User blog:GlitterInformer/Doki Doki! Pretty Cure/Glitter Force Doki Doki SDC: Episode 13 (Sub), 10 (Dub)

Episode 12 (Sub) | Table of Contents

Japanese title: "We’ve Finally Found It!? A Clue Leading to the Queen!"

English title: "The Princess and the Rose"

   Unfortunately, as usual, Sparkle Sword has no visible effect. It’s easily the weakest attack we’ve had so far. What’s odd is that the show never acts like it’s the useless attack that it is and instead has the characters react as if it’s any other attack.

Then, as usual, Heart finishes the Jikochuu/Distain off with Heart Shoot/Shot. In the sub, when Marmo is being turned back to normal, she wordlessly screams; in the dub, she says, “Nooo!! Oh, fertilizer!” After the attack, Marmo falls to the ground while Reina/Nellie’s purified Psyche/heart returns to her. While Reina wonders what happened, Nellie has an odd line where she says, “Oh, no… What did I do this time?” It’s odd because we’ve never seen Nellie do anything she viewed as bad, nor have we seen her face negative consequences as a result. In fact, throughout this whole episode, she’s acted as if she’s never been punished in her entire life.

Marmo teleports away in anger, and the warriors (who for some reason are not spotted by Reina/Nellie) look at each other and laugh. Then, we cut back to the Yotsuba mansion. Dialogue is added where Maya says that they’ve finally gotten the Royal Gold rose. Arisu/Clara gives the rose to Makoto/Mackenzie. Although Makoto/Mackenzie can’t find any signs of the queen/princess from it, she’s grateful to Arisu/Clara because they couldn’t have gotten it without her help. Arisu/Clara blushes says that it wasn’t just her who helped out. While Makoto says that she’s never seen Arisu get that serious before, Mackenzie says that it was Clara who defeated both Nellie and Marmo. Makoto/Mackenzie says that Arisu/Clara was great. In the sub, Mana says that Makoto complimented Arisu and Rikka says that Makoto’s never complimented either of them before; in the dub, Maya says that she did pretty well at dancing until she fell and Rachel says she would’ve won if the cat hadn’t been on the piano.

In the sub, Lance says that Arisu was awesome, Sharuru echoes Mana by saying it made her heart tighten, Dabi says that Pretty Cure is getting stronger, and Raquel says that he’s glad to hear it. In the dub, Lance says that Clara and her friends were awesome, Kippie says that even the pixies were awesome, Davi agrees even though they didn’t do much, and Rory cheers for himself and his fellow pixies.

Then, Ai/Dina gets curious and touches the rose. It suddenly glows brightly. A drop falls off of it. When it hits the ground, it becomes a square-shaped charm with a heart on it, and the rose becomes red. Ai/Dina happily flaps her wings. The dub adds some dialogue here. When the rose turns from gold to red, Lance complains that the rose is defective. Also, when a bird flies away, Rachel pretends to understand Dina’s baby babble and says that Dina’s right about the charm being mysterious.

The last scene of the episode takes place in the villains’ hideout. Marmo walks into the same room as Bel and Ira, and all three are covered in bandages. Marmo complains about Pretty Cure/the Glitter Force, but Bel just makes fun of her. In the sub, Ira says that he wants to take a break; in the dub, he says that next time he has to fight the Glitter Force, he’ll probably go on vacation.

Then, the mystery villain walks in! She says that she can make it so that all three of them can take a vacation, and a permanent one at that. Marmo asks who the girl is, and she says that she’s Regina, the daughter of King Jikochuu/Mercenare. While the other three react in shock, Regina gives an evil smile.

Overall: This was another great episode from ''Doki Doki! Pretty Cure/Glitter Force Doki Doki''! It was very entertaining to see Arisu/Clara clash with Reina/Nellie and her servants. In fact, those goons might just be the most evil side characters to ever exist in Pretty Cure. They were huge, unrepentant jerks. Not only did they pose entertaining challenges to Arisu/Clara and her friends, but it was satisfying to see Arisu/Clara win at the end despite that. Plus, Rosetta/Clover’s fight against Marmo was cool because not only did we get to see her martial arts skills in action, but we also got a clever alternate usage of Rosetta/Clover Reflection. What’s more, we got new plot development; what was that strange charm, anyway?

The only problem I had with this episode (other than Clara’s stiff voice acting as usual) was that Arisu/Clara’s tendency to get really angry was an informed attribute. This means that although the show told us she had that characteristic, we’ve never seen it. The only time Arisu/Clara has ever been shown losing her cool was all the way back in elementary school when a group of bullies were acting threateningly towards Mana/Maya and Rikka/Rachel. In fact, throughout the show, Arisu/Clara is anything but angry. Whenever bad or strange things have happened, Arisu/Clara has been exceptionally calm. That’s part of her character. This episode would have been more impacting had we actually seen Arisu/Clara’s supposed tendency to blow her top.

Next time: After struggling in academics, Rikka gets her self-confidence back by playing cards!