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Precure Day 071

Episode: Futari wa Precure Max Heart 21 - “What happened? What to do!? A forbidden encounter” Date watched: 01 October 2018 Original air date: 03 July 2005 Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/kEZsCAh

uh oh

So uh, remember like yesterday when I said it would be a while before Hikari and Hikaru met? Allow me to stick my foot in my mouth here. But first let’s back up.

This is actually a really good Hikari episode. She makes friends with a boy who’s running away from home, Daiki, and helps him realize that his mother truly cares about him despite his feelings to the contrary. Also she kind of mourns her own lack of parents, but at the end Akane fills that role nicely. Is this the payoff to her hint from episode.... what was it, 9? about wanting to start a family? It’s something. She certainly treats Hikari like her own child, adopting her without a second thought (even if it was initially kind of brainwashing she’s more than fulfilled her obligation, and that’s another thing we see come back in later shows).

Side note, Daiki resembles the hell out of Kenta from Precure Splash Star, and I thought he might even share the same seiyuu, but I guess Takeuchi Junko (Kenta and later Cure Rouge) was too busy recording Naruto filler at this time because it’s actually Akemi Okamura.

Anyway the other half of this episode features Hikaru finally setting foot into the world outside the mansion, closely monitored by the butler zakenna. He has a lot of innocent wonder for the reincarnation of the dark king (technically spoilers but that was obvious) and there’s some silly antics until he and Hikari run into each other, and suddenly the world goes dark.

Wishun is afraid of this meeting, the fairies are all perturbed, and even Viblis feels the instant change in mood from back in the mansion. Nagisa and Honoka are right around the corner to witness this, and good thing too because Circulas rushes in to try to destroy Hikari. They stop him in a no-holds barred beatdown that might be one of the best fights in the show so far. Hikari’s aura of light causes Hikaru to faint from exhaustion, and Viblis snatches him and the butlers away right before Circulas finds himself on the receiving end of a Marble Screw Max. He tries to block it but as usual he’s unsuccessful and retreats back to the mansion. Hikari is also tired from the encounter, and Akane embraces her when she returns back to the stand.

It’s a really good episode in every regard that i can think of. Okay some of the animation is a bit weak but there’s some good closeups and mid shots, the city fading to black when the reincarnations of light and darkness meet, the fight between Black and White and Circulas, it’s all great. The emotion is powerful, though not climax powerful, and the musical cues are fitting. Despite not transforming in this episode, Hikari truly shines when she’s talking to Kanta and you can see she’s starting to come into her own as an individual. (also she gets some cute scenes in her pajamas so that’s a plus)

Now that these two have met, what will happen? Find out next time on Pretty Cure Z! I mean Max Heart. I mean whatever.