Thread:Cat Nari/@comment-37051745-20181116000428/@comment-31322722-20181117210436

There’s nothing particularly wrong with PreCure. It’s a bit violent sometimes, but that’s because it’s from the Mahou shoujo genre. In fact, because of that, there is a male audience for the show here in the West. But in Japan, the audience is mostly young girls. There are only a few Cures that wear crop tops (kind of) in their transformed state, but that’s it. Out of 15 seasons, it’s only Cure Black (only in her first season), Cure Dream (only in her first season), Cure Melody, and Cure Yell. That’s it. They don’t wear anything more extreme than that though. Most of their magical girl outfits are frilly dresses, and they always wear appropriate clothes in their civilian forms (unless it’s like, a beach episode or something). The show is rated PG, for goodness sake.

The other thing is that almost all of them have very strange colored hair, but it’s anime, so...

The characters in the show aren’t particularly girly. The thing I hate about many girl shows like Regal Academy, Bratz, Miraculous, or even Winx Club sometimes, and especially some newer stuff by Barbie is that the girls in the show are all about fashion and crushing on boys. It’s SO annoying. Miraculous is a little more of the latter though, since Marinette is very creative, which I love. It’s nice how she sews and wants to become a fashion designer, as opposed to what she could have become if they’d written her differently.

So, yeah. But the characters in PreCure aren’t really that type, they’re more of the type of character that’s like “friendship is most important” or “we need to protect everyone’s happiness” or “we need even the saddest moments in our lives”, etc, etc., and it’s mostly because the show tries to teach kids to be kind and lessons about life, but it’s not really in your face like, say... MLP (sorry, My Little Pony... you’re a good show, but it’s true). What I mean by that is, at the end of every episode, it doesnt feel like you’re being preached to by a kids show. It feels like the show is focusing on the plot. The show is unique because it tries to convey these messages to kids by making the characters look and fight cool, while still having good core beliefs and qualities, like being kind, that children should have. It’s very rare to find a show that does that. The fact that the characters act cool (they beat up monsters with physical action AND magical powers, and they’re wearing dresses and oftentimes high heeled boots!) makes the kids watching want to be just like them, so the kids actually do end up absorbing the lessons they’re learning from the show.

ANYWAY, that was a rant, but you get it. It’s awesome. The girliest season is Go! Princess, but it’s not annoying. It’s just the girls acting very proper, like princesses. It’s more sophisticated.