DokiDoki Precure Episode 18

Translation: Kanmuri

TL complete, ready for timing

Translation

Prologue

Cure Heart: Mister!

Cure Sword: That armor...
It shows that you are Trump Kingdom warrior!
What relationship do you have with the Princess?!

Joe: My name is Jonathan Klondike.
Princess Ann's betrothed!

All 4 Cures: Huh?!

Cure Sword: The Princess's betrothed...?

{OP}

Part 1

Sign: Antique Shop Solitaire{Same antique shop sign as usual. --K}

Joe: Here you go.
And now for the questions.

Rikka: I have so many, I don't even know where to start.

Alice: What do you know about Ai-chan and the Royal Crystals?

Mana: Are you really engaged to the Princess?!

Joe: Guess I'll answer those in order.
First off...
Just like you, I'm from the Trump Kingdom.
Joe Okada is just a fake identity I use in this world.
Next...
I saw the Royal Crystals once a long time ago.
I immediately recognized them as the real deal.

Alice: So they {\i1}are{\i0} Royal Crystals... That's great to hear.
And what about Ai-chan?

Joe: Dunno?("lol i troll u" Ah, Joe xD --K}
That egg really was just one I picked up from the river bank.
She really is a mysterious girl, isn't she?

Raquel: You're not just feigning ignorance again, are you?

Joe: Don't trust me at all, do you?

Lance: With how things have gone up to now, no.

Joe: So what's left now is explaining about Ann and I.
There's no doubt that someday the two of us will tie the knot.

Makoto: The Princess never spoke to me about this!

Joe: That may be true. This all happened before you started serving the Princess.

Makoto: And please stop speaking of the Princess in such an overly-familiar manner!

Davi: Now, now... calm down.

Joe: Back on topic, there is something else I must let you know.
There are five Royal Crystals in total.
When all five crystals have been gathered, a miraculous trump card should manifest itself.

Mana: A miraculous trump card...

Rikka: What's that mean?

Joe: I don't know the details either.
What I can say straight out is that we've got to collect all the crystals so we can save the Trump Kingdom.

Mana: That's right.

Alice: We'll have to worry about the one that Regina got away with later, and focus instead on the last remaining crystal.

Lance: But we have no idea where it could be.

Joe: Hey girls... here.

Guidebook: Go with Joe Okada{ジョー岡田と行く}
Early Summer Trip{初夏の旅｝

Mana: What's this?

Joe: It's a Travel Guide.

Rikka: Now's not the time for us to be going on a carefree trip...

Mana: Trains and fields of rapeseed blossoms?

Joe: They're pictures of a steam locomotive railway that's meant for sight-seeing.{"SL" is an initialism for "steam locomotive" --K}
The scenery looks just like a place from my memories with Ann.{Not quite sure "with Ann" is proper English here, but it felt more correct as a TL than "of Ann" --K}

Mana: A place from... your memories...

Joe: He's the one that found it.

Mana: A trip, huh?
Got it! And I'm gonna make lunch boxes for everyone.

Alice: Oh, sounds like fun.

Rikka: Geez you two... Guess I'll have to go too.

Mana: I can't wait to make them!

Makoto: This will be our... last lead on the Princess...

Title: Appearance! The Final Royal Crystal!

Ira: So this is an heirloom of the Trump Kingdom, huh?

Bel: Let's appraise it then.
Very fine workmanship.

Mammo: What do {\i1}you{\i0} know?
I'll handle this.

Ira: You trying to run off with it in the confusion or somethin'?{Japanese dictionary definition of どさくさ‐まぎれ【どさくさ紛れ】 -- 混乱している状態に乗じて悪事などをすること。「火事騒ぎの―に盗まれたらしい」 -- Basically taking advantage of chaos to do bad things. --K}

Mammo: That's not a fair accusation! Let go of me!

Regina: You really should handle that so carelessly.
It's mine, after all.
It's so pretty.
It's brilliance is mine...
That's right, all mine...

Ira: What's up with her?

Alice: That's a beautiful steam engine.{"steam engine" just sounds better to me than "steam train" --K}

Makoto: Yeah, it has a very refined air to it.

Rikka: This is a much more relaxed pace than your typical commuter train.{The train they are riding is referred to as a 汽車 (steam engine/train), in contrast to the 電車 (electric train) which is the word Rikka is using here and contrasting against. I chose that wording of "typical commuter train" since most trains in Japan, especially the commuter trains, are electric. --K}

Alice: Yes, but it's so refined.

Mana: Let's eat our boxed lunches!

Lance: I've been waiting for this!

Mana: Tada! A box of peach buns!
I made these with Papa.
There's plenty, so help yourselves.

Everyone: Thanks for the food!

Joe: Here you go.

Makoto: I'm fine.

Sign: Let's drink it together!
Ace Tea {Same Ace Tea sign as early episodes. --K}

Makoto: I brought my own.

Bottle: Ace Tea

Joe: Oh really?

Rikka: What's up with Makopi?

Alice: Just a complicated maiden's heart.

Everyone: That was a great meal!

Raquel: That was delicious.

Ai-chan: Kewpie!

Joe: Awesome, isn't it?

Rikka: Wait, we can't just sit back having fun on this trip!

Mana: That's right! We've gotta look for the crystals!

Ai-chan: Kewpietwump!

Engineer: W-What the?

Mana: W-What's going on?
Don't tell me...

All 4 Girls: Ai-chan?

Ai-chan: Yah yah!{Babytalk TL for her はーい はーい！ --K}

Engineer: That's really odd...
Just to be safe, I'd better take a bit to check it out.

Mana: Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!

Engineer: Huh? Why are you doing that, miss?

Joe: Travel and trouble go hand-in-hand.

Rikka: Where are you going, Mister?

Joe: For a walk. Since we're here, we might as well.

Makoto: But I think it'd be better to wait-

Joe: You're not going to find any crystals by being impatient.

Rikka: Even knowing his history, I still don't get what makes him tick.

Ai-chan: Kewpie!

Mana: Ai-chan!

Ai-chan: Yah! Yah yah!

Mana: Let's go.

Rikka: Oof!

Cheryl: That's incredible!

Mana: This is the view he was talking about?

Joe: Ai-chan led us here, didn't she?

Davi: It's almost as if we were back in the peaceful days of the Trump Kingdom.

Alice: Really?

Makoto: Yeah...

Mana: Can I join you for a bit?

Joe: Of course.

Mana: I've thought you were quite the mysterious person ever since I met you at Clover Tower.
You managed to artfully dodge all of our questions.
Yet I never felt unsettled around you.
I'm sure you've been guiding us along the whole time, right?

Joe: You give me too much credit.
The only ones who can defeat King Selfishe and save the Trump Kingdom, are the Legendary Warriors, the Precure.
The strength to find the Royal Crystals has been unmistakably your own.
Just a bit longer...

Mana: What kind of person is the Princess?

Joe: Makopi hasn't talked about her?

Mana: I want to hear about her from the perspective of her lover.

Joe: I know when I'm beat.
It might be a bit long. Is that okay?

{Eyecatch}

Part 2

Joe: The Ann I knew was... well...

Soldier: Princess! Where is the Princess!

Marie Ange: Got it!

Reciter: "_Se_ wo hayami..."{This is #77 --K}

Marie Ange: Got it!

Soldier: Princess- Ack!

Torifuda: Though divided, on it rushes,
And at last unites again.{These are the last two lines of the Wikisource TL of #77 --K}

Soldier: What are you doing?

Marie Ange: Karuta. It's a game from the human world.

Joe: {\i1}She was a bit of a tomboy, but was a very sweet woman.{\i0}{Italics since it's a voiceover during a flashback. Could we perhaps make the voiceover text a different color too? (To better distinguish it from the normal flashback dialogue, and his thoughts from within the flashback.) --K}
Ann was brimming with curiosity, and was fascinated with the cultures of a variety of worlds.{Ohai Seiren/Siren! w --K}

Marie Ange: Something's missing...{Yeah, gravity on those earrings, w. --K}

Joe: How about this?
{\i1}I was a warrior in her service.{\i0}

Marie Ange: Quite splendid.

Joe: {\i1}We were drawn to each other, and wished that time would just stop for us.{\i0}{ボクらが たがいに引かれ合うまでそれほど時を必要としなかった Basically saying that they became so close that they wished their moments together could last forever, or something like that. --K}
{\i1}Thereafter, though, I was assigned to a remote post guarding the border, and I had to leave that white castle behind.{\i0}
{\i1}And then...{\i0}
{\i1}We were visited upon by that demon...{\i1}

Selfishe: Selfishe!

Joe:{\i1}Ann...{\i0}{These two are thoughts, not voiceover. --K}
{\i1}Ann!{\i0}
Ann!

Selfishe: Selfishe!
Selfishe!
Selfishe!

Joe: Ann, where are you?
What's this?
Ann... has gone to the world on the other side...
The Trump Kingdom... Ann...
Cure Sword isn't the only one who wasn't able to save anyone...
Neither was I...
Sorry that story became so depressing.

Mana: I'm glad I was able to hear it.

Joe: We should probably be heading back to the station now.
How about you?
Let's keep heading for our reunion with Ann.

Makoto: Yeah...

Engineer: Hey, you! What're you doing?

Kid: Lemme drive!

Engineer: No!

Kid: I wanna drive!

Regina: I totally get that feeling!
You wanna do what you wanna do, right?
I will make you into a splendid Selfishe!

Selfishe: Locomotive Selfishe!
Clank! Coupling complete!

Joe: That's...

Selfishe: Selfishe!

Cheryl: It's a Selfishe!

Davi: And it's pulling the steam engine!

Selfishe: Selfishe!

Makoto: The rapeseed flower fields!

Mana: We've gotta stop it!

Cheryl: Cheryl!

All 4 Girls: Precure Love Link!

All 4 Mascots: L O V E

Cure Heart: Abundant love, Cure Heart!

Cure Diamond: The light of wisdom, Cure Diamond!

Cure Rosetta: Shining in the sun's warm embrace, Cure Rosetta!

Cure Sword: The courageous blade, Cure Sword!

All 4 Cures: Resonate, our heartbeat of love!
DokiDoki Precure!

Cure Heart: Poor, sad, and lovelorn steam engine...
I, Cure Heart, will make your heart beat with love again!

Regina: Hiii Mana!

Cure Heart: Regina!

Regina: I came to get all of your crystals.

Cure Diamond: Like we'd let you!

Regina: Resistance is futile!{You will be assimilated, er, Selfished. w --K}
I will just take them by force.

Cure Heart: Mister!

Joe: I'll handle her.
You girls stop that Selfishe!

Cure Heart: Thanks!

Regina: Get outta my way, Mister!

Joe: Will you return the crystal you took?

Regina: Nope! It's mine!

Joe: Guess I've no choice, then.

Cure Rosetta: Stop this instant!

Cure Diamond: You shouldn't be running off the rails!

Cure Sword: You're a steam engine, after all!

Selfishe: Yeah, but I'm the kind that doesn't go on rails!

Cure Rosetta: He's out of control!

Selfishe: No matter how many of you there are, you can't stop me!
Selfishe!

Cure Rosetta: We've got to do something!

Cure Rosetta + Cure Sword: Cure Heart!

Cure Diamond: What are you trying to do?!{And Mana/Cure Heart does her thing again, w. --K}

Selfishe: Selfishe!
Full speed ahead!

Cure Heart: I'm not going to let this continue any further!
I will... protect his... treasured memories!

Cure Sword: We're going to see the Princess again no matter what!
Love Heart Arrow!
Precure Sparkle Sword!

Selfishe: Self?
Self!
Self!{And she just tossed a steam engine into the air, w. --K}
Selfishe!{And it landed on its wheels... what is it, a cat? w --K}

All 4 Cures: Precure Lovely Force Arrow!

Selfishe: Oh!
Love! Love Loooooove!

Joe: Hmm?

Regina: Huh? It lost already?

Joe: So now what? Do you want to keep going?

Regina: I'm getting kinda bored, so I think I'll stop for now.
See ya!

Mana: I'm glad the steam engine is okay.
Is this...?

Rikka: It's the final crystal!

Alice: We did it.

Makoto: All that's left now is the stolen red crystal.

{ED}

Preview

Mana: The winner gets all the crystals.
It's a deal, Regina!

{\i1}DokiDoki! Precure:{\i0}

Next episode title: Betting the Crystals! The Selfishe Games!

Mana: Be still my beating heart!