天下制覇

"Let’s play Pretty Cure modulation" sounds dirty.

Impressions:

Ah, Pretty Cure. The neverending cycle of Sunday morning magical girls that transform with cell phone accessories continues, dragging music into its cavernous maw this time. While I didn’t watch more than the first episode of Heartcatch, I will say that the somewhat indistinct villainry there out to… do something evil… is a far cry better than… this. This is some Rainbow Brite level of nonsense here. I’m not sure if stealing the Song of Happiness or the colors of the rainbow is worse. That is what Rainbow Brite was about right? I only have vague memories from my sister watching it. Something about an enslaved race of fuzzballs knitting a giant net around a planet made out of diamonds? Anyway, there are cats and harmonizing stooges trying to steal music and nobody in the audience of thousands watching them do it can be arsed to try to stop it from happening. I’d place blame on the creepy flutes with unneccessarily burly arms, but I don’t think they have brains. They also apparently spend all day playing with themselves. In front of thousands of people. That’s just not right.

Anyway, I’ve kind of lost the track of what I was trying to say. It’s PreCure. Again. A shock and surprise to all, I’m sure. Some books you can judge by the cover, especially when it’s something like the eigth edition of this particular song and dance. I think it’s a lot cornier and less compelling than the first episode of HC was, but I’m hardly a PreCure afficianado nor do I have any real desire to become one. You’ll get all your usual stuff, from the nearly three minute transformation scene to the cell phone accessories to the sickeningly ‘cute’ animals. This particular one loses a lot of points for being named Hummy and being so mentally handicapped that he needs a thinking-brain dog. Seriously. Mephisto and… the evil cat whose name I forget… are jacking the magical book and it just sits there and idly wonders what’s going on… after the evil plan has been announced. I guess it could be worse. It could be named Hummer.

Preview:

Die, LP! Die!