Mashio Akai

Mashio Akai (赤井 真潮, Akai Mashio) is the older brother of Ringo Akai. He appears in the Tokyo Mew Mew PS1 game.

His younger sister, Ringo, looks up to him. The two siblings live on a nature reserve island with Ringo's pet penguin, Yuki.

Appearance
Mashio is a fair-skinned young man with short gray hair and gray eyes. He wears a green park ranger outfit with a pink beret on top of his head. His beret has a line of yellow lining it.

Etymology

 * The name Mashio means "real, genuine" (真) (ma) and "tide, ebb, opportunity" (潮) (shio).
 * Mashio's surname Akai means "red" (赤) (aka) and "well, mine shaft, pit" (井) (i).
 * Mashio's last name means red in contrast to Masaya as the first part of his last name means blue.

Trivia

 * Mashio has a strong physical resemblance to Masaya Aoyama.
 * The two also have similar sounding names with the same initials.
 * They both share the same Japanese voice actor.

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