Episodes
Episode 2 - May
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With this episode being in May the plot focuses on 'Golden Week', a collection of national holidays in Japan a the start of the month. The episode starts with Tama-chan entering energetically shouting 'Golden Week and a Golden Wink' in English. The fairies decide to investigate about this and have a look in an English-Japanese dictionary (Which since they are tiny fairies is huge and falls on top of them).
The fairies now play imagining how gold could relate to what you do in Golden Week. There ideas are typical children’s ideas like a pirate ship storing gold and everyone turning into gold and make for a few amusing scenes.
Then the knowledgeable Tama-chan begins to explain golden week saying that it starts with Greenery Day on April 29th and next is Constitution Day (Kenpo kinenbi) on May 3rd. Sarara imagines this is like martial arts 'Kenpo' which she think is really cool (Tama-chan agrees Yay!). Next Tama-chan mentions is Children’s Day on May 5th. They fairies are enthusiastic about this until Tama-chan explains it is part of a boy's festival.
To this Kururu decides that she will become a boy followed by them playing at imagining what Kururu as a boy would look like. They imagine boy Kururu to be things like a cool gangster, French nobleman or samurai warrior. More cute misunderstandings follow as the confuse 'Tango no Sekku' (the name of the boys festival) with various other meanings.
Tama-chan explain the fun things they can do during this time like raising carp banner and games which the faries imagine in lots of cute ways. After this Tama-chan suggests that to truly play they must enter the hot water. The fairies the relax in a little hot spring and recover from all there playing.
The fairies decide that Golden Week is indeed and good fun thing, but Tama-chan explains the dreadful thing that awaits them at the end of it, Back to Work Blues. To try and become real adults the fairies play at having Back to Work Blues but when Sensei-san arrives with doughnuts and tea they quickly perk up. The episode end with them enjoying there treats and shouting 'Delicious'.
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