COWABUNGA!
Hiiiiiiii and welcome to my Mutant Mayhem shrine, established October 2023. These turtles have consumed my every waking thought. I downloaded the movie and then did so a second time because the first one wasn't clear enough. I watched it on my iPad on the shuttle on the way back from a work trip with my coworkers, pausing and taking screenshots shamelessly. I made an account on Squidge Images to house all my Donnies. I have spent time and effort trying to draw turtles – a thing I've never said before in my life. I felt like a shrine was the natural next step.
DISCLAIMER: I didn't grow up watching TMNT or paying it any attention at all, so I MIGHT BE WRONG ABOUT MANY THINGS!!!!!! I am also a very new fan who is generally not much of a superhero girlie, and this continues to hold true as I obsess over MM. I'm really in it for this specific iteration1 of the characters + their silliness.
Just look at how cute they are... what the hell... they have STRING LIGHTS IN THEIR HOME!!!
SHRINE UPDATES
240308: Added the etiquette spot video to the EXTRA page.
240308: The EXTRA page has a lot of content now! Feel free to have a scroll.
240302: The CHARAS page is complete! You'll also find a link to another page not found in the sidebar when you're there...
240228: I have updated the ABOUT page with a full writeup!
240117: The GALLERY is up! It's fairly simple which I think is best. I have the skeletons for some of the other pages to be filled out at some point.
231206: Added a to-do list. Kind of slow moving but at least we have direction!
231010: I built the shrine today! Used the images I saved on Squidge to save on space in my Neocities storage.
- Designed the CSS I'll be using for the whole shrine (maybe).
- Spent a bunch of time making buttons and stamps of the boys.
- CHARA and EXTRA pages are up with nothing much in them yet.
WHAT IS "MUME"?
You might notice that this page's link is called "mume". It's how I've chosen to abbreviate Mutant Mayhem. I assumed this was how they would shorten it in Japanese – like ミュータント・メイヘム – but it turned out they shorten it to ミューパニ myuupani for "Mutant Panic", which is the official title of Mutant Mayhem in Japan.
So now I just have this made up abbreviation (that I honestly don't even pronounce correctly half the time), but I'm going to use it anyway. Mume shrine!
(If you were curious, the title in Korean is 닌자터틀: 뮤턴트 대소동. So also not "mume".)
[1]: I'm not opposed to getting into the other shows/movies, but it's not a priority. I'm very picky about art style, so the only other iteration of the turts I'll probably check out is ROTTMNT. I started with the movie (it was the only thing available to me at the time), but I stopped watching partway because I'm just bad at watching movies, and I don't like doing things out of order... I'll try again with the show proper someday!
Update (23/12/6): I watched it. I really love it. I don't know if I'll make a shrine for it, but I just came back to say I'm obsessed.
Update (24/1/17): I am very close to starting the 2012 cartoon as well. Turtle disease.