List of Tokyo Mew Mew characters
As the series progresses, Ichigo goes from having a crush on Masaya Aoyama to becoming his girlfriend while trying to hide her secret double life from him.
Originally from Earth, the aliens were forced to leave long ago due to deadly environmental changes.
A la Mode also introduces new set of antagonists, the Saint Rose Crusaders, a group of human teenagers with various psychic abilities with a desire to create their own utopia.
The characters introduced in a la Mode were also praised for their visual appearances, but criticized as being repeats of the original series.
[2] After the production team decided to focus on five female superhumans, Ikumi was asked to reconstruct the lead character and the darker Princess Azumi was changed into the brighter and more colorful Ichigo.
These superheroes are biological weapons tasked with fighting the chimera anima, the monsters created when alien parasites infect a living host.
The head of the project, Ryô Shirogane, originally intended to inject a Chimera Anima with the endangered animal genes directly to see if that would reverse the effects of the infection.
[8] In the anime adaptation, Dr. Shirogane discovered the fossilized remains of an ancient civilization called the Chimera during an archaeological dig and began researching the race of people who lived there with his assistant Keiichirô Akasaka.
[7] Initially depicted as spoiled, snobbish, and self-centered because of her wealth due to her being born into a rich family, she is shown to be an empathetic person who cares deeply about her friends as the series progresses.
[7] Infused with the DNA of a Golden lion tamarin, Bu-Ling grows a monkey tail and ears while transformed, and fights with a pair of rings.
[10][14] According to the aliens, their ancestors lived on Earth three million years ago, but left after a series of catastrophes nearly led to their extinction.
The aliens ended up on a planet with an inhospitable surface environment and were forced to live underground by sandstorms and high temperatures.
[14] After Deep Blue is destroyed, and they are defeated, the aliens return to their own planet with the remaining mew aqua to change their world into a place as beautiful as Earth.
Upon awakening, he attacks and injures Ichigo as he does not share Masaya's love for her,[39] and kills Quiche without any hesitation when challenged to a duel.
[7][10] Throughout the series, Quiche develops increasingly stronger feelings for Ichigo, first regarding her as an "interesting toy" (that he would kill for his leader), and obsessing over her.
[29] The anime adaptation expands this incident by having Tart save Bu-Ling's life when she starts to suffocate after the cavern is sealed off.
Pie (パイ, Pai) comes to Earth with Tart to aid Quiche in preparing the planet of the arrival of Deep Blue.
In a flashback to the group's founding, Royal Highness, Happy Child, Blue Bayou and Sweet Juliet are said to have been born with varying special powers which resulted in their being shunned by other people and their families abandoning them by sending them away to a boarding school where they met.
Discovering their commonality, they devise a plot to blow up the school, but a mysterious person, known only as "Duke", convinces them not to waste their lives because they were necessary to the world.
[37] The Saint Rose Crusaders seeks to reshape the "boring grownup world" into their own utopia by using their "intelligence, philanthropy, and elegance".
[38] The leader of the Saint Rose Crusaders, Duke (公爵, Dyūku) is never clearly identified within the series as being male or female but it is left to the readers to decide due to the ambiguous character designed used.
He is presented as being somewhat vain about his appearance, referring to his own face as beautiful when it is scratched, and another character, Happy Child, says that Royal Highness angers very easily.
Happy Child is able to teleport himself, float in mid-air, speak directly into other people's minds, and attack with ultra-sonic waves.
[37] Sweet Juliet (スーイトー ジュリエット, Suito Jurietto), the only Crusader whose job is mentioned, is a television drama actor.
[10][49] Towards the end of the series, Masaya reveals that as an orphan, he began acting like a "perfect child" to be adopted, in reality, however, he felt sick of humans and disgusted by how they treat the planet.
[39] Masaya sacrifices himself by releasing the final Mew Aqua inside his body in order to stop Deep Blue and is revived when Ichigo gives her life to save him.
The Blue Knight (蒼の騎士, Ao no Kishi) suddenly appears at the end of the fourth volume of the manga as an unknown alien male to rescue Ichigo during a battle with Quiche.
[12] In addition to detecting the chimera animals, Masha eats the jelly-fish like parasites that come out of the victims after they are defeated.
Big eyes, cat ears, fuzzy tails, and short skirts all come together in a cuteness combo that's hard to resist.
[63] Anime News Network's Carlo Santos notes that "Berry has the potential to become insufferable", but felt she acted more like a "typical preteen girl" who was "sweet" and "silly" but "stop[s] right before it gets annoying", thus avoiding being a standard "marketable character trying to rack up charm points.
