[Summary] Hime-chan no Ribbon episode 48
Hitoshi Doi
Episode Title
Nerawareta okaasan
[somebody is after Mummy]
Air Date
1993.09.03
OP
Egao no Genki (SMAP)
ED
Hajimete no Natsu (SMAP)
-Summary version 1.0 by Pascal Janin, 1994.02.27
-Editing by Hitoshi Doi, 1994.04.05
[I've started writing all of the summaries in HTML from now on,
so the text formatting might be a little funny. - H.Doi]
A big reception is held in honor of Hime-chan's mother, Hanako, because
her new mystery novel has been selling well: over 1 million copies sold
so far. But Hime-chan can't help complaining out loud about the long
and boring speech when there are so many delicious dishes to eat at the
buffet. At last the speech is over [the announcer has heard her com-
ments..], so Hime-chan rushes to the buffet, and brings back to Aiko,
Yumeko, and her father many plates full of sushi, beef, caviar.. She
gets ready for a second course but Aiko tells her that they should finish
the first plate.
Hanako's editor comes to congratulate her husband too, who introduces
his three daughters to him. Then Himeko, who once more comes back from
the buffet with hands full of cakes for Yumeko, spots a fat guy with
dark glasses staring at her mother strangely from afar. The editor
gives a message for her mother that he got from somebody in the audi-
ence. The message says, "Hurry to hit the end mark. Otherwise you'll
be in the grip of death". It scares them all but the editor doesn't
remember whom he got it from.
Himeko notices that the strange guy has left, and wonders if he is the
author of this message. Then her mother comes and pats her on the
shoulder, scaring her. Himeko gives the message to her mother, who
reads it but finds it rather funny and "stimulating". Then she leaves
to go to the restroom.
In the corridor, she passes by a tall swarthy man wearing a white robe
(just like somebody from Arabian countries). Soon Yumeko opens the door
to follow her mother, but she slips on the carpet, and the man lends her
a helping hand. Then Hanako notices that the chandelier above their
heads is going to fall down from the ceiling. So she rushes to her
daughter to take her in her arms and protect her. The chandelier
crashes near them, without hurting anyone though.
The other people, hearing the noise, leave the reception room to see
what has happened. Hanako thanks the Arabian man for having helped
Yumeko. Then Himeko spots, among the people, the guy with dark glasses,
and as he turns back to leave, she decides to run after him.
At the same time, the Arabian man felt that he was being observed from
behind, so he quickly turns back only to see a dark shadow hiding behind
a column.
Hime-chan rushes outside but the guy with glasses is nowhere to be seen.
In the taxi on their way back home, Hime-chan tells her family about the
strange man she saw staring at her mother, who looks very worried now.
She tells them that some people have died in Japanese hotels that way,
killed by falling chandeliers.
Erika is watching Hime-chan with her crystal ball, and worries about her
too.
At home, Pokota wonders why they are so late, then notices a clang at
the entrance door. But no light has been switched on, so Pokota goes
down the stairs, to find the guy with dark glasses doing something on
Hanako's computer. Pokota gathers his courage and jumps at him to bite
him. Then they hear the Nonohara family coming back. Hanako notices
that the door is not locked as it should have been, since she did it and
Aiko saw her locking it.
They go in and switch on the lights. The thief now panics and opens a
window to run away. Hime-chan is the first one to enter the room where
Pokota stands and tells her what just happened. When he tells her that
the guy was wearing dark glasses, she is sure that it was the same guy
who was at the reception.
A few minutes later, the police has come to their house. The inspector
on duty is Daichi's father. While the policemen inspect the floppy
disks the thief had left behind, Hime-chan and her parents tell Daichi's
father the whole story of the chandelier and the message. Then Aiko
answers to a telephone call from the hotel where the reception was held.
She tells everyone that they discovered that the chandelier had been
sabotaged.
[CM break]
In the Land of Magic, Erika, and Chappy tell the King and the Queen the
whole story, and says that Hime-chan and her family are in danger. The
King understands but says there is nothing they can do from there. Then
the Queen remembers one magical item that might be of use in this case,
the Secret Heart Baton. Erika and Chappy wonder what it might be.
Back on earth, Daichi's father leaves the house, leaving some policemen
around the house on guard. Hime-chan's father tells her to go to sleep
because she must go to school the next day. Pokota notices that Hime-
chan is very worried about the whole incident. Then Kantaro the crow
appears, carrying a present from Erika for Hime-chan. She opens it, and
finds inside a letter and a red box.
Hime-chan opens the letter, which is a 3-dimensional message. A picture
of Erika takes shape, and starts to speak to Hime-chan. Erika's picture
says that in the Land of Magic they are all worried about what happened
to her, so they have decided to give her another magical item. The
Secret Heart Baton can make people, animals, or objects bigger or
smaller at will. The magical formula are printed on the last page of
the manual inside the baton's box.
The magic words are "Grande graaji ookiku nare!" to make things bigger,
"Pikkori pikkora chiisaku nare!" to make things smaller, and "Jiiragu
denragu moto no ookisa ni nare!" and "Rakoppi rikoppi moto no ookisa ni
nare!" to revert to normal size.
She has to aim the baton at the item she wants to make bigger/smaller,
then press the button on the baton and say the words. Hime-chan quickly
tries it out on Pokota. Pokota becomes about 10 times bigger, and now
it's Hime-chan who looks like Pokota's stuffed doll. Hime-chan and
Pokota speak too loud, so Aiko hears them and tells Hime-chan to go to
bed instead of playing with her stuffed animal.
The next morning, Hime-chan is leaving to go to school, and runs into
Daichi who has heard the story from his father and come to her house.
They walk side by side in the streets, talking about what happened the
day before. Then the driver's door of a parked car slams open and the
guy with dark glasses gets out of it. He kicks Daichi aside and tries
to kidnap Hime-chan, but Daichi throws metal cans at his head. Hime-
chan gets away from the man, but he jumps in his car to go after her.
The guy eventually corners Hime-chan in front of a public works gate.
Hime-chan uses the baton to make herself smaller and hides. The guy
can't believe she has vanished, but he must run away because Daichi
arrives behind him. Daichi can hear Hime-chan calling him but she is
nowhere to be seen, until he looks down. In shock, he sees Hime-chan
using the baton to revert to normal size. He thinks this magical baton
is great. Hime-chan notices that Daichi has injured himself, so she
takes him back home.
The Arabian man gives a call to the chief editor of a local newspaper
from a public phone. He introduces himself as the Radjah Ashin, and
tells the editor that a coup d'etat has just occurred in his country.
Part of his government has violated the laws of his country and put his
country under their control. He tells the editor that he has a lot of
information about these people, such as their names. The mass media of
his country are already held by them, so he wants to make an
announcement to the newspapers of Japan. But as he talks, a black car
gets closer and closer to the public phone, and when he is about to tell
the editor where he is calling from, he is shot from the car. The shots
blast the phone box's windows, and the Radjah has to run away.
The editor has heard the shots, and remembering what the Radjah said
about the coup d'etat, gives a call to Hime-chan's mother, who asks him
to call her if he gets in touch with the Radjah again. Hanako tells her
husband, Hime-chan, and Daichi that this time the events seem to have
something to do with her book Kokkyou no kanata ni (Beyond the fron-
tier), even if she doesn't know how far exactly. [It has become obvious
at this point that Hanako's book tells the story of a similar coup
d'etat.]
The next phone call brings them much worse news. Yumeko has disappeared
from the kindergarten.