The First Step Towards Mashiro's Dream! is the 20th episode of Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure and the 938th episode overall of Pretty Cure.
Mashiro enters a picture book contest and gets inspired by the other Cures.
Tropes:
- An Aesop: Invoked; Mashiro attempts (but fails) to teach Elle-chan to share.
- The Cameo: Cure Melody appears in the end credits for this episode.
- Hidden Depths: Yoyo is revealed to be into horseback riding, which is a departure from the usual art and flight motifs of the season.
- Mythology Gag: Ageha's coworker is named Natsumi, and the Pretty Holic store returns with a mermaid mural.
- Shout-Out:
- The mermaid in the painting resembles a pink-haired Ariel.
- And in case you needed more Disney Princesses in Pretty Cure, the girl Mashiro imagines popping out of a pumpkin bears a resemblance to Snow White with her colours altered (although all things considered, Cinderella fits the pumpkin theme more...).
