#otonapre

-Shows up

-Helps Nozomi and the others with their fight against Bell

-Refuse to elaborate

-Leaves

Just love how grown up everything feels in this show. Plot is slow so far, but just seeing the girls go through relatable issues is so nice. Mai’s in particular I feel on a spiritual level. Sometimes you’re just in different stages of life than other people. Everyone has their own clock and there’s no use comparing yourself to others. The biggest challenge of adulthood is just becoming ok with the uncertainty.

Ngl though, breaking up over text after damn near being to the point of marriage is kinda wild from the dude. They didn’t specify what issues they were having, but you’d think a face to face meeting at least.

Cool to see some more returning faces from the original show too!

dream. 🦋

I’m going to hold out hope that they’ll transform as adults in the final ep… it’s not even that I want new designs/transformation sequences (although I do really want those lol) I just think it sends a bad message that they can only transform by de-aging c’:

That aside though the fight scene in episode 2 was SO good and the Yes!5 ost made me so emotional 😭 Cure Dream made me interested in watching Precure in the first place so I’m so happy having her back aaaa

Also I think Kurumi should get to kill her boss as a treat.

That's not exactly a new revelation, especially since the Pretty Cure All Stars films exist, but in those cases, it seemed to be more of a non-canon affair; that is, not directly tied to the events of the TV anime.

But I also think that, back in the original Yes! Pretty Cure 5 and its sequel, they made slight hints that it took place in the same universe as Splash Star. Whether or not this was intentional for OtonaPre is up in the air, but I still think it's neat.

In the 28th episode of the original Yes! Pretty Cure 5, Komachi and Karen are checking a phonebook to see if there are any locations that can provide ice for their confectionaries. When the anime shows a page of that phonebook, if you read the Japanese text carefully, you'll see that several of the locations are named "Yuunagi" (夕凪).

If you recall from Splash Star, "Yuunagi" is the name of the town that Saki and Mai live in (and also the last name of Tsubasa Yuunagi, Cure Wing).

Karen also mentions that they've been checking locations that are "farther away," and since their goal is to try and get ice, we can assume this means Yuunagi is within a semi-reasonable driving distance from wherever Yes! Pretty Cure 5 takes place.

Now, by itself, this may not mean much, perhaps Yuunagi is the name of another unrelated place. To counter that, I'd like to go back to the phonebook picture. In the address lines for each location listed, the address is written as "Unabara-shi Yuunagi" (海原市夕凪), or rather, "Unabara (Deep Sea) City — Yuunagi."

Unabara City is also a location referenced in Splash Star. Yuunagi is basically like a town within the sector that Unabara encompasses. Unabara is written on signs in the actual anime, referenced to in official material like the website and print stuff like the Memory Book, and was spoken out loud at least once to my knowledge, in the Splash Star film. The Yuunagi mentioned in the phonebook is the same Yuunagi that Saki and Mai lived in.

Another small piece of evidence is that, in the 36th episode of Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo!, when the girls get invited onto a game show, we see students from different schools competing, and in one shot, we see girls wear school uniforms that look very similar to the ones Saki and Mai wore while attending Yuunagi Junior High.