Right, time for a few impressions I wasn't able to post earlier because of the Wii Fit Trainer Festival (as E3 shall henceforth be known, all praise our new pastel-coloured overlord).
Futari wa Precure Max Heart 32
A sweet episode in more ways than one.
Nagisa and her lacrosse buddies have to contribute articles to this month's school newspaper, but Nagisa completely forgets about the article she was supposed to write for the "town's most charming smiles" series. With just one day left to get an article written, sudden inspiration arrives in the form of a pear orchar no, wait, that was a different episode. This time, sudden inspiration appears in the form of a delivery of delicious dango from a shop that Honoka used to visit all the time as a child.
As Honoka and her grandmother reminisce about the dango shop, Nagisa realises that the little old lady who runs it could have the perfect smile for her article. So off they go to the dango shop, where they learn all about how dango are made and how the old lady loves her job because it makes everyone around her happy. Just when everyone's in agreement that these dango are the best around and it looks like Nagisa has the perfect material for her article, the old lady sadly informs them that she's thinking of retiring soon - she's getting old, after all, and business isn't what it used to be.
This revelation spurs Honoka to decide to write the article herself, to let as many people as possible know all about this wonderful place before it's too late. And sure enough, after the article is published, customers start flooding to the shop, and the little old lady decides that she might carry on for a little while longer after all, because her customers bring her just as much happiness as she brings them. HAPPINESS EVERYWHERE END.
But now I want to eat some freshly roasted dango. DAMN YOU PRECUUUUUUURE!
Futari wa Precure Max Heart 33
It's Nagisa's birthday again, and it looks like her family have forgotten all about it! (Yeah...suuuuure they have.) More to the point, Fuji-P hasn't remembered either. In fact, he seems a little preoccupied with his own worries.
Thanks to a little contrivance from Honoka to get the two lovebirds alone together, Nagisa gets Fuji-P to confide in her. Turns out he's losing confidence in his football skills. Nagisa makes a very flustered attempt to cheer him up, but it seems to strike a chord with him, and he regains his positive attitude. Then Nagisa, appreciating that this is her big birthday chance that Honoka gave her, works up the courage to confess her feelings to Fuji-P...
...until the Big Red Bad Guy shows up at the most inopportune moment possible. BATTLE BATTLE BATTLE.
To Nagisa's credit, she doesn't give up after one failed attempt, and goes for Confession of Love Take Two...only to turn it into a confession of her undying support for him at the last second. Sigh. Still, she seems happy enough, and at the last moment, Fuji-P even remembers to wish her a happy birthday!
...Oh, and when she gets home, there's a surprise party waiting for her. Of course there is.
Futari wa Precure Max Heart 34-35
A two-episode mini-arc covering Nagisa and Honoka's class field trip to Kyoto! Yaaaaaaay Kyoto. I lived there for a year. It's a nice place.
After some prerequisite sightseeing, the girls run into Big Red Bad Guy in the middle of Ye Olde Village Experience. To be specific, on the set of a historical drama TV show that Nagisa's a big fan of. But wait...Hikari isn't part of their class, so she shouldn't even be in the same city as the Cures! Are they going to have to face an enemy by themselves for once?!
Of course not, because Hikari chooses this moment to show up in Kyoto, having followed them there of her own accord (she gets a proper scolding from the teacher afterwards, as you might expect). To be fair, she had fairly good reason to do so, since Wishun had emerged unbidden from the Chairect and started making ominous predictions about "the truth approaching" again. Don't really want to be separated when shit's about to go down.
And in the second episode, go down it does. Somehow the Little Boy of Evil has ended up in Kyoto too, and while the other two girls are busy fighting Big Red again, Seekun senses the evil kid's presence and flies off to find him (you idiot, Seekun) and Hikari promptly runs off after her (you idiot, Hikari). Needless to say, the two run into each other (again) and perform their little world-freezing-sudden-fainting scene the second they set eyes on each other (again). What actual lasting effects this has isn't very clear, but it sure is ominous.
And then the bad guys are chased off and the field trip comes to an end. So that's that.
