>>30893
Yeah, you know... The running joke that Shinzo Abe (Prime Minister of Japan) constantly pushes for pro-family elements in anime to spike birth rates in Japan.

>>30894
I wouldn't be surprised.
The baby this time around is particularly annoying and needy. It's crying can apparently pause time and be heard from miles away. They spent most of one ep just hunting down a mother to shut the baby up.
It feels a bit shoehorned, but does make some sense. Little girls play with dolls after all and in many cases it might be those baby style ones. If they like seeing this sort of thing in precure however, who knows.

I'm surprised this didn't bother her at all. I guess they want to spike birth rates at any cost.

Oh my GAWD! She's so adorable!!

I know that feeling all too well.

ep15 is amazing.

God fucking damn it, I almost cried.

God damn I love these two!

I'm not sure if I like the direction precure is heading...

Holy shi-

>>31680
Well that was disappointing. Aside from some last ep baton passing in the past two seasons, we've never seen precure from previous seasons meet up like this outside of the movies which always felt like they existed in their own sort of canon.
It was cool seeing the strongest precure show up to completely own this enemy, but it was disappointing and kind of jarring how they were swept into the background almost as soon as they showed up. There's very little interest shown into how they got there or why, what their own experiences as precure were like, who or what they fought, what they can learn from each other, how many others are out there and so on. Instead they're treated like cousins visiting from out of town there to just hang out and not get in the way as the main characters deal with main character issues. "Who gives a shit if precure from an alternate dimension or something just fell out of the sky, our friends are having a mild disagreement of some sort." But to be fair, one of their friends is an android so I guess at this point nothing would surprise the main cast. Still, even if it is just a cheap gimmick in a show made for kids, I would have loved to see them do more with the cross over, like explore the connection between all the different precure groups and do some world building or something. The cross over movies never really touch on this and basically toss all the characters together like they're just part of a big club hanging out untill a bad guy starts trouble. Maybe I was expecting too much, but I was hoping for something here, anything, and got nothing. It does make me wonder if we'll see more of this in the future.

(and yeah I realize at the time of posting this I'm really far behind, so sue me.)

>>31681

But the bad guys ended up doing the same thing, getting lumped into the other precure worlds, and having an overall grand 'ol time.

While I agree that more cross-series character bonding would be amazing, there's so god damned many of them that a single movie wouldn't give enough time to really do it justice -- which is made all that much worse when they add in a new girl and waste the entire movie on her.

What we really need is a more expanded version of all the cures split into teams by color and playing juumangi-like board games against each other.

Also, world building goes out the window in many ways just to make the crossover: it generally messes up the timelines of the series itself in order to bring back dead enemies, while at the same time using the 'old' precure attacks from the beginning/middle of their respective series inspite of the newer mid-season cure already being there.

...uhh, Did the cross dresser turn that douchebag gay or something?

>>31514
Some of what I'm seeing this season (while innocent enough) is making me raise an eyebrow.

They're making it very hard to call these characters "just friends".

Is no one else watching Twinkle?

This season has a pretty cool theme to it.

Her computer is shit, she should return it and get a new one.

This "AI" sounds like google.

She's got time to ditch her family and check out an explosion across the river (instead of calling the cops), but no time to listen to a quick explanation. okay...

Hey that's not fair! You gotta wait till they finish announcing their attack!

I can't believe they went with a Synthwave theme for the new Precure end. That's awesome!

Interesting depiction of the Jersey devil.

Banana fish!

What a crappy moral lesson. You can't and shouldn't compare emotional strength to physical strength. That fire creature deciding to live on a water planet is NOT the same thing as these girls using their physical strength to pump up that fire and working themselves to the point of collapsing. These girls did their best and have nothing to be ashamed of, especially as no one helped.

Tsubomi a cute.

Why is it that aliens in scifi from around the world almost always have humanoid bodies with only the head being weird?

>>34020
It's actually highly likely they would look quite similar to us. We see in Madagascar this occurrence where animals will evolve to look similar to an animal elsewhere even though they are not actually related. It's likely advanced life would be similar with animals evolving for certain roles and then some of those evolving into human like life. They would not be exactly the same but they would be quite similar.

>>34022
Assuming they're carbon-based, which is quite the assumption.

>>34022
I'd argue that convergent evolution occurs because of a common ancestor and biosphere as well as >>34023.

>>34024
well that's the thing, they don't have such a common ancestor that would explain it, they are unrelated. It would not be convergent evolution if they had such a common ancestor, the definition of convergent evolution is that they share a trait or form that was not present in their nearest shared ancestor.

As for Carbon based life, it's possible. It's been proven that non-carbon based life is possible to create. However, the ability for that life to developed into advanced life and how common that kind of life would be are completely different things.

>>34025
What I meant to say is that ultimately all life form on earth can possibly be traced back to a single common ancestor, there is a possibility of carbon-based life form evolving elsewhere that are completely independent of life on earth and their evolutionary pathway and selection could be divergent to the ones we know. Perhaps there are certain traits that might be similar and necessary for intellectual life to form such as the use of language and a method to use tools (i.e. opposable thumb) but other than that they could have evolved very differently. I've read that dolphins could have potentially evolved to become human-like but are held back by the fact that they lack opposable thumbs.

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>>34026
>held back by the fact that they lack opposable thumbs
Being underwater also has to do with it. You can't start fires there and being able to cook was a component of humans getting so smart.

Healin' Good Precure Had a really strong start.
The production design and direction felt top notch. It seemed very polished.

Felt to me like they were doing tons of callbacks to older seasons too.
The monsters seem like the Oshimaida from HUGtto! Pretty Cure. The outfit designs look like the ones from Princess precure while having a flower theme and mascots like the ones from Heart Catch.. There's a pastry van featured a few times that seems like a possible callback to the Tako Café in the original. The ocean side setting looks a lot like the one from Splash Star. The background art is styled in a way like yes precure 5. This is also the first time since the original series we've had a black haired main character, not counting dark blue/purple here. People also kept pointing out early on that the group shared the same color theme as heart catch, and princess, but I don't think that's too weird. There's probably more I'm missing.

I like how they say this right to the camera and not the person they're talking to. It's almost like they're advertising a product.

I know they're doing the subs like this to avoid having them in the middle of the screen, but it still bugs me.

Okami much?

Inhuman anime girl sounds are the best.

I wonder if they still would have gone with this theme had they known what was going to happen this year.

I'm really loving the art style they went with this time around.

It's crazy to think the Precure series was beaten by the very thing the current precure were trying to defeat.

For anyone who might be curious. Rather than having dead air during the usual time precure would air, They've been filling the time slots by reairing the season again from the start. Question is at the moment if they're going to pick back up once they get to ep 12, or if they'll delay this again due to the second outbreak in japan, and if so if they'd repeat this season a third time.

Seems Crunchy Roll Finally picked up Precure, starting with the currently airing season for now.

Big sis is weirdly chill for someone trapped in her van.

Such subtle advertising.

>>31682
Yeah the movies are kind of a mess. I only got around to watching them all not that long ago. Some are fun and nice, but the majority are horrible. The world building is the least of their problems. I feel like they're an increasingly hard to pull off project each year as more and more characters get added in every time. managing 40+ characters in a single movie while ensuring they make time for all of the characters attacks and transformations and other expected elements, setting up a new story and villain, this on top of still having to work on the main series and another movie in the same year dedicated to the current season... It's amazing they can pull off what they do, even if it is a mess. borrowing just a single character from each series seems like the only logical way to go on.

I wonder if cure earth was rushed out slightly ahead of scheduled in light of the issues with the merch spoiling her appearance. I'd have thought it'd be a good 5 ep more or so till they make an appearance.

I love the way they have the same face!

>>30788
>Pro tip: don't cut your own hair unless you want it to look like shit.
My brother and I cut each others' hair. Results are passable, especially if you have low expectations.

>>34639
Guys have much lower standards for hair.