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Mutant Turtles: Superman Legend (1996)

Mutant Turtles: Superman Legend poster
Original title
Super Turtles: Myūtanto Tātoruzu: Chōjin Densetsu-hen
Directed by
Shunji Oga
Genre
science fiction anime and manga, comedy anime and manga, adventure anime and manga
Country
Japan
Runtime
58 min
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles get transformed into superpowered mutants and later into metal versions of themselves. They fight enemies in two connected adventures.

90s animesillyfast-pacedlightheartedcartoonishnostalgicchaotic

What happens

Mutant Turtles: Superman Legend (Japanese: ミュータントタートルズ 超人伝説編, Hepburn: Myūtanto Tātoruzu: Chōjin Densetsu-hen) is a Japanese original video animation based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. The first episode is based on the Supermutants line while the second episode is based on the Metal Mutation line. The OVA was produced by Bee Media and Tsuburaya Productions. The OVA features most of the same cast as TV Tokyo's Japanese dub of the 1987 TV series, most notably Hideyuki Umezu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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