User blog comment:Kintobor/2003 series is great/@comment-27710776-20180629214158/@comment-995426-20181226071308

Now that the 2012 TV series is over, I'm largely putting it behind me. There were still elements I liked, but I came to realize that they were still good elements themselves even if I ended up souring on the series. So I move on just with what I like.

I like a few of the Rise of the TMNT episodes (Repo Mantis is my favorite ep), and the animation can be nice. I don't hate the show, but it also doesn't grab me plot-wise, so my interest in it remains only on an episode-to-episode basis.

And the issue of 1985 April's ethnicity (she was introduced in 1985 and wasn't in the first issue) is not (literally) so black and white. Her early appearance was in flux, and she tended to resemble whomever Kevin Eastman was dating or married to at the time (notably April Fisher). She was originally imagined to be Asian, and her first appearance in issues #2 and #3 resembled caucasian, and then her appearance in #4 resembled blatina. The truth is, April could have been portrayed as practically any ethnic background, and it could still work. And seeing the 2018 series' April, that's still true.