User blog:GlitterInformer/Smile Pretty Cure!/Glitter Force SDC: Episode 47 (Sub), 39 (Dub)

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'''Japanese title: “The Strongest Pierrot Appears! The Power of Never Giving Up and the Light of Hope!!”'''

English title: “The Queen of Jubiland”

The Japanese title may just be the longest episode title I have ever seen in my entire life. Well, there’s no time to waste. Just 2 episodes to go! Get excited, everyone!!

The Japanese version starts with scenes taken straight from last episode. Everything from the Bad Energy Memory reaching 99 to Happy gasping as the Miracle Jewel glows is left alone. The dub, on the other hand, starts with a recap of everything that happened last episode, narrated by Glitter Lucky.

Then, the sub and dub join with Pretty Cure/the Glitter Force, Pop, and the newly-awakened Candy meeting in a realm of golden light. The Royale Queen/Euphoria appears before them, but before this, the dub adds dialogue where Euphoria says that now is the time she’s been waiting for so long. Happy says, “Royale Queen!” while Lucky asks what she’s been waiting for.

The queen says that the new ruler of M ä rchenland/Jubiland has finally awoken, Euphoria saying that it was thanks to the Glitter Force and Pop’s voices calling her out of the Miracle Jewel. Um, no, I think it was because of the full Charm Chest. Anyway, Candy floats down and appears before them. Candy opens her eyes, and in the dub, she asks, “Where am I?”

Name Change: In the sub, Candy’s new form is called Royale Candy (or Royal Candy, but the former fits better with the Royale Queen’s name). In the dub, her new form is Queen Candy.

This entire sequence is tinted green.



And with that no-holds-barred beatdown, the darkening finally stops. Having given their all, the girls gasp for air. The dub adds dialogue where Peace says, “Showed him…” However, despite being caught in several lasers and one gigantic explosion, Pierrot/Nogo is still alive, and, in fact, bigger than ever. In the dub, dialogue is added where Peace asks if the giant face above them is Pop and where all the girls groan at still having not defeated Nogo.

In the sub, Sunny asks what the giant creature above them is, March says she can’t believe it, and Beauty marvels at Pierrot’s size. In the dub, Sunny says their powers didn’t work, Spring says that Nogo got bigger, and Breeze says that’s an understatement.

Pierrot/Nogo absorbs the energy from the remnants of his monsters and the Titans of Despair/Shadow Giants. With this power, he becomes a black hole bigger than the entire planet. Pierrot says that everything will be covered in darkness, while Nogo says that by consuming the dark energy from his Shadow Giants, he can destroy not just the Glitter Force but the entire world.

The sub’s next-episode preview is a bit different this time. Usually, there’s a summary of the plot (minus spoilers, of course) narrated mostly by Miyuki. This time, Miyuki breaks the fourth wall by saying that the last episode is coming up, and instead of previewing the next episode’s plot, she and the other four thank us for supporting them for this long. With this, the episode ends.

Overall: Now this is what the previous two episodes should have been. In other seasons, the fight quality would have ramped up at the beginning of the climax, not just in the second-to-last episode, but a late EPIC FIGHT is no less EPIC. I’ve found that most of the fight scenes in this season have fallen prey to the same pattern: bad guys beat up good guys, bad guys tell good guys that they have no hope, good guys say that they’ll never give up, and good guys defeat bad guys. This episode subverts this by having the upper hand switch between the heroes and villains a lot. Plus, the focal point of the fights in this episode weren’t the repetitive friendship speeches as usual, but the fighting itself. Combine this with Candy and Pretty Cure/the Glitter Force getting new forms, as well as Pierrot/Nogo finally showing himself, and this was a great episode. The only problems I can think of are that it focuses on Happy/Lucky a bit too much and that the dub gives way too many not-funny lines to Sunny that kill the mood.

Next episode: It’s the last freaking episode!!!