Thread:Cat Nari/@comment-37051745-20181116000428/@comment-31322722-20181117043543

Just watch Pretty Cure instead! (Not Glitter Force. Pretty Cure. Glitter Force is a racist dub that isn’t true to the original. Maybe things will change now that Hasbro owns it, but you never know. The infamous Saban still lurks in the shadows, waiting to buy it back...)

Pretty Cure has a similar age target as Miraculous, yet it still manages to have a plot that doesn’t rely completely on romance, and the characters are usually way more interesting. In a good PreCure season, you don’t really know what will happen next, and you get really attached to the characters.

Recommendations:

Futari wa PreCure (a classic. If you want to continue to Max Heart, you can, but it’s not as good. The animation is better though.)

Futari wa PreCure: Splash Star (its a better version)

Yes PreCure 5, Yes PreCure 5 GoGo (another two-parter! This one isn’t spectacular, but there’s something about it that’s just so charming.

Fresh PreCure (yes, visually, it’s quite terrible, but the season is amazing)

Heartcatch PreCure (everyone loves this one.)

Smile PreCure (The plot is incredibly weak for the first half, but the amount of filler episodes allows for proper growth of the characters. Even though the plot is a little more lighthearted than other seasons, it’s one of the best seasons of the show because of its interesting, likeable characters and charming storybook theme. Not to mention great character design.)

Go! Princess PreCure (Much like Heartcatch, this is a favorite among fans. The only difference is that it succeeds where Heartcatch failed. It’s basically perfection.)

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Suite PreCure (I didn’t choose this one because, while it is very interesting, the henchmen get on my nerves way too much! And Hummy... there are just too many annoying characters and dumb moments.)

Happiness Charge PreCure (everyone hated it, but I sort of like it. Your choice whether to watch it. I recognize that it has flaws, but it’s pretty cool overall.)

Hugtto PreCure (...I don’t want to be that person, but I don’t like the direction the season went in. It was needlessly dark in the beginning, but had a strong start. The first bad episode was the one where Hana can’t transform. After that, the show made a fast recovery, only to fall once again towards the end of Ruru’s arc. It just feels like it was too rushed... from the fashion show episode and onwards, it gets very dull.)

The “didn’t even make it” list

Doki Doki PreCure (WASTED POTENTIAL!! Learn to expect that from this series. I could go on and on, but to sum it up, Regina should have become Cure Ace. We didn’t need a random new character. If Regina had become Cure Ace, that would have saved it.)

Mahou Tsukai PreCure (MORE WASTED POTENTIAL!! In this season, Toei returns to some of the origins of the Mahou shoujo genre: witches. It’s an excellent idea, but was poorly executed. There are lots of great bits here, but overall, it doesn’t have any tone, and there are too many plot points. It had a nice beginning though, and the ending was probably the best ending of all the PreCure seasons. Not to mention Cure Mofurun came from this season’s movie.)

KiraKira PreCure A La Mode (I don’t even have to repeat myself. I’ll admit, when I saw episode one of this, I was skeptical. It seemed very generic. But the first half was actually very fun and interesting. After episode, what, 22, or so, things just started getting worse and worse. Poor decisions in writing, really. The finale isn’t much better. You’re better off watching the first half and reading the manga... even though the manga is just selective scenes, the authors worked hard to create an awesome alternative to the second half of the season. Similar to MahouTsukai.)