#rabbirin

(Spoiler warning for episodes 1&2)

As each Precure season is a standalone, I’d definitely recommend getting into this one early, before it gets too long. I also want to point out that the animation is just as good, and maybe even better, than Precure’s ever been. I can vouch for the amazing animation, both in the fighting scenes, and out. The ending song is definitely the bomb, so give that a listen too. 

The theme this time is, as the title says, healing. The Precure will be fighting “Megapathogerms” to heal sick people. Now, let’s move on to my main point for this time’s essay: the partnership of Nodoka and Rabbirin.

As we learned in episode 2, our main character Nodoka was sick and spent most of her childhood hospitalized and bedridden. And even when she wasn’t bedridden, she was in a wheelchair. So I think for almost all of her life, she faced the very real truth that there are things in life that she just can’t do. There are things that are impossible for her.

It must have been frustrating. It must have been devastating. She must have felt so useless.

“There must be something I can do. I’ll do anything!”

In episode one, she said these words before becoming a Precure.

But in response, Rabbirin told her, “There’s nothing you can do.”

Then again in episode 2, when Nodoka tried facing the Megapathogerm on her own, Rabbirin said: “You know it’s pointless to try to fight it like that!”

Again and again, Rabbirin told Nodoka she couldn’t do something — it would be pointless to try because she couldn’t do anything except run.

But Nodoka is sick of hearing those words. Sick of being unable to do anything. So she doesn’t want to give up and run away. She decided she’d pay back all the kindness and effort the people around her have given her, by helping others who are sick and in pain.

But she knows. There’s nothing she can do.

Alone, that is. But with Rabbirin, she can be stronger. She can help people.

Likewise Rabbirin spent all of episode one searching for a human “doctor” to be partners with, because Rabbirin can’t do anything alone either. A Precure is needed. But after going to all that trouble, Rabbirin spent all of episode 2 rejecting Nodoka just because she just didn’t want someone that clumsy to get hurt in battle.

So what I’m getting at here, is that Nodoka and Rabbirin are indeed perfect partners. They’re in the same boat — powerless on their own. They’re constantly and consistently stopping dead in their tracks because of their inability to do anything. But they both have an undying inner strength that pushes them to help people.

That’s how they help each other.

Together, the “can’t” becomes “can.” And it’s this cooperation that, in turn, will help others. 

The fairies couldn’t stand staying at home