Episode 19: My Future Starts Now: This is the Real Me

Season 2, Episode 7 - Aired: 5/16/23

My Future Starts Now: This is the Real Me is the 19th episode of Tokyo Mew Mew New.

Summary
Ichigo has a dream where she's riding on a rowboat with Aoyama in a lake, where Aoyama claims he doesn't know the "real" Ichigo. This prompts her to peer into the lake and sees her reflection in her Mew Mew Form. Immediately after this, Ichigo awakens in her bed and realizes it was all just a dream.

Later in the day, at Café Mew Mew, Ichigo would ponder a bit about it before being asked by her curious peers how her relationship with Aoyama was going. Ichigo gives a vague answer prompting her co-workers to opine their own conclusion, which Ichigo clarifies she's still dating Aoyama. However, she admits they haven't gone on any dates, making her think of negative reasons.

Recalling the last time she spoke with Aoyama, Ichigo decides to go on a picnic with him, and right as he is going to use her phone to contact him, she comically nearly drops it. So, Minto offers Ichigo a new custom-made phone case to protect her phone better. After thanking her friends, Ichigo contacts Aoyama and sets up a date with him as Ryou and Keiichiro stand by. At the same time, Ryou recalls what Pie said about when He awakens, the truth will be known.

Meanwhile, on the Aliens spaceship, Tart laments over their string of failures, and Pie claims he's concocting a new plan. On the other hand, Quiche contemplates his vendetta against Blue Knight.

At the Momomiya residence, Ichigo tries to prepare a bento for Aoyama and gets some keen advice from her mother Sakura on how to make it. Later at school, Ichigo briefly informs her friends Moe and Miwa about her plans with Aoyama and then goes to meet up with him. While they plan on eating by the courtyard, unbeknownst to the two, Quiche watched them from above.

Aoyama and Ichigo picnic in the courtyard, and Aoyama loves Ichigo's bento. They then talk about their plans for the future, and Aoyama notes how he's inspired to become an ecologist by an ecologist currently traveling in Africa. Ichigo relates with Aoyama's dream job and recites her similar interests associated with being an ecologist. The subject then shifts to Aoyama, alluding to how pleasant it'd be if they were to marry one day, as he wants to be with her forever, and Ichigo reciprocates it.

When Ichigo asks Aoyama about his parents, he gives a pregnant pause and gives an aloof response, prompting Ichigo to suggest they eat some dessert and then cuts her finger on a blade of grass. Aoyama then kisses the cut, but Quiche steals the bento that Ichigo made for Aoyama and sequentially creates a Chicken Chimera Animas, which attacks the two.

Using his body to protect Ichigo, Aoyama promises to protect her as Ichigo reaffirms her love and dedication to him as Quiche had planned to kill him. Tired of always being protected by everyone, Ichigo transforms into her Mew Mew Form in front of Aoyama, who was astonished by what he had witnessed. Although Ichigo tries to attack Quiche, he still overpowers her, and Blue Knight rescues her. Splitting into clones and while Blue Knight was distracted, Quiche takes Ichigo hostage. Despite this, Blue Knight uses a special sword skill to conquer the clones and defeat Quiche, who asks to be finished off. Accepting Quiche's proposal, Blue Knight readied himself to end Quiche, who realizes who Blue Knight really is, but Ichigo stops him and begs that he doesn't kill him, to which Blue Knight agrees and disappears. Pie and Tart arrive at the scene and remove the wounded Kish from the scene.

Aoyama appears before Ichigo, who transforms back into her human form, and after she apologizes to him, he kisses her and admits that he already knew her secret. He based this knowledge on his encounters with Ichigo as a Mew Mew, and just because he knew she was a Mew Mew, Aoyama decided to play dumb as it was her secret, and he loved her. The two then reaffirm their love for each other and embrace.

On the Alien spaceship, Quiche recovers from his injuries in a rejuvenation pool and claims that "He" will awaken soon and must return to his side.

Major

 * Ichigo Momomiya
 * Minto Aizawa
 * Retasu Midorikawa
 * Bu-Ling Huang
 * Zakuro Fujiwara

Minor

 * Masaya Aoyama
 * Ryou Shirogane
 * Keiichiro Akasaka
 * Quiche
 * Pie
 * Tart
 * Blue Knight
 * Deep Blue (Indirectly mentioned)
 * Sakura Momomiya
 * Shintaro Momomiya
 * Moe Yanagida
 * Miwa Honjo

Trivia

 * This is the first time since episode 16 that the ending animation has been used.


 * Ichigo's image song "You & Mew" is used as an insert song in this episode.

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