Tropica-Shine! Our Now! (トロピカれ！わたしたちの今！ Toropikare! Watashitachi no Ima!)? is the 46th and final episode of Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure and is the 873rd episode of the Pretty Cure franchise overall.
Summary
Laura, who has officially been nominated as the next queen, is forced to choose between returning to Grand Ocean or staying in the human world. And then, the "Tropica Festival" begins, where the curtain finally rises on the Tropical Club's play...
Major Events
- A new version of "Song of Friendship" is sung by the five girls at the end of the stage play.
- Laura reveals to everyone at school that she is a mermaid.
- Laura goes back to Grand Ocean, with all five girls forgetting their time together as Pretty Cure. They later regain their memories when Laura returns to visit to the surface.
Synopsis
The girls transform in the Tropical Club room, despite having nobody to fight. Cure Summer is hit in the face with a giant Tropical Melon Bread. It turns out to have been a dream, with Manatsu waking up to learn that Laura may be returning to Grand Ocean tomorrow. Manatsu pretends not to have heard.
Next morning, the girls notice Laura is acting strangely. Manatsu returns with the Tropical Melon Bread cushion which Laura won the previous day. Laura realizes Manatsu knows she may be leaving, and tells the others. The girls promise they'll remember her, even if they forget. Manatsu advises Laura to do whatever is most important to her now.
The Tropical Graduation Festival begins, and the girls prepare for the play. Laura suggests changing the ending so that her character leaves her friends to become queen at the end. The play begins as normal, with characters based on the Tropical Club's own lives.
As the final scene begins, Minori advises the girls to ad-lib if they forget their lines. Laura, playing Rosalia, reveals that she will return to her kingdom to become Queen. As she recites her lines, the girls tear up. Manatsu breaks character, embracing Laura and tearfully begging her to stay.
The girls end the play as intended with a rendition of "Song of Friendship", featuring all except Manatsu, who tearfully leans against a lighthouse prop. She accidentally pushes it over and it hits Laura, accidentally turning the hearfelt ending into a comedic scene. That cheers up Manatsu, and she joins in the rendition of the song.
To everyone's amazement, Laura suddenly reveals to the play audience that she is a mermaid. Disciplinary Head Masami is the first to confirm it by grasping her tail, declaring it to be real. The crowd cheers.
That evening, on the beach, Laura bids farewell to her friends. Manatsu gives Laura her lipstick, promising as always that it will cheer her up when she is lonely. Laura reveals that mermaids can live much longer than humans, and one day she fears she will miss her friends as she outlives them; the memory-erasing device was originally created by a mermaid who wanted to forget her human friends to ease her loneliness. Laura transforms into a mermaid and swims into the ocean, with Manatsu promising they will meet again.
At night, the girls' rings disappear, and, with them, their memories of Laura.
The following morning, Manatsu asks her mother if a third person lived in their house, but her mother doesn't remember Laura either. At school, Manatsu cries after Asuka's graduation ceremony. The girls notice that for some reason there are five Tropical Melon Bread, but nobody knows why. Laura is even missing from the photograph from the mountaintop.
However, Laura was well-prepared. She notices the pink lipstick, which her past self had used to leave a note instructing her to "go to the Witch." At the partly destroyed former Witch's mansion, she left instructions for the former villains, whose memories are unaffected since they're neither humans nor Grand Ocean fairies. They direct her to the heart-shaped stone where she and Manatsu first met. Manatsu also appears to have left a note on her own bed as well.
Neither one of them appears to remember the other, but Laura asks about the lipstick, which Manatsu recognizes as her own. Manatsu asks Laura why she has it, and both are surprised that they somehow know each other's names. The Aqua Pot glows, destroying the memory-wiping machine, and bubble photos of the Tropical Club's history pour out. With that, the girls' memories appear to have returned, and they both exclaim "Tropica-shining!"
A montage of scenes shows Laura reuniting with the Tropical Club members. Sango is helping with makeup at her mother's boutique. Minori is making excellent progress on a novel with a comically oversized pencil. Asuka is arguing with a tennis coach at Phoenix Academy with Yuriko trying to stop her, as an act to keep their friendship safe. Manatsu is working on adding a second story to the Tropical Club room, which is renamed the "Even More Tropical Club" with the addition of new members. Chongire is opening a food stall. Numeri is operating a doctor's office out of the ruined mansion. Elda is feeding Butler cookies. And Laura is teaching mermaids a class on humans.
Characters
Pretty Cure
- Natsuumi Manatsu / Cure Summer
- Suzumura Sango / Cure Coral
- Ichinose Minori / Cure Papaya
- Takizawa Asuka / Cure Flamingo
- Laura La Mer / Cure La Mer
- Nagomi Yui / Cure Precious (post-credit scene and baton pass only)
Mascots
Secondary Characters
- Sakuragawa Saki
- Natsuumi Aoi
- Suzumura Miyuki
- Shiratori Yuriko
- Chongire
- Numeri
- Elda
- Butler
- Kakuta Masami
- Shiraishi Kiriko
- Komachi Naomi
- Kuwano Yumi
- Komori Izumi
- Hayashida Yukie
- Nakagawa Shiori
- Hirabayashi Mafune
Trivia
- This episode marks the end of Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure. It is succeeded by Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure in its initial time slot.
- The version of "Song of Friendship ~Let's Sing Together♪ I Love My Friends~" that appears during the Tropical Club's play is different from the version included on the Vocal Best album.
- Asuka's father can be seen in the audience for the play. He is wearing a disguise to sneak back into the event, after being kicked out the day before for trying to a organize a rain prayer event.
- There is no eyecatch in this episode.
- Following their battles, Chongire has a missing/injured eye and one of Numeri's horns is broken.
- Although the Japanese school year usually runs from April to March, the students are still wearing their long-sleeved winter uniforms at Asuka's graduation.
- This episode's ending includes added scenes depicting the continuing lives of the main characters. It is also shown before the last commercial break, instead of after it.
- Sketches on Minori's wall depict people entering and leaving a whirlpool, suggesting that she is writing the story of the Pretty Cures.
- The girls are still depicted wearing rings on the middle finger of their left hand. This may be an error, since they lost the rings when they lost their memories.
- Manatsu and Laura's meeting mirrors their original meeting in episode 1. In both episodes, Laura returns Manatsu's lipstick.
- The original broadcast (but not the Crunchyroll version) features additional post-credit scenes:
- A final preview of Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure is shown at the end of the episode.
- Like several earlier seasons, there is a baton pass message at the end of the episode, this time between the outgoing Cure Summer and the incoming Cure Precious.
- Unlike the past few seasons, Yui / Cure Precious does not appear until the epilogue of the episode.
- Yokotani Masahiro admitted that he added the part of Manatsu stepping on dog poop during the end of the post-credit scene. On his related Twitter post, he revealed that he has always been interested in inserting toilet humor into series like Pretty Cure, but his colleagues always stopped him from doing so. However, Tsuchida Yutaka actually made an exception for him to let him add this scene during the final production.
Gallery
- Main Page: TRPC46/Image Gallery
Video
トロピカル～ジュ！プリキュア 第46話予告 「トロピカれ！わたしたちの今！」
Preview
キュアサマーからキュアプレシャスへ ～バトンタッチのメッセージ～
Baton pass with Cure Summer and Cure Precious
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