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Isn't precure the female equivalent of Power Rangers in NA? Both in style and how many different ones there are?

>>7465
>the female equivalent of Power Rangers
The words you're looking for are 'super sentai'

but yeah, more or less, minus the big ass robots.

Post edited on 28th Nov 2011, 2:04pm

There goes the slim hopes of Ojamajo anime continuation.

>>7465

>in NA

Huh?

>>7469
If Doremi 16 does well (which it should because there's a ton of hype) then we might see an OVA or something. Nothing concrete to go off with that, just my own musings.

>>7475
super sentai is called Power Rangers North America.

>>7497

Yeah well but why add 'in NA' in the first place? That's what confused me.

>>7503
Is it just me, or does this look a lot like yes pretty cure 5?

http://www.moetron.com/2011/12/26/smile-precure-official-site-updated/

Loads of information just got released, including a full synopsis and character designs.

>Once upon a time, there was a country known as Märchenland where fairy tales mingled together. However, the Evil Emperor Pierrot has invaded the country and sealed away its Queen. In order for the Queen to be revived, the Cure Décor, tokens of happiness, must be gathered. To gather them, the fairy Candy came to Earth to search for the next Pretty Cures. It’s there that Candy meets Miyuki Hoshizora and the two of them decide to gather the Cure Décor together.

>Cure Happy (Hoshizora Miyuki)

>Cure Sunny (Hino Akane)

>Cure Peace (Kise Yayoi)

>Cure March (Midorikawa Nao)

>Cure Beauty (Aoki Reika)

I have to say that these are my favorite Precure character designs in a while. Cure Peace especially.

oh my~
how lovely.

I'll take green and red.

These designs just get better and better with each series.

>>7931
I beg to differ, I feel these are rather bland and boring compared to some of the past designs.

I like the new designs for what they are, which is deeply indebted to their predecessors.

To be frank I'm just thankful for another series.

 

ｷﾀ━━━ヽ(∀ﾟ )人(ﾟ∀ﾟ)人( ﾟ∀)ノ━━━!!

>Cure Happy: Fukuen Misato
>Cure Sunny: Tano Asami
>Cure Peace: Kanemoto Hisako
>Cure March: Inoue Marina
>Cure Beauty: Nishimura Chinami
>Candy: Ootani Ikue

Just like in my Japanese girl cartoons.

Yeah!

>>8396
Off-topic but I've been playing MGS for the first time and I was shocked when that was an actual line.

>>8401

That's the origin of the meme.

This series is off to a great start.

>>8403
yet it's fans are off to a bad one, it seems.

>>8404

How so?

>>8405
...never mind.

>>8404

If you want bad, just wait for the yiff doujins come next comiket.

>>8407

Why, why, why did you have to bring that up? it's true...

Cure Yayoi

>>8457
TONIGHT.

YOU.

I love how enthusiastic Miyuki is about becoming a prettycure.

Man, They sure aren't wasting any time getting them all out there are they?

I find it kind of cute how none of them particularly care why they're fighting these monsters, or that the only thing that comes out of these fights, is a treat or fashion accessory for Candy.

>>8457

my desktop background

and that's two pairs of girls shipped with each other in one scene. hot damn.

Is Cure March supposed to be military related in some way?

>>8878

>>8879

I'm 99% sure her name refers to the month of March.

...Twenty?

>>8914
I can easily see how one would think that, it's the only other possible meaning for the name after all, and to be military related would be a bit odd.
The reason I thought it was military related was mainly because of her color scheme, at first anyway, but then I also noticed her shirt has what looks like military badges.

>>8916
Could also be like a parade march.

>>8918
True.

Cure Peace is quickly becoming the best precure ever.

>>9159
She keeps beating me when we play rock paper scissors, I think I only won once.

>>9161
I just let her win. I like seeing everyone smile. Beating a little girl in Rock Paper Scissors would make me feel terrible.

If I've never watched a Precure series, could I start with this one and not miss anything important?

>>9165

You could start with any of them, they are not related in any way.
I'd recommend starting with heartcatch or futari though, they're the easiest to get into.

>>9165
yes, they have nothing to do with each other and are set in their own universe.

The only things they share in common, are that a group of girls become 'prettycure' or 'legendary warriors' and fight bad guys in order to save their world and whatever world the cute little mascot comes from.
But they never in any way shape or form ever reference events from previous seasons.

Aside from that, some of the series air advertisements of sorts for the DX movies during the ops, the DX movies show characters from all series together, but they're stand alones and have no effect at all on the series they each come from.

Post edited on 2nd Apr 2012, 5:24pm

>>9171

I decided to start the adventure at Futari wa Pretty Cure, then work from there. Thanks everyone.

>>9171
>Aside from that, some of the series air advertisements of sorts for the DX movies during the ops, the DX movies show characters from all series together, but they're stand alones and have no effect at all on the series they each come from.

fair word of warning, though.
The DX movies will spoil certain plot events of a few of the precure seasons.

>>9188
This is why I'm holding off on them until I've seen more of the different series.

I don't think Nao's fear of bugs was completely unjustified at that scale...

Seemed downright bizarre no one else was particularly bothered by the situation.

>>9416

I was more surprised at how the giant candy suddenly became a lot smaller 3 seconds later.

>>9419
I think Akanbe's size inconsistently was much more noticeable.

God fucking damn shit ass cunt nigger assholes!

Again with this crap.

Another fabulous episode.

This ep made me like Reika a bit more.

>>9771

This episode sure had a... dramatic, feel to it.

so then, bets on whether the decor bag will get full or the clock strikes 10 first, or both happen on same episode?

>>9945
you mean 20, or 22? becuase it's imposable to get it before it hits 20, since the order is always: bad guy shows up > drains people's energy > clock moves a number > monster of the week shows up > precure kicks it's butt > decoder get.

I say the bad guys steal it not long after it's complete, and they have to go get it back from the other world, where they meet the big boss once the clock is full.

Anyone else notice how precure has been doing exactly nothing to stop the bad guy's boss from getting revived?

>>9949

but the blue noses make the clock spin without giving a decor.

In any case, I'm most looking forward to the joker doing more than just joke around and lollygag with bits of foreshadowing thrown in.

>>9986
Interesting, I didn't notice.

So the FRIENDSHIP FOREVER episode involves a pony?

I'll need to get some popcorn and a pair of sunglasses for these fireworks.

>>10091
I think you're reading a little to much into it bro.
little girls and unicorns have gone hand in hand for ages.

>>9949
omg, who called it?!

The new clock is a radar filled with interlacing jew stars (coincidence as it's the evil bad-guy clock? I think not), Princess Sanic looks horrid, and still no princess form fisticuffs

On the bright side: sunny looks so much better when her hair isn't in the old lady bun and the next ep is a beach ep with lots of christmas colored shipping.

Oh Reika, just think of what your parents would say for bringing that prize home.

What a cunt, from the moment she asked what they were planing on doing that day, I knew where they were going with it.

I can picture her thinking to herself; "how dare they enjoy their childhood! they don't deserve to have fun! get back to work!!"

In this ep, we learn democracy isn't perfect.

Mecha happy!

I wanna buy a mecha toy for some reason.

That's a gun!

you cheater!

This ep really made me feel bad for Reika...
Normally the bad guys spout off about some really dumb arguments about how useless or dumb the theme of the ep is, and the precures beat them up and tell em they're wrong. but this was one time when the bad guys were kinda right, and everyone knew it.

Post edited on 13th Nov 2012, 10:17pm

I don't know about you guys, but if my drawing moved and talked to me, I'd be a bit freaked out.

Jesus christ....

...They know this is a kid's show right?

>>12921

Nao's especially, but these last few episodes have been a bit much for a show aimed at little girls

>>12943
Yeah seriously.
Went into the last ep thinking "oh boy, this will be the ep in which cure beauty gets beat up." and now it's cure happy's turn.

I think I liked pretty cure better when they weren't including guys of my age in the demographic. It's bad enough seeing these girls get beat down once a week, but now they're tossing in mind fucks with it. and I'm starting to really wonder if this is the sort of stuff little girls should be watching. the precure's don't really seem that interested in working things out with the bad guys and at times can be more aggressive (for example, after joker congratulated cure beauty on getting accepted abroad, and she was the first to attack him.). In the older seasons they had life lessons and working out problems little girls might have with, while accompanied by ever present cute mascots and the pretty cure stuff was kind of tacked on, now it feels like everything revolves around the precure side of things and it's their personal lives and even the mascots which feel tacked on. I mean, I doubt most little girls are gonna have to worry about a evil witch killing their family (seriously, what the fuck?) and again in that recent cure beauty focused ep, she seemed more concerned about braking up the precure group than splinting up with her friends.
I don't know about you guys, but the thing I like most about kid's shows is the innocence of it and not having to worry about fucked up stuff like we've been seeing lately.
There's always been stuff in the series that didn't sit well with me since the start, but I think it's getting to be a bit much now.
I've been trying to get in the whole series for a while now(only got 2 seasons and a few movies to go), but I'm not sure if I really want to check out the next season to be honest.

>>12944
crt

>>12944
>I think I liked pretty cure better when they weren't including guys of my age in the demographic
Don't worry, they aren't. They still worry about the nipponese Soccer moms going nuts, and I'm sure Toei will get a large amount of nasty phone calls over these pre-finale episodes (mostly Nao's, possibly some of reika).

> but I'm not sure if I really want to check out the next season to be honest.
Well, to each his own. You may want to watch the Jewel Pet series and other magical girl idol shows; those should be more up your alley in terms of cute girls transforming and being cute and innocent. Otherwise, do keep in mind that the series is coming to an end, and Suite's end was rather un-exciting compared to the season before it, so Toei has some sort of push to make this one more spectacular and have a sense of danger etc.

>>12950
>they aren't.
I've heard and seen otherwise.

I for one liked Suite's end. I appreciated that all the bad guys were returned to their former good self's at the end and no one had to die.
I once argued about this with someone who insisted there are tons of characters who die in precure, I think I was in denial at the time and I've now come to believe that he was probably right. Even going back to the first seasons there are plenty of characters being killed off and the girls would claim the bad guys 'returned to their original form', but that feels very much to me like a cop-out. I'm sure if you shot a human with a huge laser beam that turned them into an embryo or a sperm & egg, that kind of excuse wouldn't fly.

and yeah, I've looked into Jewel Pet but couldn't find subs for the first season.

>>12951
>Even going back to the first seasons there are plenty of characters being killed off and the girls would claim the bad guys 'returned to their original form', but that feels very much to me like a cop-out. I'm sure if you shot a human with a huge laser beam that turned them into an embryo or a sperm & egg, that kind of excuse wouldn't fly.
Just keep in mind what happened to the Zakenna when it got beamed. It turned into gomene's and fixed everything that was broken, even the stuff the precures broke. Of course, there has to be some sort of cop out when you combine cute little girls and violence in a show aimed at cute little girls; either they get sent back to their world, "fixed", or simply die in the beam with no grotesque or otherwise leftovers aside from possibly plot-related jewelry/items.

>and yeah, I've looked into Jewel Pet but couldn't find subs for the first season.
it works similarly to precure. Each season is a new group of people doing roughly the same sort of stuff. Later seasons won't spoil previous ones.
Also, Pretty Rythm Aurora Dream from last year would be something else recent to look at.

>>12952
I wasn't really talking about the monsters of the week though. It's kinda hard to feel sorry for a minion with 10 minutes of screen time born from a random object like a basketball or candy bar, with the brain power of a insect who can only say one word and has a one track mind that starts and ends with beating up precures. What I was referring to are the higher up types (whatever you'd call them) that control those minions. They are in all respects sentience life forms that in most cases very much resemble humans. In the first season one of the precures had a love interest with one of those bad guys who died 'returned to their original form' and she took it pretty damn hard. in splash star there was a whole big ark about two villains becoming friends with the precures, getting sent back to their own world(assumed dead for a while), then actually becoming honorary precures themselves, and in GoGo the bad guys were all depicted as business people just trying to make a living and doing their jobs. and here the precures are blasting them back to their 'original forms'. For a dumb minion that means going back to whatever random object they were before(no real loss), for the sentience bad guys on the other hand, they're kind of vague about what their fate is and don't really get into it (all I can remember them saying about it, is something about them returning to their original form). but you can clearly tell many of them are afraid of their fate, They know whatever is coming for them isn't good. There was even one pair of villains who developed a romantic interest in each other, and though scared of what was to come, they took precure's blast while holding hands and accepting their end together.
My point being, they're building up these villains as human like, just so they can get vaporized latter with no remorse for the majority of them. Even if they're not technically 'dying' these guys are still being blasted out of existence as we know it, and you'd think that would bother the precure girls a little bit?
I think I finally understand what kuroneko was getting at in Ore no Imouto when criticizing Stardust Witch Meruru. while subtle, this shows have some really questionable themes going on in them.

and way ahead of you with Pretty Rythm Aurora Dream.

This series sure does feel like a remake of yes precure 5

hello animation error.

spoilered because 2nd to last episode.

Whelp, show's over folks.

A few of my thoughts on the ending and the run as a whole:

I liked the final episode much more than I was expecting (especially with the repeated stills at the beginning), and Miyuki's VA did an amazing job and really tied together the final ep. The final insert song wasn't as good as shining star, but the english wasn't butchered so it's better than most of them.

The library really wasn't used as much as it really should have, it being showcased from the first episode, getting an ep or two about it in the beginning, and then forgotten even before the mid-season climax and never mentioned again.

I have a feeling the precure BANKAI form is going to be commonplace in the next as well as future precure seasons, and not just as a little bracelet add-on.

I wonder if the tittle of the show was meant to be ironic.