Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles‘ Opening Sequence Is an Artistic Blast

At San Diego Comic-Con today, Paramount gave america 1 past large look at Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, its interquel animated bid meant to span the spread between Mutant Mayhem and its upcoming theatrical sequel.

Set to motorboat successful a fewer weeks, Tales of the TMNT volition travel Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael (with Mutant Mayhem‘s young stars Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, and Brady Noon each reprising their respective roles) arsenic they effort to navigate precocious schoolhouse unrecorded alongside their caller champion person April (the likewise returning Ayo Edebiri).

But the accomplishment of a caller menace successful the city, successful the signifier of the anti-mutant Bishop and an service of elephantine robots looking to clamp down connected the mutant resurgence aft the events of Mutant Mayhem, sees the brothers forced to spell their ain abstracted ways, and larn to beryllium heroes successful their ain rights earlier they re-unite arsenic a team. But immoderate good TMNT amusement needs a slayer rubric sequence–and Tales‘ revealed astatine Comic-Con (and debuted online by Collider) this afternoon, is simply a delight.

Taking inspiration from Mutant Mayhem‘s scribbly-aesthetic–one of the archetypal ever teasers for the movie was done successful the benignant of teen scribbling creation into the liner connected their schoolhouse notebook–the series is simply a truly cool, stylish riff connected transitioning the film’s aesthetic to a 2D form. The action, the effects, the wide alt-teen vibe: it’s harmless to accidental if this is thing to spell by, the satellite of Mutant Mayhem is losing precise small successful its leap from the large surface to streaming TV.

Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is acceptable to statesman streaming connected Paramount+ August 9.

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