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OK-Nice first episode back. Glad April finally got her stripes as a Kunoichi in addition to demonstrating more skills with her powers and training with Splinter.

Glad that Karai is finally of her own mind and taking some initiative. I'm also happy that she's tarnishing everything Shredder stood for in his absence.

Shinigami's sassy attitude and arrogant ego was surprisingly charming... to me at least. Although she does remind me a little too much of Bayonetta, all she's missing are 4 pistols and about 2 and a half feet of height. Still though, glad that they keep introducing kickass females characters at every corner. The only thing I HATE about this is that every flippin' new female introduced has to be a love interest or eye candy for someone, in this case Michelangelo, who already has another girl to fill that position. Ok, since Mikey is the youngest of the group, I can kinda see that they're trying to show how Mikey is probably at that age where his hormones are starting to explode, but considering how few major female characters that are introduces, it is actually an unwise idea and comes off as very, VERY ridiculous and almost sexist. That said, Shinigami seems like she's got promise as a freakin' awesome ally to the Turtles. I think she's an ally at least...

And finally! *drumrolls* SUPER SHREDDER HAS ENTERED THE BUILDING! I always knew they were going to mutate Shredder at some point, I just didn't know when. But the time has finally come.

I only have to gripes about this scene. 1: Shredder's "new" place appears to be a ripoff of Batman's Glasshouse in Batman v Superman, in both appearance and purpose. And 2: They are severely exaggerating the extent of Shredder's injuries. Splinter literally just used pressure point techniques on him and then knocked his helmet off. Shredder survived being chomped on multiple times by and then thrown through metal beams with apparently no injury at all, yet just because it was Splinter that beat him, his whole body and face needs to be bandaged up for no apparent reason aside from the fact that he's ugly as $*;t.

8/ 10 for me. Mainly because the colossal level of girl power in this episode that the show in general commonly lacks.