User blog:GlitterInformer/Smile Pretty Cure!/Glitter Force SDC: Episode 39 (Sub), 31 (Dub)

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'''Japanese title: What’s Going On!? Miyuki’s Messed-Up Cinderella!!'''

English title: A Fairytale Ending!

When I first heard last episode’s preview of this one, it immediately reminded me of a similar episode in Mahoutsukai Pretty Cure! (spoilers in the link), a later season of Pretty Cure. Both have the same premise: the main characters and the villains get sucked into the story of “Cinderella” and everything goes wonky. The Cinderella episode is my favorite episode of Mahoutsukai. so I’m hoping that this one will be a fun ride, too!

This episode may be redundant, though, given that Miyuki entered “Cinderella” in the movie. How will this episode be different, other than a lack of Momotarou??

The episode starts with Miyuki/Emily entering the library in search of a new book to read. Dialogue is added where Emily sings to herself about the library. Miyuki/Emily then spots a glittering, white book lying on the floor. She picks it up and opens it, surmising from the glass slipper on the first page that the book is “Cinderella”.

Miyuki/Emily is then shocked by her hand entering the page when she touches it. This summons a bright light, which she gets sucked into. Candy is thrown out of her bookbag as this happens. Dialogue is added where Emily asks, “What’s happening!?”

Miyuki/Emily then falls down a chimney (dialogue is added where Emily says, “Oh, no! This is gonna hurt…”) and lands in an old-style house. After she finds herself all dirty and spies a huge castle in the distance, she realizes she’s Cinderella and gets excited. The dub adds dialogue over the shot of the castle where Emily says she isn’t in the library anymore.

We get the opening themes. Like before, the Japanese opening theme contains clips from the movie, while the English opening theme remains unchanged.



 After transforming, Happy/Lucky does the group catchphrase by herself and acknowledges that it’s awkward without the others. Akane notes that she mentioned “five lights” even though only one of them is transformed, while Kelsey tells Lucky not to criticize herself because she’s a “Force of one”.

 For an awkward moment, the Akanbe/Buffoon and Happy/Lucky stand there and stare at each other. This is shortened in the dub. The Akanbe/Buffoon then hops to the top of the stairs. Reika/Chloe tells Happy/Lucky that she has to defeat the Akanbe/Buffoon before midnight, which happens to be in three minutes. I’m gonna keep track of that and see if she actually defeats the Akanbe/Buffoon in that time.

 Happy/Lucky then chases the Akanbe/Buffoon, which is incredibly quick. Fairly humorous dialogue is added where Lucky tells the Buffoon to “fight like a shoe, and give [her] back [her] shoe!” In less than a minute of screentime, a minute passes on the clock. Time jumps: fun for the whole family!

 There’s a well-animated sequence where the Akanbe/Buffoon beats up Happy/Lucky as they’re falling off the tower. In seventeen seconds, another minute passes. I’m pretty sure the clock is evil, too.

 Candy uses the Candy Décor/Charm (the dub’s Royal Clock says, “Activate Glitter Charm! Sweets!”, but the sub’s says, “Let’s go! Sweets!” and it’s the Candy Décor in the sub, so I think the dub version is called the Candy Charm). This causes it to rain sweets and knock the Akanbe/Buffoon into the ground.

 The sub proceeds to make a pun. In Japanese, “ame” is a word for “sweets,” but the word for “rain” is also “ame.” Thus, Yayoi and Reika say, “An ame of ame?” (“Candy rain?”) and Akane tells them that was a terrible pun. In the dub, they say, “Candy rain?” and Kelsey says, “Sweet!”

 Now that Happy/Lucky has her chance, she squanders time by lecturing the Akanbe/Buffoon for trying to destroy Cinderella. And then we get a new attack!! Oh, boy! Happy/Lucky puts the Décor/Charm she uses for Rainbow Burst into her Princess Candle/Wand. Happy says, “Pegasus, lend me your power!” while Lucky says, “Calling Pegasus! Give me all your power!”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> The Princess Candle/Wand unleashes a pink beam that turns Cure Happy into Princess Happy. Akane/Kelsey remarks that she’s powered up, and Reika/Chloe postulates that it’s because she cares so much about Cinderella.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> Name Change:  Cure Happy’s new attack is called Cinderella Happy Shower. In the same vein, Glitter Lucky’s is called Cinderella Sparkle Storm.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> The new attack is like Happy Shower/Sparkle Storm, except the heart Happy/Lucky shoots is gigantic, and its power sends Happy/Lucky flying off into the distance.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> The clock strikes midnight, and Reika/Chloe picks up the purified glass slipper. Shortly afterwards, Happy/Lucky crash-lands in front of her house and de-transforms. Miyuki says that Cinderella made it home by midnight; Emily says she made it and hopes the other Cinderellas don’t have to crash-land like she did.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> Outside of the book, Pop celebrates the girls’ victory and anticipates the conclusion. Back in the story, Reika/Chloe arrives with two suspiciously familiar attendants to find the glass slipper’s owner. Reika/Chloe asks her attendants to bring out the slipper in question. One of the attendants, who reveals herself to be Majorina/Brooha, has enlarged the slipper so it won’t fit Miyuki/Emily.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> Akaoni/Brute comes running out of the house to try on the slipper, and it’s a perfect fit. As the villains celebrate, Akaoni says he wants the honeymoon to be on the Isle of Demons, while Brute says he’ll finally be royalty. However, the slipper breaks under the weight of his foot (with an added “boing” sound in the dub).

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> It turns out the big slipper isn’t the real one, seeing as Candy emerges from Reika/Chloe’s carriage with the true slipper. The villains and the heroes fight over it, and it ends up landing right on Miyuki/Emily’s foot, revealing it to be a perfect fit. Dialogue is added where Emily says it fits “like a glove.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> Reika asks Miyuki to marry her, while Emily asks if she’ll be their princess. Miyuki/Emily agrees, of course, and the two hold hands, bringing the group back to the real world. The villains teleport away, and Miyuki/Emily thanks the others for helping give Cinderella her happy ending. Before Miyuki/Emily explains how they helped, Akane asks why she’s thanking them, while Kelsey says Emily can thank her by giving her cheese. Emily also mentions that she doesn’t know how a pumpkin dinosaur fit in.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> Pop says that while the story hits the same plot points, it’s very different from what it used to be, and he wonders if that’s okay. Candy says that it’ll be fine because the story is more fun now. In the dub, Candy says the story is better because it has a pumpkin dinosaur, and April says she still doesn’t understand that. The episode ends there.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> Overall:  This was such a fun episode! I will say it’s different from its Mahoutsukai counterpart, due to the latter being a surreal, comedy-focused episode and this one being more dramatic, but still funny. A major difference is that Mahoutsukai’s Cinderellla world had clones of the villains and other characters, so they weren’t aware of the story beforehand, while the villains in Smile knew what would happen and did their best to throw the story off-course. It was an interesting touch that made this episode suspenseful. I’d say that the two episodes are equally good, but in their own ways.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> The dub was pretty good, too, except for downplaying the homosexual subtext between Reika/Chloe and Yayoi/Lily. I hate it when shows censor homosexuality.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> Next time:  Akane/Kelsey has to decide what her most important treasure is!