User blog comment:Jason Bourne Hamato/Ask the TMNT project!/@comment-31635856-20170701021629/@comment-995426-20170701061345

It's funny. For how popular a certain TV series is to children, I keep forgetting there are actually children posting on this wiki. Of course, when I was that age, I was already reading Mirage. It was never for kids, but I didn't want something childish anyway. I guess I was hoping the 2012 TV series would gradually keep maturing too; instead, it did the opposite, with Raph becoming stupider, Mikey becoming dumber, and even Splinter becoming more one-dimensional, and the chemistry between the characters becoming shallower and more contrived. I'd have questions for versions of the characters who actually kept aging and developing and maturing with time since the beginning of the series. Like, the turtles should be 19 by now; April should be 20; Casey should be 21. In Mirage, by the time the turtles were about 18 or so, Casey already found a a wife (it wasn't April) and.