The Blue Knight (Tokyo Mew Mew)

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Ao no Kishi (Blue Knight and Cavaliere Blu)

The Blue Knight is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Tokyo Mew Mew. The Blue Knight's Japanese name is simply translated into English in both Mew Mew Power and Tokyopop's manga, and is translated into Italian as Cavaliere Blu in Mew Mew: Amiche Vincenti.

1 History
- 1.1 Manga
  - 1.1.1 Tokyo Mew Mew
  - 1.1.2 Tokyo Mew Mew à la mode
- 1.2 Anime
  - 1.2.1 Tokyo Mew Mew
  - 1.2.2 Mew Mew Power
2 Personality
3 Profile
4 Difference between Kanji
5 Weapons and Abilites
6 Voice Actress and Voice Actors
7 Trivia
8 External Links

[edit] History

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Manga

[edit] Tokyo Mew Mew

The Blue Knight seen on the last page of volume four.

The Blue Knight is introduced at the end of volume four, saving Ichigo Momomiya from aquatic Chimera Animas and saying he promises to protect her. Continuing into volume five Kish interrupts saying Ichigo is his, and attacks the Blue Knight. Kish thinks he has hurt him badly, but without noticing, the Blue Knight leaves two cuts on his face. Angered, Kish leaves saying he will get Ichigo back. Ichigo appreciates what the Blue Knight did, but questions why he helped her. He replies that he is all hers, and was born to protect her. Ichigo then says he reminds her of someone. She comes to the conclusion that it has to be Ryou Shirogane, as he said "You're heavier than you look", and Ryou said the same thing when she first met him.

Much later, the Blue Knight protects Ichigo from the Chimera Anima called "Zenomoglin". Ichigo sees that he was injured from Zenomoglin, and says he can fight too, as opposed to him just protecting her. Fighting together, they manage to defeat Zenomoglin, and the Blue Knight disappears again.

Later in the fifth volume, Ichigo begins to think that the Blue Knight is Keiichiro Akasaka, the manager of Café Mew Mew, because they both have a wound in the same place, and they both treat her like a princess.

After Ichigo reveals to Masaya Aoyama that she is a Mew Mew, the Blue Knight shows up to help her fight the numerous Chimera Anima. Kish looks rather pleased to see him, saying this will be a chance to get revenge on him. Kish then splits into many illusions, confusing Ichigo and the Blue Knight. The Blue Knight attacks one of the illusions, thinking it is Kish, but it disappears. Kish then holds Ichigo, which angers the Blue Knight. It is not clearly shown what happened, but Kish states that he destroyed all the illusions and injured him badly as well. Possibly because he realizes the Blue Knight is stronger than him, Kish says he wants the Blue Knight to kill him. Looking rather surprised that he was going to kill him as she thought he wasn't going to, Ichigo stops him from doing so, saying it is enough. He then disappears and is not seen until the next volume.

[edit] Tokyo Mew Mew à la mode

The Blue Knight does not appear in À la mode.

[edit] Anime

[edit] Tokyo Mew Mew

The Blue Knight is introduced in episode 17, titled "Ao no Kishi, Omae wa Ore ga Mamoru!!" (The Blue Knight - I Will Protect You!!), when he comes to save Mew Ichigo from Kish as Ichigo was ill and was too weak to fight.

In the next episode, when asked by Kish who he is, the Blue Knight replies by saying, "Who knows?.. Obviously not your ally!". Kish provoked, attacks him, but the Blue Knight is able to hold against his attacks. Ichigo wonders why the Blue Knight saved her. He then gets injured in the arm when trying to protect Ichigo from Kish. The other Mews arrive, and Kish leaves, outnumbered. The Blue Knight then tells Mew Ichigo that he was born to protect her, and walks away. Just then, Ryou appears out of nowhere and catches Mew Ichigo, who faints. The girls begin to think that the Blue Knight is actually Ryou. Ichigo remembers that the Blue Knight said she was heavier than she looked, the same thing that Ryou said when he saved her from a rat Chimera Anima in episode 1.

Later, the Blue Knight often helps the Mews fight Chimera Animas, and often tells them what the monster's weak point is, making it easier for them to defeat it.

Ichigo continues to believe that the Blue Knight is Ryou up until episode 44, where the two eventually appear in the same place at the same time.

The Blue Knight's true identity is revealed in episode 45, when Kish tries to kill Ichigo (who can't transform because he knocked away her pendant), because she refused to be with him. Masaya (in normal form) comes to help her, and the scene gives the impression that he can sense if Ichigo is in danger. When she tells him to run away, he refuses. Kish is annoyed, and tries to attack him, but Ichigo interrupts, and Masaya only gets cut in the arm. Masaya then transforms into the Blue Knight right in front of Ichigo and Kish (it isn't clear whether he transformed at his own will or not), but because of his injury he can't fight normally, and Kish nearly kills him. Ryou appears with other Mews, and they hear Ichigo calling the Blue Knight "Aoyama-kun". Ichigo grabs her pendant and runs in front of Kish's attack to protect Masaya. Kish is shocked, thinking that he killed Ichigo, but Mew Ichigo's weapon puts a shield around her, saving both her and the Blue Knight. After that, Masaya joins the team, though Ryou doesn't seem to like the idea.

[edit] Mew Mew Power

The episode where the Blue Knight was introduced was titled "A Knight to Remember" in the English dub (probably a pun on the title of 1955 book by Walter Lord and its 1958 film adaptation, "A Night to Remember"). The only significant alteration was that 4Kids had Sean Schemmel, who voiced Elliot as well, voice the Blue Knight, instead of Mark's voice actor, Scottie Ray. As 4Kids' adaptation did not reach episode 45, it is not clear how they would handle the part of the series where the Blue Knight's identity was revealed; it is possible that they could change his VA so that his voice would match Mark's voice, as was done in the Italian adaptation, Mew Mew: Amiche Vincenti.

[edit] Personality

Before Masaya realized he was the Blue Knight, his personality while transformed is very different from his normal personality. As the Blue Knight, he is very serious and devoted to protecting Ichigo.

[edit] Profile

Race: possibly half-alien and half-human, because he's a human boy with the spirit of an alien inside him, hence his appearance.
Japanese Name: Ao no Kishi (蒼の騎士) (Notice that the kanji "ao" is not the same as in Aoyama's name)
Japanese Name pronouniation: Ah-oh-noh-kee-shee
Age: Unknown, possibly the same age as Masaya.
Height: Unknown, possibly the same as Masaya.
Weight: Unknown, possibly the same as Masaya.
Hair Color: blond
Eye Color: sky blue

[edit] Difference between Kanji

The kanji for "blue" in Masaya's and the Blue Knight's name are different. The purpose of this could possibly be to have the Blue Knight's identity more shrouded in mystery, especially in the manga, when their names are written. This would be harder in the anime, as the Blue Knight's name is only seen twice - in the titles of episode 17 and episode 45.

Since non-Japanese are more familiar with 青 ao meaning "blue", this could have lead some fans (fans who know Japanese) to suspect that Masaya would most likely be the Blue Knight. Fans who haven't seen the Japanese version of the anime and manga, assumed "ao" would be 青, not the other kanji, since most of the Tokyo Mew Mew sites show only romanization of his name, not the kanji. Another reason would be that some fans have only seen the anime, where the Blue Knight's name is seen only twice.

Interestingly, the Blue Knight's kanji for blue, 蒼 ao, originally meant "green". So, in the old sense of the word, his name would be translated to the "Green Knight". But in today's sense, this kanji no longer means green, so a fairly new kanji now means green, which is now 緑 midori.

[edit] Weapons and Abilites

The Blue Knight wields a sword, and uses an attack called "Indigo Comet Blade". In the anime, episode 46, Ichigo powers up his sword using her "Reborn Strawberry Surprise" attack, allowing him to defeat the Chimera Anima. He also appears to have the ability of teleportation, like the other aliens, though he lacks the ability to float in the air..

[edit] Voice Actress and Voice Actors

In Tokyo Mew Mew, his seiyū is Megumi Ogata, who voiced Masaya Aoyama and Deep Blue.
In Mew Mew Power, his voice actor is Sean Schemmel, who voices Ryou.
In Mew Mew: Amiche Vincenti, his voice actor is Davide Garbolino (ep. 17-36), who voiced Ryou, and Patrizio Prata, who voiced Masaya.