Caleb Goellner

This is the collection of issues 1-4 of TMNT x Naruto.

This is a fever dream of ninja loving comic readers. The Ninja Turtles meet up with Team 7 in a cross over I never saw coming. The mash up of both worlds was done with liberties. NYC is now the Big Apple Village, in a merger of the TMNT NYC we all know and the Villages of the Naruto Universe.
You’ll notice changes in the verbiage more so on the Naruto side, the first one that got me was that “Shadow clone jitsu” is “Art of the Doppelgänger ” , then it continued from there. I’m assuming that there had to be changes due to copy writing , however it would have almost been better to omit them calling out their jitsu moves vs changing them completely.

The teams start off fighting each other due to a misunderstanding and April lets it happen for footage vs stopping them to explain, and that’s not super in Aprils normal character either. Finally Kakashi talks to Splinter, mistaking him for an old master he knows, however, Kakashi wouldn’t mistake a Rat for a person so that seemed off as well. I can keep going on how the characters are just a tad to much off kilter , but it would be me nit picking.

The Plot itself fell a little flat for me. I wanted to go into it knowing its not a cannon cross over, but thinking it would be a cool story maybe ending with some weird Sharingan training or something Kakashi was doing to mess with Team 7. However, it felt more like a fan service.

In all honesty, if this was just cross over art , it would have been very cool.

I REALLY wanted to enjoy this, however It fell sort for me. That being said if you are someone who hasn’t really read or watched either Naruto or TMNT, it could be an enjoyable story.

Thank you NetGalley and IDW Publishing for the Digital ARC for review.