Attention! This book contains: magic spells, maid cafés, new friends, sweet romances, surprises, cute outfits, and endangered species.

Ichigo is out on a hot date with her ‘crush’ when suddenly she’s involved in an odd incident in which her DNA is merged with the DNA of an almost extinct wildcat. When four other girls’ DNA is merged with the DNA of four other almost extinct animals, it’s apparent that they’re part of a much bigger plan. Ichigo and her friends have been chosen to become a part of a secret project called the “Mew Project.” Their mission: To protect the planet from aliens who are using the planet’s animals to attack humans.

*Review of the original 7 volumes*

This was a cute series!

When I was younger, the anime version was on TV, but I never watched it. I was curious about it and regret not watching it at the time because it was really popular! I just got to know the story and what it was about now, by reading the manga.

It’s a little difficult for me to rate this series since I’m not in the appropriate age range, but I still have my opinion! 

I think this is a very fun series to read and just pass the time, but I feel like it was a little too shallow for me. In reality, I believe this story is inspired by Nature and how important it is to protect the environment and raise awareness to protect endangered species. And even though this is a great thing to inspire a series, I feel like the story itself was too hollow and had little to do with the topic.

The good thing for me is that there was a lot of romance! In the beginning, you wonder who she’ll end up with because there are so many possible love interests (way more than usual) – but at some point the love interest becomes clear. If you swoon over cute manga characters like yours truly, this series is pure heaven! There are many cute boys here.

But I have to be honest with you, the last few volumes lost me a little. I thought this would be a 4-star read (for the entire series), but it started to decrease slowly to a 3-star read. I know this is fantasy and a younger type of manga, but it started to get a little too nonsensical to me – but when the very young school kids get married at the end… Well, that was the nail in the coffin. To be fair, I believe it’s usual in Japanese shojo that the MCs get married at the end… but I still think it was pretty weird.

I did still liked this though. I would describe this as your typical fantasy shoujo: full of magic, cute costumes, and fun! Good to get your mind off the real world.