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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Naruto #[nn]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Naruto #1 (November 13, 2024) marks a genuinely rare publishing event: a formal, licensed comic crossover between a foundational American independent-comics property and one of the most globally influential manga franchises, brokered between IDW Publishing and Viz Media — two publishers operating in entirely different cultural traditions. Rather than using a multiverse device, writer Caleb Goellner merged both universes into a single coherent world, placing New York City as 'Big Apple Village' alongside Konoha's Hidden Villages, a narrative choice that critics noted gave the Turtles an organic fit within the ninja-centric logic already present in the Naruto world. The series also introduced a meaningful continuity bridge by revealing that Kakashi Hatake once knew Hamato Yoshi (Splinter's human master) before his mutation, deepening the thematic resonance between two stories built on the bonds of found family and the mentorship of young warriors. As a co-production requiring editorial sign-off from IDW, Viz Media, Shueisha, and TV Tokyo simultaneously, it stands as one of the most multi-stakeholder comics events of the decade.
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The project emerged from IDW's expanded TMNT publishing program following their renewed licensing agreement with Paramount, and was announced in July 2024 with a November 2024 on-sale date. Goellner revealed in interviews that he pitched six or seven story concepts to demonstrate flexibility, initially favoring the Mutant Mayhem film incarnation of the Turtles before settling on a version that blended both universes into a single shared world. Artist Hendry Prasetya described learning about the project under secrecy — told only that 'the Turtles were part of it' — before developing a visual style that merged the action-manga energy of Naruto with the brawling expressiveness of TMNT comics. Editor Thea Cheuk shepherded the script approvals across four separate corporate rights-holders (IDW, Viz Media, Shueisha, and TV Tokyo), an unusually complex editorial pipeline for an American periodical comic.
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- Series: 4-issue miniseries (issues #1–4), published November 2024 – June 2025 by IDW Publishing in collaboration with Viz Media.
- Issue #1 release date: November 13, 2024; Issue #2: January 2025; Issue #3: March 26, 2025; Issue #4: June 4, 2025.
- Creative team: Writer Caleb Goellner (Eisner Award winner; Sonic the Hedgehog, Ghost Cage), artist Hendry Prasetya (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Girl), colorist Raúl Angulo, letterer Ed Dukeshire, editor Thea Cheuk; primary covers by Jorge Jiménez.
- Story concept: Rather than a multiverse collision, Goellner merged both worlds — placing New York City as 'Big Apple Village' and situating the Turtles as mutant shinobi within the Naruto universe's Hidden Village framework.
- Key story development in #1: Kakashi Hatake is revealed to have previously known Hamato Yoshi (Splinter's human master), creating a surprise continuity bridge between the two franchises' mythologies.
- Alopex (the anthropomorphic arctic fox Foot Clan member from IDW's TMNT continuity) appears as the field commander of the Foot ninja in the opening conflict of issue #1, serving as the Turtles' and Team 7's first shared antagonist.
- Issue #1 received a second printing (cover by Jorge Corona, available March 12, 2025), indicating strong reader demand for the debut issue.
- Collected editions: A trade paperback (collecting #1–4) published October 7, 2025; a manga-style black-and-white edition TPB and an IDW Exclusive Folio Edition hardcover were also released, with a NYCC 2025 exclusive variant cover by Jorge Jiménez produced for the manga-style TPB.
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