

The writing is full of messages about saving the environment, staying by your friends, and never giving up. However, not everything about him checks out as normal, casting suspicion on him, as well. The fact that she transforms into a cat after experiencing more intense emotion, especially including the anxiety she feels when being with her crush, Aoyama Masaya. In addition to her life fighting aliens, Ichigo also has her love life to deal with.

As the aliens bring out stronger arsenals, the girls need to fight these threats by collecting the “Mew Aqua,” water with high purity that can give them the strength they need to fight. Along the journey, the group finds out that the chimera animals are actually sent by aliens who want to force humans off the Earth by means of complete pollution. With Shirogane Ryu and Akasaka Keiichiro, Ichigo finds the remaining four mew mews, Mew Mint, Mew Lettuce, Mew Pudding, and finally, Mew Zakuro. However, she’s hardly a match by herself. This DNA allows her to transform into Mew Ichigo, a girl with powers based around the endangered iriomote cat that allow her to fight off “chimera animals,” parasites that infect animals and turn them into monsters. Tokyo Mew Mew is about a girl, Momomiya Ichigo, who has DNA from an endangered animal species merged with her own DNA. This means last name first, first name last.* *Note: I use Asian naming patterns in this review.
