Talk:Tokyo Mew Mew/Archive 1

message: I'm not sure that "Predacytes" (originally Chimaera Animals, or something like Kirema Anima if you believe Topkyopop), count as a character?
Well, they're a driving force in the plot, and they are alive, so I guess that counts.  Dee man45 04:52, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chimeras 

message: Why is this a stub? --anon
Because it doesn't have episode listings.
::Okay, this statement is outdated. But keep it on here anyway. --Addict 2006 05:08, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stub 

message: Source please. The earliest available (to my knowledge) news of the licensing of TMM states Hollywood Mew Mew as the title. Shiroi Hane 04:17, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What that links says is: "In February 2004, 4Kids Entertainment announced that they had liscensed [sic] the Tokyo Mew Mew anime. In a press release, the show was titled Hollywood Mew Mew" - which is the same as what I said, the property Tokyo Mew Mew was announced under the title Hollywood Mew Mew. It does later add "In June 2004, another press release used the name Tokyo Mew Mew in reference to the show [...] In August 2004, it was officially announced in another press release that the title would be Mew Mew Power" which just means that after dropping Hollywood Mew Mew they referred to the show by it's original name for a while until they decided on another. Shiroi Hane 16:17, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "4Kids were going to keep the name Tokyo Mew Mew" 

message: Do you guys think that Ichigo's character summary is a little long?  Isn't that why she has an aricle?  Dee man45 04:52, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long 

message: I know this is an odd article to bring this up in, but why are the characters' heights in US units?  I suspect they're supposed to be centimeters and whatever source was used converted to US units rather than keep the original.  Guppy313 16:24, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Mildly curious, I started poking around and did find plenty of Web sites with heights in cm, but none in the quick check looked official. Some of these listed complete measurements, at which point I decided this was too weird and stopped looking. --iMb~Meow 17:03, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Units? 

message: Can somebody tell me where it said she was 16 yeas old in the english anime? I don't remember that. She's to little and young looking and sounding, in both versions, to be 16. She looks older than 11 but oh well. She matches 13, except the only time they show them tall is when the artist messed up a little, cause they made Ichigo's legs too long to beleive. Yeesh!
Axidous 7, August 2006
:I don't know where it says in the English anime that she's 16, but in the Japanese she does an intro for the first dozen or so episodes stating that she's 13 I believe. --Miss Ethereal 16:08, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ichigo's age 

message: does anyone think we should mention the name Cyniclon might have come from the word cynical?
Axidous 13, August 2006
:No, that's speculation.  It may be just pure coincidence.  If you can prove it (like the director says so) or something like that, than it can go on the article.  Otherwise, I say it shouldn't.  --Miss Ethereal 14:19, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cyniclons 

message: Isn't the broadcast section redundant with the infobox? Also, where did anyone find all these broadcast infos? I'm looking for some for other anime.--SidiLemine 11:40, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broadcast Section 

message: I cleaned up this talk page a bit. Wikipedia talk pages is for discussion of the article, not the show. Matty-chan 22:50, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I did now too. Seriously...Sana Jisushi 15:00, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia is not a soap box 

message: There hardly is any information on Tokyo Mew Mew A La Mode, and if Tokyo Mew Mew A La Mode stays a redirect, I'm quite sure that information will probably never be added.
After watching the anime, I was kind of curious as to what kind of sequences there would be, and the only one that seems to exist is hardly told of on the wiki. --MooNFisH 13:39, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A La Mode 

message: You guys should make a file on Tokyo Mew Mew a' la mode...65.102.86.126 04:25, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tokyo Mew Mew a' la mode 

message: " Just when it seemed Mew Mew Power was going to win, 4Kids apparently rigged the poll and made F-Zero win instead"
anyone have any proof on this? "THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE IS SERVED!" 04:16, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see any proof, but I was there and the F-Zero thing was pretty suspicious... Wish there wasn't a ban on original research. Sana Jisushi 06:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=5439 and http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=5450 I may have another one. However, I think the current rewording of it is good. I don't have proof that 4Kids actually rigged the poll, though, but it seems plausible. Matty-chan 07:18, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  question 

message: Is this even important enough to put in the article? It just sounds like some fan whining (especially the first version). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.111.17.72 (talk) 00:22, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If there were some way of sourcing it and we pulled out the whiny bits, it would probably be relevant. If not here, at the 4kids article. --tjstrf talk 00:30, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  AMV deletion? 

message: I found info relating to how 4kids is trying to obtain a the 2nd half or Tokyo Mew Mew, adn was going to cite it, since it needs a cite, but once i add the cite, everything else is removed! why is that?? that is very odd to me "THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE IS SERVED!" 02:07, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ?? 

message: On the Tokyo Mew Mew page, editor User:Angelofdeath275 (sig is "THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE IS SERVED" or something like that) and I are disagreeing over whether a contribution is valid. My perspective is that, while not vandalism, the contribution is unconstructive because it is speculative and personal opinion, and explained this on the contributor's talk page. Their opinion is that it is not personal opinion but rather true and self-evident from the manga. 
Additional complications are probably arising from Angel's English level, which I'd estimate as en-2 due to either being a foreign speaker or perhaps simply a young editor with careless grammar, vs. my own rather overly formal style.
As there are few to no comments from other people (just a couple of IPs) on the article talk page, I have come here for outside input. You can't really make consensus from 2 people disagreeing after all. --tjstrf talk 00:03, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have been keeping a track of the discussion on Talk:Tart (Tokyo Mew Mew) which this user is also involved with, trying to make sense of it all. --Squilibob 00:19, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

text: (edit confict) My solution to the first problem would be to request that the additions be given a citation from a reliable source. Even if the person tries to claim it's "common sense, it should still be cited. If no source is provided in a reasonable about of time, a week or more, then remove the additions if not remove the whole thing because it's not sourced. --TheFarix (Talk) 00:38, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Granted, there is a slight difference, but neither translation is "incorrect". For examples of two seperate instances: Tokyo is technically Tōkyō and arigatō is commonly just said as arigato. Besides, "Mew" isn't even a real word, it's just a sound. There really is no set spelling for it. And guy can be a genderless word. --SeizureDog 01:21, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

text: As I stated on the talk page for Tokyo Mew Mew, there should be no trivia section. Wikipedia:Avoid trivia sections in articles. We have a Manual of Style for Japan-related articles which states how macrons should be used. --Squilibob 00:53, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My teacher said that it the spelling incorrect, so I went with what she said. You do know that you use a dash to inditcate a sound is longer in katakana right? You telling me that she is incorrect? Your sounding as if you know more Japanese then her, for a a native speaker of Japanese. "THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE IS SERVED!" 19:25, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I've read through the trivia section and find that most of it is original research and the rest is irrelevant and doesn't add to the understanding of the series. It's probably best to spike the section from the article. --TheFarix (Talk) 01:09, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I was thinking the same thing. --SeizureDog 04:15, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for some external input on Tokyo Mew Mew article 

message: Now that A la mode has its own article, can someone add al la mose to the template? i have no idea how to do thaat. "THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE IS SERVED!" 22:43, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  template question 

message: Someone just put in the comments about putting names down. Well, According to Wikiproject Anime and Manga, the English version takes priority in terms of anime, which is probably b/c this is the English Wikipedia made in the USA. However, since the show is based on a manga, the English manga takes priority over the English anime, and that uses the Japanese names like Ichigo. However, if you are directly addressing the anime, then English names must be used (Japanese names can be put in parentheses if you want). Generically talking about a character uses the Japanese anime/English manga names. However, we should mention both versions somewhere in the article. Matty-chan 04:51, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the better known name in English takes precedance in the majority of cases. --tjstrf Now on editor review! 05:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Note about English version takes priority 

message: I have fixed grammar and little things like that on all articles relaing to tokyo mew mew (charcters n such). "THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE IS SERVED!" 05:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleaned up 

message: Just to let everyone know, Tokyo Pop for some reason mistranslated "chimera animal to "kimera anima" and "chimera anima", most likely due to how it is spelled in katakana. the correct translation is CHIMERA ANIMAL. I will be reverting the misstranslations. "THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE IS SERVED!" 02:27, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have a question then.
The word "animal" in the monsters' name DOES indeed make sense, actually, since the story DOES deal with animals. However, notice how not all of the Chimera Anima(l)s ARE animals. There were three main types of Chimera Anima(l)s in the anime: animal, plant and human (there were some other types, too). The plant monsters can hardly be called animals. The human monsters DO resemble animals, though. The interesting thing is that the word "anima" (which is originally Latin and still exists in some languages) actually means "soul" or "life", so it could refer to ANY *LIVING* CREATURE. Think about it. I'm not saying that your opinion is incorrect, but I always found it strange how Tart's plant monsters are called "animals". ^_^;;;
And the word "animal" is _written_ in the anime (first episode, the sign for the Red Data Animal Exibition) as アニマル, and I believe that this RDA Exibition sign or something similar exists in the manga, too. The "anima(l)" part of monsters' name is always アニマ. It still could be an _alteration_ of the word "animal", though, and the word "animal" is related to the Latin "anima".
Why constantly spell the word incorrectly throughout the manga, if you have it written correctly in other places in the same manga? Believe me, there is NO reason for simple omitting the last syllable. Due to the phonetic structure of the Japanese language, NO consonants can be lost, because they're always followed by a vowel. Compare the words メタ (meta-) and　メタル (metal). You can't say that the first word is the same as the second. There is no way メタ could be an approximation of "metal". And in case of Chimera Anima(l)s, we have just the same thing.　
Also, you seem to think that "anima" is incorrect because it's not an English word. Now, I ask: does it HAVE to be English? The manga is written in Japanese, and the author could use words from ANY language, not just English. Sorry...
Yume no Kishi 20:37, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding Chimera Animal, Kimera Anima, and Chimera Anima 

message: We got some repetition going on across each area (The original Japanese story, the Italian dub, and the 4KIDS  edit). Can anyone try and vary the sentences?--Addict 2006 05:06, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I archived all that I could, but this page is still 62kb long, so I think it'll need to be archived again soon. --Εξαίρετος (msg) 14:23, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Oh. That's what Yume no Kishi here said. --Addict 2006 17:33, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repetition 

message: Should the story section stay? I mean, unless the plot from the Japanese version was altered, this should be taken out since the Italian version's story was taken out.
"THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE IS SERVED!" 22:54, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Story section of Mew Mew Power 

message: http://groups.msn.com/MewMewShrine/misc.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=127
who is who?  THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE IS SERVED! 19:15, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  question