Smile Pretty Cure/Tear Jerker


 * Episode 18. For the entire episode, the girls train for the baton relay at their school's sports festival... for once, the Precure stuff is almost perfunctory. In order of fastest to slowest, the girls are: Nao, Akane, Miyuki and Reika tied, and poor Yayoi coming in dead last... a very familiar scenario to artists in the audience. Over the course of a week, all the girls try their hardest to practice and train, even Yayoi, who's not at all confident in herself, saying that she always comes in last in these sorts of things. The afternoon before the festival, she leaves the others to go get something she left in the classroom...
 * And then there's the ending: In the race, Yayoi does her best, and passes the baton to Nao. Nao takes off, pulling into second place, neck-and-neck with the lead.
 * Episode 19 looks to be this too.