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->*Today, as always, I'll be of service!*

*Mythical Mew Mew* is a spin-off of Manga/TokyoMewMew. Set roughly 10 years after the original series, the superheroines known as Tokyo Mew Mew have retired to live normal lives, unfortunately, Chimera Anima have reappeared on Earth, as have a new trio of antagonistic aliens looking to cause a mass human extinction.

In order to combat this, a scientist who'd been no more than an assistant during the original Mew Project gathers the necessary tools to infuse new Mews, though this new team has a few more...quirks than their predecessors.

AC: Ikumi Mia loves puns, and Tokyopop's translators are not purists. These factors together create a lot of confusion as to what things are called. Regarding names in the original version:

* The Japanese characters have Japanese names, sometimes based on English loanwords. ex. Minto instead of Mint.
* The Chinese character Bu-ling has a Chinese name based on a Japanese version (purin) of an English loanword (pudding).
* Berry's name, like most foreign words, is written in katakana and should be spelled as Berry, not Berii. This is likely due to being part French.
* The alien characters have English food names. Template:Creator/Tokyopop mistranslated Gateau du Roi and Quiche as Gato du Rowa and Kish; they are *not* supposed to be a Spanish cat and some dude from *Literature/TheBible*.
* The Mew names for those characters named for English words have the actual English word. ex. Mew Mint instead of Mew Minto.
* Whatever is written as "myuu" may be either "mew" (as in, a cat sound), "mu" (as in, the Greek letter used by geneticists) or both. "Tokyo Mew Mew" and "Mu Project" have been vindicated by on-screen text (though Tokyopop called the latter the Mew Project) but nobody's quite sure whether the MacGuffin in the second half of the series is Mew Aqua or Mu Aqua.

!This fanfic provides examples of:

* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: Set in 2012.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The 4Kids dub uses a remix of "Team Up", Mew Mew Power's theme song.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The Chimera in the second episode is a giant hornet.
* ByThePowerOfGrayskull: "Mew Mew [Food], Metamorphose!"
* ChristmasEpisode: In episode 39.
* CrashIntoHello: This is how Ame and Kyoho meet.
* DebutQueue: ZigZagged. Ame, Kyoho, Nashi, and Mikan appear in episodes 1, 2, 6, and 8 respectively, Suguri debuts in episode 3 but refuses to join until episode 4, and Ichijiku doesn't officially transform or join the team until the episode after her initial debut.
* DubNameChange:
	+ Mythical Mew Mew -> Mythical Mew Mew Power
	+ Lemuria -> Cyniclonia
	+ Lemurians -> Cyniclons
	+ Chimera Anima -> Predasites
	+ Mew Pendant -> Power Pendant
	+ Mu Aqua -> Blue Aqua / Blue Aqua Crystal
		- Locations
	+ Daikan Junior High School -> Mountain Valley High School
	+ Hokusei Academy -> Rosewood Academy
	+ Okumura Daifuzoku Junior High School -> Excalibur High School
	+ Minato City East Elementary School -> Thompson Middle School
	+ Junjou Academy Junior High School -> Livingston Private School
	+ Daikan'yama Academy Junior High School -> Crown Girls' Academy
	+ Himawari Academy -> Beacon Academy
	+ Sakuragi Daifuzoku Junior High School -> Cherrywood High School
	+ Akebono Daizan Junior High School -> Horizon High School
	+ Nakanishi Elementary School -> Westside Elementary School
	+ Shinjuku Hayashi Girls' High School -> Sugar Hills Girls' School
	+ Isamu High School -> Riverview Boys' High School
		- Weapons
	+ Strawbell Bell Bell -> Strawberry Bell / Rose Bell
	+ Mintone Arrow -> Heart Arrow
	+ Lettucetanets -> Combat Castanets
	+ Puring Rings -> Golden Tambourine
	+ Zacross Whip -> Purple Dagger
	+ Appleticks -> Apple Maracas
	+ Loveberry Rod -> Bunny Wand
	+ Candy Keysword -> Candy Sword
	+ Grapearl Trident -> Tidalwave Trident
	+ Currant Guitaxe -> Blazing Axe
	+ Pear Drummer -> Meteor Hammer
	+ Tangering Knuckles -> Breezy Bells
	+ Figood Ribbon -> Glitter Whip
	+ Citrospear -> Volt Spear
	+ Cococarina -> Magic Ocarina
* ElevatorSchool: Himawari Academy has an elementary school, junior high school, and senior high school. Sakuragi Daiichi has a junior high school, senior high school, and a university.
* GratuitousJapanese: Though it's limited to honorifics and certain terms that wouldn't translate well.
* HalloweenEpisode: In episode 31.
* HenshinHero: As expected of a MagicalGirl series.
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Kyou mo tappuri, gohoshi suru! noteRoughly 'Today, as always, I'll be of service!/note
* MagicFromTechnology: The Mew Mews are given their DNA and powers through repurposed alien technology.
* MagicalGirl: Of the MagicalGirlWarrior subtype.
* MarketBasedTitle
	+ Vietnamese: *Mythical Cats*
	+ Italian: *Mew Mew -- Magic Friends*
	+ Korean: *Magic Berry Berry Mew Mew*
	+ English: *Mew Mew Power*
	+ Brazilian Portuguese: *The Super Myths*
	+ Albanian: *Mew Girls -- Defenders of the Planet 2* / *Legendary Warriors*
* MonsterOfTheWeek: A Chimera Anima appears in almost every episode.
* OddFriendship: Most of the Mews.
* OneGenderSchool: Shinjuku Hayashi Girls' High School is, well, an all-girls school that primarily caters to international students. SchoolgirlLesbians Ichijiku, SmittenTeenageGirl Yuzu, and AnimeChineseGirl Keke all attend this school for very different reasons.
	+ There's also Isamu High School, an all-boys school attended by Yuzu's love interest, Shou.
* ParttimeHero: The Mews have to balance work, school, relationships, and their Mew duties.
* PrematureEmpowerment: Like their predecessors, each of the new Mews went through this. In particular, Suguri reacted by using her new powers to cause havoc, only stopping after a physical confrontation.
* SchoolFestival: Episode 27 focuses on Suguri trying to set up a school festival.
* SlumberParty: In episode 10.
* ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange: Despite how explicitly Japanese the show is several dubs try to make it seem like the show takes place in their country.
	+ The Korean dub changes the location from Tokyo to Seoul, and any Japanese text is replaced with Korean. Most characters are also given Korean names.
	+ The English dub never says what country the show takes place in, but it's most likely America. Japanese text is either changed to English or simply erased, most of the characters are given English names.
* ValentinesDayEpisodes: In episode 46.