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Teen Titans, Volume 1 - Divide and Conquer (DC Comics Kids Collection)

5 star:		(31)
4 star:		(14)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

Like many of the adults posting reviews for TT, I grew up reading the Perez/Wolfman series. When I heard that Cartoon Network was going to do a Teen Titans series, I was skepticle. I have enjoyed the various Animated Batman/ Superman/ Justice League series of the 90s and now, but the TT were a different type of team than the grim and gritty JLA members (Well, except for Elongated Man and Plasticman...don't get me started) and I wasn't sure how well that would translate on the little screen.

Turns out I had nothing to worry about. Teen Titans is the most original take on Superheros I've ever seen on television. Humor and coming of age angst is mixed with clever dialouge and decent animation (Though I preferred the orig. Animated Batman style). It's a toon I can watch with my kids (or even by myself) and thoroughly enjoy. Best of all, they include a little something for the adults watching as well. What do I mean? Something you hardly ever see in kids cartoons, character developement. Enjoy it while you can. Something this good hardly ever lasts. I took one star away for not being a complete season.

I, personally, enjoy the Teen Titan series. And anyone with at least a little common sense would realize this was one a comic. Hardcore fan of the comics, the show really isn't all that bad compared to what others believe. This anime wasn't made for older folks, but for children. Otherwise, if it had gone by the comics, it would be much darker and sinister. I find it funny when a person leaves a comment about the show when they don't take in the facts first. Made for kids, most animes are -not- made for children, sorry...but it's the truth. Seeing as I have a son that enjoys the show, I have no complaints and even watch it myself. Once again I stress, this was made for kids...it's not your typical anime full of adult humor and explicits.

Teen Titans is probably my favorite animated series, but season 1 -- especially the first episodes {which are in this DVD}, weren't that great.

Divide and Conquer -- not a bad episode. It was funny, it was cute, and Plasmus was disgusting. Yet, the writers wanted so bad to make a good ending -- and to make one in twenty minutes, not more, so the ending pretty much ruins the episode. Cyborg pops out of nowhere and saves Robin? How did he even get there? How did he know where Robin was? How the heck did he catch Robin when the Bird-Boy was inches away from burning into ash in acid? Out of ten, this episode would be six and a half/seven.

Sisters -- one of my favorites. I love it to bits -- Blackfire is too cool, Starfire acts like a five-year-old, and like David Slack, I believe, said in an interview you can also find in this DVD: that episode reflects the life of completely normal teenagers, just with super powers, aliens, and whatnot. Sibling rivalry is the greatest, and is also perfectly normal.
Eight outta ten.

Final Exam -- I love that episode. The HIVE's agents kick ass. Especially the Titans'. I don't have much to say about this episode, it only disturbs me that Beast Boy and Raven looked all over Jump City and couldn't find Robin, and when they need him -- Poof, Robin pops out of nowhere -- yes, just like Cy in the Divide and Conquer. Seven and a half.

Forces of Nature -- God, that episode is so cliché. Teen Titans, even though a cartoon aimed for kids, is usually quite entertaining for older people is well. This episode was just boring. Thunder and Lightning are simply bad characters, that's all I have to say. BB's prank and his fight with Starfire I actually liked, but the rest of it... the horror! Five and a half out of ten.

The Sum Of His Parts -- L-A-M-E. Pointless, like all Cyborg episodes. Don't take me wrong, Cy is truly a great character, they just don't do him justice. The Titans chasing stupid Mumbo around while Cyborg was nearly dead -- annoying. Cyborg's memories make Fixit be all... umm, human, if this thing can even be human... And once again, the Titans come near the end to fight the bad guy, even though they were too late this time. Too bad, really, this episode had some potential. 6.

Nevermore -- of course I liked the other episodes {Well, most of them}, but this episode is actually the reason I bought the DVD. All Raven episodes are serious, meaningful, and well-written. This episode is hilarious, and I'm sorry to sound like a 7 years old but... RAVEN'S MIND IS SOOO COOL!!11one. The different sides of Raven's personality are just brilliant. Especially Trigon. Raaaaage becomes youuuuuu! I love that guy. I love Raven. I love that floating strawberry thing. 10/10.

Special features: Comic Creations -- I love that thing. Creator interviews, some information about "The New Teen Titans", character discussion, about the theme song and whatnot. Funnn.

Find the Remote -- Cute. I'm sure 8-year-old TT-obsessives would like it.

Theme Song Music Video -- Again I say cute. Puffy AmiYumi can really get on my nerves, but the TT theme song isn't too bad, in my opinion.

Sneak Peek -- I have no idea what this thing's for, except for advertisement. Meh.

This is one of the best series ever! Usually I don't like the bat man super man stuff. But I love this! especially the fact that it's in anime style!! This is a great series for cartoon fans,kids,superman bat man stuff fans and (like me) ANIME FANS!!!!! so watch this you'll love it!

anyways, this is a fun series to watch! you will get excited to see the next episode! This is a fun,funny and great series! you will always care about the characters and have fun all the way!

the character designs are great! they look adorable (since the form is anime!) so get this! and it has like 6 episodes which is probably half of season 1! now thats a great deal!

and for an unrelated topic:starfire rocks!

OK, let's get straight to the point. I am intensely aware that the pseudo-anime style of "Teen Titans" can be very off-putting to new viewers. You know; gigantic sweat drops, insanely big hair and eyes, pulsing red veins in their heads, exaggerated expressions that shatter their character profiles and the like. They were to me at first. A friend of mine introduced me to this show, and I did not like it at first, to say the least. I'll shamelessly admit, I loved anime when I was younger, and I recently discovered I still do when I started watching reruns of Dragonball Z. But that same loyalty is what made the Americanized imitation of the anime style so disturbing to me. And as if to gain some credentials, they got the theme song to be sung by a Japanese pop girl band called Puffy Amiyumi, which I STILL find profoundly annoying. But I got over it. It's very fun to watch, and despite it's obvious flaws, I seriously like this show. The characters and the relationships between them are very well developed. They all have their individual personalities, back-stories, motivations and effects on the main story line, something that is quite uncommon for something marketed as a kid's show.

How can I hate the sidekick of Batman, half-man half-robot with all those gadgets, a badass goth-like psychic, an airheaded alien girl, and a funny green animal transformer who battle rather charismatic villains and their own teenage angst? Some describe the show as immature, and some episodes are stupid (Cyborg the Barbarian?), but in my opinion it's humor is a welcome breath of fresh air from all the other cartoon shows that take themselves way too seriously (Justice League, anyone?)

The story keeps drawing me back in! I am extremely interested in the Trigun/Raven storyline that opens up later in the series, and particularly in the season finale, "The End" parts 1, 2 and 3. I really enjoyed seeing Armageddon. All of the story though - Cyborg's fight to keep his humanity, Starfire's problems with her (ahem) alienation, Beast Boy's Charlie Brown-like outsider status, and Terra's betrayal of the team which I felt had a rather lame ending. In conclusion, don't be embarrassed to like this show. Some of it seems geared towards six year olds, some toward teens or thereabouts, and some of it even seems geared towards couch potatoes and potheads, but I continually find reasons to like it.

(And now the off-hand, awkward comment that will probably get me a lot of unhelpful reviews by judgmental people.) And besides, Raven is hot as hell. I don't care if it's a cartoon; I defy any male to not find those legs a turn-on.

My wife and I have been watching Teen Titans on cable for several weeks. As other reviews confirm, it has a strong anime-attitude influence combined with the 'Batman animated series' style of animation. There is a good deal of character development and old-school fans of the Teen Titans comics of the 80's (like my wife and I) will be pleased to know that the show is reasonably true to the old comics. It's also nice to see Robin dominating in combat instead of playing sidekick to Batman. All in all, Teen Titans gives good story, action and characters you will care about.

Teen Titans Volume I, Divide and Conquer blasts off with six full episodes and lots of extras. What a value for your money! Owning the DVD is a must for fans of the show, because the animation is so cute, but moves so fast that you need to view episodes multiple times.

The five characters of Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy, Cyborg and Robin are very loose adaptations of the comic book Teen Titans that I read in the early 1990's. In the comics, Raven and Starfire were bodacious babes, young women in their late 'teens. In the show, the girls are around fifteen and look it. In the comics there were many more characters and soap opera romances. Here, the five are friends, living platonically in the Titans Tower. There is a hint of budding romance between Starfire and Robin, a nod to the comics when Robin became Nightwing, had a long and torrid relationship with Starfire, and married her.

I hope in future episodes we will see more characters from the comic book - especially Wondergirl.

The DVD extras include the producer, writer, and director talking in depth about how they created the series, a Puffy Ami Yumi video, a "find the remote game," and "sneak peeks." You know, I never could find that remote!

Teen Titans is my favorite show! I am so glad a DVD's coming out! But the reason I gave it only 4 stars is that...why don't they put put it in seasons!? Just 6 episodes? There are 39 episodes so I think they should have did seasons. Oh well...
Other than that, I can't wait!
P.S. My favorite Titan is Robin.

i recommend this to all teen titans fans. but what I don't get is that they only have 6 episodes why not divide and conquer to the apprentices? thats how long season one is. but anyway I like this dvd

For a year or so I have ignored Teen Titans thinking it was gonna be lame because lets face it almost all cartoon shows today are LAME! I finally decided to recently give it a shot cause my sister said she saw an episode at a friends house and said it was pretty funny and enjoyable. So about 2 or 3 weeks ago I sat down and watched an episode(forgot which one!) and I enjoyed it(unfortunately I missed like the first 5 minutes). I thought Beast Boy was adorable and funny, Cyborg was funny, Starfire was cute, Robin was cool, and well Raven I really didn't like her because her voice and her attitude. And I enjoyed the ending song. Pretty catchy! The next time I saw an episode I again missed the very very beginning(mostly the opening song) but I found myself enjoying the show even more. And finally like the 3rd time watching it I was able to see it from the very beginning and finally heard the opening song which is one of the catchiest theme songs I have ever heard! I couldn't get the darn song out of my head(Darn you catchy Japanese music! :) )! And I just found out recently that the opening theme and ending theme are the same song(just different parts of it). Anyways enough about the songs this is really a great cartoon and I plan on buying it on DVD in the very near future! Also I have learned to love Raven as much as the other characters. She just needed to grow on me. Well if you haven't seen Teen Titans you better check it out even if it is a kids cartoon show. I'd say this and Kim Possible are if not the only good shows then the best cartoons on today! Definitly check out both!