S01E46: New Reinforcement! Protect the Earth Together
Masaya begins having prophetic dreams, including one where he is invited to join the team and one where he sees Ichigo crying. The next day, his first dream comes true, against Ryou's protests and Zakuro's concerns, and he becomes a member of the Mew Project. The group goes to investigate a strange light being emitted from a river to determine if it is mew aqua. The aliens also go to the river. As the two groups battle, Mew Pudding and Tart both jump into the river to look for the mew aqua, eventually discovering there is none. After Mew Ichigo uses her attack to increase the Blue Knight's sword's power, he destroys the many chimera animas being used by Pie. The light disappears and the aliens leave as the Mew Mew wonder what is going on.
Overview
On her first date with the cutest boy in school, Ichigo is zapped by a mysterious ray that scrambles her DNA with that of the endangered Iriomote wildcat. The next day, Ichigo discovers that she has developed the agility (and occasionally the ears and tail) of a cat, as well as the power to transform into a pink-haired superheroine, Mew Ichigo. She and four other girls, each endowed with the genes of a different "Red Data" animal, have been selected for the top-secret Mew Project, which aims to protect the Earth from an alien menace known as Deep Blue.
Episodes
S01E01 Turning into a Cat – Justice Lies in a Girl in Love ~Nya!
April 6, 2002 24 min
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...
S01E02 A New Comrade – Justice Lies in a Real Lady ~Nya!
April 13, 2002 24 min
Ryou and Keiichiro tell Ichigo that the creature she saw was a parasitic alien, called a chimera anima. To stop them, the Mew Project infused five girls with the DNA from specific endangered species, enabling...
S01E03 Ghost Story from School: Finding the Ghost's True Identity ~Nya!
April 20, 2002 24 min
Ichigo meets a shy and timid girl named Lettuce Midorikawa. Later at the café, Ichigo sees her with three other girls, who are trying to coerce an unwilling Lettuce to try to photograph a rumored...
S01E04 A Tearful Date – The Secret I Can't Tell Aoyama-kun ~Nya!
April 27, 2002 24 min
Upset about her first kiss stolen, Ichigo avoids Aoyama, even declining a date with him. While looking for chimera animas, Masha leads her to the park where she runs into Masaya. Resolved to forget the...
S01E05 Stormy Rhythmic Gymnastics – Becoming a Star with a Cat's Dance! ~Nya!
May 4, 2002 24 min
The school rhythmic gymnastics team sees Ichigo avoid the path of an on-coming bus by leaping over it, and the team recruits her. A promise from Masaya to come and cheer for her at the...
S01E06 The Piano of the Heart – It's the Heart-Pounding Dance Party! ~Nya!
May 11, 2002 24 min
While cleaning the café, a woman approaches Ichigo and Lettuce and begins speaking to them in English (Spanish in the 4Kids dub), but they cannot understand her. Masaya appears and translates for them. The woman,...
S01E07 Enter Pudding – The Ears and Tail are Part of the Act!
May 18, 2002 24 min
Returning from the grocery store, Ichigo stops to rest on a bench. A young girl, Pudding Fong, begins performing acrobatic tricks in front of her and then demands a tip. Ichigo gives her a piece...
S01E08 To the Hot Spring! The Mysterious Mountain's Miracle of Love
May 25, 2002 24 min
The girls win a day-trip to a resort in the mountains. On the way up the mountain, they stop at a shrine to eat lunch where a boy named Masazou Aoyamada yells at them for...
S01E09 Dearly Beloved Brother – The Memories Lie in the Picture
June 1, 2002 24 min
While at Mint's house to borrow a dress, Ichigo meets her older brother, Seiji, who is going to study abroad. She is saddened to learn that they have grown apart after seeing an old photo...
S01E10 The Last Member – The Legendary Lonely Wolf
June 8, 2002 24 min
One night, a mysterious girl saves two people from a chimera anima. At the café, the girls read a newspaper article about the incident and realize that none of them is the girl shown in...
Mint is upset by Zakuro's rejection, and the others try to cheer her up. Ichigo and the others go to talk to Zakuro. Meanwhile, Kish approaches Zakuro and offers her a deal to return her...
S01E12 Identity Revealed – An Out of Season Cherry Tree Falls Away
June 22, 2002 24 min
Masaya takes Ichigo to Inohara Park to show her a large cherry tree that is unusually blooming out of season. The next day, Keiichiro discovers that five cherry trees have been infected by the aliens...
S01E13 Intersecting Hearts – Aoyama-kun is Targeted
June 29, 2002 24 min
Worried Masaya discovered her identity, Ichigo avoids him. Later, Ichigo intends to cheer for Masaya during a kendo match but is unable to face him. Later, a jealous Kish attacks him with a chimera anima...
Keiichiro begins making a beautiful birthday cake for someone, and the girls ponder whom it might be for. Later, Ichigo meets a woman named Rei studying butterflies. She later learns that Rei is Keiichiro's ex-girlfriend,...
S01E15 A Little Hero Masha – Friendship at the Risk of His Life
July 13, 2002 24 min
The girls wonder about Masha's usefulness beyond just detecting chimera animas and eating the parasites. The discussion leads Masha to question his confidence. While the Mew Mews fight a chimera anima, he tries to fight...
Lettuce meets a young man named Norihiro at the library. She falls in love with him and begins going there every day to see him. When he gives her a present, the girls encourage her...
The data gathered by Masha reveals that the aliens originally inhabited the earth, but had to leave because of changes in the environment, ending up on an even worse planet. Ichigo is upset at this,...
While the four Mew Mews are fighting the chimera animas created by Pie and Tart, the Blue Knight battles Kish. He is injured while protecting Ichigo, but the arrival of the other Mew Mews causes...
S01E19 The Power of Kindness – O Wish, Come True in the Sea
August 10, 2002 24 min
At the beach, the girls enjoy swimming and playing in the water. However, Lettuce does not know how to swim. A girl named Iruka is being picked on for her inability to swim despite having...
S01E20 Memories of Mother – Onee-chan is in Trouble
August 17, 2002 24 min
When Pudding falls sick, Ichigo, Mint, and Lettuce agree to go to pick up Pudding's little sister Heicha from school. Heicha's teacher explains that Pudding's mother died and her father is always traveling, so Pudding...
S01E21 Sparks of the Heart – Ichigo and Mint At Odds
August 24, 2002 24 min
Mint has a strange dream in which she is talking with her merged animal, the ultramarine lorikeet. Later at the café, Ryou and Keiichiro tell the girls about a substance called mew aqua and its...
As summer break comes to an end, Ichigo has to scramble to finish all of her homework before the start of school. The aliens also are enjoying the last day of summer and are avoiding...
Ichigo discovers that her school friends Moe and Miwa have developed crushes on Ryou and Keiichiro. Though Ichigo fears her friends will be disappointed, she agrees to help them. They make gifts for the boys,...
S01E24 A Mysterious Gem – Brilliance is Within You!
September 14, 2002 24 min
Zakuro takes Ichigo to the rehearsal of a jewelry company premiere where she befriends a clumsy crew member named Tsukiko. Tsukiko really wants Zakuro to wear a rainbow stone necklace for the show, but both...
S01E25 Love's Hurdle – Many Obstacles to Ichigo's Love
September 21, 2002 24 min
When Ryou and Keiichiro discover that mew aqua is most likely to be found underground, Ichigo cancels a date with Masaya to search for it. Ryou and Keiichiro decide to use an ancient rod unearthed...
S01E26 Stop, Time! Overwhelmed with Sentimental Feeling
September 28, 2002 24 min
The Mew Mews attack the cocoon at the top of Tokyo Tower but are unable to destroy it, and a huge moth hatches from it. It moves too fast for the girls' attacks to hit...
S01E27 I Love You – Aoyama-kun's Shocking Declaration
October 5, 2002 24 min
Hours late, Ichigo arrives at the meeting place. At first, she thinks Masaya has left, but he appears near her and tells her that he was waiting for her and that he loves her. Ichigo's...
S01E28 Kitty Panic! The Key to the Mystery is Her Kiss
October 12, 2002 24 min
As a cat, Ichigo gets lost while trying to escape from a large amorous cat. She finds herself standing in front of Masaya's house, where he discovers her and takes her inside. That night while...
S01E29 A Forbidden Love? I Can Understand Cats ~Nya!
October 19, 2002 24 min
Ichigo meets a cat at the train station and discovers that, even in her human form, she can understand him. The cat, named Asano, later comes to the café, and tells her that he is...
When Ichigo's father finds out that she has a boyfriend, he does not approve. He demands that Masaya defeat him in a kendo match before he will allow them to continue dating. Ichigo complains to...
S01E32 Princess Fight – The Hero Can't be Bought for Money
November 9, 2002 24 min
Mint surprises the other girls by inviting them to a tea party. When they arrive, they meet a spoiled, wealthy girl named Kanna, who declares that she is Mint's "eternal rival." A box arrives, containing...
S01E33 A Fiancé Appears – Pudding's Fated Marriage?!
November 16, 2002 24 min
While the Mew Mews are battling one of Tart's chimera animas, a young man named Yuebin Ron appears and defeats it with his bare hands. An apprentice of Pudding's father, he has come to spend...
S01E34 The Most Important Matter – The Ability to Trust in Someone
November 23, 2002 24 min
The girls participate in an open market where Lettuce sells a variety of dolls that she made herself, which are popular with the crowd. The last doll is purchased by famous doll maker Ayano Uemura...
Ichigo meets a lonely girl named Momoka whose parents are always busy. Ichigo learns she is a fan of Zakuro, so she tells Zakuro about the girl. Zakuro later runs into the girl at a...
S01E36 Shirogane's Past: The Secret of the Mew Mews' Birth!
December 7, 2002 24 min
Ichigo tries to talk to Ryou about the problems caused by her cat genes, but he ignores her. On the way to school, Ichigo changes into a cat again and gets in trouble, but is...
S01E37 The Shining Tear: Celebrating Christmas with Just the Two of Us
December 14, 2002 24 min
As Christmas approaches, Ichigo grows depressed as she thinks about how she is regularly lying to Masaya to hide her being a Mew Mew. Zakuro invites her to go shopping with her and tells Ichigo...
S01E38 Miracle of the Holy Night – No Secrets Anymore
December 21, 2002 24 min
The aliens add more energy to the mew aqua, putting the area in danger of being destroyed. The Mew Mews are able to reduce the power of the explosion, however no one had noticed Masaya...
S01E39 The Stolen Dream, Sweet Trap of the Lavender
December 28, 2002 24 min
Pie creates a chimera anima capable of manipulating dreams. The monster puts Ichigo to sleep and reforms itself into a replica of her to go to the café and send the other four girls into...
S01E41 The Winds Bring Happiness – A Heartfelt Prayer
January 11, 2003 24 min
The aliens decide to use special chimera animas to release pollutants into Tokyo Bay. The Mew Mews arrive, sans Lettuce, and find themselves having to fight numerous smaller chimera animas made from fish. Mew Lettuce...
Zakuro is offered a leading role in a movie in Hollywood, but this would require her to move to America. She has not decided whether to take the job or not, but she tells Ichigo...
S01E44 The City Turns into a Forest! What Protects Ichigo's Smile
February 1, 2003 24 min
Ryou and Keiichiro learn that mew aqua may have been made by the aliens when they inhabited Earth. A strange type of energy begins emerging in Tokyo and trees grow out of control, turning the...
S01E45 The Riddle Dissolves! The Truth About the Blue Knight
February 8, 2003 24 min
For Valentine's Day Ichigo decides to make chocolate for Masaya, with help from Keiichiro. On her way to meet him, she is attacked by Kish who knocks away her transformation pendant. Masaya senses that Ichigo...
S01E46 New Reinforcement! Protect the Earth Together
February 15, 2003 24 min
Masaya begins having prophetic dreams, including one where he is invited to join the team and one where he sees Ichigo crying. The next day, his first dream comes true, against Ryou's protests and Zakuro's...
S01E47 The Power of Love! I Will Protect Aoyama-kun!!
February 22, 2003 24 min
Deep Blue orders the aliens to destroy the Blue Knight. They decide to kidnap Mew Ichigo in order to draw him out. Meanwhile, Ichigo is happy to have Masaya now working at the Cafe Mew...
S01E48 The Labyrinth of the Alternate Dimension! Kish's Gamble!!
March 1, 2003 24 min
The group is searching for mew aqua around a large rock formation in the forest when the girls and Masaya get separated. Something strange begins happening and everyone transforms. Masaya transforms into the Blue Knight,...
S01E49 The Awakening of Blue – Another Appearance!
March 8, 2003 24 min
Ryou and Keiichiro tell the girls to take a vacation, feeling the final battle is approaching and wanting them to be refreshed. Ichigo, however, cannot find Masaya to enjoy the downtime with. Meanwhile, Kish tells...
As Ichigo stands in disbelief that Masaya is Deep Blue, Pie explains why they have been waiting for him. Ichigo tries to reach Masaya, showing him the bell collar, but it is useless. Unable to...
