DokiDoki Precure Episode 02
For the blog notes for this episode:
http://fiction.eserver.org/short/happy_prince.html (Rikka tells an abbreviated version of this story to Mana during the episode)
Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales
Translation: Kanmuri
TL in progress
Translation
Prologue
{Continuing from the end of episode 01}
Mana: Precure Love Link!
Cure Heart: Abundant love, Cure Heart!
Cure Sword: Cure... Heart...
Lance: Cure Heart!
Raquel: It's the advent of a new Precure!
{OP}
And you thought Mana was fast before
Title: D'oh! Cure Heart is Unmasked!!
Ira: Gimme a break, she wasn't the last Precure.
Mammo: She's probably a newbie.
Ira: What a bother.
Why you-!
You little-!
Cure Heart: I feel so light!
Mammo: What are you playing at?
Cure Heart: My body is moving so deftly!
I think I jumped a little too high.
Ira + Mammo: Gotcha!
Ira: Yer in my way!
Mammo: That's my line!
I've got an idea. Selfishe!
Selfishe: Selfishe!
Quite Self-self-self-self-selfishe!
Mammo: If you continue to oppose us, your little friend here is going go falling head over heels.
Cure Heart: Wai- are you serious?
Ira: You don't get it, do ya?
Mammo: The heart of the world revolves around King Selfishe.
We're not above any sort of underhanded trick!
Cure Sword: You're the ones who don't get it.
That girl isn't my friend or anything of the sort.
If you think she'd lay down her life just to save mine, you've made a big mistake.
Mammo: What was that!?
Selfishe: Self!
Self!!
Mammo: What!?
Raquel: Cure Heart!
Cure Heart: Cure Sword!
Selfishe: Self! Selllllllllf!
Cure Sword: Why did you-?
Cure Heart: I shouldn't need a reason to save someone.
Selfishe: Self self self selllf...
{Rope breaks and the girls fall.}
Selfishe: Self self... I'm gonna fall!
Sellllllf!
Female victim (Selfishe): Help me!
{Flashback}
Ira: I can make a first-rate Selfishe with this one!
{End Flashback}
Cure Heart: What if the Selfishe doesn't want or mean to rampage?
But instead it's just a troubled creature that's been forced into that form?
If so, I've gotta save it!
What's this light?
Another Cure Lovie...
Cheryl, let's do it!
Cheryl: Cheryl!
Cure Heart: Let my feelings reach you! My Sweet Heart! {Style guide page has a preliminary TL of "Let my feelings break through! My Sweet Heart!" but after seeing the attack and the context surrounding it, I think this is a better translation. --Kanmuri}
Selfishe: Love! Love Loooooove!
Cure Sword: She cleansed a Selfishe...
Lance + Raquel: Yahoo!
Ira: Ha ha! They got yours too!
Mammo: Oh do be quiet!
Cure Heart: Oh, it flew off.
Cheryl: That's a Psyche, a human heart.
Cure Heart: A heart?
Cheryl: Selfish feelings well up in everyone's hearts from time to time.
Everyone tries to keep on going despite these feelings.
However, in a Selfishe, these selfish feelings are inflamed until it turns into a monster.
Cure Heart: I see.
{Damage magically repairs itself}
Cure Heart: Nice to meetcha, I'm Cure Heart. Let's fight together!
Cure Sword: I'll thank you for saving me. But that won't make us friends.
{Cure Heart is surprised}
Cure Sword: I said so earlier, didn't I? That you aren't my friend or anything of the sort.
Cure Heart: Yeah, but since we fought together, that makes us comrades. So we're already friends. {If you have issues with 仲間 being "comrade", "ally" might be an acceptable substitute, though I don't think it has quite the same connotation. --Kanmuri}{I'm fine w/ comrade - Rika}
Cure Sword: I don't recall fighting alongside you.
{Another shocked look from Cure Heart, poor girl's probably never been turned down like this before. xD}
Cure Sword: When the time comes for them to get serious, can you truly protect those you hold dear?
Cure Heart: Wait a sec! I still have things I want to ask-
Um.... Like how do I change back to normal?
Davi: Why couldn't you two be comrades?
With comrades, our search would be-
Cure Sword: Shut up, Davi! I don't need comrades!
{Elevator dings}
Rikka: Mana!
Teacher: Aida! Are you okay?
Rikka: Are you hurt? And what about that crab monster?
Mana: I don't really know.
Male Student: Wasn't this hall leading up to the elevator a complete wreck earlier, though?
Mana: N-now that you mention it, yeah. It's like it was a dream or something.
{Those faces, wwww}
Teacher: Anyway, the most important thing is that you're safe.
Male Student: Let's head back to the bus.
Mana: Sure.
{Scene change, walking home.}
Mana: Man, I'm tired. Of course that's only natural, given everything that's happened today.
Rikka: Verily thou speakest truth, Happy Prince.
Mana: Wazzat?
Rikka: Once upon a time, in a certain city stood a statue of a prince. The statue had eyes of sapphire, rubies for buttons, and was covered in gold leaf.
The prince asked this of a swallow, "Swallow, take pieces of my body and distribute them to the less fortunate in the city."
Mana: A fable?
Rikka: Exactly. You've been just like that prince since forever ago. You wear yourself down worrying about others' happiness.
Mana: Nah, I'm not really getting "worn down".
Rikka: Isn't there something you still haven't told me?
Mana: Huh? How do you know?
Rikka: Because we've been friends for 10 years. Come on, tell me.
Mana: Well, don't freak out when I tell you, but...
Rikka: Yeah?
Mana: I transformed into a Precure!
Rikka: You did?
Mana: Yeah, this fairy from the Trump Kingdom bestowed upon me a strange power.
I used that power to transform and fight these selfish people.
Rikka: And I followed the White Rabbit to learn the secrets of the world.
Mana: I'm telling you the truth!
Kentarou (Mana's dad): Mana! Welcome home.
Ayumi (Mana's mom): Welcome back.
Mana: I'm home!
Mana's Grandpa: Oh, Rikka-chan's back too.
Kentarou: Welcome back.
Rikka: Thanks. {Yeah, this'll be controversial. But it seems stilted to literally translate her ただいま here. -- Kanmuri}
Mana, we'll talk about this more tomorrow.
Mana: Huh? Hey, wait!
Grandpa (宗吉): Are you sure you don't want to have dinner with us?
Rikka: I'm fine, thanks. Goodbye!
Mana's family: Goodbye!
Mana: Wait a sec, Rikka!
{Scene change}
Sign: Western Cuisine Restaurant - Pig's Tail {洋食屋 - ぶたのしっぽ)
