Bu-Ling Huang

''"Mew Mew Pudding, Metamorphose!" Pudding's transformation call.''

Bu-Ling Huang (黄 歩鈴, pronounced 'Purin Fon' in Japanese) is a main character and protagonist from the manga series Tokyo Mew Mew and its anime adaptation. She is the fourth Mew Mew to be introduced and her D.N.A is merged with a golden lion tamarin.

She is the oldest child in a large family and the primary caregiver of her five younger siblings after the death of her mother. She also works at Café Mew Mew as a waitress, a cover-up of her real duty as a Mew Mew.

Civilian
Bu-Ling is a petite, young girl with blonde hair and orange-brown eyes. Her hair is cut short and hugs her face, she also has the back of her hair tied into four short braids. To reflect her origins, most of the casual clothing she wears has a noticeable Chinese flair to it.

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.

Mew Form (2002)
When changing into Mew Pudding,  her hair turns golden yellow and her eyes turn yellow-orange while looking more orange. (In some manga and game illustrations, Bu-ling's eyes may appear yellow or yellow-orange.) She wears a yellow sleeveless jumpsuit, yellow legwarmers, and orange ballet flats. The strings of the ballet flats wrap around the legwarmers. She has a choker connected to her jumpsuit with a Mew Pendant attached as well as a yellow garter belt on her left thigh, yellow armbands; As well as a pair of orange, furry, finger-less gloves. She has orange lace lining the bottom of her jumpsuit as well as her choker, arm bands, and garter belt. She has an orange monkey tail and ears.

Her Mew Mark is two monkey tails on her forehead.

Mew Form (2022)
Aside from a few upgrades and a different color palette, her jumpsuit is replaced with a yellow one-piece. Her Mew Pendant no longer exists and in its place is an orange ribbon with an orange heart gem in the middle. Her orange garter now has a ribbon attached, and her new fingerless gloves have a white band with a small orange heart gem. Her now yellow flats are worn with a pair of orange knee-length socks, including yellow ribbon strips crisscrossed to the top to a ribbon tied at the back. Her twin buns have orange ribbons and her four braided tails lengthen.

Personality
Bu-Ling is the youngest and most hyperactive of the Mews, very playful, and is often considered very immature by the other members of the team. She has many childish tendencies and often plays around when she should be serious.

Bu-Ling is also fun-loving, full of energy, and acrobatic. According to the other Mews, Bu-Ling's monkey DNA is a perfect match for her.

It is shown, however, that she is quite responsible and mature as she takes care of all her younger siblings. It's mostly around the other Mews that she feels she's free to actually act like a child and let someone else take responsibility for once.

As a Civilian
Bu-Ling is an accomplished circus performer, knows how to clean, and cooks pretty well, despite her age. She is full of energy, is very agile, flexible, fast, and has a lot of endurance. Bu-Ling is strong at martial arts, thanks to her father, a Chinese martial arts master, who taught her. She knows how to swim.

As a Mew Mew
She can talk with monkeys. His agility and balance are greatly increased, allowing him to perform acrobatic feats that would be very difficult or impossible for normal people.

Weapons and Attacks
In 2020 Re-Turn, Mew Pudding appears to still use her PuRing Rings. Her new attack is "Extra Large Serving PuRing Ring Inferno".

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 Bu-Ling/Purin or Kikki often translated their words for "Pudding" as her first name, despite the fact that her first name does not translate as the food ("Bu-Ling" literally means "walking bell."); for example: Pudim means "pudding" in Portuguese.

Etymology

 * Her full name Bu-Ling Huang means "yellow bell" (黄 歩鈴) in Chinese.

Trivia

 * She is a 6th-year elementary schooler according to her official profile in the PlayStation game introduction. In Japan, 6th-year elementary schoolers start their grade at 11 years old, aging to 12 before the end of the school year. Because her birthday is August 7th, she ages very quickly to 12, as the Japanese school year begins around April 1st, and ends in late March. (August occurs only 4 months after that initial April.) She would be a bit older by Tokyo Mew Mew à la Mode.
 * The golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) is a small New World monkey native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil. It is "endangered" on the IUCN Red List, with an average population of 3,200 in the wild.
 * In the manga, she owns a monkey named An-Nin / Almond.
 * Bu-Ling's father is Chinese but her mother's nationality is unknown.
 * All of Bu-Ling's siblings names end in the suffix "-cha". The Chinese character of "Cha" means tea.
 * Her favorite foods are tientsin (sweet chestnuts), pudding and Chou à la Creme.
 * She dislikes rakkyo (Chinese onions).
 * Bu-Ling refers to all of the Mews as "onee-chan" (Big Sister). In Japan, this Japanese honorific term may be used by a younger person towards an "older sister" type figure. However, it is not always meant literally, and it is possible Bu-Ling could stop using this term once she's older, as the Mews are not literally related. (This is something that happens frequently in anime, especially other shounen [aimed at young boys] and shoujo [aimed at young girls] series.)