Summary
In Mutant Turtles: Superman Legend, the Ninja Turtles transform using muta stones, becoming Super Turtles, but their powers only last three minutes. The Turtles can merge to become the powerful Holy Turtles to defeat powerful enemies like Shredder and Krang. The anime series “The Legend of the Super Mutants” celebrates the popular Japanese culture used as the basis for TMNT.
Under Splinter’s training and supervision, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles evolved into one of the strongest superhero teams that never needed superpowers to function effectively, but in the anime adaptation of the original animated series, the Turtles have the ability to power up to superhero status. hero, and that’s amazing.
In The Legend of the Super Mutants (alternatively titled Mutant Turtles: Superman Legend), Shunji Oga’s 1996 original video animation (OVA) about the teenage mutant Ninja Turtles, summoned by the Spirit of Light, a female fairies from the Neutrino Kingdom of Dimension X, who asked for their assistance in fighting Shredder and Krang, who had previously invaded the kingdom. After agreeing to help, tThe turtle was given 4 special gems called “muta stones” After uttering the magical words, the super mutant transforms them into super-powered humanoids, known as Super Turtles.
Their superpowers are not permanent, only lasting three minutes before they return to their humanoid form. However, the abilities of Muta stone do not stop there. When The Turtles face an overwhelming threat, the muta stones allowing them to literally merge with each other to create the winged warrior “Holy Turtle”, who is so powerful that he can defeat Shredder, Krang, Bebop, and Rocksteady with a single swing of his sword.
Teenage mutant ninja turtles unite in their anime
Legend of the Super Mutants by Bee Media and Tsuburaya Productions
The Turtles were masters of the multiverse before it became a mainstay of mainstream American comics. Considering their backstory and the series’ close ties to Japan, it was only a matter of time before the Turtles explored the alternate universe that is Japanese anime. However, The Legend of the Super Mutants maintains close ties to the original by largely maintaining most of the series’ characters, plot points, comedic tone, and even animation style. original American film, in its final year of production. when this series comes out.
The first episode of the OVA was made to market the TMNT Supermutants toy line while the second episode was a vehicle for the Metal Mutation line.
The two-episode OVA, released only in Japan, included several notable elements commonly found in anime at the time. First, there is the ability to create temporary power boosts from large stones. The immediate comparison to Super Sentai is obvious. The heroes in most of Toei’s super sentai titles, access their special abilities through a number of devices that give them special powers and weapons, often color-coordinated, within a range of short time. Fittingly, the TMNT would actually meet the Power Rangers a year after Legend of the Super Mutants was released.
Second, the abilities of the large stones allow the Turtles to merge into a superior superhero. The concept was popularized in Japan by another Toei Productions anime, Armored Fleet Dairugger XV, parts of which were later adapted into the animated series Voltron. Armored Fleet, which first debuted in Japan in 1982, is a classic mecha anime with a twist. The Armored Fleet consists of super robots created through the combination of several smaller and less powerful robots. The interesting thing that Super Mutants adds is the power that allows biological creatures to combine with each other.
Legend of the Super Mutants is the perfect tribute to the popular anime trend of the time
Since they’re ninjas, it’s no surprise that a lot of TMNT media has taken a lot of inspiration from Japanese culture (although TMNT started out as a parody of Daredevil). Given this, it’s fitting that the Ninja Turtles would get their own anime, even if it’s just a two-episode OVA. Super Turtle added Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ legend by showing what a real Japanese-made version of the Ninja Turtles would look like.
