MAHOU TSUKAI ARC I FINALE

Oh, Lizzie will reappear in Ep 13 to pay her li'l sis a surprise visit...

Kay has been given mnemonic drawings to remember to bring all her stuff to class.

At last she begins to show some potential.

Seems I need a little more to cure my absent-mindedness...

Emily, furthermore, has finally overcome her fear of heights.

EMILY (determined): I am no longer the one I was!

Yes, she has finally shown some nerve...

Emily and June try to attack Liz together with a pincer maneuver, the tomboy coming in from the left and the bookworm from the right. Lizzie is not even fazed...

EMILY/LIZ/JUNE (unison): CURE UP! RAPAPA!

Liz manages to dodge both their assailants, causing them to collide with one another.

(THIS WAS THE MOST EXCITING MOMENT IN EP 9, THAT PINCER!!!)

June, the brilliant slacker, who had to take supplementary classes only because she frequently skipped classes... like someone I know very well... (moi) Also a tomboy with a girly streak (stereotypical look and personality of a tomboy, yet conjured up a pair of fashionable wellies...)

Darum sagen wir:
"Auf Wiederseh'n!
Die Zeit mit euch 

war wunderschön!
Es ist wohl besser jetzt zu geh'n,
wir können keine Tränen seh'n...
Schönen Gruß und auf Wiederseh'n."

With another story arc of Mahou Tsukai Precure beginning, it is time to take our leave of the country-esque Magicverse and its denizens with brightly coloured clothing and hair...

Maybe this is the last time we see (outside the train, from your left to your right) Emily, Kay, June, Liz, and Isaac.

Oh, and the dashing headmaster of the Wizarding School...

Darum sagen wir:
"Auf Wiederseh'n!
Die Zeit mit euch 

war wunderschön!
Es ist wohl besser jetzt zu geh'n,
wir können keine Tränen seh'n...
Schönen Gruß und auf Wiederseh'n."

The Muggleverse arc begins and now the roles are flipped: it is time for Riko to adjust to life as a muggle schoolgirl in Japanese suburbia.

We also got to see the hitherto missing male Asahina, Daikichi (Mirai's dad and Kyoko's husband). 

He is an inventor, and he looks a little like a 30-ish James Potter...

Yet he is a techie through and through.

The Asahina family, from your left to your right: Kanoko, Mirai, Kyoko, and Daikichi.

Oh, and Mirai's muggle classmates...

While on Earth, in the Asahinas' hometown of Tsunagi, Riko will bear the surname Izayoi. Riko Izayoi (like Towa and Kanata Akagi, Ellen Kurokawa... in any Precure series, to be a person from a Magical Land among muggles, you need a Japanese surname [aside from the school uniform du jour]). The surname Izayoi, which may sound familiar as the original surname of Akiza in Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds and/or that of Inuyasha's mother, means literally "sixteen-day moon," referring to the phase when the moon begins to wane. It can be seen as a parallel to her host family's surname, since Asahina translates to "morning sun." So "waning moon" Izayoi as foil to "morning sun" Asahina.

Meet Mirai's muggle classmates: Mayumi Nagase (Kay lookalike, left), and Souta Ono (boy, in the middle)

Souta Ono (related to Yoko?)

Mr. Takagi, the homeroom/Maths teacher, and Kana Katsuki (Emily lookalike, right)

Kana Katsuki is also the class disciplinarian.

Kana saw Mirai and Riko flying on their brooms in broad daylight...

KANA: Mr. Takagi! I saw Mirai and Riko flying across the sky on broomsticks!

Rumour about a sentient teddy walking through the 'hood also shocks them.

Mofurun went out for a stroll...

Gecko still sends the cadres on missions: looks like there are Linkles in the Muggleverse too...

The Linkle Topaz, for example.

Topaz Style attack: electric type.

TOPAZ HAMMER (lightning hammer... Thor, anyone?)

Dia+Sapphire+Ruby+Topaz+Aqua+Tourmaline=six Linkles confirmed (six more to go).

Also: Ha-chan grew into a four-year-old!! 

MY OWN HUMBLE OPINION:

So sad that June and all the others, and the Magicverse, are a thing of the past.

On the other hand, it was most welcoming to meet Mirai's friends and her dad for the first time :)

Ha-chan growing into a four-year-old: not as fast as Hotaru Tomoe, but this girl ages up pretty quickly.