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An iconic series that brought the five-girl team of [[Magical Girl|Magical Girls]] into the 2000s, ''Tokyo Mew Mew'' started as a Nakayoshi artist's desire to do a series about a [[Catgirl]], and ended up as a sweet tale of choosing the right guy, protecting the environment, and throwing some sparkly [[Stock Footage]] around to solve the world's problems.

 

 

Little does she know that she is one of five Tokyo schoolgirls "[[The Chosen One|chosen]]" by the Earth, possessed of a unique DNA pattern allowing her to host the genes of the Irimote Mountain Cat, one of the Red Data Animals. As part of the secret "Mew Project", she is shot by an injection gun from a mysterious cat statue atop a cute cafe.

The manga was licensed by [[Tokyo Pop]] and the anime by 4Kids Entertainment (where it's known as ''Mew Mew Power''). Only the first half of the series has been released in the United States so far, and because of Fox's [[Screwed by the Network|odd airing schedule]], you're usually likely to only see the first twelve episodes. More recently, it was given the [[Gag Dub]] treatment in ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew in a Nutshell]]''. In addition, Kodansha USA has re-licensed the the original manga in omnibus form, coming this fall.

 

 

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'''Ikumi Mia loves puns, and Tokyopop's translators are not purists. These factors together create a lot of confusion as to what things are called. Regarding names in the original version:'''

* The attack word "riboun" is ''not'' a cognate of the English word ribbon; it means reborn.

* Whatever is written as "myuu" may be either "mew" (as in, a cat sound), "mu" (as in, the Greek letter used by geneticists) or both. "Tokyo Mew Mew" and "Mu Project" have been vindicated by on-screen text (though Tokyopop called the latter the Mew Project) but nobody's quite sure whether the [[MacGuffin]] in the second half of the series is Mew Aqua or Mu Aqua.

 

* [[Accidental Athlete]]: Episode 5

* [[Accidental Kiss]]

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Bu-ling, in one episode, to Long Yuebin, one of her father's students.

* [[Art Shift]]: Later episodes make the characters aged 14 and up look more noticeably older, and colours get deeper and shinier.

* [[Beach Episode]]: Episode 19.

* [[Best for Last]]: Ichigo's Mu Aqua, and only in the manga.

* [[Do They Know It's Christmas Time?]]: Anime only

* [[Dreaming of a White Christmas]]: Episode 38.

* [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]]

* [[Dude, Where's My Reward?]]: In episode five, Ichigo loses a gymnastics competition but saves everyone there.

** [[The Hero]]- Ichigo

** [[The Lancer]]- Mint

* [[Flight, Strength, Heart]]

* [[Flower Motifs]]: The first chapter of the manga gives every girl a different flower background.

* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Ichigo is involved in one.

* [[Love-Obstructing Parents]]: Ichigo's father disapproves of Aoyama at first and challenges him to a kendo match. Ichigo intervenes, and convinces him to accept Aoyama.

** [[Overprotective Dad]]: Shintarou.

* [[Love Triangle]]: Retasu in the anime. She takes the [[Tenchi Solution]].

* [[What Could Have Been]] Creepy shoujo horror, anyone?

* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]:

'''Pai''': That’s... too embarrassing to explain. }}

* [[Winged Humanoid]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

* [[You Killed My Father]]: Ryou's parents were killed by a chimera. Goes farther in the anime, where ''the actual monster responsible'' is brought in near the end.

 

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