Saturday, March 7, 2026

Star Detective PreCure Ep3 Review

Ep Title: Everyone come to the Cure Detective Agency!
 Episode 3 starts with Jett and Purple cure cleaning the agency as Pink shows up with her belongings from her dorm. The two girls explore the agency on their way to Pink's room. Purple likes to organize the books by color and Jett calls it impractical. Pink is reading the books instead of sorting them and putting them on the shelf. We have a scene of the Cures exploring the 2nd floor where they find a map of the town with different markings on it. Purple feels down about being away from home. Pink decides they should all go shopping for decor for the agency. We learn that the Phantom Thieves guild is comprised of nasty Fairies! I like that we know off the bat they are fairies. 
we cut to a scene of a theatre. Our big bad, Maestro Usonoir, is addressing the members, all sitting in different parts of the theatre. I see that Noir, a word for black, is a part of his name. Nice touch. I took notice of our Black cure with her fox fairy in the theatre. I've got questions about why she's there. But it just dawned on me that her fairy that might have recruited her into being a Cure, might have talked her into joining the Thieves guild. We are introduced to Ageseine, a villain with red hair and purple and pink outfit. She gets to go on the mission today. 
The Cures enter a furniture store. They see a beautiful glass turtle and Purple asks Jett if they can get it to decorate the agency with. The store owner says it's not for sell. It's a symbol of their shop. "Like a Turtle, we may go slow, but we go forward a step at a time. And one day we'll build a bigger, more wonderful store." As the Cures are looking for furniture, the glass turtle goes missing. 
Our suspects are the Owner, the sales clerk, a lady and the store cat, and a foreigner tourist. The tourist only speaks English. Cures realize since the culprit couldn't have left yet, they probably hid the glass turtle in the store some where. They find the glass turtle in a bin of stuff animals and pillows. The sales clerk counts and states he's "Glass all 6 are there and nothing is broken." 
Purple goes, "Case close?" But Pink reminds her they haven't found the culprit yet. They are stumped by the fact the tourist doesn't speak Japanese, but Jett states he made a gummy that translates any language for them. The gummies are shaped like heart keys. The translation only works for 3 minutes. 
The tourist was with the sales clerk pinking out a scarf. The clerk says that since his mom loves gardening plants, he picked a scarf design with a similar pattern to the shop's sculpture. The lady customer was petting the store cat. When the girls are shocked they can understand the cat, Jett goes, "Aren't I a genius?" Jett I think I'm growing fond of you my good sir. 
/The tourist asks if he can leave as his mom is waiting for him. The owner notices that the clerk didn't put a sticker on the wrapped up scarf. She hands him a card with 6 flower options to chose from. The tourist says it's a tough decision, but he says he should pick one that matches the color and design of the scarf he chose. 
The cures have their light bulb/feather falling and bursting into lots of feathers moment. The thief is the clerk. He called the turtle sculpture a flower. He counted the limbs like flower petals. Most people don't count the head and tails with the limbs. 
The thief, Ageseine uses a make up brush to change back to her villain appearance. This does take a second and I laugh during it each time I see it. She snatches the turtle sculpture and runs. When she jumps down from the roofs she ran on, she is greeted by fox fairy and black cure. Black cure is almost always eating ice cream in EVERY scene I've seen her in so far in this show. Fox fairy delivers a message from Maestro Usonoir. "Defeat them and steal it with grace." With the message delivered, they walk away. 
I like that Ageseine uses a yellow flower to make the monsters. Nagi uses roses. Our monster of the day is a yellow flower. Kind of odd because she made it from a glass turtle. I do like that Ageseine seals off the area from everyone but the Guild and the Cures teams. No injured civilians! Yay! 
The black cure and her fairy watch from on top of a building. 
Once the Cures defeat the monster, Ageseine leaves with a big yellow flower. Back at the store, the real sales clerk shows up and apologizes for not being to find the thing the owner wanted. The cures explain that Ageseine dressed up as the owner to get him out of the way. 
With the Cure Agency now freshly decorated, Jett mourns his now empty wallet. Pink says she's adding helping Purple get back to her own time to her case load and the two strengthen their friendship. We see Jett has a a blue print drawn out of some type of heart shaped wand. Then we get our closing theme song. 
I rank this episode a B. I like that we had a call back to episode 1 and it seems the cures learned new tricks the Guild might use in the future. I like that we get to see the bad guys, but I still have questions. I do like they are all fairies and I look forward to one day seeing their fairy forms.