martes, 12 de mayo de 2015

LIST OF WISHES/DESIRES IN DOKIDOKI PRECURE

Since I still frigging miss Dokidoki Precure because of the jikochus'/selfcenters' creation by perverting an impulsive wish (general whispers in left ear: "I WILL MAKE YOUR WISH COME TRUE!", snaps fingers, victim's black heart bursts out of chest)... here is a list of the impulsive wishes and/or desires that were corrupted during the course of the series. Some are serious (dead serious), others are petty (laughably petty), and all of them wind up being granted and corrupting those who wished.
These MotW are created out of things that people desire or have an emotional attachment to.
The desires, wishes, and thoughts are in chronological order. The two first ones, which also are the most relevant ones, contain SPOILERS for the myth arc of the whole series. Highlight if you wish to read them at your own risk:


  • Not to lose one's only child to an incurable disease, like one lost one's partner, not to be left alone.
  • To save one's life and/or those of close ones from an enemy invasion.
  • To cut in line in a long queue, to finish waiting earlier.
  • For the traffic lights to change earlier, for one to stop waiting and make it to school in time. 
  • To be popular in love.
  • To play one's music loudly in public, in the light of day, regardless of if there are others who need silence.
  • To be more famous than a new upstart celebrity who challenges one's stardom career.
  • To eat the food which is being prepared at the cooking show one is filming.
  • To sleep in peace, without any disturbances, regardless of if there are others who need sound.
  • To defeat the captain of a rival team.
  • To be closer to the celebrity one is passionately in love with.
  • To talk through the mobile phone and drive a vehicle at the same time.
  • To be stronger and more confident than one already is.
  • To have true friends, instead of fair-weather ones.
  • To meet one's Waterloo, someone who can defeat one in one's area of expertise.
  • To drive a real-life steam train, without any regards for the safety of others.
  • To reach a peak/summit ere another expedition gets there before.
  • To have a celebrity's autograph as soon as possible.
  • To barge into a celebrity's dressing room in order to get the latest scoop as soon as possible.
  • To barbecue on an empty field, regardless of the risk of bushfires.
  • To see fireworks by oneself / on one's own, regardless of the risk of fires.
  • To win a volleyball game, come hell or highwater.
  • To eat in peace, without any disturbances.
  • To fly one's helicopter freely, without anyone's orders to attend to (the victim was a personal helicopter pilot for the Yotsuba), without any regards for the safety of others.
  • To ride one's motorbike freely, without any regards for the safety of others.
  • To have more customers with dental issues, and less customers afraid of one's drill (the victim was a dentist down on customers).
  • To make the lake which means so much to one's partner and to one's relationship with said partner disappear by poisoning the water, due to having experienced the fact that one's partner rejected one, and left one for another person.
  • To get to eat sweets and cake instead of raw carrots.
  • That a celebrity is finished with recording her song as soon as possible, so that one can earn profit from the song (the victim was a CD producer).
  • To fly one's model plane freely around the flea market, without any regards for the safety of others.
  • To eat at a crowded restaurant where all the tables are taken up.
  • To have the Christmas holidays off instead of having to sell popcorn until late at night like every day (the victim was a popcorn seller at an amusement park, during Christmas Eve).
"Omae/Anata no nozomi kanaetemiruyo!"
"I'm here to grant your desire."


Careful the wish you make,
Wishes are children.
Careful the path they take,
Wishes come true,
Not free.
Careful the spell you cast,
Not just on children.
Sometimes the spell may last
Past what you can see
And turn against you..


A review said that they "feed off of ... passion". Entities that feed off of passion tend, on one hand, to kick up tempests in teacups; and, on the other hand, to exploit the said passion for much more sinister aims.
If you'd like to hear an example of the former, I recommend The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope: an eighteenth-century mock epic in which a lock of hair gets (...), you know, by a baron drunk on coffee and obsessed with said blond tuft. Never had the cutting off of a lock of perfect tresses been presented as something so dramatic, leading even to an epic battle between male courtiers and court ladies! This poem offers a unique and affectionate look at tempests in teacups.
If you'd like to hear an example of the latter, there is The Tragedy of Othello, written by Shakespeare, in which Iago feeds off of the male cast's passion (the female cast being somehow, for one reason or another, immune to his deception)... and everyone pays a high price.


Careful the wish you make,
wishes are children.
Careful the path they take,
wishes come true,
not free.
Careful the spell you cast,
not just on children.
Sometimes the spell may last
past what you can see
and turn against you..



(It's also interesting that, in Dokidoki Precure, most of the victims [including the one who started it all] and the immortal corrupter are male, while those who purify the victims and seal the corrupter away are an all-female team of heroines. Just like in Othello...)

There's also Der Butt, by Günter Grass: an epic historical feminist fresco spawning from the Neolithic Revolution, when the male gender usurped the power of matriarchy, to the much more recent times of the Iron Curtain, via the Middle Ages, the Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, the Enlightenment, Napoleonic occupation in Central Europe, the class struggle between bourgeoisie and proletariat, and both World Wars. Throughout this great novel, a family saga that is also a chain of historical tales linked together, males are revealed as the "evil" gender motivated by stubbornness and lust for power, while females are more clever, more sensible, and always able to best their spear counterparts.




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