Playdates

"Playdates" is the fourty-seventh episode of Butterfly Valley (1998 series) and the twenty-first episode of the second season.
==Synopsis==
The Ishimoto family are having a trip to Sideview Beach and Tsukasa came to a playdate with Rose and Petunia, but in the animal world, the trolls are still attempting to kidnap the princess. Who in the world will stop the trolls from capturing the princess?
==Plot==
Rose, Petunia and Tsukasa are walking around the community park in Sideview Beach. They greet their friends and decide to play catch, but Tsukasa thought of teaching the twins Karate. Petunia thought that she will take them to Canada, then Tsukasa corrected her that she will teach them Karate.
The girls head to the school dojo, where they meet their Sensei, Mr. Watanabe. Before he instructs the basic moves of Karate, he starts by bowing with the girls.
The first move is performing kata. Rose and Tsukasa do it pretty well, but Petunia struggled.
Meanwhile in Kabutokyō, the butterfly fairies bid farewell to the beetle fairies and return to the Butterfly Kingdom by airplane. Tatsue Katsurata heads to her office at floor 70 in one of the districts.
Princess Tatsue walks from the palace and collects some flowers, not before the troll guards sneak up and almost capture her, as she went to another place. The troll guards ended up capturing themselves.
The girls went to Petunia's room in the twins' house and pretend that they are magical girls. They bring out some toy magic wands and put on colorful dresses. Petunia proclaimed herself to be the "protector of Powder Land," which made Rose and Tsukasa giggle.
Rose dresses up as a pretty, but powerful butterfly fairy who can use her magical powers to stop the trolls at an instant. Tsukasa sports a yukata and traditional Japanese hairstyle and makeup, pretending to be a magical geisha, but Petunia misheard the word "geisha" as "geyser," which led to Tsukasa correcting her.
Meanwhile in somewhere near Kabutokyō, the troll guards sneak behind Tatsue Ōgami, a gardener who is busy planting some flowers. Thinking that she was Princess Tatsue, they capture her and escort to the Troll Kingdom without being caught in the act.
The troll guards carry a successfully captured Ōgami to the Great Troll Palace. King Boogieman and Queen Peregia are watching them as they enter the palace.
The next day, the twins and Tsukasa went back to the community park and brought some Japanese goods for their friends. The kids gather up at the round table and feast on their snacks. The kids are surprised when they notice the twins and Tsukasa having some snacks they've never seen before.
Meanwhile in Kabutokyō, the beetle fairies are walking across the streets when an alarm suddenly goes off, informing them that Tatsue Ōgami was missing. Tatsue Katsurata was informed about her missing friend.
The kids are playing with some Dragonic Man action figures in the schoolyard, until the human girls came and ask if they can play with them, but suddenly, Tsukasa's magic flower glows, because something happened in the Kabuto Kingdom.
Tsukasa picks up her magic flower and asks the twins to help her out. Tsukasa uses her magic flower to enter the Kabuto Kingdom with the twins. They are asked by the beetle fairies to rescue Tatsue Ōgami, who had been kidnapped by the troll guards.
Tsukasa replied that she and the twins will help them rescue Ōgami, so she asks Rose to use her magic flower to enter the Butterfly Kingdom, which is the only way to enter the Troll Kingdom.
Meanwhile in the Great Troll Palace, the trolls are about to execute Tatsue Ōgami, until the girls interfere with them. Ōgami felt glad that they came to rescue her, but the troll guards began to attack the girls.
Tsukasa brandishes a spare spear from the wardrobe and takes the upper hand, but one of the troll guards tackle her, causing her to drop the spear, which was soon caught in Rose's hands. Petunia brough one of the troll guards' shield and the twins defeat them.
Tsukasa thank them for stopping the trolls and the girls free Tatsue Ōgami, but King Boogieman and Queen Peregia caught them red handed. However, a burst of light suddenly shines upon the trolls and explodes, causing half of the Great Troll Palace to be destroyed and sending the human girls and Tatsue Ōgami to Butterfly Valley.
The butterfly fairies notice the girls and they get up. Bluebell checks of anybody's okay and no signs of injury are found. Tsukasa told the butterfly fairies the news about the trolls recently kidnapping some of the beetle fairies, which made them shocked.
The girls bid farewell to the butterfly fairies and Tsukasa uses her magic flower to take her, Rose, Petunia and Ōgami to Kabutokyō, where the beetle fairies are glad that Ōgami was rescued. Tatsue Katsurata ran and hugged Ōgami, who happens to be one of her close friends.
The beetle fairies thanked the human girls for rescuing Ōgami and the girls bid farewell to them. Rose uses her magic flower to take her, Petunia and Tsukasa back to Sideview Beach, then the kids ran to them.
Brad wondered where did the girls went to, then Tsukasa responded that she and the twins went to the Kabuto Kingdom to save a beetle fairy from the trolls. Haruto came and told Tsukasa, in Japanese, that there's still enough time to play with the kids until they return home in Tōkyō. Tsukasa decides to return to the twins' house and the kids bid farewell to each other as the episode ends.
==Trivia==
*This episode was included in the VHS compilation video The Best of Butterfly Valley, Vol. 9.
*This is the second and last part of the two-episode arc involving the Ishimoto family having a trip in Sideview Beach.
*As with the previous episode, American-born Japanese singer Hikaru Utada guest stars as Princess Tatsue, Tatsue Ōgami, Tatsue Katsurata, and Tsukasa Ishimoto.
*This is the tenth episode to utilize subtitles for viewers who are unable to understand the language a character is speaking.
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