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"A Straight-Up Bout! Cure March of the Winds!!" (直球勝負!風のキュアマーチ!! Chokkyū shōbu! Kaze no Kyua Māchi!!)? is the 4th episode of Smile Pretty Cure! and is the 393rd episode of the Pretty Cure franchise overall.

In the English dub, Glitter Force, it is called "Here Comes Glitter Spring!" and is the 4th episode.

Summary[]

Impressed by her courage whilst standing up to some upperclassmen, Miyuki sees Midorikawa Nao as a potential Pretty Cure candidate. Wanting to learn more about her and get a chance to ask, Miyuki joins Nao at her home and meets her large family.

Major Events[]

  • Miyuki's classmate Midorikawa Nao awakens her power in the desire to protect her younger siblings, changing her into Cure March and granting her the power of March Shoot.

Synopsis[]

Miyuki helps Candy style her ears with some help from a Cure Decor and makes them resemble bunny ears. She happily admires her work until realizing she is running late for school.

At lunch, Miyuki, Akane, and Yayoi eat together at the pavilion in the school courtyard. Miyuki admires Yayoi's elaborate lunch, which she has made to resemble Candy. Two third-year girls appear and claiming that the pavilion at is their customary spot, demanding that the move. Midorikawa Nao appears and intervenes, arguing that the grounds belong to everyone, and forcing students to leave is incorrect. Student council president Irie appears, agreeing with Nao. The two girls leave with the President. Nearby, Aoki Reika looks on approvingly.

During a school soccer match, the girls cheer for Nao and watch as she scores a goal. She is revealed to be an exceptionally skilled player, making the school team since first year. Miyuki wants to recruit her as a player, but Nao is surrounded by fans as soon as the game ends, and when the crowd clears Nao is already gone.

The next day is a weekend, and Miyuki decides to find Nao's house. Unfortunately, being new to the area, Miyuki gets lost. By chance she meets Nao, who is out shopping, and invites Miyuki to her home. Before she can speak to Nao in private, she is interrupted by the appearance of Nao's five siblings: Keita, Haru, Hina, Yuuta, and Kouta. Nao invites Miyuki to stay for lunch.

While Nao prepares lunch, the kids play noisily with Miyuki. The youngest, Kouta, mistakes Candy for a toy and the siblings throw her back and forth, throwing her outside and leaving her dizzy.

After lunch, Miyuki and Nao watch as Nao's siblings play soccer. Miyuki is impressed with how Nao loves her family, as well as with courageous, cool, and kind she is. She is about to invite her to become a Pretty Cure when Akane and Yayoi arrive. The siblings challenge Miyuki, Akane, and Yayoi to a soccer match, but before they can begin, Akaoni appears and summons Bad Energy. Nao and her siblings fall into despair.

Miyuki, Akane, and Yayoi transform into Pretty Cure. Akaoni is outraged when he loses to Yayoi at Rock, Paper, Scissors, after Yayoi unexpectedly throws paper instead of scissors. He uses a Red Nose to summons an Akanbe from a soccer net.

The Akanbe fires a barrage of soccer balls at Nao's family. Cure Happy parries them with Happy Shower, but the Akanbe captures her in its net. Sunny is afraid to attack the Akanbe in case she hits Happy, and she and Peace are knocked back. When Akaoni tells them to run, Sunny refuses, since their bonds with each other are growing. This inspires Nao to break out of despair.

Akaoni argues that friendship or family are pointless, since they will end one day. The Akanbe attacks Nao's family, but she hits it with a soccer ball and stands in front of her family to protect them. Declaring her family's bonds to be eternal, she challenges Akaoni to fight her first. Her love for her family and the will to do anything to protect them causes the Smile Pact to form, and she uses it to transform into Cure March.

March is surprised by the speed at which she is able to run, and collides with a wall, but is unharmed. Running up a wall and knocking the Akanbe down with a falling kick, March uses March Shoot to purify it, receiving a Cure Decor, the Butterfly Decor. Akaoni leaves, and everything returns to normal.

Before Miyuki can invite Nao to become a Pretty Cure, Nao volunteers. Miyuki is hit in the face with a soccer ball, but she's "ultra happy" to have found the fourth Pretty Cure.

Characters[]

Pretty Cure[]

Mascots[]

Villains[]

Secondary Characters[]

Trivia[]

  • The girls are shown in their casual clothes for the first time.
  • Nao's family is revealed to consist of 6 siblings including herself, making her the first Smile! Cure whose family members are shown. The siblings are introduced as Keita, Haru, Hina, Yuuta and Kouta.
  • Nao and her siblings mistake Candy for a raccoon plushie.
  • This is the third episode where Miyuki gets hit in the face with something: Candy in episode 1, a volleyball in episode 2, and a soccer ball in this episode.
  • This is the only episode where Reika doesn't speak, even though she did make an appearance.
  • A girl wearing a uniform from another school can be seen during the soccer match.

Edits in Glitter Force[]

  • When Akaoni does his laundry, he says that his clothes look and feel so good that he's ready to go out and fight. The dub changes this so Brute says that he makes his clothes stinky and stiff by soaking them in a swamp, and that they put him in a bad mood so he can better fight the Glitter Force.
  • When Nao confronts the girls who are trying to get Miyuki, Akane, and Yayoi to go somewhere else for lunch, Nao calmly tells them that it's illogical for them to claim a part of the courtyard for themselves when the courtyard is a public space. In the dub, April is angrier and tells the girls to stop bullying them and sit somewhere else.
  • After Cure Peace does her rock-paper-scissors game in her transformation, Akaoni complains that he lost. Sunny is confused, so Peace explains her game and Candy says that she won. Since Glitter Peace doesn't play rock-paper-scissors, the dub changes the entire exchange. Brute complains about Peace's "puppies and kittens" line, Sunny asks what Peace did to him, and Peace is confused about Brute not liking puppies and kittens. Lucky (Happy) and Candy agree with Peace.
  • Miyuki and Nao agreeing to call each other by their first names is changed to April saying she thinks of the Glitter Force as her second family.

Gallery[]

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