Mashio Akai (赤井 真潮, Akai Mashio) is the older brother of Ringo Akai. He appears in the Tokyo Mew Mew PS1 game.
His younger sister, Ringo, looks up to him. The two siblings live on a nature reserve island with Ringo's pet penguin, Yuki.
Etymology[]
- The name Mashio means "real, genuine" (真) (ma) and "tide, ebb, opportunity" (潮) (shio).
- Mashio's surname Akai means "red" (赤) (aka) and "well, mine shaft, pit" (井) (i).
- Mashio's last name means red in contrast to Masaya as the first part of his last name means blue.
Trivia[]
- Mashio has a strong physical resemblance to Masaya Aoyama.
- The two also have similar sounding names with the same initials.
- They both share the same Japanese voice actor.