Food Brings Smiles. Transform! Cure Precious!

'''Food Brings Smiles. Transform! Cure Precious!''' is the first episode of Delicious Party Pretty Cure.

For a list of characters, locations, items, and attacks featured in the episode, see the "Appearances" section of the infobox.

Plot
The narrator welcomes the audience, then introduces Oishīna Town, known for its many restaurants, with streets like Japanese Food Street, Western Food Street, and Chinese Food Street. She then remarks that she'll tell you who she is later.

She introduces Nagomi Yui, who is currently playing soccer. She scores a goal and celebrates with her team. The narrator states that Yui will be an 8th grader this spring, and that she's helping the soccer club today. While eating rice balls afterwards, one of the soccer club members says Yui should just join the club, but after watching Yui continually eat one rice ball after another, a second member responds that she's only here for the rice balls.

Yui recalls her childhood, remembering a small fairy shaped like a rice ball floating near her while she enjoyed one. She asks the soccer club members if they've ever seen a rice ball fairy before, to which she's met with confusion, and says to forget what she said, going back to eating. One of the members says she makes the rice balls look so tasty, and that watching her makes her smile. Yui responds that her grandmother always said "food brings smiles."

Meanwhile, in CooKingdom castle, the Recipe-Bon search party captain, Rosemary, kneels before King CooKing and the queen, saying he will search for the Recipe-Bon now. CooKing states that the stolen Recipe-Bon is the kingdom's national treasure, and that, if they aren't stopped, the thieves will surely gather Recipeppis now that they have it. At the king's command, a man hands Rosemary a bag containing three sleeping Energy Fairies: Kome-Kome, Pam-Pam, and Mem-Mem. CooKing says they will help Rosemary, and tells him to recover the Recipe-Bon without fail.

Taking a different route home from school, Yui goes down a street with a lot of Latin American restaurants and notices that many of them are closed, wondering why that is.

Rosemary arrives in Oishīna Town and collapses onto a nearby bench from hunger, causing his bag to fall open. Kome-Kome wakes up and flies away to find food for him, landing on a crate of peaches in front of a grocery store. A woman pushing a baby stroller accidentally grabs Kome-Kome instead of a peach, startling both herself and the fairy. Kome-Kome goes flying, landing on the baby in the woman's stroller. The woman accidentally lets go of the stroller, causing it to roll down the hill. Yui gets there and chases after the stroller, while Kome-Kome desperately attempts to pull it back uphill. A girl riding her bicycle nearby notices the stroller careening towards her. Kome-Kome begins to cry as the stroller slips from her grasp, but Yui grabs the handle just in time, just barely stopping the stroller from crashing into the girl. Yui asks if the baby is okay, relieved, and Kome-Kome, hiding behind the stroller, stares at Yui in awe before being startled as the girl and her bicycle fall over. Yui asks her if everything's alright, and the girl assures her that the delivery box her bicycle was carrying is sturdy. Yui responds that she was talking about the girl, not the box, and helps her back up. The woman who had been pushing the stroller, along with the grocery store employee, rushes towards Yui and thanks her for saving the baby.

In a car at a stoplight nearby, another girl asks the driver if something happened, to which he says it looks like it. The girl looks out the window at Yui and the girl on the bicycle, before telling the driver the light's changed to green, prompting him to start driving again.

Yui walks through a park and notices Kome-Kome, collapsed. She recognizes the fairy, much to Kome-Kome's panic. Yui begins asking the fairy questions about what she is, prompting Kome-Kome to blush. Her stomach growls, and Yui hands her a rice ball from her bag. Kome-Kome eats it, and the two bond over their shared love of rice balls. Kome-Kome suddenly remembers that Rosemary had collapsed, and brings Yui to him. Yui picks up Rosemary, and brings him to her family's restaurant, Nagomi Diner.

At the restaurant, Yui and her mother Akiho present Rosemary with a meal. Rosemary is impressed by it, but he has no money to pay for it. Akiho tells him to just eat it, but he refuses, so she has him help do the dishes as exchange for the meal instead. While handing him some more dishes to wash, Yui pauses, not sure what to call him. He introduces himself as Rosemary, but tells her she can call him "Mari". Yui then introduces herself as well. As Rosemary looks around the restaurant at the happy customers eating their meals, surrounded by floating hearts, he remarks that it's a wonderful shop filled with warm hearts. A rice ball fairy flies towards him before disappearing, which Yui notices.

While drying dishes, Yui asks Rosemary if he can see rice ball fairies too. Rosemary asks if she means Recipeppis, surprised she can see them, and Yui responds that she can see them, but only vaguely. Rosemary smiles and explains that Recipeppis are food fairies that young children can see, but they stop being able to when they grow up, and usually forget about them. He says that Yui can see them because she's deeply committed to treasuring food. Yui smiles and remembers the time she saw one as a child again, then asks Rosemary how he knows so much about them. Rosemary overdramatically tells her it's a secret, causing her to frown. He says he'll tell her his beauty secret instead, an offer she rejects. Later, Rosemary and Kome-Kome leave the restaurant, waving to Yui.

At the Phantom Bundoru Gang's hideout, a member of the Bundoru Gang named Gentlu opens up a tin, causing Recipeppis to float up out of it. Up above, the stolen Recipe-Bon is surrounded by chains. The book opens and the Recipeppis are sucked inside, and then it closes again. Gentlu closes the tin. Another member, Secretoru, explains that she's stored the Recipeppis inside the Recipe-Bon, and that their leader Godatz will be pleased. She says that Gentlu only did the bare minimum, and instructs her to work harder and more quickly, since CooKingdom sent pursuers. The two perform the Phantom Bundoru Gang's signature chant "Bundoru, Bundoru", while another member stays in the shadows behind Secretoru.

Back at Nagomi Diner, Yui's childhood friend Shinada Takumi arrives. His mother, An, welcomes him to the restaurant, before turning around and realizing who he is. Takumi says he's going to go eat omelet rice for lunch, to which Yui says she's envious. Takumi teasingly calls her a glutton, and Yui objects. Akiho says Yui can go with Takumi to get lunch, prompting Takumi to blush and react in shock, but Yui to become excited, jumping in place. Takumi gives up and the two head out together to another restaurant. As they're enjoying their meal, hearts floating everywhere, an omelet rice Recipeppi begins floating around near Yui, who reacts with delight.

Gentlu steals the Recipeppi, then leaves the restaurant. Yui, shocked, runs after Gentlu, to Takumi's confusion. Takumi takes a bite of his food, then looks down at it, noticing that it tastes different. Around the restaurant, other customers have the same reaction to their food. Outside, Yui runs into Rosemary confronting Gentlu for stealing the Recipe-Bon. Yui tells Rosemary that Gentlu stole the Recipeppi, and he calls Gentlu a sneaky thief. She objects to this, introducing herself as a member of the Phantom Bundoru Gang. She then summons a monster called an Ubauzō from her tin, which combines with a frying pan. Yui and Rosemary look on in shock, and civilians begin to flee from the area. Takumi, having left the restaurant, notices and seems to recognize Rosemary. Rosemary makes an area called a Delicious Field, and transports the Ubauzō, Gentlu, and himself there. Before the magic surrounding them disappears, Yui follows them into the area.

In the Delicious Field, Rosemary tells Gentlu that she can't bring the Recipeppi out of the area, and demands she return it. Gentlu looks at her tin and says it's against her policy to steal with violence, but that Rosemary leaves her no choice.

Yui enters into the Delicious Field, shocking Rosemary. She says she wants to save the Recipeppi, and begins running towards the Ubauzō. Kome-Kome peers out at her from Rosemary's bag. The Ubauzō moves to attack Yui, but she dodges, much to Rosemary's surprise. It tries to punch her, and ends up pushing her down, but Rosemary attacks it with magic, knocking it forward. Rosemary tells Yui to escape, but she thanks him and runs towards the Ubauzō again, saying she remembers the Recipeppi crying. Rosemary attacks the Ubauzō again, holding it in place with chain-like magic, and tells Yui to get the Recipeppi. Kome-Kome flies out of the bag towards Yui, while the Ubauzō breaks free of the chains, knocking Rosemary down. Yui turns to look at him and is grabbed by the Ubauzō. Kome-Kome tries to get near it, but is blown away by its breath.

Gentlu tells Rosemary that if he wants to save Yui, he needs to remove the field. Yui struggles against the Ubauzō, who lifts her in the air. Rosemary tells Gentlu to stop, and that he'll do what she wants, but Yui shouts that he has to save the Recipeppi. Rosemary, distressed, tells Yui that he can't get her involved. Kome-Kome moves closer to Yui, who tells her about her precious childhood memory of seeing a Recipeppi when her grandmother gave her a rice ball and told her that food brings smiles. Yui says that the Recipeppis are part of her memories of her grandmother, and that she wants the Recipeppi to keep smiling because of what her grandmother said.

The gem on Kome-Kome's collar begins to shine, beaming a watch-like object onto Yui's wrist. As Yui looks at it, Rosemary wonders if it could be the legendary Pretty Cure's. Rosemary's necklace glows, and he sends a magic punch towards the Ubauzō, knocking it over. His necklace breaks, but Yui is knocked free from the Ubauzō's grasp.

A bubble of pink light surrounds Yui and Kome-Kome, and Rosemary tells Yui to transform into a Pretty Cure with Kome-Kome's help. Yui is confused, but Rosemary just smiles and nods at her. Yui says she'll give it a try. Kome-Kome turns into her rice ball form, and the duo begin transforming. At the end of the transformation, Yui poses, announcing herself as Cure Precious.

Rosemary is just as shocked as Precious by the transformation, to which she remarks that he was the one who told her to transform. Rosemary merely gives a thumbs up and a dismissive "Yay", which Precious is not amused by. Gentlu seems surprised at the mention of Pretty Cure, and the Ubauzō goes back to attacking, flopping down onto Precious and Rosemary. Precious holds up the Ubauzō, preventing it from falling on her and Rosemary, then throws the Ubauzō back. She looks down at her hands, surprised by what she did, but Rosemary tells her it's Pretty Cure's power, followed by another "Yay" when she doesn't seem to understand.

The Ubauzō's eyes glow red, and it starts throwing punches, which Precious dodges one after another. She jumps high in the air, surprised by her abilities once again. Rosemary warns her about the Ubauzō, but she doesn't notice in time and gets thrown by it, landing against a pillar. She springs off the pillar and sends an attack called 500 Kilocalorie Punch towards the Ubauzō, knocking it back. Her watch glows and she looks at it, then, at Rosemary and Kome-Kome's suggestion, uses it to perform Precious Triangle, a magic attack that purifies the Ubauzō and saves the Recipeppi.

The Recipeppi flies towards Precious and goes into the watch. Gentlu leaves, and Precious remarks that she's famished. Rosemary thanks Precious and Kome-Kome, and says that the omelet rice's taste should now be restored. Precious asks Rosemary what a Pretty Cure is, and he tells her it's a secret, overdramatically posing once again.