Delicious Party Precure Ep 12 Review: The Fall of Gentle!

Hi, Everyone! This is my short review of Episode 12 of Delicious Party Precure and the conclusion of the first arc of the series.

The girls and Rosemary were discussing Amane being Gentle and suspected she might be under mind controlled by the Bundoru Gang. True enough, Lord Godatz brainwashed Gentle again to become a full slave. 

Yui told the other two girls that she wants to help Amane as someone who can see the food fairies is a good person and also tell them about what happened if they too get mind controlled and unable to enjoy the good food anymore. This upset Kome Chan but Yui and everyone console her and also agreed that they have to free Gentle's mind control.

The next day, Gentle created an Ubauzo and is destroying the town. The girls and Rosemary managed to defeat the Ubauzo but failed to connect with Gentle. Rosemary showed the girls a business card from Amane's family store and the girls came up with a plan to trap Gentle.

Gentle felt for the trap which is a fake blog post by Ran but it backfired when Takumi came out of another restaurant and Gentle trapped a new food fairy to create a new Ubauzo. Takumi also witnesses the girls and Rosemary enter the Delicious Field.

Cure Spicy and Cure Yumyum battled the Ubauzo and Cure Precious tried to convince Gentle to see her way. Even after Rosemary suffered some damage shielding Cure Precious, she continues to move forward to Gentle. It was until she pulled out the business card to Gentle that she stop for a moment. The card shows a drawing of a food fairy that Amane was able to see in her family store. 

Amane struggled to break free and told Cure Precious to save her. But Lord Godatz's grip on her created a dark heart which make the Ubauzo even stronger. The girls team up together and used their team attack-Precure Mix Heart Attack and vanquished the dark heart and the Ubauzo.

Gentle reverted back to an unconscious Amane and Rosemary told the girls she is going to be all right. But he senses someone is spying from afar and it happened to be Takumi who is holding a strange box in his hand...

I felt the confrontation between Yui and Amane was a bit rushed. Yui only has 2 or 3 interactions with Amane and now she wants to save Amane. I do understand Toei want to make Yui a kind and helpful person but there is no lead up other than Amane was able to see the food fairies and Yui tried to have a failed conversation with her before that. 

The plot device in this episode is the business card that somehow makes Gentle/Amane stop her tracks and Amane was friendly to the food fairy in her family store. We also get our first team attack which is basically three small beams becoming one big beam in the form of the Precure Mix Heart Attack and our three girls thank the meal together with the purified Ubauzo. 

The last scene is the prologue to our next arc with our boy, Takumi getting involved with the girls. We knew that there was a mystery surrounding Takumi even since the first episode when Rosemary finds him oddly familiar and Takumi's probing with Yui in the previous episodes. We also see that he is holding a small box that has an emblem of a spoon, a fork and a heart in the middle. Could it be that Takumi is somehow related to the Cookingdom which is why Rosemary finds him familar?

Until then, we will see the aftermath of Amane's behaviour in the next episode. With Narcistoru taking over, it is certain that his methods will be more aggressive and sinister compared to Gentle. With the title called "Takumi's secret" in the next episode, I am guessing things will start to heat up in the following arc. Until then, stay safe and see you in the next post!