Season 1 • Episode 52
LatestOn 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.
Cinematography
Transformation sequences that defined an era of sakuga obsession.
Costume
Iconic color-coded designs still cosplayed decades later.
Score
Earworm J-pop openings that live rent-free in millennial heads.
Saki Nakajima
Ichigo Momomiya / Mew Ichigo (voice)
Yumi Kakazu
Mint Aizawa / Mew Mint (voice)
Kumi Sakuma
Lettuce Midorikawa / Mew Lettuce (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Bu-Ling Huang / Mew Pudding (voice)
Junko Noda
Zakuro Fujiwara / Mew Zakuro / Masha (voice)
Megumi Ogata
Masaya Aoyama (voice)
Koichi Tochika
Ryo Shirogane (voice)
Hikaru Midorikawa
Keiichiro Akasaka (voice)
Daisuke Sakaguchi
Kish (voice)
Nobutoshi Canna
Pai (voice)
Kiyomi Asai
Taruto (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tokyo Mew Mew rode the late-90s magical girl boom alongside Sailor Moon, but its explicit environmental messaging was rare for the genre.
The Iriomote wildcat was genuinely endangered with fewer than 100 individuals when the manga debuted, making Ichigo's DNA fusion sadly prescient.
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