User blog:GlitterInformer/Smile Pretty Cure!/Glitter Force SDC: Episode 15 (Sub), 14 (Dub)

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Japanese title: "Bam! Miyuki’s Mother’s Day Challenge!"

English title: "Mother’s Day Crunch"

We start in the girls’ hideout in the Mysterious Library/Library of Legends, where Miyuki/Emily is reading a book. Text on the book is erased in the dub. (The picture zooms upward rather quickly, so it’s hard to get the screenshots perfectly in sync.)



We cut to Miyuki/Emily and her mom walking home at sunset. Miyuki/Emily apologizes for failing at the chores, but her mom says that she loved it because Miyuki/Emily put so much effort into it. We then have a touching montage of the other four girls giving their presents to their mothers. It’s exciting to finally discover what Nao/April and Reika/Chloe’s moms look like (and dub viewers get to see Kelsey’s mom and brother for the first time, too! I wonder if Genki will ever get an English name.). In Glitter Force fashion, the flashback is silent in the original, but Emily talks over it in the dub, saying that if all of their mothers are as happy as hers is, this will be a really big happy ending.

We cut back to Miyuki/Emily and her mom. Miyuki/Emily hugs her, thanks her, and tells her she loves her. In the sub, the two of them giggle. In the dub, Emily giggles and her mom says “You’d better! It’s Mother’s Day.” We pan up to the first star in the sky, and the episode ends.

Overall: This was an okay episode. However, I feel that Miyuki/Emily has been getting a bit too much focus lately. Both this episode and episode 13->12 focused on her, and 14->13 and 12->11 were group episodes. There hasn’t been any focus on the other girls in the team since 11->10. Also, the episode was rather predictable. Since this episode was about what Miyuki/Emily was going to do for Mother’s Day, I knew from the very beginning that Miyuki/Emily would try too hard to do something perfect, only to find out that anything she did would be good because of the thought going into it. However, it was still interesting, what with Miyuki/Emily realizing she had no talents and Sunny and March/Spring having an epic moment against Wolfrun/Ulric. Plus, Candy had great voice acting in the dub this episode!

Next episode: Reika/Chloe quits everything, including the Pretty Cure/Glitter Force! (Finally, a focus episode for Reika/Chloe! This hasn’t happened since her introduction in episode 5!!)