Another cool thing that happened in Jewelpet Happiness, on a somewhat similar vein to the episode about Io:
For background, Roger is a boy who is very popular but frustrated because he’s always seen as “cute” when he wants to be seen as cool. In his first focus episode, we learn that Roger isn’t his birth name; he asks that people call him Roger or stick to his last name because his birth name, which is more commonly used for girls (though not exclusively), represents to him how he does not want to be viewed. The episode is about him coming to realize that being cool should never mean mistreating others, and he meets a Jewlpet named Fluora who sees him as cool for his kindness. It was a good episode, but I didn’t think it would go any further than that; it did, a bit, later on.
Yuuk, an ice sculptor, came to the area looking for a “beautiful female Jewelpet” who had helped him once, which had inspired him to become an artist. No one has seen one who looks like Yuuk’s sculpture, so all the Jewelpets and many of the humans on campus start a search. It turns out there was no female Jewelpet; it was actually Roger when he was a little kid; it was winter, so with his warm clothes and hat with ear flaps, he did look like a Jewelpet at the time.
Roger and Yuuk had already met in the present, but Yuuk didn’t recognize him, and Roger wasn’t going to say anything, but it was clear Yuuk had his heart set on finding this beautiful female Jewelpet, so he told him. When he did, he was devastated, taking it as having been “deceived,” and started lashing out at everyone under the influence of evil magic. What eventually calmed him down was when he saw that Roger was still the person who had shown him kindness that day, that it was not a lie, that it was still a meaningful memory because the kindness was real, and still there if he’d only accept it.
That was another good episode.
