Another excellent episode, there’s no other way to it. Tsubomi’s relationship with her parents got under the loop this time. On top of being quite a sad episode, it’s awesome to see that the creators have no intention to forget about the parents this time. You often see series gloss over the lead characters’ parents in anime, but showing these things can give such a good insight on how they decided to raise their children, explaining why the character in question grew up the way he/she did.
The way that they were once workaholics, who eventually chose their child over their jobs is perhaps nothing new, but it added so much to Tsubomi’s character. I really felt sorry for her to have to sit alone on a bench for years. It’s interesting how her grandmother also didn’t seem to have time for her, or stimulate her to go and play with other kids. You can see that she still fears that her parents are going to go away again, up to the point at which she even was too afraid to explain it.
with this, the story of the baseball boy also isn’t such a filler anymore. Instead, the creators meant to introduce someone who Tsubomi could feel vaguely familiar to, and they meant to show her a case in which a child did not want to get in the way of his parents’ happiness. In a way, Tsubomi’s parents are now also trying to make up for the time that they couldn’t be there for her.
The animation during the fights was also very well done, and you can see that the recycled scenes are getting slightly shorter with every episode. There’s one thing I still don’t get, though: the heart seeds. Perhaps it’s something I missed from a previous Precure series, but why are these farts so important? We’ve hardly seen them used, and the recycled scene around it didn’t make sense in this episode: we see it appearing at a point at which neither Tsubomi nor Erika could have been near it to store it in the… “heart seed container”. Or however it may be called.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
I don’t quite completely understand the purpose of the Heart Seeds either, but a Heart Seed is born when a person’s Heart Flower is saved from the Sabaku by a Pretty Cure. And then somehow the Heart Seeds will be used to revitalize the Great Tree Spirit that lost all its flowers when Cure Moonlight lost against Dark Precure at the beginning of the first episode. I hope this somewhat explains it.
I just wanted to say thank you for blogging this show because if it wasn’t for you saying good things about it, I wouldn’t even be watching Heartcatch Precure! regularly since I thought it was just a kids’ show, which I am usually not interested in.
I really like this ep a lot. Mainly Because of the Tsubomi’s crying scene and her development.It make me sad and teary.(I very understand her feeling. Because sometime I suffer from that too.)
I didn’t expect this show to delivered good character development and very charming flackback scene like this at all. But at last it can.
Hey This show make me surprised every week.
I don’t know what to say but this is going to be one of the best mahou shoujo for me. if it can keep this standard to end.And animation at fighting scenes are very good too.(Unexpected eye-candy for me.)
The problem is..Now the character development side is very strong.(Every main character get develop in very great way.) But for make it better.It required some obvious plot other than collect Heart seed to revitalize that rainbow tree or fighting the deserterian.
I’m very looking forward to it.I believe that this show can delivered in the future for sure.
-There’s one thing I still don’t get, though: the heart seeds
they just want to sell toy…
The ONE thing I don’t get about the Heart Seeds is this: Why are they FARTED out of the little mascots?