Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: My Look at the Cartoon Series

I love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT), and with the new(ish) series that came out in 2012, I wanted to do a blog post about my favorite turtles!!

TMNT 1987. Source: unboreddiva.com

If you think about it, the story of TMNT is actually pretty insane. Four baby turtles and one rat get mutated by a glowing ooze, and then the rat raises them as his sons and trains them in the way of ninjutsu. They live in abandoned ruins in the sewers of New York and fight against their powerful and dangerous foe, the Shredder, a man who has a talent for ninjutsu and a vicious nature.

 Sounds crazy, right? When I was trying to explain the story to one of my friends, her incredulous look told me just how insane the story really is. It's amazing that this franchise got the fan base that it has.

I first got into TMNT when I was twelve/thirteenish and came across the 2003 cartoon series that aired on Saturday mornings. I was a little familiar with them since my older brothers had tons of action figures, but I didn't really know all that much about them. I got hooked on that show immediately and loved it. For a long time, I thought that was all there was to TMNT. Well, I knew there was a previous series but I didn't know much about it.