The ninja turtles

Television series
German title	The ninja turtles
Original title	Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation
Country of production	United States of America , Japan
original language	English
Year (s)	1997-1998
length	25 minutes
Episodes	26 in 1 season
genre	Action
production	Saban Entertainment Toei Co. Ltd. Fox Kids Worldwide Mirage Studios
First broadcast	September 12, 1997 on Fox Kids (USA)
German-language first broadcast	September 27, 1998 on RTL
synchronization

The Ninja Turtles ( English Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation ) is the title of a short-lived real series based on the comics about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the late 1990s. In German-speaking countries, the series was first broadcast on RTL in the Saturday morning program.

content

The series again adapts the familiar framework of the four Turtles Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, Master Splinter and their archenemy Shredder. However, the series is expanded to include another fifth Turtle, the missing sister of the Turtles Mei Pieh Chi , also known by her nickname Venus de Milo (named after the famous statue Venus de Milo ). To introduce them, the "history" of the turtles was changed so that it was not four but five turtles that came into contact with the mysterious radioactive, green liquid that led to their mutation. However, Splinter only managed to pick up four of them; the fifth, Venus, was drifting in the sewer current. She got to New York's Chinatown, where a Chinese shinobi named Chung I found her and took care of her. Chung I took Venus to his hometown Shanghai, raised her and taught her the Shinobi martial arts.

Chung I revealed her true origin to Venus on her deathbed, whereupon she returned to New York and met her brothers there. In New York, Venus and her brothers fight together against a new enemy, the so-called "Dragon Lord", who commands an army of humanoid dragons.

additional

The series is based neither on the movies nor on the very successful cartoon series that was discontinued a year earlier. In addition to the introduction of the female fifth turtle Venus de Milo, there are other noticeable differences to the previous Turtles adaptations (and the comic book). Leonardo fights with a double-edged ninjatō instead of his katana and since nunchaku are banned in many places, Michelangelo received a pair of tonfa instead as a typical weapon.

criticism

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The series is arguably the most unpopular Turtles series with fans and was discontinued after one season (a second, computer-animated season was planned, but was never completed).

One reason for the failure was the introduction of Venus de Milo. It was very unpopular with the fans and was seen by many as completely superfluous. Why it was invented in the first place is not entirely clear. There are two theories about this:

1. It could be that Venus was invented by the television network Fox and the two creators of the Turtles were forced to include them in the series.
2. Others believe Venus was created by Turtles co-inventor Kevin Eastman because he thought her character was a good idea.

Whichever theories may be true, it is clear that Turtles co-inventor Peter Laird dislikes Venus; he even deleted her profile from the official website for a short time.

Another reason for the big criticism was that in this series the Turtles - contrary to all other adaptations - are not blood related.

The martial arts of Venus also became a point of criticism: The arts of the shinobi were presented as a kind of magic in this series and thus clearly separated from ninjutsu. The word “shinobi” is actually just another term for “ ninja ”. So there is no difference between ninjas and shinobi.

Many also found it inappropriate that Venus' master, Chung I, was from China, even though ninjas are native to Japan. A Chinese ninja is not unthinkable, but many did not like the idea.

Another serious point of criticism besides the new Turtle Venus was their action itself and thus also their humor. Many found it stupid and too much based on the humor of the Power Rangers series . In addition to this stylistic connection, there is another connection between this Turtles series and the Power Rangers: In the Power Rangers episode Power Rangers: In Space: Enemies from the Underground there is a guest appearance on a crossover of the two series.

In addition, the real archenemy of the Turtles, Shredder, only appeared in the first two episodes.

synchronization

The German synchronization was created by FFS Munich . Arne Elsholtz was the director of the dialogue and dubbing .

role	actor	English speaker	German speaker
Leonardo	Gabe Khouth	Michael Dobson	Silvan-Pierre Leirich
Michelangelo	Jarreed Blancard	Kirby Morrow	Florian Halm
Donatello	Ricard Yaw	Jason Gray-Stanford	Jan Odle
Raphael	Mitchell A. Lee Yuen	Matt Hill	Oliver Mink
Venus de Milo	Nicole Parker	Lalainia Lindbjerg	Katrin Fröhlich
Splinter	Fiona Scotty	Stephen Mendel	Arne Elsholtz
Shredder / Oroku Saki	Patrick Pon	Patrick Pon	Thomas Albus
Dragon Lord	Gerald Wong	Christopher Gaze	Ekkehardt Belle
Wick	Adam Behr Bill Terezakis	Lee Tockar	Willi Roebke
Dr. Quease	Simon Webb		Horst Sachtleben
Silver	Gary Chalk		Hartmut Neugebauer
Bonesteel	Scott McNeil		Gudo Hoegel

Episode list

DVD release

Several DVDs for the series have been released by Cent Entertainment and Best Entertainment . According to an entry on Amazon .com, the series will be distributed by FM Kids.

Surname	publication	Brief information	Disks	FSK
Special edition	August 25, 2005	Contains the first 12 episodes of the series, only with German sound.	4th	From 12 years
Volume 1	December 22, 2005	Contains the first 3 episodes of the series, only with German sound.	1	From 12 years
Volume 2	December 22, 2005	Contains episodes 4 to 6 of the series, only with German sound.	1	From 12 years
Volume 3	December 22, 2005	Contains episodes 7 to 9 of the series, only with German sound.	1	From 12 years
Volume 4	December 22, 2005	Contains episodes 10 to 12 of the series, only with German sound.	1	From 12 years
25th anniversary edition	December 1, 2009	Contains episodes 13 to 15 of the series, only with German sound.	1	From age 6
Volume 1	June 28, 2013	Contains episodes 1 to 13 of the series, only with German sound. As an extra, the box contains the Power Rangers / Ninja Turtles crossover episode "Enemies from the Underground".	2	From age 6
Volume 2	20th September 2013	Contains episodes 14 to 26 of the series, only with German sound.	2	From age 6