Tokyo Mew Mew 2002 Rubber Keychains I've only found Minto and Ichigo for sale, never saw the others

Media: Mia Ikumi Collaborative Manga, Baying Shakedown, 吠える大捜査線, Part I Source: Personal Collection Full Resolution Download: ♡ Commentary: Recently, I was looking to pick up some of Mia Ikumi's other manga, like RePure and Super Doll Lica Chan!, and I stumbled across a listing of her work that mentioned a manga I hadn't seen documented anywhere else. It's a collaboration between Ikumi and several other Nakayoshi artists, and is called 吠える大捜査線, or Baying Shakedown. The title is a reference to a Japanese police comedy series called 踊る大捜査線, or Bayside Shakedown. The story involves the main characters from the artists' manga stories visiting the home of the Nakayoshi Editor In Chief to deliver presents for his dog's birthday. The dog is injured, however, and the girls proceed to investigate. The title seems to be a pun on 踊る, or Bayside, with 吠える replacing 踊る. In this case, I believe 吠える refers to a specific way in which some dogs howl or bark, called baying, thus phonetically parodying the original. I haven't been able to translate it yet, but the artwork is nice, and I really like the limited palette of just blues and reds. Unfortunately, this is a two part manga, and I haven't found a copy of the magazine that the concluding half was published in for sale as yet.

Update!

So, I've been off the grid for a while! But rest assured ... This blog isn't dead, just hibernating, lurking ... Lying in wait. I've been working on a ton of new scans for y'all! Specifically, an older manga Mia Ikumi collaborated on with a ton of other artists in Nakayoshi's February 1999 issue, and some high quality scans of the TokyoPop and Chaung Yi translations of the original Tokyo Mew Mew comics. Please look forward to it!

Media: Tokyo Mew Mew Real Figure Collection Cards Source: Personal Collection Full Resolution Download: ♡

Commentary: These are scans of the cards that come with the Tokyo Mew Mew Real Figure Collection, showing a photograph of each figurine. A weird little bit of trivia ... The monogram that appears in the border is actually a vertically flipped variant of the Greek letter Omega. Greek lettering is used one of Mia Ikumi's illustrations (×), and the Greek letter Mu tends to show up in the anime depiction of the Mew Project scientists' software, too (×,×).

Media: Tart Sketches • Satoshi Ishino, Tokyo Mew Mew Original Pictures File Vol. 3 Book, 2004. Source: Personal Collection Full Resolution Download: ♡

Media: Mew Mew Mint Sketch • Satoshi Ishino, Tokyo Mew Mew Original Pictures File Vol. 3 Book, 2004. Source: Personal Collection Full Resolution Download: ♡

Media: Tokyo Mew Mew Real Figure Collection Cards Source: Personal Collection Full Resolution Download: ♡

Media:Tokyo Mew Mew GraffArt Print Source: Personal Collection Full Resolution Download: ♡

Media: Tokyo Mew Mew GraffArt Print Source: Personal Collection Full Resolution Download: ♡

Media: Tokyo Mew Mew A La Mode Review • Shelby Nelson, News-Democrat & Leader Newspaper, 2006.  Source: Personal Collection

Media: Mew Mew Power TV Listing • TV Guide Magazine, 2005.  Source: Personal Collection

Media: Tokyo Mew Mew Article • Elizabeth Large, The Baltimore Sun Newspaper, 2006. Source: Personal Collection

Media: Tokyo Mew Mew A La Mode Review • Dawn Burkes, The Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 2005. Source: Personal Collection

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I’m Tate, and I’ve been on Mia Ikumi’s wild ride for eighteen years, with Mew Mew Power being my first anime! I follow from Outparcels!