Yes! PreCure 5
Episode 05: The Right to Be a Precure
In which jelly is made out of inappropriate foodstuffs, the stress of villainy gets to Bumbee, and bad word puns are made on both sides of the good/evil spectrum.Episode 05: The Right to Be a Precure
Episode Notes:
- We touched on the name meaning of Minazuki Karen last episode, so this time I'd like to talk about Bumbee, the awesome villain that makes our lives that little better. Like all of the villains here, the name is derived from the animal he turns into - in this case, it's merely a contraction of the lovely bumblebee.
Yeah, I'm falling back on these when I have nothing better to do. Don't worry, I won't insult your intelligence by explaining Archnea. SHE IS NAMED AFTER 'ARACHNIDS'.
Oops.
Actually, I'd like to share with you some behind-the-scenes stuff to kind of show our decision-making process. Take and I have been discussing on and off the merits of translating 'shikaku' as 'right'. As in 'the right' to be a Precure. I've been fairly for and take's been generally against - with good merit - and I think we've finally reached rather a stalemate. It's a phrase that is going to become fairly unimportant after this little mini-arc, so it's not something too worth worrying about - but I feel we had a quite interesting debate over it I'd like to share with you guys.
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[18:04:26] <takenoko> I dunno, do you still feel like being a Precure is a right?
[18:05:06] <Magenta> Hrm. I dunno. In PC5, I'd say yes. HeartCatch it's a bit of a grey area. If it wasn't for PC5 I'd lean away from using it, but consistency kind of pulls it back towards 'right' there.
[18:06:04] <Magenta> With PC5, definitely. It's like the zecters in Kabuto. They will fucking reject you if you don't possess the right qualities.
[18:06:26] <takenoko> qualities? like qualification?
[18:06:42] <Magenta> qualification implies actively doing something, though.
[18:07:15] <Magenta> You take tests to qualify. You show you have a certain aptitude to qualify. This is something more deeper, more innate.
[18:07:50] <takenoko> I dunno, Precure is kind of a role
[18:07:56] <Magenta> HeartCatch hasn't really had the kind of episode they always do where the power gets abused or the person does something to make themselves unworthy of it, to see how the power reacts to that yet.
[18:08:00] <takenoko> it's like you need qualifications to be a pilot
[18:08:04] <takenoko> you need qualifications to be a precure
[18:08:30] <takenoko> heartcatch seems all about the protagonists are the chosen ones
[18:08:46] <takenoko> my grandmother was a precure or my sister has purple hair
[18:08:54] <Magenta> Well, I more mean.
[18:09:03] <Magenta> If you do something stupid in PC5, your butterfly will leave.
[18:09:15] <Magenta> If you do something stupid in HC... what happens? Probably nothing, I'd wager. It's entirely tied to the Perfume.
[18:09:23] <Magenta> Once you've been given that by your fairy, can it be rescinded?
[18:09:45] <Magenta> If they're going to do an episode like that in HC, I don't think it'll be until much later, so. We'll see. Anyway.
[18:09:47] <takenoko> hmmm, well in pc5 I think of it more like a prerequisite for being a precure then
[18:09:56] <takenoko> you need these qualities to be a precure
[18:10:11] <takenoko> I guess?
[18:10:32] <Magenta> Yes, that's basically how I see it.
[18:10:44] <Magenta> 'Prerequisite' is very unwieldy though.
[18:11:05] <takenoko> yeah, but that's more or less the meaning I'm thinking of
[18:11:28] <Magenta> Well, I kind of thought about it by looking at it situationally.
[18:11:53] <Magenta> Most of them got their powers by showing a willingness to put themselves in danger to help the others
[18:12:25] <Magenta> It's not something I'd feel comfortable describing as 'qualifying', or meeting some 'prerequisite'. They've earned the right to those powers.
[18:13:07] <takenoko> maybe if they had some sort of license to be a precure
[18:13:14] <Magenta> The other thing is, and I think this is especially important in these two episodes.
[18:13:43] <Magenta> Is both qualification and prerequisite are very superficial words.
[18:14:03] <Magenta> Bad analogy time. Imagine I rush into a burning building and save a trapped person. I might qualify for some award for my bravery or something.
[18:14:29] <Magenta> But if I do it entirely because I want to be heralded as some kind of hero for it, rather than out of a genuine desire to save the person, do I have the 'right' to earn that accolade?
[18:14:51] <Magenta> I think that's most evident here, because Karen is still trying to do exactly the same thing the others did to 'qualify' for their powers. But she's doing it for the wrong reasons.
[18:15:44] <takenoko> that's weird, I felt like right was a shallow word
[18:15:50] <takenoko> since it sounds like self-entitlement
[18:16:05] <takenoko> dese r mai rights!
[18:16:34] <Magenta> It is pretty shallow if used about yourself, sure. But it's more powerful when used by someone else.