Fushigiboshi no Futago Hime 37

  
  

Fine and Rain get all depressed over not being able to do a thing, but Altessa tells them to keep their spirits up, climbing out of the castle on a not exactly secure rope made of sheets -- Shade is there to catch her, though. And Tio's tagging along as usual. They all go to search for the Grace Stone that Altessa used to decorate a doll she had when she was little. She buried it near a tree somewhere, so they all get to digging away. Shade finds a tree with a mark, and there a box is buried, and inside the box is an Altessa figure with a stone on the crown. Suddenly, Bright's boomerang comes and takes the figure away along with the stone. He and Bumo are there to cause trouble as usual, this time using the power of the dark prominence to call forth some rather scary dark knights of some sort. It's time for Fine and Rain to do their thing... so the transformation is a two-stage one -- they transform into the old blue/pink dresses first, then change into the Eternal Solar Princess dresses. The power of the Prominence gets rid of the dark knights, so Bumo and Bright make a hasty retreat.

But they got away with the Grace Stone.. or did they? Altessa actually put the Grace Stone on Bright's doll, which she put in another box and buried near another tree. Bright seems to have completely forgotten that... but where could it be? Fortulette time... on a tree stump, it points nowhere. So it must be buried right there.. Tio digs away like a dog (even though he's a lion...) and there it is. Fine puts the Grace Stone in a compact that Naginyo gave to store them in that Rain's carrying. Tio's very happy that Shade praised him for actually being useful for once ;)

Fine, Rain, Altessa, and Pumo head out on the airship again. Altessa looks at the dolls of her and Bright dancing together... will she be able to dance with him again like that one day? Fine and Rain say it'll happen some way or another.. Altessa's not satisfied with that answer -- she brings out some books, Camelot-style, ready to give Fine and Rain a bit of training.. iyaiyaiya~!

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Altessa just had to go back to her scary ways as usual :P Despite that, she's been gaining points with me for quite a while now, and her finally saying that Fine and Rain are her friends added some more. Her parents.. heck, all of the kings and queens and politicians of the Mysterious Planet (except for Toluse and Elza of the Sun Kingdom) seem to be totally incompetent, so easily fooled by Bright. It makes one wonder how the Mysterious Planet managed to survive for so long with such bad governance (^^;;;)

Putting that away for now.... as expected, Naginyo turns out to be more than the comic relief we thought he was. Though still out there :P Looks like we'll be visiting all of the kingdoms at least one more time as Fine and Rain and Altessa journey in search of the dragonballs Grace Stones in each. Next time they'll be heading to the Windmill Kingdom, which means we should be able to see the hilarious comic duo of Sophie x Altessa some more. And Auraa too for the ladies out there that like him ;)

And as an aside, yes, the animation and such this time wasn't exactly the best or anything, but I'm trying to not concern myself too much with it. As I said before, so long as it's mostly cute it's okay with me, even if a cut or two isn't exactly on. 52 episode Saturday morning kids' show heading into the last stretch, can't have too great expectations of it, you know :P Though you bet I will complain if Miruro doesn't look cute when she shows up again ;) Speaking of Miruro... Ixy over at ShiBoo通信 has done a couple of cute Miruro pictures the past few days, along with Sophie and Altessa and Leonne. Ixy also says that Miruro in the Futago Hime Character Detail Book that HLJ has yet to get in is very cute. Dang it, I want it now! ;)