Retasu Midorikawa

**Retasu Midorikawa** is a character in the series Tokyo Mew Mew appearing in the manga and anime adaptation. She is one of the main heroines of the story. She is the third member of Tokyo Mew Mew to be introduced and her DNA is merged with a Finless Porpoise.

## Personality

Retasu is a sweet but shy and timid girl. She is very polite and always speaks formally, even to her friends and family, whom she speaks to all the time. Retasu's family is very positive and they told her that she would be able to make friends when she thought she couldn't. Retasu becomes more confident when she joins the Mew Mews, and leaves the three girls that bully her (though in Mew Mew Power she still talks to them). Retasu does not like to get involved in fights unless it will prevent her friends from being harmed. She is a shy, thirteen-year-old, eighth-grader (second year junior high student, by Japanese school standards) who attends Okumura Junior High (Excalibur High School in the English anime adaptation) and works at Café Mew Mew**.**Retasu's favorite foods are shortcakes, grapes and stewed foods, while her least favorite foods are shiitake mushrooms.

## Appearance

### Civilian

Retasu has light skin and dark green hair with two long braids at the back. She has blue eyes and thin glasses.

### Cafe Mew Mew

Retasu's Cafe Mew Mew waitress outfit is identical to the others, with the exception of it being a dark green color.

### Mew Mew

Mew Lettuce's hair turns a lighter green and her eyes change from blue to green. She wears a green strapless dress with a skirt that fans out in a flower-petal like appearance, with green garters on her arm and left leg. She has a green choker that her Mew Pendant dangles from, and white lace lining on her chocker and garters. She has long white antennas on her head that reach her feet and knee-high green boots. Mew Lettuce's Mew Mark is on her chest, with two curves that resemble fish.

## Abilities

### Transformation

Retasu's transformation begins with a kiss on her Mew pendant and a declaration of her metamorphosis. Her pendant begins to glow while her DNA morphs, initiating the sequence. Retasu parts her hands from the Mew Mark on her chest, and she twirls into a flurry of bubbles, causing her Mew uniform to appear. She performs a final spin as her antennae sprout from her head and she lands safely on the ground, clapping and striking a pose. Retasu's DNA is infused with the DNA of the Finless Porpoise, a cousin of the dolphin, so Mew Lettuce's legs can transform into a porpoise's tail when she is underwater (if she is in possession of Mew Aqua), greatly improving her ability to swim. She is the third girl to join the Mew Mews and, at first, is afraid to use her powers, but this changes because of Ichigo Momomiya and Minto Aizawa's encouragement.

### Weapons and Attacks

Mew Lettuce's attack stems from her weapons known as the Lettustanets. During her attack sequence, she rises up into the air with her arms crossed over her chest. She then parts them and manifests the Lettustanets in each hand. Playing a small rhythm with them, she spins around and then fires a blast of watery power at the opponent.

* Normally Retasu cannot swim (although she learns how to later in the series) but she is able to as Mew Lettuce and she grows a porpoise tail if she gets in touch with Mew Aqua.
* Mew Lettuce can move water with her mind (an example of this is her first appearance in her school when Minto and Ichigo are investigating the "ghost".

## TMNT X Pokemon

Shy and timid, she usually stay in a quiet place to be by herself from time to time.

## Trivia

* In *Mew Mew Power*, *Bridget* is shown to be intelligent, while *Retasu* is not mentioned to be especially smart.
* Retasu seems to achieve normal eyesight as Mew Lettuce seeing as she doesn't need to wear glasses.
* Even though all her attacks are based on water and she can swim as Mew Lettuce, Retasu, at first, could not normally swim, although she learns how to later.
* The finless porpoise (known as the "Sunameri" in Japan) look like small beluga whales, and are called finless because they have no dorsal (back) fin. They are found in the coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific.
* Retasu's birthday, April 29, is the "Day of Green" in Japan.
* In *Mew Mew Power,* Retasu/Bridget's, transformation into Mew Lettuce/Mew Bridget is not shown because she is mostly naked in her transformation, though Zakuro/Renee had undergarments drawn on her when the camera pans on her body during hers.
	+ This hints to another possibility that the cut could be related to Mew Retasu/Mew Bridget having the most prominent instance of her Mew Mark being shown at the beginning, as 4Kids cut out the Mew Marks.
* She has the same surname and color as Midorikawa Nao from Smile Pretty Cure! and Midorikawa Ryuujifrom Inazuma Eleven. She also shares her surname with voice actor Midorikawa Hikaru, who voiced Keiichiro.
* She has the same theme color, personality, powers and hairstyle with Akimoto Komachi/Cure Mint fromPretty Cure 5!/Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo!
* In *Berry Berry Mew Mew*, Retasu speaks formally in the first half of Episode 3 and speaks informally later on while in the original Japanese version, she speaks formally all the time.
* Retasu's name means Lettuce Green River. "Midori" means green, while the character "Kawa" means river.