Sweet? Or Not Sweet? The Magical Pumpkin Festival! (甘い? 甘くない? 魔法のかぼちゃ祭り! Amai? Amakunai? Mahō no Kabocha Matsuri!)? is the 38th episode of Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure! and is the 623rd episode of the Pretty Cure franchise overall.
Summary[]
Magic World celebrates Halloween with a magical flying pumpkin that the participants have to catch. However, something seems to be wrong with it, and it is up to the Cures to find out what is happening.
Major Events[]
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Synopsis[]
Ha-chan is extremely hungry and begins to hallucinate that the Linkle Stone spirits are actual fruits. Mirai and Riko quickly try to intervene, with Riko scolding Ha-chan for skipping a meal earlier. However, Ha-chan couldn't help it; she wanted to save plenty of room for the festival and all its candies. Mirai agrees, and they excitedly chat about what they hope to see at the festival. Meanwhile, Riko warns them with some foreboding words.
As Riko and Mirai arrive at the Great Pumpkin Festival, they are thrilled to discover that the host for the event is none other than Watanabe Mayu, a popular idol back on Earth. To their surprise, they learn that she is also a magic user, and she requests that they keep this a secret. Mayu then introduces Kouchou, who will be joining her as the commentator for the festivities. Riko and Mirai, along with Ha-chan, are bewildered when they see a Jack O' Lantern on stage that suddenly gains wings and takes flight. The girls are later joined by Kay, Jun, and Emily. Kay and Riko take a moment to explain the legend behind the sentient pumpkin bird, which flies this time of year. According to the legend, if anyone approaches the bird, they are transformed into candy and sweets. However, if someone manages to catch it, they will earn a golden egg that can grant them a wish.
The girls express their desires for what they would like to find inside the golden egg, but Riko disappoints them with the revelation that the real fun in catching the bird lies in knowing how much everyone else wants it. They soon learn that François is also in pursuit of the bird; he wishes to become the most beautiful thing in the world. Mayu and Kouchou mention that the Pumpkin Bird repels all magic, so the participants must physically catch the bird without harming it. François tries to capture the bird using a suction cup attached to a long string. However, the Pumpkin Bird quickly catches on to his plan and transforms his broom into a lollipop. While he can still fly, he faces great difficulty controlling it. To add to his misfortune, it also changes his hair into Mont Blanc, shocking François and eliminating him from the competition. Mayu and Kouchou discuss how, until now, only one person has successfully captured the pumpkin bird: it is rumored to be the Kouchou himself.
Realizing how challenging this task will be, the girls decide to join the competition. Ha-chan draws out two large butterfly nets—one for herself, Riko, and Mirai, and the other for Jun, Kay, and Emily. The trio is surprised that the other girls would want to encourage them until they explain how much fun it would be and that it might be easier to work together. They remember their final exam from a while back and mount their brooms. The pumpkin bird, however, quickly spits out magic, transforming Kay’s broom into a chocolate-covered biscuit. As Mirai comes to her aid, Riko and Ha-chan attempt to distract the pumpkin bird by employing a tactic similar to what Mirai and Riko used during their exams, where they split up to disorient it.
As this is going on, Chikurun is asked by Orba to continue observing the girls today. He arrives just in time for Ha-chan's broom to be transformed, causing her to be thrown into the sacks of flour near him. Once they check on Ha-chan to make sure she's okay, the girls quickly take a moment to introduce Chikurun to the other girls before Kay looks through her book, pointing out how disorienting the pumpkin was the optimal tactic used before. Emily gets an idea and she flies around it with such quick speed that the pumpkin isn't able to focus on which copy of her is the real her, then she makes it even dizzier by spinning around until it's unable to follow along. Kay uses this chance to try to grab it but as soon as she can hold one of its teeth, the pumpkin snaps out of it and turns her broom into a cookie stick and her into a roll cake. She joins Jun, who is attempting to make Emily feel better because she's become very dizzy now and the others head off.
The girls, Mofurun, and Chikurun fly through the large vines of a tree following after the pumpkin, and by now Ha-chan is teary-eyed over being hungry. Mirai tries assuring her that she'll be able to eat soon. Mofurun goes on to express concern over the pumpkin, having noticed that something seemed off with it earlier- when Kay touched it, it seemed scared. Just then, some clouds on the ground begin to lift and Mirai quickly swings down her net to catch it, assuming it's the pumpkin. But to their disappointment it turns out to be Shakince.
They pay him little mind, especially the infuriated Ha-chan who demands to be fed, and she becomes overtaken by how hungry she is when she spots the pumpkin bird flying up ahead. She chases after it and it spits out a magic sphere; but rather than turn her into a sweet, it shot her hat and left a very delicious parfait in its place. As Shakince attempts to figure out what is going on, Mofurun wonders if maybe the pumpkin dislikes the festival. Initially the girls aren't certain until Ha-chan recalls how frightened it looked a moment ago and the girls begin to feel a heavy remorse. Because of how happy it always looked nobody considered that it was actually unhappy.
With the girls nets and parfait, Shakince summons a Donyokubaru. The girls transform and Felice uses the Pink Tourmaline to crush the strawberries it shoots at them while Cure Miracle and Cure Magical dodge the rest to try hitting it. But it shoots out a large burst of cream to send them flying back. As this is going on Mofurun has come across the Pumpkin and she sees it's crying. With Chikurun she notices it doesn't look hurt, and still seeing that it's in pain, she hops into its mouth to try to search for the cause. Chikurun momentarily worries she'll get eaten until she seems to find something.
Felice is struggling to fight and the girls are forced to throw the Donyokubaru back, then they reunite with her to ask if she's alright. She confesses to feeling guilty over what they were thinking about earlier and she feels very sad for the pumpkin. The girls agree, saying that because of everyone being too busy celebrating they never took the time to consider how it felt. This distraction causes the monster parfait to grab Miracle and Magical with its nets, and when Felice attempts to save them she's picked up by it and thrown into its creamy topping. Shakince chastises the girls for wasting their time talking, and they begin to wonder if this is punishment for how they treated the pumpkin bird, but because of how badly they want to apologize to it, they try to free themselves.
It's then the pumpkin appears with Mofurun, and the girls are relieved to see that it feels a lot better. Mofurun explains how it actually loves the festival, the only reason for why it looked so distressed was because of it having a cavity. She got the bad tooth out so it's much happier now, and the girls are very happy to know they were wrong. It spits out candy spheres, transforming the nets of the Donyokubaru into large pieces of gum for the girls, which they chew on to free themselves and Ha-chan. They release the bubbles and the Alexandrite Linkle Stone to change form and purify the monster with Extreme Rainbow.
With everything back to normal the girls thank the cheery pumpkin bird for helping them out. Mofurun talks on its behalf, saying that it wanted to help them for ridding it of its cavity. Because of Mofurun shaking its wing in agreement, Mayu and Kouchou appear to announce her as the winner. The gold egg appears and everyone returns to the festival, where Mofurun is awarded with regal attire and congratulations for winning; as the girls eat some large sweets. Mayu comes by to speak to the trio and she encourages them to keep working hard, while Jun does a quick drawing and transforms it into a special badge for Mofurun to remember tonight's events.
Suddenly, the gold egg begins to a crack, and a tree sprouts out of it to reveal smaller seeds on each branch. As the branches lean down, the seeds transform into toothbrushes and Kouchou joins the girls. He reminds them of the importance in taking care of ones teeth, saying that after a festival like tonight's its very important to remember not to neglect this before going to bed. Everyone picks a toothbrush and begins brushing their teeth while the girls chat about how much fun they had. It then dawns on Mirai that because it's Halloween, nobody will realize that they are real witches, which makes her very excited. The girls wonder why this is but she refuses to say.
Characters[]
Pretty Cure[]
Mascots[]
Villains[]
Secondary Characters[]
- Kouchou
- François
- Liz (flashback)
- Jun
- Kay
- Emily
- Watanabe Mayu
- Pumpkin Bird
Trivia[]
- Cure Miracle and Cure Magical use their Topaz Style forms in this episode.
- "The Right Way To Use Magic" is used as the ending theme for this episode.
- The singer, Watanabe Mayu, makes a guest appearance in this episode.
- Mipple and Mepple from Futari wa Pretty Cure and its sequel, Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart, are shown briefly in a flashback as costume characters behind Watanabe Mayu.
- At some point, between when the girls left the festival and when they returned, someone took a bite out of Kay's cake body.
Gallery[]
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