We Have To Transform!? I Can't Believe This! (私たちが変身！？ありえない！, "Watashitachi ga Henshin!? Arienai!")^? is the 1^st episode of Futari wa Pretty Cure and is the 1^st episode of the Pretty Cure franchise overall. It introduces the heroines Misumi Nagisa and Yukishiro Honoka to the mascots Mepple and Mipple, and is also the episode where they first gain the power of Pretty Cure.

In the Canadian English dub, this episode's title is "What D' You Mean Transform?".

Summary

Nagisa and Honoka are two ordinary junior high school students until Mepple and Mipple come from the Garden of Light.

Major Events

• Nagisa and Honoka meet Mepple and Mipple for the first time.
• The Dotsuku Zone is introduced, with Pisard as its first minion.
• Nagisa and Honoka gain the power of Pretty Cure, transforming into Cure Black and Cure White respectively.
• Nagisa's mom and brother, and Honoka's grandmother and dog all appear for the first time.
• Nagisa's friends Kubota Shiho and Rina are introduced, as is a friend of Honoka's in the science club, though not by name.

Synopsis

A girl named Nagisa plays lacrosse with her team, scoring a goal. Inside the school, a girl in a lab coat named Honoka demonstrates an experiment to her classmates. Later that day, Nagisa and the team are walking together, with Honoka passing by, occupied with a book. The two girls don't notice each other.

The next day at Verone Academy, Nagisa arrives at school with her friends Shiho and Rina. They talk about the recent and frequent occurrence of shooting stars in the area. As they walk to the shoe lockers Honoka overhears them and explains that shooting stars are drifting meteors attracted by the Earth's gravity. People used to make wishes for them.

She heads off to class while the trio stands in amazement at her knowledge. Nagisa wonders if she knows everything and Rina explains that Honoka is known as the "Queen of Knowledge". Shiho points out her popularity with the boys when Nagisa opens her locker to find a bunch of love letters inside. But they were all from girls, which embarrasses her.

During class, Nagisa falls asleep but abruptly wakes up after the teacher calls on her to solve a math problem. She's unable to do it, and Honoka states she can't because it's unsolvable. The problem leads to an incorrect answer. She corrects their teacher's mistake, which embarrasses him. After class, Nagisa thanked Honoka for sticking up for her, even if it was indirectly.

Nagisa, Shiho, and Rina arrive at Wakabadai Station and board a train back home. Nagisa's friends discuss nominating her and Honoka as class representatives, as both are popular with the girls and boys respectively. Nagisa objects, but gets distracted when she notices a boy from her school, back at the station. She returns home and is stressed out, immediately retreating to her bedroom. She laments her popularity with other girls when she spots a meteor shower going on outside. She makes multiple wishes, then realizes that a glowing object is coming straight for her. She ducks and it bounces around the room before hitting her in the face. The "star" reveals itself to be a compact with several glowing shards spilled out on the floor.

Meanwhile, Honoka arrives home to hear her dog barking. Her grandmother asks if something's wrong but Honoka assures her that he seems fine. Chuutaro leads her to the shed where she finds a glowing package, containing a compact similar to the one in Nagisa's room.

After Nagisa recovers, she carefully prods the compact with her lacrosse stick until it opens to reveal a small creature. Terrified, Nagisa backs away. The small creature tries speaking to her, only for her brother Ryouta to interrupt. He was sent by their mom to check on Nagisa because she was being so noisy. Nagisa shows him the compact but he mistakes it for a cellphone and gets jealous. He doesn't notice anything strange until he opens the device, and then he remarks that she must be imagining things. She trips him on his way out of her room.

The shards of light from before are revealed to be cards as Nagisa inspects them. The "cellphone alien" begins moving by himself, and asks her to take him to "Mipple," the Princess of Hope. Due to his limited mobility, Nagisa carries him, but only in the head of her lacrosse stick. He starts giving directions but Nagisa can hardly understand, objecting to his demand to head straight through an enclosed yard. He starts begging her to listen.

Meanwhile, in a crowded part of the city, a man with medium purple hair opens his mysterious and menacing eyes.

As they cut through various properties, the creature explains that his name is Mepple. He is the chosen hero from the Garden of Light, which Nagisa must protect from the Dotsuku Zone. He leads Nagisa to "Angel Land" a theme park that closed down for the day. Mepple assures Nagisa that Mipple is this way, and he begins to sense something; it is different from the companion he was trying to locate. Suddenly, the white-haired man appears, in his true form. He has been searching for Mepple and introduces himself as Pisard.

Nagisa and Mepple try to run away until he cuts them off. She trips and accidentally throws Mepple into the air. Pisard catches him and asks where the "stones" are. Just then, Honoka appears and she runs up to Nagisa, revealing that she too has a creature in a compact. The pink creature within it, Mipple, tells them to save Mepple. Pisard is overjoyed that he has been saved the trouble of locating Mipple, and he begins to approach Honoka until Nagisa strikes his hand with her lacrosse stick. This causes him to release Mepple and she catches him.

Pisard becomes enraged and uses his power to throw various objects around. Mepple and Mipple instruct the girls to transform using the Queen card, included among the "Pretty Cure cards" that came with them. The girls swipe the cards onto a slot in the creature's Card Communes, initiating their transformation by shouting "Dual Aurora Wave!" out of instinct.

Pisard watches their transformation happen and cowers from the large rainbow beam surrounding the girls as they transform into Pretty Cure for the first time, becoming Cure Black and Cure White. As Pisard launches a fierce attack, the girls try to figure out how their abilities work, just barely managing to hold him off.

In a desperate move, Pisard calls out for a Zakenna, the "specter of the raging heavens" and "heart of evil that will make them realize the fear of darkness." The Zakenna possesses a roller coaster, and the girls try to dodge its attacks but are soon cornered. Mepple and Mipple tell the duo to hold hands, summoning their combined strength into an attack called Marble Screw. The Zakenna are expelled and broken down into small star-shaped creatures that say "sorry" (ゴメンナー, Gomen'nā)^? and run away, while Pisard escapes to the skies. The roller coaster turns back to normal.

With the battle over, Mepple and Mipple turn into plush-like creatures and reunite. They explain that the girls have been granted the power of Pretty Cure, and they'll be working together. While Honoka finds this interesting, Nagisa questions why this is happening to her; She screams "I can't believe this!" (ありえない, Arienai)^?.

Characters

Pretty Cure

• Misumi Nagisa / Cure Black
• Yukishiro Honoka / Cure White

Mascots

• Mepple
• Mipple

Villains

• Pisard / Kazama Ryuuichi
• Zakenna

Secondary Characters

• Nakagawa Yumiko
• Kubota Shiho
• Takashimizu Rina
• Yuriko
• Mr. Miyashita
• Fujimura Shougo
• Kimata
• Misumi Ryouta
• Misumi Rie
• Omp
• Nelp
• Palp
• Shiklp
• Chuutaro
• Yukishiro Sanae

Trivia

• This marks the beginning of the Pretty Cure franchise.
• A girl resembling the lacrosse team's captain, Yumiko, is shown in the crowd watching the match. She wears a 9 on her uniform, but her bandanna and hair color are different.
• Nagisa is stated to have been in a different first-year class from Honoka, which was why she didn't know who she was.
• Shiho mentions that a boy from the kendo club named "Nakajima-kun" had unsuccessfully confessed to Honoka prior, with Rina explaining that he was her "type."
• Nagisa erroneously states that she will "eat Honoka's brewed nail dirt" (爪の垢でも煎じて喰うか, Tsume no aka demo senjite kuu ka)^?, prompting Shiho and Rina to correct her by saying "drink" instead.
  • What she was trying to say was "drink her brewed nail dirt" (爪の垢を煎じて飲む, Tsume no aka o senjite nomu)^?, which is a Japanese figure of speech similar to "following in one's footsteps."^[1]
• Nagisa, Shiho, Rina and Honoka are shown to be in the 2nd-year Sakura class.
• The math problem that Nagisa was to originally solve was "x - 7 = 19 + x."
  • As Honoka stated, this would end up being "0 = 26," which is incorrect. She states that it should be "x - 7 = 19 - x," with the answer being "x = 13." The sum of both problems is equal to "6."
• The wishes Nagisa makes during the meteor shower are: to have a great boyfriend, to have slim legs, to buy lots of clothes, and to eat a stomach full of chocolate cake.
• When Pisard summons his Zakenna, he stands on a pirate ship ride called the "Flying Pirate."
• The end card shown at the end of this episode is a crude drawing of Cure Black vacuuming Mepple, a reference to the following episode. It was drawn by the assistant director for that episode, Miyamoto Hiroaki.^[2]

Edits in the Canadian English Dub

• "Nakajima-kun of the kendo club" becomes "Nathan of the baseball team."
• Natalie says she needs to "emanate" Hannah, but her friends correct her with "emulate."
• Natalie receives "fan mail" instead of love letters, and Rina jokes that she scared the boys away.
• The 2nd-year Sakura class is edited to be "room 201."
• Natalie is said to be in the 8th grade.
• Shauna and Rina's reasoning for electing both Natalie and Hannah as class presidents is that they're good at sports and school respectively.
• Nagisa laments being admired by girls while in bed, while Natalie says its being the "sporty one" instead of the "smart one."
• Mrs. Blackstone asks Ryan to tell Natalie that dinner will be late, rather than sending him to check on the noise.
• Instead of "slim legs," Natalie wishes for better marks in school.
• Nagisa is shocked that Mepple speaks Japanese. In the English dub, she calls him a UFO.
• When Ryan is tripped by his sister, he cries that she's always picking on him, with Natalie responding that's her job as his big sister.
• When Nagisa carries Mepple outside, she gets annoyed by his "Mepo-Mepo" way of speaking. The dub has Natalie tell him to make up his "confused little mind" instead.
  • This is because the dub lacks Mepple and Mipple adding "mepo/mipo" to the end of their sentences.

Gallery

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