Lettuce Midorikawa

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Lettuce Midorikawa (Bridget Verdant)

Mew Lettuce (Mew Bridget)

Lettuce Midorikawa (碧川れたす, Midorikawa Retasu^?) is a fictional character in the manga and anime Tokyo Mew Mew. She is known as Bridget Verdant in Mew Mew Power.

1 History
- 1.1 Manga
  - 1.1.1 Tokyo Mew Mew
  - 1.1.2 Tokyo Mew Mew A La Mode
- 1.2 Anime
  - 1.2.1 Tokyo Mew Mew
  - 1.2.2 Mew Mew Power
2 Personality
3 Profile
4 Abilities and Weapons
- 4.1 Tokyo Mew Mew
- 4.2 Mew Mew Power
5 Voice Actor
6 Trivia
7 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Manga

[edit] Tokyo Mew Mew

Ichigo finds Lettuce at the museum, where she is being bullied by three girls who are yelling at her because she brought them hot coffee when it was hot outside, even though they said they wanted hot coffee. Ichigo runs to help but Pudding gets to the girls first, and they run off. Lettuce states she'll have to apologize to them later, and Ichigo doesn't see Lettuce again until some time after the earthquake.

Later, the four girls are sitting in Cafe Mew Mew, talking about a mysterious ghost that haunts the pool. They try to persuade Lettuce to go and find out what it is. As their aggressiveness increases, Ichigo runs over with some food and purposely trips, dumping the food in the three girls' faces. Keiichiro appears and escorts the girls to the bathroom to wash up, and Ichigo introduces herself to Lettuce, who says she only hangs out with them because she wants to be their friend. The three girls reappear and Lettuce leaves the Cafe.

Later that night, Mint drags Ichigo (who, as it turns out, is terrified of ghosts) to the school at night to see if the mysterious creature is a Chimera Animal--but it turns out to be Lettuce, who transforms into Mew Lettuce and attacks them. Ichigo is about to fight back when she notices Lettuce is crying. Ichigo confronts Lettuce, saying that she's only fighting because she's scared. Lettuce admits to this and cries that she'll never have any friends.

Mint comforts Lettuce, but Ichigo says she can't let hurting people go unpunished, and pretends like she's going to attack Lettuce, but Ichigo actually tickles her and afterward hugs her as they fall into the pool.

[edit] Tokyo Mew Mew A La Mode

Lettuce was among the Mew Mews who met Berry Shirayuki in her Mew Mew form. When Ichigo returned, she and the rest of the Mew Mews move to her school so the whole group could be together if an enemy shows up.

Later, the Saint Rose Crusaders brainwash the people to believe that Berry was evil. However, Lettuce and the others stand by her side. However, their enemy is turned good and the people knows that Berry is good too.

[edit] Anime

[edit] Tokyo Mew Mew

Lettuce appears in episode 3 of Tokyo Mew Mew. Running late for school, Ichigo runs into Lettuce (literally). A demonstation clip of a model car crashing into a wall and a dummy being pushed back by an airbag demonstrated how they crashed and added humour for some. The two fall over and Lettuce apologizes profusely. Ichigo notices that she has four schoolbags and wonders why, when three girls appear and tell Lettuce to hurry up. Lettuce apologizes one more time and runs off.

Later, the four girls are sitting in Cafe Mew Mew, talking about a mysterious ghost that haunts their school's pool. They try to persuade Lettuce to go and find out what it is. As their aggressiveness increases, Ichigo runs over with "Ketchup and Mayonaise Parfaits" and purposely had her hand "slip", dumping the food in the three girls' faces. The girls try to attack her but she ducks and the three girls crash into a table. Keiichiro appears and asks for the girls to forgive Ichigo's clumsiness. Charmed, the girls go with him as Keiichiro escorts the girls to the bathroom to wash up, and Ichigo introduces herself to Lettuce, who says she only hangs out with them because she wants to be their friend. She thinks she is made fun of because she thinks she always does something to upset the three girls. The three girls appear and Lettuce leaves the Cafe.

Later that night, Mint drags Ichigo (who, as it turns out, is terrified of ghosts) to the school at night to see if the mysterious creature is a Chimera Animal--but it turns out to be Mew Lettuce, who attacks them. Ichigo is about to fight back when she notices Lettuce is crying. Ichigo confronts Lettuce, saying that she's only fighting because she's scared. Lettuce admits to this and cries that she'll never have any friends because she has "this body" and that she is weird. Mint comforts Lettuce, but Ichigo says she can't let hurting people go unpunished, and pretends to attack Lettuce with her Ribbon Strawberry "Jail", but she tells Lettuce it was to get rid of her "weirdness". Ichigo hugs Lettuce and they fall into the pool.

[edit] Mew Mew Power

In Mew Mew Power, Bridget is bossed around by three popular girls called 'The 3 Beckys' and vents out her anger at nighttime at the school. However, Zoey and Corina befriend her and she stops hanging around with the three girls. She also seems to be intelligent, while Lettuce is not mentioned to be especially smart. Although, Zoey once said that Bridget had a t-shirt that said "Me+Math=Love". This could mean that Bridget is exceptionally good at math.

The first part of her transformation has also been cut, due to her being silhouetically naked during most of the sequence. However, 4Kids has not given her a specific transformation, unlike the other Mew mews, and she only appears in group transformations. They are also very inconsistent in doing this and sometimes she spins two times on herself - in the original version, she spins only once.

[edit] Personality

Lettuce is a smart, shy, clumsy girl who is very polite. She comes from a positive family and always speaks formally. She always has a hard time opening up, but she is very sweet. She doesn't believe in fighting but does if she has to. She always does what she thinks is right.

At Cafe Mew Mew, Lettuce always tries her best, despite her clumsiness where she might break some dishes.

[edit] Profile

Name: Lettuce Midorikawa
Name Translation: "Retasu"-Lettuce (romanization of "lettuce"), "Midori"-Green, "kawa"-River/stream
Name Pronounciation: Reh-tah-soo Mee-dou-ree-kah-wah
Alias: Mew Lettuce
Signature Color: Green
Age: 13 (15 in Mew Mew Power)
Birthday: April 29th, which is the Greenery Day in Japan. This day was most likely chosen to be her birthday because her signature color is green.
Grade: 8th (10th in Mew Mew Power)
Hair Color: Dark Green (Light Green in Mew Form)
Eye Color: Blue-violet (Green in Mew Mew Form)
Height: 5 feet 2 inches
Weight: 92 lbs
BMI: 18.7
Likes: Making dolls
Talents: Sewing
Favorite foods: Stewed foods
Least favorite foods: Mushrooms
Blood Type: A
Mew Mew Mark: Two Finless Porpoise above her heart, colored green
Transformatiion saying: Mew Mew Lettuce, Metamorphosis!
Animal: Finless Porpoise
Love interest: Lettuce has her first love in the anime which ends up as just friendship (her crush loved someone else), but she later falls in love with Ryou Shirogane, and kisses him once in the anime. It is not known if her feelings are returned.

[edit] Abilities and Weapons

Her DNA is infused with that of the Finless Porpoise, though she cannot swim unless she becomes a mermaid with Mew Aqua (her legs become a porpoise tail). Later, apparently she can breath in water and swim a bit. In the manga, she instead becomes a mermaid when immersed in water while transformed. At first, her powers were fueled by rage, but after meeting Ichigo and Mint they were calmed down, so to speak. Her attacks focus on water.

[edit] Tokyo Mew Mew

Weapons: Lettuce Castanets (Lettuce Tanet in the Tokyopop English version)
Attacks: Ribbon Lettuce Rush.

In the earlier volumes of TokyoPop's English translation of the manga series, Lettuce's attack was misromanized as "Ribbon Lettuce Rash" and "Ribbon Lettuce Flash". "Rash" is most likely due to the way "rush" is writen in Japanese. In katakana, "rush" is writen as "rashu" (ラシュ), which looks more like "rash" than "rush". As for "Ribbon Lettuce Flash", the "r" and "l" are the same in Japanese, and Tokyopop used the "L", making it look more like "lash", which sounds a bit like "flash".

The pun of her weapon in the Japanese version is a cross between "lettuce" (レタス retasu) and part of "castanet" (タネットtanetto, from カスタネット kasutanetto), making it "retasutanetto" (レタスタネット), which translates to "Lettuce tanet", or "Lettuce castanet".

[edit] Mew Mew Power

Weapon: Combat Castanets (Also known as "Morse Code Castanets")
Attacks: The name of her attack is constantly changing. Some examples include: Deep Sea Surge Attack, Tidal Wave Rush, and Underwater Surge Attack

[edit] Voice Actor

In Tokyo Mew Mew, her seiyū is Kumi Sakuma.
In Mew Mew Power, her voice actor is Bella Hudson.

[edit] Trivia

Lettuce's two character songs are Hitori de Itemo and Umi wo Miteita.
Lettuce's name is written in hiragana, which is odd because her name is not a Japanese word, so her name should be written with katakana. The reason for this maybe to add emphasis, just like how in Japan, they use katakana for Japanese words.