We’re getting close to the end now, Dune is about to unleash his chaos onto the earth, the Sabaku are getting more and more desperate to take out the Precure, and the grand finale is only a few months away. So naturally, this episodes puts our cast in a kindergarten and has them fight a giant stuffed animal. Of course!
This is exactly what this series needs at this point though. The problem with a lot of these light-hearted series that get near their end is that they become too epic: things either become too serious, letting go of the charms that made them once fun to watch, or the saving the world feels so out of place or sense that it becomes just cheesy. This episode was exactly needed in order to keep the light hearted fun still in the series while the creators are closing off the story. It’s exactly because of this that the creators waited so long with going to the kindergarten, because it’s really effective at that, and on top of that it’s also more than just another “child with worries”-episode. Seriously, when was the last time we had an episode that followed that formula anyway?
I also have to praise this show for not giving Tsubomi any magical upgrades because she’s the main character: this episode again very much stated that Cure Moonlight is by far the most powerful Precure. It’s really great to see that the creators stayed true to this, even through the various stages in which the powers of the Precures were developed.
On the topic of the next Precure series, it finally got its own website, but apart from that no new information has been revealed. Based on the logo it’ll probably revolve around music, but then again: Heartcatch Precure’s main theme was flowers, and yet you don’t see any of that, while Fresh Precure had a very watery-themed logo, and yet I failed to spot any significant hints to liquids in the episodes that I watched aside from an occasional pool. There are some interesting possibilities for this becoming an animated musical of some sort, but for that to work the creators had better prepare an awesome soundtrack that can dwarf even Heartcatch Precure’s, otherwise it’ll have lost its entire point.
Toei, you’ve really set yourself a challenge here. Heartcatch Precure pretty much already is really close to the perfect way to handle the classic mahou shoujo premise. At this stage, it’s very much possible that Suite Precure will be some sort of cash-in, however Toei is strange. I’d love to see them really grab the ambitions to try and trump even Heartcatch with the next Precure. But ah well, once the staff gets announced we’ll be a lot wiser.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
Suite Precure sounds and looks a lot like Doremi. We’ll see if the same team working on Heartcatch is working on this too.
That’s what I’ve been thinking as well. HeartCatch also has some musical elements (though not as much as Doremi itself), such as Sunshine’s Shiny Tambourine or the Heart Catch Orchestra, so maybe it’s not that unlikely it’s becoming a sequel…? Just thinking.
Since the composer for HeartCatch also did the OST for the Fresh season thing, I’m holding my hopes up he’s going to do it for the next season as well.
psgels, I’ve been wondering; what do you think of the current ED? You never posted an impression of it, I assume because you avoided the first one like the plague and wouldn’t have immediately noticed the change.
Yeah, I avoid the new ED too. It’s about the only thing that I don’t like about this series. It’s both the way it tries to get away with putting the characters in full CG, but also for as good as the soundtrack is, the wannabe gospel begin, only to lapse back into generic pop is just way too annoying for me.
Im intrigued by how much you like this show… I love the mahou shoujo genre as well, but at the same time I hate monster of the week series
The perfect example of what I like would be Nanoha (all of them), do you think it would be worth watching Precure? And also, have you watched any of the previous precures? I just looked it up on MAL and had no idea there were so many, and all with 50 episodes to boot, its crazy