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TOKYO MEW MEW New Italian Dub - Zakuro Fujiwara🐺 Work in progress 🚧
ITALIAN CAST
Chiara Leoncini is Zakuro Fujiwara
Ichigo Momomiya: Giulia Maniglio
Mint Aizawa: Giulia Bersani
Lettuce Midorikawa: Valentina Pallavicino
Purin Fong Laura Valastro
Ryo Shirogane: Andrea Oldani
Keiichiro Akasaka: Max Di Benedetto
Quiche: Federico Viola
Dub Director: Deborah Magnaghi
The series will soon be available with Italian dubbing exclusively on ANiME GENERATION, Amazon Prime Video theme channel, where you can already find the original version in its entirety with subtitles.
#yamatovideo #animegeneration #doppiaggio #doppiaggioitaliano #tokyomewmew #tokyomewmewnew #lettuce #lettucemidorikawa #ichigo #IchigoMomomiya #zakuro #chiaraleoncini
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Tokyo Mew Mew New Italian Dub - Purin Trailer
Laura Valastro is Purin Fong
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Tokyo Mew Mew New - Italian Dub
Kish Trailer
Kish is voiced by Federico Viola
Ichigo Momomiya: Giulia Maniglio
Mint Aizawa: Giulia Bersani
Lettuce Midorikawa: Valentina Pallavicino
Ryo Shirogane: Andrea Oldani
Keiichiro Akasaka: Max Di Benedetto
Dubbing director: Deborah Magnaghi
The series will soon also be available with Italian dubbing exclusively on ANiME GENERATION, Amazon Prime Video's thematic channel, where you can already find the original version with subtitles in its entirety.
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#TokyoMewMewNew Italian Dub
Minto Trailer 🍵
Giulia Bersani is Mint Aizawa
Ichigo Momomiya Giulia Maniglio
Lettuce Midorikawa Valentina Pallavicino
Ryo Shirogane Andrea Oldani
Keiichiro Akasaka Max Di Benedetto
Dubbing director Deborah Magnaghi
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Tokyo Mew Mew New
Italian Dub
Max Di Benedettoas Keiichiro Akasaka
Andrea Oldani as Ryo Shirogane
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It's that time of year again... MARCH 14th! Which means it's time for another E.M.U / Sotsugyou M post!
So here is the E.M.U - MVP promo video. It's basically a 30 minute compilation video showing some behind the scenes footage of band rehearsal and photoshoots with the voice actors as E.M.U, with some pics of their Sotsugyou M character counterparts talking about their likes and dislikes, along with 2 cheaply animated music videos... Dang, I miss the 90s XD. This VHS also came with a small character bio booklet, which I've also scanned.
You can download it all HERE.
If you want to download all of the past E.M.U / Sotsugyou M stuff that I've posted so far, which includes all of their songs and their first live concert, you can find all of my posts concerning them HERE.
#E.M.U#Sotsugyou M#Hikaru Midorikawa#Canna Nobutoshi#Ryotaro Okiayu#Daisuke Sakaguchi#Hideo Ishikawa#Entertainment Music Unit#Graduation M#Promo Video#Music
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#TOKYOMEWMEWNEW Italian Dub
LETTUCE MIDORIKAWA 🐬
🥗 Work in progress🚧
PREVIEW ITALIAN CAST
Valentina Pallavicino as Lettuce Midorikawa
Giulia Maniglio Ichigo as Momomiya
Dub Director: Deborah Magnaghi
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For those who don't know the Italian dubbing director for New, Deborah Magnaghi, voiced Ichigo/Strawberry in the Italian dub of the 2002 series.
Congratulations to Tokyo Mew Mew Italian Fans!!
Tokyo Mew Mew New is getting an Italian DUb
ITALIAN CAST PREVIEW
Giulia Maniglio is Ichigo Momomiya
Dubbing director: Deborah Magnaghi
The series will soon also be available with Italian dubbing exclusively on ANiME GENERATION, Amazon Prime Video's thematic channel, where you can already find the original version with subtitles.
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While searching around, I recently came upon a Youtube channel that featured promo videos and a podcast that has some really interesting stuff involving the behind the scenes of working at 4Kids. There were also some interesting tidbits from some of the comments too.
For example, thanks to the comments, I've found out that Mollie Weaver (Renee in Mew Mew Power) is now part of an indie band called MIHI NIHIL, where she goes under the name Mihi Vox.
This channel seems to have gone under the radar when it definitely needs some more recognition.
Official Website: https://www.4kidsflashback.com/
#4Kids Entertainment#4Kids#4Kids Flashback#Tokyo Mew Mew#Mew Mew Power#Yu-Gi-Oh#Pokemon#Magical Doremi#Winx Club
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For Cat Day, the official Tokyo Mew Mew New Youtube channel has posted the full performance of Smewthie's One Man Live concert, which was held on August 13th 2023. It's available for free for all fans to watch!!!
Today also marks the 3rd anniversary of when Smewthie was formed X3.
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It's Quiche's birthday, which is also on Valentine's Day. Just wanted to remind you of how the 2002 anime unintentionally celebrated it in episode 45 xD.
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Possible Mia Ikumi Doujin Penname
First off, thanks to @berrychanx who found the initial doujin listing and @kuro93 who I know also looked into this and bought some of her works! Second off, warning for some suggestive doujin covers and other art, although there's nothing truly explicit.
First things first, I want to say that I sat on this information for a little bit considering if it was appropriate to speculate since Ikumi never chose to make this connection publicly. Ultimately I've decided to go through with it since imo the artstyle is instantly recognizable, so it'd come out eventually. I also found some still-up online accounts associated with this penname, and I know that's a thing the fandom has wanted to see for a long time. I'd ask that you please be respectful with this info and keep in mind it is NOT confirmed and that Mia Ikumi has passed away.
I'd also like to make clear that I'm totally uninterested in trying to figure out her birth name or track down any other personal info on her life that she didn't choose to share in doujin, her website, manga notes, interviews, etc. That feels very out of line. Finding other pennames can help us fans catalogue more of her work, but finding her real identity does nothing but violate her privacy.
So that's kind of where I'm at right now. If you feel differently about whether it's right to speculate on Ikumi's doujin works, or if you don't want to see anything even a little suggestive, please turn back now.
We know for sure that Mia Ikumi was a penname, since that was confirmed in ads for Re-Turn when she changed one of the characters.
征海美亜 ＊征海未亜よりペンネーム変更されました
Ikumi Mia *Ikumi Mia yori penneemu henkou saremashita
Mia Ikumi (征海美亜) *[Her] penname was changed/altered/revised from Mia Ikumi (征海未亜)
Prior to her return to Nakayoshi with some TMM anniversary art and then the 2020 Re-Turn short, the last work she published under that name was Koi Cupid, way back in 2005-08.
There's always been speculation as to whether she continued drawing manga under a different penname, but there was never any official word from her once her website went down, since she was not active under that name under any social media or on Pixiv. We also had no idea how her art might have evolved in the years since her last official release, so there was no guarantee we'd recognize any work of hers if we saw it. The first anyone saw of her art post-website was back in 2015 when she drew some art of Ichigo and then Ichigo, Mint, and Lettuce for the 60th anniversary of Nakayoshi.
https://hikayagami.tumblr.com/post/132481043559/more-nakayoshi-60th-anniversary-mew-mew-art-from
https://hikayagami.tumblr.com/post/118704238761/ichigo-momomiya-in-her-cafe-mew-mew-uniform-drawn
https://hikayagami.tumblr.com/post/130755109662/new-picture-of-ichigo-minto-retasu-drawn-by
As you can see, this art featured a pretty different art style than she'd had 2 decades back.
(Sidenote: it seems she also did some art for the 55th anniversary, back in 2010, but this is much closer to the dates when she was working under the Mia Ikumi name and has roughly the same art style as OG TMM: https://hikayagami.tumblr.com/post/151430694480/doodles-of-ichigo-and-berry-drawn-by-mia-ikumi )
Obviously, starting in 2019, she then went on to release the two-shot manga TMM 2020 Re-Turn, some miscellaneous promo art (Blu-ray bonus comic, Alice in Wonderland merch, Smewthie fanart, etc.), and finally new covers and bonus comics for most of the rereleased manga volumes before her passing. Between the works she published in the 90s-early 2000s and all of this new art, we have a pretty good sample size of her artstyle over time. So it was only a matter of time before someone stumbled on something familiar looking…
Berrychanx found a listing (https://jp.mercari.com/item/m11046282201 ) for an Idolmaster doujin called Room Fight! created as a collab between 2 doujin circles/artists: Nameless Color (ねーむれすからー) and Komomo+ (こももぷらす), published by Poco Poco in 2014. The seller specifically noted that the style looks very similar to Mia Ikumi's, and it's very hard to argue! The hands especially look the way that Ikumi has always drawn them, and the eyes, facial expressions, and hair shading is pretty much one to one for Re-Turn.
Nameless Color has some other works, but they aren't in this same artstyle at all. Therefore, the one whose style matches Mia Ikumi's is Komomo+.
https://doujinrepublic.com/product/tag_page.html?tags=85361&ref=product_page&type=rel_tag_circle
As far as I can tell, the doujin circle is named Poco Poco, and the artist's penname is Komomo Kozakura (小桜小桃) or later Komomo (小桃) or Komomo+ (written as こももぷらす). There's a lot of variation in which spelling is used across doujin sites, and sometimes Komomo is listed as the circle name rather than Poco Poco, but I'm unsure as to whether this is a change in how presumed-Ikumi branded herself or just a lack of organization in the websites. Also, the Room Fight! doujin is categorized under komomo+ (https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/ZHORE153927) and under Komomo Kozakura (https://ecs.toranoana.jp/tora/ec/item/040030276511/ ), so I’m sure they’re the same person and not just 2 people in the same circle.
Here are the titles I could find under all of these names across various websites in approximate publishing order:
https://www.suruga-ya.jp/search?category=&search_word=&ck=true&inStock=On&person_id=1051050
https://www.suruga-ya.jp/search?category=&search_word=&ck=true&inStock=On&person_id=2874482
https://www.suruga-ya.jp/search?category=&search_word=&person_id=2864627
https://ecs.toranoana.jp/tora/ec/cot/circle/LUPA2D6P8476d16Qd687/all/
The main fandoms are Idolmaster, Kantai Collection, and Strike Witches. It's immediately obvious how much they look like Ikumi's style, from small details like the faces to larger things like how she tends to pose characters on her covers. They range from 2008-2016, and you can see that earlier works look a little more like her TMM-era art while later stuff is way more Re-Turn.
So is that all the new info? Do we need to track down and buy these doujin to get any more new info on Mia Ikumi? Well, that’s definitely a thing you can do! But there’s one other avenue.
You see, the title page of Girls Fight! does lead to a now defunct webpage: pocopoco.sblo.jp
https://web.archive.org/web/20081201000000*/pocopoco.sblo.jp
The Wayback Machine has 5 captures for this website: 12/31/08, 2/25/11, 6/3/13, 4/25/16, and 3/14/23. The latest one just shows the same error page not found message as if you try and go to the site now, but the others all have blog entries ranging from 2008 to the end of 2015 (i.e., starting RIGHT after the end of Koi Cupid/Mia Ikumi's professionally published/official manga career).
https://web.archive.org/web/20090103031628/http://pocopoco.sblo.jp/article/20797588.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20160425011557/http://pocopoco.sblo.jp/article/170290508.html
Mostly these posts are either drawings or advertisements for a new book she's selling at a con or online by mail order, so there’s a whole bunch of new art. (Warning: there's nothing outright nsfw, but some of these images are probably the most suggestive ones I link in this post, moreso than even most of the doujin covers. Use your own judgment!) The rest of the posts are personal diary entries.
(Sidenote: I am NOT going to translate this whole blog because there’s a whole bunch of text! I looked through the available pages, and the auto-translated version is fine for getting a basic understanding. If you have questions about a specific post, feel free to ask, though! Right off the bat, the text on the big image at the top of the earlier captures, the one with the green-haired catgirl in a red outfit, is just a paraphrasing of the post where she explains her categories/tags to help you navigate the site https://web.archive.org/web/20090103030651/http://pocopoco.sblo.jp/article/21376253.html )
This website, crucially, also links to Komomo's pixiv account (Username: 小桃/Komomo), which is still up!
https://www.pixiv.net/users/3966440
(I was logged in when I accessed the page, so it's possible you may need an account to view it. Please do keep in mind this is not an account publicly associated with Ikumi/TMM and that the owner is likely deceased. We don't need to leave random comments and messages.)
The oldest picture is from 2012, when she created it (she posts about this), and the most recent picture is from 2018, so you can really see the artstyle shift here as well. There is no reference to TMM or Mia Ikumi anywhere.
The blog also links to her NicoNico page (Username: 小桃/Komomo), where she posted a few Vocaloid covers from 5/16/10 to 6/4/11.
https://www.nicovideo.jp/user/16890918/
She talks about uploading these covers on her blog under her utattemita/”I tried singing” tag: https://web.archive.org/web/20160425011607/http://pocopoco.sblo.jp/category/907578-1.html
So, the art definitely matches with what we know of Mia Ikumi’s art, both from published works and stuff posted online to her official website, ikumimia.chu.jp (Hika posted some of the website art here and here if you aren’t familiar)
(As a tangent, that website seems to have been created at or before 5/7/07 and gone offline sometime between 7/1/10 and 7/27/11, so there was definitely a period where she was working under both identities at once…)
But is there any other info linking Komomo and Mia Ikumi?
The site doesn't give much personal detail about Komomo irl, but it does say she was born in spring, and Mia Ikumi's birthday was March 27th.
プロフィール
名前小桜小桃です。
一言:春生まれです。
Profile
My name is Komomo Kozakura.
In a word, I was born in spring.
There's also a diary entry about her getting a Scottish fold kitten for her mom in 2008 after the family cat passed away 2 years back. We know from the bonus comics in the TMM manga that Mia Ikumi had a Scottish fold.
スコティッシュフォールドという種類のキャリコなお嬢さん。
A calico lady called a Scottish fold.
https://web.archive.org/web/20081231223544/http://pocopoco.sblo.jp/category/627816-1.html
Komomo also says she’s interested in gothic lolita clothing and that she dresses up at events. We know Mia Ikumi also dressed up for events, since that’s in her bio, and she drew her outfits in manga bonus page.
＊ゴスロリの部屋＊
小桜小桃の趣味のページです。主に持っている服やアイテム、欲しいモノの紹介、ゴスロリに関する事とかも書いていこうと思います。
*Gothic Lolita Room*
A page about Komomo Kozakura’s hobby. Mainly I’ll write about clothing items I own, stuff I want, and things related to gothic lolita fashion.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160425154652/http://pocopoco.sblo.jp/category/627812-1.html
今回のコミケはカゼのため、コスとかせずに防寒重視でいったのですが
Because I had a cold at this Comiket, I went without any kind of costume to focus on keeping warm
https://web.archive.org/web/20160425154658/http://pocopoco.sblo.jp/category/627816-1.html
Between the art, the timeline of when things were posed vs Ikumi's public career, and the small bits of overlapping info on the artists' lives, I'm very confident that Mia Ikumi and Komomo Kozakura are two pennames for the same artist.
As for why, we can only speculate. I will say it's pretty common for artists to use a different penname for doujin work vs professional work, although some keep it more secret than others. It's especially common if the doujin work is more risque than the professional, which is the case here. I'll also say that almost all of Ikumi's post-TMM works were fairly short. Only One Wish may have been imagined as a one-volume anthology from the start, but it seems like TMM a La Mode and Repure may have been canceled early based on rushed endings with a lack of follow-up on plot points. Comi Digi +, the magazine in which Koi Cupid was published, got discontinued in 2008, presumably ending that series early as well. Ikumi also seems pretty annoyed with her editor in the a La Mode bonus comics, so possibly she was frustrated with baggage of the Mia Ikumi identity and wanted a fresh start.
Possibly she stopped putting out work around 2018 or possibly she started working under another penname. Maybe that was when Nakayoshi got in contact with her to begin planning for ReTurn, Ole/Au Lait, New, the TMM Blu-ray, the manga re-release, etc.
In conclusion, it seems like there are many more works by the artist known as Mia Ikumi than we'd thought previously, plus slightly more of a web presence, although this seems to have ended years before the TMM 20th anniversary renaissance. It's possible there are more accounts under the Komomo/小桃 name or under another penname that might be found in the future.
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I know this has nothing to do with Tokyo Mew Mew (Besides the fact that the block Mew Mew Power aired on replaced it), but did you like Fox Kids? I noticed you're a fan of Digimon and I know that aired on the block. My dad used to watch Fox Kids years before he had me (Since he didn't have cable, it was one of the kids blocks he had access to along with The Disney Afternoon)
I loved Fox Kids. I watched all sorts of shows on that block. Medabots, Flint the Time Detective, Transformers R.I.D... I really miss it X3.
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I grew up with Tokyo Mew Mew as one of my first anime shows, and the reboot has been so good for me so far! I remember seeing your YT channel back in the day with the TMM in a Nutshell and all that, it's really cool to see you still around as a fan!
Do you know if the TMM video games ever get a fan translation, by the way? I remember never being able to find one as a young teen lol
For the games themselves there are no English mods for them. However Envyplays has made translations of their gameplay of them, which you can find HERE and HERE.
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I hope this isn't weird, and you take all the time you want of course, but I have been eagerly waiting for your opinion on new 😂 just wanted to let you know you're being thought of lol!
Thanks. A lot of things are happening in my life outside the computer right now. So I haven't had a lot of time for most of my projects. Given my age I guess it's just the natural progress of life. I'm just not in my 20s anymore... Heck, in a couple of years, I won't be in my 30s anymore XD.
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This is a really basic question but I can't seem to find it anywhere online. What is the most accurate way to write Ichigo's catchphrase in Japanese? I'd like to get it tattooed but I'm hyper vigilant on it being 100% correct.
地球の未来に、ご奉仕するにゃん!
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TMM Weapon and Attack Descriptions
Small followup to the character bios post, featuring the information about each Mew Mew's weapon and attack from the 2002 Fanbook vs the TMM New Artbook (both the 2002 insert and the main section).
See the comparison chart here.
First, one BIG thing to notice right off:
The '02 Fanbook actually spells the attacks as リボン/ribon instead of リボーン/riboon. This is big because there's always been debate on whether they should be transcribed as "Ribbon" (usually spelled リボン, with a shorter o) or "Reborn" (usually spelled as リボーン, with a longer o).
Basically, does the stretched out o sound mean it's meant to be understood as "Reborn"? Or is it meant to be understood as each girl stretching out the first word dramatically ("Ribboooon,") before moving on to the personalized ending section. This is definitely the way they enunciate it in the anime and parallels the way other magical girl shows structure attacks (e.g., Mars... Flame Sniper, Precure... Blue Forte Wave, Hirogaru... Sky Punch). I've weighed in on this here.
So, does this settle it once and for all?
Well… not in my opinion. Like, I do still think "Ribbon" is the correct transliteration! But I don't think the Fanbook is reliable for a few reasons:
1) The editing on the Fanbook is a little spotty, so there are multiple spots of inconsistent formatting/spelling. For instance, in the charts, all items in lists are separated by interpuncts (・) except for Buling's special skills, which is separated with a comma (、). There's also a missing interpunct in the list of Retasu's favorite foods (the other girls' lists do put an interpunct on the end of a line, so it's not a purposeful choice), and Shirogane's name has a space between the kanji of his surname and given name, something done for no other names*
*(Okay.... so it's also done for Buling's, but this is a real thing sometimes done for Chinese names to indicate that the surname is only one kanji instead of the 2-3 you'd expect of a Japanese surname...... But this is also changed/corrected in the New version, though, so???)
In my non-professional opinion, some of the phrasing also feels a little weird, and there's not much care put into text spacing and especially where lines break, but I'm not confident enough in my Japanese skills to state this for certain or put specific examples...
2) There is no other place where the attacks are written as リボン/ribon across the MANY places they are spelled out (e.g., the original manga, a La Mode, ReTurn, the PS game guide, character profile stickers). See above for examples!
3) Even though the TMM '02 insert in the TMM New Fanbook reuses a lot of text from the '02 Fanbook, it does NOT maintain this spelling, which suggests it was another error that was corrected.
So it's net zero information imo 🤷♀️
More small things under the cut:
I translated 必殺技/hissatsu waza as "finishing move". It literally means something like "certain kill technique" and is commonly translated as stuff like "special move" or "special attack" as well.
The '02 Fanbook describes the attacks in terms of what they do in universe, whereas the New Artbook describes what happens in the stock footage.
The '02 Fanbook also makes a big deal out of Ichigo's attack being the strongest and claims it's the only one that can purify a Chimera Anima and release the Parapara. It's generally true that they have to play her stock footage she has to finish off the big Chimera Anima, but the other girls consistently finish off smaller Chimera Anima, plus instances like Zakuro instantly defeating the big crow in episode 10 and all of the girls (including Pudding, somehow???) managing to defeat a bunch of big Chimera Anima at once when Pie releases them en masse as a distraction in episode 49. The '02 insert keeps the note on Ichigo's attack being able to finish off Chimera Anima but drops the "not that strong" part from the descriptions of the non-Ichigo girls and even adds that Zakuro's attack is "strong enough to surprise/frighten Quiche". The New artbook has no mention of any one girl's attack being more powerful.
The descriptions of the attacks kind of back up my claim that none of the girls except Lettuce have an elemental attack and are instead all light-based and separated by range:
Ichigo: balls of light; final blow on Chimera Anima
Mint: arrow of light; ranged attack
Lettuce: stream of water; attacks multiple enemies at once
Pudding: wave of light that turns into "pudding"; captures enemy
Zakuro: whip of light; can be used close or far away, can bind enemies, can cut into pocket dimensions somehow
...Zakuro is clearly way too OP, since she can essentially copy the effects of Mint, Lettuce, AND Pudding's attacks plus having dimensional powers. I mean, the "cutting through dimensions" thing is way outside the range of the other Mews' powers??? And it shows up so little...
Speaking of Zakuro, the New version eliminates the space-cutting power but also describes her weapon as a cross with a ribbon attached to the end instead of as a whip! (It does say she uses it like a whip in the attack description...) She does move it like a rhythmic gymnastics ribbon a little even in her original attack footage, but it's kind of funny to insist the ZaCross Whip isn't a whip!
They sure are caught up on how Lettuce can use her attack even when tied up since she only has to move her fingers. A situation which only happens once.
I find it a little funny that they never really acknowledge how all of the weapons are based on musical instruments. The LettuceTanets are obviously called castanets, and the StrawBell Bell is noted to have a bell attached, but only the the New fanbook calls Mint's weapon "lyre-shaped" instead of "bow and arrow-shaped". Not once are the PuRing Rings compared to a tambourine (although New does mention the bell) or the ZaCross Whip to a flute.
Confirmed that in the anime Buling's attack is not literal pudding but rather something that looks like it. (The manga is still a toss up considering we see it being eaten...)
The difference in phrasing between the '02 Fanbook and the New insert is pretty funny. プリンのようなもの / purin no youna mono, "a thing/object/substance that's like pudding" vs プリン状の物体 / purin-jou no buttai, "a solid object in the form/appearance of pudding". Puddingy thing vs physical object in the form of pudding.
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