Tokyo Mew Mew New ♡

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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Momomiya, Ichigo Main

Tenma, Yuuki Japanese

Fujiwara, Zakuro Main

Ishii, Momoka Japanese

Aizawa, Mint Main

Hinata, Mirai Japanese

Fong, Purin Main

Toda, Rian Japanese

Midorikawa, Lettuce Main

Juuni, Ryouko Japanese

Quiche Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Shirogane, Ryou Supporting

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Aoyama, Masaya Supporting

Uchida, Yuuma Japanese

Masha Supporting

Ishihara, Kaori Japanese

Akasaka, Keiichiro Supporting

Shirai, Yuusuke Japanese

Furukawa, Shin Producer

Itou, Hirofumi Producer

Yamada, Yuriko Producer

Yamato, Masae Producer

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Jun 14, 2024

Animelover875

Recommended

Tokyo Mew Mew New is a reboot of the original anime and has made numerous changes from the original, which are all welcome. In my opinion, the shorter season helps the new series reduce the need for filler and allows the plot to more narrowly focus on the elements of the story it is likely intending to develop. This directly benefits the anime, as the story becomes far more concise and easily self-contained in a narrative sense. As such, the series can afford more concise explanations of events and allows for better characterization. The Mew Mews' development has vastly improved since the original Tokyo Mew ... Mew, which can be seen best in their debut episodes; Lettuce and Mint have much better context regarding Lettuce's issues with bullying and Mint's relationship with her brother, while Zakuro benefitted most heavily, getting a fleshed out mini-arc which helped develop herself and Mint as characters. While Ichigo primarily has not changed in her initial role, she is more refined as a main character now and feels like a person rather than a character, as opposed to the past.

As mentioned, one of Tokyo Mew Mew New's main draws is its focus more on plot and important events, which notably gives Kisshu and Pie greater development as antagonists and makes them generally more threatening. One of the main benefits arising from this is that the series is less forced to rely on Mew Aqua and Deep Blue to advance the plot, which helps keep the aliens' schemes fresh, while simultaneously sympathetic enough that a viewer can at least understand their motives. Lettuce, Mint and Zakuro all have short story arcs that help them grow as characters, which adds to the theme of them all maturing and coming into their own roles to protect the Earth. This can also be seen (albeit indirectly) in their age up to high-school age (aside from Pudding), as they (as characters) are now able to comprehend the actual weight of their role to protect the Earth.

Zakuro's mini-arc was one I particularly enjoyed, as her origins as a character were not covered in as great detail as I had hoped in the initial anime. Here, however, Zakuro's song stands as an excellent representation of what she believes to be her "path," and we see her perspective versus being forced to fight and how she is perceived by the other Mew Mews. Her development also directly affects Mint, who also develops heavily as a character thanks to Zakuro, and becomes more than a simple obsessed fan of Zakuro; in fact, this element of her character is severely diminished after this, which helps flesh her out as more her own person than simply a rich fangirl.

One of the only aspects of Tokyo Mew Mew New that I would criticize would be the romance. Kisshu and Ichigo's romance (if it can be called that even) is far less nuanced in this version, and Kisshu is downright creepy to Ichigo more than a handful of times, which comes across as far more predatory and malicious than would seem to be appropriate for the anime. Aoyama seems to struggle as a character for different reasons; as it's shown that he and Ichigo meet each other after the season begins, their relationship seems far less natural than when it seemed Ichigo already semi knew him in the original. This gives the impression that they're growing attached to each other too quickly after only knowing each other for a very brief amount of time. Aside from this, Aoyama is an alright, if rather plain, love interest for Ichigo, although I will note that it is due to him that she is able to have enough morale to continue fighting in battle, and that this is not a knock towards his character or any potential role this may fill in the plot.

Overall, Tokyo Mew Mew New is a great reboot of the original which fixes many problems that were initially present and seems to not add in any new problems while simultaneously making notable quality of life changes, such as the aforementioned reduced quantity of filler (which helps the plot advance more quickly). This directly leads to the Mew Mews getting more immediate character development as well as the antagonists being more intimidating yet complex in their role in the series. Overall, 8/10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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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 ... works well for the movement, but also comes off as bare-bones. I wish I could've seen more of the outfit detailing since the new animation style oversimplifies the character designs. Overall this is a show I can safely recommend for magical girl fans.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 6, 2025

K-Z-K

Mixed Feelings

The Tokyo Mew Mew own a very important place in my heart, because this was my Sailor Moon when I was young.

I was always a big fan of it and in the nowdays I think still has the magic about in and has a great story.
That's why I wanted to watch it again, because a little nostalgia never hurts. But my website, where I used to watch anime, wasn't up the old one, only the new one. I was like, "Okay, it's on the list, it's time I want to watch it."

Oh boy, I should have looked at the datas on myanimelist better. 'Cause ... I didn't know that it was only 12 episodes.

To be honest, this was not the only problem. I know that an anime takes a long time to make and I'll always be grateful that companies work so hard with them. In my view, they lost a lot of opportunities, because they didn't recreate very iconic scenes and a lot of reasons or reasons makers were left out. One of the biggest plus points of the old one was that it consisted of many episodes, so during the plot we learned something not only about the main characters, but even about the supporting characters

Story: 10/5 - As I watched, mostly only the main events were redone and to my surprise there was still a plot change (like Mint's part)

The characters will be the hardest to talk about, because in the original we can get to know them not only in 12 episodes. It was good to see the team and overall I think everyone did their job properly. (By the way, my memories may be bad, but besides Ichigo, the other girls had diferenc name??? Update:yes, it turns out that the names are really different in my own language lol)

Characters: 10/7 - Everyone is as they were supposed to be, and I'm glad that Ichigo wasn't the only one who did the tasks like the original did in the first season.
+ I think this is where I can speak about this the best: So far, I've mostly only said bad things about the 12 episodes, but Ichigo and Aoyama relationship I THINK it was better. Thinking about it, Ichigo didn't meet Aoyama that many times in the original, Because of this, this love thread is much cuter in the new one and I like it.

What I want to mention the new designs. I've seen so many debates and wars about it on Tiktok, so please don't kill me, but I think it's 50% they're not that good...
Animation and design: 10/5


Essentially, it was an... ok anime. If you don't want to watch the original or just need a reminder about it, I think it's good to watch. It's worth it for old fans, for new fans it might give the atmosphere to the original.
I'm just happy that more and more people are getting to know this anime, because I think it deserves a lot more attention. Of all the magic girls anime, I hear the least about this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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