Tokyo Mew Mew New ♡ (Tokyo Mew Mew New)

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Japanese: 東京ミュウミュウにゅ～♡

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 6, 2022 to Sep 21, 2022

Premiered: Summer 2022

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 00:00 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo, Dentsu, Pony Canyon, Kodansha

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Yumeta Company, Graphinica

Source: Manga

Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi

Theme: Mahou Shoujo

Demographic: Shoujo

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Popularity: #3349

Members: 43,927

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Summer 2022TVYumeta Company, Graphinica

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Ichigo Momomiya is excited to start high school and fall in love. She is in luck when she meets the popular and good-looking Masaya Aoyama, and she immediately develops a crush on him. When Ichigo learns that Aoyama is passionate about the environment, she seizes the chance to ask him out thanks to some tickets to an exhibition about endangered animals.

During their date, Ichigo is struck by a mysterious light and faints. Waking up to the sight of Aoyama, she remains unharmed—but they both must escape from a giant rat-like creature after it injures Aoyama. To save her crush, Ichigo awakens her powers and transforms into a heroine with the skills of a cat.

After she defeats the monster, researchers Ryou Shirogane and Keiichiro Akasaka explain that Ichigo was chosen to become a part of the Mew Project: a group of five magical girls whose DNA has been infused with those of certain endangered species. Now, Ichigo must find the rest of her teammates to defeat the Chimera Anima—beings infected by aliens who want to take over the world—before it is too late.

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Tokyo Mew Mew New ♡ was produced in commemoration of the manga's 20th anniversary and the 65th anniversary of Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine. The series was released on Blu-ray and DVD in three volumes from September 21, 2022 to November 16, 2022.

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Adaptation:	Tokyo Mew Mew
Alternative version:	Tokyo Mew Mew
Other:	Petit! Tokyo Mew Mew New ♡
Sequel:	Tokyo Mew Mew New ♡ 2nd Season

Umehara, Yuuichirou
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"Cat!! shite Super Girls (Cat!!してSuper Girls)" by Smewthie

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	"Tokimeki☆Ichigo Ichie (トキメキ☆イチゴいちえ)" by Smewthie (eps 1-11)
	"my sweet heart ～New〜♡Ver.～ (my sweet heart ～にゅ〜♡Ver.～)" by Yuuki Tenma (天麻ゆうき) (eps 12)

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Nov 2, 2023

Lilamon

Recommended

This is my first impression of Tokyo Mew Mew since I didn't grow up with the original anime or manga. It's not a boundary breaking series and has every trope typical of 2000s-era magical girl media, yet I still found it engaging. The characters each have their own charm and unique personalities. I found Quiche particularly entertaining as an antagonist and look forward to seeing more of him in the second season. The music stood out to me right away and I constantly get the opening stuck in my head. The only issue I have with this adaptation is the animation. It's very simple which ...

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Jul 18, 2023

moonbell

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Disclaimer: I started writing this a few episodes into season 2, however my impressions of the show span the whole thing so they apply to this season too!

I saw the original Tokyo Mew Mew when I was about 11 as one of the very first anime I watched and it had me UTTERLY in its grip. Since then, as I grew up, I became more aware of just how cheesy it was and poked fun of it with the teenage/young adult sense of "ha ha, silly 11 year old me for liking something like this"... I wondered why I liked it so much.

Now, in my ... late 20s and without a preliminary rewatch, I decided to jump into the remake fairly blind for nostalgia's sake and I'm so pleasantly surprised! I can see clearly why I loved the original back in the day. Every aspect o the 2002 series that enthralled me all those years ago has come back to hit me in the face, and it may be saccharine and cheesy but I can't help but fall in love with it all over again.
I have no choice but to sink bank into the mindset of a pre-teen girl watching Tokyo Mew Mew New - and surely it's pre-teen girls that are intended to be watching.

The show feels more concise than its predecessor, and it's very charming indeed. While, as most magical girl series are prone to be, TMMN is somewhat a coming of age story, I'm now noticing just how much of a tween girl wish fulfilment fantasy it also is at its core. Each episode reveals something that I know I would have eaten up at 11 (and did!): from the cheesy romance and friendships, through the cute outfits, to the backdrops of each episode (11 year old me would have loved to be at a ball at sea), to the borderline harem of cute guys, and, oh, being a cat. Or was that one just me?

Additionally, one of the other significant changes I'm cognizant of is the main cast that isn't Ichigo. Each girl is a character in her own right and is made loveable and engaging to watch. You care about them. It's a change I really love, Tokyo Mew Mew New feels like a series about all five girls rather than just the one. And, even though Ichigo is still the main character, it's through loving her friends that we as a viewer can relate to her and the way she loves and cares about them. I'm excited to watch season 2 and see more of them all!

TMMN is by no means a perfect series. It's a magical girl show that has a fairly young audience to appeal to, but also the added weight of a dedicated older fanbase, and big shoes to fill. Personally, I think it does a great job of balancing those things. It's a great update that manages to keep all the charm of its source material while making it feel fresh and engaging. It's also, in my opinion, very pretty! Considering the 2002 Tokyo Mew Mew is what got me seriously into anime, TMMN had a lot to live up to for me and I'm delighted to say it's done damn well.

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Sep 20, 2022

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

A classic revitalized, though that's nothing compared to the AniManga scene of the constant sequel effect, and it's honestly quite average at best.

Ask any die-hard fan of Reiko Yoshida and Mia Ikumi's Tokyo Mew Mew, and they would say that it's one of those shows that were once in the pipeline slew of the gaining classic Mahou Shoujo a.k.a Magical Girl genre of the early 2000s, right at the time of the immense success of Sailor Moon that has made its way into the West that has taken into effect for years. Of course, with the advent of Madoka Magica that completely turned and screwed ... the genre upside down, it's of no surprise that the genre has continued to evolve, even to this day with more tried-and-true tropes flooding its market just like all other genres nowadays. But what if there is a way to relive how the anime scene was like back then, and this remake which serves as the series' 20th anniversary is defintely part of that celebration...which was lukewarm at best given its popularity.

But if the recent complete adaptation of the subpar reboot that is Hiroyuki Takei's Shaman King has taught us one thing, is that even if the source material doesn't sell like hotcakes nowadays, it uses nostalgic memorabilia to re-define the revingorating success it once had, though that ultimately amounted to the loss in overall quality just for the sake of "putting things right" of how the source material should be adapted. And yes, bar for the course that Tokyo Mew Mew New's rendition is going, it doesn't actually cover the entire manga, but rather, adds its own whimsical spin thanks to Yumeta Company's in-house director Takahiro Natori and series composer Yuka Yamada, which the latter has a knack for shows similar to it from shows like Koisuru Asteroid to the more recent Slow Loop. And in the sacrifice of having to adapt the entire manga (which would've taken another 12 episodes to do so, that thankfully has Season 2 coming next Spring), ultimately, this I felt was the better approach in trying to weigh between counterbalances of having a decent reboot than one that feels rushed. And even then, pales in comparison to Studio Pierrot's original 2002 rendition of covering the entire manga plus fillers in 52 episodes.

The Mew Mews of Ichigo Momomiya (bearing the Iriomote cat DNA), Mint Aizawa (bearing the Blue Lorikeet DNA), Lettuce Midorikawa (bearing the finless porpoise DNA), Bu-Ling Huang (bearing the golden lion tamarin DNA) and Zakuro Fujiwara (bearing the gray wolf DNA), they are the stereotypical "Girl Power" team to save the world from the aliens whom had their home destroyed to smithereens, and Earth is their next place of interest to do the same evildoer stuff. Like you know, each and every Mahou Shoujo tried-and-true formula that predates Madoka Magica. This is pretty stereotypical for the time, and for the most part, the remake serves its purpose well by adapting only the first 3 out of the 7 volumes closely and sprinkling whatever the production staff wants to add into it, making it into a modern remake of an old property, plus new songs to boot in its decency. But this is the same reason where the remake also lost a lot of its luster by being a low-tier production of today's anime industry standards, that not only gives little to no respect to the original, but instead is made in such a way that provides a source of income invested into the project. It's just sad that old legends, whether popular or not, their status have been mostly being castaways of a time where anime was fun (and it still is to this day), but it's how the anime industry had grown up to become an exploitative industry of work that all works are regarded the same way, and to me, this is not how things should've been, but it is what it is.

The general advice, as is any hardcore fan of said source material, would be for you to read the manga that's enclosed in 32 chapters in 7 volumes, something that's more feasible than watching the 52-episode anime (which can take too long). Good thing there's a Season 2 to continue for the fans who love this new iteration. Even if this is or isn't speaking out of nostalgic bias, as someone who really hasn't seen much of the oldies (but have enough knowledge about it), I guess the banter's true that "the original is (undoubtedly) better". I would just like to wish that the remake got the attention and respect that it truly deserves, but it just ended up falling flat on its face.

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