Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins is the sixth and final original Strawberry Shortcake TV special, and the final one produced by Nelvana. It's also the only one to get a theatrical release (albeit cut down to 12 minutes in theaters, while being 24 minutes on television) as a short before The Care Bears Movie. I think this one is the weakest of the originals, and I'll state why I think so below. In this one, while planning for a Garden Party, the kids in Strawberryland find their best fruits plopped at their doorstep, and soon meet the 'Berry Princess', who reveals that the 'fruits' are little humanoid baby fruit creatures called "Berrykins". After introducing each Berrykin to the kids in rhyme, they duck for cover when it begins to rain. When they come back out to smell the fruits, they are shocked to find that they all smell like the wrong kinds of foods, like strawberries that smell like pizza, grapes that smell like chocolate, lemons that smell like catnip, etc. It doesn't take too long for Strawberry Shortcake and the Berry Princess to find out who's behind these strange fragrances...
I think the first three Strawberry Shortcake specials by Murakami Wold and Swenson & Toei are the best ones, and that the Nelvana ones are the weaker ones; the songs in this one aren't particularly memorable compared to the previous specials, especially the opening song, which is a rewritten version of a song from the "Housewarming" special. The writing is pretty bare, with this one not having as much plot as the previous ones, the "raincloud" story takes up most of the runtime and some moments feel like filler and like they could've been cut out (which actually happens in the shorter theatrical cut). The voice acting is decent, although Mr Sun sounds the most disinterested he's ever been in these specials, and the voice they got for the Berry Princess is the blandest sounding Strawberry Shortcake character I've ever heard in my life (aside from her singing voice at the end). The animation seems to be on a bigger budget than the previous Nelvana specials, as evident in the designs of the characters, and in the movement being more expressive, and also the fact that they tried to beef this one up a bit in it's look for theaters. Overall, this one is the worst of the 6 Strawberry Shortcake specials, but it's still pretty passable, and if you aren't looking for problems with it, you may like it fine.