User blog:GlitterInformer/Smile Pretty Cure!/Glitter Force SDC: Episode 28 (Sub), 23 (Dub)

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'''Japanese title: “Lies? Truth? I’m Not Scared of Ghosts!”'''

English title: “The Ghost Hunters”

Wow, Glitter Force, it’s been a long time since we last saw you! While you were gone, the entirety of summer break went by! Isn’t it interesting that even though summer break is shorter in Japan, it seemed longer in the Japanese version? Well, don’t get too sad that you missed out on vacation; we have a ghost story to tell!

Ironically, even though this episode marks the end of summer vacation in the show, I’m writing this article on the first day of summer vacation!

Anyway, the episode starts with Miyuki/Emily happily walking to school with Candy in tow, excited for school to start up again. Miyuki is singing; Emily is just talking to Candy. In the sub, Candy asks if school is fun, which is weird because Candy has been visiting school since about the beginning of the schoolyear. In the dub, she more appropriately asks why Emily isn’t “bummed out.” If I only had one episode of summer vacation, I’d definitely be bummed out. Fortunately, Miyuki/Emily isn’t me. She’s excited to meet everyone in class again.

We cut to Miyuki/Emily entering class, where Nao/April is screaming because of something the girls are reading to her. Miyuki/Emily asks what’s wrong (in the dub, she and Kelsey ask if it’s a bug), and Yayoi/Lily says that they were talking about stories they were reading over break and she was showing Nao/April a book of ghost stories. The cover on the book is changed. In case the pictures are too small to read, the Japanese book is called True Terrifying Tales from School,, while the English book is called A School Full of Ghosts.

Additionally, the shot of the book is mirrored in the dub. This is because the front cover of a Japanese book is in the same location as the back cover of an American book. In other words, Japanese books are read backwards.



Overall: This was a good episode. Majorina/Brooha’s strategy was interesting and resulted in fun antics. However, I didn’t much like how the others didn’t believe or even seem to care about Miyuki/Emily and Nao/April, especially Akane/Kelsey, who was a bit of a jerk this episode. Still, the conflict was engaging, despite not a single punch or kick being thrown.

Next time: The girls face off against the villains in a world filled with games!