Star Detective PreCure Ep4 Review

 Star Detective Precure Ep4 Review! episode title: Exciting! Our first client! 

The episode starts with Pink pacing as she is worried they have no clients even though the agency is open. A young man with a purple bag comes in asking for help and the cures and Pochi begin to panic as they don't know what to do until Jett tells them get a hold of themselves. 

After everyone is sat down for tea, the Client explains that all of his items in his bag have turned into produce! Queue the theme song! 

The cures each give him a business card for each of them. The client is a university student who is trying to become a Mangaka. He explains he realized his bag felt heavier and he noticed the potatoes. The strap on his bag is also shorter than what he had it previously. Purple suggest that the bags got switched. He then remembers he bumped into someone by the station and dropped his bag. 

Cut to the theatre of our Phantom Thieves Guild. Black cure is once again eating ice cream. There is a debate on who should go. Goemon, who seems to be inspired or based on Japanese theatre says he will go and show the Black Cure, the new comer, how things are done. 

The Cures and Client go to the station where the client explains that they collided with each other. But he doesn't remember what they looked like or who they were. A man painting a bench nearby overhears them and explains that a lady was looking for a man who took her bag. She is a young lady with glasses. Pink does a sketch of her, but it's not that great. 

The Cure group heads off in the direction of the lady went. Goemon says the Makoto stone is in an item wrapped in purple cloth. Black cure notices the client with the purple bag. The Cure group passes by a place giving out flyers for painting lessons. Purple takes one and says it would be useful to be able to sketch faces. Goemon takes notice of the bag in the client's arms. 

Goemon lands in from the Cure group and tells them to leave the Makoto Jewel to him. He uses his fan to make a burst of wind full of Cherry Blossoms, I guess that is his flower of choice. He runs away with the bag strap hooked on his fan. The cures use a Pre-Kit Light tool to create a bubble trampoline to give chase. Black Cure and her fairy realize after Goemon meets up with them that the bag doesn't have the jewel. Black Cure walks off after looking at the apron in the bag. Goemon grumbles about newcomers. He realizes the Makoto jewel is in the other bag and challenges the Cures to finding it first before disappearing in Cherry blossoms. 

The Client hearing this, says to just not look anymore. He makes manga to make people smile, not bput them into danger. The Cures explain they feel the same way. So it's decided he'll wait at the agency for them. The cures go to different restaurants in the area because there is food in the bag. The man at the curry place says he has no employee with the description of the lady. They notice ketchup on the apron and list foods that might be cooked where the mystery lady works. The Chef tells the Cures that the potatoes and Onions are sprouting and the apples aren't fresh. No restraurant would cook with them.

Goemon is looking from a roof top for a bag with a manuscript. He tells Arcana Shadow to help him look. She says she doesn't have to while eating a different ice cream from before. The fox fairy says she doesn't have to look, because Arcana Shadow already knows where it is. 

The cures go back to the station to try to get more ideas. The realize the area is paved, so how is there dirty on the bottom corner of the bag. Pochi touches the bench and gets blue paint on her little paw. With this the cures have their feather moment and realize the mystery lady is at the painting place. As they return the bag, Goemon shows up and steals the manuscript. The Cures give chase. When pressed how he knew where the manuscript was, he says Bread. That the new comer figured it. The fox fairy praises Arcana Shadow for knowing that bread could be used as an eraser and figuring out by just looking at the bag. Arcana Shadow says it was no biggie as she goes back to her ice cream. 

Goemon turns the manuscript into our monster of the week with a wave of his fan and cherry blossoms galore. We have a comic book manuscript monster this episode. I like that during the fight, we have the bubbles with words like POW, Thump, and such inside. It adds a nice touch. Goemon praises Maestro Usonoir for bestowing such amazing powers to make the monster. This is the first time the Cures have heard that name. Goemon brags that so long as his boss is happy, that is all that matters. We see Mystique Reflection. that's a new move that I don't recall seeing yet. The cures defeat the monster and Goemon leaves in his cherry blossom.

Back at the Agency, they return the bag to the client. Answer recognizes his pen name. Mystique is confused, but Answer says she loves his manga. She tells him, he's going to become a famous manga artist. The manga he makes is called "Solved by the Cyborg detectives." He asks if that's her deduction. Answer is stumped on how to explain, but Jett and Mystique both want to read it. So the episode ends on them all doing Rock Paper Scissors to decide who will read it first. Cut to the ending theme.

I like this episode because we see more of Arcana Shadow, though I don't know what's up with her yet. We know she loves ice cream. I like the Cures learn the name of the big boss. I feel like Goemon was a good character to give that information. I am a bit concerned that he seems a bit dim witted at times. But this is his first appearance. There is something in his personality and vibes that I just like an find a tad endearing at the moment. All in all, I rank this episode an A rank.