#Ninja tribunal

[afteas2003]

LET'S GOOOOO. Okay so this piece is a collaboration with the epic @redstringraven. I commissioned the lineart from them as part of tmnt4p then did the rendering and bg myself!

Do we like it more with the lighting effects or not?

This is the first part of 4 that redstringraven and I collabed on with the 2003 boys and their Ninja Tribunal friends. I just finally got around to actually rendering it 😭. Any feedback is appreciated!

[awzominator]

Behold!! The Ninja Tribunal in all their fully rendered glory!!

Chikara was the hardest in terms of coloring so her colors are the most identical to the 03 designs. Hisomi on the other hand was the easiest and I will be chasing that high for the rest of my life! Anyway,, Kon is a low emergent bitch while Chikara is a high energy bitch. Jotu causes problems on purpose for everyone. Hisomi….it’s the quiet ones you gotta watch out for…

[animal-lover-forever]

My take of the Rise boys w/ the 03 boys tribunal markings.

(I realized that Donnie didn't have his normal markings, so I fix it.) (And as an added bonus to the fix you get the group with a background!) Yay!

[turtshell]

its messed up how in the season 4 finale, its stated that this is the first time donny's left the lair in weeks since he's been recovering from the aftermath of his second mutation

and then they're immediately attacked. donatello is lifted and smacked onto concrete hard enough to knock him out while he was trying to get to raph who was pinned and helpless.

and then they're kidnapped and put in a (unlocked) cell!

they didn't let don help with moving furniture in the lair that morning, but that night all that shit goes down. they really cannot catch a break

[turtle-bun]

So im rewatching the Ninja Tribunal arc and i need to know if there's a fic out there where Splinter 1 v 4 the gods cuz he's sick and fucking tired of people putting his kids in danger. I swear to god every breath this rat man takes anytime the Tribunal is near is pure shit talk. He really be like "I wish a bitch would! On my dear master Yoshi imma beat someones ass if they lay a finger on my babies!" 😤😤😤

[life-set-to-random]

Oh dear lord… the Ninja Tribunal arch. So much to unpack. Give me strength…

I’m going to try and be fair, I’m going to mention something positive for every complaint I make. I don’t want to be that person after all.

Firstly, please, please, for the love of all things , STOP CALLING OUT ATTACKS LIKE A CHEAP 90S ANIME DUB!!! The original cringe. 😖

Ok, nice thing time. These four were very likable (if not superfluous). I found myself wanting to know more about them and even shipping some of them with the Hamato brothers, if not romantically then at least as besties. Sadly they spend the entire arch building up friendships between these humans and the Turtles only to kill them off in the end. But it feels SO forced. We weren’t given enough time with them to really cry over them as individuals so much as morn the wasted potential they were brimming with. I get they couldn’t kill off the Turtles and thus needed some “Red Shirts” to try and sell the high stakes, but still.

And what about the relatives they were threatened with in the first episode of the arch? Joi Reynard’s Aunt who lives in Japan (I’m assuming Army or Navy brat, she’s WAY too caucasian to even be half Japanese, I’m assuming French ancestry), and Adam McCay’s brother (who never gets a name) in Miami Florida? Faraji Ngala and Yoshida Tora aren’t given specific loved ones to fret over but Tora obviously has someone because he apologizes to Mikey “…our families are at stake.”

Did anyone notify those poor people that their relatives died?! Because they weren’t even mentioned after this.

Side note while we’re on the subject of the folks left behind back on the home front, I hope April or one of the other human Allie’s back in NY are taking care of Klunk. With the way the Hamato clan keeps getting kidnaped for long periods of time, the poor fluff ball could starve easily.

These four, ugh where to start?

Positive note, beautiful visual designs, if not a westerner’s usual hodgepodge of Asian fantasy stereotypes. 🙄😑

Weak backstory, contorting groundbreaking original canon for this series into a very boring and predictable bit of nonsense. Completely unnecessary and obviously half assed, to the point where the Turtles sum it up so succinctly you want to say to Splinter and The Ancient One “That’s how you tell a story!”

Oh and their attitudes sucked! Almost as bad as their communication skills. Thankfully, when he arrived, Splinter flat out called them out on their crap. “How can they prepare themselves if you do not tell them anything?!”

Probably should say something positive again… Um, their voice actors were great?😅 And I love the juxtaposition of the girl being the one to represent strength and having a huge man representing stealth.

The weapons. Positive observations, they’re real weapon types and are actually pretty cool looking. Also it’s nice to see the boys deviated from their comfort zones (not Leo unfortunately, the writers just can’t separate him from swords in their minds apparently). How Leo gets his is so infuriatingly complicated when it didn’t need to be and falls into the trope of “black guy dies first” (then the girl, then the sweetheart, then the cool dude. Did we take a wrong turn into a late 90s horror movie or something?).

The monsters. None of these creatures look like their Japanese inspiration AT ALL! And none of them are Tengu, Tengu doesn’t even mean “demon”! They just stuck Tengu on the end of every other Japanese Yokai name! For no good reason!

I kept hearing that line from Princess Bride in my head. “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

I’m not even Asian and I’m so offended and confused, I can’t imagine how an actual member of the Japanese culture must feel getting shit on like this. Whoever wrote this arch did not respect the source material, the source culture, or the audience because they obviously assumed we were all stupid unaware kids! Ether that, or they were seriously lazy, I suspect both.

And if you’re going to give an English speaking cast of white people Japanese words to say, TEACH THEM HOW TO £¥€&ING SAY THEM CORRECTLY! Jeezus Henry Christmas! (Best Herminone Granger voice) It’s “Oh-Knee” not “On-Eye”!

Bright side, they do look awesome.🤷🏻‍♀️

Im going to have to post about the Tribunal’s dragon forms on another post, I’ve run out of picture space.😑

[shironezuninja]

I grew up with the animated Mulan movie. The first thing that came to my late teenaged mind was that Tengu Shredder had concubines in his palace during the Yamato era.

[redkehlchen]

Started Season 5 ….

[camarilla-arts]

While still fixated on TMNT at large, I am especially not able to stop thinking about Bad End Ninja Turtles, an au comic by @butterfilledpockets. 2003's "Same as it Never Was" Raph may not have ever experienced the Ninja Tribunal arc, AND I don't think Rise movie Leo still has his powers, so maybe this was just as much of a surprise for the both of them as it was for Ronin. at least we know for sursies Don-bot has seen magic shit before.

[neocelticavalon]

🐲 Sketch Log 3 - TMNT Fantasy AU 🐢🐉

A little something apritello, starts off with Tribunal Dragon Donatello (yeah, I randomly drew these out from nowhere, I sucks at drawing dragon and turtle anatomy cuz I often draw humans very much)

Aaanndd....I dig April swinging her battle axe!!🪓🛡👑👀💅🏽👇👇

I don't really celebrate halloween here but Happy Halloween to you all, guys!! Stay cool and crispy, COWABUNGAAA~!!!

P.S. Sorry, due to a massive artblock and writers block, I don't write very much these day cuz today's hot weather been reaching 39 degrees (it RARELY rains 🥲🥲😭😭) and it almost impossible to concentrate and staying productive everyday 😭😭 the hot weather really does affect both my brain and my body. Stay hydrated, y'all!!🥲🥲

👀 BONUS!! 🐲🐢🐉

Sooo...yesterday, I stumbled upon this video clip of On Drakon movie....

And then I found this in the comments....👇👇

Soo..I couldn't help but created a meme reaction...

💜Any support like reblogs, comments and likes are GREATLY APPRECIATED!!! Toodles, loves!💜⚔👑

[mintyyyshake9000]

Started out drawing 03 Raph with his Tribunal markings

And ended up drawing Donnie and Mikey as well lol (+ Raph without the markings)

[ilovebeingaturtle]

Made an 1987 Venus, and a 2012 Venus, so I’ve been long overdue to make a 2003 Venus! Tada~

In this interpretation, Venus wasn’t initially separated from her brothers. Instead, she was raised alongside them-up until the family went on the trip to Japan to return Hamato Yoshi’s ashes. The whole ordeal with the ninja tribunal happened around about the same, however at the end, while erasing the turtles memories, the tribunal saw Venus’s mystic potential and took her away to be trained by them, wiping her families memories of her as well.

Skip ahead a few years, and when Leo his sent away from is family-instead of the Ancient One, he meets her. Another turtle willing to help who feels so so familiar…

[tmntkiseki]

If TMNT 2003 ever gets the Saturday Morning Adventures treatment, I sure hope Emilio Lopez and Khary Randolph are brought on to do the artwork. They are KILLING IT between all the previews for the upcoming 2003 oneshot and yesterday's Father's Day illustration.

[iztarshi]

The 03 turtles are very pure. They live in the darkest genre of any of the cartoons, but they themselves are always kind, brave and noble. They always help the helpless and that impulse never misleads them into helping a villain. They put up with being bullied by the Ninja Tribunal for the sake of the world when I think at least one member of any other group would have snapped.

[random-tmnt-drawing-ref]

From season 4 episode 26: the Ninja Tribunal

[holystressresponsebatman]

Was watching season 5 of tmnt 2k3 the other morning, finished all 13 episodes in one go….

But my fiancé made a comment that got me thinking and we had a whole conversation about this.

We were like, sure season 5 is good. Objectively. It could probably reasonably stand on its own. However. Season five is very different from the first four seasons in two key ways:

1) it only had thirteen episodes

2) it didn’t have to be the “attention getter”

You’re probably wondering what I mean by that second one. But we’re gonna talk about number 1 first :)

I think we can confidently say that for a show like tmnt, 26 episodes is like the golden number, right? The number of episodes you have at your disposal in a regular season allows for perfect timing and execution of both an A and B plot, with proper introduction and use of various side characters.

So, reducing that number to 13 episodes also reduces the amount of time you have to grab a viewer’s attention to a certain plot point and get them to grab key information from the show on your way to the finale episodes where you wrap everything up. To get the timing right on each act of the story—especially when you’re used to having double the amount of time to do it in—is very tricky.

Because of this, the way the plot sets up and the side characters are introduced and used feels very much like an 11 year old fanfic writer inserting their OCs, only to realize they don’t want to make a backstory for them or give them actual personalities, they only wanted to draw them. So when it comes time in the story to give them personality or risk having the story fall flat, they kill the characters off all at once. This gives the viewer some whiplash in the middle of the story, and leaves them wondering why you even introduced the characters in the first place.

(This is not to say that 11 year old fanfic writers are bad, because they are an invaluable part of the fandom, but seriously. We’ve all been there. It’s just what happens most of the time.)

Number two, this season didn’t have to be the attention-getter. They didn’t have to grab the audience and make them watch, because they already had them for four seasons, so they figured that this season could just be an attention-keeper season.

By this point, the show had probably lost some of the appeal, and people were ready for something new. This is part of why tmnt is a franchise known for its rebirth of the characters and the story.

My guess is that they were picked up for another season, but demand was low, so they got a limited amount of time to do it in, and it backfired.

Honestly, season five might have turned out as my favorite season if the story were more fleshed out, the new characters given some backstory, and more suspense added into the whole “mystic original Shredder” plot line. Because dragon turtles? The whole “mystic ninja masters” thing? So cool.