 A website launched by Pony Canyon ended its countdown on Thursday, announcing a new anime adaptation of Reiko Yoshida and Mia Ikumi's Tokyo Mew Mew manga. Titled Tokyo Mew Mew New, the anime is commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Nakayoshi magazine. Ikumi drew an illustration to celebrate the announcement (pictured above).  Synopsis13-year-old Ichigo Momomiya is at an endangered animal exhibit with her crush Masaya Aoyama when she is hit by a beam of light and sees a cat entering her body. She begins to demonstrate cat-like behavior the following day. A giant monster attacks Masaya and forces Ichigo to transform into a pink magical girl with cat ears and a tail. A boy named Ryou Shirogane explains that the monster she fought was a Chimera Anima: alien parasites that infect animals and turn them into giant monsters. Ryou and Keiichiro Akasaka, the owner of a pink cafe called Cafe Mew Mew, planned to take the DNA of five Red Data Animals and use them as biological weapons by injecting them into Chimera Anima—an experiment they called the Mew Project. But due to an earthquake the day before, the DNA was accidentally shot into Ichigo and four other girls that she met outside the museum instead! Now a "biological weapon," Ichigo must fight against the aliens and find her potential teammates—all while keeping her feline identity a secret from Masaya. [Written by MAL Rewrite] An idol audition to assign a voice actress for the protagonist Ichigo Momomiya began on Thursday and will run till May 11 on the audition application mysta. The audition is available to females between elementary-school age and 30 years old who do not belong to any production. The successful candidate will receive an exclusive contract with Pony Canyon's Swallow agency and make a major debut as the center of the Tokyo Mew Mew New seiyuu idol group. The magical girl manga was published in Nakayoshi from August 2000 to December 2002 and compiled into seven volumes. Yoshida and Ikumi serialized a two-volume sequel titled Tokyo Mew Mew à La Mode in the same magazine between March and December 2003. Studio Pierrot adapted the manga into a 52-episode television anime that aired from Spring 2002 to Winter 2003. 4Kids Entertainment licensed and dubbed the first 26 episodes. Tokyopop published the manga and its sequel in English from 2003–2006. Kodansha Comics relicensed the title in North America and published all nine volumes in four omnibuses. Official site: https://tokyo-mew-mew.com/ Official Twitter: @mew_mew_new Source: animate Times, PR Times Tokyo Mew Mew New ♡ on MAL |
VindstotApr 3, 2020 4:21 AM
 |
| Holy crap, this is a genuine surprise. I honestly don't think Tokyo Mew Mew is that great anymore, now that I've seen a bunch of other magical girl series that are much better imo... but I'll definitely watch this. Both the manga and the anime brings me back to my late elementary school days lmao. The real question is... will they actually adapt A La Mode too? I'd be more excited for A La Mode getting adapted. Berry's really underrated. |
 |
| I've never read the manga . I wonder if they're adapting A La Mode, it's a remake, or a new story entirely. I think i'd be happy with anything tbh! |
| This is such a blast from the past. One of the first anime I ever watched was the 4Kids dub they retitled "Mew Mew Power", and I remember running downstairs once a week to watch the newest episode. I LOVED it, and I hope the new version hits that nostalgic spot like the original does. |
| Okay, this sounds really enticing xD. Looking forward to more news on this! I wonder how many episodes this will turn out to get. |
#Anime4Life be my Life Motto! #PrayForKyoAni  |
| HOLY- EXCUSE ME? The manga is SO much better! Here's to hoping it ends up pretty good compared to the old one... |
 |
| I watched some episode back in the day when it aired on animax, like 12 years ago? well, I bet the fans are happy |
    |
| HOLY SHIT Does this mean the 2002 anime will get rescued and redubbed??? PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE |
 |
| Oh yay!!! ^__^ I hope this new anime adaptation being similar to the original source this time ( the manga ) since I prefer the manga more compare to the first anime adaptation of this series ^^ Let see happens :) |
| I never could watch the entirety of the original anime because I've yet to find a good streaming site for it, so hopefully this one will have better players..:\ |
   |
Klefki_of_Awsome said: I never could watch the entirety of the original anime because I've yet to find a good streaming site for it, so hopefully this one will have better players..:\ all the (subbed) episodes are available in pretty good quality on youtube. thats how im watching it |
| wasnt the new adaptation going to be males instead?? |
fuckgendo said: no, you're referring to the spin-off manga "Tokyo Mew Mew Ore".wasnt the new adaptation going to be males instead?? |
|
Fario-P said: fuckgendo said: no, you're referring to the spin-off manga "Tokyo Mew Mew Ore".wasnt the new adaptation going to be males instead?? oops, sorry bout that. thanks for the name, i was trying to find it a while ago. |
| *WHAT*? HOLY SHIT THAT WAS UNEXPECTED OH MY GOD OH MY *GOD* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA RYOUUUUUUUUU ICHIGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JESUS CHRIST YES COME PLEASE |
 |
| While the original lost quite a bit for me as I grew up, it still remains a childhood's favorite and a really enjoyable anime. I'm honestly excited about this and will watch it for sure. |
  |
| whoa what the actual |
 "For the sake of humankind, I forsake my humanity." - Cherry |
| Didn't expecting this at all :o Will gladly watching this when its come out. Seeing such old shoujo series got adapted/remaked again giving me hopes for skip beat season 2 :")) |
 |
alicerubesty said: Klefki_of_Awsome said: I never could watch the entirety of the original anime because I've yet to find a good streaming site for it, so hopefully this one will have better players..:\ all the (subbed) episodes are available in pretty good quality on youtube. thats how im watching it Is that so? Hmm, I'm not a fan of watching things on YouTube, but I'll keep it in mind as a last resort, thanks! |
|
| Another remake, like Fruits Basket? Am okay with that... |
| FGO NA Code: 482.072.599 (F2P thug life of savings...) Ben-to! best nonsensical action anime. Ever. |
| Well this is the announcement I didn't expect at all. I can't wait to check it out. |
| Whoa... THIS is really a surprise... My childhood anime.. where i didn't know it was called anime yet.. TwT Is this a remake though? I would love to watch it if that.. it's just imo, but i didn't like a la mode much.. ^^; |
 I'm starting to get embarrassed by my own forum signature line.. XD |
| So it's not the bad looking remake with the male cast announced a little while ago? OH F YEAHHHHH!!! LETS GO!!!! Amazing news! |
| Is this a sign for me to watch the original like I've been meaning to for years? |
 |
| Whaaaat?? How unexpected. |
  |
| I can't wait! Loved both |
| Someone hold me! My first anime crush Zoe is coming back! Can't believe it, these news made me so happy. |
| Bro...I loved Tokyo Mew Mew during my mahou shoujo phase in elementary/middle school. I've re-read the manga several times. Which is also why looking back, some of the drama/romance was slightly cringey LOL. Well not as bad as Mermaid Melody. But I'll still watch this, as long as it doesn't look (or sound) terrible. I still have a soft spot for mahou shoujo transformations and cute outfits ^^ I'm shocked to see that the 2002 anime had 52 episodes given the manga being only 7 volumes. Looks like it had a lot of fillers. Also...they really capitalizing on the idol group stuff these days, huh... |
 |
| OMG THIS IS SO NOSTALGIC hahahaha. I remember loving the purple one, I forgot the name lol. |
 OTP: KidLaw | IzuKatsu | GureShin | EruRi | AoKi | See more!» My art » My translation » Doujinshi collection » Favorite Kurobas doujinshi BISHIES X RAP |
| ANIME IS SAVED! no really, this is an amazing mahou shoujo lol |
| Wow, I didn't expect this to get a new anime... I liked the manga back then and the old anime was also okay. One of the character songs (Strawberry Power) is still one of my favorite songs. Will definitely watch the new anime too! |
 |
| Wow indeed. I just watched the show again after only seeing the first 26 on 4kids, in my childhood. It wasn't as good as I remembered it, since I was now an adult watching a kids' show. It had quite a few dumb superhero cartoon clichés and weird plot holes or things that didn't make sense. I wonder now that it has been so many years since then, will they "upscale" the show for its older fanbase, or keep it as a kids' show for this newer generation. Maybe somehow pull-off both? |
xSweetSlayerxApr 3, 2020 2:56 PM
| "4Kids Entertainment licensed and dubbed the first 26 episodes." Pointless information. |
| I dig the original anime, but I wouldn't mind a remake. |
Bum Bum Dum Dum |
| So random lol.. but my 12 year old self is screaming! The nostalgia is strong with this one. One of the very first anime I watched, I didn't even knew it was anime at the time since I was watching it dubbed in portuguese x) Is it gonna be a remake of the original anime? A more close adaptation of the manga? Or is it gonna be an adaptation of the sequel manga? Anyway, I'm happy with this news! ^^ Now if only MMPPP could get a remake as well... x) |
 |
Haou-Judai said: "4Kids Entertainment licensed and dubbed the first 26 episodes." Pointless information. It probably wouldn't be as pointless if they mentioned how the 4kids adaption has the most obnoxious Americanization censorship in anime history. XD |
xSweetSlayerx said: Haou-Judai said: "4Kids Entertainment licensed and dubbed the first 26 episodes." Pointless information. It probably wouldn't be as pointless if they mentioned how the 4kids adaption has the most obnoxious Americanization censorship in anime history. XD That reminds me of the first time I found out about the 4Kids dub lmao. I had found out about this series through the (terrible) TokyoPop volumes, which did advertise the 4Kids dub at some point, but I didn't think much of it for whatever reason at the time. One day at school, I was drawing Ichigo when some girl came up to me and said, "Oh, that's Zoey!" I was so confused. "No, it's Ichigo," I said, but she kept saying "Zoey". I had no idea who the hell "Zoey" was until I started watching HikaYagami's videos that compared between the original anime and the 4Kids dub. Once I figured out that "Zoey" was seriously Ichigo's dub name, I cringed. Mega hard. ...And the cringe got worse from there XD |
|
| YESSS, I rewatched the anime years ago for the nostalgia and would gladly rewatch it again but better animation! I'm still a sucker for this type of cute and sparkly shoujo genre and it's so hard to find anime like TMM, Shugo Chara, and CCS, so I'm very excited for this! |
| Further proof that shoujo manga is dying in Japan. They have to go back to their old hits to stay relevant. Nakayoshi used to be one of the big shoujo magazines, but it's been on the decline at a faster rate compared to some of the other shoujo mags. |
| :3 |
| Totally not expecting this but it's a welcome surprise because it was such a HUGE part of my childhood. When I read that synopsis tho.... ksksksksks I couldn't help but to cringe. I mean, I didn't find the plot weird when I was watching it as a kid so I'm hoping I wouldn't cringe watching the new anime adaptation too lol. God, please let it be good. Or at least let it be subpar the most HAHA. Coz I actually have a bad feeling about this (not that I think the show will be bad, but I think I won't like the show as much as I used to because of age). Vindstot said: TOKYO MEW MEW MEW SEIYUU IDOL GROUP? Ok at least this part is gonna be interesting.[center][img]The successful candidate will receive an exclusive contract with Pony Canyon's Swallow agency and make a major debut as the center of the Tokyo Mew Mew New seiyuu idol group. |
 |
| WHAAAAAAAATTTT!?!?! What an unexpected but delightful surprise omg!!! |
 |
More topics from this board
» Manga 'Historie' Receives TV Anime AdaptationVindstot - Yesterday |
17 |
by Hamazura
»»
4 minutes ago |
|
» Japan's Yearly Manga and Light Novel Rankings for 2025Snow - Dec 29, 2025 |
15 |
by scabab
»»
2 hours ago |
|
» Voice Actress Tomori Kusunoki Announces MarriageVindstot - Yesterday |
5 |
by Haneken2086
»»
2 hours ago |
|
» Voice Actress Youko Hikasa Announces DivorceVindstot - Yesterday |
7 |
by Haneken2086
»»
2 hours ago |
|
» Musician Mayu Maeshima Announces MarriageVindstot - Today |
4 |
by Haneken2086
»»
2 hours ago |