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Teen Titans

My son loves this show. About all that interests me is the theme music (the beat is nice), but I am not sure I like Japanese humor and animation with DC heroes. What is your review?

Titans Teen

I think it different. I think allot of the plots are rather humorous and different. I like the green kid, especially in the episode that he got mistaken for a green alien dog and wisked away. It doest seem like the kids can coexist in both current plots and their future alignments. So it appears that this series doesn't utilize any of the known existences of the heroes when grown. Over all, I like seeing some of our heroes as kids.

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I, personally, love seeing the heroes as teens, but they need to put in kid Flash because he's the best hero ever. The Japanese style animation is a nice twist to the classic DC comic cartooning.

Titans Teen

I love the show and I have a friend that basically worships it. But I don't really like the theme music that much. Another thing I find disagreeable with the show is that where is any comic book does it show Dick Grayson versus Slade? was Slade fictional in terms of DC comics? or was he in there somewhere? I don't know about Beast Boy and Raven either. In an old batman comic book I used to have, Dick goes back to the Titan's tower just to visit. I saw Star fire and I also saw Cyborg(or was he called Titan?).but no Raven or Beast Boy

Titans Teen

I suppose since I am generally 'anti-Jap styles' I just cannot relate to this show. Now if this were done by Western cartoonist I believe I could find it more serious and interesting. Point in question, the expressions that some of the Teen Titans give when they are surprised are too exaggerated and almost look as though their faces changed into something abnormal, totally unnecessary.

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Dramon: I don't know about any Slade v Robin storylines in the comics, but Slade/Deathstroke would clash with the Titans pretty regularly. He's obviously a lot more one-dimensional on the show.

I know Raven came from the books (wikipedia says the animators changed her skirt to a leotard to "avoid complications"), Beast Boy as well - these were all from the old 80s line up when the book had first come out.

Rest of thread: That said, I'm not a fan of the show. As far as I can tell, the hybrid animation style is supposed to be a joke, but it seems too convenient for creators in general to put out overly stylized products and go "Oh, you didn't get my intentions - it's supposed to look that way." I guess its meant to be a western "twisting" of the old anime styles, but still, it's a bit too tongue-in-cheek for me.

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Primarily for DramonArizel. Yes, the cartoon is based on the 'New Teen Titans' comic that debuted in... the late 80's ...I think. Slade was more well-known within the comics as Deathstroke the Terminator and did clash, as Agent said, with the Teen Titans on several occasions, although I would have to say that in the comics themselves, Brother Blood and Trigon were more frequent foes. Beast Boy was called "Changling" in the Teen Titans comic, although his original name was Beast Boy when he was a sidekick/ sort of tagalong member of the second edition Doom Patrol. The lineup for the New Teen Titans was Robin( Dick Grayson before he made the upgrade to being Nightwing), Starfire, Raven, Changling, Wonder Girl ( Donna Troy before her change to a Darkstar, and then to a near Goddess-type called Troia ), Cyborg, and fast but not least, Kid Flash ( who has since taken on the mantle of the Flash after the death of Barry Allen ).

You are right about your recollections about Cyborg...for a time, the storylines had Cyborg as part of a merged entity called the "Technus"


I like the Teen Titans cartoon for the simple zest and light hearted fare that they apply to it. I am not a huge fan of the Japanimation style expressions used in some panels, but sometimes they are funny to watch and make me laugh quite a bit when they don't go too extreme with it. I understand that they are trying to capture not only a hearty share of american audiences but to also grab a chunk of Japanese child viewers as well, and if you have seen any of the early episodes of such cartoons like....Dragonball Z...then you know those funky BESM ( Big Eyes Small Mouth ) expressions seem to be the rage among young Japanese children, for whatever reason.