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Nao's Feelings! Everyone's Bonds Connected By a Baton!! (なおの想い!バトンがつなぐみんなの絆!! Nao no Omoi! Baton ga Tsunagu Minna no Kizuna!!?) is the 18th episode of Smile Pretty Cure!, the 16th episode of Glitter Force, and the 407th episode of the Pretty Cure franchise overall. The English title is "The Great Relay Race".

Synopsis[]

Nao invites her friends to participate in the girls' relay race at the school's Sports Meet. However, Yayoi lacks confidence in her running ability, especially after being bad-mouthed by her classmates.

Summary[]

The girls have a race during P.E. class, and soccer player Nao easily wins. Reika suggests she volunteer for the class team at next week's Sports Meet, but when she's hesitant to join. However, when she learns that Class 1 and Class 4 have exceptional teams composed of Track and Field club members, Nao volunteers herself, and makes a surprise nomination for the other four members: Miyuki, Akane, Yayoi, and Reika.

In the Bad End Kingdom, Joker tells Akaoni that he needs to learn to work together with Wolfrun and Majorina. Akaoni refuses, believing that teamwork is a sign of weakness, and stomps off intent to destroy the Pretty Cures by himself. This suits Joker just fine.

The girls train hard for the upcoming race, but it becomes apparent that Yayoi is poor at running, and she questions why Nao placed her on the team. Nao admits she just wanted to take part with her friends, and Miyuki encourages Yayoi to just try her best.

SmPC18 Yayoi goes into shock

Yayoi listening in on the conversation

The girls continue their training gradually improve; by now even Yayoi feels better about how she's been doing. But when Yayoi heads back to the classroom after school to pick up something she forgot, she is upset to hear classmates predicting that failure will be Yayoi's fault.

On the day of the Sports Meet, the girls warm up for the relay race. But before the race can start, Akaoni suddenly appears to suck Bad End Energy from everyone. The girls transform and Akaoni uses a blue nose to create an Akanbe from a basket.

The Akanbe uses its rope as a whip to attack the Pretty Cures. They catch it and begin a tug-of-war. Akaoni tells them that even as a team, they're still held back by weakness of individual members—something that upsets Cure Peace. Cure March rejects his argument, saying instead that there are things that can only be achieved by co-operating with others, that she always tries her best and won't give up before she's even started, and that nothing is impossible if her friends work together.

Inspired by March's words, together the Cures pull the Akanbe to the ground and use Rainbow Healing to defeat it. Akaoni retreats, and the girls change back to normal before returning to the relay race.

SmPC18 Nao runs with the baton

In the relay the girls run their hardest, with Akane going first in the baton pass, followed by Miyuki, Reika, and Yayoi. Yayoi tries her best, but is overtaken and falls from second place to fifth, then joint sixth. Suddenly, classmate Inoue Seiji begins cheering for Yayoi, and the entire class join in. Yayoi pulls ahead and passes the baton to Nao, who pulls ahead into second place.

Just as Nao overtakes into first place, she trips. She is overtaken by the other runners, and comes in last place. Nao cries, and her friends hug her, crying too. The class surrounds her, cheering even though they lost.

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Edits in Glitter Force[]

  • Several shots of Kelsey (Akane), April (Nao), and Lily (Yayoi) running are darkened.
  • The Sports Meet is renamed Fitness Day.
  • The Sports Decor is renamed the Gold Medal Charm.
    • Glitter Force doesn't include the episode where they got this Decor, so it's never explained how the Glitter Force (Pretty Cure) got the Gold Medal Charm, nor how the Wheel of Doom (Bad Energy Memory) got to its 17th tick.
  • A shot of a sign announcing the Sports Meet is removed due to its Japanese text.
  • In the original version, while the Cures are engaging in tug-of-war with the Akanbe, there is a gag where the girls shout, "O, S! O, S!" Then, Happy, Sunny, Peace, and Beauty shout, "SOS! SOS!" and March says they have it wrong. In the dub, this is changed to them all saying, "Heave, ho! Heave, ho!" and then Lucky, Sunny, Peace, and Breeze shouting, "Do we heave on ho, or do we ho on heave?", followed by Spring saying that it doesn't matter.

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