DokiDoki Precure Episode 04

Translation: Kanmuri

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Translation

Prologue

{Flashback}

Alice: Please give that back!

Yellow Boy: Shaddup!

Green Boy: You've got some nerve, carrying around a box of 72 different colored pencils just because your family's rich.

Alice: But, but...

Mana: Cut it out!

Ganging up on a girl and bullying her is pathetic!

{End flashback}

Sebastian: Today's tea is first flush Darjeeling tea. {"First flush is harvested in mid-March following spring rains, and has a gentle, very light color, aroma, and mild astringency." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darjeeling_tea }

If you'd like, please also have some Cherry Jam.

Mana: Thank you.
Ah, delicious!

Rikka: Kinda tastes like Spring, doesn't it?

Cheryl: This is no time to be drinking tea!

Raquel: We need to hurry up and find Lance.

Rikka: So, what's up Alice? Isn't this month's tea time next week?

Mana: What did you want to talk about?

Alice: Yes. I wanted to speak with you two about {dramatic break goes here}
Precure of course. {continuation of the previous line, broken for dramatic effect}

Alice has security cameras down the rabbit hole

Mana: Precure?

Rikka: What makes you say that?

Alice: Sebastian.

Sebastian: Right. {He seems to say はい to acknowledge all of her requests. This is a simple, one word acknowledgment.}

Lance: Yo! {Troololololol}

Mana + Rika + Cheryl + Raquel: La-Lance?!

Title: I must decline! I cannot be a Precure!! {Make sure this matches the final title in ep 3's preview}

Cheryl: Lance? What's going on here?!

Lance: Well...

{Flashback to last episode, make sure it matches the final script for that scene}

Teacher: Huh? Why are you two still here?
Well, I'm about to lock up.
You two better get this mess cleaned up and be ready to go in the next three minutes.

Rikka: Oh no!

Mana: Hey, wait a sec!

{That's it for lines from last episode for this flashback}

Lance: Huh?

Lance: Cheryl? Raquel?
Where did everyone go?
I wish they hadn't left me all alone.

Alice: Oh dear me.
Whatever shall I do?
Hang in there.

Lance: And that's what happened.

Mana: I see...

Raquel: You weren't supposed to tell her about Precure!

Lance: Raquel's mad at me.

Alice: I'm afraid that accusing him is misplacing the blame. {or "I didn't find out about it from him." but I felt this was more Alice's style. More literally "Attacking him is barking up the wrong tree", if you switch out the Japanese saying "calling at the wrong house/door" for the English equivalent.}
Sebastian.

Sebastian: Right.

Mana (on screen): Precure Love Link!

Mana: That's... {An incomplete sentence w/ and implied question}

Alice: A video from a Clover Tower security camera. {the completion of the sentence as an answer to that implied question}
I'm glad I deleted it as soon as I realized it. As it was, the secret identities of the Precure only narrowly escaped public scrutiny.

Cheryl: That would have been a huge problem!

Mana: Alice, please keep this a secret!

Sebastian: Rest assured that aside from myself and milady, no one else knows of this matter.

Alice: However, I can't just ignore this.
And so, I have a proposal.

Rikka: A proposal?

Alice: Why don't you let me be your manager? {Yes, she says プロデュース (produce), but a producer manages/supports 'talent', not superheroes. And what Alice is doing is providing logistical and other support that a manager would supply.}

{Scene change}

Mammo: A third one now? Seriously, Ira?

Ira: Yeah, yet another new one.
This one was blue, and all fluffy like this, and sickeningly sparkly.

Mammo: Oh? Has she stolen your heart? {sea watt eye dyd their?}

Ira: NO!

Bel: So what of it?
Were you scared of this new Precure that you ran back here?

Ira: I'm not scared of their numbers.

Bel: Yet you still lost?

Ira: Shaddup!

Mammo: Even so, are there going to be even more Precure? Ewww...

Bel: We should hurry up and destroy this place.
Just like we did to the Trump Kingdom.

Rikka: When you say "manage" us...
Mana: What do you mean, exactly?

Alice: Well...

Cheryl: It's the dark heartbeat of a Selfishe!

Mana: Oh?

Rikka: Where at?

Sebastian: It looks to be in front of the Ohgai City train station.

Rikka: You know that?

Sebastian: Yes.

Alice: Please don't underestimate the power of the Yotsuba zaibatsu's information network. {Probably need to have a discussion with respect to whether or not to translate/localize "zaibatsu".}
Sebastiant.

Sebastian: Very well.

Alice: Come now, let us be off!

{scene change]

Selfishe: Sound blaster! {So the Seflishe is saying, 音漏れ. Which is basically a term for overhearing stuff from someone else's headphones. Literally "sound leakage". Went with "Sound blaster" because it's amusing. --Kanmuri}

Ira: That's it, Selfishe!

Heart: Stop right there!
A-Abundant Love.... Cure Heart!

Diamond: The light of wisdom... Cure Diamond!

Are you okay?

Heart: Just a little motion sick.

Ira: Selfishe!

Selfishe: Volume at max!

Lance: Get him!

Selfish: Selfishe! {Not subbing the チューs here.}

Ira: Nice, Selfishe! Keep it up!

Lance: Those two are doing their best.
Come on, Alice, we should transform...

Sebastian: Would you like another cup?

Alice: Yes, thank you.

Lance: What are you doing? We should fight too!

Alice: Don't worry. This fight will be coming to an end soon.

Selfishe: Selfishe!
Huh? Self?

Ira: What's wrong? Did something.... huh?
His battery is dead?!

Alice: Now's your chance.

Diamond: Heart!

Heart: Right.
Let my feelings reach you! My Sweet Heart!

Selfishe: Love! Love Loooooove!

Sebastian: The footage has been deleted from the camera monitoring the front of the train station.
Uploaded content from eyewitnesses and other such data have also been erased.

Alice: Good work. Thank you.

Mana: Your butler really is amazing.

Sebastian: Not really, this the least I can do.

Alice: Anyway, I plan to keep on closely supporting you two like this as your manager.

Rikka: Well, we'll certainly be able to breath easier-

Lance: Alice...

Alice: Lance-chan?

Lance: Why wouldn't you fight, Alice?
Even though Mana and Rikka were both fighting all-out, you alone were sitting in the back drinking tea. That's just wrong!

Cheryl: Lance?

Lance: Alice should have transformed into a Precure and been fighting too!

Mana: Speaking of which...

Rikka: Alice doesn't have a Cure Lovie, does she?

Alice: A "Cure Lovie"?

Mana: Oh, this thing.

Cheryl: If you don't have one of these, you can't transform.

Alice: Sebastian.

Sebastian: Of course.

Mana: It's a Cure Lovie!

Rikka: How?

Alice: I got it from a guy at a stand there at Clover Tower.

Mana: That guy...

Lance: That settles it.
Alice! I came to this world to discover you.
Please become a Precure and fight alongside me!

Alice: I'm sorry.
I can't become a Precure.

Lance: Whaaaaaat?! {Yeah, "d'oh" won't work for this ガーン}
A-A-Alice is such a dummy! {Went with "dummy" since it seems to fit his character, as the youngest of the fairies.}

Cheryl + Raquel: Lance!

Mana: Lance...

{eyecatch}