Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American cartoon series by the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in the franchise of the same name, premiered on September 28, 2012, on Nickelodeon. Considered a "soft reboot" of the franchise, this is an original retelling of the original series where the titular crime fighters first emerge from a New York City sewer and use their newfound Jitsu techniques to save the world.