19 "Yasashisa no Chikara, Umi no Fukaku ni Negai yo Todoke"
(The Power of Kindness, Let My Wish Reach the Bottom of the Sea)
2002-07-27
18 "A Girl with a Porpoise" 2005-10-15
Summary here

After a few weeks of bleh episodes, it's refreshing to get a good one again. A lot of cuts at the beginning, which is unusual, but the second half was basically untouched (except for some SDA and alterations, but meh)

85%. That's the best we've had since episode 14, which was 87%. The script was fairly good in most places. I will admit I smirked when Mint mentioned that Lettuce's glasses should have fallen off in the water. All in all, a decent episode.
... No witty comment this week.


Script was quite good today. The Lettuce/Iruka scene on the cliffs was perfectly kept, and thank goddness that Elliott/Wesley didn't already know about Mew Aqua.

Iruka's named is changed to Cassandra. Too bad they didn't keep it a watery name (Iruka means dolphin in Japanese)

They repeated the scene from the end of the last episode at the beginning of this one, replacing this next cut...

(33 seconds) The original scene of Ryou talking about how the marina was also a research center and Ichigo acting rather shocked (and thinking about the Blue Knight) was replaced with the above box.

(6 seconds) Lettuce remarking how beautiful the beach is, and a shot of the beach house from the outside is cut. It's replaced by a shot of a tree from later in the episode. This tree shot is also flipped.

(8 seconds) Zakuro stripping down to her bathing suit was chopped up. Also, Mint's little sparkly face shot is cut out.

y helo thar Mr. Digital Paint Bucket! Lettuce's swimsuit gets the edit treatment. But for some reason, it's never done again.

The kana on the screens with the different Red Data animals is taken out, of course.

(5 seconds) Lettuce saying her powers as a Mew Mew having nothing to do with swimming is cut.

"All I can say is, I'm infused with a Lorikeet, and I can rock the house on karaoke night!"

In the original, she never sang karaoke.

(18 seconds) Pudding and Zakuro's animal profiles were cut out. Sad.

(2 seconds) A shot of a blue and yellow sea...thing is cut.

(3 seconds) Ichigo's chibi angst over being called an old hag is cut.

(1 seconds) Ichigo wiggling after Mint calls her old is cut.

The text on Iruka's shirt is erased.

(11 seconds) Part of the scene with Lettuce telling Iruka that she'll teach her how to swim and the others worrying is cut.

(2 seconds) Lettuce floating underwater is cut short a bit.

"Aren't you having a good time?"
"Sure I am!"
"Right, and I'm Mr. Congeneality."

Someone just wanted some lovin'.

"Rule number 7...remain calm...Everyone run for your lives! For the love of Pete!"

PETE, PLEASE SAVE US! OH, PETE! ..... Who's Pete?

Since it's not really SDA, it's Misc. I find it a little weird that they'd call some storm that suddenly popped up a hurricane.

(5 seconds) Pudding listing what each Chimera Animal is made of is cut.

And we get Supernatural as the transformation today.

(11 seconds) The post-transformation speech is cut. I haven't seen the mini-rap in a while now...

They replaced the skeletons shown while Mint and Pudding were getting shocked by extending the first part when their actual bodies were shown.

"We need a new strategy."
"How about we pack it in and head for the mall?"

"And after we kick your butt, we're going shopping!"

(13 seconds) Lettuce flashbacking in the water is cut.

Total Retained 85%