Tokyo Mew Mew

Tokyo Mew Mew
Canon Information
Media Type	Anime, Manga
Writer(s)	Masashi Sogo
Country of Origin	Japan
Genre(s)	Magical Girl
Also Known As	TMM, Tokyo Mew Mew New, Mew Mew Power, Tokyo Mew Mew à la Mode, Tokyo Mew Mew Olé!
Fanon Information
Popular Ships	IchiSaya Kishigo TaruPuri

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Tokyko Mew Mew is a manga series written by Masashi Sogo and animated by Studio Pierrot in 2002.

Plot

A teenage girl named Ichigo Momomiya was on a date with Masaya Aoyama, the most popular boy at her school when she and four other girls were bathed in a strange light during an earthquake. The next day, Ichigo started to demonstrate cat-like behavior and was attacked by a monstrous rat. A mysterious man named Ryō Shirogane showed Ichigo that she now had the ability to transform in a mew mew, a magical girl given the abilities of the Iriomote cat. After defeating the creature, Ryō and his colleague Keiichiro told Ichigo that a group of aliens want to claim the earth as their own and exact revenge on humanity for polluting. Ichigo then gathered the other four mew mews who were also infused with the DNA of endangered animals to defend the earth from humanity's biggest threat.

Characters

Mew Mews

Ichigo Momomiya | Zoey Hanson

Mint Aizawa | Corina Bucksworth

Lettuce Midorkawa | Bridget Verdant

Pudding Fong | Kiki Benjamin

Zakuro Fujiwara | Renée Roberts

Ringo Akai

Berry Shirayuki

Aliens

Deep Blue

Kish | Dren

Tart | Tarb

Pie | Sardon

Supporting Characters

Masaya Aoyama | Mark

Ryō Shirogane | Elliot Grant

Keiichiro Akasaka | Wesley J. Coolridge III

Tasuku Meguro

Moe Yanagida | Megan

Miwa Honjo | Mimi

Ships

Het

IchiBlue — the ship between Ichigo Momomiya and Deep Blue

IchiRyo — the ship between Ichigo Momomiya and Ryō Shirogane

IchiSaya — the ship between Masaya Aoyama and Ichigo Momomiya

IchiSeiji — the ship between Seiji Aizawa and Ichigo Momomiya

KeiiMiwa — the ship between Keiichiro Akasaka and Miwa Honjo

KeiiRei — the ship between Keiichiro Akasaka and Rei Nishina

KeiiZaku — the ship between Keiichiro Akasaka and Zakuro Fujiwara

Kishigo — the ship between Kish and Ichigo Momomiya

Kishinto — the ship between Kish and Mint Aizawa

KishiReta — the ship between Kish and Lettuce Midorikawa

KishiRin — the ship between Kish and Ringo Akai

MasaMin — the ship between Masaya Aoyama and Mint Aizawa

MasaReta — the ship between Masaya Aoyama and Lettuce Midorikawa

NoriSatsu — the ship between Norihiro Edomurasaki and Satsuki Tadano

RetaNori — the ship between Lettuce Midorikawa and Norihiro Edomurasaki

RetaPai — the ship between Lettuce Midorikawa and Pie

RetaRyo — the ship between Lettuce Midorikawa and Ryō Shirogane

RyoMoe — the ship between Ryō Shirogane and Moe Yanagida

ShintaSaku — the ship between Shintarō Momomiya and Sakura Momomiya

TaruPuri — the ship between Tart and Pudding Fong

Tasuku x Berry — the ship between Tasuku Meguro and Berry Shirayuki

ZakuPai — the ship between Zakuro Fujiwara and Pie

Slash

KeiiRyo — the ship between Keiichiro Akasaka and Ryō Shirogane

KishPai — the ship between Kish and Pie

MasaKishi — the ship between Masaya Aoyama and Kish

Femslash

IchiBerry — the ship between Ichigo Momomiya and Berry Shirayuki

IchiMint — the ship between Ichigo Momomiya and Mint Aizawa

IchiZaku — the ship between Ichigo Momomiya and Zakuro Fujiwara

MoeMiwa — the ship between Moe Yanagida and Miwa Honjo

RetaIchi — the ship between Lettuce Midorikawa and Ichigo Momomiya

RetaMint — the ship between Lettuce Midorikawa and Mint Aizawa

RetaZaku — the ship between Lettuce Midorikawa and Zakuro Fujiwara

ZakuMint — the ship between Zakuro Fujiwara and Mint Aizawa

ZakuRika — the ship between Zakuro Fujiwara and Rika Minagawa

Poly

IchiSayaBlue — the ship between Ichigo Momomiya, Masaya Aoyama, and Deep Blue

Family

Aizawa Siblings — the ship between Mint Aizawa and Seiji Aizawa

Fong Siblings — the ship between Pudding Fong, Heicha Fong, Huacha Fong, Qingcha Fong, Lucha Fong, and Hongcha Fong

SakuIchi — the ship between Ichigo Momomiya and Sakura Momomiya

ShintaIchi — the ship between Ichigo Momomiya and Shintarō Momomiya

Momomiya Family — the ship between Ichigo Momomiya, Shintarō Momomiya, and Sakura Momomiya

Friend

Alien Trio — the ship between Kish, Tart, and Pie

Ichigo's Trio — the ship between Ichigo Momomiya, Moe Yanagida, and Miwa Honjo

Tokyo Mew Mew — the ship between Ichigo Momomiya, Mint Aizawa, Lettuce Midorikawa, Pudding Fong, Zakuro Fujiwara, Ringo Akai, and Berry Shirayuki

Fanon

Tokyo Mew Mew is a popular magical girl anime and manga series but is often overshadowed by others such as Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura. Fans enjoy the colorful characters and even make their own fan-made mew mews. The anime was dubbed in the west as Mew Mew Power and heavily criticized it due to its censorship of unnecessary elements and the fact that they changed all of the characters' names. The English dub was originally going to be called Hollywood Mew Mew which had enraged the fans and pressued 4Kids to change the name. The manga sequel Tokyo Mew Mew á la Mode was also not as well received, as with the spinoff Tokyo Mew Mew Olé which featured male mew mews. An anime reboot known as Tokyo Mew Mew New was released nearly 20 years after the original with mixed reception. While it followed the manga more closely, it also made multiple changes that the fans did not like, such as Mint being the first mew mew instead of Ichigo.

Since Tokyo Mew Mew is a shōjo series, shipping is prevalent in this fandom, and romance is a major aspect of the plot. The primary shipping war involves the main protagonist Ichigo Momomiya. It is centered between the canon IchiSaya ship and the semi-canon Kishigo ship. IchiRyo is also popular due to Ryō having a crush on Ichigo but is not as popular as the two main pairings. Due to a phenoma known as Americans Hate Tingle, Masaya Aoyama was not as popular of a character in the west due to being seen as a 'gary-stu', with others adoring Kish and his crush on Ichigo. However, with the reboot series Tokyo Mew Mew New, popularity for IchiSaya increased.

Other characters are also shipped heavily in the fandom. Lettuce Midorikawa has a minor ship battle between the RetaRyo and RetaPai pairings. Lettuce has a one-sided crush on Ryō and had some ship tease moments with Pie as well. Pudding (Bu-Ling) is also paired with Tart in a semi-canon pairing that does not have any rival ships, which may explain why it is the third-most popular ship on AO3 and the most popular ship not involving Ichigo. As all of the main heroes are female, femslash pairings are also popular, with the remaining two mew mews, Mint and Zakuro, commonly being shipped together in the ZakuMint pairing. However, others prefer ships such as ZakuPai and Kishinto to 'pair the spares'. Other femslash pairings such as IchiMint also have a small following.

Fandom

FAN FICTION

Tokyo Mew Mew tag on AO3

Tokyo Mew Mew tag on FanFiction.net

WIKIS

Tokyo Mew Mew Wiki

List

TOP 10 AO3 SHIPS

#	portmanteau	characters	type
155	IchiSaya	Masaya/Ichigo	het
131	Kishigo	Kish/Ichigo	het
111	TaruPuri	Tart/Pudding	het
87	RetaPai	Pie/Lettuce	het
73	ZakuMint	Mint/Zakuro	femslash
32	IchiRyo	Ryō/Ichigo	het
28	Tasuku x Berry	Tasuku/Berry	het
17	RetaRyo	Ryō/Lettuce	het
13	IchiBlue	Deep Blue/Ichigo	het
11	IchiMint	Ichigo/Mint	femslash