Episode 1

"**An Exciting Beginning"** the 1st episode of *Glitter Force.*

The Japanese title from *Smile Pretty Cure* is **"She's Born! The Perfect Smile, Cure Happy!!"** (誕生！笑顔まんてんキュアハッピー‼ *Tanjō! Egao Manten Kyua Happī!!*)

## Summary

*"When the magical kingdom of Jubiland is invaded by an evil emperor, tiny pixie Candy is sent to Earth to recruit five girls for a superhero team."*

## Major Events

* This episode marks the debut of season 1 of *Glitter Force*.
* Emily makes her first appearance as well as transforming into Glitter Lucky for the first time.
* Kelsey, Lily, April and Chloe also make their first appearances.
* Emily meets Candy for the first time.
* Emily has her first day at Rainbow Hills high School.
* Ulric makes his debut.
* Glitter Lucky uses Sparkle Storm for the first time.

## Synopsis

The episode starts with Emily sleeping in her bed and mutters that her dream is coming to the best part. In her dream, she sees herself and four other girls transforming into a mysterious group known as the Glitter Force, but suddenly, she wakes up and realizes that she will be late to her first day at a new school, screaming: "Oh no! Oh no! I'm gonna be late!"

On the way to school, Emily wonders why she had to stay in bed for a "silly dream", but she then takes the time to look around and thinks that something magical might just happen. As she scoots around a corner she sees nothing at first, but then hears something suddenly cry out. As she starts to look around, a pink book flaps down and opens to a picture of a strange creature, which becomes real and pops out of the book.

The creature hits Emily in the face, however, causing both of them to fall back. When Emily gets a good look, she picks up the creature and hugs it while saying "It's so cute!" Emily starts asking the creature questions about what and who she is. The creature then jumps back to introduce herself as Candy while Emily thinks this is fate. Candy then runs off, leaving the book behind. After picking it up, Emily remembers that she is late for school and runs to class.

Emily gets to school and is trying to introduce herself to the class, but she's really nervous and does a very small, uninformative introduction. It's then a red-haired girl gets up out of her seat and says she'll do the introduction, saying that Emily seems friendly. Emily then realizes with shock that this girl is from her dream. The girl begins to say a few jokes and keeps attempting it, but is then interrupted by two other girls, one with green hair and the other with blue hair, who both say that Emily should do her own introduction. Again, Emily realizes that these two girls are also from her dream. The red-haired girl then proceeds to introduce Emily to the green-haired girl, April, and the blue-haired girl, Chloe. She then introduces herself as Kelsey.

A blonde girl then chimes in, apologizing by saying that Kelsey only did that to break the ice. Emily takes a look at her and realizes that the blonde girl Kelsey on the way back to her seat then introduces the blonde girl as Lily and calls her a crybaby, though Lily claims she has only cried three times so far. Since she is a lot less nervous now, Emily redoes her introduction and does a better job of it this time and also says that it's nice to meet the class, she loves happy things, and looks for happiness every day. The teacher and Kelsey remark that Emily's seat is right behind her and Emily sits down.

Later after class, Emily starts looking for Candy again by exploring the school. First, she looks in the music room, and then the science lab, and finally the library. While looking at the books, she spots a shelf with a glowing book and pulls out the book before noticing a light behind it. She then shoves some books aside, and it seems to start working akin to a combination lock. This continues as she notices several other lights on the shelf that work the same way until a portal opens and pulls Emily in. She then finds herself in a mysterious world known as the Library of Legends. Inside the library, a book appears and a woman begins to speak, introducing herself as Queen Euphoria, ruler of Jubiland. She explains what happened in Jubiland, and says that Emily is one of the chosen ones to become the leader of the Glitter Force, and must convince the others to join her. Emily then puts Candy's book on the shelf and then pulls it off to see Candy running from a crack in one of the books. Trying to get to Candy, she drops the book and manages to operate the same combination that pulls her through the portal and back to the human world, outside of a bookstore near Candy.

Emily then manages to follow Candy and catches the pixie, as she falls off a building. Candy, who is freaked out from Ulric, tries to run away, again saying that the wolf is coming from the sky. Emily doesn't believe Candy at first, but soon sees Ulric, who blacks out a book with some ink and creates negative energy from sad people which he absorbs into a book. Ulric and Candy explain about the bad end scenario, and Candy then says everything will be happy if you work for it.

Emily says that Candy is right. She then remembers how her day was earlier and wants to protect Candy. Emily's power then triggers; with Candy's help, she transforms into Glitter Lucky. At first, she is really scared and freaks out after transforming. Lucky runs away scared and hides behind a wall of a brick house, thinking the wolf wouldn't chase her there. Ulric laughs, then turns the house into a Buffoon. When the monster attacks, Lucky jumps sky high, but still can't control her powers and gets freaked out more.

She manages to knock the Buffoon down in this state and lands on it by accident, freaking out again when she sees where she landed. As she again runs away, Candy tells Lucky to use "Sparkle Storm" to purify the monster but nothing comes out. Lucky then gets over her fear, and with new found confidence and the determination not to lose to Ulric, she concentrates really hard, pulls off the attack, and acquires the first piece of the strawberry Glitter Charm. Ulric then runs away and everyone goes back to normal. Candy then asks Emily to help save her world to which Emily agrees.

## Characters

### Glitter Force

* Emily / Glitter Lucky
* Kelsey / Glitter Sunny (cameo)
* Lily / Glitter Peace (cameo)
* April / Glitter Spring (cameo)
* Chloe / Glitter Breeze (cameo)

### Villains

* Ulric
* Buffoon
* Brute (cameo)
* Brooha (cameo)

### Minor Characters

* Ms. Mason
* Rainbow Hills Middle School Class 2-2
* Queen Euphoria (voice)

## Trivia

* Footage from Tiara Mode Torrent and Rainbow Burst is shown. However, the girls' dialogue in this footage during this episode does not match with their dialogue during the actual attacks.
* Animation error: In the beginning, Emily is seen sleeping on her back with the covers over her. But when her alarm clock goes off, she is sleeping on her side with the covers under her.

## Edits in *Glitter Force*

* + At the beginning of the episode, a scene of the girls posing is removed.
	+ An extra scene, in the beginning, is added, which features Emily dreaming of transforming into the Glitter Force with the rest of her friends.
		- When Emily meets the other four girls at school, clips of them performing their roll call are added.
			* One of these shots has Glitter Peace saying, "We want peace! Glitter Peace!" She never says this outside of the dream, but the phrase is the English title of the third episode.
	+ A shot of Miyuki panicking and trying to get herself to say something to the class is removed.
		- After this, Miyuki stuttering her introduction is changed to Emily saying the Pledge of Allegiance, which implies that the show takes place in the United States rather than Japan.
	+ Kelsey introduces herself and the other protagonists differently than Akane does.
		- While Akane makes a pun on Miyuki's name, Kelsey says that Emily is bad at public speaking, is pleased to meet everyone, and waves her hands a lot.
		- In the original, Akane calls Nao a gangster, and Nao protests that she's not. In *Glitter Force*, Kelsey says April is tougher than most of the boys in the class, and April says she's not that tough.
		- In the original, Akane says that the boys think Reika is a hottie, which shocks Reika. In the dub, Kelsey says that Chloe is scarily perfect and Chloe says she's not perfect.
		- Kelsey exaggerates Lily more than how Akane introduces Yayoi. Kelsey says almost anything makes Lily cry. Lily defends herself by saying she never cries, maybe once, three times at the very most. In the Japanese version, Akane says Yayoi cries at the slightest nudge, then Yayoi tells Akane not to talk about her like that since she only cried three times today.
	+ When Emily is sucked into the bookcase portal, a dialogue is added where she says, "Emily, you're not in Kansas anymore!" from The Wizard of Oz.
	+ The entire scene of Candy running through the school is replaced with Queen Euphoria (Royale Queen) telling Emily the backstory of the series in the Library of Legends (Magical Library).
	+ Wake Up, Shake Up, which uses Full Bloom\*Smile's dance ending (ver. Cure Happy), debuts as the ending song. This continues for the next three episodes.
	+ During parts of the opening, and parts of Emily's transformation and attack sequences, the screen is darkened heavily, possibly to reduce the risk of viewers having seizures or any other eye problems from the bright or flashing colors. This continues for the rest of the following episodes.

## References

1. ↑ https://prettycure.fandom.com/wiki/SmPC01
2. ↑ https://www.netflix.com/title/80057968