Star Detective Ep2 review!
The episode starts off with Purple pointing to a signing saying this is her home. It's the Makoto Mirai town building site. The site is currently an flat empty lot though. Purple and Pink both begin freaking out. Purple wants to go home to celebrate her birthday. It dawns on Pink that she knows a place they can. And then we get the theme song. I'm going to be going through trying to find Cure Eclair for a while.
Episode title: Introducing the Genius, Jett-Senpai!
Pink takes Purple the to Star Detective building that Purple and Pochitan landed on her in front of last episode. Pink explains that the Precure are a secret and Purple asks if it's a secret, how come she knows. Pink doesn't answer but says "She'll" be able to help them. So we know one of the cures hang out at this building. They enter the building which has no lights on inside and don't find anyone.
Jett tells them from where he's hiding as he fiddles with a lollipop that he isn't taking commissions. Purple says she traveled back in time. Jett retorts that he doesn't have time for pranks. Pink says they're star detective Precures. Jett hops on the desk and the two call him a child. He questions if they're Precures before noticing the pendant that Purple is wearing. He falls off the desk and transforms into a fairy. When it's pointed out that he's a fairy, he turns back into a person ignoring the fairy comment.
The group are sitting down. Jett examining the pendant as Pink has if he's a PreCure fairy friend. Jett states he's the genius inventor Jett. He seems to be a bit full of himself like Jet the hawk. I will be making comparisons going forward. He invents detective tools.
Purple says it's amazing he doing that at such a young age. He asks her how old she is. She says she's 14. Pink is amazed because she is almost 14 too. The two girls are in their own world talking as Jett says he's 222 years old without noticing the girls aren't listening to him. Purple/Anna and Pink/Mikuru agree to call each other by their first names.
Jett asks how they got the pendants. Purple's was on her desk. Pink got her's from her grandma ages ago.
The intruder alert goes off in Jett's lab. All of his snack are in a pile in the floor and Pochitan appears from the pile. Jett notices Pochitan is a time space fairy. That she used her powers to time travel and can't take Purple back until her powers return. They'll need makoto jewels to charge her powers. Jett is shocked they have one. The place the Makoto jewel on her bowtie like they did Mofurun. Pochitan then summons a sippy cup. They feed her and Jett says they probably need more Makoto jewels. Pink says they can surely find them with the help of their veteran Star Detective Precure.
Jett explains that she was there until a few months ago. But she's suddenly disappeared. Jett came from the London star detective agency to close this one. Purple states that they're here. Her and Pink can be Star Detective. Pink asks what about returning to her time. Jett states he doesn't accept them as PreCures. He only believes what he sees with his own eyes. Pink says she'll show him, but then the grandfather clock tolls. Pink says it's her school dorm's curfew. So she'll show him tomorrow. Before she leaves, Pink orders Jett to let Purple and Pochitan to sleep at the office.
That night, Jett is looking at the pendant. 28 years is a long time to jump even for a time and space fairy and wonders if the pendant has powers that aided Pochitan to do so. Not sure of answer, Jett turns into his fairy form and goes to bed.
The next day, Pink bursts in saying she'll show Jett that she's a precure. Pochitan with her harness on Purple runs around and out of the office. Pink and Jett give chase. Pochitan stops at a cake shop and Pochitan tells them to help her. The girl, a mystery novel writer, lost her favorite pen. The writer says an old lady was talking to her and then disappeared and so did her pen. The phone lines are down. Purple says she'll go on foot to look for the old lady. Before she goes off, Jett gives her a Pre-kit. It's a cute little voice memo tool that looks like his fairy form.
The writer was writing at the café when an old lady in a green kimono and hair in a bun walked up to her and said she was a fan. She shook her hand as it was the first time someone told her she was a fan and it made her happy. But when she went to get her pen to sign something for the old lady, her pen and the lady were gone.
Purple walks up to an old lady matching that description as Pink sends a voice memo. Pink realized that the old lady is with the Phantom Thieves guild. The old lady smirks and says bye bye baby before running and being chased by purple. I feel like this is Nijee in disguise again. In the park the old lady runs into, we see several people we see in the Opening theme song which I think is cool.
Purple, Pink, and Jett concluded the Old lady is disguised as someone in the park. We have a business man, a male and female lovey dovey couple, and an gal with a pink handheld phone. The gal is talking on her cellphone even though the phone lines are down in the area. Once again when the answer dawns on the cures we get that feather animation. The cures confront the Gal high schooler with the fact that they stole the pen and that the phone network is down right now. It is Nijee!! He transforms the pen into our monster of the day.
Jett mentions that people can use the Makoto jewel in their hearts to become Precure. This is an interesting tidbit of background lore. Nijee says the Phantom Thieves guild's mission is to use Makoto jewels to envelope the world in lies. Jett says the Star Detective agency's mission is to stop lies.
The Cures defeat the monster of the week and get a blue star shaped Makoto jewel they give to Pochitan. No items appear or anything but Pochitan has been powered up, I guess. Jett notes that the damage from the Monsters is gone without a trace.
The group return the pen to the writer and apologize that the culprit got away. The writer is just happy to have her pen back and thanks them. Back at the Agency, Jett gives t he girl's Pre-Kit Books. It's proof that they're star detectives and that Jett accepts them.
Pinks says they'll protect the Makoto jewels, change Pochitan back, and help Purple return to her time. Purple says she can't stand a world covered in lies. So she'll be a star detective Precure with Pink and save everyone. She can go back afterwards.
Jett gives them special pens to write their names into their Pre-Kit books. The pens remind me of Sailor Moon's transformation pen but bigger and bulkier.
Jett welcomes them to the agency. and the girls call him Mr. Jett in subs and audio is Jett-san. He asks if there isn't a better way to call their elder. Jett is picky about how he is called and addressed. so is Jet the Hawk too. The girls call him senpai and Jett smiles and accepts that. We then get the ending theme.
I give this episode an A rank. It sets up the world more. Introduces us to our guy who will give us intel and items throughout the series. I am also curious about the cure who disappeared from the agency a few months ago. Is that Arcane Shadow or Eclair? I have questions.
