Most kids’ shows face the problem of how to prevent sensible adults from taking over the series, most of the time this results into them getting dumbed down beyond belief, just to let the kids shine, and even when everything makes sense, people like parents, teachers and grandparents are often reduced to completely unimportant and unimpressive. Heartcatch Precure avoids this with its rule that only certain girls can become Precure, along with the fact that Grandma is just AWESOME.
She can’t transform anymore (of which this episode actually provided a pretty interesting explanation), and yet she acts as a good mentor to the lead characters here. Usually she’s nice and supportive, but this episode was very interesting as she tested their resolve to see if they were worthy for the power with which she once failed to kill Dune.
Also, I may be an idiot, but the plot twist in this episode hit me completely by surprise: I did not suspect it at all, but the mysterious identity of the mysterious man who has been protecting Cure Blossom and Cure Marin was awesome beyond belief. I never considered the possibility, but with the way that the creators have kept building up the great Koppei, it makes sense for him to be able to do such a thing. His actions throughout the series also make perfect sense now.
Oh, and this episode included “the power-up”. I already said before that I don’t really like those practices, but this episode handled it tastefully. It’s not just another “Princess Mode”, but instead there are some definite risks involved in using it (as shown by grandma), in order to balance out the new powers. Using it at the same time provided an excuse for the return of Cure Moonlight, so I guess that this episode couldn’t have let things play out any better than that it did.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
haha, it’s nice to see my theory on the ‘mysterious hot guy’ was right after all 😛 (I don’t know how I first came up with it, but maybe I’m used to the writer’s nice plot twists, so I knew this could be very well possible.) Though, I feel a bit sorry for Tsubomi~ xD But I love how this crushed another cliché of magical girl series!
lol yea that plot twist was awesome. I think the best part of this series (next to Cure Sunshine ;)) is that scene with Tsubomi’s lost encounter =))