domingo, 24 de marzo de 2013

MORE ALICE SHOUT-OUTS IN PRETTY CURE

Do you remember the post where I discussed literary allusions in the latest Pretty Cure anime, for instance, a heroine called Alice?
This is a follow-up to that post. I watch Pretty Cure once a week, following every new episode, and new allusions have popped up recently.
In the last episodes, Alice and her friends (kindly Aida and clever Rikka) have discovered the reason why they have become Pretty Cures (that is, warrior magical girls): they have to fight to deliver an invaded country, located in another dimension, and simultaneously prevent the invaders from taking over Earth as well (obviously, standard adventure anime/warrior magical girl anime fare).
Marie-Ange and her personal guard Makoto, after crossing the magic mirror.

Now the ruler of this conquered kingdom, Queen Marie-Ange, managed to escape to Earth (where she's living undercover in exile somewhere) through a magic mirror in the throne room. The "queen + magic mirror" binome makes me immediately think of "Snow White" and "The Snow Queen", not to mention Alice (in Book Two and some of the film adaptations, the heroine enters Wonderland through a looking-glass, that is, a mirror).

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