DokiDoki Precure Episode 23

Translation: Kanmuri

TL in progress

Translation

Prologue

Regina: Who are you?!

Cure Ace: Love's trump card! Cure Ace!

{OP}

Part 1

Title: Bring Back the Love! The Five Precure Oaths!

Rikka: Cure... Ace?

Davi: A new warrior I've never seen before.

Regina: {\i1}What's with her?{\i0}
{\i1}Just looking at her makes me queasy.{\i0}
Begone from before me!

Cure Ace: Wherever could you be looking, I wonder?

Mammo: She's fast!

Cure Ace: I'll settle this in one shot!
Make up! Love Kiss Rouge!

I'll make your heart race!
Ace Shot!
Bang!

Mana: Regina!
Regina!
Regina!

Bel: Cure Ace, you said?
I'll remember that name...

Mana: Wait!
Don't take Regina!
Regina...

Regina: Precure...
I'll never forgive you for this!
Precure!

Mana: Regina!

Rikka: Mana!

Cure Ace: Do you think crying will bring her back?
Come on, on your feet!
This is no time to be falling down.

Rikka: Hang on a second!

Makoto: You don't understand!
You don't know how much Mana cares for Regina!

Alice: I don't know who you are or where you came from, but I won't permit such an offhand dismissal of Mana's feelings!

Cure Ace: The Five Precure Oaths!
One of which is, "Those who are Precure always keep walking forward, their eyes on the road ahead!"{She says 一つ here, but she's not saying number one, she's saying "One of which is..." The reason why I say that is in later eps, she says 一つ again, but says a different one, meaning that she's not meaning to number them off, but just say (as I already said) that it's just one of the five oaths. --K}
You need to become much stronger.

Mana: I can't...
I can't get any stronger than this...

Cure Ace: I have no choice then.{"You are hereby relieved of command." ;_; --K}
I will hang on to this until you have recovered your love.
Okay? Adieu!

Rikka: W-Wait!

Davi: She's gone...

Mana: I'm sorry, guys...
It's just like she said.
I'm not qualified to be a Precure.

Alice: Mana-chan...

Rikka: It's not your fault!
So please stop crying!

King Selfishe: My poor, poor daughter...
Go to sleep now...
A deep sleep... deeper still...
Who in blazes is this Cure Ace?

Bel: We do not know.
However, she {\i1}is{\i0} a fearsome opponent.

Leva: Seems like she's more than you can handle, Bel-chan!

Bel: Stop calling me that, Leva!
You guys haven't captured a single world yet, have you?

Gula: We've already wiped out three whole worlds!

Ira: They must have been boring worlds where nothing better than monkeys lived.

Leva: Are you trying to tell me off?{With a kinda, "Look at him, isn't he so precious? Trying to act all big and tough..." vibe, I think. w --K}

Gula: Want me to take a big bite outta your head?

Ira: Try it if you can!

King Selfishe: Cut it out!
Leva and Gula!
I'm counting on you to exterminate the Precure!

Leva + Gula: Yes sir!

Sign: Ohgai Shopping District Festival

Rikka + Makoto: Hello!

Kentarou + Ayumi: Welcome!

Rikka: That smells {\i1}good{\i0}!

Kentarou: Wanna try one?

Rikka + Makoto: Thanks.

Makoto: Umm, how's Mana?

Ayumi: She's been holed up in her room since yesterday, and hasn't eaten a bite.

Makoto: I see...

Kentarou: Did something happen?

Rikka: Hmm? Something?

Kentarou: Mana's not one to mope often.
I'm thinking she probably had a fight with Regina or something.

Rikka: It wasn't exactly a "fight", per se.

Kentarou: Huh?

Makoto: It'll be okay.
Mana's going through some hard times right now, but I'm sure she'll be back to her cheerful self in no time.

Kentarou: That's true.
Mana has some really good friends.

Makoto: Mana's probably depressed.

Raquel: That's not hard to believe.
Regina was snatched away, and on top of that...

Davi: Her Lovie was confiscated.

Rikka: Cure Ace... I wonder exactly who she is, anyway.

Alice: About that...

Sebastian: Since she appeared, we've been probing into the whereabouts of Cure Ace.
However, we haven't been able to garner any solid information.

Lance: She's quite the worthy opponent.

Alice: What's this?
It's Mana-chan's grandfather.

Rikka + Alice + Makoto: Hello!

Grandfather: Oh, hello.

Rikka: What's up with those boxes?

Grandfather: There's a flea market at the festival.
Mana promised to help out, but...

Rikka: We'd love to help out, if that's okay.

Grandfather: Really?

Alice: Of course!

Makoto: Um... I'll help out, too.
Welcome!

Red shirt girl: I'll take this, Makopi!

Makoto: 100 yen please.

Light green shirt girl: We're rooting for you!

Yellow shirt boy: Keep up the good work!

Makoto: Thank you.

Rikka: Aren't they kind of missing the point?

Alice: It's keeping things busy, so I see no problem.

Grandpa: That's right, things get lively when people gather together.
And a lively city is a happy city.

Alice: Let's do our best to keep the festival fun in Mana's place.

Rikka: Yeah.

Regina: Mana... Mana!
It's you and me! How's it look?{にてる？ here is asking, "How well does the image I have drawn resemble what it's supposed to be?" --K}
Look! Your randsell fits me perfectly.{I'm good with either "randoseru" or "randsell", but not "ransel" or "backpack", as randoseru has a specific connotation of the Japanese elementary school backpack. --K}
This pillow smells like Mana!

Mana: Regina...

Regina: Precure...
I'll never forgive you for this!{Flashback to earlier in the episode --K}

Cheryl: Mana, you're gonna get sick if you don't eat something.

Mana: I don't wanna.

Cheryl: Pull yourself together!
You are one of the legendary warriors, the Precure!

Mana: Not anymore...

Ai-chan: Kewpietwump!

Mana: Wh-What?!
What was that just now?
Yes?

Ayumi: It's kinda busy in the kitchen, so can you watch Ai-chan for a bit?{表 meaning "the back", but "the back" of a restaurant is the kitchen, so that's why I TLed it as such. --K}

Ai-chan: Kewpie!

Mana: Whaaaaa-?

{Eyecatch}

Part 2

Mana: Ai-chan, why are you {\i1}here{\i0}?

Ayumi: She's your little sister, of course she's here.

Mana: L-Little sister?!

Ayumi: Okay, thanks.

Cheryl: What's going on?

Mana: Well... that magic from earlier probably planted the idea in her head that she's my little sister.

Ai-chan: Mana...

Mana: Hmm? Ai-chan, did you just say my name?

Ai-chan: Ai-chan, Mana, togedder!{Trying to imitate the baby talk here with "togedder". --K}

Mana: Ai-chan!

Ai-chan: Yah!

Mana: Hmm?
A Care Lovie?
You want me to use this?

Ai-chan: Ai.
Mana cheer up! Cheer up!

Mana: Did you come to cheer me up?

Ai-chan: Ai!

Mana: Ai-chan!
You're taking care of {\i1}me{\10}.
Thank you, Ai-chan.

Mana: The festival certainly is bustling.
Regina'd probably be really happy to see this...
Yeah like that'd happen...

Aguri: How long do you plan to keep sulking?

Ai-chan: Kewpie!

Mana: Ah! Ai-chan, wait!

Ai-chan: Kewpie-pie!

Aguri: Somewhere along the way, you lost that which was most precious to you, Aida Mana-san.