"You just try to re-imagine the characters, while keeping the essence of them. Sometimes people ask why we didn't keep some of the elements from the comic books. Visually, some of the stuff is too hard to animate. And, well, character-wise, they were too old in the comics. We wanted to make them younger. We went in a different direction," says Glen Murakami of the 'Teen Titans' toon. "I wanted them to feel like kids. I didn't want them super-buff. I think that's what anime does that is sometimes more interesting. Robin isn't Superman. He's not Batman. He's not super-buff. I think kids can relate to that. I wanted a 7 or 10 year old kid to look at Beast Boy or Robin and say, 'Maybe I can be that character.' I wanted girls to go, 'I'm sometimes like Starfire' or 'I'm sometimes like Raven.'"More...
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