“Could you hold on a minute before you continue?”
SPOILER WARNING: It is impossible for me to reasonably talk about this episode without getting into spoiler territory, specifically regarding the resolution of the case. Please watch this episode before reading this writeup, unless you’re comfortable getting spoiled.
And we are back to having episodes go up without the proper information when I get to them. Smh. More notably, however, this episode didn’t include the preview for next week’s episode. I’ll cover why that happened when we get to the end of the writeup.
Anyway, this episode continues after the events of the class trip. Anna and Mikuru get a letter from the mayor of an island requesting their help. According to a legend, after a fairy appears, if trees get chopped down, graffiti gets drawn, manju buns disappear, and the clocks hands start ticking, the island will disappear. Anna and Mikuru get shown evidence for the first two events, where we also meet this man’s granddaughters.
As this legend occurred 100 years ago, there’s no reasonable way for any human on the island to remember what happened. Once they find out there’s a tortoise nearby who was alive back then. After both girls take a PreKit gummy (remember those?) to talk to it, it states that the island has always been this way. This ends up being a key towards solving the legend.
At some point in the episode, we see Nijee heading to the island, only to fall into the water. Lmao. My favorite member of the Phantom Thieves’ Guild, everyone.
Anyway, some manju buns disappear, leading Anna and Mikuru to investigate. At first it seems like a locked room mystery, until Anna reveals that, no, there’s an opening that someone could’ve used. They go inside to investigate, and all the pieces come together for them.
As even vaguely hinting about the resolution would be enough to reveal it, I’ll have this be one of the rare cases where I come clean and just outright tell you the solution. One of the granddaughters had broken her watch, so the other was like “maybe the fairy will come fix it!” and did the actions of the fairy to lead the other granddaughter into the belief that the fairy will come and fix it.
Unfortunately, the watch holds a Makoto Jewel, and Nijee nabs it to make a Hanninda. Anna and Mikuru transform after the Hanninda makes a mockery of what they do to transform, and a fight occurs. This Hanninda manages to both daze the girls and restrain them (even if temporarily), though it does get beaten up because the Cures used the seaweed/kelp/whatever that Nijee dragged in when coming to land to immobilize the Hanninda, with Answer dealing the finishing blow.
After the fight and detransforming, Anna and Mikuru return the watch, with Jett himself visiting the island. Due to the similarities between the new name of the island and Jett’s name, as well as Jett’s story, however, Anna and Mikuru realize what the legend means.
- The trees getting chopped down? Jett got washed ashore after a storm and needed wood to fix his boat.
- The graffiti? While it’s one of the last things revealed, that was plans for the boat!
- The manju buns disappearing? Jett ate them!
- The hands of a clock moving? Jett fixed a broken clock!
- The island disappearing? The island got renamed after Jett!
Once he accidentally outs himself as a fairy, however, Anna, Mikuru, Pochitan, and Jett head back to the mainland.
Normally, after the credits, this is where we’d get the next episode preview. However, on the Crunchyroll simulcast, the spot for the next episode preview is taken up by an announcement that the next 4 episodes will have a focus on each of the candidates for the fourth cure, Cure Eclair, with the answer getting revealed in Episode 25, having this spot play it up. The preview for the next episode got posted to the official Japanese YouTube just fine, however, so I guess I’ll have to wait until Monday to see if Toei posts an official English subtitled episode preview for the next episode to get what the title for the next episode will get officially localized as. Until then, and based on how the next episodes are treated, Episodes 21 through 25 may not have episode titles for their next episode listing straight away.
Before I end this post, if you want to read me ramble, I’m going to share my theory on who I believe Cure Eclair is now, so we can look back on it once Episode 25 comes out. I will be hiding this behind a thing you have to click to open, due to the fact that my theory has the potential to be a spoiler, based on how Toei plays their cards.
Sara’s Cure Eclair Theory (MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR MEITANTEI PRECURE, THOUGH NOTHING IS CONFIRMED YET)
Kurea feels like a red herring to me. Her design is way too loud regarding being Cure Eclair, and it feels like her existence is meant to drive attention away from the other candidates. Evidence lines up way too neatly straight away for it to be her.
Likewise, I don’t believe it’s Rei. She was shown being unable to witness a Hanninda fight, and didn’t seem to have any indication that she could sense anything from it. Yes, she knows Pochitan is a fairy. Yes, she knows there’s more to Anna and Mikuru that she doesn’t know. But I think she’s intended to be the insightful ally that serves as a Watson to the two Holmes (even if neither “Holmes” has any etymology connected to Holmes) instead of being a Cure.
Which leaves my deduction down to Eriza and Shiruku. To narrow things down from here, I went to the title of Episode 9: Don’t Make Assumptions. For this series, the current assumption would be that there has to be a somewhat drastic change in some aspect of the hair to justify the Cure. With that assumption locked down, it would mean that it’d be best to keep Eriza out of the picture.
Which means, once all is said and done, Shiruku is who I believe is Cure Eclair. She moves the fictional detective reference from the last name (Anna Akechi, Mikuru Kobayashi, Luluka Moria) to the first name, even if it’s a looser connection. There are people in the fandom who believe that Shiruku is the red herring, but I personally disagree. None of the other Cures in this season have their main motif plastered on their civilian form, and I doubt that this would be where the pattern breaks.
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