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

At San Diego Comic-Con today, Paramount gave us one last major look at Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, its interquel animated series meant to bridge the gap between Mutant Mayhem and its upcoming theatrical sequel.

Set to launch in a few weeks, Tales of the TMNT will follow Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael (with Mutant Mayhem‘s young stars Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, and Brady Noon all reprising their respective roles) as they try to navigate high school live alongside their new best friend April (the likewise returning Ayo Edebiri).

But the arrival of a new threat in the city, in the form of the anti-mutant Bishop and an army of giant robots looking to clamp down on the mutant resurgence after the events of Mutant Mayhem, sees the brothers forced to go their own separate ways, and learn to be heroes in their own rights before they re-unite as a team. But any good TMNT show needs a killer title sequence–and Tales‘ revealed at Comic-Con (and debuted online by Collider) this afternoon, is a delight.

Taking inspiration from Mutant Mayhem‘s scribbly-aesthetic–one of the first ever teasers for the film was done in the style of teenager scribbling art into the liner on their school notebook–the sequence is a really cool, stylish riff on transitioning the film’s aesthetic to a 2D form. The action, the effects, the general alt-teen vibe: it’s safe to say if this is anything to go by, the world of Mutant Mayhem is losing very little in its leap from the big screen to streaming TV.

Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is set to begin streaming on Paramount+ August 9.

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