Ragingmaiden
busy
um.....does anyone watching this
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Pretty Cure
- Thread starter Ragingmaiden
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I'm currently watching Heartcatch Precure. I've heard that all the Precure seasons are pretty similar, so I asked around which one people said was the best. They pointed me in the direction of Heartcatch. I'm not disappointed.
Loving the super powered fighting that's unlike anything I've ever seen in a Magical Girl anime, the dazzling visuals. Plenty of great character development. By episode 29 it's safe to say I would be pretty depressed if one of these girls died.
Heartcatch has a victim of the week thing going with it's filler episodes. Much of them focus on some character with an emotional problem that gets manipulated, turning them into the monsters they fight. On a really bad filler episode, the main girls can be on screen for only five minutes of the episode, fighting aside. Transformation sequences taking too long (almost two minutes) are another thing, good thing I can just skip those. Another thing that's exceedingly repetitive is when the monster of the week fights suddenly stop for this usual exchange.
Monster: *cries out the victim's problem*
Villain: *mocks the victim's problem*
Precure: *Defend the victim's problem* and if it's Cure Blossom, nine out of ten times she'll utter an annoying catchphrase, outlining what problem the villain is manipulating and going on about how her tolerance is at it's limit. Then the other one utters a similar line involving oceans.
At this point I can't say if I'd watch any of the other seasons, especially if they don't have the same awesome fighting as this one. Sadly I don't think this season's ever gonna get licensed. Only the first one has so far and there are a lot more to go...
Loving the super powered fighting that's unlike anything I've ever seen in a Magical Girl anime, the dazzling visuals. Plenty of great character development. By episode 29 it's safe to say I would be pretty depressed if one of these girls died.
Heartcatch has a victim of the week thing going with it's filler episodes. Much of them focus on some character with an emotional problem that gets manipulated, turning them into the monsters they fight. On a really bad filler episode, the main girls can be on screen for only five minutes of the episode, fighting aside. Transformation sequences taking too long (almost two minutes) are another thing, good thing I can just skip those. Another thing that's exceedingly repetitive is when the monster of the week fights suddenly stop for this usual exchange.
Monster: *cries out the victim's problem*
Villain: *mocks the victim's problem*
Precure: *Defend the victim's problem* and if it's Cure Blossom, nine out of ten times she'll utter an annoying catchphrase, outlining what problem the villain is manipulating and going on about how her tolerance is at it's limit. Then the other one utters a similar line involving oceans.
At this point I can't say if I'd watch any of the other seasons, especially if they don't have the same awesome fighting as this one. Sadly I don't think this season's ever gonna get licensed. Only the first one has so far and there are a lot more to go...
Ragingmaiden
busy
I'm currently watching Suite Precure....
I picked up an interest in Pretty Cure since Fresh, and have watched most of the previous series since then. I have seen a few episodes of Pretty Cure and Max Heart (they were alright), I've watched all of Splash Star (loved the whole Kiryuu sisters thing). I've seen what has been subbed of YPC5 and GoGo and it seems alright too.
It was Fresh that really got me hooked with the whole Eas/Setsuna thing. Really liked that. Heartcatch of course was excellent (and quite a different art style to previous seasons) and I'm beginning to like Suite now that Beat has been introduced and the have the Healing Chest. I think things will have to pick up storyline wise soon enough.
Black Frost
aka. SHAOTANZHITEN
I watched the first season when it was on TV here in Germany. Although I usually don't like magical girl anime that much, I found it decent. Haven't watched any of the other seasons though.
Sceptile Master
Survivor of the Great Avatar Depression
I was watching the first season of Pretty Cure (subtitled), but got lazy with it and it's been on stall for a while (I'm talking months).
Though from what I've watched so far, I like the first seson's originality (of course it's not completely original, but in it's own sense/genre it is), and Mipple and Mepple are pretty darn cute.
Though from what I've watched so far, I like the first seson's originality (of course it's not completely original, but in it's own sense/genre it is), and Mipple and Mepple are pretty darn cute.
So Cure Muse is the
Her henshin is super cute though!
Princess of Majorland and the daughter of Aphrodite and Mephisto. I like this development
Her henshin is super cute though!
That's pretty much all Magical Girl anime anywhere. Sailor Moon is so famous that even stuff made before it gets accused of ripping off it.
And really, inspiration drawing aside, how different can you make the concept of "Girl gains magic and fights evil monsters." so that it doesn't seem anything like Sailor Moon?
Just finished the Heartcatch Precure movie. I give it an 8/10. Great new characters, beautiful animation, plenty of focus put on the main characters (Instead of on random victims of the week like the series) The only points I can give against it are the fighting, pretty minimal compared to the series proper, but the story more than makes up for it.
I really liked the Heartcatch Precure movie. Unlike the other Precure movies it was set in a real world location and it was also sort of canon given that they referenced Yuri's father and Dune. It was also nice that there wasn't a focus on the miracle lights like in the other series movies. I did like Moonlight's and Salamander's fight though.
Mariya Shidou
Banned
I should actually watch this. Mos tof my friends tll me I should. Among other things, but this is on the list. Since there are so many series: where should I start?
Are you gonna back this statement up (since it needs it, as this is a pretty heavy accusation), or is just an empty knee-jerk response?
Are you gonna back this statement up (since it needs it, as this is a pretty heavy accusation), or is just an empty knee-jerk response?
Well only 4 of them have been fully subbed with english. Futariwa, Max Heart, Splash Star and Heartcatch.
I would start with the original Futariwa to get the feel of the original premise of the show, then Heartcatch.
Heartcatch has quite a different art style to the other series but the storyline is quite intriguing and it is darker overall than other series. Deffo a good one to watch!
You can find most of the episodes here
http://www.goodanime.net/?s=Pretty+Cure
and
http://www.goodanime.net/page/3?s=Precure
if you wish to watch them streaming.
This is the best place for downloading any subbed episodes that have been done:
http://www.curecom.net/
Splash Star and Heartcatch have been fully subbed. GoGo has only been subbed up to episode 7. Precure 5 and Fresh have been subbed up to about episode 38 (so not long till they are fully subbed hopefully)
http://www.goodanime.net/?s=Pretty+Cure
and
http://www.goodanime.net/page/3?s=Precure
if you wish to watch them streaming.
This is the best place for downloading any subbed episodes that have been done:
http://www.curecom.net/
Splash Star and Heartcatch have been fully subbed. GoGo has only been subbed up to episode 7. Precure 5 and Fresh have been subbed up to about episode 38 (so not long till they are fully subbed hopefully)