User blog:GlitterInformer/Doki Doki! Pretty Cure/Glitter Force Doki Doki SDC: Episodes 7 & 8 (Sub), 6 (Dub)

Episodes 6 &amp; 7 (Sub), 5 (Dub) | Table of Contents

Japanese titles:
 * “An Intense Battle! Farewell, Pretty Cure!!”
 * "Kyupirappa~! A Mysterious Baby is Born!!”

English title: "The Way Home"

Welcome back to the ''Doki Doki! Pretty Cure!/Glitter Force Doki Doki'' sub/dub comparison! It’s been a while since my last upload, so let’s review. The last article was about episode 5 of Glitter Force Doki Doki, a combination between episode 6 and the first part of episode 7 of ''Doki Doki! Pretty Cure''. Episode 5 ended at about the midpoint of episode 7, with Makoto/Mackenzie falling off a bridge. Will one of our main four characters be killed off so quickly? Of course not, but let’s make extra sure by getting into episode 6 of Glitter Force Doki Doki!

Episode 6 begins with an added recap of the past two episodes of Glitter Force Doki Doki. It’s narrated by Maya.



To the girls’ surprise, the baby is crying (though surprisingly quietly). As the three watch, a Cure Lovies/Glitter Charm materializes in the baby’s fist. As this happens, Maya remarks that she’s got something strange in her hand. The fairies/pixies notice as well and are equally shocked. Raquel says that the baby must have something to do with the Trump Kingdom if she has a Cure Lovies; Rory just vaguely says that the baby having a Glitter Charm can only mean one thing.

The baby then starts crying loudly, so Mana/Maya decides to save the questions for later and use the Cure Lovies/Glitter Charm now. In much the same manner as during her attack, Mana/Maya puts the Lovies/Charm onto Sharuru/Kippie and draws a heart on her. This causes a real-life baby bottle to come out of Sharuru/Kippie. In the sub, the only dialogue during this sequence is Sharuru saying her own name when she flies up in her machine form. In the dub, Kippie says, “Ready? Go, go, go!”, Maya says, “Insert Glitter Charm!”, and the device’s voice says, “Doki Doki!” and “Glitter Charm! Baby Bottle!”

Mana/Maya feeds the baby with the bottle and this makes the baby happy again. Rikka/Rachel says that Mana/Maya now has to make the baby burp. Arisu/Clara tells Mana/Maya that she should listen to Rikka/Rachel since her mother is a pediatrician. Mana/Maya follows her advice and makes the baby burp (though she only sounds like she’s burping in the dub).

The curio seller surprises the girls by saying that that was a good burp. Naturally, Rikka/Rachel and Mana/Maya freak out because they didn’t know he was there. Arisu/Clara, though, is calm as ever. She apologizes for them entering his shop. The owner of the shop is equally calm. He’s perfectly fine with the girls being in his shop and he asks what they were doing. Rikka/Rachel blows up at him and asks why he owns a giant egg that hatched a magical, flying baby. The owner is completely unfazed by the sight of the baby. His main concern is what to name her. Though Rikka/Rachel is exasperated with his lack of care, Mana/Maya and Arisu/Clara are excited to name the baby.

Right after the question is posed, the baby starts making baby noises. In the sub, the baby says, “Ai!” over and over; in the dub, she makes a noise that sounds like, “Dinawadawa!” Thus, the group decides on her name.

Name Change: In the sub, the group names the baby Ai. In the dub, they choose Dina. (Originally, Maya and Clara wanted to call her Dina Wadawa, but upon Rachel’s complaining about the length of the name, they change it to simply Dina.)

As Ai/Dina celebrates her new name, dialogue is added where the shop owner expresses his approval of Dina’s name.

Then, we have a cut scene with the villains. Marmo wakes Ira up by screaming. Ira, annoyed, asks what happened, and Marmo complains that she has a pimple. She blames Ira for the pimple; supposedly, people get pimples if they don’t get enough sleep, and Ira wakes Marmo up all the time with his bowling. Ira falls back asleep while Marmo is lecturing him. In revenge, Marmo doodles all over Ira’s face before leaving the room.

The sub shows the eyecatches. Then, we’re back at the curio shop. Makoto/Mackenzie and Dabi/Davi have returned from work, too. Mana/Maya is playing with Ai/Dina’s arms; in the sub, Mana pretends to be Ai and says hello to Makoto, while in the dub, Maya introduces Mackenzie to Dina and asks Dina to greet her. Makoto/Mackenzie is once again spellbound by the baby’s cuteness. When she turns away and pretends not to care, Dabi/Davi tells everyone that Makoto/Mackenzie actually thinks that the baby is absolutely adorable. Makoto/Mackenzie becomes angry and Dabi/Davi, who tells Makoto/Mackenzie that she needs to say what she really feels. When Mana/Maya asks if Makoto/Mackenzie wants to hold Ai/Dina, Makoto/Mackenzie refuses, much to Dabi/Davi’s dismay.

Then, the curio seller introduces himself to Makoto/Mackenzie. This means that we finally get his name!

Name Change: In the sub, the man’s name is Joe Okada. In the dub, he’s Jonathan and goes by the nickname of Johnny. It should be noted that Rikka/Rachel doubts his name is what he says it is.

Makoto/Mackenzie asks Joe/Johnny if he knows where the queen/princess is. Joe/Johnny tells the girls that every girl is a queen/princess and then leaves, telling them to take care of Ai/Dina. So, not only does he lie to them for no reason, but he forces them to take care of his baby. What a wonderful man.

The girls go home. Mana/Maya is happy to be taking Ai/Dina on a walk, but Rikka/Rachel is as unhappy as she should be. In the sub, Rikka says that they’ve got more trouble yet again and Arisu says that it comes with the job of being a Pretty Cure. In the dub, Rachel wonders how Maya knows that babies like walks and Clara says that at least Maya means well.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Suddenly, Ai/Dina starts crying again. Mana/Maya tries lifting Ai/Dina in the air to cheer her up, but Ai/Dina starts flying away and the fairies/pixies have to bring her back down. Mana/Maya tries summoning another milk bottle with the new Cure Lovies/Glitter Charm, but Ai/Dina isn’t thirsty. Then, Rikka/Rachel lays Ai/Dina down on a small blanket that she has for some reason. In the sub, Rikka suggests that Ai’s diaper is dirty, but when she takes Ai’s diaper off (don’t worry, this is censored by Mana standing in front of Ai), it’s clean. In the dub, Rachel suggests that Dina wants a nap, but Dina isn’t sleepy at all.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Mana/Maya then suggests that Ai/Dina wants a lullaby. Rikka/Rachel and Arisu/Clara run away and cover their ears. Makoto/Mackenzie and Dabi/DAvi, however, don’t know the drill, so they’re subjected to Mana/Maya’s terrible singing (it’s even more terrible in the dub!). Mana sings, “Fall asleep,” over and over, while Maya sings, “Rock-a-Bye Baby”. Mana/Maya’s singing is put to a stop when Ai/Dina cries even more loudly. In the sub, Rikka says that Mana’s singing could wake any baby up and Arisu wonders if Mana knows that her singing is bad; in the dub, Rachel says that Dina probably didn’t like Maya’s choice of song and Clara says that that wasn’t a song.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">All right, everybody. We are going to get a lot of cut content coming right up. Want to know why? It’s because the entire fight scene, from the victim’s Psyche being stolen to the Jikochuu being defeated, is cut from the dub. There’s a man who’s trying to sleep but has been woken up by Ai/Dina’s crying. In the sub, the man sits up and complains that his lunch break has been ruined because he can’t nap; in the dub, he simply mumbles that they should feed the baby before going back to sleep. The sub makes this man the victim of the week; in the dub, he’s just there.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">I’ll summarize the whole scene, then. Marmo extracts the man’s Psyche, turning it into a sheep Jikochuu. Ai gets scared by the Jikochuu, but Mana promises to protect her and hides her behind a bush. The group then transforms and Cure Heart gives her usual speech to the Jikochuu. The fights starts with the Jikochuu creating several clones of itself and summoning a fence. One by one, each sheep jumps over the fence and counts itself (“One sheep,” “Two sheep,” etc.) This creates an aura that causes Pretty Cure to fall asleep. When they’re knocked out, the herd of sheep stampedes into the warriors and causes them to get beaten up. The Jikochuu then repeat this strategy and Pretty Cure are helpless to stop them.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Before the sheep can charge again, though, Ai starts crying. Marmo is annoyed by Ai’s crying and tells the Jikochuu to use their sheep-counting strategy on her, but no matter what they do, Ai won’t stop crying. In fact, their sleep aura backfires and puts Marmo to sleep. The annoyed Jikochuu charge towards Ai. Before they can trample her, Ai shouts, “Kyupirappa~!” and summons a light from her bib. This light wakes up Pretty Cure. The effect doesn’t last for long, though. As soon as Ai runs out of energy, the girls start falling asleep again.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Then, we get a pretty funny bit. Right before Cure Heart falls asleep, Cure Sword slaps Cure Heart awake and tells her that since Heart is Ai’s mother, she has to fight to protect her. Sword then starts falling asleep herself, so Heart shakes her awake and says that Sword has to protect her too since despite what she claims, Sword actually does find Ai cute. Heart then starts falling asleep herself, so Sword has to shake her. Finally, the two are awake for good. Diamond and Rosetta are still drowsy though, so they get each other to wake up by pinching on each other’s cheeks.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Then, the actual fight begins! Heart and Sword team up to kick four of the Jikochuu. Meanwhile, Rosetta takes Ai and runs away. Diamond then notices that the sheep are about to jump over the fence and put everyone to sleep again, so she confuses the sheep by shouting, “3,285,945 sheep!” This causes the Jikochuu to stop and stare at Diamond. Sword takes the opportunity to destroy the fence with Holy Sword. While the sheep mourn the loss of their fence, Heart finishes them off with My Sweet Heart.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">The man’s Psyche returns to him, so he wakes up and goes back to work. Then, Marmo wakes up. Rather than being upset about being defeated again, she pulls out her mirror and is delighted to see that her pimple is gone. The girls watch, dumbfounded, as Marmo cheerfully teleports away.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Mana thanks Makoto, and then the dub catches up! Naturally, a whole scene being gone changes the entire conversation in this one. In the sub, Mana says that she’s grateful for Makoto telling her to never give up, and then the team spends about 10 seconds silently smiling at each other. In the dub, Maya says that Dina is open about how she feels, with the clear subtext that Mackenzie should be as well. As Maya, Rachel, and Clara smile at her, Mackenzie spells out the subtext. Then, as Mackenzie smiles back, Maya says, “Well, kinda…”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Then, Ai/Dina starts to get drowsy. Mana/Maya says that she should sing a lullaby to her. Fortunately, before Mana/Maya can wake up the baby, Makoto/Mackenzie takes Ai/Dina from her and sings her own lullaby instead. While Makoto sings the same song that Mana was trying to sing earlier, Mackenzie sings a lyricless version of her latest hit song. This causes Ai/Dina to fall asleep.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Makoto/Mackenzie whispers to Mana/Maya that she should try getting singing lessons. In the sub, Mana realizes that Makoto called her by her first name for the first time and gets very excited. In Japan, people generally call each other by their last names unless they’re close friends with that person. Since this same cultural subtext doesn’t exist in America, the dub changes Maya’s line. Maya instead notices that Mackenzie called her suggestion “friendly advice” and gets very excited that Mackenzie considers Maya to be her friend.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Mana/Maya gets so loud that Rikka/Rachel and Arisu/Clara have to shush her so she doesn’t wake the baby. Then, the episode ends at last with the girls happily looking at Ai/Dina. In the sub, they’re silent; in the dub, they’re all talking about how cute Dina is.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Overall: I really enjoyed the second half of episode 7 and the entirety of episode 8. Unlike the first part of episode 7, every one of the girls had presence in the show. Plus, both fights were a team effort (though Rosetta was only useful in episode 8). I’m also a fan of Ai/Dina. She’s a fun character, but despite being a baby, she’s never annoying to the audience. A character I’m not as big of a fan of right now is Joe/Johnny. Although he didn’t act like a child molester in this episode, he did act like a big jerk. Seriously, who makes some complete strangers take care of their own baby?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">I’m also happy to see that the villains are starting to get at least some personality. Bel was super cool from the very beginning, so it was exciting to see him finally get some action in episode 7. What’s more, Marmo, who had no personality other than being evil, now has a grand total of 1 character trait: being vain. It’s not a whole personality, but at least we’re getting a start.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">The dub kind of suffers for having to take out the entire fight scene in episode 8. Not only does dub Marmo have 0 character traits instead of 1, but we also missed out on the funny moment with the girls waking each other up. Fortunately, episode 6 doesn’t feel choppy at all despite so much content being cut. Also, the voice acting has improved in the dub this episode! Even Clara doesn’t sound stilted most of the time.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">My only major criticism is that Mana/Maya is still acting like the typical pink Cure. Her selfless nature hasn’t been apparent since episode 4->3. Personality wise, she’s indistinguishable from pretty much every other Pretty Cure protagonist ever.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Next time: Ai/Dina causes trouble at school!