A website launched by Pony Canyon ended its countdown on Thursday, announcing a new anime adaptation of Reiko Yoshida and Mia Ikumi's Tokyo Mew Mew manga. Titled Tokyo Mew Mew New, the anime is commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Nakayoshi magazine. Ikumi drew an illustration to celebrate the announcement (pictured above).

Synopsis
13-year-old Ichigo Momomiya is at an endangered animal exhibit with her crush Masaya Aoyama when she is hit by a beam of light and sees a cat entering her body. She begins to demonstrate cat-like behavior the following day. A giant monster attacks Masaya and forces Ichigo to transform into a pink magical girl with cat ears and a tail.

A boy named Ryou Shirogane explains that the monster she fought was a Chimera Anima: alien parasites that infect animals and turn them into giant monsters. Ryou and Keiichiro Akasaka, the owner of a pink cafe called Cafe Mew Mew, planned to take the DNA of five Red Data Animals and use them as biological weapons by injecting them into Chimera Anima—an experiment they called the Mew Project. But due to an earthquake the day before, the DNA was accidentally shot into Ichigo and four other girls that she met outside the museum instead!

Now a "biological weapon," Ichigo must fight against the aliens and find her potential teammates—all while keeping her feline identity a secret from Masaya. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

An idol audition to assign a voice actress for the protagonist Ichigo Momomiya began on Thursday and will run till May 11 on the audition application mysta. The audition is available to females between elementary-school age and 30 years old who do not belong to any production. The successful candidate will receive an exclusive contract with Pony Canyon's Swallow agency and make a major debut as the center of the Tokyo Mew Mew New seiyuu idol group.

The magical girl manga was published in Nakayoshi from August 2000 to December 2002 and compiled into seven volumes. Yoshida and Ikumi serialized a two-volume sequel titled Tokyo Mew Mew à La Mode in the same magazine between March and December 2003.

Studio Pierrot adapted the manga into a 52-episode television anime that aired from Spring 2002 to Winter 2003. 4Kids Entertainment licensed and dubbed the first 26 episodes.

Tokyopop published the manga and its sequel in English from 2003–2006. Kodansha Comics relicensed the title in North America and published all nine volumes in four omnibuses.

Official site: https://tokyo-mew-mew.com/
Official Twitter: @mew_mew_new

Source: animate Times, PR Times

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