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Season 1, Episode 12: The Brave Ironhide
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So, to recap: A guy in a hoodie has “kidnapped” Ironhide and Loli, Mary went to his house and confronted him, he refused to give the toys back, and he locked Loli in her doll box. Oh--also he was stealing pension money from his elderly mother.
Whew!
So, when this plot started, I expected it would go something like this: Mary confronts the guy, he is embarrassed and wonders what even possessed him (a grown man) to steal toys, he realizes he has a problem, and he apologizes to his mother.
Well, so far I was way off the mark. Let’s get into it!
The pacing in this show is at times baffling to me. Like this episode quickly establishes that the doll box won’t open without the key. Then Ironhide spends several minutes trying to open it without the key. Then Loli’s like “Have you thought about getting the key?” Which he then does with no trouble, first try. THIS TAKE SEVEN MINUTES TO RESOLVE.
Anyway, Loli is finally free and she resolves to be nicer to Ironhide (as she had a tendency to be condescending to him before). The two begin looking for a way out, but alas, Hoodie Guy wakes up from his nap and sees Loli walking around.
She plays dead, but only after struggling in his grip, so he knows she’s alive. Now, if I saw a doll moving on its own, I’d be freaked out. But not Hoodie Guy. He says, and I quote, “That’s interesting. A doll that’s alive.” like he’s just seen an unusual breed of dog being walked down the street.
Hoodie Guy gets annoyed at Loli and threatens to tear her head off(!!) if she doesn’t stop playing dead.
Ironhide distracts him--while reminding us that China has lax copyright laws--and upon seeing a SECOND living toy, Hoodie Guy decides he should force both of them to perform for money. Still keeping ahold of Loli, Hoodie Guy chases after Ironhide, who trips him with an extension cord and ties him up. He also shoves a sharp pencil through the edge of Hoodie Guy’s clothes--and apparently his flesh, since we get (I’m not kidding) a blood-spatter.
Then Ironhide threatens Hoodie Guy with a cigarette lighter until he releases Loli. This episode is BONKERS.
The two toys run for the door; Loli manages to get out, but Hoodie Guy slams the door shut before Ironhide can get out. Ironhide nobly tells Loli to leave him to his fate. She flees, hoping to find Mary. Which she does!
Mary bravely goes into the house to confront Hoodie Guy.
Meanwhile, Jack and Sean (the boys from school) are walking down the street--in their school uniform for some reason, even though it’s the weekend--when they see Mary go into the house. They know she doesn’t live there and think it looks suspicious, so they follow her in.
MEANWHILE TO THAT, Sand comes flying in and is like, “I sense an evil soul in that house.”
Inside, Mary begs Hoodie Guy to return Ironhide. Hoodie Guy refuses and says he’s going to rip Ironhide’s legs off for trying to run away. Hoodie Guy is a psycho. He wants to recapture Loli, too, and charges at her, but Mary jumps in to block his way. Resulting in him knocking Mary to the ground.
Loli’s like, “Yo Mary, I don’t think talking is going to solve this problem.” THANK YOU, Loli. I seriously wonder how they’re going to wrap this plot up, because it’s gone way too far for just “aw gee, I see the error of my ways” but what can they do, bring the guy up on doll-cruelty charges?
Anyway, about this time Jack and Sean burst into the house and are like “WE’LL save you, Mary!” I appreciate the thought but also I don’t know if two more middle-schoolers are really the answer to this problem.
We end on that cliffhanger. See you next episode!
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Episode 11: I’m Not Just a Doll
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When last seen, a guy in a hoodie had found Loli in her doll box in the street, while Mary and Ironhide were racing outside.
This episode kicks off with the guy deciding to make off with Loli, since she looks to be a well-made, expensive doll. Ironhide tries to distract the guy by crashing into his leg (via riding in a rollerskate), but this just results in the just taking Ironhide too.
As he picks them up, an older woman comes running out of a house shouting, “Stop right there, boy!” Instead the guy quickly hails a taxi. Poor Mary comes running around the corner just in time to see him making off with her toys / friends.
Naturally, she’s distraught. So is the older woman, who is shouting “You thief!” after the taxi. The woman explains to Mary that Hoodie Man is her good-for-nothing son, who doesn’t have a job and plays computer games all day. “When I don't give him money, he steals my pension money.“ Mary says he also stole her toys and asks what his address is.
The old woman gives it to her and adds, “Hey little girl! As he is mean to his own mother, you can see that he is not a good person. Be careful!” OMG lady, maybe you shouldn’t let this LITTLE KID go to his place all by herself then!
Meanwhile, Hoodie Guy arrives home. (Unclear how he can afford a house without a job.) He gloats about how he scored money from his mom and two toys to sell. But soon he is engrossed in a video game.
We also get a Microsoft Windows cameo.
Loli and Ironhide ponder how to escape. Loli observes that her magic isn’t working and concludes it’s because she is physically too far away from Mary. (I am positive this bit of lore will be forgotten and discarded in future episodes, and was only written in to explain why Loli doesn’t turn Hoodie Guy into a bug.) Also, Hoodie Guy has a bunch of broken toys around the place, like he’s Sid from Toy Story . . . ?
Well anyway, Mary arrives at Hoodie Guy’s house and boldly knocks on the door. He answers it, thinking it’s the pizza guy.
Mary says she saw him with her toys and she would like them back. He refuses, says they’re his now and slams the door on her.
He’s more convinced than ever that Loli is very valuable, so he puts her in her doll box and locks it. With a key. I don’t understand where he got the key, we’ve never seen the doll box having / needing a key before. At any rate, she’s trapped.
But outside, Mary clenches her fists and vows that she will not leave until she gets Loli and Ironhide back.
My thoughts: Man, the stranger danger vibes were strong with this one! I was like “NO MARY, GET AN ADULT TO BACK YOU UP!” the whole time. I think they could’ve had the same general plot with the thief being another kid, which would have been less creepy.
Really enjoyed the Microsoft Windows moment and the bad guy’s house looking all crooked to drill home that he’s bad, like what do the neighbor’s think?
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So it turns out the first episode WAS on Youtube, on a different channel and with Portuguese subtitles! That was great, since I was able to use Google Translate + the subtitles to figure out the dialogue.
True story, I downloaded the video and painstakingly added English subtitles, but DailyMotion refused to upload it because the file was too big, lol.
Instead, here’s a Google Doc with the script: English Translation S01E01
Okay, on to the plot.
Season 1, Episode 1: The Magic Begins
Our story begins with narration explaining that Yeloli, the land of the fairies, is ruled by an evil queen who wants to enslave all humans. The only thing standing in her way is a group of good Yeloli fairies who want to protect humans.
Currently evil Queen Pandora and leader of the good fairies, Evelyn, are having an anime magic battle. (Nice Dutch angle!) Evelyn fights Pandora, giving the other good fairies time to flee through a portal to Earth.
Evelyn casts a spell on Pandora, preventing Pandora and her army from entering the human world.
Pandora’s like, “Oh yeah? Watch this,” and performs a curse that will cause any Yeloli fairy who enters the human world to turn into a lifeless doll.
Evelyn flees to Earh, shouting, “CLOSE THE PORTAL!” But it’s too late; all the fairies shrink and turn into dolls.
(They do a good job giving the dolls a dead-eyed stare compared to the living characters.)
Evelyn casts a spell to alter the curse, so that if the dolls find an owner who truly loves them, they will regain their original size / powers. Evelyn vows to care for the dolls in the meantime.
Cut to Mary, a fifth grader who, she tells us through narration, is bad at school and sports. There’s something very depressing about the matter-of-fact way she tells us she’s “not talented.” Like she’s not even mad or sad about it; she just takes it as fact.
Mary is minding her own business when a bunch of cherry blossoms magically swirl around her and lead her to a narrow alley with a mysterious glow at the end. For some reason the first shot of the cherry blossoms is just . . . video of real cherry blossoms. I dunno why, everything else is CGI.
Naturally Mary follows the glow and at the end of it she finds a little cul-de-sac with . . . a doll store!
Mary is entranced by the doll in the window, and if I was a little kid looking at that window display, I would be too.
She goes inside, of course, and admires the dolls, which Evelyn has hilariously posed to look bored. I mean, I’m assuming the dolls can’t move on their own. Or is this a Toy Story situation?
^ Also WHERE IS THIS DOLL’S LEGS?
Mary hears a voice and finds Evelyn casting a spell on a doll. My favorite part is Mary sees this lady levitating a doll and wonders, “Is this magic?” Mary, please.
Evelyn then implants something that looks a lot like a spark (Transformers soul) from Beast Wars into the doll . . . and it comes to life!
Wow! I’ve only known this doll for five seconds, but it seems evil!
The doll notices Mary, who backs out of the room which, fair.
Mary apologizes for intruding and Evelyn is like, “That’s okay. Want a DOLL?”
Mary says she doesn’t have any money. Evelyn is like, “Well, you can still play with them, they love visitors. Pick one you like.”
Mary picks the doll from the window--her name is Loli. ��Magical light surrounds them both, indicating that Loli has chosen Mary to be her owner.
I was expecting Mary to gradually learn the doll’s backstory, but Evelyn straightout tells her that Loli is a princess who was cursed to be a doll, who needs love to break the curse. She says many children have looked at Loli, but the doll rejected them all . . . until Mary came along.
tfw no one is good enough for your doll
So you’d expect this would be the point where Mary gets the doll, but no, things take a very weird turn. Evelyn says Mary can have the doll . . . if she signs the Yeloli Contract. What is the Yeoli Contract? WELL, it says the doll is your responsibility forever and you can’t give her away.
You sign it via fingerprint.
That’s weird, right? It seems like a mystical trap, right? But the first half of the story frames Evelyn as heroic, so I dunno. Just, if I had only seen the last half of the episode I would 100% think Evelyn was a villain trying to steal Mary’s soul or something.
Anyway, Mary signs, Evelyn boxes up the Loli, and Mary leaves, promising to take good care of Loli.
Mary heads home . . . until a mysterious voice says, “Little girl . . . Little girl, GIVE ME YOUR DOLL.”
DUN DUN DUUUUUN, cliffhanger!
Some thoughts:
- Is Evelyn a fairy? Or is she an Earth woman who knows magic? Why wasn’t she transformed into a doll with the rest of them?
- She brought Red-Eyes-Evil-Doll to life... Is that doll a fairy, or can Evelyn bring regular dolls to life? Red-Eyes could move / speak on her own, so maybe the fairy dolls DO all move when kids aren’t looking?
- Even though the CGI is older, the storyboarding, facial expressions, and movement are quite good, which is the key to being able to suspend disbelief. (Same reason I think Beast Wars made better use of their CGI than Siege, even though Siege is better in a technical sense... BW REALLY put effort into their facial & movement animations, while Siege was pretty lazy about it.)
- I like the shamelessness of the marketing. This is beyond “Cartoon shows character to get you to buy toy” . . . The ACTUAL DOLLS are magic and they need a child’s love to save them. Amazing.
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Season 1, Episode 14: The Queen’s Curse
We return to the battle and our intrepid band of Yeloli Warriors knocks out the monster without too much trouble, making him revert to Hoodie Guy.
On the nearby rooftop Helen is exhausted from pouring all her powers into Hoodie Guy, and she also tells Sand she doesn’t want to hurt her old friends. They retreat in a dust devil.
(Incidentally, the other fairies / humans never spotted Helen and Sand. But in the previous episode it seemed like Evelyn knew.)
Loli flies over to Hoodie Guy and casts an additional spell, removing the evil from his heart. And Mary finally rescues Ironhide.
When Hoodie Guy wakes up, he’s like “Have a pleasant day! I have to go return this money to my mother!” so, uh, that plot thread is wrapped up, I guess.
Sean and Jack introduce Jasmine and Light to the others and they do the team hand-pile thing, which is just delightful.
Cut to Queen Mandora (yep another name change) who has been watching all this in her magic mirror. She gripes about how Evelyn has been ruining all her plans and we go into a ~flashback~.
It’s the same flashback as we’ve seen several times before, so I’ll just quickly summarize it: Evelyn and the Queen fought, Evelyn cursed the Queen to prevent her from entering the human world, then fled with to Earth with the others. The Queen counter-cursed which caused the fairies to turn into lifeless dolls.
But THIS TIME the scene keeps going and some of my questions are answered. Like, why didn’t Evelyn turn into a doll?
Well, she DID! Or at least she started to!
Seeing her jointed ankles / knees she was like “uh oh” and cast a spell that . . . well, let me just type it out:
“May my life freeze from now on, and may I lose my senses and stop aging. If anyone violates the Yeloli Contract, may my life end immediately.”
(I don’t know what “lose my senses” means in this context, or if it’s a mistranslation maybe?)
So, wow! I assume she needed to risk something or the spell wouldn’t work. But what an INCREDIBLE risk. The fact that she actively is trying to get dolls into Yeloli Contracts with this hanging over her head is really something.
Evelyn usually wears high heels with little straps that go around her ankles, and now I’m wondering if its’ to hide doll joints? Or did her spell totally reverse that effect? (She never got elbow / wrist joints, she finished the spell before that could happen.)
Anyway, Queen Mandora is reflecting on these events (which I guess she saw through her mirror) and is like “Heh heh, someone will break a Yeloli Contract eventually, Evelyn, and then you’ll be out of my way for good.”
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Season 1, Episode 13: Welcome to New Friends
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So as Sand and Helen observe from atop a building, Jack and Sean, school friends of Mary, have arrived on the scene. Jack knocks Hoodie Guy unconscious with his basketball.
Loli, forgetting to keep hidden, swoops in to thank him. Sean and Jack are confused to see a living doll, but readily agree to keep her secret.
Now if you’ll recall, evil Queen Pandora had previously convinced Sand and Helen to work for her by torturing Sand. You might expect they would initially be hesitant to carry out her plans but they are actually pretty enthusiastic. Helen uses her magic and the evil in Hoodie Guy’s heart to turn him into a troll-like monster.
The situation looks dire . . . until Peacock and Shelly run in, having sensed evil magic in the area. Peacock in and puts up a shield that buys the gang time to escape into the street, where they can fight without bringing the building down. (Sidenote, I think it’s actually supposed to be an apartment building, not Hoodie Guy’s house.)
Peacock also creates a “parallel dimension” which will prevent outsiders from noticing the fight or getting hurt.
Meanwhile, Evelyn decides she has to take action to stop Pandora. (And also the animators have once again forgotten that they can’t just flip her character model for a mirror.)
She taps into an enormous amount of magic to temporarily bring two dolls, Light and Jasmine, to life. But the process leaves her weakened and she collapses.
She tells the fairies that they have just two hours to find masters. They fly off and soon spot Sean and Jack, who are hiding as Hoodie Guy Monster rampages.
Light suggests choosing them as masters, and although Jasmine is reluctant (she wanted a girl), she agrees.
By now Jack and Sean aren’t too surprised to see living dolls / fairies, but they balk when Light explains they want the boys to be their owners, because “boys don’t play with dolls.” (Interestingly this wasn’t Sand’s reaction at all, he actually wanted to buy Helen before he even realized she was alive.) But then Light is like, “You would get magic powers and also be able to save your friends”, and the boys agree.
Sean makes a contract with Jasmine and gets his magical transformation sequence, which has a Digimon vibe.
Light becomes Jack’s partner and he too gets his power-up, which kind of has a hawk vibe.
Mary and Shelly also power up . . . but in response Helen pours even more evil magic into Hoodie Guy Monster, making him STRONGER THAN EVER. Dun dun DUUUN! End of episode!
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Season 1:
Episode 1: The Magic Begins
Episode 2: The Transformation of a Princess
Episode 3: Ironhide Enters the Scene
Episode 4: Am I a Super Hero?
Episode 5: Solitary Shelly
Episode 6: Please Be My Master
Episode 7: Friends Sharing Secrets
Episode 8: The Tears of Helen
Episode 9: Sand’s Wish
Episode 10: Give Me a House, Let’s Play
Episode 11: I’m Not Just a Doll
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Episode 4: Am I a Super Hero?
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Previously, Mary lost her math notebook and her horrible teacher was about to shame her. We pick up right where we left off, with Mary, tears welling, shuffling towards the front of the class.
Last week I noticed Mary had a jellybean in her backpack and didn’t think much of it other than “oh, nice background detail.” Little did I know that the jellybean . . . was a plot point!
The jellybean glows and . . . turns into Mary’s math notebook! After a moment Shelly glances over and notices it. “Isn’t this your notebook, Mary?”
Mean Teacher says “Next time find it sooner” but accepts the notebook, and Mary returns to her seat, thrilled and relieved.
The next day the teacher hands back the corrected assignments. Only three students got perfect scores: Sean, Shelly, and . . . Mary!
Sidenote: Sean is wearing an electronic earpiece, maybe a hearing aid?
Okay, back to this earth-shattering surprise! Mary is floored by her perfect score was unsure about several of the answers on this assignment and, as we’ve previously learned, is bad at academics in general. She gets rare praise from Horrible Teacher Man, which buoys her mood even more.
But when she gets her notebook back, she’s surprised to find some of her answers have been CHANGED. Who did it? Is someone helping her?
She puzzles about it for a bit before putting her notebook in her bag--where, unbeknownst to her, it turns into a jellybean again!
After math class is P.E. (physical education), where the class has to run laps.
Mary and the kid behind her, who I feel bad about calling “the fat kid” but they haven’t said his name even once and I have to differentiate him from the other kids SOMEhow, agree to run together, because they’re both slow.
Let’s call him Peter until we get an official name.
As I’ve mentioned before, the running looks funny / odd.
But anyway, Mary and Peter stumble along the course. After getting lapped by the fastest kid (Bandaid Boy), Peter decides he’s sick of running. He’s going to hide behind a statue, wait until just before the end of class, and then complete the last lap. The teacher will never notice!
Now personally I think this is a brilliant plan, but Mary disagrees. Her mother told her winning wasn’t the important thing, the important thing is to try your best. So while Peter hides, Mary keeps running.
She gets lapped by the rest of the class, including Mean Girl, who of course takes the time to razz Mary.
“Are you a turtle? Mary, you're not very pretty, you're not very smart, you're bad at sports, and your family is poor. If I were you, I would be ashamed to leave the house.”
WOW. Even Gary Oak wasn’t quite this bad.
Mary stops in her tracks to glare after Mean Girl as she pulls ahead.
“Even though I'm not very smart, I always do my best! Sooner or later, I'll be good at something. I am sure!” she thinks.
And back in the classroom, the jellybean glows . . .
And Mary’s plain, worn white shoes turn into rad pink running shoes!
The shoes let her run ridiculously fast, and soon she has not only caught up with the rest of the class, but is neck-in-neck with Bandaid Boy, the athletic kid. Bandaid Boy summons one final effort and comes in first, barely.
Soon he and the rest of the class are congratulating Mary, except Mean Girl who asks if she’s been “taking” something, like she thinks there’s a middle school doping ring going on. Mary is happy but confused and says she doesn’t know how she ran so fast. When she looks down, she is wearing her old, scuffed white shoes again.
With the school day at an end, Mary sits down and reflects on the weird events of the day. “It’s like someone was using magic to help me.”
Now here’s where the episode surprised me. I thought the evil woman in black had been using magic to spy on Mary and grant her wishes so she could swoop in and tempt her again. After all, these were wishes her magic gems could grant--making Mary smart and good at sports.
Instead the jellybean floats out of the bag and turns into Loli, who’s like, “It was MEEEE!”
Flashback to Mary saying Loli couldn’t go to school with her and Loli turning herself into a . . . gem? (okay, it wasn’t a jellybean, it was a gem) and sneaking into Mary’s backpack. She made Mary’s math notebook appear and corrected the answers, then enchanted Mary’s sneakers to make her super fast.
Loli fails to notice Mary looking increasingly betrayed and upset as she says all this and is like “Yeah! I did a great job, right?”
Upset, Mary tells her never to do that again. Loli is confused. Didn’t it make Mary happy, getting her wishes granted?
Mary replies that she was happy . . . when she thought she was succeeding through her own efforts, not doll-generated superpowers. (And if it seems kind of obvious that something was up, well, Mary is canonically kinda dense . . . Shelly was side-eyeing the hell out of the desk after the notebook magically appeared in a pile of papers Mary had already looked through ten times. And meanwhile Mary was just like “I guess I didn’t look hard enough :) :) :)”.)
Loli finally Gets It and agrees to respect Mary’s wishes. She recounts how the doll shop is full of fairies-turned-lifeless-dolls who can only regain life if a child loves them--essentially hinting that she was trying to impress Mary.
She also reveals that she’d seen Mary before she came to the shop (through magic fairy powers, I guess) and been impressed by her kindness and gentleness. Loli was the one who caused the magic petals to lead Mary to the doll shop.
With the two seeing eye to eye again, Mary says she wants to keep improving and someday be as good as Shelly. Shelly is a top student and top athlete, and Mary greatly admires her.
“But for some reason,” Mary says, “she always seems very lonely.”
We cut to Shelly, who is making her way out of the school as all her schoolmates invite each other over to play and make plans. She’s envious them; they have time to play and socialize, while her after-school routine involves more studying.
The driver is waiting outside, but as Mary walks towards it, Peter--who is hanging with Mean Girl and her lackey--calls out, inviting her to join them for ice cream.
I am FLOORED to learn that Mean Girl hangs out with Peter after school. (My theory is she either solely torments Mary or else she just likes to have other people around to pick on.)
Shelly is instantly like “OMG, ice cream sounds so good!!”, but the driver is all, “Miss Shelly, don’t forget you have piano lessons, followed by five other extracurriculars”, and she reluctantly declines the invitation.
Mean Girl, being just The Worst, says, “She thinks that because she's pretty, she can look down on us.Am I right or am I right?” and her lackey agrees, noting, “she has her own driver, and is so privileged. Meanwhile Peter is just like :( . You’re a nice kid, Peter.
Meanwhile Mary is in the car, watching her happy classmates through the window and feeling depressed. She asks the driver not to pick her up or bring her to school anymore.
But he’s like, “So you want your parents to FIRE me?”
No, Shelly says, she just wants to socialize with her peers after school.
The driver reminds her that she’s on “a very tight schedule” with her billion extracurriculars, because her parents are clearly That Kind, and says she would never get to them in time without being rushed to and fro in the car.
Shelly acquiesces, resigning herself to a lonely childhood, when suddenly . . . petals! Petals in the car, despite the closed windows!
Shelly calls to the driver to stop the car and she jumps out. She’s got to see where the petals are coming from! And she heads down a familiar, narrow alley . . .
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Season 1, Episode 7: Friends Sharing Secrets
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We start off by rejoining Shelly and Peacock! It’s early morning and Shelly is worried she’ll be late for school. Peacock immediately decides to help by magicking Shelly into her outfit. Or into an outfit. We get a montage of Shelly dressed in sports clothes, a traditional Chinese outfit, a junior prom dress, and so on, as she gets more and more exasperated.
Finally Peacock correctly puts Shelly into her school uniform, and the animators forget how mirrors work.
Going downstairs, Shelly discovers that her parents are gone already. Of course Peacock offers to magic them back, but Shelly says no. “They’re busy working. I’ll make them proud of me someday.” Oh Shelly . . .
Shelly decides to leave Peacock at home and shuts her in the house. Peacock argues she can help Shelly and, to prove her point, uses her magic to make Shelly fly. Or float, at least. With no way to regulate her height.
Shelly clings to the house to avoid floating into the stratosphere, and somehow the incident does not make her any more inclined to take Peacock to school. With her feet back on the ground, she leaves.
Shelly and Mary both arrive at school. In grammar class Loli tries to help Mary with the answers and Shelly spots her!
After class Mary hurries away, sensing Shelly’s suspicious looks. In the school garden, she reminds Loli it’s important for her to keep hidden. But alas, Shelly followed has followed Mary!
"What was in your backpack?There's a doll that can talk, isn't it?”
Before Mary can answer, Peacock swoops into the garden. Peacock got bored and left the house, because of course she did. She and Loli are delighted to see each other again.
Mary, thrilled to have someone to talk to about her secret, grabs Shelly’s hand and declares they’re going to be good friends. The two of them happily exit the garden followed by the dolls, who congratulate each other on finding good owners.
None of them notice a flurry of flower petals rushing away, over the city, and towards the Yeloli Doll Shop, where we see . . . OMG, has evil Queen Pandora found the dolls??
NO, IT WAS EVELYN! IT WAS EVELYN ALL ALONG!!
Through the power of talking to herself, Evelyn reveals that she disguised herself as Queen Pandora to test the loyalty of Mary and Shelly, and also to jumpstart their magic powers. The dolls weren’t in on this plan so they thought the danger was real.
Also she has magic tattoos or scars on her arm that match the magic colors of Shelly and Mary. But those two alone will not be enough to protect Earth from Queen Pandora . . .
Just as she’s musing on this, who should appear in her mirror but the real Queen Pandora with an ominous message: “Do you think I don’t know what you’ve been doing in the human world? It’s no use resisting.”
Thoughts:
I can’t BELIEVE Evelyn was the lady in black! I truly did not see this coming.
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Episode 10: Give Me a House, Let’s Play
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This episode sees the return of the robot toy, Ironside Ironhide Tintin. He and Loli are fighting over the last strawberry. I guess dolls eat?? They also sleep, as Loli complains about having to sleep in a chair back-to-back with Tintin.
She asks Mary if they can go shopping for doll clothes, a doll bed, etc. But Mary can’t afford those things; her family is poor. And the little money Mary does have, she is saving to buy her mom a birthday present. Mary starts worrying that she’s not a good enough owner for Loli who is, after all, a real princess.
Cut to Shelly’s house where boxes and boxes of doll clothes, doll furniture, and a huge doll house have just arrived. Shelly pays the delivery guy--via her own credit card!--and she and Peacock have a blast decorating the house and putting on a little fashion show.
Then we cut back to Mary’s house. Loli and Tintin are trying to convince Mary that it doesn’t matter if she doesn’t have money for doll clothes. Loli says she was just kidding about wanting all that, which is obviously a lie, but good for you Loli.
Then the three of them get the idea to MAKE a doll house using cardboard, paint, etc. Cue the montage!
Soon they’ve constructed a modest doll house--with a slide from the bed, which Loli says is something she always dreamed of.
Tintin then asks if he can get a bed, which prompts Loli to ask where the box she came in went. (Presumably intending to turn it into a bed for Tintin.) Well, it turns out that the box was left in the street after Loli and Mary ran into those bullies.
Loli insists that she NEEEEDS her box back, it’s very precious to her, and flies right out the window to look for it. Mary’s like, “In broad daylight? Really?” and with a sigh heads for the stairs to wrangle her doll. And Tintin slides down a drainpipe.
But Loli is way ahead of them. She finds her box--BUT THEN! She hears someone coming! So she “plays dead.”
. . .from his design, I can only assume he’s another bully. He’s like, “A doll? Left in the street?” and we see him reaching for Loli right before the credits roll.
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Okay, so. I found the first year of Yeloli (2013) on Youtube. Welcome to the start of my Yeloli Watch Party, feel free to watch along with me!
Youtube didn’t have the first episode, but from what I can extrapolate:
The main character, a little girl named Mary (Portuguese dub name) lacks confidence in herself because she’s not good at schoolwork or sports. She finds a magic shop run by a mysterious woman who gives her a doll.
EPISODE 2: “I Am a Princess”
(Keep in mind I don’t speak Chinese so I am having to sort of guess the plot.)
Mary is happily returning home with her new MIB doll when she encounters an mysterious and definitely evil lady in an alley.
Evil Lady offers to buy the doll off Mary. When that doesn’t work, she summons magic gems which will give Mary a new doll, a new fancy house, and will make her great at schoolwork.
Mary declines and tries to leave, but Evil Lady summons magic jackals(?) to attack her.
At this point the doll comes to life to defend Mary.
I think the doll’s dub name is Loli. Loli repels the fire jackals a few times, but Evil Lady just keeps summoning more.
Loli then gives Mary the magical girl power to transform . . .
. . . into an adult.
Adult Mary’s first move is . . . to try to run away.
Like, fair. But then Mary taps into her magical girl energy and destroys the jackals by Care Bear Staring heart attacks at them; Evil Lady retreats into the shadows, displeased.
Mary transforms back into a little girl and continues walking home . . . only to discover three boys who I assume are the neighborhood bullies, based on their designs.
Man, those are some ugly CGI kids.
And they are tormenting an equally ugly toy.
My favorite part is when they gather around and start kicking it, like it’s the printer from Office Space.
Mary is not amused by their antics and the episode ends on this amazing still of her face.
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Season 1, Episode 8: The Tears of Helen
English Translation
So for some reason this video is entirely without sound, except for the intro song. Weird! Fortunately it still had the Portuguese subtitles to translate from.
We start with Evelyn reflecting that “it was a good idea to get humans to help us”, which confirms she’s a non-human. Maybe her magic was just too powerful for Pandora’s curse? Anyway, the doors to the store open; the cherry blossoms have led another child to the Yeloli Doll Store.
Oh my god, it’s Gary Oak Girl!
The girl demands the best, most expensive doll. Evelyn explains that all the dolls cost the same amount and opens the display case, inviting the girl (sorry, they don’t say her name even ONCE in this episode) to see if she feels a connection with any of them.
The girl picks up a brunette doll, deciding she is the prettiest and best.
“Her name is Helen,” Evelyn says. “She’s had a hard life.” You said her name was Catherine in an earlier episode but sure, Evelyn.
Evelyn asks the girl if she’ll give Helen lots of love and affection, to which the girl says no, absolutely not. "I don't want to take care of anyone. It's very boring. I never even wanted to have pets.” Cut to a scene of her neglecting her cat. Wow. Gary Oak would never.
Helen tries to subconsciously communicate to the girl that she shouldn’t be so selfish; she, Helen, will be her friend and help her. Unfortunately the girl is not listening; she has just noticed a cut on Helen’s shoulder. A FLAW!!!
She tosses Helen onto the floor like garbage. Evelyn gently picks up Helen, ignoring the girl threatening to give her a bad Yelp review or whatever.
”Helen, my poor girl. I said she wasn't good.Why do you insist on wanting to help her?” Evelyn asks. Helen telepathically answers that she doesn’t want to give up on anyone.
Meanwhile the girl decides she’ll pick another doll, but Evelyn refuses and makes her leave. Which is for the best because the other dolls look furious.
Evelyn puts Helen in the front window so she’ll be the first doll customers see. We see in a flashback that Queen Pandora almost blasted Evelyn as she was fleeing to Earth, and Helen swooped in to save her. That was when Helen got her scar, which carried over to doll form.
“Don't hide your scar,” Evelyn says. “I know you will find a master who will accept your imperfections and treat you like everyone else.”
We cut back to the selfish girl, leaving with her posse. She walks by a boy with albinism, giggles to her friends that he’s a freak, and breaks his sunglasses. On accident. But the kind of accident where the person who did it isn’t sorry.
The albino boy, Francis, wonders if he will ever find acceptance as we see flashbacks of people being really shitty to him. His eyes hurt from the sun, so he ducks into the alley leading to the doll shop.
By the time he reaches the doll shop it’s night, which confuses him. Must be magic! He’s impressed with Helen--but notes she has a scar. “A doll that’s not perfect?”
Helen sadly readies herself for another rejection, wistfully thinking of how Peacock and Loli were picked, but not her. (Helen, you specifically rejected Shelly, remember how you roasted her? But anyway!)
Poor Francis is so lonely that he starts pouring out his troubles to a doll. “Because I was born without melanin, I’m very sensitive to the sun. My vision isn’t good either. And I’ll be blind in my left eye by the time I’m eighteen. I’m a laughingstock, aren’t I?” Dang, poor kid.
If the doll were his, Francis says, he would love her forever despite her scar. He makes up his mind to buy Helen.
But alas, it’s night--the store is closed! Francis sadly says it’s fate, that a laughingstock like him doesn’t deserve something so beautiful. He starts to walk away. And Helen’s like “NO. THAT KID IS MY CHOSEN OWNER.”
And she summons up all her determination and magic and busts right through the window.
She catches up to Francis and explains she’s a living doll, etc, which he takes in stride. But he repeats that he’s a freak and asks if she really wants to go with him. Yes, she does. So they enact the Yeloli Contract. Helen also tells him he’s a Child of the Moon, whatever that means.
Helen leaves with Francis, leaving the window shattered, but Evelyn knows what happened because of her magic book. She worries about Helen, wondering if she can trust this unvetted boy. So she decides to do the tried and true test of dressing up like Pandora to scare the two of them. But before she can head out--Pandora shows up in her mirror to mock her!!
Wait a second, isn’t that exactly how the last episode ended?
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Season 1, Episode 5: Solitary Shelly
English translation
We start with Shelly heading down the alley, following the magic flower petals to the Yeloli Doll Shop.
The end of the alley is incredibly narrow and the shop is in a cul-de-sac. I love this little detail. A cut off, quiet space in an urban environment--now that is how you set up magic.
Shelly is drawn to the doll shop, which still has Loli in the window, whoops. (Maybe she’s just visiting.)
Heading into the shop, Shelly meets Evelyn and tells her the dolls are beautiful.
Shelly also talks about how lonely she is; her studies and extra lessons mean she has no time to make friends and her parents are rarely home. She has quite a lot of dolls at home, but they aren’t the same as a friend.
Evelyn says these dolls can be a friend. But a doll and owner much mutually choose each other before leaving the shop.
Then Evelyn uses her magic to open the doll cabinets. This lady is not circumspect, but I guess she doesn’t have to be.
So when I first saw this scene I thought it was weird how unsettling it was, instead of being a magic moment of awe for Shelly. Then I translated the subtitles and you won’t believe what happened next (not clickbait).
What you are seeing here is a bunch of dolls rejecting Shelly.
“She’s rich, I’ll bet she’s a spoiled girl.”
“She’s proud and indifferent, not my choice.”
“Didn’t she say she had some dolls already? She would ignore me.”
And Shelly can hear all this, mind you. Like, wow dolls. You could just say “no thanks”, you don’t have to roast the poor girl.
So after all that Evelyn says, “I’m sorry, no one chose you.” and Shelly says, “Even dolls don’t want to be my friend. :( “
But then, just as Shelly is resigning herself to a life of loneliness, a mysterious voices says, “I will be your friend! Only a perfect girl like you is allowed to be my owner. I will make you happy!”
The voice is coming from a magic peacock feather, which leads Shelly down the hall. (The animation on the peacock feather is phenomenal.)
Following the feather, Shelly enters a room full of more dolls, including a peacock themed one, who Evelyn introduces as . . . Peacock!
This doll is significant in that it’s the only that really got me interested in Yeloli dolls. What a beautiful design.
Anyway, Shelly and Peacock have a conversation--like, astrally, in a floaty magical liminal space--and Peacock kicks it off by saying, “Hi. I choose you.” If only Ash had had it this easy with Pikachu.
Evelyn brings Shelly back to reality and tells her, “Peacock is stubborn and arrogant at times. The other dolls think she is proud and indifferent, but actually she is very lonely.”
Of course Shelly immediately identifies with this.
Unlike Mary, Shelly has plenty of money so she asks to buy Peacock. But Evelyn doesn’t sell dolls. Evelyn makes magic contracts from magic books.
Books that already have your personal info in them! (Shelly asks how Evelyn knew her name and Evelyn says, “A doll told me.” Nice.)
I think the Yeloli contract thing is supposed to tie-in to the brochure that comes with the dolls, which has a space for kids to write their names, like the adoption certificate that used to come with Pound Puppies.
Anyway, Shelly agrees to the terms (being sole owner of the doll and never giving it away) and she happily leaves the store with Peacock.
At least she’s happy until she gets back to the car, where the driver frets that she missed her piano lesson. Give the kid a break, she was getting a magic doll.
Shelly returns home, where she is sad to find she is returning to an empty house . . . again. Her workaholic parents are never home, and she dreams of returning to the simpler days where they . . . ate whole turkeys together.
It’s especially devastating that they’re missing today . . . on her BIRTHDAY! Dun dun dun!
So Shelly is crying on her bed, sobbing “I wish my parents would come home”, and oh hey there’s a wish-granting fairy in earshot.
Almost instantly there’s the sound of the front door--it’s Shelly’s Dad! Followed a minute later by Shelly’s Mom!
A couple things about this scene:
At first I was nervous that Peacock had magicked up fake replacement parents but no, they’re Shelly’s real mom and dad.
Peacock cancelled Dad’s meeting and Mom’s rehearsal to get them to come home. Which is, uh, very utilitarian but kind of depressing that the parents weren’t motivated by suddenly remembering their daughter’s birthday or something.
Finally, I’m picking up some tension in the marriage.
Like, when Mom comes through the door this is Shelly’s expression.
And this is dad’s expression.
Then Shelly happily grabs them by the hands, but I can’t help but notice the parents are physically distant from each other and there’s a painting in the background that symbolically makes it look like there’s a big rift between them.
Time will tell if I’m reading too much into this!
For now, they are going to enjoy the cake that Shelly’s mom picked up. You can tell China has different copyright laws because they sing the entirety of “Happy Birthday” (in Chinese, but same tune).
Shelly’s mom tells her to make a wish, and Shelly does. For being a rich kid, her wish is quite modest and attainable: “I would like to make friends at school with my classmates, and also to be able to have ice cream after class.”
Oh wait, it’s not attainable at all because Shelly’s mom is fucking furious. How DAAAARE Shelly want to socialize and have a life?? Her destiny is to practice the piano at all waking hours so she can become a famous concert pianist like her mother.
Shelly immediately capitulates because she’s clearly used to having her dreams crushed.
Is the dad going to challenge this viewpoint? No, he also wants Shelly to become a famous concert pianist and he gives her a piano music box for her birthday. Go to hell, Shelly’s dad.
Shelly at least likes the music box and takes it to her bedroom where she reflects that she’s very happy that her parents came home early.
“But how did they get home so quickly? It's as if a fairy had granted my wish.”
From her box Peacock says, “Yes, it was me”, to which Shelly’s like “HWHAAAT? I hear a VOICE??”
I really don’t get this; Peacock has talked to Shelly multiple times already.
We finish off with the narrator asking us, the audience, who’s talking to Shelly. We know who’s talking to Shelly, narrator!! Get it together!
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Season 1, Episode 3: Ironhide Enters the Scene
English translation
So we pick up where we left off, with Mary telling three bullies to stop tearing apart a metal robot toy after Loli told her that all toys are alive, and the toy would die if his head came off. This is actually more grim than Toy Story, where losing a head was just cosmetic damage.
Speaking of Toy Story, this reminds me of an interview I read where the guys scripting it said they had to tone down Sid because his original version was so sadistic that it seemed like he knew the toys were alive and felt pain, which didn’t make sense. Yeloli falls right into this trap, with these three kids coming across as psychos instead of kids being rough on a toy while playing pretend. They tear off the robot’s arm and are about to remove his head when Mary grabs the toy away.
Mary tells them to stop mistreating the robot. They shout that the toy is theirs because they fished it out of the trash and they try to grab it back.
During all this, Loli has floated up to roof level, unnoticed, and we are hitting ALL the Toy Story beats because she decides these three kids need to be taught a lesson.
So she TURNS THEM INTO TOYS.
And then when Mary’s like, “Uh, teach them a lesson but don’t hurt them, okay?”, Loli is like, “Check it out, I can also shrink them! :D” I’m really enjoying Loli.
Mary puppets the robot toy and uses it to make the boys promise to treat their toys nicely (”If you dare mess with me again, I'll finish you off!”) then has Loli return them to normal size / human form. Mary tries to give them the robot back but they run off screaming.
Worth noting: all the run cycles are very weird and funny. Like they’re way too slow.
Anyway, Mary asks Loli if she can use her fairy magic to grow back the robot’s arm. Loli asks why she wants to, which Mary says she feels bad for the robot since it was abandoned and tormented.
Loli proudly says Mary is a great girl and acquiesces, growing the robot’s arm back and giving it sentience. For some reason.
The robot introduces himself as Ironhide or Ironside, Google Translate was unsure, and he thanks Mary and Loli by . . . dancing! In a very weird sequence that goes on for a full minute, with a black background as though he’s in a music video or something???
I get the sense that someone was very proud of this animated sequence, which is nice but also why.
The robot tells its tale, which is basically what we’ve already learned / inferred--the kid who got him got bored with him and threw him out, then the bully kids found him with the trash, etc. Mary offers him a home with her and Loli, which Ironhide happily accepts.
But as the trio walk home, the mysterious cloaked woman appears, perching on the playground equipment and watching as they leave.
Imagine being in one of those apartments and you look down and see this.
This might seem like the natural end of the episode but NO, it jut keeps going!
The next day Mary runs into a classmate, literally, in her hurry to get to school. She knocks over the other girl, whose name is Shelly. I think Shelly is meant to be from a wealthy family, because a driver who calls her “Miss Shelly” is dropping her off instead of of her mom or dad.
At the very least, she is more self-possessed and less anxious than Mary, who apologizes profusely.
The two girls continue on to class--unaware that Mary’s math notebook has fallen out of her backpack.
As class president kid (Sean) collects the math assignment, Mary realizes her notebook is missing and freaks out. The show does a really good job of capturing that feeling of panic! I really felt for Mary.
To make matters worse, the class Mean Girl loftily says that Mary is a liar who didn’t do the assignment. Mary says she DID do it, nearly in tears, and Mean Girl says she’s too stupid to complete it. (Ironically, Mean Girl didn’t do her own assignment, instead using her popularity to pressure a different kid into doing it for her.)
She’s like a debonaire version of Gary Oak and I love to hate her. I hope we see more of her.
Then the teacher comes in and Sean (class president kid) gives him the assignments, mentioning that Mary is still looking for hers. Sean but he doesn’t seem malicious, just super serious. Like Joe from Digimon but without the anxiety.
The teacher, however, IS malicious and angrily demands that Mary come to the front of the class. But his character model still has big doe eyes which kind of ruins the effect . . .
And that’s our cliffhanger! Dun dun DUN!
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Season 1, Episode 9: Sand’s Wish
We kick things off with Evelyn being confronted by Queen Pandora through the mirror. Pandora says that in addition to being queen of Yeloli, she also wants to be queen of Earth. Since humans don’t believe in magic, it will be easy to take over. She invites Evelyn to help her. But Evelyn refuses.
Pandora asks why Evelyn think humanity is so great. From what Pandora’s seen, humans are “selfish and malicious.” Evelyn says not all humans are like that. (#NotAllHumans.)
Pandora says why don’t they make it interesting and bet on whether humans are malicious by nature? And she knows the perfect human to test . . .
Cut to Helen and Fra SAND. Yes, we have another name change and the pale boy is now Sand. He and Helen are contentedly walking home when the mirrors of the neighborhood shops start glowing.
Pandora can’t got to Earth, but she can use mirrors to project a hologram of herself into the street.
The hologram’s powers include:
1. using actual magic, such as blasting a kid with sensitive eyes with strong light
2. physically grabbing a doll that comes too close
3. transforming a kid into an anime warrior with cool eyes.
Anime Sand is amazed and thrilled that he can see clearly in his new form. Pandora also tells Sand she can permanently cure all his health problems.
Helen, however, is still defiant. She hasn’t forgotten how Queen Pandora tormented the fairies of Yeloli.
Pandora says they MUST obey her if they want Sand’s eyes to be healed. Helen cautiously asks what Pandora even wants.
Pandora says she just wants all the fairies to return to the land of Yeloli. :) And if they do, she’ll forgive their crimes and treachery. :))) But if Helen wants to be difficult, well, Pandora will just have to torment Sand with blinding light...
“Stop!” Helen cries, and finally agrees.
Pandora smiles and tells them to find bad humans and bring out their evil tendencies “to defeat the power of love.” She adds, “You know what happens to those who disappoint me,” and then we get a shot of this:
Maybe she turns people who disappoint her into monsters? Or maybe this is another bully, who knows in this show.
Pandora leaves and Sand says he hates humans, since they laugh at him, but he’ll never hurt Helen’s friends. Is he being selfish, he asks her. She says not to think about it; she will stay by his side no matter what.
We cut to school with Mary and Shelly, who are now good friends . . . and who are both gazing longingly at their crushes on the basketball court. Mary likes Jack, the athletic boy, and Shelly has a crush on Sean, the studious boy.
That’s all there is to say about that, except that Jack seems very overdramatic and I still don’t know if Sean is wearing a hearing aid.
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Season 1, Episode 6: Please Be My Master
English translation
We return to Shelly, who is reflecting that although the crystal piano her parents gave her is beautiful, it’s not what she wanted for her birthday. But it was still a happy day since her parents were home.
Aha! She pushed the photos apart to set the piano there! More symbolic evidence that her parents are in a failing marriage!!
Ahem. Peacock then pushes the lid off her box and proudly claims responsibility for making sure they came home. Since Shelly left her in the box for hours, Peacock got bored and came out on her own.
I don’t understand the rules for the fairy-dolls, with Loli it seemed like she couldn’t move until Mary made a strong commitment to her and protected her from the evil lady in black. But Peacock’s flitting around the room like it’s nothing.
But to Mary, it is NOT nothing, to Mary it’s freaky because her doll is alive. Which I thought she already knew, but after looking at the previous episode, all the times Peacock “talked” to her, the two of them were in a liminal space. So maybe that was a subconscious connection.
I guess Shelly thought Evelyn was just a very, very eccentric woman selling regular dolls.
Anyway, now Peacock is undeniably walking and talking. Shelly decides (or hopes) she’s dreaming and hides under her sheets.
Unworried, Peacock flies around to get a look at her new home. She’s pleased to find a huge mirror (“Only a big mirror like this can reflect all my beauty”) but not pleased when . . . the evil woman in black appears in it!! Dun daa DUNNNN!!!
The evil woman tells Peacock she chose poorly; Shelly already has many dolls so she’ll neglect Peacock. “She doesn’t really love you. She’ll never sign a Yeloli Contract.”
Peacock’s reply? “Bullshit!” (I assume it’s something milder in the original Chinese, but this still amuses me. Thank you, Google Translate.)
Peacock tells the mystery woman to get out and throws a compact at the mirror for good measure.
“I’m free since you broke the mirror,” the woman chuckles. Whoops.
The mysterious woman physically enters the room and summons her spirit-leopards. Shelly hears the noise, peeks her head out, and dives right back under the bedsheets. Now she REALLY hopes she’s dreaming!
But she isn’t, and the leopards tears the sheets away.
Before the beast can bite Shelly, Peacock swoops in front of her and summons a magical shield. But Peacock’s magic is in a weakened state and her shield won’t last long.
She urges Shelly to enter a Yeloli Contract with her, to power them both up, and Shelly . . .
. . . runs out of the room.
She dashes downstairs calling for her parents, but of course they left because they are useless.
“Am I dreaming?” Shelly wonders again, and the evil lady gets philosophical and says, “Shelly, who knows what’s real and what’s not?”
But she says it as she’s swooping down the stairs, cackling menacingly. (To be fair, she tried subtlety on Mary earlier and it didn’t work.)
The obviously evil woman offers to make Shelly’s wishes come true. “You must hate that piano. So what if I destroy it?” Instead of waiting for an answer, she immediately has her spirit leopard destroy the piano.
Shelly is aghast, but the mysterious woman says she’s not fooling anyone; didn’t she really, in her heart of hearts, hate that piano? Didn’t it bring her misery?
Shelly admits to herself that it’s true and we get a flashback to Shelly’s mother demanding that she play five hours a day, and Shelly crying because her hands hurt. Wow! Your parents suck, Shelly.
The woman in black swoops over to Shelly’s side and promises to use her magic to prevent Shelly’s mother from getting angry and to get her off Shelly’s case about being a pianist, if only she’ll give up Peacock.
At this point Peacock herself swoops into the room and is pounced on by the spirit leopard. She urges Shelly not to listen to the offer, and indeed Shelly stands up and says, “I will not surrender to you and disappoint my mother.“
Ugggggh. Shelly, I promise you it’s okay to disappoint your horrible mother who won’t let you make any friends.
Well anyway, Peacock rushes over to Shelly and offers her the feather from her headdress so they can enter into a Yeloli Contract.
Perhaps you, like me, have been thinking, “But didn’t she enter a Yeloli Contract to get Peacock from the doll store?”. Yes, she did. From what I can tell there are two Yeloli Contracts: the one to get the doll, and the one to power up into magical girl form. It’s confusing that they’re both called the same thing.
So Shelly and Peacock do enter into Yeloli Contract #2 and Shelly immediately powers up into Magical Girl form. She gets a cool blue dress and blue hair and of course with all that blue it’s only natural that she has . . . ice powers??
I was so sure she was a Water type Pokemon trainer. At least she can still use Lapras.
Shelly freezes / banishes the spirit leopards and the mysterious woman in black takes this as a sign that she should teleport away.
Returning to her normal form, Shelly worries about the state of the still-broken piano, but no worries--Peacock tells her they’re in a parallel world and all will return to normal when they get back. (WHAT.) And sure enough, with a sparkle of magic the piano is back to normal.
Shelly pats the piano and reassures it that she doesn’t hate it, and I, on the other side of the screen, say “Okay but it would be fine if you did, it’s just a piano and your mom makes you play five freaking hours a day.”
We close with Shelly musing that it’s been an extraordinary day and wondering what else awaits her. Whatever it is, she and Peacock will face it together.
Overall, this was an action packed episode! I am still assuming the mysterious woman in the black robes is evil Queen Pandora.
I’ve noticed she always floats, so maybe she’s getting around Evelyn’s curse (not to be able to come to Earth) on a technicality? Like, “Oh ho, but I’m not ~actually~ touching it”? Or maybe she’s astral projecting or something.
Several episodes have little bits of missing sound, but this one had a LONG stretch during the magical girl transformation that was silent except for incidental sound effects (like magic sparkle sounds). Unclear why!
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