To look for the Prince of the Tambourine star-world, the one with a twinkle in his eye...
Comet has come all the way to the distant world of Earth.
Higenoshita was so worried about Comet,
he couldn't take it any more, and came after her.
But Gramps is ill suited to life on Earth.
Better not stress him out too much, Comet!
PRINCESS!?
PRINCESS!! PRINCESS!!
Why are you screaming?
Why? Look at the stars!
One by one, the stars are being destroyed!
Oh, this is Tsuyoshi-kun's newest toy...
You have to fly the spaceship out of the planet. It's a game.
A game?
Something so grotesque is a...
They aren't real stars, it's all CG.
What did you just call me? An Ojiji? (Old man)
Not "Ojiji"! I said "CG".
Want another trip to that black star?
I can get out using love-power!
Without the Princess?
Guess she went to pick up the twins.
Why didn't you go with her? Why are you even here?
I'm babysitting the old man to keep him out of trouble!
I'm an old man after all?
You are old, you old man!
Why you little...!
Is someone there?
Higenoshita's Twinkle
It's good that preschool does these events...
But we have to work so hard.
Right, right.
What's so hard?
For example, this week is lunchbox week.
Lunchbox week?
It's annoying to plan different lunches each day.
Right, right.
My son is such a picky eater.
I really envy people who do nothing except play!
Hah hah hah...
Oh, did she mean me?
Comet-san will do it?
Really?
Yup!
I want to challenge myself.
Alright! What are you making?
I'm not telling!
Hurrah!
Hurrah! Hurrah!
Uh.
Comet-san said she's gonna make lunch!
Make Tsuyoshi and Nene's lunch!
Eh? That's pretty capable of you.
I want to ease Mama's workload.
Help Mama with housework!
Housework! Housework!
Oh, is that so?
If you need veggies, try our field in the hills...
The peppers should be good about now.
Ugh...
We don't want that!
Why not?
We'll buy everything ourselves.
You'll buy the ingredients? Hold on then...
By the way... is this the first time the Princess has cooked?
Right. Are you sulking about her wasting time again?
Brides have to know how to cook.
Ehh?
The Princess is clearly thinking
she'd make a splendid meal, and so,
attract the Tambourine Prince.
Just like how Rabapyon's bubbly chocolate seduced me!
I have no interest in your love life!
Here, use the money to buy what you need!
Oh...
Sure!
We're setting off now!
To make a yummy lunch...
how do I buy ingredients?
Supermarket.
Yup, supermarket!
And where's that?
Near the station.
Near the big train station!
Princess!
Rababou?
Gramps told me to accompany you.
Okay
Let's go!
Yup!
Ahhh!
So many pretty vegetables!
Comet-san!
We don't want veggies!
We don't want meat or fish either!
You don't?
Come on, come on!
Are you sure Comet came in here?
Yes!
Intel says Princess Comet is learning to cook!
Cook?
She's here to buy ingredients.
Why does that stupid Comet do such stupid things?
Huh?
If you want a meal cooked, you just ask a chef, don't you?
No point coming here!
Is this to woo the Prince?
Concievably.
What a dirty trick...
That clever Comet, doing such clever things...
Princess, surely you have a countermeasure?
I won't lose! I never lose! So I won't lose!
This, this!
This stuff is yummy!
But those are snacks?
Yup, a lunch made of snacks must be yummy.
It'll be so yummy!
Ehhh?
Our classmates will be so jealous!
So jealous!
Chocolate rice balls? What kind of dreamy lunch is this?
Lucky Tsuyoshi-kun!
Nene-chan I wish was you!
I want to eat those rice balls!
I'm drooling...
Alright?
Okay?
I like eating sweet stuff too.
You think so too, Rababou?
Rabapyon's sweet cakes really make my heart pound...
We're full up on love-power again.
Comet-san.
Okay, I'll give it a go.
Hurrah!
We won't have green peppers!
Green peppers!?
You heard wrong.
I'm taking these!
What am I going to make?
Tsuyoshi wants chocolate rice balls!
Nene wants strawberry mousse steak!
I want Rabapyon to eat with me!
Eh?
Pr... Pr... Princess...?
I'll starting now.
After I'm done, you can taste-test!
Y...Yes ma'am...
So, to begin...
Hey, what's the correct way to begin?
She's in trouble!
Hold on, I'll use my love-power to help!
You'll help?
We can make something sweet enough to melt any heart!
Yes please!
Let's go!
Heed me, trillions of little stars.
Transform your radiant shine
and your many powers
into Rababou's love-power
and into my star-power...
Étoile!
It's actually working!
Love-power sure is amazing!
It's jelly.
Ah! Nene wants some too!
It's so sweet...
Jelly, don't run!
Wait! Wait!
Slow down!
I don't want it any more.
Finished!
There, chocolate rice balls,
marmalade sushi,
strawberry mousse steak,
and sweet soda jelly.
Taste it! Taste it!
It's sweet and delicious!
Well... but...
We put a lot of love into it!
You put love into it?
It's yummy, right?
For sure!
He fell over.
Higenoshita?
Don't be so dramatic, Gramps!
Higenoshita?
Princess, why are you doing this?
If I'm on top of you, I've no fear of sinking.
You see, real chefs are very particular about ingredients...
Huh...
So, to make the best dish, you need the freshest materials.
Come on fishies, bite already!
Got one!
Argh!
Grasshopper-folk, you there?
We're here ATTA!
ATTA! ATTA!
Higenoshita has fallen ill!
He's really ill -atta?
Hurry, he needs help!
Will he be okay?
He's gasping for breath.
What's going on?
Oh... Papa...
Hmm?
What's with the dog?
Did you feed him something weird?
Uh... yeah, he ate from our sweet lunchbox.
Oh no! How can you feed that stuff to a dog?
Okay, I'll take him to the vet!
Hold on, let me take him!
Comet-san, you will?
It was my fault this happened.
Can you manage?
Yes sir!
I'm off!
A sweet lunchbox?
Eurgh! It's sweet!
Medic!
Yes sir!
Attend to the commander immediately -atta!
ATTA!
How is he?
Ma'am!
The commander has not adapted to the local environment...
It appears he has insufficient star-power -atta!
He lacks star-power?
Earth lacks star-power.
It is a difficult environment for elderly star-folk -atta!
But... he seemed so strong willed.
You need to replenish his energy quickly -atta!
ATTA! ATTA!
But the little stars aren't out yet...
Princess, can't we use my love-power?
Absolutely not -atta!
Why not?
Sweetness and love...
that power is incompatible with his body -atta!
Even eating too much sugar will do him great harm -atta!
Great harm...
We've killed him...
What do we do?
It'll be okay! He only ate a little...
I'll be okay...
Lord commander!
You can talk?
He's okay?
He got better?
Ah... Do you want some water?
Water?
We'll go get some!
Princess...
Save your strength, Higenoshita!
I've got something important to remind you, Your Highness...
What sort of thing?
It's about star-power...
You must never forget how wonderful star-power is.
Every star in the sky emits a different sort of light...
It's the many colours of that illumination that allow us to survive.
Of course, I know.
You do, do you?
I was sure Your Highness had forgotten.
Why is that?
Because Rababou's love-power is an amazingly powerful magic...
Even I am forced to admit that...
His shine is sweet, and it fills you with dreams...
Yup...
But the light of the little stars is not just that one type of shine...
There's the type that calms your heart...
There's the type that nurtures your growth...
There's the type that makes you healthy and strong...
They guide and assist you, Princess,
They are your true power, Princess,
They all look out for you, Princess...
Yes.
Don't forget the great kindness, of even the littlest of stars.
Alas, my words aren't sweet at all, are they?
Huh?
They must be difficult for you to accept.
It would be so much easier to listen... if I wasn't such a bitter old man.
Higenoshita...
The twinkle in my eye is a bitter one, you know.
I will never forget your words!
I'm so very happy to hear that...
I can feel Your Highness's light shine upon me...
It's warm... it warms me deep inside...
The water is here~!
Those two little children...
They give out their own miraculous light...
It's cold, though.
Princess! Where are you!
Y-You're not inside that... are you?
When I caught her I knew she was cute!
She's a cutie, right?!
Congratulations, Princess!
Mook, this fish is a way more comfortable ride than you.
Then may I rest for a bit?
Sure...
I'm gonna catch a big one!
Look, the first star is out.
Princess, shall we go up to the heavens?
Pretty...
Oh little stars...
Please give Higenoshita your power
Please all focus your power, into one radiance.
Oh... I feel refreshed.
So it's working?
My stamina is recovered, and I'm full of strength!
Princess, do you feel it too?
It feels very nice.
There are many sorts of light: Refreshing, sour...
And even bitter...
Can light really have flavors?
Haha, but of course!
Higenoshita's twinkle shines bitterly, right?
Princess.
What?
Do you mind calling the star train to pick me up?
Eh?
Leaving for star-world?
I'm satisfied that the princess realises...
how great star-power truly is.
Yup!
Get up here!
I've got it! I've got it!
Hello again, Princess.
Eeagh!
Stop struggling so much, okay?!
Well, you wanted something fresh...
...!!
Is there a problem, Your Highness?
Now that I've caught one...
there's just no way I can cook a fish this big!!
Say hello to Mother and Father for me.
I will, of course.
I will convey to them that the Princess is protected by many stars.
Don't neglect your search for the Tambourine star-world Prince.
Ah... those are bitter words.
Rababou, remember, don't let love make you lose your way.
Isn't your mission to help the Princess find her Prince?
This is more bitter than green tea.
Talk less and rest, okay?
Comet...!
I admit it, you've beaten me in our cooking contest today.
Cooking contest?
There was a cooking contest?
I understand now, I know that cooking earth dishes is not my role.
Ah... I feel I've also failed at that...
Huh?
What what what?!?
Then what should I do with this fish?
Well, can't help you there.
Going back to star-world?
Y-yes...
Then take this as a souvenir.
Don't be shy, take it home and eat it!
Lord Higenoshita...
Why, isn't it Mook? Long time no see!
You've been well, I trust?
I beg you, just take the Princess's fish...
It'll save a lot of trouble.
I'm in your debt.
I'm ever so selfless, aren't I...!
You really are, Princess!
What was that about?
I don't know either.
It'll have to stay a mystery -atta!
ATTA ATTA!
Look after yourself, Higenoshita!
You too, Princess!
I'll leave this with you to keep you company!
There's bitter twinkles...
Not just bitter, but sour and spicy...?
Yeah... Thanks to Higenoshita, I now know...
Yes, food also has its own sort of shine.
Food can twinkle?
After all, food gives us life
It's only by absorbing food's shine...
that we stay strong and healthy.
But you can't go for only one light...
you'd lose your balance!
I see!
Alright! That's done!
What's this?
I can't find that little dog anywhere.
I-I think he's gone back to his owner!
What? He already had an owner?
But I thought we were meant for each other...
Keitarou-Papa, you sure have strange tastes.
Itadakimasu!
Eurgh...
There's green peppers everywhere.
So many green peppers.
Ah! Tsuyoshi's lunchbox is full of green peppers again!
Peppers yesterday,
Peppers today,
Peppers every day!
Be quiet!
It's because we grow a lot of green peppers
Fortissimo...
What a nighmarish lunch!
It's not nightmarish! It's just a bitter twinkle!
We're going to eat it!
Down the hatch!
Amazing, Tsuyoshi-kun! Amazing, Nene-chan!
Well done, the both of you!
They really ate it...
They really ate the bitter twinkle!
Food really is a lot like the stars...
I think so too!
Carry on looking after me,
Little stars... and Higenoshita...
Still, I can't handle things that are too bitter
Hah, well said
Princess, you think so too?
So, Princess, where to next?
Let's look for some other flavours!
Alright!