Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles



Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 2D-animated television series. It first airs as a special preview on July 20th, 2018, before its full debut on September 17th, 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 its predecessor series.

Synopsis
TBA

Characters

 * (Kat Graham)
 * Baron Draxum (John Cena)
 * (Josh Brener)
 * (Ben Schwartz)
 * (Brandon Mychal Smith)
 * (Omar Benson Miller)
 * (Eric Bauza)
 * (Johnny Rotten)
 * Todd Capybara (Thurop Van Orman)
 * Warren Stone (John Michael Higgins)
 * Hypnopotamus (Rhys Darby)
 * Albearto (Tom Kenny)
 * Big Mama (Lena Headey)
 * Huginn (Tim Simons)
 * Muninn (Sam Richardson)
 * Ghostbear (Jorge Gutiérrez)
 * Repo Mantis (Fred Tatasciore)
 * (Maurice LaMarche)
 * (Rob Paulsen)
 * (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, and 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.
 * This is the second series in which a Turtle utilizes tonfa as a weapon, with Raphael using them in place of his double sai, 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 Ōdachi sword 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".
 * Unlike previous incarnations, the Turtles are all in different ages:
 * Raphael is 15 years old.
 * Donatello and Leonardo are both 14 years old.
 * Michelangelo is only 13 years old.
 * "Mystic Mayhem", the pilot episode, is set to premiere as a sneak preview of the series on July 20th, 2018, after Nickelodeon's Kid's Choice Sports.
 * This is the first series to not show how the Turtles and April first meet.
 * This is the first time in any incarnation of the Turtles that Leo is called 'Leon'.
 * This is the first time in any incarnation of the Turtles that Mikey is called 'Michel'.