User blog:GlitterInformer/Smile Pretty Cure!/Glitter Force SDC: Episode 7

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'Japanese title: Where Is It? Our Secret Base!?'

English title: The Perfect Hideout

The episode starts with Miyuki/Emily putting the Phone Décor/Charm from last episode in the Décor Décor/Charm Chest, summoning a hologram of Pop. In the sub, Pop just appears, but in the dub, the Décor Décor says, “Activate Glitter Charm: Phone!” as he appears. Candy and the other girls are excited.

In the sub, Pop says that they’ve gotten the hang of using the Phone Décor (it’s pretty easy; just put it in the Décor Décor, right?), while in the dub, he asks if the Glitter Force has an emergency to report. The five girls wave, and Nao/April is amazed that they’re connected. While Yayoi is excited that they can talk anytime, Lily comments on the surprisingly good reception.

Suddenly, two girls appear behind the team. One of them asks what they’re doing. As everyone tries to hide the Décor Décor, Akane/Kelsey fibs that there’s a UFO, which everyone else surprisingly buys. She then says that it was just a bird (a crow in the sub, a big pigeon in the dub). The other four sigh in relief.

The opening themes play. Like last time, the Japanese opening footage is replaced with clips from New Stage, while the English opening is left as is. It’s different movie footage than last episode, though; while the last episode focused on the ''Yes! Pretty Cure 5 team (which was rather deceptive, given that they barely did anything in the movie), this time, the main focus is the Splash Star and Suite'' teams, one of which actually plays a major role in the film. Not that you have to know this, anyway…

Here are the images unique to this episode's Japanese opening. Caution: these images contain major spoilers for Suite Pretty Cure♪



Two girls are near there, and they talk about the games they want to play (house in the sub, tea party and shopping in the dub). They don’t realize that Wolfrun/Ulric is floating over them. In the sub, Wolfrun says they can laugh all they want, but he’s got his evil face on, and he plans to bring horror to the entire world. In the dub, Ulric says that if they knew their fairy tales, they wouldn’t be playing in the woods where a big bad wolf could come along.

In the sub, we have our eyecatches, which display Beauty and Candy. Then, we cut to the five girls walking down a dirt path. Miyuki/Emily excitedly runs down the path. Yayoi/Lily says she’s like a little kid, and the others laugh at the irony. During this sequence, Reika/Chloe's box is shown again. This time, the Japanese version has scribbles instead of Japanese text, and the dub doesn't edit the label, despite the fact that this inaction creates a continuity error.

However, when the group finally reaches the secret place, the two girls from earlier are already there. Miyuki/Emily is disappointed, but she smiles and walks away to find another place.

Wolfrun/Ulric chooses just then to attack. While Wolfrun is annoyed by the girls’ smiles, Ulric is annoyed by the tea party. Either way, he summons a Bad End and turns the Wheel of Doom another click. Candy tells the team to transform, and they do so. The transformations are shown almost entirely in the sub, but they’re cut down a bit in the dub, which is good, because transformations for too long get boring. Also, because of the dub's cringeworthy added dialogue.

Wolfrun comments that Pretty Cure came and says he’ll show them how fearsome he is, while Ulric complains that he never wants to see the Glitter Force transform again. He then turns a tree into an Akanbe/Buffoon. Happy complains that he’s desecrating the little girls’ special place, while Lucky complains that turning a tree into a monster is bad for the environment. With this out of place line and Pop being into recycling from last episode, I’m getting the feeling that Saban has a green agenda…

The monster tries to smash the team, but they jump and avoid it. Unfortunately, it tires again and knocks the five into the ground. Wolfrun says asks what makes the forest so special, anyway, while Ulric brags that he could turn the entire forest into a parking lo with a mini-mall. Happy/Lucky explains that this forest is a special place where kids come to play and have fun, and she won’t let him touch it.

Wolfrun/Ulric sends the Akanbe/Buffoon after the team. Happy/Lucky tries to use her Happy Shower/Sparkle Storm, but while she’s summoning her spirit, the monster goes to crush her. Fortunately, the other four hold the Akanbe/Buffoon up, keeping it from squishing her. Happy/Lucky takes the chance to attack, defeating the Akanbe/Buffoon and freeing the Ring Décor/Charm, which Candy puts inside the Décor Décor/Charm Chest.

Speaking of which, here’s my theory. There’s only 16 slots in the Décor Décor/Charm Chest. Since there are 22 hours on the Wheel of Doom, that leaves 6 Décors/Charms unaccounted for. There are five Décors/Charms that the team uses to transform. And since the white Décor/Charm from the New Stage probably isn’t canon to the show, this probably means that the Décor Décor/Charm Chest is the final Décor/Charm. This would explain why its Japanese name is so redundant: it’s the Décor of Décors!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Back to what’s really happening. The girls watch the two kids continue to play and then they walk away. Miyuki/Emily then gets an idea. She suggests that they leave it up to the Book Door to decide. In the sub, she plans to ask it to take them to a suitable place; in the dub, she suggests they all concentrate on the sort of place they want. Akane/Kelsey asks the Book Door aloud, but Reika/Chloe says she doesn’t have to do that, and Yayoi/Lily says her wish won’t come true if she says it aloud.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">As the girls go through the portal, dialogue is added in the dub. Emily narrates the directions she pushes the books (we get it already!), Kelsey says, “Next stop: who knows?” and Aprils says, for the umpteenth time, she hopes there’s furniture, which annoys Emily.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">The team just ends up in the library again. Nao/April thinks the portal is broken, and Akane/Kelsey complains that she wanted a super-cool base. Then, Miyuki/Emily realizes that the library was the perfect place all along (told you!!). While Miyuki says that anywhere the girls can enjoy themselves is a good secret place, Emily says that it isn’t as dangerous as they thought, and it’s as private as you can get.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">The others agree. However, before they can truly call it home, the girls realize the toadstools they’re sitting on are too far apart. They then try sitting on the same one, but there isn’t enough room and Yayoi/Lily falls over. Candy then suggest using the Star Décor/Charm to decorate the library. Golden powder rains from the sky and turns a tree trunk into a wooden house for the group to use. Akane/Kelsey tells Candy that she could have told them they could do that sooner. Miyuki/Emily says that that was the whole point; looking across all those places let them realize how awesome the library was in the first place.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">In the sub, Akane agrees, Nao points out that Akane said it was bad in the first place (you did too, Nao!), and Akane tells her not to bring that up. In the dub, Kelsey is surprised that Emily was so deep, April asks if she’s not disappointed that there aren’t any gorillas, and Kelsey qualifies that gorillas are pretty cool.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">We then see Yayoi/Lily and Reika/Chloe looking at the wall, where Reika/Chloe’s scroll is pinned. In the sub, Reika asks if it looks good and Yayoi says it’s a bit off. In the dub, Chloe says her mission statement looks great and Lily says a calendar would work better. Meanwhile, Candy is using a necklace-making machine to further decorate the base. The girls then use their mugs to give a toast to their brand new secret hideout, and the episode ends.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">By the way, the Japanese ending starts with Sunny this time. I suppose the Cures rotate every episode.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Also, they continue the keyword thing. It turns out they actually come up with a new keyword each week. They only reveal one of the syllables of the four-syllable word. If you guess it, you get a prize.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Overall: This was a fun episode. I feel the focus was shared equally on all five members of the team, except for the fight scene. Today’s fight was rather lackluster, especially compared to New Stage. It also put most of its focus on Happy/Lucky. However, it was fun to see everyone’s differing ideas of where to put the base.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Voice acting wise, everyone does a good job except for Candy, who was on-and-off. Sometimes she was unconvincing, but sometimes she did a good job. We’re all waiting for you, Candy. Pick this dub up!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Next time: Miyuki/Emily and Candy switch bodies!