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precuredaily · 6 years

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Precure Day 050

Episode: Futari wa Precure Max Heart 01 - “Yep, We’re Still Precure! The Legend Continues Forever!” Date watched: 5 June 2018 Original air date: 6 February 2005 Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/JevHFWz

New year, new us

The original Futari wa Precure is one of only two seasons in the entire franchise to get a sequel, because t wasn’t really meant to kick off a franchise, it was just another show in spring of 2004 that got really popular and so they greenlit another right away. The only real problem with this is that the finale to FWPC was fairly conclusive, so Max Heart has to do a little bit of retconning to establish some villains. We see this quickly as they recap the events of the finale and add a scene of a piece of dark energy coming out of the Evil King’s body as he explodes, which travels to the Garden of Light and strikes the Queen of Light directly.

This causes the queen to revert back to her Original Form™: her life, her heart, and her twelve wills, in the form of the Heartiels. If you think this is a ploy to sell more toys, you’re absolutely right, because the Heartiels are represented as little fairies and the commercial bumper shows us a large jewelry box in which to store them. More on that when it actually appears in the show. Anyway, this sets up a Macguffin quest for the series, much like the search for the Prism Stones in the first half of FW, but this one will take place over the entire show. There’s something to look forward to.

As soon as the Queen disappears, we cut to the Garden of Rainbows and see a yellow-haired girl stand up with a blank look on her face. What could this mean? Does Toei think this is subtle? Wait until you learn her name. Anyway she just kind of wanders around the city with that blank expression, questioning her existence. Nagisa and Honoka see her at one point but she quickly disappears.

What other changes to the status quo are there? Well, since the Queen’s life is now in the Garden of Rainbows, Elder and Wisdom move there as well and decide to live with Nagisa. As for why nobody ever chooses to stay with Honoka, who has more living space and fewer potential intruders, it’s probably because.

she’s not the pink

staying in a full house with the more expressive girl leads to greater comedic opportunity.

Additionally, Mepple and Mipple have evolved from flip phones to swivel phones and the cards are now heart-shaped and inserted by the pointy end at the top of the cover, then the top is spun around to scan the cards and after that the girls either scan their palms or swipe a roller ball in the middle, I can’t really tell which. All of this as opposed to the old swiping of a card through the slot. Why the change? Toys.

It’s usually toys.

These new forms are called the Heartful Communes, while the old ones were the Card Communes. I may or may not refer to them that way in the course of the show, but if I do, that’s what I’m talking about.

There’s a small technical change to the pre-transformation scene as well. In the first series, there would be a closeup of Nagisa’s hand ticking up in the air (this shot was often cut out for time), then a wide shot of the two girls on a white background with their outer hands raised as they said “Precure Marble Screw” and then a closeup of them holding hands. This season, they grab hands first, then Nagisa’s hand goes up, then the wide shot on a black background with the duo in a spotlight. The actual transformation is very different. Whereas in FWPC they were shown as silvery nude figures flying through a rainbow tunnel and their outfits formed over them piece by piece, going from Nagisa over to Honoka, this time while they’re still silvery and nude, their outfits (sans bows) form on them almost instantly and the camera pans over their uniforms for a few seconds, and then the chest bows appear in glowing light. They land, Black in a deep squat at a low angle and White lands on her feet upright and then IMMEDIATELY DOES A BACKFLIP for no real reason while Black does her roll call.

Their Precure uniforms are also different, as you can see in the top screenshot. Most notably, Cure Black’s midriff is now covered, while Cure White has coattails over her skirt. There’s also some smaller differences, like gold earrings instead of silver, more lace trim, and hearts in the middle of their chest bows.The upgrades look nice overall. The loss of Nagisa’s midriff is sort of infamous within the fandom. Apparently they changed it because parents thought it was a little too much exposure for young children... which begs the question of why they did it again in Yes 5, GoGo, Fresh, Heartcatch, Suite, Princess, Maho Girls, and HUGtto but I don’t have time to question Toei’s internal logic. They changed it and this is the de-facto appearance for the rest of the franchise. It looks nice, moving on.

As far as the actual plot, it’s a nice reintroductory episode, taking place in the spring near the beginning of the new school year. Nagisa and Honoka are third years now and the leaders of their respective clubs. We see that they still talk to Mepple and Mipple everyday, even bringing the Card Communes along with them to school, and they sadly reminisce about the adventures they had as Pretty Cure. Suddenly, a dark cloud appears....

DARKNESS IMPRISONING ME. ALL THAT I SEE. ABSOLUTE HORROR

Streetlights and lampposts begin falling on the girls as they run and then a Zakenna forms from the rubble! The girls thought we were done with this, but nope! Fortunately at that moment, their partners reawaken, allowing them to transform and fight. Their new outfits come with greater strength, maybe comparable to the Rainbow Braces but they never make that comparison. The duo makes quick work of the Zakenna and prepare for their finisher. Once again, it’s powered up, and this time after they perform the chant and stick their hands out while saying “Precure Marble Screw”, they quickly pull them back into fists, where the electricity crackles for a moment, before releasing it and yelling “MAX!”.

Marble Screw Max is so strong, they’re pushed back by the force of it even as they obliterate the Zakenna.

After the girls are told about what transpired with the Queen, they meet one of the Heartiels, and we cut to a river bank where the yellow-haired girl is sitting and pondering. Then we cut to the Dark Mansion, where the two Butler zakenna are cleaning for nobody when all of the sudden, the door opens and there’s a young, blonde boy with a blank expression standing there. After a beat, the butlers welcome home their master. DUN DUN DUN.

Toei, your subtlety needs work.

This has gotten quite long, so I’ll discuss the music in the next one. Pink Precure Catchphrase Count: 1. 1 Arienai.

#Precure #Pretty Cure #Futari wa Precure Max Heart #FWPCMH01 #PCD050

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kitemist · 7 years

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glitter force season 2 thoughts

with spoilers. I’m not happy.

This season sucked. A lot of dialogue was just plain inflated in a desperate attempt to replace “kuru”, “de dewasa”, and “oni” at the end of sentences. There’s no equivalent in English, of course, but you could at least cut it when they stop their original line.

“I was state champion” and season 1 “I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE” yes, yes, YES WE ALREADY FUCKING KNOW THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE AMERICAN. YOU’RE ERASING JAPAN’S EXISTENCE IN THIS SHOW, YOU CAN’T BE DECENT ENOUGH TO ERASE COUNTRY CONTEXT ALTOGETHER?

Shutting up for 3 seconds..please, at least 3 seconds...will not kill the children’s attention spans. Excessive talking is my biggest problem with this season. I bet not even 4kids did this.

Some dialogue was added in to make moments less scary. But to me, it just ruined how serious they were supposed to be. Such as the reveal that Pierrot is still alive after the pheonix power attack. Not only did that spoil so much ahead of time, but it killed the tension altogether. It sounded like they were on a middle school stage play desperate to fill the timeframe.

And the majority of them don’t even fit in with the context! Why all the “bad breath” comments?! And Candy being obsessed with pizza?!

April’s babysitting blues? Really? Nina? Because of nine-a??? REALLY?? Why not call your children one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, while you’re at it?!

I only give props to this season for keeping the cinderella episode, along with prince reika. Even that they’re a cute couple. <3

and for the robot episode too. thank you for not bashing on girls being nerds and liking stuff that’s geared toward boys.

You cut Brian out the first time but leave him in there for the second for his letter?? Why?? Even everyone falling backwards doesn’t make sense if they’re SWOONING over a celebrity with FROWNING faces!!

Same with the restaurant! Thank you for mentioning okinomiyaki in its full name (see season 1: “It’s kinda like Japanese pizza”) but we never knew any of this until now! You cut out the episode of her finding the true flavor but then leave this!

Netflix thumbnails spoil parts of episodes, such as ulric, brooha, and oni’s fairy forms. Why not have all of them contain stock footage?

Why add in dialogue in scenes where their mouths aren’t even moving? Even fanmade abridged series adhere to this!

You vignette cure happy’s stronger happy shower the first time against ulric but not the second. Along with narrating what’s there on the screen. You are very, VERY aware that your audience is not blind! Show, don’t tell! And are you really taking that one porygon episode into account or not??

The voice acting has declined. The only good voices that are performed well are the glitter shadow force and rascal. That’s it. Emily has that weird goofy tone in her voice that is slowly becoming more prominent. Just talk through your nose and end the suffering.

Young adult brooha is suddenly southern and it rubs off on ulric and red oni.

Happiness is mentioned so many times, by emily, even, it is slowly becoming less and less reasonable, even less than it already is, to change cure happy to glitter lucky just for the sake of one joke.

“It’s so dark. but maybe that’s just because my eyes are closed.” example of inflation of dialogue.

“Go back to the shadow realm!” sponsored by 4kids

“Wow, is that you, Pop? Your voice got really--aww seriously?!” This show kills itself

“Man, somebody sure needs a manicure.” and calling out on the glitter shadow force’s horrible haircuts, which are actually just alterations of your own. Was the writer drunk or what. Or are the actresses being paid by the word?

You keep all the madoka despair faces but then lighten the horrid mood that comes with them. Why. What were your censorship rules? Only entire episodes instead of pieces? Like cutting out filming a drama, the summer festival, the fashion show, the meaning of yayoi’s name, the funniest scene in the history of precure, the comedy duo’s special cameo...are you only allowed to cut them out altogether while leaving the rest semi-intact?

I’m pretty sure you can pass Brian as someone who came from England(which he already is in the original) and has no comprehension of American terms in English. Come feed the weird obsession American girls have with British accents.

“There’s a whole lotta flavors of ice cream I haven’t tried yet!” Why not apply this to your not-supposed-to-exist restaurant?

“I still haven’t scored a hat trick!” I bet not even Americans know what this even means. Why not mention how much you want to play with your many siblings? It’s more central to her than soccer, which is only seen once! Wait, there’s no unique personality in them anymore, that’s why.

“I still have to write more comics!” The only in character line here.

“I still want to learn geometry!” sigh. You already have. In that one episode where you had no idea what you wanted to do.

Pop has been looking at the jewel for 5 minutes when all it did was become a shield and suddenly knows everything about it. But smile precure wasn’t that great of a deep story by itself either.

Cutting out all the crying does shorten the episode like it did when chloe was about to go to london but then it just shows how bland the relationships without them are. They’re even more general than they already were. What about Nao and Reika, childhood best friends? There’s one between them and they can’t even have that? Nao sharing her joy of becoming a big sister with her was left in but not this?!

“But come on, we’re having a moment here!” Look, they said it too! It’s stupid! Ironically this ruins the moment too.

“I’ve been defeated? By a smile? THE HORROR!!” /) O 0 O (\

“Can we get pizza now?” what is with the new candy is obsessed with pizza thing. why.

without the smile part of the name, this little smile goodbye has no meaning in this dub.

Yayoi’s dad’s only appearance is short, sad, and unexplained.

“And bing, a new portal appeared!” p much how it happened in the original too. at least it feels that way.

The original theme song animation and sponsor shot’s only appearance is sad and dubbed over to non existent mouth movement.

A missed opportunity with Akane and Reika’s characters in the eng dub is the way they talk. Akane’s from Osaka, and the closest equivalent (that I can think of) can have her come from Texas. Reika speaks formally 99% of the time and she could have a British accent with fancy vocabulary. It would stay truer to the source material than having all 5 of them evolve into having overly generic personalities so common they could be placed in a harem anime.

But is Saban really looking for staying true to the source material? Ever since Season 1 this has been evolving into a completely different show than the innocent, sweet theme of Smile Precure. But since Smile Precure didn’t have much to offer in its original run, Saban is overkilling it trying to make it seem appealing.

#whiteOnslaught rambles #glitter force #spoilers

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