The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a brand that while they were super popular back in the eighties and nineties thanks to various movies and TV shows. Are still popular to this very day with the rarest thing about the turtles brand being all of the odd little things that they've been associated with from live action PSA's to telling people about an LA travel system to even going on a music tour the turtles just seem to attached to things that are just really weird well there is one more thing that they were apart of and it's the very thing that i'm about to the review for you all today and so then join me as I review the OVA series that is to date the only piece of anime turtles media with the really two episode anime in question being called simply just "Mutant Turtles: Choujin Densetsu-Hen" AKA "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Legend Of The Supermutants" enjoy.
The plot so this OVA is the turtles have to defeat The Shredder before he and Krang unleash an evil devil to troy the world and the turtles have to stop The Shredder from finding a magical stone that will help him and Krang take over the world. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plots that are actually featured presented to us in this very OVA well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plots that are actually featured / presented to us in this very OVA was in all honesty not that bad but that's also the issue the plots weren't all that good as not only were they very kid like but at the same time they also weren't the plots that people were demanding from the turtles at this time either as the first live action movie had been out for a while and had been a massive and as a result people wanted alot more darker stories told with these characters and yet for some reason we still got very light hearted stories not only from this show but from the American shows as well with the plots of this OVA not being really rather entertaining nor were they all really rather engaging either in y freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this TV series are Daiki Nakamura as Leonardo , Kappei Yamaguchi as Michelangelo and Hidenari Ugaki as Donatello. Also starring in this TV series are Hiroyuki Shibamoto as Raphael , Hideyuki Umezu as Splinter and Krang , Emi Shinohara as April O'Neil , Kiyoyuki Yanada as Oroku Saki / The Shredder , Kyousei Tsukui as Bebop , Hidetoshi Nakamura as Rocksteady , Rei Sakuma as Crys-Mu and Dark Mu , Tomohiro Nishimura as Hattori Kinzô and Kōichi Nagano as A News Technician.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very TV series well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought /felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very TV series was in all honesty not that bad. Which really isn't all that surprising as alot of this series cast are actually reprising their roles from the Japanese dub of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series and as a result of that id the fact that they would know how best to perform there character and what kind of performance would best suit there respective character in any given situation with the only let down from an acting standpoint is the fact that Krang's voice just doesn't suit his character in the slightest way possible with the acting in this TV series not really being helped by the fact that the script for both of these episodes are just so bad as it gives the actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be.
Doing the animation for this series is Bee Media and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Tsuburaya Productions. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very TV series well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very TV series was in all honesty but at the same time tho this TV series animation wasn't all that good either as it looked really cheap looking with the animation in this very series looking like it would have been better if this series was released in the eighties but it wasn't it was released in the nineties when animation on TV shows in both Japan and America was getting to be alot better then most animation that we got in movies at the time and as a result of this is the fact that it's now all the more shocking that this series animation is as cheap looking as it is as it's something that really should have been fixed during production of the show and not being left as it is as that only make the show look really very cheap looking to both produce and to make.
To put it frankly this two episode show is just plain weird with the turtles now able to access another mutation due to the help of a magic stone. With the second and final episode of this two episode series granting the turtles the ability to add metal to there skin why all of this is indeed explained away in the show in a way that makes sense it's also something that's a stretch to far when it comes to suspending your disbelief as for all intense and purposes this show is a direct continuation of the 1987 series and yet even that show for as weird and as campy as it got it never really gave the turtles additional powers with this being made all the more worse due to the fact that this two episode OVA series was really only made to promote to two really different sets of turtles toys the first one being made to promote the SuperMutants toy line and episode only being made to promote the Metal Mutants toy line and while yes the original show was also made to promote a toy line the original show was really a bit more subtle then what this show really was.
As was just stated there are only two episodes in this OVA series which is a shame as it is interesting to see what they could do with the turtles in anime form. However at the same time with this series really only being made to promote two different toy lines there's only so much that you can do with that before you start to run of toys to include and as a result we are left with this what can only be described as a really odd series with this series bring something that really could have been better explored upon if it was given a full series akin to the Transformers anime series and heck given the amount of Ninja Turtles toys out there they very easily could have adapted any of the old toys and created a new series set in there world different from the 1987 series which would have allowed them to do something different with the turtles instead of just having them be like lesser and in some cases more dumber versions of there 1987 TV series counterparts.
All of the characters in this series are written so badly as for example April is written as someone who while still an alley of the turtles would never get involved with there battles with The Shredder. This is despite the fact that April would frequently get into fights with many of the turtles foes and helping them out in anyway that she can how the worse offenders are easily both The Shredder and Krang as while yes in the original 1987 series there were quite dumb and goofy villains they could at least get the job done when it mattered the most however in this series there both written as being really dumb characters which is something that doesn't match with what it is that were seeing on screen and have seen in the original series and as a result of this is the fact that it makes the makers of this show seem like they never watched the original show this is despite the fact that original series producer Fred Wolf is involved in this show as a producer and yet he somehow gave the OK to have The Shredder be almost as dumb and as idiotic as both Bebop and Rocksteady.
Now then the first episode of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty seven minuets and fifty seven seconds whilst episode two of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly thirty one minuets and twenty seconds. With the series as a whole lasting no longer then fifty eight minuets with both of this shows episodes having some really solid running time even if the final five minuets or so of episode two is quite literally just adverts for either Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles including the toys that were featured in this two episode OVA which really isn't needed as while the second episode really doesn't have that much plot to cover even twenty five minuets worth of running time as it really is just thin on plot with the first episode fairing a little bit better in this regard as episode one does have alot of plot to really cover that amount of running time with both episodes having some really good pacing to them both.
So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad. However at the same time tho this shows action wasn't as good nor was it as fun as the action even in the 1990 live action movie was as the action in both of these episodes doesn't really have any scene where we see the turtles working together with them instead mostly taking of different foes at the exact same time which really isn't half of fun as it is seeing the turtles all working together to take down all of there foes at the exact same time but when this show does have some cool action you really do know about it it's just shame that the action in this show is mostly really dull to watch in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this show is just as weird as you really want it to be and is a sign that the turtles really will attach there name to anything as long as it will all of the companies some money with this show really rather rightfully being forgotten about it and heck there's not even dub version of this series as this series is just that rare to find anywhere and is just that weird and strange in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review and as such that means that this very show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being the official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not all of the images that are on the official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fandom wiki page are really all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.