We get the standard group of girls from manga like this (the young one, the cute one, the nerdy one, the sexy one, and the tomboy). There is a weird love triangle where the girl gets mega flustered over everything either guy does, and the tension of one being an jerk and the other not know everything about her. I remember the story line well enough to grab the third one and get started, and I was almost immediately mad at myself. I remember Tokyo Mew Mew vaguely but in a sort of “that was interesting” sort of way, so a revisit seemed nice. High School me has some serious explaining to do when it comes to Tokyo Mew Mew. Have you ever decided to revisit something from a decade ago because you never finished it and you’re curious as to how that fun series turned out? Did you also scratch your head and wonder what the hell you were thinking when you picked this series up the first time? I’m so confused right now. Why did I read two volumes of this in high school? I can see why I never grabbed this one.
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