Pudding Fong
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| Pudding Fong | |
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| Tokyo Mew Mew character | |
 Pudding in her Mew form as seen in the anime. |
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| First appearance | Episode seven |
| Created by | Mia Ikumi Reiko Yoshida |
| Voiced by | Hisayo Mochizuki (Japanese) Kether Donahue (English) |
| Profile | |
| Aliases | Mew Pudding |
| Gender | female |
| Known relatives | Mother (deceased) Father (training in the mountains) Sister Heicha Brothers Hanacha, Chincha, Lucha and Honcha |
| DNA | Golden Lion Tamarin |
| English adaptation | |
| Name | Kikki Benjamin |
| Aliases | Mew Kikki |
| Age | 8 |
Pudding Fong (黄 歩鈴, Chinese Pinyin: Huáng Bùlíng or Huang Bu Ling, Japanese: Fong Pudding)[Name] is a fictional character in the anime and manga series, Tokyo Mew Mew. She is known as Kikki Benjamin in Mew Mew Power.
Pudding is a hyper, lively child that likes to act and put on performances. She usually refers to herself in the third person (i.e. "Pudding wants to play" instead of "I want to play") and puts "na no da" at the end of almost all her sentences in the Japanese manga and anime, as a sort of catchphrase.[1] At Café Mew Mew, Pudding performs tricks while being a waitress, and often breaks things because of this. Balancing on a big ball, fire breathing and dish spinning are only a few of her tricks. She prefers things to be simple and can think up solutions to almost every problem.
Pudding cares a lot for her family and treasures her memories of her late mother.[citation needed] Pudding has four brothers and a sister, Hanacha, Chincha, Lucha, Honcha, and Heicha,[2][3] and has a pet monkey named Ah-Nin (in the manga).[4][5] Her father is rarely home, so she has to take care of her siblings and earn money for her family. In the anime, Pudding is shown as caring very deeply for Heicha's teacher, because the teacher reminds Pudding of her deceased mother. When Pudding falls ill (in Episode 20), Heicha's teacher comes to look after her toward the end of the sickness, and Pudding asks her, "Could you pretend to be my mom for a while?" When the teacher agrees, Pudding rests her head on her newfound "mother"'s lap; she has such strong feelings of love and longing for her real mom that, after holding back for so long, she then dissolves into sobs.
Pudding considers the alien Tart as a "buddy" and is determined to establish a friendship with him. It is implied that Tart likes her as well, though he usually denies it. Several times in the manga and anime, Taruto blushes when Pudding hugs him and calls him her friend.
In the anime, Pudding also calls him the affectionate nickname, Taru-Taru. In episode 40, Pudding and Tart are trapped underground, when Tart realizes that Pudding is running out of air, and will die if he doesn't do anything, he hastily teleports her above ground. When Pudding regains consciousness, she hugs Tart, saying he saved her, and how he's a good guy. He blushes and pushes her away, and claims that he only saved her life because he hasn't seen her crying yet, but is happy about the candy he received. Later in episode 50, he catches her when shes about to fall, and says how much of a fool he was and how he hated the fighting. She then says that now that he is with her she is 100 times stronger, and puts her face close to his.
At the end of the manga after Deep Blue is destroyed and the aliens no longer want to take earth back. Pudding comes to Tart, saying she will miss him. Pudding kisses Taruto and at the same time sticks a candy drop in his mouth. Tart blushes and says he might come back someday to get another candy drop.
[edit] References
- ^ Ikumi, Mia; Yoshida, Reiko. Tokyo Mew Mew volume 2, page 152. Kodansha. ISBN 4061789651.
- ^ Ikumi, Mia; Yoshida, Reiko. Tokyo Mew Mew volume 5, page 32 (English translation). Tokyopop. ISBN 1591825482.
- ^ Episode 20
- ^ Ikumi, Mia; Yoshida, Reiko. Tokyo Mew Mew volume 3, page 52 (English translation). Tokyopop. ISBN 1591822386.
- ^ Ikumi, Mia; Yoshida, Reiko. Tokyo Mew Mew volume 4, page 33 (English translation). Tokyopop. ISBN 1591822394.
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