Episode 01: The Pearl Tear

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**The Pearl Tear** (真珠の涙 *Shinju no Namida*) is the first episode of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch.

## Plot

Lucia sets out to land to find the boy she saved from a tsunami seven years ago. But, it is not as easy as she thought.

## Summary

Lucia Nanami, the mermaid princess of the North Pacific Ocean, is about to set out to land but some mermaids from her kingdom tried to convince her to stay. However, Lucia had already decided what she wanted and the girls could only tell Hippo to go with her and his Pearl Radar.

After few hours of swimming to the surface with Hippo, they make it onto land, Lucia transforms into a human, proceeds to start her first day in the human world. They glance straight through, at the white sun.

Madame Taki is looking through her crystal ball with Nikora. Taki's crystal ball detects that a missing pearl will come back. The crystal ball suddenly shows Lucia peering into it, then Nikora opens the door and sees Lucia standing there. Nikora is seen in Taki's ball, however it is now known that the crystal ball was a security monitor as Nikora exclaims this.

Nikora closes the door and tells Lucia how to call her, Hippo, and Madame Taki in the human world. She gives Lucia some chores to do in the Pearl Piari. Despite trying her best, Lucia is shown to be quite clumsy as she creates more accidents than necessary, ultimately leaving her exhausted. However, Nikora tells her to take a break and she did a nice job.

Lucia has a bath with her bubble maker toy as Hippo suddenly rushes into the room. Lucia gets mad, splashing Hippo with water in the process, but Hippo only came to alert her of the pearl. Lucia starts singing an apology song, but without her pearl, she is unable to sing properly, and it ends up shaking the entire Pearl Piari hotel. Hippo started discussing about the importance of the pearl while Lucia falls asleep in the bath.

Later that night, Lucia is in her bed thinking if this boy she saved from a tsunami still has the pearl and starts thinking of how she met him.

In a flashback, a younger Lucia was seen popping her head above the surface of the ocean to witness a cruise ship, along with beautiful fireworks, which she identified as "flowers blooming in the sky." She then proceeded to sing a short verse of Legend of Mermaid, which attracted a young boy who had heard a "beautiful voice." Upon seeing Lucia, he asked her if the singing voice was from her and why she was out there in the ocean, only to see Lucia display a mermaid tail. At that moment, however, a large tsunami wave (later revealed to have been caused by Sara, the Indian Ocean Mermaid Princess) crashed onto the cruise ship, causing the boy to topple and fall into the sea, forcing Lucia to rescue him. Upon bringing the boy to shore, Lucia tried to wake him up, to no avail. As a last resort, she gave her pearl to the boy by pulling it from her shell locket and placing it on the boy's body. The pearl almost immediately glowed and revived him, much to her relief.

The next day, she went for a walk in the sea near the hotel and sees a boy surfing. Later, when this boy gets on the sand, they start staring at one another and Lucia asked him if she has met him before. The boy, Kaito, tries to ask her if she wants to see him on the surfing competition he will take part. Lucia runs away and they both think that they can't be the ones who they were searching for.

The next day at school, Lucia tries to see the class she is in and meets Kaito. Upon introducing herself to Kaito, he quickly identifies from the board that she is one of his classmates. In the homeroom, Lucia and Kaito are discussing for his Sunday surfing competition. Then a girl with blue hair named "Hanon" asks her if she wants to be friends with her and starts helping Lucia get closer to Kaito. They go shopping after school and had some fun. At the end, they were checking out some pendants but Hippo appears, telling Lucia that she has to go to the hotel to help out her sister. She leaves eventually.

In the hotel, Lucia tells Hippo she will go see the surfing competition but Hippo tries to tell her not to go, as the ocean water might make her transform in public. Eventually, she, Hanon and Hippo went there to support Kaito for the competition, while Hippo went searching for Lucia's pearl. Two boys tried askking them out, but Kaito appears and helped protect the two of them. Kaito's about to start surfing with his pendant with Lucia's pearl. A dark figure appears underneath the water. Kaito surfs so well that Lucia was surprised. An unexpected wave and a bad weather appears, the waves dragged Kaito underneath the waters. However, a water demon catches him. Everyone leaves the beach and the Pearl Radar detects two pearl reactions.

Lucia eventually jumps into the sea to find Kaito and when she does, she found out that he was the boy she saved seven years ago. The water demon introduces herself as Izuru, and summons a water dragon to attack the mermaid princess. Kaito momentarily opens his eyes, and recognized that she was the mermaid who saved him. He tosses Lucia's pearl back to her, and she transforms into an idol. She sang Legend of Mermaid, causing pain to Izuru, who lets go of Kaito.

Later, back on the beach, Kaito wakes up and sees mermaid Lucia. He thanks her for saving him again, but she replies that it was he who saved her this time and hugs him. Meanwhile, Hippo finds a second pearl reaction on his Radar and Hanon reveals to Hippo that she is the Mermaid Princess of the Aqua Pearl. They start discussing how dangerous it is if Lucia confesses to a human.

## Appearances

### Characters

* Lucia
* Hanon
* Nikora
* Hippo
* Kaito
* Madame Taki
* Izuru
* North Pacific Ocean mermaids
* The Announcer

### Places

* North Pacific Ocean Castle
* Ocean
* Pearl Piari
* School
* Beach

## Gallery

E01 Screenshot 01.pngMermaid Lucia announcing she is leavingE01 Screenshot 02.pngLucia and HIppo chatting while watching the sunriseE01 Screenshot 03.pngTaki "observing" Lucia from her crystall ballE01 Screenshot 04.pngNikora yelling at TakiE01 Screenshot 05.pngLucia helping with the laundryE01 Screenshot 06.png"Ah, this feels so great!"E01 Screenshot 07.pngLucia arguing with HippoE01 Screenshot 08.pngLittle Lucia watching the fireworksE01 Screenshot 09.pngLittle Kaito notices a mermaidE01 Screenshot 10.pngKaito waking upE01 Screenshot 11.pngKaito surfsE01 Screenshot 12.pngLucia running away from himE01 Screenshot 13.pngHanon introducing herself to LuciaE01 Screenshot 14.pngHanon taking a picture with LuciaE01 Screenshot 15.pngLucia and Hanon at a storeE01 Screenshot 16.pngE01 Screenshot 17.pngTwo boys noticing Hippo with his Pearl RadarE01 Screenshot 18.pngThe two boys play with HippoE01 Screenshot 19.pngKaito competingE01 Screenshot 20.pngLucia and Hanon watching Kaito surfing in the surf competitionE01 Screenshot 21.pngHanon trying to defend herself from the strong windE01 Screenshot 22.pngLucia finding KaitoE01 Screenshot 23.pngLucia trying to defend herself from the strong windE01 Screenshot 24.png"Pichi Pichi Voice Live Start!"E01 SScreenshot 1.jpgLucia singing Legend of MermaidE01 Screenshot 25.pngMermaid Lucia hugging Kaito
## Trivia

* This episode is based in the first chapter of the manga.
* This episode premiered on Lucia's seiyuu Asumi Nakata's 15th birthday.
* This episode marks the first appearances of the following characters: Lucia Nanami, Hanon Hosho, Hippo, Kaito Domoto, Nikora Nanami, Madame Taki, and Izuru. Also, Koi wa Nandarou, Legend of Mermaid and Pink Pearl Voice debut in this episode.