Line #3 YMMV/TokyoMewMew


1	* AmericansHateTingle: Aoyama Masaya used to be the poster boy for DieForOurShip (until ''New'' boosted his popularity by a lot), but he gets ''none'' of that in Japan.
2	* AudienceAlienatingEra: Once Reiko Yoshida left the project, Mia Ikumi tried to write a sequel incorporating the retcons made in the TV show and replacing Ichigo with a new character named Berry. Ichigo herself [[BroughtDownToNormal lost her powers]] except as a living accessory to the new heroine, her origins and family life were completely ignored in favor of [[PutOnABus sending her to Europe]], and she became a washed-up hero. It's no surprise Tokyo Mew Mew a la Mode has a high degree of FanonDiscontinuity amongst fans who also [[TheScrappy really dislike Berry]]. Berry herself has been MisBlamed, though; the real blame lies in the publishers, who, among other things, restricted the series to just two volumes when commissioning the sequel.
3	* CompleteMonster: The anime version of [[BigBad Deep Blue]] forsakes the [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intentions]] of his manga counterpart and [[AdaptationalVillainy becomes a cold, self-concerned sociopath]]. The leader of the aliens who come to reclaim Earth, Deep Blue creates a human alias named Masaya to stay hidden and oversees his flunkies' attacks. In the climax of the series, Deep Blue overtakes Masaya, and the very first thing he does upon awakening is stoically torture his former identity's LoveInterest, Ichigo, with electrical energy, unleashing a burst of energy that obliterates the nearby city. Deep Blue kills anybody who gets in his way, not excepting his own loyal servants, and is interested solely in [[KillAllHumans wiping out all humanity]] so that he can have Earth to himself. Deep Blue's callous nature ends up turning even his own servants against him, and he shows himself to be thoroughly exempt of any humanizing traits that flesh out the other villains of the show.
4	* CrackPairing: Masaya/Berii had a small following just for being widely hated characters.
5	* DieForOurShip:
6	** Aoyama received a lot of hate from western fans solely for the fact that he's Ichigo's eventual canon LoveInterest, though it's quieted down since ''New''. As mentioned in FanPreferredCouple, most would rather see Ichigo end up with Shirogane or Quiche.
7	** While it's not as bad as all the Masaya hate, some Ichigo/Ryou fans bash Retasu for having a crush on Ryou, as seen in some Website/YouTube comments. Never mind that [[ObliviousToLove Ryou doesn't seem to be aware of her crush]] and that she is [[ShrinkingViolet way too shy]] [[CannotSpitItOut to tell him anyway]].
8	* DracoInLeatherPants:
9	** Quiche. Many fans seemed to forget that his "OMG TWU WUB" for Ichigo is StalkerWithACrush played ''dead'' straight, complete with "I'll kill you if I can't have you" and "I'll kill him just because you like him better than me" moments.
10	** Even if Deep Blue is a CompleteMonster, fans have even bought him leather pants as well. It may have to do with the manga version apparently intending to help the aliens.
11	* FanPreferredCouple: Masaya/Ichigo fans are a small minority, despite that being the OfficialCouple. Pairing Ichigo with [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Ryou]] or [[StalkingIsLove Quiche]] are much more popular.
12	* FanonDiscontinuity: Many fans refuse to acknowledge the existence of the sequel series, ''A la Mode''.
13	* FoeYayShipping:
14	** Pai/Retasu is semi-canon if you squint.
15	** While not as common, there are people who ship Ichigo/Deep Blue.
16	** Not to mention Zakuro/Pai. It's still overshadowed by Pai/Retasu, though.
17	* FriendlyFandoms: Received some fandom overlap with ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' due to both main protagonists having the ability to sprout the ears and tails of their respective animals, being able to transform into said animal (albeit in reverse and moreso unwittingly in Ichigo's case) and being set during the early 2000s. In addition, fans of both works have noted that Mei would immensely relate to Ichigo regarding her initial situation of keeping their animal sides a secret from their loved ones and ''Turning Red'' premiered in the same year as the reboot series, ''Anime/TokyoMewMewNew''.
18	* GatewaySeries: For many in the mid-2000s, this was both their gateway into MagicalGirl works, and perhaps into anime as a whole.
19	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:
20	** The series is popular in Serbia in spite of the dub's low quality.
21	** It was also huge in Korea, where it was called ''Berry Berry Mew Mew''. They got the whole series on VHS and many pieces of exclusive merchandise.
22	* HarsherInHindsight: When the manga was written, it's stated there were 2,500 species that were endangered or threatened with extinction. Twenty years later, this is [[https://twitter.com/SuzuTitor/status/1544682746160861185 uncomfortably updated]] with the current stats and the reasons why.
23	* LesYay:
24	** Anime-only, Ichigo turns into a cat a few times, and with nary a bat of an eye, she kissed a few female animals (even chased a female dog down an alleyway at one point) to turn back to normal.
25	** When Minto and Ichigo first meet, the latter is suspiciously in awe of the former and their interactions can easily be read as BelligerentSexualTension. Throughout the series they continue to have a lot of "moments."
26	** One scene from the anime involved the girls all imaging their ideal guy, with Mint's being a generic male ballet dancer. [[{{Macekre}} The 4Kids dub of all things]] had him replaced with an image of Zakuro.
27	* {{Macekre}}: 4Kids changed the setting from Japan to America, despite it being probably the most Japanese show they've ever dealt with. It was initially touted by 4Kids as "Hollywood Mew Mew" (which eventually became an episode name). CEO Al Kahn is quoted in a press release for this as having said "By the time we localize the programs, kids won't even know they're from Japan any more." Case in point, they erased many Japanese texts and either replaced them with English words or left them entirely blank. They went far as to make other nonsensical changes to mundane things like cell phone screensavers and computers. They even made episode 12 in Japan into episode 1 in America and threw it straight into CanonDiscontinuity, not to mention the ending of that episode in the dub.
28	* NeverLiveItDown: The manga's infamous scene where [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Aoyama puts a collar on Ichigo and calls her "his cat"]] caused him to go down in history with manga readers as a possessive {{Yandere}} who treats Ichigo like PropertyOfLove, which isn't helped by the fact the scene right before it has him yelling at her for going missing. In the manga's actual context, the "cat" metaphors are obviously being PlayedForLaughs, and outside a few CrazyJealousGuy moments Aoyama actually values Ichigo very deeply and is saying this as a way to express that he's afraid of losing her.
29	** The aforementioned collar scene was replaced with a heavily toned-down PinkySwear in the original anime, and Aoyama himself was given an AdaptationPersonalityChange that went into much less detail on his feelings regarding Ichigo, so when ''Anime/TokyoMewMewNew'' carried over the original manga version of the scene mostly as-is, viewers only familiar with the original anime, as well as people getting into the series for the first time with ''New'', were met with a shock (in fact, even staff members from the first anime were shocked to hear that the new anime would be keeping the scene). The version in ''New'' adds more dialogue from Aoyama where he apologizes for yelling at her and clarifies that it was AngerBornOfWorry, and it adds some cute moments with the cat that lost it to make it seem less creepy, but some people still read him as a yandere.
30	* NightmareFuel: Quiche’s feelings for Ichigo take a disturbing turn in the later part of the anime. While he was mostly playful and flirty with her early on, he becomes dangerously possessive of her to the point where he threatens to kill her because she still loves her boyfriend. During one of these attempts, he wears an insane expression while declaring Ichigo to be his.
31	* OldGuardVersusNewBlood: Mostly when it comes to shipping; the millennial fans who grew up with the original tend to ship Kishigo (Quiche/Ichigo) more, but while in the original's day you'd have a hard time finding a single soul who shipped canon, Gen Z fans who came on during ''New'' tend to ship Ichisaya (or Masaichi as it was known in the past). This can be attributed both to ''New'' giving Aoyama more character development and to StalkingIsLove being a less popular trope than it was in the 00s.
32	* QuestionableCasting: Masaya (a.k.a. Mark)'s deep, middle-aged-sounding voice in the [=4Kids=] dub, especially since in the original Japanese version he was voiced by a woman.
33	* RefrainFromAssuming: The 4Kids songs. This has been somewhat fixed since the iTunes release of the soundtrack. For instance, "Dance Another Day" is not "Remember When".
34	* ReplacementScrappy: Berry Shirayuki, the new girl as the star of ''A la mode'', is hated by audiences for taking the spotlight from all the other established cast. The fan reaction to her is parodied with Dr. Alphys in ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'' and ''[[CaptainErsatz Mew Mew Kissy Cutie 2]]'', where the mere thought of not-Berry results in an angry, rambling wall of text about how she's "neither kissy nor cutie".
35	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Berii comes off a lot better in ''Re-Turn'', where the plot is no longer shilling her and Ichigo returns to main character status. Her character was already VindicatedByHistory for newer fans, but older ones came back onto the Berii train with this, if tentatively.
36	* RonTheDeathEater: Masaya. Sure, he may be [[spoiler:a StepfordSmiler because he hates all of humanity, at least prior to meeting Ichigo]], but he wasn't born evil like he's portrayed in a lot of fanworks that ship Ichigo with someone else. (Although most people who hate him seem to not be aware of--or deliberately ignore--that spoilered part, which happens after the American dub ended, and instead demonize him just for being "too perfect.")
37	* {{Sequelitis}}: To say that ''A la Mode'' is not as well received as the original series is an understatement. With new characters that are widely considered unlikeable, old characters considered derailed, and a plot widely considered lazily written, many fans don't even acknowledge its existence.
38	* SoOkayItsAverage: The small portion of the fandom who don't outright despise ''A la Mode'' generally see it as this, forgiving [[SpotlightStealingSquad some of]] [[ItsShortSoItSucks the problems]] that were the result of ExecutiveMeddling. The general consensus among this group of fans is that if ''A la Mode'' was longer, it would have had more of an opportunity to properly explore the story and both new and returning characters.
39	** The 4Kids dub of the original series is also regarded as this by those who don't view it as an outright bastardization of the series; definitely inferior to the original, but not as bad as the vocal detractors would have you believe, either.
40	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The updated character designs for Retasu (more specifically, [[AdaptationalModesty the anime version]]) and Bu-ling have a number of detractors, as it makes them come off as generic, with Bu-ling now basically wearing the same type of outfit as Minto, while adding a miniskirt to Retasu's attire takes a lot away from what made her original outfit so unique.
41	* ToyShip: Bu-ling and Tart, which actually becomes canon.
42	* ValuesDissonance:
43	** One possible reason why [[StalkerWithACrush Quiche]] is the [[FanPreferredCouple fan-preferred pairing]] for Ichigo in the West is that his EstablishingCharacterMoment, stealing Ichigo's SacredFirstKiss, is far less shocking to Westerners than it is to the Japanese. This is arguably not so much the case in a post-Me Too era, where people now tend to be more sensitive to consent and the pitfalls of romanticizing predatory behaviour.
44	** Also, Bu-ling is seen as silly and fun in the West, and that's true to an extent in Japan too, but she also comes off as somewhat of an EthnicScrappy. This is lost in translation because the stereotypes she plays into (large family, loud, does ridiculous things, left alone by her lone parent, etc.) are the exact opposite of the stereotypes Chinese people have to deal with across the ocean (only child, TheStoic, suffering under an EducationMama).
45	* ViewerGenderConfusion: Most people who have watch ''Tokyo Mew Mew'' for the first time or never seen it before thought that Kisshu and Taruto were girls due to their pigtails and midriff-exposing outfits while having really long eyelashes. Tart suffers the most due to the fact that he's been voiced by women in most of the international (Italian, Mandarin, Greek etc) dubs. Weirdly enough, viewers found it odd that Tart would be voiced by grown men or teenage voice actors despite being a prepubescent boy and Pie who's the most masculine of the group to be voiced by a woman in the dubs from international countries.
46	* VindicatedByHistory: Although Berry Shirayuki's popularity was as in the ground as the rest of ''A la mode'' when it was published, reception to her has warmed in recent years, particularly in the Tumblr fandom.
47	* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Quiche having a [[StalkerWithACrush stalker crush]] on Ichigo and attempts to kidnap/ stealing a SacredFirstKiss without her consent? Check. [[FamilyUnFriendlyDeath Blood, Death and characters strangling each other]]? Check. Religious references, nudity in TransformationSequence? Check.

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