This link will give you access to all 12 episodes, the Petit! Tokyo Mew Mew New videos, Creditless OP & ED (including the creditless ED from episode 12), the transformation & attack sequences and the Blu-ray/DVD promo commercials.
This update on the popular magical series cuts the pacing of the original down to a lean number episodes but there's still a lot going for it. For example, shipping. Chris and Nicky debate the pros and cons of Ichigo's trio of potential suitors in this week's column.
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Lettuce's story was neat to me not just for its relatable emotional pathos, but for how it switched things up just the second episode in. Our girls weren't fighting another alien-infused animal-monster of the week, but one of their prospective comrades, whose Mew Mew Power had warped her in the moment! That sets up really early on that the threats they face aren't necessarily always going to follow the same structure, and that their relationships with teammates won't be as immediately effective as a recruitment job as it was for Ichigo.Though not gonna lie, it was only a little funny to me that she tried to sell her angst over what she saw as a monstrous transformation into...a cute magical girl outfit decked out in hearts and bows and ribbons.
I also totally understand why this is only 12 episodes as single-cour anime and a faster pace are more standard now. Older, longer shows stretched their budget to fit episode counts or took cuts that contributed to a slower pace. An adult viewer like me and established fans wouldn't have time to watch a super long-running show anyways. I simply wish there was more flexibility that even adding another cour would provide. Most of the characters are fun and I would've liked to spend more time with them. Bu-Ling has some great gags right in her introduction, for example.
Then again, maybe she doesn't really need to grow anymore. She has already rejected humanity, returned to monke.Like I think the most impact she's had on the plot so far was in her introductory episode, where she offers Ichigo a mickey to slip to Aoyama.Probably not the smartest way to handle an increasingly fraught teenage relationship, Diddy Kong.
Treating this story as a multi-episode arc compared to the others makes that layered approach pay off as well. We take time off from Zakuro after she rejects Mint to watch the other Mew Mews cheer the tiny little blue bird up and thus grow closer to her. It leads to that confrontation with Mint's mutated chihuahua, and results in her resolution about needing to consider her own decisions more than she had previously. And that, in turn, is something she's able to bring for herself the next time she interacts with her Queen, which brings Zakuro around after all.It's a testament to how brutally efficient the structure of this expedited adaptation can be when it's really putting a lot of effort into tightly plotting things out.
Though Kish does get sent on a sabbatical for a couple episodes after this so Ichigo can concentrate on her 'proper' relationship with Aoyama. And while the superhero-spurred relationship drama is a natural angle given the setting, target audience, and main character type, I feel like this element gets messier. Maybe it's a result of not getting to spend as much time with these characters? But for some reason Aoyama is a character I have a particularly hard time getting a read on.
If I was watching this without any knowledge and this were longer so I could be more invested in it, I probably would've made Ryo my main pick from a narrative standpoint. He's the most dedicated to the goals of the series and has the best chemistry and growth despite having muuuch less than the other two to work with. I don't dislike Ichigo and Aoyama as a couple but that's only slightly above standard school-crush narratives for these types of things. Kish is the kind of character I don't expect to be fully redeemed, but he's a great character type to explore. It's notable that Ryo has a bit of chemistry with Lettuce in one episode as well. 2ff7e9595c
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