User blog:GlitterInformer/Doki Doki! Pretty Cure/Glitter Force Doki Doki SDC: Episode 20 (Sub), 14 (Dub)

Episode 19 (Sub) | Table of Contents

'''Japanese title: “The Crystals Show the Way! The Location of the Queen!”'''

English title: “Royal Crystal Chaos”



This episode is where things are gonna start to get REAL. We’re going to find out so many plot-important things today! Let’s dive right in, shall we?

First of all, if you recall, this episode of Glitter Force Doki Doki contains a small amount of footage from episode 19 of ''Doki Doki! Pretty Cure'', though not so much that I classified this article as a summary of episodes 19 and 20. The first scene of this episode is the same as the first scene of episode 19. Regina admires how pretty the red Royal Crystal is and wishes she could have the other four, too. Ira, Marmo, and Bel say she should just take them from Pretty Cure/the Glitter Force if she really wants them. In the sub, Regina says that just taking the Royal Crystals wouldn’t be any fun and she wants to make things more exciting since Mana is involved. In the dub, since the whole game tournament is cut, Regina instead says that she wouldn’t want to disappoint her father by not acting selfish and that there’s no reason why the Glitter Force deserves the Royal Crystals.

Then, we cut to Joe/Johnny’s shop. Like in the sub, Johnny says that they have four of the five Royal Crystals necessary to find Princess Marie Angelica and Clara and Mackenzie say that they need to get the fifth one back from Regina. In the sub, Mana says she doesn’t want to fight Regina, Arisu suggests asking nicely for Regina to give the Royal Crystal back, Rikka says that won’t work, and Mana wonders if there’s any way they can get all five crystals without fighting. In the dub, a lot of this is cut. We just get footage of Maya, who says that they may be able to get the Royal Crystal back from Regina if they explain how much the five crystals would help them.

Here’s the cut footage.



In the sub, Regina asks if she still changes when she looks at the crystals and Mana says that she doesn’t anymore. In the dub, Regina asks how she was different when looking at the crystals and Maya vaguely says that she wasn’t very nice.

Mana/Maya says that they need to tell Makoto/Mackenzie that they found the queen/princess because she’s been looking for her for a long time. She explains to Regina that Makoto/Mackenzie wants to revive the queen/princess in order to save the Trump Kingdom/Splendorius. Regina is worried about what would happen to her father if Makoto/Mackenzie succeeded in her goal. Mana/Maya, however, is confident that everyone will be able to understand each other without anyone getting hurt. After all, if they persuade King Jikochuu/Mercenare to turn the kingdom back to normal, they won’t have to fight him. If Mana/Maya was able to befriend Regina, she thinks she can befriend her father as well.

Happy to be friends with each other again, Mana/Maya and Regina hug each other. Then, the other warriors and Joe/Johnny slide down the frozen cliffside. They don’t come across Mana/Maya, but they do find Sharuru/Kippie, who got separated from her partner and can’t find her. The others say they’ll help Sharuru/Kippie find her, but there’s one problem. They aren’t all the way down the gorge, and the cliffside leading down further is too steep to slide down safely. Fortunately, Diamond uses Diamond Shower to create a staircase out of ice that leads to the bottom.

Mana/Maya notices the light from Diamond Shower and calls out to her friends. Regina offers to make things easier by just teleporting herself and Mana/Maya to their friends. When she snaps her fingers, though, nothing happens, no matter how much she tries.

The others get closer to the bottom. Regina says that Mana/Maya should rejoin them without her because they’ll hate her after everything she’s done. Mana/Maya says that they’ll surely forgive Regina if she apologizes. In the sub, Mana says that she’ll apologize alongside Regina until the others forgive her. Regina asks why she’d do that for her and Mana says it’s because they’re friends. In the dub, Maya explains to Regina what apologizing is and how it makes people not mad at you anymore for bad things you did. Regina asks why the others would just forgive her and Maya says it’s because they’re her friends.

Regina then bursts into tears. In the sub, Regina calls Mana an idiot because she’s continuing to stick up for her and then repeatedly calls herself even more of an idiot for having acted so horribly to Mana/Maya. In the dub, Regina tells Maya to stop claiming that the good Regina is the real one and worries that the real her is bad.

Then, the others arrive at last. Sword/Spade says she’s happy to see Regina okay, not just Mana/Maya. She tells Regina that she still can’t trust her, but she’s happy that Regina’s okay because that makes Mana/Maya happy, too. Meanwhile, Mana/Maya tells Diamond and Rosetta/Clover that she was sure she would come and was so happy when she saw the light from Diamond Shower. Rosetta/Clover says that Diamond Shower may have been the miraculous light spoken of in the legend.

Joe/Johnny then notices the queen/princess. Everyone is excited that their quest to find her is complete at last. Sword/Spade and Joe/Johnny joyfully run towards her, when suddenly, their path is blocked by a snowman Jikochuu/Distain. Just like Sword/Spade worried, Ira, Marmo, and Bel have gone back on their promise to not attack them.

The Jikochuu/Distain shoots snowballs that hit Sword/Spade and Joe/Johnny. Sword/Spade is able to withstand them well, but the weaker Joe/Johnny is knocked onto his back. The Jikochuu/Distain shoots more snowballs, which Rosetta/Clover blocks with Rosetta/Clover Reflection. This buys time for Mana/Maya to transform back into Cure/Glitter Heart. Oh, and the transformation is shown in full, even though we already got a nice big transformation sequence earlier this episode. I guess Toei Animation wanted to save on the animation budget.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Sword/Spade shoots the Jikochuu/Distain with Sparkle Sword, weakening it a bit. Then, all four warriors use Lovely Force Arrow/Togetherness Power Arrow to finish the Jikochuu/Distain off. The freed Psyche/heart reenters the climber we saw from earlier. In the sub, after waking up, he wonders why he passed out; in the dub, he wonders if he’s at the top of the mountain.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Although the Jikochuu/Distain is defeated, the fight is not yet over. Bel telikinetically levitates the queen/princess and tells Pretty Cure/the Glitter Force that he’s taking her. Ira and Marmo also restrain Regina against her will so they can take her back to her father. The episode ends with Heart shouting Regina’s name.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Overall: This episode was great! It’s nice to see the plot continuing to roll; not only has Regina been reformed, but the queen/princess has been found at last! Also, it was so heartwarming to see Mana/Maya and Regina make up. Hopefully Regina is able to help out next episode when Pretty Cure/the Glitter Force tries to get the queen/princess back.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">And the dub turned out really well, too, despite almost all of episode 19 being cut. When you think about it, although the entirety of episode 19 was fun to watch, the whole game was completely pointless since Regina stole the Royal Crystals anyway. By cutting the game out, the dub didn’t suffer any plot holes.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Next time: Pretty Cure/the Glitter Force and Joe/Johnny return to the Trump Kingdom/Splendorius to rescue its ruler! Oh, and someone new is about to join Pretty Cure/the Glitter Force!!