a biracial woman Kevin Eastman once dated, and her ethnic appearance in early issues was ambiguous and in a state of flux, but was later more consistently portrayed with a Caucasian appearance.
 * Raphael is the oldest turtle and leader of the TMNT for the first time instead of Leonardo. As stated by the voice actors, the new order of the turtles (from eldest to youngest) is now: Raphael - Donatello - Leonardo - Michelangelo.
 * This is the first time that each turtle are a different species from one another.
 * Raphael is a snapping turtle.
 * Donatello is a softshell turtle.
 * Leonardo is a red-eared slider turtle.
 * Michelangelo is a box turtle.
 * Each episode will be 11 minutes long.
 * This is the second series in which a Turtle utilizes tonfa as a weapon, the first being Michelangelo in Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation.
 * Leonardo and Michelangelo also don't use their traditional weapons in this series. For instance, Leonardo will wield an Odachi instead of double Katana blades, and Mikey will wield a kusari-fundo instead of double nunchaku.
 * According to a behind the scenes video, the show focuses on the Turtles before they "started their career as crime fighters".
 * This is the first time that the Kraang and the Shredder won't be in the series because Baron Draxum will be the main villain.