Star Detective PreCure Ep1 Review

 Star Detective PreCure Ep1 Review

The episode starts with Cure Answer, Purple, walking with her mom. Purple notices a little girl crying and offers to help her. She finds the girl's hair ribbon. At Purple's home, which seems to be a tall apartment building. They unbox her birthday cake. It is January 24th, 2027. That is next year. I hope next year is a magical one. Purple is now 14 years old. In her room as she poses in front of her bedroom mirror, she notices a pendant on her desk. She yells thanks to her mom for her gift. The mom confused, says she had promised to by her daughter a smartphone for her birthday.

The bear fairy, Pochitan, flies out of the closet and in the chaos of their encounter. They time travel before Pochitan can explain anything. We have a scene of Purple's mom entering the room to find her kid gone. And then the theme song. I noticed with the theme song that the Mom and Cure Mystique (Pink) have the same eye and hair color. The hair is cut with straight lines for both of them.

I have a theory that the mom and Pink are either the same person, or related in some way. Another tidbit is that the mom's earrings are similar to Pink's cure transformed earring in shape.

Also with the theme song I noticed a blond gal that I thought might be Cure Eclaire, however, the skin tones don't match. So after watching this episode 4 times, I've abandoned that theory.

After the theme song, Purple and Pochitan fall from the sky. Pochitan becomes an air ball and lands on Pink, how she survives is cartoon logic. And Purple bounces off of her. Pink takes Purple to get some shoes, thinking this is a part of the Star Detective test. I like that we see a commercial for a flip cell phone. Pochitan is now a baby and can't help. but she can magically make a harness connecting her to Purple and dragging her about the town.

The trio comes across a bride and her planner as they are missing a silver tiara and looking for it. Purple and Pink agree to help her find it and question the people who had visited her. We have a photographer, her friend who is always late to things who asked the bride to throw the bouquet her way, and the planner.

I find it interesting that is this show the tradition is that if you catch the bouquet that you'll share in the bride's happiness. Many shows that I have watched previously have told me the tradition that if you catch it, you'll be the next to wed. This coming from a few episodes of Sailor Moon, and I believe Case Closed. So I like hearing of other versions of the tradition.

I like the bride granted her friend the favor because she felt it was deserved since the friend showed up early instead of being late like she usually is.

The cures check the photographer's hat and the friend's bag to see if the tiara could of fit since they have a gold one of a similar size.

As the 2 are racking their brains of possiblities outside by a fountain. Purple gives Pink encouragement. "Take a single step, and the answer will follow! A single step of courage becomes the answer!"

A gust of wind blows Pink's hair ribbon into a flower bush on the side of the building. Purple mentions it's funny how the wind blew 2 girls' hair ribbons deep into hedges today. I like that the idea/answer dawns on the girls with an image of a feather falling onto water before bursting into a ton of feathers around them.

Back in the room with the bride and suspects, the cures point out it was the friend who hide the tiara in the bouquet. The friend laughs evil-ly. It reminds me of early Sailor Moon when the monster of the week pretending to be people would admit they were monsters. This time, it's a phantom theif, Nijee! I love Nijee's look and sassy flamboyant personality. The cures give chase and Pochitan with their harness flies the cures in front of Nijee. Nijee explains that a Makoto jewel was formed in the tiara because the bride had such sentimental feelings towards it. Nijee then turns the tiara into a monster of the week called Hanninda. I like these monsters have a top hat and half face masquerade mask and a mustache.

Nijee taunts the girls for being scared. Purple says she is scared, but she wants to get the tiara back. That the bride needs help and she wants to help her. I love that in these shows that the characters admit that she is scared, but is going to stand up despite that. Pink joins Purple in her resolve and the 2 transform into cures. I saw on reddit that someone pointed out how the girls form the numbers 3, 6, and 9 during the transformation with their hands and bodies. This is also where during my first watch at seeing Pink's earrings I went back to the very beginning to compare Pink to Purple's mom.

They attack the tiara monster and then Purple is like, "Did I say Precure?" I love these bits in the series. And Pink explains that this is what a star detective is. They defect the monster, get the makoto jewel. and Nijee disappears with a green smoke bomb. Also during the fight, Nijee mentions another cure, singular. I believe he is referring to Black as she the only other cure shown in the Opening and ending song. I think Cure Eclaire will be our mid season cure, or show up in quarter season.

The Cures and Pochitan watch the wedding from the roof of the church. They see the real friend showing up late and see her catch the bouquet.

Pink cheers and proclaims that April 2nd 1999 is the day she became a star detective. This is when Purple realizes she time traveled. Especially when it dawns on her, it was winter where she was from. And now it's spring.

and we go to the ending theme. I like the ending. I'm looking forward to seeing Arcane Shadow, our black and purple cure with the tarot card staff.

I give this episode an A rank. I think it's a great intro/set up episode for the series. I am looking forward to episode 2.