On her first date with the cutest boy in school, Ichigo is zapped by a mysterious ray that scrambles her DNA with that of the endangered Iriomote wildcat. The next day, Ichigo discovers that she has developed the agility (and occasionally the ears and tail) of a cat, as well as the power to transform into a pink-haired superheroine, Mew Ichigo. She and four other girls, each endowed with the genes of a different "Red Data" animal, have been selected for the top-secret Mew Project, which aims to protect the Earth from an alien menace known as Deep Blue.
General Info:
Episodes; 52.
Language; Japanese with English subs.
Review:
First things first - the animation. I am not a huge fan of this style of anime, but it is not the worst I have seen. It took me a little while to get used to, but after that it was fine. My point, if you don't like this animation style, suck it up and watch a couple episodes before you toss it out the window.
The plot was extremely similar to Shugo Chara - actually so alike I wonder if Shugo Chara copied Tokyo Mew Mew a little... Nevertheless, if you haven't watched SC, it won't bother you in the slightest.
I quite like all the little boy dramas between Aoyama, Shirogane, and Kisshu, and also the surprises and secrets each of them holds. I find that all of them, especially Kisshu, develop dramatically throughout the 52 episodes, and along the way you learn different things about each of them.
Being the heroine, you also learn quite a bit about Ichigo of course, but I found that she along with all the other girls didn't reveal as much, or develop much at all; excluding Mint and Zakuro.
Out of the three guys, Kisshu was by far my favourite. Again, mostly because I like the enemy/crazies. That and teleportation and the ability to extract souls is f***ing awesome. See my bad choice of men? "Ohh, you can steal souls?! Hot!" All of the guys were sort of girly looking, so this was mostly off of personality and partially for looks.
I do have a couple of complaints, my main one being that the Mew Mew's transformations take a freaking millenium!! The first couple time you see it, you're sort of thinking it's cool and flashy, but after that you are tearing your hair out, begging it to get on with it. I will admit that Mint's sort of dance transformation entranced me a little bit, but it was mostly annoying.
Another thing that bothered me is that it's so blatantly obvious who Ichigo is going to end up with. I sort of like a little bit of the choosing your favourite (I did this regardless) and then hoping she ends up with him. Not in this case.
This sort of ruined it for me at the beginning, but closer to the end there is enough things that make you go 'what the f***!?' to make up for the lack of chances. It still bothers me.
At first I thought the ending meant there would be a second season - and it certainly leaves it open enough that if they ever wanted to do a season 2, they could - but after I thought about it for a while, it was just to let you know how their lives would continue on. I can't really explain this without ruining the story a bit, so I wont say anything more on it.
This is definitely a romantic action, but there are some bits of comedy in there. There are bits that are actually funny, and then there are a couple points that they seem to be trying to hard to get laughs. It's also very dramatic, so I had to debate whether to put it in 'Action' or 'Drama'. I settled on 'Action' because that is a main point of the story.
I want to say much more, but I'm just going to leave it here;
Overall I enjoyed just about every episode excluding a chosen few, and I enjoyed the twists that took you by surprise. I do want to warn now that the first ten or so episodes are a little tedious because it's trying to get the story going, so it's sort of just the same thing over and over again, but it gets past that, I promise.
Must Watch Episodes:
I actually was writing down the names of my favourite episodes, but then I threw it away because it was just scrap paper!! Baka! Though I am sad this say, this is not all of my favourite episodes, but just the ones I can remember, gomen!
-Episode 12
-Episode 24
-Episode 31
-Episode 36: Liked this one a lot.
-Episode 39: Especially love this one!
-Episode 40
-Episode 49
I think that was all of them, and yes, I know there are a lot; I liked a lot of episodes...
Sad thing is that I can't remember the number of my favourite episode! It's one with Kisshu :] I remember all the others but this one, honestly! If I do remember, I will definitely add it!
Rating:
I would give Tokyo Mew Mew 4 our of 5 stars. * * * *
Note:
Sorry I haven't been posting in a while, I have been meaning to, but I had a French exam coming up and lots of family drama. Also, why are all there names foods? Mint? Lettuce? Pudding? Zakuro (Pomegranate in Japanese I believe)? Strawberry (Ichigo when Mew Ichigo)? Actually, why not just call Ichigo something like Cherry - why Ichigo and her attack strawberry?
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