If the queen from futari wa can become a Precure, then so can the red&blue rose final attack woman!
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In 2007, both Yes! PreCure 5 and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann aired in the same Sunday 8:30AM slot on rival networks, effectively making them competitors despite being completely different shows aimed towards completely different audiences.
Gainax, the studio behind TTGL notoriously had some difficulties early on when the anime first aired in April of that year. When the first episode aired, viewers on message boards complained about the anime’s quality. These criticisms led to harsh comments against the viewers by a Gainax staff member and even one of the studio co-founders, the latter of who would resign after all this.
While this controversy unfolded, on April 17, the official TTGL blog posted a crude webcomic of the character Yoko shooting Coco from the aforementioned PreCure season. While the comic was quickly removed from the site the same day it was uploaded, a fan contacted Toei (the studio behind PreCure) about it, and they issued a response:
Thank you for contacting us regarding the inappropriate depiction on that website.
Before our firm had received the warning about the image in question, it had since been deleted by the other party, so we will not be filing a claim at this time. On the contrary, we believe that by posting such a depiction, the image of the other side's company will be harmed, and their morals will be called into question.
The deleted comic can still be found online using the Wayback Machine. I’ve included a translation of the comic above, typesetted and all. I’ve been wanting to do this for years now, but it was difficult trying to decipher the handwritten Japanese. Thankfully, technology has progressed in terms of optical character recognition that even Google Lens can read images of handwritten text and convert them digitally.
The comic has a small bit of lore that is a bit too complicated for a simple translation note. In it, Yoko breaks the fourth wall by mentioning that one of the staff members mistakenly drew her hairpins piercing her head instead of holding up her ponytail as intended, seemingly pinning the blame on the key animators ("genga” if you’re sakuga-savvy). This is likely a reference to the animation errors that plagued TTGL at the time, here is an example of such a shot from the first episode:
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Happy Precure Valentine's Day, @suneaterzines !!
I decided to draw Cure Dream for you!! Couldn't pick between her different outfit iterations, so I kinda combined them! I hope you like my gift for you!!
@precuresecretexchange
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Rin / Cure Rouge
One of the few Cures with short hair
Responsible and reliable friend
Also has a fun and less serious side to her with her relationship to Karen
Cool fire effects
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