#had experience w the juvie system so i was AWARE of SOME of the fucked upedness of it.

[sanchoyo]

I have a longass list of things I Want to Draw this Month (or, draw...sometime, if I dont get to all of them during this Month) and one of those things is redesign my old toxic mew mews. they werent related to my main tokyo mew mew ocs (like, with tokyo miracle or anything, i think originally i wanted it set in that world but ive changed my mind lol) rest under readmore bc it got Long

but it was a story based on a woman who's father was a rival of ryou's father when he was in america (but, like, her father was An Evil Scientist (tm) ) and years after tmm she takes over his work and makes an american tmm team bc shes jealous of ryou/has daddy issues etc (she lies and tries to say 'well theres left over chimeras HERE too!! but tbh she doesnt give a shit abt those/wants to even try to use them somehow) but she makes her team from a bunch of juvie girls who dont rly have a say in it and are told they can Be Heroes and are lied to more or less. (and arguably have pasts/problems that are way darker than anything canonly in tmm...so halfway to being a grimdark magical girl series lol)

theyre called toxic mew mew bc. theyre all named after plants that are very toxic to eat. and are stuck in a very toxic situation/relationship with each other. even back when I was making them it was framed like. this woman is evil to doing this to teens who arent dont have a lot of autonomy AND are victims of the american juvie system. and in the end the woman behind it is framed as a villain, not them (even tho they were poised to be fighting the original tmm team I think?) which. is an amazing thing bc i was like 17-18 when I was writing their story and back then i was VERY unaware abt social issues lmao. also i think I wanted to showcase what wouldve happened if ryou had been like. someone with bad intentions, how Wrong it couldve gone w the uhh. unconsensual human experimentation angle...

anyway. there were originally two teams bc once the main lady realizes the first team is weaksauce compared to the og tmm team in japan she goes and makes ANOTHER but im absolutely not redesigning (2) teams lol. BUT very interesting just rereading all these chara profiles from back then and I cant wait to sit and Redesign Them even if i never do anything concrete w them beyond that 🤔