1 Season
52 Episode
Tokyo Mew Mew - Season 1 Episode 1 Turning into a Cat – Justice Lies in a Girl in Love ~Nya!
For the future of the Earth, we'll be at service!
While Ichigo Momomiya is on her first date with Masaya Aoyama, she is bathed in a strange light and sees herself being merged with a cat. Afterwards, she begins to display cat-like behaviors. The next day, Ichigo follows Masaya into a park, where a strange jellyfish-like creature takes over a rat's body, turning it into a monster. Ryou Shirogane saves Ichigo and gives her a pendant allowing her to transform into Mew Ichigo. With her new powers, she defeats the monster, turning it back into a normal rat. Afterwards, Ryou refuses to explain what just occurred, so the newly arrived Keiichiro Akasaka offers to do so instead.
- Year: 2003
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Animation, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Family
- Studio: TV Tokyo
- Keyword: hero, villain, supernatural, superhero, romance, based on manga, heroine, endangered species, alien attack, supervillain, shoujo, anime, genetic modification, magical girl
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- Cast: Saki Nakajima, Yumi Kakazu, Kumi Sakuma, Hisayo Mochizuki, Junko Noda, Megumi Ogata