#Hikawa is so damn precious

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1, 25, 30?

1:Favorite Pretty Cure season?

It’s a tie between Heartcatch and Go! Princess, and it says a lot for Go! Princess that for years, I was convinced that nothing would ever come close to matching my love for Heartcatch. Both seasons have everything I want in a Precure series: great characters, solid plots, substantial character development, mascots that aren’t annoying, memorable music, and ohhhhh, those fight scenes.

(And yes, despite my well-documented love for Yayoi/Cure Peace, Joker, and the Bad End Precure, Smile isn’t one of my favorites. As I’ve said many times: Smile has some of the best characters of the entire franchise, but sadly, it’s also saddled with some of the worst plotting and pacing of the entire franchise.)

25:Favorite All Stars movie?

That’s a tough one. Every All Stars has its moments, but the movies also struggle with how to manage such a large cast of characters, with too many favorites getting overlooked or relegated to bit parts. That said: I think DX 2 is my favorite of the DX trilogy because it has the best balance of all the different elements, New Stage 2 is the most consistent of the NS movies, and out of the two musicals, Haru no Carnival is by far my favorite for committing to comedy rather than trying to rehash what the other movies had done before it.

30: Favorite character overall?

Favorite character, ~miru? Of course, Milk-sama is my favorite ~miru! How could I not choose such a cute, adorable, and perfect lakajslkj.,nmnxxewriowehljkklkkkkkkk-

-SOUNDS OF EXTREME VIOLENCE-

STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM MY KEYBOARD, YOU WRETCHED, LOATHSOME, GODFORSAKEN DEMONSPAWN! HOW DARE YOU TRY TO IMPERSONATE ME ON MY OWN BLOG?!

DRAG YOUR CARCASS BACK INTO YOUR IRON MAIDEN! BACK! BACK, I SAY! THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!

Ahem. My apologies.

My actual answer should be obvious to anybody who’s followed me at all over the last five years…

It could only be the character who singlehandedly got me into this fandom, who will always be first and foremost among my Precure Waifu, who makes even a series as shoddily-written as Smile worth watching for her presence. Cure Peace / Yayoi Kise is the most precious of my precious baes. I relate to her personality and quirks like you wouldn’t believe, I adore her design, I love her voice actress, and she has some of the best spotlight episodes in her series. Yayoi is one of those characters that feels like she was made with me in mind. I have other favorite Cures, of course: Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom, Iona Hikawa / Cure Fortune, Kirara Amanogawa / Cure Twinkle, Towa Akagi / Cure Scarlet, Himari Arisugawa / Cure Custard, and Setsuna Higashi / Cure Passion among them, but Yayoi is special.

And when it comes to favorite Precure characters who aren’t Cures, special mention has to go to the following:

Joker from Smile is still far and away my favorite Precure villain… as evidenced by his prominent role in Shattered Skies. He feels like he was pulled in from a different, much better written, much darker series. Plenty of Precure bad guys are evil, but none of them are as straight-up gleefully sadistic as Joker was. He hits some of the same notes as the other, more famous Joker: he can be funny one moment and pants-shitting terrifying the next, or sometimes both; he taps into a primal fear that most people have (CLOWNS); and he steals every scene he’s in. Hell, not only does he completely outclass the actual Big Bad of the show, but he’s possibly the only Precure villain EVER to never really be beaten, destroyed, or purified/turned good by the Cures. Joker suicided himself to revive Pierrot, and went out giggling like a lunatic. Anti-climactic, maybe, but damned if it wasn’t creepy as hell, and totally fitting for him.

And special mention must go to:

Bad End Precure.

They were tragically short-lived and under-utilized. They had one-note personalities at best. They only got a combined fifteen minutes or so of screen time before being unceremoniously killed off.

But holy goddamn HELL do I love the Bad End Cures. I’ve loved them since I saw the first leaked picture of their concept art. Those costumes. They leave every other team of evil Cures in the dust from a design standpoint. And those fifteen minutes of screentime they got to show their stuff may have been woefully short, but I’m hardly the only one they made an impression on… as evidenced by the insane amount of fan content they’re still producing five years later.

Hell, I loved Bad End Peace’s design in particular so much that I started up an RP blog (VERY NSFW and also inactive, so no links for you) for her on this very site, weeks before her episode even aired. And as a point of personal pride: my interpretation of BEP was so, er, distinctive, that I fooled at least a dozen people unfamiliar with the series into thinking she was actually like that in canon! I think it’s safe to say that despite the liberties I took with her character, some of which Toei would doubtless not approve, I treated her way better than Smile canon ever did. And I got at least a couple people I know into Precure through her, so I owe my favorite sparky, fourth-wall-shattering nymphomaniac that much. XD