天下制覇

 

Go easy on the emoticon faces, guys.

Impressions:

I’m well aware that this is the whole super special tenth anniversary of PreCure OMG GUYS but I couldn’t help thinking through this episode that PreCure is a little bit too into itself. A thought that turned into a terrifying nightmare when the ED hit, let me tell you. The whole thing was a nonstop sucrose fueled barrage. Nothing can be said that isn’t the most goddamned exciting thing ever! Hell, the CM break was prceded by one of them screaming at the camera “SHE’S GOING TO BE MY FIRST FRIEND!” Then when they meet, they begin shrieking about how cute each other is and trading (≧∀≦) faces. Some of it was in a pitch that only dogs can hear, and it wasn’t even the chew toy voices this time.

What surprises me is that it looks like the gimmick this time is to create a boom in semi-transparent card sales. The whole costume and layered dress-up routine is pretty much the same as Fantasista Dolls of all things, straight down to stripping the clothes off and leaving bizarrely shining skin-hugging… uh… paint? I thought this was supposed to be about dancing idols or something. To be fair, someone could tell me that a new PreCure was about buying marshmallow cereal to fight against the evil Soggy Kingdom and I’d believe it.

I’ll say the same thing I think I say every PreCure premiere. It’s… uh… still PreCure. I guess what this one brings to the table is that it’s really, really, really damned excited to be PreCure and it’s going to scream out every salient aspect aspect of such, dapper grasshopper villains and their weird sunglasses robots be damned. I feel like the action in it’s seen better days, but I wouldn’t put any stock in my one-episode-a-year memories.

Next Episode:

Meeting the disco creepy guy who comes into rooms through mirrors.