Minto Aizawa

"Mew Mew Mint, Metamorphose" - Minto's transformation call.

Minto Aizawa (藍沢 みんと, Aizawa Minto) is a main character and protagonist from the manga series Tokyo Mew Mew and its anime adaptation. She is the second Mew Mew to be introduced and her D.N.A is merged with the blue lorikeet.

She is the heiress of her family's company but struggles to get her parents and brother to listen to her as they see her as a child still. She also works at Café Mew Mew as a waitress, a cover-up of her real duty as a Mew Mew.

In the new anime, Minto is actually the first Mew, having joined before the series started.

Civilian
Minto is a short, petite, pale-skinned young girl who has navy blue hair and dark brown eyes. Her hair is worn in the traditional odango style and her dressing style is very formal and princessy.

Mew Mew New
Minto no longer wears her hair in buns and lets it loose. Her school uniform is a long light blue dress with puffed sleeves and a blue sleeveless vest. The uniform's collar is white with black stripes. She pairs this outfit with dark blue tights and a pair of strapped shoes.

In her everyday outfit, she wears a long-sleeved and frilled shirt, a blue pleated skirt, and a pair of loafers with knee highs. Her accessories include a purse bag and a red fabric tie held up by a green gem.

Café Mew Mew
Her café uniform consists of a blue dress with light blue trim-like stitches at the bottom and a heart-shaped white apron. Underneath, she wears white pantaloons with small light blue bows on each side and has a light blue ribbon tied into a neat bow on her chest. On her sleeves are blue cuffs that end in white frills.

She also wears black mary-janes with blue socks, laces and a small heart placed on the tongue. Minto's hair is clipped with a blue lace headband.

Personality
Minto was initially depicted as spoiled, snobbish, and self-centered because of her wealth, but is later shown to really be an empathetic, kind, and loving person who cares deeply about her friends. She initially shows contempt toward Ichigo but as the series progresses, she starts to cooperate more and more with her teammates. Though, there are times throughout the series when she makes rash or headstrong decisions.

She idolizes Zakuro Fujiwara, who frequently influences Minto's decisions as a Mew Mew. Minto is, despite her relatively small size, extremely headstrong and can be very powerful when cooperating with her teammates.

Mew Mew New
Minto is more soft-spoken, calm and rarely gets mad, and she works and helps, buts only a little bit. She still loves dancing especially ballet. Mint's personality still has bossy in it but only with Ichigo, she also has a lot of patience compared to the old one. And she's more shy and tsundere like, trying to open up to her fellow mew mews

As a Civilian
Mint is a talented dancer and is very flexible and gracious. Despite her fragile appearance, she is very enduring. She demonstrates a certain skill in hand-to-hand combat, even if she doesn't show it all the time. She knows how to swim. (Seen in Episode ??? [???]) She seems to have archery skills, as demonstrated by her use of the MinTone Arrow.

Weapons and Attacks
Mew Mint's weapon is the MinTone Arrow and her attack is Ribbon Mint Echo. This attack involves her summoning a bow and arrow out of a windy burst of feathers, charging up a shock-wave, and releasing it into a light pink blade of energy.

Mew Mint's second attack, only shown in the manga, is when she acquires the Mew Aqua Rod. Her rod is pink and her attack is Mew Aqua Drops.

In 2020 Re-Turn, Mew Mint appears to still use her MinTone Arrow. Her new attack is "Mint Echo Shower".

Name Changes (Manga)
As in most cases, the characters' names in Tokyo Mew Mew went through changes upon translation. For English manga translations, TokyoPop and Kodansha used the food translations for both the characters' names and Mew Mew names. For the Singapore English translation, publisher Chuang Yi chose to keep both the civilian and secret identity names.

Name Changes (Anime)
Tokyo Mew Mew was dubbed and localized in many different languages. The names of the characters were also subject to change. Many of the dubs that didn't use Minto/Mint or Corina often translated their words for "Mint" as her first name; for example, Bò-Hé, and Menta mean 'mint' in their respective language.

Etymology

 * The name Minto is written in hiragana (みんと), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (海音, 香草, 香葉, 壮, 美音, 碧音, 未夢戸, 民斗, 眠兎, 明音, 明兎, 明都, 明桃, 明扉, 明歩 or 弥都), it could possibly mean:
 * 海音 - "sea, ocean" (海) (min) and "sound" (音) (to).
 * 香草 - "herbs, cooking spice".
 * 香葉 - "Incense leaves".
 * 壮 - "magnificent, robust, manhood, prosperity".
 * 美音 - "beautiful" (美) (min) and "sound" (音) (to).
 * 碧音 - "green, blue" (碧) (min) and "sound" (音) (to).
 * 未夢戸 - "undreamed" (未夢) (min) and "door" (戸) (to).
 * 民斗 - "people, nation, subjects" (民) (min) and "Dipper" (斗) (to).
 * 眠兎 - "Sleeping rabbit".
 * 明音 - "bright, light, clear" (明) (min) and "sound" (音) (to).
 * 明兎 - "bright, light, clear" (明) (min) and "rabbit, hare, cony" (兎) (to).
 * 明都 - "bright, light, clear" (明) (min) and "metropolis, capital" (都) (to).
 * 明桃 - "bright, light, clear" (明) (min) and "peach" (桃) (to).
 * 明扉 - "bright, light, clear" (明) (min) and "door, opening" (扉) (to).
 * 明歩 - "bright, light, clear" (明) (min) and "walk, step" (歩) (to).
 * 弥都 - "all the more, increasingly" (弥) (min) and "metropolis, capital" (都) (to).
 * Minto's surname Aizawa means "indigo" (藍) (ai) and "marsh" (沢) (sawa/zawa).

Trivia

 * For the first series, she is the only canon Mew with three colors, as the trim on her gloves and boots is white instead of dark blue. Her animal traits are a pair of dark blue wings that sprout from her back, in the same place where her Mew Mark is located when untransformed, and tail feathers.
 * Although mint is a green herb, Mew Mint's blue color scheme is likely meant to reflect the association of the color blue with mint-flavored foods.
 * According to her official profile for the PlayStation game, she is a 1st-year middle schooler, same as Ichigo. However, since Minto's birthday is October 3rd, Minto is older, and would age to 13 by that date. The Japanese school year begins in April and ends in late March, meaning Minto ages to 13 not long after the series begins.
 * The blue lorikeet (Vini peruviana) is a small parrot from the Cook Islands and French Polynesia. It is currently listed as "vulnerable" on the IUCN Red List, with an average wild population of 5,000-7,000.
 * In an episode of Mew Mew Power, Corina says she sings karaoke, but in Tokyo Mew Mew, Minto says she can't sing.
 * In Mew Mew Power, Corina's fixation on Renee has been toned down, yet her attraction to men has been cut out completely, as seen in the picture to the left. Either way, Corina seems to be more infatuated with Renee than Minto was ever with Zakuro.
 * In Tokyo Mew Mew, while it does seem that Minto has a crush on Zakuro, it is common to idolize Japanese singers or models as Minto does.
 * There is a constant goof in the anime where Minto's hair suddenly becomes the color of her Mew Mew form for a few scenes, then reverts back to normal. The same happens with her eyes, changing them from brown to blue in some scenes for a while. At one point in the anime, Minto's eyes became bright pink whilst being Mew Mint.
 * Her favorite food is French food and scones.
 * She slightly dislikes common food (i.e. fast food, canned food, etc.) but will eat it if given to her.
 * Minto tends to avoid work by saying that she does a "taste test" for the tea, much to the irritation of Ichigo. She also over-confidently mentioned how she came to the Café earlier, despite this not compensating at all for the lack of work she does.
 * In fact, Minto almost never works once in the Café throughout the entire anime, with the only instances being when it is overworked and she is shown in the background dealing with orders. She also usually covers for Ichigo whenever she is absent and usually holds it over her every chance she gets.

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