Ichigo Momomiya
Ichigo Momomiya (桃宮いちご, literally "peach shrine strawberry"), known as Zoey Hanson in the infamous English dub, is an ordinary Tokyo junior high school student who is injected with the DNA of an Iriomote wildcat as part of the Mew Mew project, a bioengineering project spearheaded by Ryou Shirogane and Keiichiro Akasaka to combat aliens bent on destroying the Earth. As a result of the experiment, Ichigo is endowed with magical powers. She transforms into Mew Ichigo with the incantation "Mew Mew Strawberry Metamorphosis!" ("Power Pendant Mewtamorphosis!" in the dub). Her main weapon is the Strawberry Bell, and her chief attack is "Ribbon Strawberry Check" ("Strawberry Bell, Full Power!" in the dub). As side effects, Ichigo has a heart-shaped mark on the inside of her right thigh (the injection site) and she gains cat-like mannerisms (including ending her sentences with "nya" in the Japanese version"), ears and a tail when surprised or excited and she can even turn into a cat when extremely excited, especially by her lover Masaya Aoyama (mark in the dub). There are four other girls endowed with powers as a result of the same experiment: Mint Aizawa, Lettuce Midorikawa, Pudding Fong and Zakuro Fujiwara.
