Mu style power in your face.

Hello, and welcome to our weeds. There yet in exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.

I'm an anime expert, dana hollander.

And I'm brenda mccullough, your anime Mcguver. Because I'm doing a lot of weird shit just to get this to record.

Yeah, we are having some technical issues and playing fast and loose with what we call recording.

My regular computer is in the shop getting fixed, so I'm recording to a tablet, looking off of an ipod touch to keep track of time, and recording through my phone and wearing three pairs of headphones.

That's incredible. You have three ears, or is one, like, in your mouth?

Just feel the vibration.

I have a pair of earbuds on with a pair of over the top headphones on one ear.

Wow.

I can only imagine how that looks.

It's weird. I probably don't need half of this. I just don't know how to do it the right way. And we got to get this out.

You're more robot than man at this point.

We can rebuild him.

Finally, I've read all those pesky emotions.

Well, one emotion we're going to feel this week is nostalgia because it's our one year anniversary episode.

Wow.

Can y'all believe it was so much.

Time, so much anime. We've watched 57 anime series and or movies and oh, boy. They're all okay.

Oh, man. How many of those have you followed up on and just kept on watching all the way through? We got, like, 56 episodes. So you probably watched a few to the end, right?

Right.

So listen.

Yeah. The truth come out one year in.

Do we technically we've reached a year. Do we technically need to move everything to the no category at this point?

No, it's stuff he would watch. He won't, though. But he would if he had the time. There's just no time.

Like, I have to rewatch all of these series that I've already seen 18 times because new seasons are coming out.

You're too busy watching bojack Horseman for the fourth time.

Please. Fourth time was, like, two weeks. How dare you?

Wow.

I've seen it. No joke. I've seen all of bojack maybe at least 15 times.

Oh, I don't know if I could take that.

And yes. No anime.

No anime. Hey, that is technically no. Okay. I can't do it anyway.

Bojack horseman is an anime. Let's hear this argument.

How does my wife.

Well, on top of our anniversary, there's another anniversary we're celebrating this week. dana's birthday.

Yeah. I don't know about you, but I was feeling 22, and now nobody likes me because I'm 23.

Oh, I record a chilling.

Yep. So I get to pick.

Yeah.

And as we talked about last week, we're doing something doing something special.

We have a special programming block like you would see after school in the early 2000. We are we are doing a month at least of four kids dubs.

Yeah.

Diving into the classic the arguably okay.

Dubs.

The passionately mediocre, the the well remembered.

But not well received dub.

That's a good way of putting it. So I decided to start this off with Tokyo Mew Mew. And I will admit, I throw the word first around a lot here. Death Note. This is how it goes. Death Note was the first anime I finished. hari Suzamiya was the first anime I loved. But Tokyo Meuma was the first anime I ever saw with my own two eyes.

Wow.

Yes. I was eleven.

This is dana's patient zero moment.

Yes.

The infection spread from this point.

I was in 6th grade, and I remember friends showing it to me. These friends are how I became weebs. Are any of them still weebs? Maybe one.

And me.

Me, we were committed to.

But you defied all the odds. You made the distance.

Yeah. Twelve years later, here I am, defied.

All the better judgment everyone else followed.

Yeah, but I didn't actually watch The Four Kids dub. I watched the Japanese. I'm here to have a good time. I don't know. I know their names. I know the names of the main characters, but that's it.

Okay. How about you do like the English names? Phoenix dugian phenos. But of course not. That's the point of the show. Why would he?

No. Yeah. I would love to hear the translation of the originals into the I assume the sarah's and stacies of these Japanese school children.

Yeah, I always love, like, we'll get to them. Some translated names have, like, some origin where it's like, Joe skay, but in the English stuff, they call him, like, Joe. And then there's just somewhere it's like his name's ichigo. His new name is Steven. It's like, that's not those aren't close. why'd you pick that one? That arbitrary name.

They're not even, like, the same syllables. If you're going for, like, dubbing reason that way.

No, it's always interesting to see the dubs or here.

Yeah.

So, Brendan, what do you know about this show?

I remember seeing it. I remember getting glimpses of it, I guess, on Four Kids. Or maybe just in the advertisement for them because there was a weird period where they would just get cut together. commercials for four kids. Like time for the four kids entertainment. National anthem. And they would just do cuts of, like, oh, shit. This is where I'd see them. It was like the winks Club, tokyo Mimi, sonic Fighting, food Odds and all these random shows that like, half of them I knew of, the other half I didn't. And they were just like the scenes had nothing to do with it. It was just the scene of a character talking to the camera. And then they had the actors dub over just like garbage for the anthem or whatever it was. So being a youngster and being a little shit, which are requirements if I saw a girl on the show. I assumed it was a girly show, and I didn't watch it, but I knew of it.

Yeah, I completely missed this. The dub came out 2005, or 2005 is the initial release when it started. I don't know the exact timeline, but yeah, I think the original Japanese was, like, earlier 2002, maybe. So it took, like, a minute. But yeah, this is something I completely missed. By ten, I was over cartoon. I was too adult.

What? I'm a church.

Yeah. I only watched the finest suit.

I only watch frazier.

That's baby stuff. I watch Full House now.

I graduated to adult things with adult characters. But, yeah, I completely missed it. I did watch some of the other four kids things, like my flashbold memories of sailor Moon and stuff like that, but just not this one.

Interesting.

Great.

All right, so we are going to watch the first three episodes and transform into a slough so I can't move away from the TV.

Mutomorphosis a sheep of a bucket of water.

We struck a good old this week.

Starting strong, baby.

Yeah. I came in late to dubs as an adult, so I was always like, why are these tropes of like, ha ha, all these very bad dubs? Why is that the standard? I get it now, guys.

I get it.

All anime dubs kind of used to be like this, not this extreme, but all of the acting was very much like, I'm in an anime. And now they're not like that anymore.

Yeah.

And the writing as well, being like, hey, we need to, with no context whatever, just at least make the words match the visual. So we'll get into some fun stuff. But, oh, boy, there's some truly you really just needed something to be said here, didn't you?

It reminds me of those old gig cartoons that got red, dubbed and were super popular on YouTube, where it's like, yes, those words match those mouth movements, but they don't fit at all.

You're reaching.

Here we go. Yeah. So, episode one I had to confirm this for myself. Episode one of the Four Kids dub is not episode one of the anime.

There's a part of me that isn't surprised that they are just like, Fuck it, let's just mess up this whole schedule of episodes.

Yeah. So they just jump you in at a point where all of the mummies are already together.

Yeah.

Between these three episodes, we have, like, an action here's. Hey, here's the core show once the group's assembled, and then one week earlier, go back. Let's see the origins.

Yeah. So episode two of the Four Kids dub is episode one of the anime. I'm not sure what episode this is. 15 maybe like, maybe like yeah, 15 or something like that. But here we go. So, in the beginning, we're downtown and there's a monster attacking, and we have our hero. Her name is zoe. And it's funny that you mentioned ichigo before because her name in Japanese is ichigo.

Really?

It means strawberry.

That makes more sense.

That makes sense. What with strawberry used. So every attack she has yes.

So she's in her mew mew form, all pink and cute with kitty ears and a tail, and she's going to attack the monster. And everyone's so excited. She's so cool. And then she says her catchphrase, which is Mimi style, mimi grace, mimi power. In your face.

I like the little prime. I like the little beat that goes when she starts saying it. Like it it's like a drum beat that kind of makes it feel like she's about to rap. And it's just like no, I definitely.

Thought she was going to start rapping because it's four kids and we now have a reputation of raps being incorporated where they shouldn't be.

I was so ready for it.

Chopper is doctoring.

Chopper is doctoring. It's the word of our Lord savior.

So she defeats the monster. Easy peasy. She does it. It's great. And everyone's cheering for her. And then we hear a voice, and it's Mark, zoe's crush.

Zoe'S crush, who is a 35 year.

Old man, just a full and don't ass man.

His voice is just ooh. You know what it reminds me of? This is going to be weird, and neither of you will get it. Probably.

I'm on board.

Sometimes people will go and dub hen tie, right? For one reason or another.

Yeah.

And that's what he sounds like. He sounds like the high school protagonist of a hentai that has been English dubbed.

Well, I looked it up. I looked up the voice actor, because I'm like, I got to see what else he's done. He's primarily known as shredder in the ninja turtles series from, like, 2003 Art.

I also looked it up. Was it the actual series? I was seeing a lot of video games. I didn't know if he was, like, the shredder or what. Well, not like the original 80s shredder.

But no, there was, like, a reboot in, like, 2003 to 2006 or something. And then I think he was the voice in all the games and all the spin offs of that series.

Got you.

Yeah, but so he's there.

He's a child in this?

Yes, he's there. And he's like, oh, zoe, you're so weird. I didn't think you were one of those girls with ears and a tail. And I was like, oh, first, yeah.

I had them in my high school.

And then she's like, no, I'll tell you after.

I don't like where this is going.

But that's for our patreon after show.

No, okay. She's like, no, I'm not. I'm not weird. And he's like, you're a freak. And then he runs away, and she's like, I'm not a freak. I'm a mu. And then she wakes up, and it turns out that she was in algebra class.

Jeez.

And she held that. She's a mew mew in front of the whole class.

Uhoh, so embarrassing. Also, check on the bingo card. Starting a series with a dream.

And then there's the opening, which is just prime early 2000s, like girl cartoon music when you're falling in love.

I just wrote down this opening. This is why we're doing this. This is the four kids of thawn. This is one.

Yeah. I was also specifically going to call it 2000s Girl Rock. It is very much the very flowery, very we can sell this to a kids cartoon. Well, it was written for this, I believe. But this is I didn't count on.

This very first kiss.

It is just so good.

Delicious. So after the opening, the prime prime opening, she's at lunch with her friends, and they're making fun of her. And everyone in class is just making fun of her because she apparently was saying everything that she was saying in her dream out loud. So I don't know why they would wake her up sooner.

Yeah. Just really letting her suffer there.

Yeah. And I didn't see a visual for this. I don't think there was one. But her friends are like, you just put mustard on your pizza. Are you okay? And I was like, that's got to be a jelly donut thing. What is it actually like in the Japanese? But so she's leaving school, and then her friends are like, later, freak. And I'm like, oh, my God.

Are we sure they're her friends?

Just not nice.

But she says at least I know they're kidding them.

Yeah, she did. But even so, there's that joking where you're like, this makes me feel bad.

Still too far.

You can razz someone, but if they are actively being made fun of by the entire school, don't join in on that.

Yeah, but so in her mind, she's like, oh, my God, I don't want anyone to find out because then I'd really be a freak. And then Mark goes up to her, and the dialogue here is so good. I can't remember what it is. They're trying to make it seem like they're interrupting each other, but there's such long pauses between them interrupting each other.

This was fantastic. Is everything okay?

I marked. Yeah, I'm a hello.

I'm just about to head home, and I was wondering oh, really?

Me too.

Yeah, well, I was wondering if you don't think it's too weird yes. Mark, want to take a walk to the park with me? It was, like, so gutterly. Clearly, Mark was, like, trying to advance the plot, but they just had to fill a flap of him being like, what? So they just added, like, two extra interruptions that did not need to be there and could easily be worked around. But they're like, so I'm going to go to oh, sorry, what?

Yes, that's going. He was like, so I was wondering and she's like, yeah. And he's like, I was wondering if you come to the park with me, which I love because it's like, shut up. I was wondering if you could come to the park.

I said before I was so rudely.

Interrupted date per my last evening. So he asks her to walk with him to the park, and she's like, yeah, I don't have any monsters to fight or anything. Ha ha. And then they're in the park, but he's leading her off the path. And she's like, I wonder why he's doing this. What if he kisses me? Oh, no, I have to think of something else. Like a teenage boy getting a boner.

Think of baseball.

If she thinks about it too hard, her cat ears will pop out, which happens.

So yeah. I didn't love that they introduced a mechanic where the high school girl, if she gets too horny, she just transforms into a cat.

I mean, we loved you, right?

Oh, boy. Flying past that, he takes her and he's like, we're here. And then he turns around and he's like, zoe, what are you doing? And she's hiding in a bush, trying to get her cat ears away, which she does. And then she comes out and she's like, hello, where are we? And they're at a big old cherry blossom tree. It's very pretty. And this part, it was so good. The writing in this show is very reminiscent of like an eleven year old writing a story, just like a fiction story that they're making up as they go, because Mark goes, yeah, it's 100 years old. And I know that because my great grandfather proposed to my great grandmother great grandmother under this tree, of course. And I just I feel like the inclusion of saying and I know that because is so like, as, you know, elementary writing.

I didn't just pull this out of my ass. I know for plot reason.

And we all know where our great grandparents got engaged, right?

Yeah.

Oh yeah. Great story. And they're talking about how it's weird that it blooms that early because it's like not even spring yet, so that's probably plot relevant. And then Mark gets very serious and asks zoe if it's a good thing to be unique. And she's like, well, yeah, everyone's different, right? And he's like, ha ha, you're right. So I was thinking, doing my science fair project about this tree, will you be my science fair partner? And she's like, yeah.

Is it too different for me to be into trees?

I'm a woody.

Is it weird that I want to fuck the tree?

I'm a woodkin old grandpa's fuck tree. I played ocarina's.

Grandparents got down after that.

Oh, yeah, I was going to say, they definitely fucked under that tree.

I played ocarina at a time and the country awaited something in me.

That wooden must.

You too. You're the chosen. I see you're busy. I'll check in with you.

So zoe is at work. She works at a little cafe, which is introduced in the second episode of.

The Dust.

And she's all, like, flighty and stuff because she's thinking too much about Mark. And then we're introduced to some more. Mew mews. There's kiki, whose name in the Japanese is pudding.

Of course.

I'm sorry. What?

No, listen, we're getting there bridget, the green one in the Japanese, her name is Lettuce.

Okay.

I may or may not be wrong, but I think I'm right.

Wait, sorry. Are you giving us the English translation of their names in Japanese?

No. So her name is actually pudding, and I think putting it up right now, lettuce Tokyo Murder.

Is she harley Quinn?

Why? Hey, pudding.

Her name is Lettuce. Her name is Lettuce midori cowell.

Lettuce Midori. I love that.

They're actually my child, Lettuce.

Their actual Japanese names are more absurd than any nickname we would have given them.

Isn't that good? Because they all have, like, food names, because there's ichigo is Strawberry, and then there's pudding. pudding is like, okay, but then Let.

Them but why is ichigo in Japanese and not just her name was Strawberry in the Japanese version?

I don't know.

Lettuce doesn't translate, barely.

But yeah. So they're working.

Lettuce and Japanese just translate to good cabbage.

Oh, and there's also karina, whose name is Mint in the Japanese.

This is wild. Four kids did a better job naming me.

So rare.

I was not prepared to admit that on episode one of The Four kids.

We might have peaked with this show.

I know, right? I mean, Mark is pretty bad. Okay. And then we're introduced to the newest mimu, whose name, regrettably, I forget. I think it might have been, like, normal. Like, I think it was zara or something like that. I think it starts with a Z, but her name and this is renee.

Yeah.

And she's a famous teen pop star, so they're really excited that she's working there. And she's bad at it because she's never had a job like that before, I suppose. And so is Mint, because she's nope. Her name is karina. She's a snobby rich girl, so she doesn't feel like she has to work. And then it's after work, and Ponytail Man, whose name is wesley.

I love it.

Brings out a cake wesley.

Yeah.

I mean, we cannot call him that when his ponytail is torso lang. We have to call him Ponytail.

Ponytail.

That's a disservice ponytail.

Pony Boy stick.

Older. Genuine.

So he brings out the cake, and they're like, oh, cake. yay. And he's like, we're celebrating that you're, like, all finally together. And then there's a brooding blonde boy whose name is elliot, and he comes out and he's like, sorry to cut it short, ladies, but we have mew mew stuff to do. So after that, we get a clip of my favorite character in this god forsaken show in Japanese. His name is kishu, so it's like quiche. And this his name is dren, which I hate.

Dren.

Everyone else yes, dren. Everyone Else has normal, just, like, white people names. But his name is dren.

He's an alien, I guess so.

Excuse me. My full name is Children. I just go by dren for short, please.

But so he's hanging out at the cherry tree, and he's like, Ha. It's all coming together. And then we're in, like, the underground of the mimu Cafe, and elliot is explaining that there's an alien race that's coming to Earth because they've laid waste to their planet, so now they want to take over Earth, but the mew mews can stop it because they've been infused with the power of some endangered species.

Specifically endangered.

Specifically endangered. So renee is the gray wolf. kiki is a tamarind monkey. bridget is a poor. karina is a bird, and zoe's a cat. I feel like porpoise is really the outlier. What a strange animal.

If someone's causing crime in the bay, I assume the city has the others won't be able to help. You need that porpoise.

It's the whole purpose of the porpoise you need, bridget. Yes.

I'll leave.

No, it's a good and then they all kind of start freaking out a little bit. Well, it's really just zoe. She's like, how am I supposed to balance being a normal girl with being a mew mew? And she kind of gets emotional for a second, like, there's a serious moment, and then Elliott is literally like, you'll figure it out, and then she's over it. And then.

The next thing I have is just renee.

Yeah. So before that, renee gives zoe some love advice, and then they all talk over each other some more, because I forgot to mention that happens a lot in this dub. There's just moments where they're all saying things at the same time. And then, yeah, we're at zoe's house, and she's up at night talking to minnie Mew, her little puff ball. We don't know what it is.

Yeah, this makes sense because of the.

Way they presented this show to us.

That makes much more sense in hindsight, because I was so confused by this thing.

But so she's, like, up late at night dressing over Mark, and then I don't know. I think some other stuff happens, but it's not that important. And then wesley and elliot do do something important because they find that oxygen levels are dropping at 6% every hour, which is very fast. And then they realize that it's probably that alien species and that dren has poisoned these cherry trees.

These four trees represent 6% of the oxygen being produced in this town in the entire world.

It's Earth.

These are the strongest trees you have ever met.

They're huge trees. So it's time. They all have to go destroy the trees at the exact same time or also be an explosion. And zoe's like, but I don't want to destroy Mark's favorite tree. And then again, elliot's like, ghetto. And then they have their mutomorphism god. And there's some music that I apparently and then we've shown Mark out collecting some leaves for his project, and he's like, oh, man, that's weird. I'm so light headed.

And then do whippets in the woods.

Dren is there, and he's like and then dren is there, and he's like, Hi, romeo. Which is something that's established when we meet him, but it doesn't work this way. And he tells them what's going on with the tree before Mark just passes out. And then zoe gets there, and she's ready to fight. And she says, I'm going to mutilate you. And I don't know if that's supposed to be a pun, but it's a good one, too.

I assume it is, with the number of mu based puns. Oh, yeah, that was intentional.

Yeah, but so they're fighting. Oh, no. dren says, first, I can save you from this if you'll be my bride. And she, of course, is like, no, nasty. And then they're fighting, and I forgot this. But I've seen I don't know. I guess I've seen some of the dub because I very much remember keisha's English voice and that he calls her Kitty cat. I love it. Love that shit. But long story short, they all destroy the trees at the same time, thank goodness. And then dren. Just like dips. And he's like, buy kitty cat. And then zoe feels bad for destroying the tree. And then Mark wakes up, and he sees her in her mew form, and he's like, whoa, zoe, what's going on? Why do you look like that? And she's like, oh, I'm sorry. I can explain. And he's like, oh, no, it's fine. You look really cool.

This is kind of my individuality right? I'm really into this animal stuff. Yeah, it's a new sensation that hasn't on quite yet in 2005.

But what really gets me is that he's introduced to this, like, wild concept, and he's just like, okay, yeah, cool.

Rhett gnarly breath.

And that's episode one. I talked a lot with a lot to say.

There is so much good shit, especially.

Because we're actually so much good shit in this episode.

Especially because this is actually episode like 13 and not actually episode one.

Yeah. So it's hard to explain. And then they were like coming up next week on I think it's called Mew Mew Power.

Yeah, Mew Mew Power coming up next.

Week, we go back to the beginning, and it's like, why didn't you just do this in the fucking first place?

And I was confused.

Previously on Mew, Mew Power because without.

That bumper, without that preview, it doesn't make sense because they don't say, like, hey, this is a flashback episode. In the beginning, it's just because they rearranged the order. So it's just like, oh, God. Made it more complicated than it needs to be. Okay, episode two. We get a shot of zoe asking out Mark, and Mark's in his kendo stuff because he's got to just be as Japanese as possible.

I'm surprised they didn't try to translate that or go at least like fencing.

Or football with my big winter, I think so.

I was going to say, how could they change it?

Fencing? Something I don't know, they call rice balls.

Donuts. So at a certain point, they just don't care.

Some wilder changes have been made.

Yeah.

Hence none of them being called lettuce or mine.

It changes the whole show with those names. Yeah. We get a shot. zoe asking out Mark to the endangered animal exhibit because she knows how he likes endangered animals. Just weird when I phrase it like that. And then she wakes up. Oh, no, she's late. She's got to get ready for school. And she's panicking. She's trying to get down real quick. She's running out. And I think there's just one shot of her running out of the house, and it's her mom's like, hey, zoe, you still need to eat breath in here. The door slam on her, and it's a miracle.

The rare instance where we have two first episodes to the show and they both start with a dream sequence.

Yes. The rare instance where we have an anime girl late for school, running to class without a piece of toast in her mouth.

Horse from shen even going to class.

No, she's going to the day with work. She's a horse from us, from assuming it would be so disappointed that the toast spell didn't work. And so, yeah, we find out that the dream she had about asking out Mark, that wasn't a dream, that was just a memory. Which is weird that they set it up like it was a dream because I assumed it didn't happen, but now it did, and she's going to that date they already established.

Yeah.

So weird.

And this flashback episode also starts with a flashback in a dream sequence.

Yeah, it's weird.

Jarrett it's all very confusing.

And as she's always running there, she's singing like, mark's the most popular boy in school. If I'm late, he's going to have hordes of girls asking him out. Like, I can't screw this up. And when she gets there, she's like, oh, hey, Mark, sorry I'm late. He's like, oh, no, you're actually early. But then, so was he. So were they both just on time, or was this just a weird translation?

I don't know.

I assume it's a weird translation.

You're not late, you're early, you're early.

Weird. So they get there, they get to the museum, I guess, where the exhibit is happening, and they're walking into the red data animal exhibit, and red data is basically just like, endangered. Oh. Don't know why I need to call it that. Okay.

These animals are on red alert of being extinct. Something weird, I guess.

And possibly my favorite thing in all the episodes we've seen, possibly my favorite thing is when they're walking into the museum, we get. Like an announcer over to PA, say, like, the local, right? The animal. He's up. It's happening in this wing, like, going, here if you want tickets. And then he just starts speaking Spanish, like, out of nowhere, the invinita wait, what's that? And then it cuts to the next scene. That wasn't necessary. They're in Japan. No one would be speaking Spanish. It's so jarring. And then we get, like, a shot of, like, chimera statue up on the top. And it's like, looking at her. And as it looks at her, she walks through this, like, scanner to get into the museum. And we see it, like, flashing, like scanning her data, like red data. Animal DNA captured or identified and flashing kind of saying when zoe walked through, she has the endangered animal DNA in her already, and she's genetically a furry. It's part of who I am, dad born with it.

It's in my bone.

And it's the same thing we were talking about, where it was like they're trying to do those awkward moments where cutting each other off, like talking during the exhibits and stuff. And zoe gets nervous and just starts laughing at, like, a dumb joke. But she straight up snorts when she laughs. And I know it's not supposed to be good quality of her dub. Look how sloppy this I think it adds so much more character to the dub and is much more revealing of who she is with that. I greatly enjoyed that. And we see the ones scanning for the DNA. We see their elliot and wesley, who at this point, we wouldn't normally know who they are if we watched it in the right order, but we had the last episode, so we'd know. And then we see they're the ones looking like, oh, she's got the DNA. We got to hit her up, and we got to trigger the event or whatever. And then zoe and Mark leave the museum. And Mark says he wants to tell her something, something really important. He's got confessed to her. She's like, he's going to ask me to be his girlfriend. He's like, I want to devote my entire life to animals.

Cool.

Yeah, you do.

I got good news to receive me. As they're walking out, zoe trips, and we get the classic shot of Mark catching her and her looking up at Mark. He's caught me. I'm in his arms. And they just go to the nanny. They just want to hang out afterwards. So they go to, like, a park. And mark's like, hey, I'm going to go run us again some drinks. He's like, all right, cool. I'll just stay here. And zoe's there by herself, kind of just gushing me like I was in his arms. And mark's so cool and all that stuff. And we see the fucking Castle Cafe that she eventually works at, like, behind her. And on top of it, it's another weird, like, cat statue. And now he's got red eyes. And we see, like, wesley and elliot like, all right, start the process. And the ground starts shaking. And the camera starts shaking. The eyes glow brighter. Everyone's like, what's going on? And then just like a flash cut. And then we get a little commercial bumper. And it comes back to zoe waking up on the ground with, like, March jacket on her. She's like, oh, God, what happened? Oh, you just, like, passed out. You just socked out. Wait. Like the sun setting. He's like, yeah, it's been a few hours. Hey, why doesn't anyone wake this? I'd be very concerned if I was on a date with a girl and she just passed out for a few hours.

Yeah, no need to call. I take her to the hospital in person or parents. It's fine. We'll wait.

He just went and bought her another cold drink because the other one got this nice cold beverage. The dates counted over. They go back home. Next day, zoe's telling her friends what happened at school, and they're just like, oh, God, you blew it with Mark. You're so dumb. It's like, wow, your friends suck ass.

Yeah. It's the second scene where established that the friends are just bullying too much.

It seems to be like a trope with these, like, group shows or kind of the main characters are a group of people or an ensemble that they pre establish that they're before friends are assholes, so it's justifying why they cut ties with them later and join the superhero group. So they're telling her, like, are you blow it's? Like, you got to apologize to Mark. She's like, I called him that night. You can't call him. You're supposed to wait two days to god, I told him I'd meet up.

With him at school.

Shit, I'm late now. And they run to the kendo Club and see him there. They're just a swarm of girls, like, all waiting for him because he's so popular. And while she's there, she's looking at the pictures they got at the museum, and they blow away. And she goes to Quick and grabs them. But when she grabs them, she's hanging off the railing and falls just like, three stories. But she catches herself because her mum you powers kick in. And she does the cat like reflexes. So she's able to catch herself and everyone there sees it lands right on.

Her feet like a cat.

Yeah.

Whoa.

And no one questions like, wow, she's really good at gymnastics. Not like, holy shit, she's just plumbing. It like 40ft and it's super. Okay.

Park hall.

We see. We got to cut to her in class, and she's asleep, which is where this all starts, with her sleeping in class because she's all sleepy and she's, like, purring in her sleep. And when they wake up, they wake her up and she's like, oh, you got to get ready for lunch. She's like, lunch milk. I got to get me some milk. Milk, milk, milk. And it's just like all hopped up for milk. And then so gross. When they're actually in, like, line for lunch, they're getting different food. And she sees just a full fish and just bites. It ticks in her mouth. She's like, oh, I didn't mean to do that. I'm going to go, guys. And she just runs off, embarrassed. And she's noticing she's becoming more and more cat like since the date. And when she runs off, Mark goes running off after her to see if she's okay. I didn't write them all down. But she's like this whole time, she just keeps making cat puns. When she's talking with Mark. It's like, oh, how are you feeling? Stuff like that. I'm just like, it's a lot of puns.

I'm doing purr.

Yeah, exactly. So when she's talking to him about that, she's like and I think her ears and tail come out and she just runs off again. Or was it just the puns?

I think I think it's just the puns. And she's like, I got to get out.

And she can't help what she's saying.

These are too many cat puns.

No one like puns. zoe runs off and she goes back to that Castle cafe where she remembers falling down and passing out. She's like, all right, I got to figure out what happened here. This is where all stuff all started changing. She's like, wait, I feel like danger. I sense danger. She was running off towards it. And she sees that Mark followed her to back to the park. She's like, oh, god, Mark is such a nice guy. He's so cool. And he hits him. He cares about me. And it's weird that this is supposed to be the first episode where they go on a date together. And then the episode we saw for episode one, she's like, oh, gee, I wonder if Mark likes me. He's like, yeah, he's getting into you, clearly. So as she's following Mark, the will.

They won't they in this show goes.

And while she's following Mark, she sees we see this, like, little jellyfish alien floating around that zoe doesn't see. And we just see it float down and just possess, like, a rat that's underneath a bench. And then Brad just like, hulks out in terms of this giant monster rat and starts attacking Mark. And elliot just comes out of nowhere. This is the first time he's always seen him. And it's just like, what's going on? He's like, hey, cool. Fight that thing. He's like, what? No. He's like, yeah, no, it's super cool if you do.

He just introduced it so casually. He's like, hey, I'm going to need you to fight this mutant rat.

Yeah, just springs of the honor.

You can do it, babe.

Come on, babe. And he's fucking wearing, like a leather leather, like, vest without a shirt underneath. And he's got fucking belts just like, around. I got to acknowledge the belts because they're just dumb as shit. They're just around his like it's called fashion.

What a fucking hottie.

I clearly don't understand it.

And so he just got someone wasn't cool in 2002.

I'm not cool now. So he catches her and swings her up to a tree and then just pushes her off the tree. And she lands right in front of Mark and he's like, go on, fight. And this is where we see her first transformation sequence. And he also throws her to the power pendant, which is like the magical girl item that makes the transformation happen.

And yeah, I hate the pacing in this show. Gives me, like, anxiety because he pushes her off the tree and then doesn't even give her a minute to try and fight the rat before he's like, hey, by the way, I didn't think you'd need this, but here it is. And gives her the pendant and it's like, what do you mean, you didn't think she'd need it? Doesn't she need it to transform?

She also needed to exercise the alien possessing the rat. Like, you kind of need it.

Yeah, it's double shit.

And this is where we get the mutomorphosis. And she fights so many puns. I respect it. Like, a core of me respects it, but there's a lot. And she shoots it with her strawberry bell, which is just this like it's just like a circle. It's just a ring, but it's shaped like a heart. And it's got a bell in the center. And that's it. It's not a weapon. We see karina, another girl, has like an arrow, like a bow and arrow, and it's like so he's just got a bell?

Yeah. I don't know.

She's like the only one that has an actual weapon like karina.

Really?

Yeah.

I think the other ones just have things weird.

And the bell's powers are very ambiguous. She uses it to make a shield. She has like energy blasts and stuff. I can't track what it should be doing.

It's whatever she needs it to be.

Convenient.

Yes. She defeats the rat monster. The jellyfish thing comes out of it and we just see minimew just fly up and eat it and just like, oh, jeez. Okay. That's how this is happening.

Great character introduction.

Yeah. And so mont zoe asks like, what's going on here? I need an explanation. And wesley comes out now and he's like, you'll get an explanation in time. It's not now, though. You're definitely not getting it now because of the end of the episode. I don't know why I just wrote down his full name is wesley J. Cool Ridge the third.

Yes.

I think part who is this rich.

Boy with a ponytail?

Body language. Ponytail.

I don't even know how to describe it.

I think part of me was thinking he was going to say Cool ranch. I was like, I want oh, that.

Was his original name in the Japanese.

It might be now.

Oh, God.

Yeah. Episode two ends with just like, you will find out soon enough, wink. So just teeing up the next episode.

And let's find out now. So episode three, we basically pick up right there. We get introduced inside the cafe. They bring her there and they're like, hey, you work here now, so just a heads up, you're going to have to work here.

Got you.

What? So they give her a made uniform because it's the maid cafe thing. And she's like, wow, I'm super cute now. This is great. And we sort of get the info dump on what should have came two episodes ago. Yeah. So basically, there are these mutant animals called predicates, which are regular animals that a predator parasite get it will take over their bodies and cause man. And these are taken over by weird unknown things called infusers. And they selected zoe because her DNA was compatible that we saw at the museum. And it was compatible with a wildcat DNA.

I thought of a joke. I thought of a joke. I just took a DNA test. Turns out I'm 100% a cat.

Finally, something topical came out of it.

Wait a minute.

Five dub.

Was that Twitter meme thing a song?

Yes.

Are you supposed to sing it?

It's lizzo.

Are you familiar with this person named lizzo?

I am not. I live under a literal wrong.

I just took a DNA test. Turns out I'm 100% that bitch.

Okay, that makes more sense.

Anyway, I saw your tweet that you don't understand that. And I was like, but this isn't.

The too many of brendan's tweets are I don't understand this meme.

It's true.

Look up. I think it's Truth hurts by lizzo. Listen to that song. Anyway, Brendan, I'm sure everyone else has.

Do you know it? Enough with my nonsense.

Anyways, so she is 100% that wildcat now that they mutated her and she's freaking out, like, hey, what the fuck? Why didn't you talk to me first? This is pretty fucked up.

She says, like, oh, I'm a mutant. And elliot says, you're not a mutant. You're a mute mew. And I know someone was really happy with themselves writing that line.

Yes, someone got at least one high five. So ponytail charms heard being like, hey, we're all a team here. This is going to be good. I'm flattering you. So you don't realize that we just basically kidnapped you into the mutant life. And they give her a mini mew whose real name is R 2000. Not a robot.

It's a robot.

Is it actually a robot?

Not a robot? I would think so.

I don't know. Nothing about it indicates it's a robot.

There's times when it eats the predator site or whatever it's called, the jellyfish thing. And it opens its mouth and there's just this glowing blue like void inside of its mouth. So it's not just a body in there. It's not just like an organism. There's like a pocket dimension inside of me mew.

It's like in Danny phantom with the.

Ghost thermos the fenton thermos thank you very much.

Is that what it's called? I couldn't remember.

It's all about the brand.

We're so proud of knowing the dummies.

Danny phantom is a great show.

We won't do the rap right now, but join us later.

We've done it multiple times in our own free time.

I was ready.

So that's a new pet that will help locate these predecessors, mutants, whatever, and we get a commercial. Or they say, hey, we also need a cover. So you're actually going to work in this Made cafe? And she's like, okay, now you're kidnapping me into two jobs. This is kind of bullshit. So we get a commercial break. We come back, we see or hear an alien voice talking about how he wants the blue planet. And clever. It's earth. So we join them and Mini mu finds a predecessor and they're trying to figure out what it is. And at that moment, a little friendly dog with the most canned I can't think of. generic. Fuck, I forgot the word generic. Okay, just this 90s bark that was recorded and obviously two cent per use because it is just the most compressed, most shitty dog bark ever used in the show. So this dog comes up and a rich family is like, oh, our little mickey jumped out of the car and wanted to say hi to you. Say hi to the street urchin.

I love that they literally say street urchin.

It's like, wow. Fuck up.

Say hi to the poor girl.

Even exaggeration, it's so ridiculous.

So we see a girl with black hair and buns step out. And this is karina. This is our future Mimiu. And she's like, oh, sorry for the trouble. Here's a silk handkerchief. wipe off the dog, slobber off your face, but don't give it back because I don't want poor people germs in my bentley.

You succeed. I don't want it back.

I don't want your poor person McDonald's grease face on my silk.

British Cut. sucks.

Like, wow, fuck those people, and goes so she goes to school. She was also told to find the other mew mews who will have a marking on them. Of course, she's a high school girl, so hers was on her upper extreme upper inner thigh that we had to show off. So now she's going around school just trying to put her head into other girls crotches to see if they have the same marking on the upper inner thigh, just being super.

Hey, you know, pervy sacrifice she's willing to make.

Oh, God, I guess I'll just violate my schoolmates. Oh, no, that's part of the biggest mark. It should be violating your schoolmates.

It should be.

That's the free space.

That's a free space.

So Mark shows up and thinks she's been acting weird lately, and she drops her stuff and he helps and is being super nice and generous and is like, hey, if you ever want to talk about anything, come hit me up. And again, she gets super horny. And this is our first cat transformation out in public, which she hides by there's a spider in his hair, so she had to be behind him. I don't know.

All right, did you see during this.

Part that his coloring was wrong?

I wrote that down.

I did not know.

Minute minute nine.

His skin his skin was lighter, and so was yeah.

Minute 952 seconds in. Yeah. His hair goes from black to brown, and his skin goes from, like, dark taint and just straight white.

I did not notice that at all.

Like, a completely different character.

Why? That's not even something four kids could have fucked up.

No, it's not.

And it wasn't even, like, a single frame where it was, like, real quick. Like, there was like it was probably, like, five or six frames. It was like a scene.

Yeah.

So he's a mutant as well, apparently.

So good. He can transform into a whiteboard.

The best power of all.

Privilege. Power, activate. Form of a wasp.

Oh, no, I got a speeding ticket. Let me just activate my power.

So she goes back to the cafe and is like, hey, elliot, you didn't warn me. If I got too horny, I turn into a cat and super mad. And then she has to go to actual waitressing, and it's super busy, even though they promised her it was just a front and no one would show up. And since she's the only member of the team, she's the only waitress, and she's the freaking out. And then we see karina at the ballet, and zoe is outside and minimum picks up the signal of another predecessor. And zoe sees karina coming out of the ballet and is like, them again. There has to be something up. Let me follow them. So she follows them to their mansion. karina is like, grandma, I guess, lets her in because what?

That's for sure.

Okay. So she is going in under the guise of cleaning and returning the handkerchief, but kareem is like, fuck you, poor person. I'm not giving you a tour of my house. Please get out.

She does say that. She does say, like, tours are no longer happening. It's like, who's touring your house?

Yeah, tours for the underprivileged are no longer happening for today.

Wow. Fuck off. So she gets bounced. mickey, the dog, follows her out, and we see a little jellyfish thing latch on and transforms. mickey, no. mickey goes back inside, transforms into a big red dog. Not like that big rhythm.

It's a very digimon.

It is uncomfortable.

I felt safe. This was my episode.

Brendan was oddly calm during this time.

I took a nap. It was soothing, but yeah.

So hearing the scream, zoe goes back in, transforms into Cat Girl. It's the cat and dog fighting. We see the dog rips the back of karina's shirt, and we see little wing marks on her back. It's a mew mew mark. She's a chosen one.

Who saw this, who saw it coming, not us.

Who were flash forward, like, 13 episodes in episode one or saw her in.

Any of the scene transitions or opening sequences where she's in all of them.

Fair. There are so many commercial bumpers. Anyway, that's a different topic.

Yes. We have neglected to mess American TV on a commercial.

Yeah. Based on this, there are at least four or five, like, commercial breaks per episode. Yeah, but anyway, ridiculous. zoe's like, hey, no time to explain, but you're a magical girl. Transform right now. And she does. She turns into a bird girl. And she has, as we mentioned previously, an arrow attack, and it's a heart arrow, and they save mickey and banish the jellyfish thing. And karina is on the team, but she's not don't get it twisted. She's not going to work at the cafe because that's for poor people, and she's not friends with poor people either, so she's still mean. And that's where we end episode three.

Such a bitch. Yes. Oh, boy. I enjoyed this much more than I was expecting.

Yeah, this is a good way to start.

This was fun.

I really want to see I know it won't happen, but I really want to see zoe looking for other mimi marks on people and finding a girl with wings on, like, a tramp stamp. It's like, oh, you are Mimium. No, this is like a drunken spring break. Don't get it wrong.

No, I spent in April in Tampa.

I can't it means something else where I'm from.

I have some more fun names for you guys.

Oh, please lay them on me.

Okay, so there's kishu and then his companions. Oh, God. Yeah. His companions are tart high. And then he apparently works with someone else named Deep Blue.

That was spoiled for me. I looked that one up and I got spoon. Yeah.

And then WESLEY'S real name is Kchiro. And elliot's real name is Rio.

Rio elliot.

Why are they just so selective? I don't know.

And renee's name is Zakiro. I tried to look up as Zakiro as a food, but I couldn't.

It's like Dragon Ball Z, where all of the names are based off food, and the creator of it fully admits he's like, yeah, I just looked at my fridge and then rearranged some letters. It's just like, oh, God.

Just like I did not know that was the origin.

So if we want to do brief tangent drink. All the sands are named after vegetables. goku is cakarot, which is carrot. vegeta is vegetable. napa is lettuce in Japanese, obviously. Yeah, there's a lot of like you look into them, almost all of them can be rearranged into just food.

Wow. I always heard the jokes of, like, ha ha carrot.

Get it?

Or piccolo. But I didn't realize that was literally just food namex.

King piccolo revelation. tambourine and then he made piccolo. The names are dumb as shit because so is this show.

Weird? Fighting food ons? They're all named after animals.

Weird.

The more you know, I think, kind of like sailor Moon, this show takes a turn at some point where shit gets serious. But I never saw that far, and I noticed that at least on the website we watched it on, the English dub only goes to, like, 20 something episodes when the Japanese is actually 50.

Damn.

Two episodes if it's English dub either skipped episodes or never got finished.

I would assume it never got finished, like, 27 episodes. That's about a season of American television, at least at the time. So I assume they just got one season and then either didn't pick it up or for whatever reason, they didn't continue it. But that's my bet.

Would you really want to keep watching the show without the four kids dub, though?

Oh, absolutely not. That's so much fun. You need it.

It's necessary.

Yeah. Not for the reason they arrived.

I'm glad you had a good time.

To hear those deep, Basy voices of a 13 year old boy named Mark.

Oh, don't worry about me. I have to go fencing later.

He could have started singing Barry White, and I would have noticed.

I'm honestly just really excited. I'm I'm just really excited that we got to see dren, because I literally love him. He's very much like, my kind of character type. Just like, assholey villain. I love him.

Just quippy villain.

Sweet midterf.

Yes, kitty cat. I remember I auditioned for him in, like, an Hell yeah on YouTube. None of those ever went anywhere, nor was I really cast.

So, Dugan, are we there yet?

This was so much fun. This is such a wild dub. I want to reframe it since we're doing special stuff for these. I want to frame it of, like, this is peak my childhood of would I have watched this as a child? Because, like, I did tune in occasionally to four kids stuff with, like, sailor Moon, but if I were to, as a ten year old, flipped onto this show, I don't think I would have continued. I tended to enjoy the quote unquote girl shows at the time, but I don't know, this didn't grab me, like, the way a sailor Moon would or something else. Also, I thought the animal transformations would be, like, animal transformations and not furry.

Transformations at that level.

Yeah. I was expecting more animor style stuff, but I didn't get what I was.

Honestly that would be sick. Yes, a wildcat, a wolf, a monkey, a bird, and a porphy.

I mean, would that be more what's more wild? Expecting a wild cat to do more damage or a middle school girl with ears and a tail that can't fall.

Down I just really like the image of a lennon flopping on the ground. Guys, water.

Please.

Hey, guys, it's me, your friend, lennos.

Well, I'm glad you had fun. I also had fun.

Fantastic.

This is a good show.

So, for our anniversary, not quite exactly, but we were given a gift and we wanted to give a shout out on the show at Ribbonquest on Twitter actually made a bingo card for us and it's so nice, but it's not bingo. You have to spell out weeb, which is fantastic.

More appropriate.

That's so good.

And thank you, ruben Quest. I'm starting from here on out, I'm going to actually have this bingo card and see if we actually get any bingo watching any of these shows, because we talked about it for so long and now we can actually play and we really appreciate it. Thank you.

It brings a new meaning to our weeb there yet, because that can also be the name.

There you go.

Bingo card game.

That's it. I don't need to commit to watching it. I just have to get bingo.

Thank you, ribbon Quest, for getting dugan off the hook.

Oh, wow.

You've done it. Thank you. You've freed me from this prison of.

My own creation for my last wish. I want you to be free.

But yeah. Thank you. If you have things you want to send us, please don't. First off, we're not worth it. But if you have recommendations or any shows you would like us to watch after our four kids debut on, we are taking submissions at areweebeveryet@gmail.com and on Twitter and Instagram at areweep there yet? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Mr. Patrick Dugan.

You can find me on Instagram at queen. Period weebu and at Twitter on Twitter at queen underscore weebu and queen underscore.

Weebu art you can find me on Twitter at abts. Brendan. It stands for Almost Better Than Science, which is a video game podcast I also do.

And thank you to camille ruley for our artwork. And thank you to Louis zong for our theme song stories off the album Beats. You can find all of louie's music at Louisong bandcamp.com. Thank you, and we hope you'll join us for another year as we learn to live with anime.

Oh, I'm all emotion on that.

Bye, everyone.