Chimera Animas

Chimera Animas (キメラアニマ, Kimera Anima) are the names of the monsters the aliens create in Tokyo Mew Mew. In Mew Mew Power, the monsters are called Predasites.

The jellyfish-like creatures used to make the Chimera are known as Infusers in Mew Mew Power. In the manga and the original anime, they are sometimes called Parasite Aliens. In the Playstation game (sometimes also in the anime), they are called Para Para for short.

History
Chimera Animas are monsters created by aliens Quiche, Pie, and Tart when they use small blob-shaped jellyfish-like parasites called Para Paras to merge with an animal (in the anime also with a plant, or a human spirit stolen from people) to make them monstrous and under their control. However, the Red Data Animals' DNA prevents any attack of the jellyfish-like parasites, so they can't become host of the parasite. When they are defeated by Ichigo Momomiya, Minto Aizawa, Retasu Midorikawa, Bu-Ling Huang, and Zakuro Fujiwara, their host reverts back to normal and Masha eats the Para Para.

In the Tokyo Mew Mew à la Mode manga, the Saint Rose Crusaders take over the remaining Chimera Anima in their plans for world domination.

Manga

 * Chimera Rat
 * Chimera Dog
 * Chimera Elephant
 * Chimera Giraffe
 * Chimera Lion
 * Chimera Hippopotamus
 * Chimera Deer
 * Chimera Gazelle
 * Chimera Crow
 * Chimera Cheetah
 * Chimera Hawk
 * Parasite Anima
 * Chimera Amoeba
 * Chimera Krill
 * Chimera Mantis
 * Dust Waiburn
 * Xenomoglin
 * Chimera Rabbit
 * Chimera Plant
 * Chimera Fish
 * Chimera Moths
 * Xeno Jelly

Anime
The Chimera Anima in the animes are sorted by animal, human spirit, plant, and other. Those created from human spirits are anime-exclusive:

Human Spirit
When the Aliens steal the spirit of a person, they merge the spirit with a Para Para to form these humanoid Chimera Anima:

Plant
Most of the Plant Chimera Anima are created by Tart.

Other
The following either aren't made from an animal, human spirit, or a plant or there is no confirmation on what they were made from:

Video Game
These are the Chimera Animas that appear in the Tokyo Mew Mew Playstation game:

Trivia

 * It is possible that the concept of Chimera Anima came from the Bagu; enemies of Hime Azumi from Tokyo Black Cat Girl.
 * "Chimera Anima" was translated as Kirema Anima in TokyoPop's translation of the Tokyo Mew Mew manga, and then into Chimera Anima during Tokyo Mew Mew à la Mode, which may lead to confusion (see below).
 * Fansubs mistranslated the name as Chimera Animal. The correct translation to the katakana used in the original script, アニマ(A-ni-ma), is Anima, which is a Latin word that means 'soul'. Animal in katakana would've been written as アニマル(A-ni-ma-ru). Despite it being shown in written form in the anime, even in perfect English, it was still mistranslated.
 * The first volume of the manga omnibus(vol. 1 & 2), released by Kodansha, calls the monsters Chimera Animals but realized their mistake and correct it in later volumes, giving the correct name.