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marshmallow-manju · 2 months ago

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due to popular demand I'm putting the WanPre movie plot under the cut

anything that's missing? i forgor. super spoilers for the entire movie.

Starts out with a mysterious egg coming from a computer screen in a laboratory. The egg escapes, glitching, and gets into Animal Town, voicing jealousy over the people taking care of their pets.

The precure find it, try to reason with it because it isn’t a Garugaru. But because it has ears and a tail and can speak, ending sentences in tanu, Wonderful calls it a Tanutanu. It gets angry. Grows giant. Attacks. The girls immediately pull out the Niko-sama full attack. It seems to work, but there’s nothing left when the attack is over. They transform back and, from behind a fence post, the egg sees them and is in awe that Wonderful and Nyammy are actually a cat and a dog. Thinking the fight is over they all head to pretty holic to play a new game they just bought. Satoru and Daifuku are also there and they’re set up with snacks and treats while they explain the premise of the game.

Essentially, animal crossing looking characters, on an island of tanuki, run races and people from all over the world compete against eachother with their custom animal avatars. Iroha makes a Komugi looking character on her (not switch) and Mayu makes Yuki. Satoru is playing on his pc and makes Daifuku. They all ask the animals how they feel about the lookalikes, and they all approve, even Daifuku through Komugi’s translation. She notes that he sounds as cool today as ever. Cut to the other special two teams of the movie. Ageha makes a little birdie who looks like Tsubasa, to his embarrassment. Mirai makes Mofurun, who is delighted. Haa-chan also thinks it’s super cute, but Riko can’t understand why any of this is fun.

They play a little, and Komugi gets really into watching Iroha and actually jumps at the screen, causing Iroha to mess up and drop the Komugi mascot off a cliff to wander in darkness, which really upsets Komugi...until Iroha promises that they will be together forever and nothing will ever keep them apart.

They are about to start another game when the mysterious Tanutanu egg reappears. It “hatches” splitting into two human sized tanuki. They say they have no need for dogs or cats. Just the humans. And there’s a bit of them trying different ways to persuade Iroha and Mayu to come with them including transforming into cute tiny versions of themselves. They fall for it, and get sucked through a portal. Yuki and Komugi also jump through, Komugi barely making it. Satoru is distraught, since they disappeared before his eyes. And then looks under the table to find that Daifuku is also missing.

In the game, Komugi is alone. And realizing that she is a weird hybrid of herself. A dog that stands on two legs! The tanuki appear and explain the rules to her. If she ever wants to see her precious Iroha again, she’s gotta win the games. Which is impossible! Good luck! She’s gifted with a ring (the item that anyone under middle school age is gifted upon entry to the movie theater, this year’s light up cheering item) and starts the race! Running to the first arena! First up is a rhythm game. The first Wanderful ed song plays and Komugi does her best to hit the buttons by herself. But she’s told that it’s a two player game and so she’s probably going to lose. She does her best, bouncing from button to button with no misses, until it looks like she’s going to miss one on the far side. Yuki hits it, with style and flair. And they finish the song perfectly.

They team up for the next arena, the dancing tama-ire. (Note, this is something little kids do on sports day, so it’s definitely an appeal to the small children of the audience).

The game starts with dancing. Another Precure song. Then the red and white balls drop down and everyone gets to throwing them into the basket. Notably, the avatars for mofurun and Tsubasa are in the mix without much focus. It’s random animals, the red team, against a team of all tanuki, the white team. And there are special balls in the mix. One Tanuki grabs one and suddenly becomes extra tall to block red balls from going in the basket. Komugi and Yuki also find special balls and become their Precure forms! Along with all the benefits they have with speed and agility. The other cure teams playing the game are shocked to see cures in the game. What could that mean?? Also the mysterious game programmer whose computer the egg from the opening bounced out of gasps that she didn’t program these characters…. Back to game. White team is winning by a small margin. Then it’s dance time again. And ball release. Repeat. They win it at the last second because Nyammy picks up like 300 balls and throws them all in at once. Somehow.

The next game involves turning a crank to move an elevator platform up a wall. It’s all tanuki NPC teams vs Komugi and Yuki, back in their animal forms, and the two tanuki who hatched from the egg. They’re asking why they’re trying so hard to save their humans. What could possibly be their motivations. Both animals have flashbacks of when their human partners rescued them. And declare that they’re going to be together forever. No matter what. They pull ahead to the top and win!! They’ve won the games!!

They’re allowed into the room with no exits that Friendy and Lillian have been trapped in with the NPC tanuki trying to make them feel better by turning into Komugi and Yuki (badly), and offering them fancy juice drinks and fanning them with leaves. The girls are overjoyed to see their pets again, happy hugging reunion. And then the boss tanuki appears. He’s huge. He’s wrapped in a green scarf. Intimidating. He offers to let them all live here in his game world forever. Never getting older or changing. Just being there to love and cherish the many tanuki, and also Komugi and Yuki since they won the games and proved themselves.

Satoru has been trying this entire time to get in contact with the game creator with Meimei cheering him on. The game creator has been typing codes into her computer, until the big tanuki, Mujina, appears. She recognizes him immediately, but calls him something else… He seems like hers very nice, until they refuse. Asking to be let back home to their families. He chose them because they love animals. Things seem at an impasse when suddenly. A very manly voice comes from behind the doors to the goal room.

It’s Daifuku.

In game rabbit form.

But now we can hear him speak and everyone is shocked. He is indeed as cool a character as Komugi has been telling us all this time. Mujina agrees to let the girls play one more game. The winner can get any wish granted that they want. The game is a tournament style balloon pop. Where everyone has a ball on their heads and a bat to pop it with. Except? It’s the 4 cures and daifuku against a full army of Tanuki NPCs, and Mujina on a throne. It looks hopeless. The cure teams watching feel like it’s hopeless…but maybe they can help? The mahou girls cast a Cure-up rapapa to try to get in there to help and send—

Mofurun!! By himself!! The game starts and he very cutely casts a little cure up rapapa of his very own to pop all the balloons in one go. (I was really hoping for cure Mofurun, but….) Winning the whole game at once! Everyone cheers, and he disappears as his job is done. Daifuku pops the final ball on Mujina’s head. It’s over. Mujina is upset but allows the girls their wish. They’re transported to a blank space full of stars, where a weird Tanuki made of constellations offers to grant them their any one wish. Daifuku murmurs that he wishes he could have done more on his own powers and.

YOUR WISH IS GRANTED.

Flash of light, it cuts to everyone standing around staring at Daifuku. Hes shocked because he didn’t mean to take the wish, and says that he isn’t suited to being a human. We still haven’t seen him. But Nyammy opens her compact for him to see his reflection…. He is still a rabbit. Nothing happened. The wish was a fake and Mujina never intended to let them go.

Then, finally. The mysterious programmer and Satoru manage to get messages to them in the game! The game creator, Natsuki, has been working to program a portal out of there. But they only have a few minutes to make it work. And Mujina has figured out that he’s being betrayed from the outside. He’s powering up, growing bigger and bigger. The cures (friendy grabs Daifuku) run to make it up the unnecessarily complicated winding staircase that Natsuki made for their escape. Being stopped by the NPC Tanuki and using the kirarin fox to turn into matching Tanuki along the way to escape. They get to the final staircase, and Mujina is a giant swiping at them, clawing and grabbing the footholds and desperately trying to get them. The girls wonder why he’s so desperate. What’s the reason he wants to keep them here so badly? They get to the top and reveal the ticket to getting out of there. The tanu-key. (Terrible pun, it was great).

Mujina attacks again, and the key flys out of Wonderful’s hands. It lands in the air, cracking the border edge of the game world and sticking in the crack. Wonderful makes a dive for it. Crashing through the border and disappearing into uncoded territory. Natsuki is horrified. There’s minutes left to unlock the portal and she has no idea what is beyond the game world that she coded.

Komugi wakes up in total darkness in her game-dog form. She can see a light from the crack and starts walking toward it. An illusion of Mujina taunts her. Why is she trying so hard to get out. He’s offering her everything. The chance for nothing to ever change. For Iroha to never leave her side. But Komugi refuses. She wants change. A stairway appears. She starts climbing up it. Running. She trips. Mujina keeps taunting her. But she gets up again. Running and running. Declaring that change is wonderful and everyday brings something new and someday she and Iroha will be old ladies together!!!

She breaks out, Wonderful again! Key in hand! For the 5th time in the movie they beat the clock by one second!!!! Unlocking the portal with their Friend RIngs.

They make it home! But they’re not the only ones out of the portal. Mujina has also escaped and gone full youkai form. A sleek spectral tanuki made of black energy, still wearing the green scarf. He sniffs. And bolts off. He’s looking for something.

The girls chase after him, leaving a relieved Satoru on the porch of Pretty Holic. And also a boy with gray hair that looks suspiciously like rabbit ears. Satoru knows him immediately and tells Daifuku that he’s so happy he can finally talk to him. They chase after the cures together.

The action really starts from here. Somehow we end up at Minato Mirai (like almost all the Allstars movies do!!) Mujina is running rampage, destroying things on his run until he finally slams into the red brick warehouses. The hirogaru girls make their entrance and pull off some great attacks, and also combo with the wonderful girls. Mujina gets away again, and this time the mahou girls come in and do the same thing. Everyone poses and does a signature attack. It’s exactly what we’ve been waiting for with the crossover.

He gets away again. He’s a tanuki on a mission. Except. He’s distracted by a guy walking and petting his dog in a display of human to animal affection. Mujina is pissed.

Satoru and Daifuku show up exactly then, running to try and save the guy and doggie. Wing sees this and makes a dive to save all of them. Flash of light. Both our bunny boys are in cure (?) form and save the day. Daifuku comments that it’s pretty alright to be like this and Satoru agrees.

Once again the tanuki gets free and climbs a building. It’s clear he’s going to Natsuki and she knows it too. She’s on the roof of a building, waiting for him. Everyone chases after and he finally stops, growling, facing her. And she calls him something like “pon-chan” or another generic Tanuki name that I’m forgetting and goes into flashback mode. As a child she had no friends. But one day she met a little tanuki in the park near her school. She would stop and talk to and play with him every day, and it was the highlight of her days. She confided in him that even though she didn’t like school much she loved her programming class. One rainy day she gave him a green scarf and promised that she would be back tomorrow and the day after and the day after forever. Until one day the park was under construction and being dug up by big machines and she never saw him again. She instead threw herself into programming her first game character so she could remember her friend forever. One of the NPC looking Tanuki but with a green scarf. She went on to make her game, get a grant, and a contract with a company to make it a reality. But she never forgot her friend.

She was sad because they could never talk and she couldn’t say goodbye. She wondered if her friendship was one sided. But the wonderful girls assure her that even if her tanuki friend couldn’t speak real words to her. The warmth she felt when she was with him and the memories she cherished were proof that they were friends. The animal girls go on to say that before they were cures it was the same for them. Even if you can’t speak the feelings come through. Mujina sparkles and turns into the programmed character Natsuki made all those years ago. And shimmers into the sky. They come down off the roof and say goodbye. The animals turn back into animals and Tsubasa reveals he’s actually a bird. Meimei appears and tells Natsuki that she’s not to repeat this to anyone at all ever. They invite her to animal town someday to play.

The ending theme plays and has stills of everyone going on a picnic and having fun, Daifuku is back to being a regular rabbit, but Komugi and Yuki are in human forms mostly. But there’s a few stills of them as animals with Mofurun and Tsubasa and Elle all being small and cute together. Final scene, a bush rustles and a tanuki steps out. He looks just like Natsuki’s old friend. Everyone laughs as the camera pans to the sky.

The end.

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muthaz-rapapa · 5 years ago

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Rewatch: Mahou Tsukai Precure Ep 2

For the record, I am always going to be that little girl excited to go magic school for the first time.

You won’t take that away from me, EVAH!

Hello, hello again and welcome to episode 2 of our rewatch marathon!

Unfortunately (or fortunately, hahaha), I couldn’t make it shorter since I have to talk about everything but I did finish it by Sunday so yay~!

Oh, and I’m going to switch to using the terms “witch/wizard” in place of “mage” from now on. The rough translation of “魔法使い” (mahoutsukai) is literally “magic user” but it can also be exchanged with words like “mage”, “sorcerer”, “magician” so technically, it’s not wrong. “Witch” and “wizard” can also have more specific translations ( (魔女, majo & 魔��士, madoushi, respectively) but I still feel they’re more appropriate for MahoPre’s setting. It just depends how you interpret the context, I guess.

Starting with the Snailiner.

I mean, it’s a giant snail train transporting you between worlds.

That’s so friggin’ awesome!! *squees* xDD

And here are our Muggle newbies, taking in the inter-realm sights for all its worth.

But that’s not as important as OMGERD, Mofurun’s lil’ tail twitching in wonder and curiosity! KYAAAAA~!!!

Mofurun smooshing her nose to the glass to get a closer look~!!

SO BABEY, IT HURTS!!!!

(੭ु ›ω‹ )੭ु⁾⁾♡

Riko, however, is eager to get down to business and tries to get an answer on how Mofu-chan came to life...

But these two are just too happy that they can talk to each other now that they don’t really care about the whys or the whats of the hows and UGH!

My heart! *clutches chest*

♡(｡>ˇ艸<)

God, we know Mirai has probably been talking to Mofurun since she could first utter words (and likely baby gabbled to her before that, too) but imagine how long that wait must have been for Mofurun! Never knowing if there will ever be chance for her to tell Mirai know how much she loves her and everything!

I’m so happy Mofu-baby got her wish in the end! <3

Oh, Riko...

You’re in for a lot of these non-answers, I’m afraid. (^ ^ ;;)

Next is Mirai’s turn to ask the questions and of course, she wants to know what Precure is.

We already know how this goes as a yearly tradition but it’s interesting how centuries/extensively long periods of time can embellish a legend so much that it differs significantly from how it was originally told or what it actually means.

The way Riko explains it, it’s as if Precure has appeared in the world before when in reality, Mirai and Riko are in fact the very first Precure (in this universe).

The conditions match up because (WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD):

1) The “magic” (Precure) Mother Rapapa mentioned before her passing will occur when the two worlds come together again. Cue a person from the Mundane World (Mirai) meeting and teaming up with a person from the Magic World (Riko) to fulfill that prophecy. Also note that before these two, no pair like them has ever showed up since Mother Rapapa’s death even though the Magic World has already found ways to travel to the Mundane World and back long ago.

2) Mother Rapapa’s powers are implied to take on the form of Linkle Stones. That said, they disappeared when she did...until they reappeared with the arrival of Precure. We can take that to mean that Precure are the inheritors of Rapapa’s will, to reunite the separate worlds.

3) The birth of Ha-chan, Mother Rapapa’s reincarnation, happened after Mirai and Riko became Precure together.

So really, if I’m getting this right, we might have three versions of this legend: the one that is the most commonly known but not exactly correct [Riko’s version]; the one which is told by the oldest fairies/magical beings who lived in the time when Mother Rapapa was still alive and the world was still one [the original]; finally, the one that’s happening before our eyes where the connection and bond forged between Mirai and Riko can bring about miracles, such as the return of Mother Rapapa through Ha-chan [the true version].

The fact that Deusmast’s revival coincides with these events are anything but coincidental. Mother Rapapa knew she was going to have to face it again so it’s not a stretch to say she might have planned for her own rebirth in the present day to prepare for that.

Two girls who can bring the two worlds together will become Precure, wielders of Mother Rapapa’s powers. Said two girls will also raise and look after her future self, Kotoha, before she’s ready to face her true purpose. When the two worlds are in sync again and Kotoha accepts her role as a divine existence, then, combined with the gathered Linkle Stones and the extra support of Precure and every living being on planet earth, the reborn Mother Rapapa can finally be summoned in her full might to confront and defeat Chaos once and for all.

......or at least, that’s how I’m interpreting it as of this moment. I may have gotten few details wrong but see, this is why I need to do a rewatch. To find out how on or far off the mark I am.

I’m really liking this theory, though, cuz it just makes too much sense! compared to the crazy ones I normally make anyways, lol xD;

Erhem, alright a break from the wall of text.

Mirai is like “Wow, that’s pretty cool!” because it’s not every day you’ve acquired abilities only found in stories and tales while Riko is like...

“Wait...wut?” *PROCESSING*

And then...

Proceeds to probably have one of the biggest revelations of her life and goes all creepy smiley about it.

lol, oh, Riko. You’re scaring me, darling. (^ ^ ;;)

But jokes and laughs aside, you can see the differences between their personalities in these few seconds.

Riko wants to be recognized and respected so badly as a proper witch that she’ll even settle for using a shortcut through the Emerald or simply bearing the title of Precure to get there. Despite the fact that neither of those are synonymous with the credit and skill earned from hard work. In other words, she’d only be a witch in name and nothing more. It’s not truly her magic.

However, from Riko’s standpoint, you have to understand why she’s desperate. She’s got poor marks in the most essential subject for magic users and thinks something’s wrong with her because of that. She can’t handle her embarrassment from that ineptitude and if she’s tried everything already and nothing works, then she’s going to have to resort to more outrageous methods to get out of the dilemma she’s in.

This logic is filled with flaws and it’s terribly worrisome but Riko, if anything, is determined to make something of herself. She may have fallen down more times than she can count but she always made herself stand up.

It’s hard not to cheer for her and want her to succeed.

Mirai, in comparison, seems more naive and simple-minded.

Riko’s excitement is not something she can comprehend right now because for one thing, she’s never had to shoulder the angst that comes with not being able to fulfill expectations that is, until the epilogue.

But rather than see this as a bland aspect of her character, we should appreciate that Mirai is a very stable, positive and warm person.

When Riko couldn’t deal with the frustration over her own perceived failures, Mirai never judged her for what she could or couldn’t do. She still wholeheartedly accepted Riko, unfailingly believed that Riko can achieve great things and still saw Riko as the most amazing witch she’s ever come across. Yes, even though there were more accomplished magic users she’s met since coming over to the Magic World, the one Mirai continued to admire and wanted to get close to the most was Riko.

It’s true that for a majority of the season, Mirai played more of supporting role to Riko at times and didn’t have any personal wish other than wanting to stay together with her beloved friends. Nevertheless, she’s always immensely cherished by the people around her for who she is. Especially Riko, who really needed someone like Mirai in her life. That Mirai places those she loves above any great ambition and later goes on to chase a dream of rejoining the two worlds so everyone can be happy together, it really proves how purely wonderful she is as a person.

That’s cute. 8D

I’d be lying if I wasn’t reminded of Harry Potter when I saw this because it did.

But this is a magical girl anime where almost everything is cutesy-fied so I’m obliged to scream when I see something I think is cute! xD;

This time, it’s Riko’s turn to treat Mirai to food!

Awesome! I like to believe they do this all the time. Riko takes care of everything when they visit the Magic World and Mirai provides when they’re in the Mundane World.

A part of their relationship that’s always balanced no matter what.

Ha-chan and Mofurun don’t have to pay, though, cuz they babies and it’s okay for their mommies to spoil them~ <3

Shivery Mofu-baby~

lol, she even goes to touch it a second time like “Brrr~, this is chilly, but one more cuz it’s gives me the tingles, bRrRrRr~!!”

xDDD

That looks sooooo cool!

I love mandarin oranges and I’ve ate them slightly chilled before. They’re great.

But eating one in this manner? I wanna try, I wanna try!

FEED DA TINY BEAR

( ☉ω⊙)

(๑ˊ͈ ॢꇴ ˋ͈)〜♡॰ॱ

Mirai’s so enjoying every moment of this impromptu trip and Riko’s quite satisfied that she can impress someone for once.

But then there’s that dreaded crunching noise and, well...

The mouth can’t lie while eating, after all, lol.

Ok, Riko’s faces are the best.

She went from “Are you serious, don’t make me look bad, plz” to “Shoot, these are hard as rocks, oh no, how do I protect my vulnerable image in front of this Muggle?! *sweats*”

In the end, she dodged it with tsun, hahaha

So they finally arrive in the Magic World and frankly, it’s a beautiful place. Is every piece of land a floating island?! I want to live there! :D

Also, yes, while StarPre did take extra steps in worldbuilding, there are few things you gotta remember:

1) MahoPre aired before StarPre did, so it should be expected for later seasons to improve on what their predecessors brought to the table. Seeing as MahoPre and StarPre had the same series coordinator, Isao Murayama, I’d say he definitely got better when it came to this topic.

2) MahoPre only had one foreign world in its setting while StarPre had many planets since it dealt with space.

3) MahoPre still did what a lot of other Precure seasons opted not to do: give the main characters free access to explore and learn about other worlds.

Seriously, the “fantasy land seized by darkness/evil and needs to be saved by girls from another dimension” plot is present in almost every installation of this tv franchise that it’s just refreshing to not be restricted by those limits for once.

I could go on but I think I’ve made my point. :P

Riko said the Magic Academy is at the center of the Magic World. So does that mean it’s the highest authority on all matters regarding magic? Because I don’t recall anything about the Magic World having an actual government.

Well, anyways, I suspect that all the students’ wands are registered with the school otherwise that’d be a huge security risk if anyone can just open the gate with a simple spell. (o_o ;;)

Oh, and look, it’s the kitty from Riko’s metro pass! :D

Same, Mirai.

SAAAAAAAMMMMMMMEEEEEE

SUUUUURRRREEE, WE’LL SEE ABOUT THAT

Here’s MahoPre’s version of McGonagall. Strangely enough, we never got a name for her. Same for the Headmaster. They were always addressed as just their faculty names.

Anyways, she’s as stern and strict as you’d expect of any teacher but even so, I don’t find her disapproval towards Riko’s actions to be too unfair or too harsh.

I mean, c’mon, if you were in her position and found out that one of your students broke a bunch of rules overnight only for them to come back with an outsider and this explanation, wouldn’t you react the same way she did?

The lady’s just doing her job.

Plus, her anger is justified because not only did Riko break the rules and exposed their kind but she could’ve really gotten hurt out there all by herself as well. Riko didn’t even bring any money with her for food, for crying out loud.

I’m sorry, Riko, as much as I’d like to give in to those puppy dog eyes (aaaahhhh, don’t look at me like that, you cutie~!), the professor’s right about this one.

Still, all things considered, she doesn’t outright expel Riko. Not because she doesn’t have that authority, I don’t think (that lies with the Headmaster), but it seems to me she might’ve wanted to find an alternative punishment as expulsion might be too cruel.

She even gave Riko fair warning not to leave the room until she found the Headmaster to discuss what to do next and when she saw Riko running around campus later despite that order, she freaked out in concern.

“Do you want to be expelled, Riko-san?!”

So yea, I’'d like to believe the Deputy Headmistress, at least, didn’t want to send Riko packing for home if it could be helped.

That done and said, it probably hit Mirai just how much trouble Riko’s in right now. Sure, Riko leaving school at night without permission is her own responsibility to bear and the same goes for bringing Mirai back to the Magic World with her when she shouldn’t have.

But still, Mirai being here is a violation of the Magic World at large. If she were aware of that, maybe she wouldn’t have gone with Riko in the first place (noooo!) so that Riko wouldn’t have to face possible expulsion.

Fortunately, Riko’s a sensible girl and knows Mirai isn’t in the wrong. It was she who wanted to prove herself, after all. She was just too blinded by her hopes to think about the consequences.

And so she revealed to Mirai that she’s actually a remedial student.

Like, Riko’s quite upset about the circumstances as it is but she still has it in her to be decent and honest with Mirai on her reasons for going to the Mundane World. It’s the least she could do for getting Mirai involved in magical affairs and taking her all the way here.

The search for the Emerald, suddenly becoming Precure, all these things were to show everyone that she can use magic effectively.

Riko’s pretty much reiterating what I said earlier in the post but I don’t think she really understood the full extent of it. At least, not yet.

She still wants the Emerald, of course, because her wish to be a great witch hasn’t changed.

She just realizes that yea, she broke the rules and no Emerald is going to excuse her out of the scolding she’s in for.

Then Mofurun decides to rolypoly on over to poor, depressed Riko and goes “SO WHAT? LOOK AT ME, I’M ADORABLE!!”

lol, j/k, j/k, she really said “I smell something sweet!” which was followed be this...

Riko and Mirai’s Diamond pendants glowing~

...honestly, they should’ve just let Mofurun do the explaining to the Deputy Head cuz it seems that every time Mofurun is within range of a Linkle Stone and announces its presence (“A sweet smell!”), they automatically start shining and voila~, the legend is real!

Ah, but really, Mofurun seems to be telling the girls to not sweat the small stuff.

Why? Cuz...

DESTINY!!!

......lol, yea, Mofurun knows Mirai and Riko are in for something greater than this little snag in the road and just wants to let them know to cheer them up.

And hey, she’s right. :)

It got Mirai motivated, at least, to go and explain things to the Headmaster herself. Maybe if a Muggle can prove she performed magic as Precure, they’d let Miko off the hook because then they’d realize she was telling the truth.

Again, Riko is surprised by the lengths Mirai’s willing to go for her. They can’t really be called strangers anymore after all that’s happened but they haven’t known each other long enough (it hasn’t even been 24 hrs yet!) that they can call each other friends yet either.

So why Mirai’s doing this, when there aren’t a lot benefits for her, simply baffles Riko.

*whispers* That’s what a best friend is, Riko-chan~

Meanwhile, Mirai, of course, doesn’t know her way around the school, much less who the Headmaster is or what he looks like, but that’s okay because she’s sooooo cute! x3

And maybe it’s a good thing this happened during spring break? Otherwise, she’d be catching the attention of the other students and faculty and she’d have a hard time getting to where she needed to go.

Like this when a breeze just drifted through the air and she suddenly got a feeling that she’s gotta go THAT way.

Humuhumu...yea, I don’t think it’s just the Precure powers that’s at work here. Mirai does have innate magical abilities of her own.

I’ve got a theory on that based on some MahoPre trivia I read, about the scratched concept of her having magical ancestors, but I’ll save that for another time.

Right, where were we? Oh, yes, the wind led her to a tree.

It looks like any ordinary tree but by judging by the way Mirai gazes up at it, something tells her it’s really more than that.

See? That’s her intuition. The magical side of it, anyways.

And whaddaya know, the wind led her to the person she wanted to find, too!

‘Course she doesn’t think he’s the Headmaster at first glance and who can blame her when he’s wearing a face that young.

But she’s not even thinking about the Headmaster at that point because did he just say wands? He said wands, right?

Yep, she’s got her priorities sorted out, haha~

Back in the classroom, Riko’s lost in her thoughts and can’t really forget how Mirai’s been nothing but friendly to her since the moment they met.

So even though Riko finds this devotion weird, she still can’t help but worry about her and decides it’s not good to just let Mirai wander off by herself when she doesn’t even know her way around.

Kyuuu~, I love it when Riko shows her soft side, especially when it’s about Mirai. She’s always like “まったく ...” in an exasperated way but gives in because she knows she can’t win against Mirai’s niceness and that just brings out her own niceness, d’aww~ <3

Now back to Mirai where she’s getting quite a fascinating lesson about wands. How every time someone is born in the Magic World, a Wand Tree immediately grows one out to give to that baby, how that’s the wand they use for life, etc.

That’s such a cool birth certificate! Can I trade mine in for a wand of my own?!

xD;

I’d hold that thought, Gramps.

A Muggle isn’t just drawn to a specific Wand Tree for no reason.

Maybe the reason why it hasn’t generated any new wand for ages is because it was waiting for someone like Mirai, a resident of the other world, to show up.

But as expected of the Headmaster, he could immediately tell Mirai’s not from their world and asks what she’s doing here.

Mirai tells him she needs to find the Headmaster and the way she holds Mofurun tighter to her (KYAAAAA~!!!) when the subject turns over to Riko says a lot about how she can’t let Riko’s life get ruined just because she broke a few rules.

Not when Riko saved what was most important to her. To the world, it might have been nothing but a small gesture of kindness but that same gesture is what meant the world to Mirai.

That’s why she has to return the favor to Riko. Riko helped her and now it’s her turn and that means...

PAUSE.

Please take a moment to squee at rolypoly Mofurun part 2 first.

........

We good? Okay, back to regular programming...

DEUS EX MACH-I’M KIDDING~

These are Wand Trees so I’m sure they’re sentient and can sense the sincerity in Mirai’s words along with her magic potential.

For that...

She gets her very own wand!

*gasp* And oh my, what a pretty wand it is! It suits my baby very well!

I am very pleased! 8D

Not only is Mirai sincere, she’s well-mannered as well.

And Mofurun, too. What good children they are. :D

The magic tree just granted her something meant to conjure magic with.

What do you think she’s going to do with it if not that? Use it as a back scratcher?!

That aside, I forgot about this. So it was the supernatural forces that dictated Mirai should be allowed into the magic realm and not because of the Headmaster’s decision.

I like that.

Then Batty shows up and starts destroying everything in search for them and Mirai immediately leaves to go find Riko.

I’m not sure if it’s because she knows she needs to be with Riko in order to transform into Precure or if she’s simply worried about Riko or both or what. But Mirai doesn’t even think twice about the dangers of facing Batty alone when a person she cares about is somewhere in the crossfire.

And it’s so clear that Mirai cares about the world Riko comes from. Not just because it’s Riko’s school and home but also because she has great respect for magic users in general.

She’s dreamed of meeting them for a long time and though they’re hesitant to welcome her because she’s a normal human (aka not like them), that doesn’t stop her from doing what’s right. When Batty tries to order her around, she defiantly (and G-ratedly) flips him off for all the havoc he’s making.

Yep, she’s not afraid of the bad guys, my brave little girl~ <3

Riko’s timing and aim are impeccable as always, lol

She’s almost like a human missile! xD;

That’s right you did, Riko! And you did a splendid job, bravo! *clapclapclap*

Mirai’s just relieved that Riko’s unharmed.

I mean, if Riko’s still giving tsundere service, then she’s definitely alright, ahahaha~

See?

Riko can’t win against Mirai when she smiles at her like that~

Blushy Riko is so...too...adorable for words! x3

Then they hold hands and yea, you know what happens afterwards.

Frankly, the fight in this ep wasn’t any better or different than the first one and only a few short moments are worth mentioning.

Like Miracle trying her best to not let any more damage come to the school and crashing to the ground because of it.

Even though things will go back to normal, with no signs of a battle ever happening there, after they get rid of the Yokubaru and all (but then again, they didn’t know that...did they??)

She’s too nice, jeez...

Magical checking if her partner is okay and Miracle brushing it off like “Whoopsie!”

And Magical getting irritated again but whup, no time for that, gotta protect Miracle!

Haha~!! xDD

Anyways, the biggest moment that needs to be discussed is this one when Magical’s almost doubting whether saving the school’s worth it since she’s in for expulsion anyway because she disobeyed the Deputy Headmistress.

Hmmm, I’m not criticizing her or calling her self-centered or anything. It’s just that it’s obvious Riko has weighed herself down with too many negative thoughts that it’s hard for her to see there’s still something she can do.

She’s Precure now so regardless of whether she gets expelled or not, she’s one of the only people there who can stand up to that monster.

And like Miracle said, nothing has been decided yet. They can still persuade the Headmaster to let Riko stay at school.

If they don’t at least try, then it’s guaranteed they’ll only get nothing out of it.

And that’s hardly the ending anyone wants, right?

Whatever the outcome may be, Mirai’s determined to do her best for Riko. If it’s too much for Riko to bear alone, Mirai will be there to support her.

Riko calls Mirai a busybody for this but you can tell by her expression that she’s really grateful Mirai talked her out of giving up.

Even Mofurun’s happy, perched up on high~

Then they get their Linkle Sticks and perform Diamond Eternal for the first time and blow the monster away, yay, all’s well that ends well.

Well, almost.

Thankfully, the Headmaster witnessed everything that transpired, sparing them from any need to explain.

And not only does Riko get to stay at school (whoohoo~!) but now Mirai will be attending classes with her as well!

I guess there are endings where all’s well that ends better, after all, huh? Hehehe~

And that’s all for this week. Will try to get ep 3 by next Sunday. Bye for now~

#mahou tsukai precure #asahina mirai #izayoi riko #mofurun #cure miracle #cure magical

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emypony · 7 years ago

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Every number, lol

ily lmfao

gdi lina

((now i gotta open my own goddamn tumblr to find it smh))

i’ll do edits throughout bcs i go on other questions and i legit like, answer them and go back and add stuff

1. first anime you ever watched

tbh i can’t freaking remember?? Though it might’ve been something on animax. I don’t count pokemon rly bcs i rarely watched it. I think watched thoroughly…???

Frick. Deltora Quest (??) ((god I just remembered I need to hype that too crap)) but I’ll be proud to say front to back as a really long anime is going to be Inazuma Eleven. God I was so trash for it. Saw a few eps on Disney and decided “i want to see this but without this crappy romanian dub thx”

I can’t remember any other anime I watched but amongst the first ones were: Shugo Chara, Princess Tutu (I NEED TO DRAW THIS AS WELL AUGH LINA WHAT’VE U DONE) uhhhhhhhh, Kaleido Star? Zero no Tsukaima (VERY BAD ANIME TO START WATCHING WHEN UR LIKE 13) and other trash stuff like Oran Highschool Host club, Toradora (I didn’t watch the last ep gg me), Brother’s Conflict (another harem AND I DIDN’T WATCH THE LAST EP EITHER GG OMG) and this is all I can remember great…

EDIT: UNDERRATED ELEMENTAL GELADE LIKE DID ANYBODY EVEN HEAR ABT IT like AAAA

look at me i can’t even do one question without rambling this is gonna be long asf

EDIT:::: Shaman King was the first. Used to air dubbed on some non cartoon channel over here and I got hooked.

2. first anime crush

Shun from Bakugan. I’m trash. (yes this was after I found out that it was originally japanese. I think i wanted to watch the jap dub but i couldn’t find it anywhere and i couldn’t take Dan having Naruto’s voice either thx)

Then i discovered Spectra (aka the Brother of that girl from the 2nd season) and i cried bcs how could I choose

3. favorite anime character

Tsurugi Kyousuke and you know it girl

TSUNA FROM KHR (in his more serious form)

ALSO GOKUDERA ^^^^

4. least favorite anime character

fricc. uHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…(inazuma eleven makes everybody lovable I mean…)

5. list all anime you have ever watched (do non finished one count too thx)

NOTE: The ones with * means I didn’t finish them.

I DID THIS IN QUESTION 1 THANKS BUT LET ME ADD SOME

Mob Psycho 100

Shokugeki no Souma** (in prcess of watching)

Oban Star Racers

Sword Art Online

SMILE PRECURE - it’s so clichee but I love it

Kaichou wa Maid-Sama

K-ON!*

Fruits Basket!!!

Sukitte Ii na yo

edit: Noucome

Dog Days!* (i can’t even what is this anime)

Kamisama Hajimemashita* (THERE’S LIKE A 2ND/3RD SEASON I NEVER KNEW ABUOT)

//screams

SHAMAN KIIIIIIING

DNANGEL AHHHHHHHHH

Beyblade (newer series tho)*

To Love-Ru* (wasn’t my thing but i saw a bit of it)

more Pretty Cure series which I can’t remember tbh

SUGAR SUGAR RUNE //CRYING

Gugure! Kokkuri-san*

6. popular anime you didn’t like

NOTE: I DIDN’T ACTUALLY WATCH MOST OF THESE BUT THE HYPE OVER THEM JUST KILLED IT FOR ME

Vampire…s-something with Vampire? With the Subaru and stuff.

EDIT::: DIABOLIK LOVERS

LIKE ONLY 1 GUY WAS CUTE AND HAD REASONABLE REASONS BEHIND HIS AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, THE REST WERE JUST F*CKED UP PSYCHOS THANKS

Naruto (I mean first seasons are nice and all but like, it becomes confusing)

One Piece, Fairy Tail, YURI ON ICE , HETALIA ((MISS ME WITH THAT SH*T THX)), Death Note, Attack on Titan, Tokyo Ghoul, Clannad, Boku no Hero Academia, Dragon Ball Z (and what have you), Kuroko no Basket, Haikyuu, Free!, Bleach, Inuyasha, YuGiOh (i’ve seen a bit but meh..), Mirai Nikki,

//inhales Sailor Moon

idk just not for me, though maybe I should give it a chance??

7. anime you are currently watching

I guess Shokugeki no Souma since I’ve yet to finish s3

But I’m still in IEGO hell rn, rewatching it for the lolzies

8. anime character you are most like

Tenma, ofc.

9. favorite anime child

uHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Tenma. ;;w;; he’s so precious and doubts himself and I think he’s great ahhh

Konoha. She loves animals and she’s kinda cute ouo

idk if there’s more i am really not recent anime trash sorry

10. favorite anime animal sidekick

Kili who’s Jasmine’s(?) -idk if that was her name in the jap version too- crow

I frkin love crows holy danm

Sasuke is such a cute dog save me

11. anime you didn’t expect to like but did

Inazuma Eleven (I don’t even like soccer) , Princess Tutu (I don’t like ballet and it was old af so I literally put it off for watching Shugo Chara), uhhhh idunno anymore

12. anime that should get more attention from others

PRINCESS TUTU I CAN’T STFU ABOUT THIS

Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

INAZUMA ELEVEN ALSO!!!

13. funniest anime you have watched

the one anime with the guy who had to make decisions or else

Noucome? (wikipedia: short for My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy) Yeah that’s the one.

Shokugeki no Souma

14. saddest anime you have ever watched

PRINCESS TUTU (screw me, right?)

15. anime you never get sick of watching

INAZUMA ELEVEN THX

16. 10 best animes you have watched

oH COME ON

Inazuma Eleven

Katekyo Hitman Reborn

Princess Tutu

Bakugan

Deltora Quest

Sugar Sugar Rune

Noucome

Shokugeki No Souma

Shaman King

i don’t know another one save me

17. biggest anime crush

TSURUGI KYOUSUKE

18.10 worst anime you have watched

how can I even-

19. favorite anime ships

kYOUTEN

YuuiChi ( ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ;)))))) furiously winks)

RanMasa

Ibuki x Shindou ((idk the name of this together lmao))

i don’t have anything more tbh x’D

20. least favorite anime ships

ShinKyou (I’m sorry but how?)

Fakir x Rue (Princess tutu. But like y these 2 srsly they hate each other)

21. anime that made you cry, when

Inazuma Eleven, not sure when but it did. I’m p sure it did

UHHHHHHHHHHHHH

fricc. Princess Tutu defs at the end

22. age you started watching anime/person who introduced you to it.

idk how the hecc I found it but i think i was like 11/12?

23. unpopular character you love

YUUICHI

I mean c’mon we only see him a few times like give the poor guy some love

SARU!!!

24. popular character you hate

Fudou

Idk just… :^) not ma’ thing

25. anime you would recommend to someone who hates anime

i can’t?? my anime choices are literally trash

26. manga you have read all the ways through

i…didn’t read mangas xD

((yes you’re free to kill me now :^))

(((TBH THERE IS ONE. And that’s Nana to Kaoru I think..but it’s nsfw sorta but it was nice as well? like you don’t see that often)))

27. anime you plan to watch in the future

uhhhh crap good question. I had some lists somewhere but idk

28. most upsetting moment in anime, why

WHEN KAZEMARU LEFT THE TEAM LIKE AAAAAAAA MY BOY

When Shun from bakugan cut his hair but damn he was still hot

THE CUTE BOY FROM DELTORA QUEST WHO WAS SUCH A CINNAMON BUN TURNED OUT TO BE SOME MONSTER FREAK LIKE HOW DARE YOU

29. anime that deserves another season

PRINCESS TUTU

DELTORA QUEST (THERE WERE 3 BOOKS BUT THEY ONLY MADE ONE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)

OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB

FRUITS BASKET AAAAAAAAH

i can’t think of more

30. one anime conclusion you would change

((SPOILERS))

Princess Tutu: MAKE AHIRU GODDAMN HUMAN SERIOUSLY I WANT TO SEE MY SHIP SAIL AUGHHJKFGBG

I FREAKING HOPE I DIDN’T MISS ANY AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

#this is too long #god dammit lina #why did you do this to me #i love you though #ask me questions people but like not lina over here #neither these questions either cuz im not answering them again fo sho

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darkershining · 8 years ago

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DarkerShining’s thoughts on Pretty Cure: Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure

Ah, it’s been a while since I did one of these. I’ve been looking forward to writing this one!

Last time, I talked about Go! Princess Pretty Cure. This time, I’ll be talking about Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure, alternatively known as Maho Girls Precure.

One night, a young girl named Mirai Asahina sees something fall from the sky. It turns out to be a young magician named Riko, who has some trouble flying on her broom. The next day, Mirai decides to head out to search for the thing she saw fall from the sky, after her grandmother suggests it may have been a magician. Mirai brings along her teddybear, Mofurun, as well as putting on a necklace she found in her mother’s shop, which her mother doesn’t seem to recall seeing before.

As she searches in the park, Mirai ends up accidentally dropping Mofurun. Riko sees this and calls out to let Mirai know, which leads to the two girls meeting each other. Mirai is excited to meet a real magician, but Riko isn’t too interested in dealing with Mirai at first, as she is busy searching for something called the Linkle Stone Emerald. However, when Riko is too hungry to fly away, she and Mirai drop to the ground, only to discover that they both have similar pendants, which glow and soften their fall. After buying Riko a snack, the girls talk and Riko agrees to show Mirai some of her magic. It quickly becomes apparent that Riko is not all that great at magic, but Mirai is impressed anyways.

However, things suddenly take a different turn as a bat-like creature approaches the girls, having overheard Riko mentioning the Linkle Stone Emerald. As Riko tries to escape along with Mirai on her broom, she finds that she is somehow flying better than usual, but doesn’t have much time to dwell on it as Mofurun falls off. Riko falls off as well as she tries to retrieve Mofurun, but Mirai grabs hold of her hand, while holding onto the broom with the other hand.

Riko tries chanting a spell to make Batty and a monster he has created by fusing a crow’s feather and a truck with dark magic go away. Mirai eventually joins in, and as the two girls cry out the spell in unison, a powerful magic is released, and the two girls transform into the Magician Pretty Cure, as the gems on their pendants are revealed to be the Linkle Stone Diamond.

Batty retreats, and the girls discover that Mofurun somehow came to life when the girls became Pretty Cures. Riko decides to bring Mirai along to her homeworld, the Magic World, so they can try to find out more about what happened, and so, a new adventure begins in two worlds, the Magic World and the No-Magic World, where the rest of the mysterious Linkle Stones are hidden.

I guess that works as a summary for the first episode and the first half of the story. Spoilers for the rest of the series after the Read More. (previous parts can be found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)

Mirai Asahina/Cure Miracle

Our lead pink Cure for this season. A girl from the No-Magic World who is easily excited about most things, with a cheery and optimistic attitude that often helps placate her friends’ worries. Enjoys learning new things about the Magic World and meeting new friends, and seeing her friends from both worlds getting along on the occasions that they all come together. Very fond of her teddybear Mofurun, who has been with her since birth.

I really like Mirai, but one thing I find particularly odd about her is how little character development she receives compared to the other main characters. The other recurring characters in the show also tend to receive some good character development, which makes how little character development Mirai even more noticeable. She’s the lead pink Cure, so one would expect her to get more than this.

Still, Mirai serves well as sort of the character who helps bring everyone together, and help ease their worries when things get difficult. I like her character, I just feel that she could’ve been even more interesting with a little more character development, that’s all.

I haven’t seen the Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure movie yet, so there might be something there for Mirai character development wise that I haven’t seen yet. I don’t know.

I also read that there were originally plans for Mirai to have been descended from magic users, but this was scrapped because they thought it was better to have Mirai just be a normal person. I don’t know if Mirai would’ve perhaps received more character development if they had kept this plan, but... it could’ve been interesting. I suppose I do understand the reasoning, though.

So, yeah. I really like her, her relationship with her friends and so on. Her design is really cute too.

Riko Izayoi

Well, I guess her name is actually spelled “Liko”, which matches the naming scheme of the rest of her family, but since I, like a lot of people, am used to spelling it as “Riko”, I’m just going to stick with that spelling.

Anyways, Riko is a young magician from the Magic World. She’s quite intelligent, but she hasn’t quite gotten the hang of using her magical abilities yet. Despite her failures, she still tries to keep a cool and collected image, often claiming that the results of her magical mishaps were all according to her calculations or that she meant to do it. After meeting Mirai, she is able to gradually improve her magic skills.

Riko is definitely my favorite out of the main characters in this season. Before the show began, I had for some reason expected her to be kind of a more cold and serious character. Of course, her first scene in the first episode proved me wrong, and when I saw it, I knew I was going to like her a lot. She gets a lot of character development, learning to not always overthink things and gaining more confidence in herself as her magic improves.

I like how she grows as a person and as a magician with Mirai’s help, although the fact that Riko receives so much character development again makes it especially noticeable how little of it Mirai receives in comparison, but I won’t get into that again. I also like how her family, her older sister and father in particular, also play important roles in the story. And Riko’s character design is cute too.

Haa-Chan/Kotoha Hanami/Cure Felice

A few episodes into the show, the Cures discover a mysterious glowing book, which turns out to be a magical item called the Linkle Smartome, which is somehow connected to the Linkle Stones the Cures are searching for. A cute, pink haired baby fairy emerges from the book, who gradually gets older as the Cures gather more of the Linkle Stones. They name the baby fairy Haa-Chan and raise her together.

In the first half of the show, Haa-Chan is basically the second fairy mascot on the team. She’s really adorable, and I love her relationships with the Cures and Mofurun. She’s essentially Mirai and Riko’s adopted daughter, while Mofurun is her older sister, and I really like that dynamic between them.

It eventually becomes apparent that Haa-Chan is much more powerful than she initially appeared to be, and once all the gold rimmed and silver rimmed Linkle Stones have been gathered, she disappears into the Smartome. When the Smartome is absorbed by Dokurokushe (along with the Linkle Stone Emerald) while Haa-Chan is still inside, Mirai and Riko fight hard to rescue her.

As her mothers’ feelings reach her, Haa-Chan is able to escape Dokurokushe’s body, allowing the Cures to defeat him. She then emerges from the Smartome, growing into a young girl about the same age as Mirai and Riko, and purifies what remains of Dokurokushe’s spirit, restoring Kushi’s spirit’s original human form. She then disappears to parts unknown, but Mofurun is certain they’ll meet again someday.

Later on, a now human Haa-Chan is seen wandering around in the No-Magic World, seeming lost. When she comes across Cure Miracle and Magical during one of their battles against Yamoh, she reveals that she still has the Smartome, and uses the Linkle Stone Emerald with it to become the third Pretty Cure, Cure Felice. After Cure Felice defeats the monster, Mirai and Riko recognize the young girl as Haa-Chan, who confirms her identity. She isn’t entirely sure herself where she had disappeared to or how she came back, but she faintly recalls a place she refers to as a sea of flowers.

The Cures bring her home to Mirai’s house, and explain the situation to Kochou, before asking Mirai’s mother if she can stay with them, claiming she’s another friend from Riko’s hometown. Haa-Chan gives herself the name Kotoha, with Riko adding Hanami as a surname when Mirai’s mother asks for her name. Kotoha explains she chose the name “Kotoha” because it is part of a word that means... “words”, and she felt it was fitting since Mirai, Riko and Mofurun had always shared such kind words with her. Kotoha is also shown to possess powerful magic, pulling off several feats thought to be impossible according to Riko.

Whether she’s a fairy or human, Kotoha is still just as adorable, and the family dynamic with her and her fellow Cures remains mostly the same, with it now feeling like Mirai and Riko are the parents to an excitable teenage girl. As a human, Kotoha doesn’t always seem to know when to make use of her magic and when it’s better not to, especially in the No-Magic World, although at least she does understand that she mustn’t be caught doing it by anyone from the No-Magic World. She means well, though.

What is especially fascinating about Kotoha’s character at this point is that she’s implied to be the reincarnation of someone, as she wonders if she saw at the sea of flowers before she met Mirai and Riko, even though she had just been born when she first met them, and the name of her finishing move is “Emerald Reincarnation”. It is eventually revealed that Kotoha is the reincarnation/successor to Mother Rapapa, a powerful magical entity that watched over the two worlds back when they were still a single world.

I sort of guessed that Kotoha in her past life had likely been a being like that, similar to other such beings from previous Pretty Cure series, like the Queen of the Garden of Light and other such characters. I guess Kotoha/Cure Felice reminds me a bit of Shiny Luminous from Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart in that aspect. Also, I’m really glad she’s a green Cure. There aren’t enough Pretty Cures who have green as their theme color.

With the Linkle Stone Emerald being this important plot point in the first half of the show, and some of the other most common theme colors for Pretty Cures already being covered by the alternate forms for Miracle and Magical, I always hoped that if the show got a third Cure, it’d be a green one. It certainly did not disappoint. I really like Cure Felice’s design. She’s so awesome. I also like the little flowers in her eyes in her fairy form and as Cure Felice. Sort of adds to the feeling that she’s a bit different from the other Cures.

Mofurun

The not-actually-a-fairy mascot of the series, who doubles as the transformation trinket of sorts for Cure Miracle and Cure Magical. She was originally just Mirai’s beloved teddybear, but somehow came to life when Mirai and Riko became Pretty Cures. She’s excited to be alive and share all her feelings with Mirai that she couldn’t convey back when she was just a regular teddybear. She also develops sort of a sisterly bond with Haa-Chan/Kotoha, and is fond of sweets, especially cookies.

I like Mofurun and her bond with the Cures. She’s really cute, and the concept of being the main character’s favorite toy brought to life is actually kind of a neat idea. I especially like her interactions with Haa-Chan back when she was a young fairy, I thought those were really cute. I’m glad they still have that bond after Kotoha became human. I really like how dedicated Mofurun is to the other girls, even willing at times to try and protect them even if she can’t actually do that much on her own. Still, the fact that she’s willing to try is pretty cool. There are also times when Mofurun comes across as surprisingly wise for a teddybear, which is also a side of her that I like.

And while I haven’t seen the movie yet, I do have to bring up one thing here, and I’m sure you can guess what that is. One of the plot points of the movie is that Mofurun temporarily becomes a Cure herself during it. And like some other people out there, this fact is what made me realize that Mofurun is in fact female. Up until this became known, I had been referring to Mofurun with male pronouns in my episode review posts. I guess it was kind of vague until that point what gender Mofurun identified as since there were only a few easily missed clues, but anyways...

I can’t help but wonder if the concept for the movie came from one of the writers wondering if Mofurun would feel left out after Kotoha became a Pretty Cure.

Well, all joking aside, it’s an interesting idea, although again, since I haven’t seen the movie, I can’t really go into much detail about Cure Mofurun at the moment.

The Villains

All right, let’s talk about the villains. I think the show did something a bit interesting this time around, something a Pretty Cure show hasn’t done in quite a while. This show obviously takes a lot of inspiration from the first few series in the franchise, but that’s something I’ll talk about more later.

Anyways, let’s begin by talking about the villains from the first half of the show, namely Dokurokushe and his followers.

The first villain introduced is Batty, a fairly standard first villain who looks like a humanoid bat. While sort of a generic starter villain at first, he gradually gets a bit more interesting in that he’s eventually the only one of the villains to question why they’re doing all this and what Dokurokushe wants, and if Dokurokushe is even really the one in charge, or if Yamoh is just interpreting Dokurokushe’s wishes in his own way for his own purposes. Even so, he remains loyal to Dokurokushe, and is eventually reverted to his original form, a regular bat, after making the rash decision of trying to grab the Linkle Stone Emerald, only to be exposed to it and the other Linkle Stones’ power.

When his humanoid form is later restored by Orba, he suffers an existential crisis since Dokurokushe is no longer around, and he’s rather depressed because he doesn’t feel like there’s really any purpose to his existence anymore. After learning how he and his fellow bad guys, including Dokurokushe himself, were all just unwitting pawns to help bring forth Deusmast’s revival, Batty ends up turning against the other villains, and uses the combined power of his teammates to take down a monster that Orba created.

Afterwards, Batty decides to give up on evil and flies off along with his teammates, being the only one of them to still be in a humanoid form. In the last episode, taking place a few years later, it is shown that he’s now attending Magic School, having been found by Riko who invited him to come there in hopes of helping him find a new purpose in life.

I considered Batty the least interesting of the first group of villains to begin with, but after his character development, I grew to like him a lot more and I’m glad he got a happy ending. I still do prefer the other members of the villain squad design and personality wise, though.

The second villain introduced, Sparda, a female humanoid spider, quickly establishes herself as one of the most savvy villains of the show by stealing Mirai’s pendant right away, preventing her from transforming. Luckily, the girls manage to get it back after obtaining the Ruby Linkle Stone, gaining the first of their alternate forms. Sparda continues to come across as the smartest of the villains, but she can also be rather arrogant and wanting to be the one who gets things done, which ultimately leads to her being the first of Dokurokushe’s followers to be reverted to her animal form.

When Orba later revives her, it’s revealed that Sparda (and the other animals) kept her personality even as a regular spider, and she still holds a grudge against the Cures. She also seems to have decided to become the new big bad, which she of course doesn’t get the chance to do, as she is once again reverted to spider form after turning against Orba. When we see her again a few years later, she’s still a regular spider... who wants the power to rule the worlds.

I thought Sparda was a pretty neat villain, proving herself to be quite genre savvy from the moment she appeared. It was kind of a shame that she was the first to go down, but she did let her desire to beat the Cures get the better of her. And I think her final fate, as a regular spider who still wants to the rule the two worlds is kind of funny. She certainly isn’t the type to give up easily.

The third villain, Gamett, a big turtle man, is my favorite of this group. He’s kind of like Kintolesky and Kumojacky, being this villain who is mostly looking for a good fight. I really like his design a lot too. I thought his final battle against the Cures during the first half of the show was probably the best of the final battles between the Cures and those bad guys in the first half of the show. He got a good fight, and had no regrets as he was purified. Much like the villains I mentioned that were similar to him, I thought it was a good moment for him.

Apparently, he still has his strength even as a regular turtle, as we see him in turtle form fighting a shark before Sparda scoops him up to have Orba revive him. Heh. Like Batty, he’s initially not that thrilled to be brought back, since he had already had his big final battle against the Cures. That is, until Sparda reveals to him that there’s a third Pretty Cure, at which point he decides he’ll have one more battle against Cure Felice. Unfortunately, he’s denied the chance to have a proper fight against her, since Orba has other plans. After the time skip, we see that regular turtle!Gamett still wants that battle. I wonder if he’ll ever get that chance. Unlike Sparda, I don’t think he’d be that much of a threat to the peace of the two worlds if he got his humanoid form back. Oh, well.

Anyways, I thought these three villains were okay. I liked how they were all transformed animals, and their designs were creative. I know most people prefer the second group of villains, but I liked these guys too.

There’s also a fourth member of this group, the humanoid gecko Yamoh, who is Dokurokushe’s right hand man. He’s very loyal to Dokurokushe, and wants to fulfill his wishes. Of course, since Dokurokushe spends most of the first half of the show barely doing anything, some of us viewers were led to believe that Yamoh was the real villain, much like how Gooyan was the true villain of Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star. Even Batty ends up speculating if this is the case, until it’s proven wrong, so the writers certainly did it on purpose, likely as a bit of a reference to said twist about the true villain of Splash Star.

When Dokurokushe finally obtains the Emerald and takes on a stronger form, Yamoh willingly lets himself be absorbed to give Dokurokushe more power. He loses part of his tail in the process, which Labut later finds and uses to resurrect him.

For the first few episodes of the second half of the show, Yamoh is upset and furious upon realizing Dokurokushe has been defeated, and tries to go after the Cures himself, using what remains of Dokurokushe to create new monsters to fight them. He also makes a doll in Dokurokushe’s likeness which he is often seen talking to.

... Yeah. Anyways, he seems to go after Kotoha/Cure Felice in particular, since she has the Emerald, which is what Dokurokushe was after. This leads to an episode where Kotoha runs away because she fears something will happen to her friends if Yamoh keeps going after her. Yamoh is eventually purified and reverted to his normal gecko form, his last words being, of course, “DOKUROKUSHE-SAMA!”

Even in gecko form, he stays by the side of the Dokurokushe doll, until Batty combines the powers of his animal friends to fight back against Orba, who had used them all for his own purposes, and when Batty takes them all away. He later returns and is restored to his humanoid form in the final episode, chasing after a fragment of Dokurokushe that is looking for sweets. After the Cures helps the doll-like fragment by healing a cavity, Yamoh parts with the Cures on peaceful terms, and is later seen meeting up again with Batty.

Yamoh is kind of an interesting character, I think. I preferred his second design after being revived by Labut over his original design, but both designs are okay. While his main defining trait is his devotion to Dokurokushe, we also see that he is quite clever and possesses some form of divination magic. He’s also the first of the villains to realize the significance of the Linkle Smartome in the Cures’ possession, which is why he orders them to prioritize obtaining it.

Finally, there’s Dokurokushe himself, a large skeleton wearing a robe. He spends most of the series on his throne, because the dark magic he’s been using has left his body on the verge of falling apart, and he needs the Emerald to keep it together, justifying his lack of action in the beginning. We eventually learn Dokurokushe’s backstory, which contains quite the irony.

Dokurokushe was originally a friend of Kochou, the headmaster of the Magic School. He wanted to find the Linkle Stone Emerald in order to ward off a great calamity. He came across several writings that Orba had left for someone to find, and started studying dark magic in hopes of stopping the calamity. But in doing so, Kushi gradually became corrupted, until he ended up in his current state, and ended up becoming a major threat to the two worlds himself. To make it even worse, it turns out his actions were all according to Orba’s plan to bring back Deusmast, so Kushi basically ended up as an unwitting pawn and his actions gradually led to the calamity that he sought to prevent. Ouch.

So, from what we learn about this guy from flashbacks and such, he seems like an interesting character who used to be a close friend of Kochou. After Dokurokushe’s defeat in the first half of the show, Kochou still misses his friend dearly. Even after his defeat, Kushi/Dokurokushe’s presence can still be felt that way, and I thought it was an interesting way to do it.

Another thing I like is how after the defeat of Dokurokushe and his minions, we learn that the threat to the Magic and No-Magic Worlds still hasn’t been averted, and another group of villains make their appearance, and we eventually learn about the true final boss of this show: Deusmast.

The Pretty Cure franchise hasn’t really done this kind of thing before, by having a different main villain in the second half of the show. We did have a different group of villains replace the original band of villains in the second half of Futari wa Pretty Cure, but those were still working for and trying to ressurrect the Dark King after his defeat in the first half of the series. Here on the other hand, Dokurokushe stays defeated and we learn the true big bad is somebody else. I just think it was pretty neat that they did this, mixing up the usual formula and doing something a bit different. The first group of villains eventually turning out to be part of the second group’s plan was also an interesting twist and it ties together pretty well.

Anyways, onto the second group of villains. I’ll start with the first of them to be introduced, Labut.

Labut, a big orange genie, appears shortly after the defeat of Dokurokushe. As he’s a bit of a lazy character, he brings back Yamoh and spends the first episodes of the second half of the show observing Yamoh’s battles against the Cures. Once Yamoh is defeated and Labut starts taking matter into his own hands, it turns out he’s actually quite powerful. In addition to being able to create stronger monsters than the previous group of villains, he himself manages to give the Cures quite the challenge when he decides to confront them directly. In the end, the Cures are able to defeat him after gaining the power of the Alexandrite Linkle Stone and unlock the new finishing move from the Rainbow Carriage, defeating him.

Labut is kind of interesting, with his lazy personality and preferring to just take it easy, seeming less interested in helping revive Deusmast than the rest of Deusmast’s followers. He mostly observes Yamoh out of curiousity to begin with, before deciding to let Yamoh keep doing his work for him. He also seems to have a bit of pride in his powers, and mainly confronts the Cures to prove his strength.

After Labut’s defeat, we are properly introduced to two of Deusmast’s other followers, who initially appear as shadows, eventually regaining their physical forms after they fully break free from the statues they were sealed in.

The first of these is Shakince. He’s sort of a stoic, serious type. He has green skin and wings, looking kind of like a tengu. The other one is Benigyo, a red skinned woman with a devil-ish look, who seems to have a bit more of an attitude.

... I can’t actually think of much to say about these two. Their designs are pretty neat, especially Benigyo’s. Aside from that, I can’t think of much else that makes them stand out. I’ve seen people complain about the first group of villains and how the second group are much more interesting, but I feel the first group stood out more personality wise than these two characters.

However, at least we have Orba, the sort of leader of the group. In a way, I’d consider Orba to be the true main villain of the show, since he’s the one who planned everything leading up to Deusmast’s revival.

Ah, Orba. Probably the most well-liked villains of this particular series, from what I can tell. His design is pretty neat, and he’s clearly the most intelligent villain in this series, doing his research on the Pretty Cures and as mentioned above, set the events of the series in motion by leaving behind the key to the dark magic as he was defeated, leading to Kushi’s corruption years later. He almost always keeps a calm and collected demeanour, and is capable of quickly adjusting his plans when something unexpected happens. Even when the Cures defeat him, he uses the last of his power to unseal the remainder of Deusmast’s still sealed away followers and speed up Deusmast’s revival.

Yeah, I definitely agree that this guy is probably the best villain in this series. He knows what he’s doing and takes the time to learn what he can about those who try to interfere with his plans. Even when he’s defeated, he manages to make the best of the situation by reviving the rest of Deusmast’s followers. On that note, his powered-up form for his final battle against the Cures looked really badass.

Finally, there’s our main villain itself, Deusmast. It is revealed that before the universe was created, only a world of chaos existed. When the universe was created, a fragment of chaos wasn’t properly reborn like the rest of it, which became Deusmast. Deusmast is the embodiment of chaos that wants to absorb both worlds. Deusmast was defeated by Mother Rapapa, who sealed it away into the sun.

Deusmast doesn’t have much of a personality to speak of, but I feel that this is a justified case, considering what Deusmast is. However, what is really interesting about Deusmast is how his presence affects the two worlds, the Magic World in particular, as the time for his return gradually comes closer. Due to his presence within the sun, certain plants in the Magic World don’t get enough sun to properly grow as they should. I thought that was a nice touch. And then there’s what happens to the two worlds the moment Deusmast is freed.

Mirai, Riko, Kotoha and Mofurun find that the two worlds have somehow been combined, with everyone they know from both worlds acting as if things have always been like that. Even Kochou and Lian’s memories seemed to have been affected, as they didn’t realize how far the chaos had already spread until the girls informed them. Thankfully, Mother Rapapa’s remaining power kept Deusmast from fully consuming the worlds, giving the Cures enough time to fight back.

So, Deusmast does make a good final threat for the Cures to defeat, even if he’s more of a powerful force of chaos rather than a character. With that and his followers seeming to make up part of him, I guess that’s another reason why I might consider Orba to be the true big bad, as I explained earlier.

Other Characters

Ah, as those of you familiar with me probably know by now, I really like the supporting characters of most Pretty Cure series, and this series certainly brings some great characters from both worlds.

In the No-Magic World, the first few characters we are introduced to aside from Mirai herself are Mirai’s mother and grandmother, with Mirai’s father being introduced later on.

Mirai’s grandmother, Kanoko Yuki, immediately comes across as an interesting character, as she seems to be aware of the existence of magic to some extent, believing Mirai when she calls home to let them know she’s visiting the Magic World and will be away for a little while. We eventually find out that Mirai’s grandmother once met Kochou when she was about Mirai’s age, an encounter she fondly remembers. She also seems to recognize Kochou when the two briefly meet again a couple of times during the Halloween episode.

While she never quite reaches the same level of badass as some of the other grandparent characters who are either implied to be aware of their granddaughters’ magical girl activities, or outright aware and part of their adventure, she’s still an interesting character who knows her granddaughter well and shares some of her wisdom. Kanoko was also the one who gave Mofurun to Mirai the day Mirai was born.

Mirai’s mother, Kyoko Asahina, runs a shop selling jewelry and is a nice woman who can be strict when she has to. When Mirai wants to look for the “shooting star” she saw, Kyoko refuses to let her head out since it is nighttime. When Mirai heads out to look for it the next day, she allows Mirai to pick out a pendant for good luck, leading Mirai to discover the mysterious pendant that Kyoko didn’t even know they had. She’s kind to Riko when she and Mirai return from the Magic World, and Riko has gotten lost after being separated from Mirai. When Mirai later returns home, she calls Mirai out on going away for a while without telling her, and that just telling her grandmother isn’t enough.

We soon meet Mirai’s father, Daikichi Asahina, a doting father who creates electronic devices for a living. He’s quite proud of the devices he makes, and will gladly explain how they work.

Mirai’s parents are both good parents to Mirai, and also treat Riko and Kotoha well when they come to live with them. I guess Mirai’s good relationship with her family is also meant to be a bit of a contrast to Riko’s relationship with her family members, which is a bit more complicated. I like these characters and their good relationship with Mirai and the other two girls.

Next, there’s a few of the girls’ classmates from the school in the No-Magic World.

First, there’s Souta, an athletic boy who plays soccer. He and Mirai have been classmates since primary school. He’s also captain of the soccer team, and in one episode, Kotoha helps him sort things out with his teammates. He’s sort of a typical male friend of the pink lead Cure, although the whole childhood friend aspect isn’t really touched upon as much. Still, he’s a nice boy. I particularly like how he helped out Yuuto, another one of their classmates, during the episode where Yuuto and Riko were running for student council president.

Speaking of Yuuto, he’s another of their friends. He’s sort of the quiet, intelligent type. He gets an episode focusing on him where he runs against Riko for student council president. During the episode, we see that he knows a lot about what goes on in the school and does what he can to help out, eventually leading to Riko deciding to withdraw from running for the position since she realizes that Yuuto is the better candidate. So yeah, he’s a really nice character. Yuuto and Souta don’t get as much focus and character development as the next two characters I’m about to talk about, though.

First up is Mayumi, a girl introduced as a friend of Mirai’s. A flashback shows how the two became friends after Mirai helped Mayumi find her missing hair pin. In later episodes, we also see Mayumi developing a closer friendship with Kana, another one of the classmates. She’s a mostly calm, polite and a supportive friend. I particularly liked how she and Kana eventually grew closer.

Speaking of Kana, she probably gets the most development out of these four classmates. Her first appearances put her as the subject of a running gag, where she keeps witnessing Mirai and Riko’s magic, but being unable to get anyone to believe her, and Mirai and Riko trying to think of excuses for what she saw. After a while, Kana eventually seems to evolve into a secret chaser, actively seeking proof of the existence of magicians.

During one episode, Mayumi eventually asks why Kana is so interested in finding proof that magicians exist, and Kana reveals that this isn’t the first time she’s had experiences like this. When she was younger, she also saw things like UFOs and such, but nobody would believe her when she told them. This led her to start doubting herself, even though she had been convinced of what she saw. She wants to find proof of the existence of the magicians she keeps seeing so she can believe in herself more. When she and Mayumi both see Mirai, Riko and Kotoha flying away on their brooms later that day, Mayumi says she saw them too and that Kana was right, much to her delight.

Then in the Christmas episode, Kana and Mayumi encounter the Cures when they get in trouble after running into Benigyo. After the Cures rescue them, Kana and Mayumi both agree to keep their existence a secret from others.

I really grew to like Kana, particularly once we learned her backstory and reason for growing so obsessed with magicians after repeatedly witnessing Mirai and Riko’s magic at work. Like I said earlier, I also really liked the close friendship she and Mayumi eventually developed. I thought it was really sweet that Kana was able to find a friend as supportive as her.

Next, I’ll talk about some of the recurring characters from the Magic World.

I’ll start with Kochou, the principal of the Magic School. He’s one of the few characters to know the identity of the Cures, and is actively seeking information about the villains threatening the two worlds and how to stop them with the help of Cassie the crystal ball. Most of the time, he looks like a typical pretty boy with long, white/silver hair, but no one is entirely sure how old he is. When he runs low on magic, he can’t retain this form and reverts to an old man.

As mentioned before, Kochou also has a history with Dokurokushe, as the two were close friends back when Dokurokushe was an ordinary magician named Kushi. In the first half of the show, it is mentioned that Kochou rarely uses his magic. It turns out this is because he’s been saving up as much as possible for his eventual confrontation with Dokurokushe. Kochou still thinks of Kushi as his friend, and misses him a lot.

I really like Kochou. His design, both his normally seen young form, and his older form seen when he is low on magic is pretty neat. I like the way he keeps trying to gather more info on what the villains are up to, and his bond with Kushi was really heartfelt and interesting, playing a big part in Kochou’s motivations.

Next, I think I’ll talk about Riko’s family. The first member of Riko’s family that we are introduced to is her older sister, Liz. Liz is a talented magician, and is working as a teacher at the Magic School. Riko has always looked up to Liz, her role model. However, Riko being unable to use magic as well as Liz seems to have caused a small rift between the two, as Riko doesn’t feel she can measure up to her. Liz has always believed in Riko, though, and has since Riko received her wand believed that Riko was destined for great things, which is also a reason she gave Riko her pendant, since it originally seemed to have been given to Liz.

I really like Liz. She’s a nice girl and seems to be a pretty good teacher, even if Riko doesn’t seem to have known at first how much Liz really believed in her. They soon manage to sort that out, and Liz later on tells Riko the story of how Riko received her wand as a baby when a shooting star hit the Wand Tree, and produced Riko’s wand. Despite the initial difficulties due to Riko’s problems with magic, it does seem like Liz is the family member Riko is closest to since their parents both seem to be busy with work much of the time. Liz’s design is nice too.

The second member of Riko’s family that we are properly introduced to is Riko’s family. We first see him outside of flashbacks in the second half of the series, where we find out that he is currently in the No-Magic World, doing research to help Kochou find out more about the villains and the connection between the two worlds. He later visits his daughter and informs her, Mirai and Kotoha of what he has been doing. Since he seems more interested in the Linkle Stones and his research rather than seeing his daughter, Riko is initially not too pleased. She and the other girls are also surprised to find out that Kochou had told Lian of their identities as Cures.

After a conversation with Mirai’s father and Kotoha, Lian considers how to sort things out with Riko, only for the villains to show up. Lian defends Riko, and Riko as Cure Magical fights to defend her father. The two talk things out before Lian leaves to continue his research elsewhere. He later visits again along with Liz and Lilia on Riko’s birthday.

I like Lian. His design is pretty neat, and I like his character. He is clearly quite invested in his research. While his work often keeps him from being able to see her all that often, he clearly cares a lot about Riko and is proud of her. She also cares about him, even if she doesn’t always find his work as interesting as he does.

And finally, there’s Riko’s mother, Lilia. She first appears outside of flashbacks when she comes for a surprise visit along with Lian and Liz on Riko’s birthday. Lilia is a talented cook, and even seems to have become the host of a cooking show in the No-Magic World. While visiting Riko and the others, she makes plenty of food for Riko’s birthday party, including making Riko’s favorite chocolate cake. She is also proud to see how much Riko has improved her magic skill when the two use magic to clean the dishes together. While Riko initially thinks her mother is going a bit overboard with everything on her birthday, she still appreciates it.

We don’t see as much of Lilia as we do with Liz and Lian, who have bigger roles in the plot, but we still get a pretty good look at her character. She’s clearly a nice woman who cares a lot about her family, and likes to make others happy with the food she makes.

Next up, I’d like to talk about the Cures’ classmates from the Magic World, namely Jun, Emily and Kei. We first meet and get to know these three characters as they attend supplementary classes along with Mirai and Riko.

Jun is a blue haired tomboy-ish character, who is actually quite skilled with magic, but had to take supplementary classes due to a low attendance. We later learn the reason for this is because she is fascinated by the No-Magic World, and would sneak away to visit it. She is interested in art and fashion, and wants to live in the No-Magic World when she gets older and work as an expert of culture and fashion.

I really like Jun a lot. Her character development went in a different direction than I initially expected, and I really like the route they took with her. She has already figured out what she wants to do with her life, and is working towards that goal.

Then there’s Emily, a blonde girl with glasses who seems to be easily frightened, with the main problem being her fear of heights preventing her from flying a broom properly. Throughout the series, she overcomes this, eventually becoming a really skilled flier and even gaining a liscence to fly a flying carpet. She also wants to be a hairdresser.

I think Emily is quite adorable, and it’s fun watching her character development as the other girls inspire her to overcome her fears, and she becomes more confident as time goes on.

And finally, there’s Kei (or Kay?), a girl with short, red hair who is quite forgetful, frequently forgetting to bring certain things needed for the different classes she attends with the other girls. After Mirai helps her out by writing a list of things she needed to remember for the final test they needed to pass their supplementary classes, Kei develops a habit of writing things down, helping her remember things. This leads her to discover that she likes writing down things she learns and wants to find some career where she can incorporate these skills.

Kei is cute too, and I like how Mirai helped her figure out how to remember things more easily by writing them down. With the interest she developed in talking to people and writing down the things she learned, I get the impression that Kei could possibly become a journalist or something in the future.

I really like these three girls and their friendships with Mirai, Riko, Mofurun and Kotoha. I’m sure I’m not the only one who wished they’d learn the Cures’ identities and maybe assist them in battle at some point. Still, watching how they gradually develop and grow as characters and learning more about them was a lot of fun, and they’re among my favorite recurring characters in this series.

There are also a few other recurring characters, such as a couple other members of the school staff and some of the people in the town, as well as some characters the girls meet during their tests early on.

We’ve got the vice-principal, who is sort of this strict teacher character. There’s also Isaac, one of the older teachers at the school, who frequently loses his dentures and seems to have trouble remembering exactly how many years he’s been working as a teacher at the school. These two aren’t all that important, but they do provide some funny moments here and there.

Among the people living in the Magic World’s town, the first person to come to mind is Francois, the owner of the clothing store. He’s a magician in touch with his feminine side, and does make a few of the items worn by our heroines, including Mirai’s school uniform for Magic School and the cute casual outfit Riko wears when she goes to the No-Magic World. He also provides some insight on magicians who secretly live in the No-Magic World in an episode when he joins Jun, Emily and Kei on a trip to the No-Magic World.

Then there’s Gustav, who runs the broom store. He helps repair Riko’s broom, helps pick one out for Mirai and even customizes the two brooms to match.

I like these two characters, particularly with how well they seem to know and understand Riko and how they friendly they are to her and Mirai. Flashbacks suggest they have known Riko since she was little, which is really sweet.

There’s also a young guy who runs a fruit stal,l and an old man who likes to tell old legends, notably telling the girls the legend that turned out to be connected to the Ruby Linkle Stone in episode 3.

Mirai and Riko also meet some interesting characters during their field trips during supplementary classes, namely the mermaids and the pegasi.

The first mermaid we are properly introduced is Loretta, a mermaid teacher who assists with one of the tests the girls have to pass in order to clear their supplementary classes. The girls soon also meet three young mermaids by the names of Dorothy, Nancy and Cissy, who are initially too shy to approach them, but are impressed when Riko accidentally turns a fruit into a firework.

The three young mermaids explain how they’ve never been on land before, and are fascinated by how Mirai and Riko are such good friends despite being from two different worlds. They show them a secret area in the Mermaid Village, which contains a giant shell that later opens up to reveal the Sapphire Linkle Stone. The Sapphire forms give Cure Miracle and Magical the ability to fly, similarly to how mermaids according to legend were said to be able to gain the ability to fly. The young mermaids are inspired by Mirai and Riko, and express an interest in seeing more of the world above the water someday.

I really like mermaids, so I was pleased to have some as recurring characters in this series. Loretta has a nice design, and those three young mermaids are adorable. Dorothy’s design reminded me a bit of Cure Echo, probably because of her hair decoration.

There’s also a particular pegasus and its foal that Mirai and Riko befriend in one episode. They end up having to rescue the mother pegasus after Sparda combines her with part of a plant for the Yokubaru of the week. The foal manages to reach out to its mother for a brief moment, and Cure Miracle uses the newly obtained Linkle Stone Pink Tourmalline (the only time she used it before it got passed on to Cure Felice in the second half of the series) to free her from the monster, separating her from the Yokubaru and thus allowing her and Cure Magical to finish the Yokubaru off without hurting the pegasus.

There’s not much else to say about the pegasi. Their designs are nice, and they do show up once in a while to help out our heroines, which is nice.

Finally, the last noteworthy character I should talk about is Chikurun, a bee-like fairy who is introduced working for Orba, although as his sub-plot goes on, it becomes clearer that Chikurun is mostly motivated by fear. Orba makes him spy on the Cures to gather information for him, but things get a little complicated once the Cures discover his presence. He manages to come up with a cover story to earn the girls’ sympathy, and starts getting closer to Mofurun, who he had identified as somehow important to the Cures. He’s surprised to learn that Mofurun is a living teddybear and not a fairy, and continues to get closer to her and the Cures while spying on them for Orba.

Of course, like most Pretty Cure villains who try to infiltrate the Cures’ group, Chikurun gradually starts to feel conflicted as he grows to appreciate the Cures’ kindness and finds himself growing closer to them, especially with Mofurun. Eventually, he agrees to steal the Linkle Stones and Smartome from the Cures so they can’t transform, on the condition that the other villains promise not to harm the Cures. However, after Shakince breaks this promise and exposes Chikurun’s position as a spy to the Cures, Chikurun ends up fully switching sides, retrieving the Topaz and Emerald Linkle Stones and the Smartome from Shakince.

The Cures don’t hold Chikurun’s actions as Orba’s spy against him, since he did put himself in danger to get the stolen items back and apologized for what he did. The girls are able to bring Chikurun back to the fairy village, where he’s able to make up with the Fairy Queen despite his earlier concerns of what she would do to him if she found out what he’d been up to. The girls also learn about the backstory of the two worlds and Mother Rapapa while in the fairy village, and promise to meet Chikurun again someday as they leave the village at the end of the episode.

I really like Chikurun and his little sub-plot. His friendship with Mofurun in particular was really sweet. He tends to be kind of grumpy and is a bit of a coward, but after spending some time getting to know the Cures, he was able to improve himself a little, defying the villains and confront the Fairy Queen.

So, yeah. I thought this series had a lot of great supporting characters in both worlds, and I enjoyed seeing their interactions with the Cures, as well as their own little sub-plots.

Overall Thoughts

I really enjoyed this series. I liked the magician and gem stone themes of this series, and of course, there’s a strong focus on the friendship between the characters from the two worlds. We get a lot of world building, and there’s some really creative ideas on the Magic World side of things in particular.

On that note, the various series in the Pretty Cure franchise usually do involve the Cures having to save two worlds. The other world is usually where the fairy mascots come from, with it also having become more common for at least one of the Cures on a team to be from this other world. In most series, we often get glimpses of the other world via flashbacks and episodes centering around the Cures and their fairies visiting the other world. In this series, Mirai and Riko regularly travel between the two worlds, which allows the viewers to build an even stronger connection to both worlds as the girls learn more about each other’s worlds.

There were some really interesting plot points that had me curious to learn more as the series progressed, particularly the mystery of Kotoha/Cure Felice’s past life in the second half of the show, and the sub-plot involving the Linkle Stone spirits and the magic circle within the Rainbow Carriage building up to the final battle against Deusmast. It held my interest and got me really excited to see what it would all build up to. There were some times during the second half of the show that I worried about the number of plot threads and such that would have to be resolved/explained and whether they’d have enough episodes to do it well. However, I figured the writers knew what they were doing, and they did manage to resolve most of it, so it turned out pretty well. I’ll give some more thoughts on the ending a bit later.

This show clearly takes a lot of influence from the first few Pretty Cure series, namely Futari wa Pretty Cure, Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart, and especially Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star. Aside from starting out with two Cures who need to be holding hands in order to transform, there are a lot of moments in the series that bring these first few series of the franchise to mind.

The first half of the show features the girls searching for something, in this case, the Linkle Stones, similarly to how Nagisa and Honoka’s mission in the first half of Futari wa Pretty Cure revolved around reclaiming and protecting the Prism Stones. There are also twelve Linkle Stones in total, while Max Heart had twelve Heartiels that the girls needed to find.

Mirai and Riko later gain a third member, just like Nagisa and Honoka did in Max Heart when Hikari joined them. In fact, earlier I compared Kotoha/Cure Felice to Hikari/Shiny Luminous. They are both reincarnations/aspects of a powerful being that protected their world, who fought against the big bad and ended up sacrificing themselves in some way. The scenes in episode 22 of the now human Kotoha in a forest, seemingly lost, reminded me a lot of the first few scenes we saw of Hikari in Max Heart, after she first appeared in the Garden of Rainbows after being split off from the Queen, unsure of her identity and purpose.

This series also did something a bit unusual for the Pretty Cure series by having Dokurokushe be defeated in episode 21, and stay defeated, with it turning out the true big bad is someone else as we are introduced to a new group of villains. This development is similar to the second half of Futari wa Pretty Cure, where a new trio of villains were introduced after Cure Black and Cure White had taken out all of the Dark King’s minions and the Dark King himself, although these villains were still connected to the Dark King as they were meant to resurrect him.

I like how this show did things by having Dokurokushe turn out not to be the big bad, giving the Cures an entirely different set of enemies for the second half of the show. I thought it was a nice twist. Of course, it turns out Dokurokushe and his followers were part of Orba’s plan to revive Deusmast, and I thought this was another neat twist that helped show how everything was connected.

Anyways, I also often got a Splash Star feel from this show, which probably led to some of the speculation relating to Dokurokushe and Yamoh’s connection being something like the plot twist of Splash Star, where it turned out that the apparent second-in-command Gooyan was the true big bad and Akudaikahn was just his pawn. Since Dokurokushe mostly just sat on his throne and didn’t speak for a while, some people suspected that this was a similar case, and that the true big bad was Yamoh. This even came up in the show itself when Batty began to wonder if this was the case.

Of course, as I mentioned earlier, it turned out there was an entirely different reason why Dokurokushe had been so quiet up until that point. I thought this subversion of expectations was a great little nod to Splash Star. The villain designs also seem a bit similar to the villain designs from Splash Star in some ways.

Also, in the last few episodes, Orba bringing back Batty, Sparda and Gamett is pretty similar to how Gooyan brought back the villains previously defeated by Cure Bloom and Cure Egret in the last few episodes of Splash Star.

Other aspects seen in both series is that they both feature a particular tree that is somehow important and seems to connect both worlds in some way. The Cures also have different forms in these series, with Splash Star being the first Pretty Cure series to introduce the concept of Cures having different forms when Saki and Mai gained the Cure Bright and Cure Windy forms.

The concept of different forms also returned in Happiness Charge Pretty Cure, but is seemed rather underused, with it usually just being used for one attack and there were only a few times we got to see more of what those alternate forms were capable of. Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure also uses multiple forms by having four different gold rimmed Linkle Stones that Cure Miracle and Magical can use, alternating between them in each episode after getting them.

I really like what the series did with the alternate forms concept, giving each of Cure Miracle and Cure Magical’s different forms unique abilities. This allows for them to use the one that best fits their current situation. Each form has a different style, and I really love the visuals for the transformation sequences and how they even gave each sequence a different variation on the theme playing during it.

We start out with the Diamond form, the form Mirai and Riko obtain when they first become Cures. It has their color schemes, with Mirai dressed in pink and Riko in purple. It seems to be pretty average in strength, and allows the two of them to use the silver rimmed Linkle Stones for spells after obtaining them. The transformation sequence and theme is pretty basic. The Diamond Linkle Stones are the Linkle Stones of light.

I think their outfits are really cute, and Cure Magical’s in particular has some elements I’d expect from a typical witch outfit. Naturally, this form is also usually used during the important plot-related episodes, which is to be expected.

The second form, Ruby style, is obtained in episode 3. With a more dynamic fire-themed transformation sequence and theme, the girls change into their Ruby forms which grants them super strength. The Ruby Linkle Stone is the Linkle Stone of passion.

Again, the outfits are really cute. The fire and passion theme of the Ruby Linkle Stone might be a little nod to Cure Rouge from Yes! Pretty Cure 5, which is pretty neat.

The third form, the Sapphire style, is obtained in episode 7. With an elegant water-themed transformation sequence, the girls gain the ability to fly when in Sapphire form. The Sapphire Linkle Stone is the Linkle Stone of Calmness.

I think the Sapphire form outfits is my favorite of the alternate forms. Cure Miracle and Cure Magical both look good in blue, and I like how well it compliments their main color schemes (pink and white for Miracle, and purple and black for Magical) really well. I guess I just really like the aquatic style.

Finally, they obtain the Linkle Stone Topaz in episode 11, gaining the Topaz style. The transformation sequence is more whimsical in tone, and the Topaz forms themselves look a bit goofier than the other forms as well, with the candy themed accessories. When in Topaz form, the Cures each have two glowing orbs of energy hovering near them, which they can shape into anything they can imagine. The finishing move is electricity based. The Topaz Linkle Stone is the Linkle Stone of excitement.

The ability granted by the Topaz form is probably my favorite of the different powers granted by the different forms, simply due to how creative one can be with it. And we certainly do get some pretty creative moments in the battles where this form is used, although I feel they probably could’ve come up with even more interesting battle tricks with this power than we got to see in the show proper. Also, part of me can’t help but wonder if these forms, with the whole candy theme and all, may have helped inspire Kira Kira Pretty Cure A La Mode.

Cure Felice only has one form, the Emerald form. Her transformation sequence is quite amazing, and I like the battle theme associated with her. Her outfit is naturally more fairy-like compared to that of Miracle and Magical’s witch-like outfits.

Episode 31 has the feelings of the three Cures create an entirely new Linkle Stone, the Alexandrite, which gives all three Cures a new form, which is basically fancier versions of Cure Miracle and Magical’s Diamond forms and Cure Felice’s Emerald form. I really like these powered-up forms, especially how Cure Miracle and Cure Magical gets actual witch hats in this form instead of the cute little witch hat accessory.

So, yeah. I really like the visuals for all the transformations and finishing moves in this series. I think they’re all very nice.

Speaking of the Alexandrite, I mentioned the Rainbow Carriage earlier and how the sub-plot of the Linkle Stone spirits gradually entering the magic circle had me really excited for what kind of final power-up they were building up to. Well, I think it needs to be mentioned that the way the Cures obtain the Rainbow Carriage in the first place is without a doubt one of the strangest ways a Pretty Cure team has ever obtained one of their power-up items.

In most Pretty Cure series, the Cures usually go on some quest and/or must pass a test of some sorts to gain their power-up item. In this series, episode 29 has Mirai, Riko and Kotoha end up having the same dream (thanks to some magic from the Linkle Smartome) about being in the story of Cinderella, after having talked about Cinderella exists in both the No-Magic and the Magic Worlds, but the two versions of the story are a bit different, with the Magic World’s version featuring the Fairy Godmother as the protagonist rather than Cinderella.

Yes! Pretty Cure 5 and Smile Pretty Cure have previously each done an episode where the Cures in some way end up in the story of Cinderella, but the Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure take on this plot takes the weirdness up a notch. For starters, Mirai isn’t the one who ends up in the role of Cinderella. Mofurun is.

I’ve already talked about this episode before, so I won’t talk about the whole thing here. Anyways, at the climax of the episode, Mirai, Riko and Kotoha try to get back to their own world, but their carriage and the bridge they’re on begins to fall apart. Mofurun comes to the rescue, using the magic of the glass shoes to become a magic user, who transforms their carriage into the Rainbow Carriage, creating a rainbow bridge for them to ride on. When Mirai, Riko and Kotoha wake up in the morning, they find that the Rainbow Carriage from their dream has mysteriously appeared in their room. Yeah. It was a strange episode.

While it was certainly a fun episode, I do hope the next series returns to the usual formula of the heroes having to go on a quest or pass some test in order to get the power-up item of the season. At least it took two more episodes for the heroines to actually activate the magic of the Rainbow Carriage, though, and they did have to deal with and overcome some worries in order to gain the Linkle Stone Alexandrite to go along with it, so at least that was pretty awesome.

Well, with that, I think I’ve covered most of the stuff I wanted to talk about so far, so I think it’s about time to talk about the last few episodes and the ending.

We get a lot of build-up for the last few episodes, with all the emphasis on the bond between the two worlds and how the travelling time between them has mysteriously gotten shorter, how friends still have a connection even as time goes by and they go separate ways, Lian’s research, the backstory reveals about Mother Rapapa and Cure Felice’s connection to her and Orba’s reveal of how he set everything up leading up to Deusmast’s revival.

Mirai, Riko and Kotoha continue to go about their everyday lives, enjoying the time they’re spending together now and not worrying too much about the future. However, with Deusmast’s revival at hand, the girls soon realize there’s not much time to relax. After one final battle against Benigyo, having joined forces with the other followers of Deusmast that were released by Orba, Deusmast himself fully revives. Suddenly waking up back in their own beds, Mirai, Riko, Kotoha and Mofurun discover that the two worlds have somehow merged together.

As they meet up with their friends from both the Magic and No-Magic Worlds, they’re surprised to find that they’re the only ones who have noticed anything unusual, with everybody else acting like this is how it has always been. The Cures quickly go to find Kochou and Lian at the magic school, informing them of what has happened. Kochou and Lian, also not having realized anything out of the ordinary had happened, realize that Deusmast’s chaos has already advanced further than expected at this point. However, Kotoha hears something through the Linkle Smartome, and reveals that part of Mother Rapapa’s spirit still exists within the Wand Tree, and is keeping the world from being completely consumed by chaos with her remaining power.

Kochou informs the girls that defeating Deusmast should return things to normal, but their two worlds may as a result get pushed so far apart that it may be uncertain if they’ll ever be able to see each other again. Even so, the Cures are still determined to face Deusmast, and Kochou delivers a message to the people of both worlds, telling them to believe in the Pretty Cures. After briefly reflecting on all the fun times they’ve had, the girls transform and prepare to begin the final battle. They refuse to let Deusmast absorb everything and reduce it all to chaos. Their determination to protect everyone causes the final two Linkle Stone spirits, representing the Diamond and Emerald Linkle Stones, to finally enter the magic circle within the Rainbow Carriage, completing it.

The final power-up usually grants a new form for either the pink Cure or the entire team, but this time, interestingly enough, the one who gets most of the power-up is Cure Felice, which I guess does make sense considering her role in the story. Cure Miracle and Magical still receive a power-boost for the final battle, while Cure Felice becomes a being similar to Mother Rapapa. Switching between all of their forms, Cure Miracle and Magical fight alongside a giant Cure Felice, and eventually defeat Deusmast.

After the final battle, Mirai and Riko find themselves still floating in space, as a giant Kotoha watches over the still merged worlds that are trying to return to how they were. She says she’ll do her best to return the two worlds to normal, and even if it may take a while, she’s certain all of them will be able to meet again someday before disappearing. As I mentioned in my thoughts on the episode itself, I got an UItimate Madoka vibe from this scene with Kotoha.

With their two worlds once again separated, Mirai and Riko must each return to their own worlds. Riko casts a spell in hopes that they’ll all meet again someday, similarly to something both Kotoha and Mirai had done earlier in the series. They eventually drift apart, floating back to their own worlds. Mirai loses her magic wand, while Mofurun reflects on how grateful she is to Riko for granting her the ability to speak to Mirai and all the fun times they’ve all had before reverting to a normal teddybear.

A few years go by, and we follow Mirai as she and her friends in the No-Magic World are now at college age, and Mirai seems to have some idea of what she wants to do with her life, wanting to explore more of the world. One night, when the moon is similar to how it was on the night Mirai and Riko first met, Mirai takes Mofurun with her to the park. As a branch falls out of a tree, Mirai picks it up and tries casting a spell with it as if it were her wand. After initially commenting on how silly of her it was to do such a thing, she picks it back up and tries a few more times in case her friends from the Magic World are also trying to reach her, calling out that she wants to see them again.

Suddenly, the branch turns into Mirai’s old wand as she floats up into the sky. The snail train from the Magic World suddenly appears, to her surprise. She drops Mofurun, but a familiar magician shows up to pick her up, the now grown-up Riko. Kochou, Jun, Emily and Kei watch from the train as Mirai and Riko finally reunite, with Mofurun returning to life as well. They are soon joined by Kotoha, who unlike the others hasn’t aged at all, and thus they’re all together again. D’aww!

So, yeah. Those episodes were pretty epic. It was awesome seeing Cure Miracle and Cure Magical switching between all their different forms during the final battle, and Cure Felice’s goddess form kind of reminded me of Shiny Luminous once again, and how she was restored to being the Queen of the Garden of Light during the final battle against the revived Dark King.

They could’ve ended it there, and the series would’ve ended in sort of a typical Pretty Cure way, but there’s one more episode, and I’m glad they did have one more episode so that we could find out a bit more about what went on in the Magic World during the time skip as well.

The final episode is mostly Mirai, Riko, Kotoha and Mofurun spending time together like the old times (with Kotoha demonstrating that her magic has gotten even stronger by making Mirai and Riko look like their fourteen year old selves, for some reason), finding out what’s been going on in the Magic World the past few years, and chasing after a fragment of Dokurokushe that seems to be looking for sweets. Yeah, according to Kochou, apparently Kushi had a sweet tooth.

Anyways, we find out that Riko has become a teacher at the magic school, and has made an effort to bring in even more different beings from the Magic World to learn at the school, including the three young mermaids, Dorothy, Nancy and Cissy, who are now teenagers. Nice seeing their older selves there, learning more about the surface. Cassie the crystal ball also implies that Riko may end up being the next principal of the school sometime in the future as well.

We also learn the fates of Batty and the other villains who worked for Dokurokushe, as I mentioned earlier. Batty is now at magic school, looking for a new purpose in life, Sparda still wants to take over both worlds despite being stuck as a regular spider, Gamett still wants that rematch against Cure Felice and Yamoh regains his humanoid form and parts with the Cures on peaceful terms after they help calm down the Dokurokushe fragment.

The Cures also reunite with Chikurun, who happened to get caught up in the chaos and managed to help them retrieve Kotoha’s wand. Nice seeing him again too. Sure was convenient that he happened to be there at that time. He stays with the Cures for the rest of the episode, while they’re handing out strawberry-melon bread to their friends from both worlds.

Perhaps the most surprising part of the final episode was the cameo of Ichika Usami/Cure Whip, who even ended up assisting Cure Miracle, Magical and Felice in stopping the Dokurokushe fragment. The various Pretty Cure series seem to take place in different continuities, only coming together during the All Stars crossover series of movies, so having the lead pink cure of the next upcoming series turn up was a bit of a surprise. Then again, aside from catching up to what everyone had been up to during the time skip, there was quite a bit of focus on sweets in this episode, so I guess having her show up did make sense.

So, yeah. It was a nice send-off episode, even if the main conflict was a bit of a strange one. Still, it was mostly nice seeing everyone again, friends reuniting, finding out what’s been going on with all these characters the past few years, and a glimpse of our next pink lead Cure.

Of course, the series does have some flaws, like Mirai’s lack of visible character development compared to the other Cures, and some of the fight scenes were a bit underwhelming and didn’t really use the different abilities of the Cures to their full potential. However, I still enjoyed this series a lot. It had a lot of call backs to and a similar feeling to the first few series in the franchise while still having its own distinct identity and style.

Well, I guess that’s about everything I have to say about this series. Once again, it’ll be a while before the next one, where I’ll talk about Kira Kira Pretty Cure A La Mode. So, expect that sometime next year after Kira Kira Pretty Cure A La Mode has concluded. In the meantime, I might do some more thoughts on the Pretty Cure movies, like I’ve so far done for the two Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart movies. We’ll see. :)

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