🌟Precure🌟 Saber Beyon

“Spreading blessings to lives far and wide! Cure Felice!”

I’m pretty much the same as everyone else that the designs and concept is pretty much generic and uninspiring. In the past few seasons of Precure there usually is some sort of twist and some callbacks to the older series fit in somewhere. In Hugtto Precure, some would argue there was too many callbacks and Star Twinkle Precure there were hardly any callbacks with exception of maybe a few power up attacks. 

This…Good grief. Did they even try?! Everything from the designs to the concept just wreaks uninspiring. We’re back to saving another generic fairy world when before, there was some unique twists for a while. Mahou Tsukai, we had a world full of witches and even some based on actual Wiccan and other mythologies (be it a bit loosely). Hugtto was set in the future, Star Twinkle, we had each character from another planet and we also had a few more twists like there being a teal colored precure. Yes, Milky is teal. She’s not completely green. She has some blue tint to her, deal with it. Then you have of course the first biracial precure who has dark skin, Cure Soleil.

And yeah, let’s talk about the designs. Everyone is saying they’re a mix of all the old Precures combined and yeah, I’m with them on that too. I mean you can’t argue. The moment you see the hair of the pink one, you immediately think of Cure Flora and when you see the hair style of the blue one, you immediately think of Cure Marine and the yellow one you automatically think Honey and Pine! Shoot, her character is literally every yellow cure we’ve seen! She likes fashion. She has a quirky personality where she’s nice but suddenly just blurts out what she says on her mind and she’s eccentric and her family owns a vet clinic with a cafe, which I keep wondering if it’s really alright to have a place where sick and injured animals have to go, be in the same place where food and drink is served. I mean guess it’s like how hospitals have a food court I guess, but vet clinics are typically not that big. Least big enough to keep the clinic and cafe separate. I dunno, for me that seems like a major health hazard but heck with it. There are talking stuffed animals in this. I can’t moan about that too much.

The blue cure is naturally a big sister type and the pink cure is a clumsy but sweet protagonist that is always gonna do her best and has a happy go lucky attitude…ugh. Can we have another nerdy insecure girl? Please? Or a tomboy? There are others that can be good leaders that aren’t clumsy! We haven’t had a tomboy in like forever! I think the last tomboy protagonist was Suite Precure and that is gonna be 10 years old in 2021! Mix it up just a little, will you Toei!

The wands are another Sailor Moon Kaleidoscope wand that wasn’t that original design to begin with, but they seem to like reusing it even in series that are actually good! So yeah, I think the whole thing is pretty generic and basic. The fairies are forgettable looking and the whole thing looks more of a parody of Precure than an actual Precure series.  Does that mean I think the whole series is gonna be like that?

Short answer, no. Yeah, as much as I and everyone else is hating on it, there is one thing that Precure has taught us and that as much as we judge on it and everyone is going to. It’s just how we are in nature. Opinions are like the holes we have (mouth, nose, butt, ect). We all have one and they can’t always stay close. We have to fumigate sometimes otherwise it eats us to our core. Anyway, Precure has always taught us that nothing is as it seems. This could be a good series that’s just hidden behind the generic outlook. For me, I always have a few doubtful reactions, shoot even outright blasting first responses to a new series especially when I really like the one currently running. Sometimes those reactions are justified and other times I get quite a bit of surprises.

Remember how everyone was excited when we first saw Kira Kira Precure A La Mode, with the cool animal designs? We saw the composer for the op and ed thinking we’d get some catchy tunes and then the series came out, a lot of folks started to hate it and even more as the series progressed? Same with Mahou Tsukai, which I like but will admit it does have some problems in terms of direction and story writing. Looks aren’t everything. Who knows? Maybe like Go Princess Precure, we could be looking at another masterpiece or maybe we’re right and looking at another Happiness Charge/Kira Kira disaster where everything is bland and predictable. Worse case scenario is that its like Doki Doki where I felt so bored watching it I barely remember watching it! I know I’m slamming on those series a lot. Again if you like them, more power to you. No hate towards you or your opinions of it. Those were series that just didn’t do it for me and I watched every series for Precuruary in February. 

Another positive is while Latte is clearly a Puff lookalke, she’s cute and even though she’s technically a baby, she’s more so a puppy and I’m glad we’re off the hook for taking care of a baby in this series. I also like the fact the Queen of the fairy world is a dog. Like an actual dog. Not a human or anthro animal. An actual animal. That’s kind of a neat twist and the animation and scenery so far is kind of pretty. It’s not special but passable. Pretty typical of Precure but meh, it’s Precure. They’re not going to do anything major fantastic. They’re here to sell toys.Speaking of which, the designs of the items they have to collect look kinda cool. They put detail into those at least.

So yeah. I agree that it looks generic but as Precure has taught us is that sometimes there is a hidden genuine gem behind all that glitter and fru fru. Just gotta look a little deeper into the woods to find it.