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{{Episode
|title = Turning into a Cat – Justice Lies in a Girl in Love ~Nya!
|image = TMM EP1 title.png
|caption = 
|series = ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew (Anime)|Tokyo Mew Mew]]''
|season = 1
|episode = 1
|japanese = ネコになる、正義の味方は恋する少女にゃん
|romaji = Neko ni naru, seigi no mikata wa koisuru shōjo nyan
|chapter = [[Chapter 1: In the Beginning|Ch. 1]]
|airdate = April 6, 2002 (Japan)
|writer = Masashi Sogo
|director = Noriyuki Abe
|opening = ''[[My Sweet Heart|my sweet heart]]''
|ending = ''[[Koi wa à la Mode]]''
|insert = 
|previous = 
|next = [[A New Comrade – Justice Lies in a Real Lady ~Nya!]]
}}
'''Turning into a Cat – Justice Lies in a Girl in Love ~Nya!''' (jpn. ネコになる、正義の味方は恋する少女にゃん ''Neko ni naru, seigi no mikata wa koisuru shōjo nyan'') is the 1st episode of the 1st season of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew (Anime)|Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' anime. It aired in Japan on April 6, 2002. 

== Summary ==
[[Ichigo Momomiya]] is on a date with her crush, [[Masaya Aoyama]], when there is an earthquake. Ichigo has a 'dream' that an Irimote cat went inside her but later it is revealed that it was a real happening. After the earthquake, Ichigo starts acting like a cat. When a monster attacks them, a mysterious man saves Ichigo and tells her to defeat it. The man gives Ichigo a pendant, which she uses to transform into Mew Ichigo. From there, her instincts take over and she defeats the monster. The man then refuses to explain what happened, and so, another came forward to introduced himself as [[Keiichiro Akasaka]], and the other man: [[Ryou Shirogane]].

== Characters ==
* [[Ichigo Momomiya]]/Mew Ichigo
* [[Masaya Aoyama]]
* [[Miwa Honjo]]
* [[Moe Yanagida]]
* [[Sakura Momomiya]] (voice, mentioned)
* [[Shintaro Momomiya]] (mentioned)
* [[Keiichiro Akasaka]]
* [[Ryou Shirogane]]
* [[Masha (Tokyo Mew Mew)|Masha]]

== Differences from the manga ==

== Gallery ==

== Trivia ==
* This is the first episode of the first anime adaption.
* This episode was moved to the [[Episode 02: The Mew Kid in Town|second episode]] of the English dub, the first being [[Episode 12: I've Been Exposed, The Cherry Petals Fall At The End Of Spring|episode 12]] of the original.
* This episode marks the first appearance of [[Ichigo Momomiya|Ichigo Momomiya,]] [[Ryou Shirogane]], [[Keiichiro Akasaka]], [[Miwa Honjo]], [[Moe Yanagida]], [[Masaya Aoyama|Aoyama Masaya]]. This episode also introduce's Ichigo's transformation and first attack.

[[Category:Season One]]
[[Category:Tokyo Mew Mew episodes]]