You and Idol PreCure Ep44 review

 The episode starts with Zukyoon in fairy form doing a crowd pleaser with one of the ribbons they get from monsters when the queen calls on Idol's device. Kiss hides behind Wink as she can't face her. The queen informs the Cures that they have gathered all of the ribbons and it's time to restore the Big ribbon in Kirakiland. Something I'm interested in since Chikkirine mentioned a Kurakuland last episode. Are there 2 magical worlds? Makes sense since one is full of happy emotions only. And we have the whole opening theme song for me to ponder this. 

After the credits the Cures, Mr. Tanaka, and Cutti and Zakkuri ? are gathered at the heart shaped tree. They point out a pink peach and say they'll be going to Kirakiland in it. Mr. Tanaka says they call it momo and it's actually name is M.O.M.O. but we don't hear what it stands for. The girls transform and we get the full transformation sequence here. I expect this episode to have a lot of background/lore drops. 

The all get into peach via magical color swirl and the peach gets absorbed into the tree. They all step out into Kirakiland and it's desolite and dark. They go to restore the Big Ribbon. With the Big Ribbon restored, it shines several pink lights across the land and everything gains color again. The other fairies are free from the dark rocks. Some fairies approach the PreCures and Zukyoon explains who they are. Cutti and Zakkuri apologize for helping plunge the world into darkness. The fairies invite the 2 to play.  Zukyoon thinks that's an awesome idea. She turns to invite Kiss to play but kiss isn't there. 

Kiss is walking in the forest thinking back on her past. She comes across a squirrel fairy who is afraid of the darkness coming and Kiss tries to comfort her. Zukyoon and other fairies approach looking for Kiss. Zukyoon explains that Kiss is also a fairy like her. Kiss says she wasn't ready. Zukyoon hugs her and tells her it will be okay. Kiss turns back into her fairy form and is thanked by the squirrel fairy.

The Cures have all detransformed for an audience with the queen. There is a party that will be held for them shortly. Kiss apologizes for using the heart lock when she was told not to. Zukyoon comes to Kiss's defenses. The queen says they must not do dangerous things, but they used the heart lock to help the cures and restore Kirakiland. She is thankful for the two of them. 

Wink asks about Kurakuland that was mentioned last episode. The queen THINKS, not knows for sure, but thinks that it must be the counterpart to Kirakiland. 

This time Kiss feels dizzy. Normally Zukyoon feels a shutter. A giant pair of purple scissors appears over Kirakiland, which is an island on water. The queen activates a defense with the big ribbon and the island sides fold up making the island look like a peach. 

Darkine says it's pointless. Kurakuland is made of human darkness and they will soon be swallowed by darkness. The queen tells the Cures that the defense power, Tsubomi, she deployed will not last long. Wink asks Kiss how she knew Darkine was coming. We get a flashback from when Darkine said that they share a destiny and that Kiss is a child of darkness. Kiss repeats she is a child of darkness and the queen corrects her. She is a savior. A child destined to stop the spread of darkness. 

The fairies outside the palace are worried about the big ribbon's lights dimming. Cutti, Zakkuri, and Mr. Tanaka begin handing out cheering lights and they begin to cheer for the ribbon with them. 

In Darkine's palace she says it won't be long as she observes the human world's increasing anxiety and fears. We also see Chokkrine in some purple tear drop shaped pod. 

Darkine transforms one of their classmates, Ruka, after she reads an article talking about the monsters. The monster is a phone with a wrist strap. Kiss shocks the monster with Kiss Shock and we have a small magical girl speech before we go into the whole group preforming. 

After purifying the monster, instead of a ribbon, we get a heart shaped glow that goes to the heart shaped tree. I guess to power the Big Ribbon in Kirakiland. 

Once Ruka wakes up, she is surprised to see Cure Kiss and then she remembers being turned into a monster. Kiss hugs her and tells her it'll be okay. If she's ever anxious again to remember that Idol PreCure is here for her and to believe and wait. 

Afterwards, the queen calls and explained that they sent sparkle happy energy to their world via the Heart Tree and that Kirakiland was made from all the good happy energy from the human world and the heart tree connects to the big ribbon. Kiss has the idea of making everyone sparkly in the human world to help strengthen the ribbon back home and that she knows Idol Precure can do it. She asks if the others will help her. They all agree. 

My first gingerbread house

 I have never put together a ginger bread house. Hubby and I landed on an Oreo train one. Here is the box and what it looked like on the box..

And here is what we made. I didn't like the sugar ball candy the box came with so we subbed them out for gummy bears and the shaq sour gummies.

You and Idol PreCure Review ep43

 The episode starts out with a newscast about the monster attack at Kaito Hibiki's concert last episode. As the girls are doom thinking, Cure Idol sings a song to cheer them up. A man in the cafe hears her singing and inquires about it. She pops up from upstairs saying it's her. He asks Cure Idol to come audition for an idol debut for his agency. She is shocked and confused by it. 

Then cut to opening theme song.

The cures are having lunch at school. Zukyun and Kiss are in fairy form. They are discussing with Cure Idol about if she is going to accept the offer from the Mr. President man. Cure Idol isn't sure since she is already an idol as Cure Idol and she's not sure how it'll work being an idol as both a Cure and her regular self. Zukyun asks if Cure Idol wants to be idol. 

Cure Idol thought that idols were really amazing when they went to Kaito's concert last episode. She would love to make people feel sparkly even in her regular form too. Wink says it's decided then. And the other Cures say they'll support her. 

Cure Idol returns home to Cafe Glitter where the president is already telling her parents about his company. Her parents look a bit uneasy and say they want to respect her feelings. She says she wants to be an idol and to make people smile. Once it's agreed upon, Cure Idol starts singing but Mr. President says not to because she'll be using her voice a lot for vocal training and concerts. Also, he's eyes under the shades are yellow with a diamond pupil. This man is now suspicious. 

Mr. President feels the room with humidifiers and has Cure Idol wearing a mask. Kiss says she's got a bad feeling about this. Same girl. Same. 

Cut to a montage of Cure idol doing daily life, bursting into her happy songs and Mr. President popping up saying no singing,

During lunch, their classmates approach them talking about the monster that appeared at Kaito Hibiki's concert. They feel scared about the monsters coming up. Cure Idol wants to sing for them to cheer them up but can't because of what Mr. President has been saying. The fairies transform into their human forms and show up being the classmates and offer to walk them home.

Cure Idol is sad that she couldn't cheer up her scared friends and is contemplating things at the beach. Kaito Hibiki shows up and he tells her he had those doubts too. But seeing her sing to guests when he first went to cafe Glitter made him realize he wanted to try singing to his friend, Kazuma. 

The other Cures are having a small meeting after the fairies walked their classmates home. They're worried about Cure Idol. They resolve to go tell her in person that they will always support her no matter what she decides to do. 

They find her by the beach and tell her such and Cure Idol is so happy that she wants to sing but is trying to stop herself because of what Mr. President said. Also I realized that most of the human characters have a diamond shaped pupil in this show. So maybe not so sus.

We see Chokkirine playing darts while playing a japanese word game when Queen Darkine or whatever shows up in her shadow and threatens her to end the fight with the PreCure or be trapped in her darkness forever.

We see Mr. President walking down the street worrying about if Cure Idol is taking good care of her voice. He pauses outside of an old record store and we see a younger version of him singing in 80s rock glam look on some records. He doesn't want Cure Idol to end up like him. I'm guessing he blew out his vocal cords and can't sing anymore. 

Chokkirine turns Mr. President into a monster. He seems to be a humidifier wearing a mask. 

Red heart ribbon Cure Idol does the finishing move.

Whoever was in charge of animating the scene with Chokkirine back at the bad guys base. They did a great job. That scene was animated wonderfully. She looks ragged. Her movements make her desperation shine. Bravo to those who worked on that scene.

Mr. President comes to in a park. Cure Idol is there in her civi form. She says she's sorry but she wants to sing when she wants to and asks him to please forget about making her an idol. Mr. President tells her that when he was younger, people thought he would be a great singer. But he practiced too hard and damaged his throat. I was correct in my theory. I have also heard and seen this happen to people before. He didn't want her to experience that. and He's sorry for putting her through that. But she reminded him that singing when you want to is the happiest thing. 

As they're walking home, Cure Idol is singing happily and striking silly poses. KyunKyun then remembers that Mr. President seemed familiar because he was a famous rock singer. Shoutin Shuichi. KyunKyun and Wink are amazed she was scouted by someone so famous. Kaito Hibiki sees them walking pass on the other side and is happy to see Cure Idol has her smile back and says she really is an idol. 

Cut to ending theme song. 

Bus bags

 I saw these in the site and I liked the shape of them. I think it would be fun to draw characters with fun bags like these in the future.

Clock bags

 Clock bags I saw at the mall today. 

two different clock bags. Oddly the more rectangular one costs more even with it doesn't look like it could hold as much. However, I noticed that they were two different brands. So that might have something to do with it. 

things I saw while out today

Things I saw while walking around the mall today. 

a tails pin in a box lunch. They didn't have much sonic merch at the box lunch. 

this was a clutch wallet with Ruben from Lilo and stitch on it. 

Got an odd youtube comment today I guess

 I got the first ever comment on my youtube channel that just says "Die". Not sure if they're trying to tell me to die. If they wrote German for "The". I doubt that second one. I didn't event think about it until I saw that YouTube put a translate with Google translate option under it. I'm not going to lie, I do feel some kind of way about it.
They commented on a random video I took looking at Sonic Plushies. Like why comment that? Why comment at all? Most people don't even comment on youtube. Especially mine. I get like a comment on my youtube videos once a month if that.
So I'm sitting here. After being sent home for being sick with my partner who is more sick than me. Just wondering, "Why?" and do I just block this person on youtube? Do I prod them for answers for the engagement and to better understand them? Do I even want to understand them?
These are just my rambling thoughts though.