Impression:
As many of you know, Doremi-FanSubs will be having delays this month so Happiness Charge Precure may be a little off schedule until then unless I find alternatives fan-subs like today.
This week’s episode was pretty cute, but while I do like the song, having to hear it a so many times within one episode was driving me nuts. I liked the way Yuuko had revealed that she was Cure Honey, it was when she got super excited when Hime finally said that the song wasn’t so bad and straight out told them that she was the one who made it, thus led to her reveal. It looks like in the next episode, we will not only learn about how Yuuko became a Precure, but also get a good look at the other side of her that we haven’t seen yet.
Cure Honey turns out to be a quite a jack of all trades. It was fun to see her swiftly switching gears and having the knowledge of the best way to take down the terribad as quickly and smoothly as possible as oppose to the girls with I dare say, random streaks of attacks that they come up with at the top of their heads during a fight. It isn’t until they use their more technical and special move that they know exactly when they intend to use it. But then again, it might just be just Yuuko’s style since she fights more elegantly with the use of her baton. But I have with no doubt that we will see her throw a couple of kicks and punches in the future.
It was amusing to see the sweets phantom lady to be into singing as well. Her song about pastry and sweets was pretty cool, but obviously it was a ‘bad’ song to the Precures because of the selfishness. Either way I liked that song, because PASTRY AND SWEETS FTW!!!!!!!!!!
The animation was completely out of whack this week. Happiness Charge Precure! never quite had the strongest since the beginning but today was just plain bad. Hopefully the quality will go up again next week…
Now that I have reached my goal of covering ten episodes. I have no qualms with trying to continue, but keep in mind the minute I lose interest of continuing the coverage of this show, I will drop it. Hopefully I can hang on a bit longer (the plot progress it taking forever, as expected)…
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Ooh, someone got subs out? *goes hunting*
In terms of plot progress… well, it is, you know, a Precure series. At least 48 episodes long, mainly episodic, primary demographic is intended to be children. Out of the Precure series that I’ve now watched, the only one in which I can remember there having been plot progress a mere ten episodes in was DokiDoki, and that’s because it was unique in that it had every episode move the plot forward in some way.
I’m here for colorful sparkly magical girl combat and power of friendship speeches and yuri undertones and such. Of course those are better when they’ve got a strong ongoing plot to support them, but I take what I can get.
The thing is, plots are what usually makes it easier for me to blog because it’s hard to write up entries when there isn’t much to talk about except for sitting back an enjoying the show. I see a potential in this show story-wise, and that is why I can’t help but be impatient because I do want to still be covering it when the plot finally comes around. Ten episodes in often doesn’t have much progress in series like Precure, it’s really only the true kick off and only around the 20th episode is when the plot starts to simmer more at the surface before disappearing again after the girls achieve their powerup. It’s that kind of pattern. XD
The undertones of Yuri were strong in Doki Doki Precure. XD
DokiDoki’s undertones of yuri were so trong at times they kind of stopped being “under.” I’m fairly certain I caught an “aishiteru” passing between Mana and Regina at at least one point, rather than the standard “daisuke.”
And yeah, usually somewhere in the 20s the girls will get a powerup or a late-arrival-Cure will appear and we’ll get some plot development before things shift back to being episodic for a while. That’s just the nature of these series.
Anyway, now that I’ve had a chance to watch the episode, I can see what you mean about the quality. The characters get pretty badly off-model at some points in this episode: it was kind of disturbing, actually.
Speaking as a singer, Hoshiiwa’s song was actually not all that good. She just took Honey’s tune and put her own greedy lyrics in it. And she wasn’t really singing it all that well, either. Her voice came across as rather harsh at several points, actually.
It’s nice that Yuuko’s song is powerful and heartfelt and all, but I do hope she comes up with a new one. They kind of overdosed us on this one, and it’s really a pretty silly song to begin with.
I hope you can stick with blogging this some more, but if not thank you for taking the time to blog it this far. It gave me the push to go watch a bunch of Precure series that I’d never quite worked up the will to get started on before, so it’s very much appreciated. 🙂
In my opinion, Heartcatch was the best, and then they just started deteriorating after.