Episode 10 (season 2 Doki Doki)

**"The Meaning Of Family"**, known in Japan as **"To the Person Precious to Me! Aguri’s Parents’ Day at School!"** (たいせつな人へ！亜久里の授業参観！ *Taisetsu na Hito e! Aguri no Jugyō Sankan!*) is the tenth episode of season 2 of *Glitter Force Doki Doki*. Overall, it is the 25th episode of *Glitter Force Doki Doki*, the 43rd episode of the original Japanese version, and the 65th episode of the *Glitter Force* franchise.

## Summary

Natalie learns the story of how her grandmother adopted her. Regina and her Distain try to ruin a Family Day celebration at school.

## Synopsis

The episode starts with the Glitter Force fighting a boot Distain that Marmo summoned. The fight goes pretty well for the girls, and Glitter Ace defeats the Distain with Ace Shot. But it just so happens that Natalie's grandmother is walking by the scene of the fight, and she sees Glitter Ace transform back into Natalie. When her grandmother asks what's going on, Natalie struggles to find an excuse.

For the rest of the day and the next day, Natalie is upset because her grandmother knows that she's a Glitter Warrior. She doesn't even want to talk to her grandmother. This is despite the fact that the day after this is Parents' Day at Natalie's school, where the students' parents and guardians come to school with them. Eventually, when her grandmother calls Natalie for dinner and Natalie refuses to eat, her grandmother decides to tell Natalie the truth about how they first met.

Up until now, Natalie believed that she first met her grandmother ten years ago when she was only a baby. But it turns out that day was only one year ago, and Natalie doesn't remember. On that day, Natalie's grandmother was cleaning up after a tea ceremony when a glowing object crashed into the nearby bamboo forest. When she ran to where the object landed, she found a baby girl wrapped in cloth. A bat Distain then appeared to attack the baby. But then, the baby started glowing again, and its light engulfed the Distain, purifying it. Once the light receded, the baby had turned into a 10-year-old girl. A disembodied voice then told Natalie's grandmother that the mysterious girl was a warrior of light and requested that Natalie's grandmother take care of her. That was how Natalie and her grandmother met.

Natalie is so overwhelmed by this information that she runs away from home just as it starts raining. She eventually comes across Maya, Rachel, Clara, and Mackenzie and bursts into tears. The girls take Natalie to Maya's house, and Natalie explains everything she just heard. Though Natalie sees herself as a freak, the others don't have such a hang-up. Rachel says that it's nothing new since Natalie already ages up when she transforms into Glitter Ace. Clara even compares Natalie falling down to Earth as a baby to a fairy tale she knows called "The Cloud Princess". Still, Natalie is deeply unsettled. She admits to the others that she's been having really vivid dreams about Princess Marie Angelica, almost like memories. She doesn't even know who she is or what's real anymore. Either way, Natalie says that she wants to leave her grandmother forever so as not to put her in danger by involving her with the Glitter Force.

To cheer Natalie up, Maya decides that the five girls should have a sleepover together at her house. She arranges things with Natalie's grandmother, and after that, the five proceed to have fun eating sweets, playing card games, and having a pillow fight. Eventually, the festivities are stopped by Maya's mother, who demands that the girls get to bed.

While the girls are lying in their sleeping bags, Maya, Rachel, and Clara tell Natalie that despite what she thinks, she isn't a burden to her grandmother at all. Her grandmother cares for her very much and wants to stay with her. Mackenzie asks if Natalie really wants to leave somebody who loves her that much. Ultimately, Natalie decides that she wants to stay with her grandmother after all.

The next day, the other four girls escort Natalie to school for Parents' Day. In class, the students are assigned to draw pictures of their family members. Natalie, of course, draws a picture of her grandmother.

Meanwhile, Regina teleports to the outside of Natalie's school and is disgusted to see a mural of a bunch of smiling students. She remembers Maya making a drawing for her before she was brainwashed, but she thinks that she was just naive back then and now knows that love can't come from a drawing. Out of spite, she decides to erase all of the drawings at the school, and she summons an eraser Distain to do so.

While the other students and parents leave the school, the other four Glitter Warriors meet up with Natalie, and the five transform. The Distain shoots projectiles at the girls, but Glitter Clover reflects them back at it with Clover Reflection. Glitter Spade then uses her Glitter Crystal Pad to perform Glitter Spade Hurricane, knocking the Distain out of the school.

The fight isn't over yet, though. While the Glitter Force was fighting the Distain, Regina collected all of the drawings that Natalie's class made, and she's ready to have her Distain destroy them all. Glitter Ace tells Regina not to destroy the drawings since they represent people's loved ones, but Regina doesn't listen. Using the Spear of Light, she blows all of the warriors away except for Ace, who clings to the grass. Ace then jumps into the air and manages to save every drawing except for her own, which gets erased by the Distain. Regina says that Ace clearly put a lot of effort into the drawing, but now that it's erased, she's just wasted her time.

This causes Ace to cry. But it turns out that Natalie's grandmother is at this fight, too. She tells Ace that even though Regina destroyed her drawing, she can never destroy the love that Ace put into it, and that's why she loves Ace's drawing so much. Ace is heartened by this, and the two family members share a hug. This causes Ace to glow, which in turn causes Regina's heart to clench up.

Ace says that she never wanted to drag her grandmother into the conflict, but she's failed and put her grandmother in danger. Her grandmother tells her that she wouldn't have it any other way.

The Distain attacks again, but the Glitter Force quickly stops it with a new attack called Royal Lovely Straight Flush. With her Distain defeated, Regina teleports away.

After school, the girls meet up with Natalie's grandmother once again. Natalie apologizes for running away, but Natalie's grandmother says she won't punish her because of the drawing she made and because she knows she won't do it again. The two then decide go to the supermarket to buy dinner together.

## Characters

### Glitter Force

* Maya Aida / Glitter Heart
* Rachel / Glitter Diamond
* Clara Yotsuba / Glitter Clover
* Mackenzie Mack / Glitter Spade
* Natalie Miller / Glitter Ace

### Pixies

* Kippie
* Rory
* Lance
* Davi
* Dina

### Villains

* Marmo
* Regina
* Distain

### Minor Characters

* Natalie's grandmother
* Maya's mother

## Major Events

* Natalie's grandmother finds out that Natalie is a Glitter Warrior.
* Natalie discovers that she's only one year old and that she fell to the Earth as a baby before suddenly aging up 10 years.
* Glitter Spade uses Glitter Spade Hurricane for the first time.
* The Glitter Force uses Royal Lovely Straight Flush for the first time.

## Trivia

* Though there is an actual fairy tale called "The Cloud Princess", it doesn't resemble the fairy tale that Clara references in this episode. In the African folk tale, the Cloud Princess moves to Earth to live with her husband forever because her father, the Cloud King, is prejudiced against Earth People. In the fairy tale Clara mentions, the story ends with the Cloud Princess returning to her kingdom in the clouds. It's likely that Saban simply made up "The Cloud Princess", and it sharing a name with an actual folk tale is coincidental.
	+ In the original Japanese version, she instead references "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter", an actual Japanese fairy tale well known to Japanese audiences. Much like in "The Cloud Princess", a princess named Kaguya comes from the Moon to the Earth as a baby, but has to go back to the Moon at the end of the tale.
* This episode never explains how the girls become able to perform Royal Lovely Straight Flush. This is explained, however, in episode 40 of the original Japanese version, which is cut from *Glitter Force Doki Doki*. In that episode, the girls' faith that Regina still has goodness in her heart grants them new Cure Loveads, allowing them to perform the attack.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.netflix.com/title/80163255
2. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=Lldvp3HS0A8C&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=the+cloud+princess+folktale&source=bl&ots=KaHfn0bwGj&sig=ACfU3U02nMYraE3WDmDgkd4fmK7XabnO-Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwio\_YKmrtDnAhWrg-AKHcStBIs4ChDoATAKegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=the%20cloud%20princess%20folktale&f=false
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Tale\_of\_the\_Bamboo\_Cutter