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Another cut of douga animation of Zakuro from Tokyo Mew Mew episode 10. There are 20 sketches total used for this scene.

A1-16. Then A17, A18 and A19 are all hair frames and AA is the base sketch for the hair frames.

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Tokyo Mew Mew Episode 10 - Mew Pudding and Mew Lettuce Douga.

Puddings blinks are great LOL. They are just two frames and lettuce only has 3 frames for mouth movements.

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Spliced together some more douga sketches from TMM.

This is a sequence of Mew Mint crying from episode 52. I had to edit it quite a bit as there were a few separate pages/frames that had mouth/face movement only.

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I fortunately have access to using a commercial scanner so I put together a video of all the douga sketches from this sequence. There are 16 sketches total.

A8 was drawn on slightly bigger paper for some reason (though not much bigger)

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Tokyo Mew Mew Episode 32 - Mew Zakuro Genga

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Tokyo Mew Mew Episode 10 - Mew Zakuro Douga (A1-A5)

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Some really special things for me (personally) about the hand-drawn frames —

1) All of the notes about backgrounds, shadows, and character outfits written into the margins

2) This hand-written note sandwiched into the feather sequence, from one of the animation staff. It roughly reads: “I spoke with the photographer: ‘When it comes to increasing pre-existing materials, you can do as many as you like. But when it comes to complex movement, it becomes more difficult.’ That being said, I would like to create this with cels and then apply special effects on top. Is that too difficult? Thank you for your help. - Toriyama”

3) The ancient rusted paper clip from 2002 still sticking the frames together 😭

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Well it only took a couple months of furiously bidding on listings, but finally got my hands on 3 difference sets of douga from 2002 TMM!

The first is this small sequence from episode 49

The second is this close up of Mint from episode 32

And the 3rd is the full ~50 or so pages of animation for the feathers flying into the air from the sleepover pillow fight in episode 21!

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I have some background setting materials for Tokyo Mew Mew and I don’t know if this is from Hikaru No Go but this storyboard was randomly taped to the back of one of the image boards. It is just a photocopy but I was like “huh” LOL.

It isn’t common for an actual douga / genga drawing to be done on the back of another but pretty neat nonetheless.

According to MyuMyuCheerCh on Twitter, who owns this Douga, the Tokyo Mew Mew cell animation was drawn in the back of a Hikaru No Go storyboard. I don't know how common this is but was studio pierrot that low on money during TMM production? we know some episodes have average to bad animation segments, but this? No more paper?

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I managed to win the auction that had the church settei material (from ep 43) and it looks like the artist tried to sketch in a mini quiche by those candles

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that seller just dropped like 60 auctions of tmm production material and they all sold today.. this is just a snapshot of some!!

I regret not bidding higher for the animal shots from the OP. ;_;

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Tokyo Mew Mew Production Background sold for 125,000 yen on YJA

January 29th 2023

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Sold on YJA for 184,000 yen (almost $2000!!)

January 29th 2023

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Quiche storyboards, Tokyo mew mew episode 13

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Here are a couple of storyboards from Tokyo Mew Mew episode 13.

The document contains photocopies of the originals used in production & I’m guessing an animator might’ve had it at one point.

Purchased from Yahoo Japan Auctions a few months back.

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Tokyo Mew Mew storyboards from episode 13!