User blog:GlitterInformer/Smile Pretty Cure!/Glitter Force SDC: Episode 9

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Japanese title: "No Way~! Yayoi’s Transferring Schools!?"

English title: "April Fools!"

Imagine if the two above titles were lines of dialogue. Wouldn’t that be pretty funny? Given last episode, I hope episode 9 is also funny!

The episode starts with one of the superheroes that Yayoi/Lily likes. We start with him posing in space, but it turns out he’s just an action figure on an alarm clock, which Yayoi/Lily turns off before going back to bed. The sub superhero sounds more realistic, while the dub one sounds more hammy. I’ll leave it to you to decide which one you prefer!

Yayoi/Lily’s mom tells her to get up, but she protests until the mom reveals what’s for breakfast (pancakes in the sub, waffles and whipped cream in the dub). We then have a humorous cut from her lying in bed straight to her energetically running into the kitchen. It turns out that it was just an April Fools joke; the cake was a lie!! Today’s April Fools day, as you may have guessed from the English title. Yayoi/Lily says that on this day, it’s okay to trick people, and her mom says only if she tells people she’s kidding.

Then, Yayoi tells her mom she got a boyfriend, while Lily says she lied when she said she passed her math test. Mom is fooled too easily, and Yayoi/Lily is happy to have gotten her back. As she finishes her breakfast, she thinks about how excited she is to fool everyone today.

The opening theme plays. This time, the Japanese opening shows movie footage of Sakagami Ayumi, the movie-only heroine. Other people are shown, too, but it’s mainly her and her mascot partner, Fuu-chan. The English opening is the same as always. I’m thinking we’ll get back to normal by next episode. The gallery below is spoiler-free, but the links in the captions may contain spoilers for Fresh Pretty Cure!, Heartcatch Pretty Cure!, and Suite Pretty Cure♪.



The black text in the middle of the Japanese card, by the way, says, “Thank you, Yayoi-chan.” I think it’s really cute how, in the dub, names of some of the one-shot characters appear, including Naomi (the cartoonist from episode 3), Kevin and Theresa (student council members from episode 5), and Jared (the student council president from episodes 4 and 5). Cornelius, the artist who bullied Lily in episode 3, even apologizes! This is just so sweet! I wonder if they signed their names in the sub. I can’t read enough Japanese to tell.

Reika/Chloe then asks Yayoi/Lily to give a parting speech, and everyone agrees and starts clapping. In the sub, Reika just says it, but in the dub, Chloe is prompted by someone shouting, “Speech! Speech!” Yayoi/Lily then imagines what would happen if she told them the truth right now.

In the imagine spot in the sub, Reika says that there are proper lies and then there are terrible lies, Nao says that she was terrible, and Akane asks if she was making fun of them. In the dub, Chloe says Lily should never lie to her friends, April says, “Way to be a liar!”, and Kelsey says that the flowers were expensive. Then, in both versions, Miyuki/Emily says that she can’t trust Yayoi/Lily anymore, and the entire class jeers at her.

Yayoi/Lily then thinks that they’d never like her again. While Yayoi worries that she won’t be able to be a Pretty Cure anymore, Lily decides she’ll have to convince her mom to move. I wonder if Yayoi/Lily has a father? Anyway, the class sees Yayoi/Lily start to cry and encourages her to keep going. Yayoi/Lily can’t take it anymore. She starts sobbing and runs out of the room.

We cut to outside the building. The other four girls find Yayoi/Lily crying and apologize to her for doing too much and getting her even sadder. Yayoi/Lily tells them that’s not it.

We then cut to Akaoni/Brute criticizing Yayoi/Lily’s comic from earlier. While Akaoni says it’s boring, Brute says Lily can’t draw. Both versions of him agree that Yayoi/Lily should do a better job of lying. Akaoni/Brute summons a Bad Ending.

The four of Yayoi/Lily’s friends look around. While Miyuki says they have to save everyone, Emily says she thinks they’re going to get company and Brute arrives right on cue. Candy tells them to transform. Miyuki/Emily asks if Yayoi/Lily is okay, and Yayoi/Lily says she is. The five of them transform. By the way, Peace goes with scissors.

While Akaoni says he’ll defeat the team, Brute says he’s got an April Fools surprise for them. He then turns a roller into an Akanbe/Buffoon and sends it after them. Akaoni just tells the Akanbe to punch the girls, while Brute says that he’ll bowl over them (to which Lucky object, “Are we bowling pins?”) before ordering the Buffoon to punch them. As the monster rolls towards them, the girls just stand there and block. Of course, Akaoni/Brute was lying. The monster kicks them instead, sending the team flying. And that’s why you jump away when people come to attack you! Man!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Akaoni/Brute then orders the monster to roll over them. This time, the girls do the sensible thing and jump… which turns out to be the wrong thing to do this time, given that Akaoni/Brute was lying once again and the monster punches them out of the air. I probably would have done the same thing. It’s pretty obvious he was lying, but it would take a while to come up with what the Akanbe/Buffoon was really going to do.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">When Akaoni/Brute makes fun of the group, Happy/Lucky is naturally outraged at him lying. Then, Cure Sunny says, “Haven’t you heard the saying, ‘Show me a liar and I’ll show you a thief?’” Because this is probably a Japanese proverb (I sure don’t understand it), the dub has Glitter Sunny say that April Fools jokes are lame. While Cure March follows this up with saying she hates lies, Glitter Spring says it’s not like she’d expect him to tell the truth. Beauty/Breeze then tells Akaoni/Brute to fight them fair and square.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">After each remark her teammates make, we see Peace get more and more upset. Akaoni/Brute   then calls Peace out, revealing that he read her comic. When Peace apologizes, Akaoni/Brute tells her not to, and that she should keep on lying. It’s their fault they got tricked, anyway. Peace then yells at him for bullying her friends.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Sunny and Beauty/Breeze ask what’s going on, and March/Spring says that if Peace wants to tell them something, she should say it. Peace has an internal monologue in which she worries her friends will hate them if she tells them the truth. Happy/Lucky tells her that no matter what Peace says, they’ll still be her friend. She tells her she remembers how she helped her when she first transferred.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Peace then has a flashback to talking to Miyuki/Emily on her first day at school. In the sub, this flashback is silent, while in the dub, Lily speaks. Peace then finally gets the courage to tell them. Happy/Lucky and Sunny are shocked, and when Peace tells them it was an April Fools joke, Sunny berates Happy/Lucky for falling for it. Happy/Lucky then points out that Sunny was duped, too. While Cure Sunny insists that her acting sympathetic was different, Glitter Sunny says she was playing along and never believed it.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Peace then apologizes. March/Spring says they’re not mad, which surprises Peace. Sunny says that this was really Happy/Lucky’s fault, anyway, and the latter concedes. While Cure Beauty thanks Peace for telling the truth, Glitter Breeze says she’s glad Peace isn’t moving. Peace then starts to cry, and the others tease her.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Unfortunately, Akaoni/Brute, being the bad guy he is, yells that he’s bored and asks if they’re finished yet. While in the sub, only Akaoni speaks, in the dub, Lucky says, “You’re still here.” Then, while Akaoni asks why they were yapping so much about a lie, Brute says he wants to start smashing them again.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Peace gets mad as Akaoni/Brute sends his Akanbe/Buffoon forth. While Cure Peace shouts at him that her friends have given her kindness and that kindness gives her courage, Glitter Peace shouts that he’ll never beat them because friendship is stronger than tricks, lies, or anything. Then, when Akaoni says he doesn’t understand, Brute asks if friendship is stronger than a fist.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Akaoni/Brute orders the monster to punch. Of course, he was lying, and the monster tries to roll them over again (while the Akanbe just says, “Akanbe!” the Buffoon says, “Buffoon Bye-Bye!”). A yellow aura then surrounds Peace as she steps in front of her comrades to tell Akaoni/Brute what she learned. Cure Peace says that she’s learned not to tell lies that will hurt people, while Glitter Peace says that no matter what, you have to face the truth, and asks Brute if he’s ready to do so. I like the dub version better, because not only is it actually a threat, but Peace was never trying to hurt anyone, and the Japanese line implies that she was guilty.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Peace then does this epic flipping in the air, culminating in a kick right to the Akanbe/Buffoon’s face. Right after this, Lucky says, “Nice, Lily!” where Happy says nothing. It’s also strange, given that before in the fight scene, the girls referred to each other by their Glitter Force names. She should be calling her Peace!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Then, Peace uses her attack. Cure Peace just grunts when summoning her spirit, while Glitter Peace shouts, “Go, spirit, go!!” She then uses Peace Thunder/Sparkle Lightning to finish the Akanbe/Buffoon off. What’s weird is that, since there’s a hole in the Akanbe/Buffoon and the magical finishers hit it in the center, the attack didn’t really hit the monster. As he teleports away, Akaoni says that it must be a lie that he lost, while Brute says he wishes it was a lie.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Everything goes back to normal. We see the class recovering from their period of unhappiness. We just hear them muttering in the sub, while in the dub, Lucky voices this over by congratulating Peace (at least she calls her Peace this time!). Candy then shows them the new Pudding Décor/Charm. While in the sub, she says, “Time to put it in the Décor Décor, kuru!” in the dub, she says that they’ll revive Queen Euphoria in no time and that they rock.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">We then cut to the girls back in class as Yayoi/Lily confesses the lie. In the sub, they say, “Eh? A lie?” all at once, but in the dub, we have a more realistic response of one guy saying, “It was a lie?” while the rest of the class murmurs. Also, Yayoi just apologizes, while Lily says it was just a little fib before apologizing. Then, while the Japanese class murmurs and Yayoi is silent, the English class is silent as Lily says she didn’t expect it to get out of hand.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Miyuki/Emily explains that it was an April Fools joke. While in the sub, Miyuki says she was too hasty and Akane berates her for believing it, in the dub, Emily says she was supposed to keep it a secret and Kelsey berates her for telling everyone. In both versions, Miyuki/Emily berates Akane/Kelsey in turn for her hypocrisy.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Reika says that Yayoi has reflected on her actions, while Chloe says that it was a misunderstanding. Reika, that’s rude! This whole thing wasn’t Yayoi’s fault, anyway! Nao/April asks the class if they’ll forgive Yayoi/Lily, and they agree. Yayoi/Lily starts to tear up. While Miyuki says, “Ultra-happy!” and Yayoi repeats after her, Emily says it’s another happy ending and Lily says that’s the best kind. Then, a bunch of classmates surround Yayoi/Lily and tell her how happy they are she’s not moving. In the sub, two of the classmates ask Yayoi to draw for her, while in the dub, Lily asks if they have a tissue.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Akane/Kelsey then organizes the other three into a huddle. They then go up to her. In the sub, they tell her they don’t like her anymore, and in the dub, they tell her they can’t trust her anymore. It’s pretty obvious this is an April Fool’s joke, and it’s made funnier by Reika/Chloe smiling as she says it and Miyuki/Emily stammering it out (though in the dub, Chloe sounds stern, making that part less funny). Yayoi/Lily, however, buys it. They then tell her, all at once, that they were kidding.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">While Miyuki says that because it’s April Fools day, that means they really love her, Emily apologizes, saying she wanted to see the look on her face. In my opinion, the sub line is better due Miyuki being kinder than Emily (though Emily wasn’t mean, either). Yayoi/Lily then starts to cry. In the sub, there’s no lines; in the dub, one of the girls (not even the subtitles say) says her face was priceless. Akane calls her a crybaby, while Kelsey says that now they’re even and Lily jokes that she can move if they want. The entire class laughs, and as cherry blossom petals fall outside, the episode ends.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">It’s been four episodes since What We Need was introduced as the theme song. You know what that means? It’s time for another one, this time with original CGI footage! I’m so excited!! What will this theme be like...??

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">… Eh. Some people say the original CGI is bad. I say it’s fine, though the models are different from the original. That’s not in and of itself a bad thing, but not only are the new models less detailed and lifelike, but there's something a bit uncanny about some of their faces, though I can't put my finger on it. It's nothing creepy, though. The animation is slightly slower at certain points, but the choreography, for the most part, is good. The background is plain, but so is the background in the latter part of the Japanese ending, so it’s okay. What really sinks the ending is that the song, "Run (All Together)", is rather bland. I’m just waiting for another "Wake Up, Shake Up". Is that too much to ask for?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Overall: I liked this insight into Yayoi/Lily’s character. We got to see the less shy, more mischievous side of her today. It was rather infuriating that the problem could have been solved at any time by Yayoi/Lily interrupting them and yelling, “I was joking!” but I guess that she’s shier than I am. Also, the fight scene, while not as good as Cure/Glitter Candy’s epic moves, was still worthwhile.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">I complained about the acting, but really, everyone was good today except for Candy. Fortunately, she only had about three lines, so it wasn’t a big deal.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:276.75pt">Next time: Akane needs some help at her family’s okonomiyaki store!