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Humour me?

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beginning to suspect one of my four elemental generals may be showing sympathy to the heroes and allowing them a fair fight instead of following my orders to destroy them at any cost

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I honestly do just presume everyone in the world has watched naruto I just can't comprehend a person that hasn't witnessed rock Lee take off his training weights or seen naruto sit sadly on a swing 50 times so when I see someone say they've never seen naruto I just don't believe them they have definitely watched naruto it is a universal life step

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The Fandom is Wrong About Happiness Charge

I don't mean this in the sense in the sense that I liked it and the wider fandom didn't, so they're wrong; I mean that the fandom is literally, factually incorrect about the content of the season. To hear people talk about it, you'd think that every episode from twenty-six onward is nothing other than melodrama surrounding the infamous love triangle when, in fact, entire episodes go by without it even being alluded to and, even when it does get focus, it's usually as a sideshow to the main plot of whatever episode it appears in.

On the same note, this fandom has done Blue wildly dirty. He has flaws, yes, his no romance rule is him stupidly projecting his own issues onto everyone else, said hangups around romance are the root cause of Mirage turning evil—even if Red bears far more responsibility—and he ultimately seems kind of useless for the supposed god of the Earth. But everyone acts like he's a creep perving on middle-schoolers, which is a gross mischaracterization; he doesn't even realize that a love triangle is happening, much less that he's a part of it, he's too busy pining over Mirage to even register the possibility that anyone else might have a crush on him.

Like, the season does have genuine flaws—I'm very much not a fan of the Innocent forms, Cure Honey is barely a character, the international cures are wildly underutilized; which makes their appearance at the end of the season feel unearned—but they are generally not the flaws that I see people emphasize when they talk about this season.

This has the side-effect of making people overlook what the season does have going for it; solid comedy writing, very solid fights when they're willing to spend the budget for it—Lovely v. Queen Mirage, Cure Unlovely, the fight against cure tender—and how it generally manages to effectively hit the big, important, emotional moments.

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I couldn’t find this interview online, so maybe there’s further context here that I’m missing, but the use of “at this time” and “*was* set to be” leads me to believe that it’s referring to an idea that was ultimately dropped in the planning stages, given that this quote seems to be talking about the process of writing the season. And, as I’ve stated previously, he *didn’t* pursue her, he *rejected* her and they only got together three hundred years after the fact when Lovely purged Mirage of Red’s influence. Furthermore, he certainly didn’t groom Megumi; he had no idea she had a one-sided crush on him and no doubt would have distanced himself if he did, given his massive hang-ups when it comes to the subject of romantic relationships.

Also, for the record, I’m just not voting in this particular poll at all, since Lovely certainly doesn’t deserve to be here either, given that I can only assume she was submitted because of the cancerous, all-consuming love triangle that only exists in the minds of HapCha haters.

Most Hated Mahou Shoujo Character - Round 1

Blue: this fuckass mentor that couldn't help one single cure once they got caught, lied and hid important info from them, prohibited romance but he was himself in a relationship with a cure that was a minor at the time they relationship started, not to mention he is ugly af / He is without a doubt THE worst person in Precure. Every single problem in his season could be solved by sitting down and talking to someone, but instead he decides to throw teenagers at it until it goes away. My sister is in the Percy Jackson fandom and I say the OLYMPIANS are more responsible than this guy because it least they try to keep it in the family. / He is the fucking worst: a terrible mentor (he isn't able to train the cures to make them stronger, can't give them advice, hides important information from them, only cares about his dumb rules), a terrible boyfriend (he trapped his underaged girlfriend in a box for 300 and didn't even apologized to her), has no personality and his design is AWFUL! / he knew megumi was in love with him the entire time and made her a fool, letting her feelings for him grow, pathetic loser / he stalks the precures using his magic mirror and doesn't even tell them that he does that, creepy weirdo that deserves his reputation among the fandom

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Ignoring the magazine sections which don't actually make any definitive statements on age anyway, Blue did not start dating her while she was his shrine maiden; he rejected her because he felt it would conflict with their respective duties, with the resulting heartbreak being what allowed Red to get his hooks into her.

Even if you care about the power-imbalance that much, it's still not an issue, since the relationship didn't actually begin until after Cure Lovely purified Mirage from Red's influence, at which point she was no longer his shrine maiden.

EDIT: Seriously, I don't even particularly like the guy, but the way people talk about him, you'd think he was some sort of insidious pedophile, as opposed to his actual main flaws of projecting his issues onto other people and being sort of bad at his job.

Most Hated Mahou Shoujo Character - Round 1

Blue: this fuckass mentor that couldn't help one single cure once they got caught, lied and hid important info from them, prohibited romance but he was himself in a relationship with a cure that was a minor at the time they relationship started, not to mention he is ugly af / He is without a doubt THE worst person in Precure. Every single problem in his season could be solved by sitting down and talking to someone, but instead he decides to throw teenagers at it until it goes away. My sister is in the Percy Jackson fandom and I say the OLYMPIANS are more responsible than this guy because it least they try to keep it in the family. / He is the fucking worst: a terrible mentor (he isn't able to train the cures to make them stronger, can't give them advice, hides important information from them, only cares about his dumb rules), a terrible boyfriend (he trapped his underaged girlfriend in a box for 300 and didn't even apologized to her), has no personality and his design is AWFUL! / he knew megumi was in love with him the entire time and made her a fool, letting her feelings for him grow, pathetic loser / he stalks the precures using his magic mirror and doesn't even tell them that he does that, creepy weirdo that deserves his reputation among the fandom

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Kamen Rider Saber—where I see all the commonly talked about flaws, I just don't think they're as severe as most people say—versus Happiness Charge Precure—where the common criticisms are literally, factually incorrect and lead to the inescapable conclusion that most of these people never actually watched the show.

some fandom disagreements are like "I see your point but I think this other aspect of the narrative is more significant," and some are like "I don't think you can read."

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Consider this a sort of anti-propaganda for Blue since, for all that I don't particularly care for him, the extent to which this man has been demonized by the fandom is unbelievable. First of all, Mirage is not underage and is never implied to be so at any point—for all the Blue-bashing I've seen, this is actually a new one—so, I'm not really sure where the submitter got that idea from, and, while trapping Mirage in the Axia might not have been the best solution to her going mad with power and trying to destroy all love in the world, that also was not a problem that could have been solved by talking it out; she was being actively mind-controlled by Red, who re-upped his control every time she started slipping out of it and only let go when Mirage got purified by Cure Lovely.

Second, Blue did not know that Megumi had a crush on him and did not lead her on at any point. He's spent the last few centuries pining over Mirage, he has no idea that a love triangle is even happening, much less that he's part of it. This is actually why the dumb "No Romance" rule exists in the first place, he's projecting how badly everything went down with Mirage onto everyone else and treating it as the inevitable end-result of a romantic relationship forming which, while obviously not good, that isn't what I'd call hypocrisy either. The mirror-stalking point is also nonsense, no idea where the submitter got that from.

As for being useless... Yeah, that's fair. It's pretty clear that, for all his title as the God of Earth sounds important, his ability to actually contribute to the conflict is more or less limited to recruiting more Cures and, in the case of Cure Honey, loaning out the more competent among them to cover spots that need extra help. Still, he does seem to try his best to contribute with the limited power that he does have, it just really isn't a lot.

Most Hated Mahou Shoujo Character - Round 1

Blue: this fuckass mentor that couldn't help one single cure once they got caught, lied and hid important info from them, prohibited romance but he was himself in a relationship with a cure that was a minor at the time they relationship started, not to mention he is ugly af / He is without a doubt THE worst person in Precure. Every single problem in his season could be solved by sitting down and talking to someone, but instead he decides to throw teenagers at it until it goes away. My sister is in the Percy Jackson fandom and I say the OLYMPIANS are more responsible than this guy because it least they try to keep it in the family. / He is the fucking worst: a terrible mentor (he isn't able to train the cures to make them stronger, can't give them advice, hides important information from them, only cares about his dumb rules), a terrible boyfriend (he trapped his underaged girlfriend in a box for 300 and didn't even apologized to her), has no personality and his design is AWFUL! / he knew megumi was in love with him the entire time and made her a fool, letting her feelings for him grow, pathetic loser / he stalks the precures using his magic mirror and doesn't even tell them that he does that, creepy weirdo that deserves his reputation among the fandom

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Listen, I love Mirai, Liko, and their daughter that's the same age as the, but they're up against MadoHomu and nothing beats MadoHomu.

Best FxF Magical Girl Ship - Round 5 - Quarterfinals

Miracle x Magical: They literally cannot be ‘magical’ without holding hands 🥺 / It’s canon they literally kiss in the manga (yes, it was to break a spell but after Liko pulls Mirai closer, the romantic implication is pretty clear, and I believe one of the promo images for Mirai Days features them looking longly into each others eyes as they hold each other close with Mofurun looking up at them like “yep, these bitches gay”

Homura x Madoka: There’s a specific panel in the Rebellion manga where Homura holds up a sign saying “My Lips Are For Madoka Only!”. And goes on to say “Madoka…I knew it! You’re my true prince….! !”. There’s also official art of them doing couple-y things, like wearing wedding dresses together, sharing earbuds, there’s also an official art of them holding hands while there’s a rainbow above them, and another where they’re holding hands and staring lovingly into each other’s eyes. This also just so happens to be one of the most popular Femslash ships in Japan. When the creator was asked if Homura loves Madoka, he responded with “probably” and that’s DEFINITELY not a “no”!

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i’m curious about something

edit: feel free to click the first option if you watched a prior anipoke season and generally consider yourself an anipoke fan but haven’t seen literally all of it! bad wording on my part LOL

personally i’ve been a pokemon fan my entire life but never gave a shit about anipoke until horizons, but ofc now that i’m into horizons i meet a lot of anipoke fans regularly… was curious how this is for others!!

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Best Magical Girl Villain - Round 1

Battamonda: Ngl when Battamonda first joined the show, he was kinda whatever to me. Self absorbed twink bad guy, we've seen it just last series before...but then he got fired. Usually this is it for a villain, and we don't see them anymore because they got replaced with another bad guy. But Hirogaru Sky played it smart, and kept Battamonda for later. He has such a grudge against the Pretty Cures, but also because he's technically fired, he can't technically afford to go back to his villain group without any results, so now he has to live in a cheap Apartment (unknowingly next to his Former evil collegue) and slop away working in construction or sth. This leads to the funniest hirogaru Sky moments like him parodying the cures in his evil plans, or the icon that is Cure Pumpkin, but also to one of the most powerful moments in this season imo. Due to his failure in life, Battamonda starts viewing himself like if he isn't useful to anyone, he might as well be completely worthless and lets his pain out on Cure Prism. Of course that hits her pretty heavy, but in the end, she manages to rescue Battamonda for real, by making it clear that the only one who is allowed to decide your worth is yourself. Concluding not only Battamonda's Arc, but semi concluding Prism's Arc as well. Battamonda is great, not only because he turned out to be hilarious, but also because of him, we got to have such a powerful message in two of the character's arcs.

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Best Magical Girl Outfit - Round 1