# E55 - The Nightmare's Wish
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GJWUQN834/the-nightmares-wish)
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**[00:01] Sign**
Minky
**[00:01] Sign**
Princess
**[00:01] Sign**
Fairy
**[00:02] Sign**
Momo
**[00:03] Sign**
Embracing Dreams
**[00:04] Sign**
Minky
**[00:04] Sign**
Momo
**[00:04] Sign**
Fairy
**[00:04] Sign**
Princess
**[00:04] Sign**
Embracing Dreams
**[01:36] Narrator**
Long, long ago...
**[01:38] Narrator**
In a "long, long ago" recent enough that
it could very well seem like tomorrow...
**[01:43] Narrator**
A girl came from a dreamland
far beneath the ocean.
**[01:48] Narrator**
Her goal was supposed to be
to restore the lost dreams
**[01:53] Narrator**
to the people of the surface...
**[01:56] Narrator**
But would it work out?
**[01:59] Narrator**
Oh, right! And her name was Minky Momo!
***SIGN*** The Nightmare's Wish
**[02:06] Momo**
"The Nightmare's Wish."
**[02:21] Momo**
Who's there? Who's crying?
**[02:27] Momo**
Who's there? Why are you crying?
**[02:34] Nightmare**
*This is the sea of sadness.*
**[02:37] Nightmare**
* It's made from the tears cried by*
* people who have lost their dreams.*
**[02:43] Momo**
The sea of sadness?
**[02:45] Nightmare**
* Yes. And the rain that falls from*
* the sky is our tears of sadness.*
**[02:53] Momo**
Your tears?
**[02:55] Momo**
Why are you crying?
**[02:56] Momo**
What are you so sad about?
**[03:13] Nightmare**
Some day, humans will lose their dreams,
**[03:16] Nightmare**
and the fragments of those
dreams will become bubbles,
**[03:18] Nightmare**
which disappear into the sea.
**[03:21] Nightmare**
In time, the tears of sadness will
come together to form this sea.
**[03:25] Nightmare**
They'll become great waves of sadness
to consume that Earth over there...
**[03:37] Momo**
Who are you?
**[03:39] Momo**
Why are you disappearing?
**[03:41] Nightmare**
Please, open the door!
**[03:43] Nightmare**
Before all humans lose their dreams!
**[03:46] Nightmare**
Let me out of here, please!
**[03:52] Momo**
Wait! Who are you?!
**[04:10] Momo**
Oh... it was a dream?
**[04:13] Chamo**
Momo. I'm glad it was a dream.
**[04:16] Momo**
Oh, sorry!
***SIGN*** I'm just glad you're okay.
***SIGN*** I was so worried!
**[04:22] Lupi**
It was such a scary dream!
**[04:25] Momo**
Did you have the same one?
**[04:26] Trio**
Yeah, yeah!
**[04:31] Momo**
The fog from my dream...
**[04:34] Papa**
What?! A mysterious door?!
**[04:38] Papa**
The Stickaround Art Museum is a respected
building established 300 years ago!
**[04:42] Papa**
I thought they'd find something in
it someday, but a mysterious door?!
**[04:45] Papa**
I'm on my way! Just leave it to me!
**[04:49] Papa**
Grin!
**[04:50] Papa**
Dear! Momo! I'm heading out to work!
**[04:53] Mama**
You look so excited, dear!
**[04:55] Mama**
But are you taking the bucket...
**[04:57] Momo**
...and the mop, too?
**[05:00] Papa**
Oh, dear!
**[05:02] Papa**
Oh, dear...
**[05:04] Papa**
Oh, right! I can't stay here!
**[05:06] Papa**
I've got to get to the
Stickaround Art Museum!
**[05:08] Papa**
Take this, please!
**[05:09] Papa**
I'm heading out, dear!
**[05:13] Mama**
Oh, he's so silly.
**[05:15] Mama**
But I do love that about him!
**[05:19] Chamo**
Love what about him?
**[05:21] Momo**
But didn't he say something
about a mysterious door?
**[05:24] Lupi**
Yeah, and an art museum...
***SIGN*** A mysterious door at an art museum...
***SIGN*** It might be worth investigating.
**[05:32] Momo**
Art is always worth investigating!
**[05:34] Momo**
And where something's worth
investigating, there's a mystery!
**[05:36] Momo**
Anyway, let's go!
**[05:38] Man**
As you can see, the building's
getting quite old.
**[05:41] Man**
We've been doing some repairs...
**[05:44] Man**
In the process, we uncovered
a curious door in the wall.
**[05:47] Man**
There it is.
**[05:51] Papa**
Oh, this?
**[05:53] Papa**
Oh? But what is this language?
**[05:57] Papa**
Without a guidebook...
**[06:00] Man**
Could it be something dangerous?
**[06:02] Papa**
I'm going to the library
to decipher the text.
**[06:05] Papa**
Just don't let anyone get close until then!
**[06:07] Papa**
And call the repairs off, of course!
**[06:09] Man**
Of course!
**[06:11] Lupi**
Strange. Nobody's here.
**[06:14] Momo**
I don't see Papa, either.
**[06:15] Chamo**
It's so quiet and creepy!
***SIGN*** F-Feels kinda haunted...
**[06:24] Momo**
It's haunted!
**[06:29] Momo**
Who? Who's there?!
**[06:37] Momo**
You're...
**[06:38] Nightmare**
You came, didn't you?
**[06:40] Chamo**
Hey! The bronze statue's talking!
***SIGN*** What? "Nightmare Statue" it says.
**[06:48] Lupi**
Then the one who appeared in Momo's dream...
**[06:50] Lupi**
It was a nightmare?!
**[06:51] Momo**
Are you a nightmare?
**[06:53] Momo**
Yes, I am the nightmare, Shadow.
**[06:56] Shadow**
I'm in the basement.
**[06:58] Shadow**
Open the door, quickly!
**[06:59] Chamo**
Wh-What do we do, Momo?
**[07:00] Momo**
H-How should I know?
**[07:03] Shadow**
Please, let me out!
**[07:06] Momo**
I can't let you out if you're a nightmare!
**[07:10] Momo**
Yeah, yeah!
**[07:11] Shadow**
Hey! I'm the Princess of Nightmareland
that anybody who knows anybody knows!
**[07:16] Momo**
W-Well, I'm a nobody who knows nobody...
**[07:20] Momo**
Right?
**[07:22] Momo**
Anyway, let's go home!
**[07:25] Shadow**
Wait!
**[07:25] Trio**
Yeah!
**[07:26] Shadow**
If humans keep losing their dreams, the
world will fall into the ocean of sadness!
**[07:31] Shadow**
Isn't it better for humans to have any
dreams, even if they're nightmares?
**[07:36] Momo**
Better to have dreams...
even if they're nightmares?
**[07:46] Lupi**
She might have a point!
**[07:48] Chamo**
Or she might not!
***SIGN*** But if might makes right...
**[07:52] Momo**
It might be better than no dreams at all...
**[07:54] Trio**
Right?
**[07:57] Momo**
This door, right?
**[08:01] Shadow**
*Yes. Open it quickly!*
**[08:03] Momo**
But it looks like a pretty sturdy door!
**[08:07] Chamo**
How do we open it?
**[08:09] Lupi**
Sometimes you should let sleeping doors lie!
**[08:12] Shadow**
*Use the knocker on the door.*
**[08:14] Momo**
A knocker? I don't see one...
**[08:19] Trio**
Momo...
**[08:20] Shadow**
*Now, use the knocker!*
**[08:35] Momo**
Nothing happened.
**[08:56] Shadow**
Thank you, Momo.
**[08:57] Shadow**
I've been waiting for you for so long.
**[09:00] King**
Darling, is that...
**[09:01] Queen**
Yes, the daughter of my distant
relative, the Queen of Nightmareland.
**[09:05] King**
Dee-da...
**[09:07] King**
There were nightmarelands
long ago when Marinarsa
**[09:11] King**
and our cousin Fenarinarsa were
still on the surface, weren't there?
**[09:16] Queen**
Yes. We've lost contact with them,
and I'd wondered what happened...
**[09:20] Momo**
Um... what do you mean, you were waiting?
**[09:23] Shadow**
I guess because you're a dreamland princess,
and I'm a nightmareland princess.
**[09:29] Momo**
Nightmareland?
**[09:30] Shadow**
Yes. Long ago, when the world
was still brimming with dreams,
**[09:35] Shadow**
we nightmares existed in
equal amounts with dreams.
**[09:44] Shadow**
But humans found us terribly frightening.
**[09:49] Shadow**
They locked us up in many
places, and sealed us away.
**[09:55] Momo**
That's awful!
**[09:56] Shadow**
And in time, our nightmarelands
vanished from the face of the earth.
**[10:02] Shadow**
Everyone disappeared.
**[10:04] Momo**
So you've been alone here all this time?
**[10:07] Lupi**
Poor thing!
**[10:09] Shadow**
Well, I wasn't lonely at all.
**[10:12] Shadow**
When I closed my eyes, I could
still hear my parents' voices.
**[10:18] Shadow**
And then, that day...
**[10:20] (Flashback) Queen**
Shadow. The humans are losing their dreams.
**[10:25] (Flashback) Queen**
We will soon die out as well!
**[10:29] Shadow**
They sounded very sad.
**[10:32] Shadow**
So I decided I had to give dreams
to the people who had lost them!
**[10:37] Momo**
B-But... you're a nightmare, so...
**[10:39] Shadow**
Even a nightmare is still a dream!
**[10:41] Shadow**
They're no different than dreams at all!
**[10:43] Momo**
I think they're pretty different, myself...
**[10:45] Shadow**
If this world loses its
dreams, we'll disappear.
**[10:48] Shadow**
I can't let that happen, no matter what!
**[10:51] Momo**
But you can't do it on your own.
**[10:54] Shadow**
I'm not on my own.
**[10:55] Shadow**
The others are on their way right now!
**[10:57] Momo**
Huh? The others?
**[10:59] Shadow**
The nightmares of nightmarelands
hiding all over the world!
**[11:05] Shadow**
That knocker before.
**[11:07] Shadow**
That was the call for the nightmareland
people to come together!
**[11:09] Momo**
N-No way...
**[11:11] Shadow**
You broke the seal.
**[11:14] Shadow**
Thank you, Momo!
**[11:15] Shadow**
Goodbye!
**[11:17] Momo**
Hey! Wait, Shadow!
***SIGN*** This is terrible!
**[11:21] Lupi**
Let's just...
**[11:22] Chamo**
Go after her!
**[11:23] Momo**
Yeah!
**[11:41] Momo**
Shadow!
**[11:45] Shadow**
Thank you for coming, everyone!
**[11:47] Shadow**
The humans who feared us and sealed
us away to suit themselves,
**[11:51] Shadow**
have now lost their dreams and
are trying to erase us entirely!
**[11:55] Shadow**
Therefore, before the people
fully lose their dreams,
**[11:59] Shadow**
we have to give them as
many nightmares as we can!
**[12:03] Momo**
How awful. If they give people
all those nightmares...
***SIGN*** Something awful will happen!
**[12:08] Shadow**
It's time to take flight! Go!
**[12:17] sign**
Fairy Princess
**[12:17] sign**
Minky Momo
**[12:17] sign**
Embracing Dreams
**[12:43] Chamo**
What now, Momo?
**[12:44] Momo**
We have to convince her to stop!
**[12:49] Shadow**
I'm too late! The world is
already reduced to ruin!
**[12:54] Momo**
Shadow, please! Stop the nightmares!
**[12:57] Shadow**
It's awful! Too awful!
**[12:58] Shadow**
The town's become a graveyard!
**[13:01] Momo**
The town's become a graveyard?
***SIGN*** I think she thinks the high-rises are graves.
**[13:05] Lupi**
She only knows what towns used to look like!
**[13:08] Chamo**
That's culture shock for you.
**[13:11] Momo**
I see. It must be a big shock, for sure!
**[13:14] Shadow**
The humans are all dead.
**[13:17] Shadow**
If there's no humans to dream,
what's going to happen to me?!
**[13:21] Momo**
Shadow, humans aren't dead at all!
**[13:24] Momo**
They're all here, still alive!
**[13:27] Shadow**
They're alive?
**[13:29] Shadow**
But how can they live in graves?
Humans have the strangest taste...
**[13:34] Momo**
They're not graves!
**[13:39] Shadow**
A dinosaur! Or a monster!
**[13:43] Shadow**
Please, don't eat me!
**[13:44] Momo**
Shadow, that's not a monster
or a dinosaur! It's a plane!
**[13:49] Momo**
It's a vehicle with lots of people on board!
**[13:51] Shadow**
A vehicle?
**[13:52] Momo**
Yes. It flies them all around the place!
**[13:56] Shadow**
Humans are inside that big tube of steel?
**[14:00] Shadow**
Yeah!
**[14:03] Shadow**
They're not scared at all?
**[14:06] Shadow**
But what would happen if it fell?
**[14:09] Momo**
That would be way worse than a nightmare...
**[14:14] Woman**
It's a nightmare!
**[14:16] Shadow**
Someone's calling for a nightmare!
**[14:18] Momo**
Shadow, wait!
**[14:25] Woman**
It's a nightmare!
**[14:26] Woman**
Will that do?
**[14:27] Director**
It's perfect! Fantastic!
**[14:30] Director**
We couldn't make this horror
spectacle without you!
**[14:33] Woman**
I'll try one more time, then.
**[14:35] Woman**
A nightmare!
**[14:37] Shadow**
Hi! Shadow, the nightmare, reporting in!
**[14:41] Shadow**
Oh? You didn't call me?
**[14:44] Director**
Okay, time to roll!
**[14:55] Momo**
Dear, oh dear.
**[14:56] Trio**
Dear, oh dear...
**[14:58] Shadow**
Monsters... scary monsters...
**[15:02] Shadow**
Monsters!
**[15:05] Shadow**
Huh?
**[15:06] Momo**
Those weren't monsters.
**[15:09] Momo**
They're...
**[15:10] Chamo**
Special effects for horror movies!
**[15:12] Shadow**
Horror movies?
***SIGN*** Movies where humans portray the imaginary things that scare them!
**[15:19] Shadow**
They imagine such awful things?
**[15:21] Shadow**
Humans are made of sterner stuff!
**[15:24] Shadow**
I can't keep up!
**[15:26] Momo**
I can't keep up with *you*!
**[15:29] Shadow**
No, this is no time to cry.
**[15:31] Shadow**
I need a nightmare scary enough to scare
humans who can imagine such scary things!
**[15:36] Shadow**
Okay, now I'm on fire!
**[15:39] Shadow**
Time to put my thoughts into practice!
**[15:41] Momo**
Wait!
**[15:43] Momo**
And there she goes.
**[15:45] Momo**
She bounces back quickly, at least.
**[15:52] Shadow**
First, someone to give a nightmare to...
**[15:58] Biker**
Hey, hey, hey!
**[16:01] Shadow**
Wh-What are those?!
**[16:02] Shadow**
No, this is no time to be scared...
**[16:05] Shadow**
They're humans!
**[16:06] Shadow**
Go, nightmare powers!
**[16:10] Shadow**
Take this!
**[16:19] Biker**
What the heck is that?!
**[16:24] Biker**
Awesome!
**[16:26] Biker**
This rocks!
**[16:27] Biker**
It's like a video game!
**[16:29] Biker**
Let's go!
**[16:32] Shadow**
Th-They aren't scared?!
**[16:39] Shadow**
This is a nightmare, right?
**[16:43] Momo**
Shadow!
**[16:45] Shadow**
Momo...
**[16:54] Shadow**
That was a big setback.
**[16:56] Shadow**
But this time, I'll show
them a real nightmare!
**[17:12] Shadow**
This is what will happen
to the Earth some day!
**[17:14] Man**
That's right!
**[17:17] Man**
Someday, sometime, this planet,
lacking in hopes and dreams,
**[17:22] Man**
will become uninhabited.
**[17:24] Man**
And...
**[17:25] Man**
According to the prophecies of Nostradamus,
**[17:28] Man**
in the near future, humans
will die out very soon!
**[17:31] Woman**
We don't have much time left, anyway, so
there's no point in worrying about it.
**[17:36] Man**
Better for it to go out with a boom!
**[17:45] Shadow**
Stop it!
**[17:49] Man**
Oh? I thought I heard a
girl's voice just now.
**[17:54] Man**
Am I hearing things, perhaps?
**[17:56] Shadow**
The world being destroyed...
**[17:58] Shadow**
Whose nightmare was that?!
**[18:00] Momo**
She's crying again.
**[18:01] Shadow**
Momo.
**[18:03] Shadow**
Isn't there anyone more innocent here?
**[18:05] Shadow**
Someone who would actually be
frightened by our nightmares...
**[18:09] Shadow**
That's it! I can't expect
anything from "civilization"!
**[18:14] Shadow**
I'll head for the savannah!
**[18:15] Momo**
Why the savannah?
**[18:16] Shadow**
The people of the savannah
chase lions and hunt game!
**[18:21] Shadow**
They're much more innocent!
**[18:23] Shadow**
That's it! Let's head for the savannah!
**[18:26] Lupi**
She's got serious mood swings.
***SIGN*** Seriously.
**[18:32] Shadow**
What is this place?
**[18:43] Shadow**
Wh-Who are these people?
**[18:46] Momo**
What are you talking about?
**[18:47] Momo**
They're the people you came here for, right?
**[18:52] Shadow**
I'm the Princess of Nightmareland
who anybody who knows anybody knows!
**[18:57] Shadow**
So I'm going to give you
a nice little nightmare...
**[19:02] Man**
Can we eat these nightmares of you?
**[19:07] Man**
Can we eat them?
**[19:10] Momo**
Not good!
**[19:11] Trio**
Oh, no!
**[19:13] Momo**
You can't eat them! You can't eat them!
***SIGN*** They're gonna eat us!
**[19:24] Momo**
That was a close call!
**[19:26] Shadow**
Papa... Mama...
**[19:31] Momo**
I think she's dreaming.
**[19:33] Chamo**
She look so happy!
***SIGN*** Shadow looks like a normal girl when she's dreaming.
**[19:40] Momo**
Well, let's head back.
**[19:44] Shadow**
It's no use. My nightmare
power doesn't work on them.
**[19:50] Shadow**
Humans don't have a fragment of dreams left.
**[19:53] Momo**
That's not true!
**[19:54] Momo**
They still have dreams in their heart.
**[19:57] Momo**
I know they do!
**[19:58] Shadow**
How can they believe in hopes and dreams
**[20:00] Shadow**
when they don't even believe
in dreams and nightmares?
**[20:05] Shadow**
Hey, Momo.
**[20:07] Shadow**
You came from a dreamland to
bring people dreams, right?
**[20:11] Momo**
From Marinarsa, yeah.
**[20:13] Shadow**
But I think it's a hopeless cause.
**[20:15] Shadow**
Humanity's clearly losing all its dreams.
**[20:18] Shadow**
It *is* possible! I'm gonna work hard!
**[20:21] Shadow**
Not possible!
**[20:22] Shadow**
Is so!
**[20:26] Shadow**
Even I can't do it, maybe the
nightmares will work something out.
**[20:30] Momo**
I hope you're right.
**[20:33] Momo**
Hey, hey, no I don't!
**[20:35] Shadow**
What's your problem?
**[20:35] Lupi**
Hey, the nightmares are back!
**[20:38] Shadow**
I hope it went well for them!
**[20:39] Nightmares**
Help us, Princess Shadow!
**[20:42] Nightmares**
I've never met a group of
people so lacking in dreams!
**[20:46] Nightmares**
I can't do this anymore!
**[20:48] Nightmares**
Reality is so terrifying, not
even us nightmares can compete!
**[20:52] Shadow**
You guys...
**[20:53] Nightmares**
Princess Shadow...
**[20:56] Shadow**
Everyone, we nightmares have
lost to a dreamless reality.
**[21:02] Shadow**
In an age without any innocent
people who believe in dreams,
**[21:06] Shadow**
we nightmares have no choice
but to hide out again.
**[21:09] Shadow**
Let's go back to where we came from,
until an age of dreams returns!
**[21:14] Nightmares**
Yes, ma'am!
**[21:22] Woman**
It's closing time.
**[21:24] Papa**
C-Closing time?
**[21:25] Papa**
Um... what was I looking up, again?
**[21:30] Woman**
How should I know?
**[21:32] Shadow**
Thank you, Momo.
**[21:34] Momo**
We'll meet again, right?
**[21:35] Shadow**
Yeah, in an age brimming with dreams.
**[21:39] Momo**
I know it'll come!
**[21:41] Shadow**
Take care until then, Momo!
**[21:43] Shadow**
Goodbye!
**[21:47] Momo**
No need to say goodbye.
**[21:49] Momo**
I know we'll meet again!
***SIGN*** I hope that day comes soon.
**[21:54] Momo**
Yeah!
**[21:58] Queen**
The nightmares had to go
back where they came from.
**[22:03] King**
Dee-da...
**[22:04] King**
Momo will just have to keep working
to bring back an age of dreams!
**[22:08] King**
But Momo is fighting alone
against a dreamless reality.
**[22:13] King**
Yeah. The dreamlands and nightmarelands...
**[22:16] King**
When will we all get to
return to the surface?
**[22:24] Momo**
* On days when cold rain*
* falls on your shoulders,*
**[22:27] Momo**
*and you start to think the sky is crying,*
**[22:30] Momo**
*it might be the sad tears of Shadow.*
***SIGN*** Next Episode Preview
**[24:10] Momo**
What did I come to the surface to do?
**[24:14] Momo**
Don't say it!
**[24:15] Momo**
I know, I'm supposed to bring
dreams back to the surface!
**[24:17] Momo**
Are you on the right track, Minky Momo?
**[24:19] Momo**
Let's cover with some songs!
**[24:21] Momo**
So, here we are!
**[24:23] Momo**
Next time on *Fairy Princess Minky Momo*:
**[24:25] Momo**
"All-Star! An Album of Songs!"
**[24:26] Momo**
So extravagant! The future is dark!
**[24:28] Momo**
It's all good, la-dee-da,
as the sun goes down!
**[24:30] Momo**
That's when you can see the moon and stars!
**[24:32] Momo**
There we go!
***SIGN*** All-Star!
An Album of Songs