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{{Chapter Infobox
|title = Chapter 1: In the Beginning
|japanese = 
|image = TMM chapter 1.jpg
|series = ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew (Manga)|Tokyo Mew Mew]]''
|volume = [[Tokyo Mew Mew 1|Volume 1]]
|chapter = 1
|anime = Ep. [[Turning into a Cat – Justice Lies in a Girl in Love ~Nya!|1]] (''[[Tokyo Mew Mew (Anime)|TMM]]'')<br>Ep. [[Wait, What?! I'm a Superhero Now?! Meow!|1]] (''[[Tokyo Mew Mew New|TMMN]]'')
|previous = –
|next = [[Chapter 2: In the Beginning|Chapter 2]]
}}
'''Chapter 1: In the Beginning''' is the 1st chapter the ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew (Manga)|Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' manga.

== Synopsis ==
During an earthquake at an endangered species exhibit, Ichigo Momomiya and four other girls are bathed in a strange light. Ichigo sees herself being merged with a cat. Afterwards, she begins to display cat-like behaviors. The following day, Ichigo is at the river with her crush, Masaya Aoyama, when they are attacked by a monster rat. While Masaya is unconscious, Ichigo is rescued by Ryou Shirogane, who prompts her to defeat the monster. Ichigo transforms into the heroine Mew Ichigo and quickly defeats the rat, which Ryou explains is an alien parasite called a "chimera anima" that turns animals into monsters. Ichigo learns that she is a "Mew Mew", a biological weapon created to protect the Earth from these aliens.

== Characters ==
* [[Ichigo Momomiya]]/Mew Ichigo
* [[Masaya Aoyama]]
* [[Minto Aizawa]]
* [[Retasu Midorikawa]]
* [[Bu-Ling Huang]]
* [[Zakuro Fujiwara]]
* [[Ryou Shirogane]]
* [[Miwa Honjo]]
* [[Moe Yanagida]]
* [[Masha (Tokyo Mew Mew)|Masha]]
* [[Keiichiro Akasaka]] (voice only)

== Trivia ==
* The original chapter didn't have a title.
* In the North American English release of ''Tokyo Mew Mew'', Tokyopop combined the four unnamed chapters in the first volume into a single named chapter.

[[Category:Tokyo Mew Mew chapters]]