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BW: What were some of the influences of the TEEN TITANS series?
Glen: When we were doing BATMAN, we kept saying, “Let’s do film noir.” It’s like Hitchcock or Citizen Kane. The crew was all on the same page. But with TITANS, I was looking for the right analogy to use with the crew. At the time, I had seen “Fooly Cooly” before working on TITANS. So that became a reference.
We worked with this Japanese studio TMS when I worked on SUPERMAN and BATMAN BEYOND. I think I grew to appreciate anime even more through working with those guys.
Plus, all the old school stuff I grew up watching. All the live action stuff. The SENTAI stuff. In California, there was this show they aired called KIKAIDA, which was probably an influence on how I designed Cyborg. Then there was a show called THE GO RANGERS. These shows were created by a guy named Shotaro Ishinomori. He created a show called CYBORG 009. That had a big impact on me. More than I realized. I watched a lot of that stuff on UHF [note: UHF channels (channels 14 through 83) existed before cable television. The UHF channels were primarily independent commercial and educational or non-commercial stations]. I don’t speak Japanese or really understand Japanese, but all that stuff to me, as a kid, was more entertaining that the American stuff that was on at the time. [laughs]. Even stuff like KIMBA and SPEED RACER.
