Introduction
To teenager Miyuki Hoshizora, fairy tales are a world of wondrous encounters and happy endings. Inspired by her love for these stories, she lives every day searching for happiness. While running late on her first day of school as a transfer student, Miyuki meets Candy—a mysterious fairy from the world of fairy tales, Märchenland. However, when Candy disappears as quickly as she appeared, Miyuki is left believing the encounter was only a dream.
After an eventful first day, Miyuki finds a mysterious library at school. While combing through the bookshelves, she is transported next to Candy, who claims to be searching for the so-called legendary warriors, Precure. When forced to protect Candy's and everyone else's happiness, Miyuki transforms into "Cure Happy," one of the Precure warriors! As Cure Happy, Miyuki is now tasked with finding the other legendary warriors and protecting the world from destruction, all while possibly discovering her very own happy ending.
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Audience reviews
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EmiNezukoMercury
If there was one word I could use to describe this anime, I’d say adorable. Character designs: Adorable. Storyline: Adorable. Even the attacks are adorable. I also love how it handles different personalities, like making Glitter peace feel shy and a little left out because she’s not the most athletic, and making glitter spring seem tough and athletic, but actually has a big heart. i highly recommend this to sailor moon and any magical girl fan in general. I love how much passion was put into the voice acting, especially with the villains, and i love how fairytales are included in so much.
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Better than Suite , the cast is great and this was made after the earthquake that killed over 20,000 Japanese people
Toei really hit the nail with shows like Kamen Rider Fourze , and Pirate Sentai Gokaiger , Smlie is about getting to the happy endings in life with many hardships to get to it , the villains are also great with this season , one major downside is this season was about Fairy Tales , and yet there not much fairy tales anything in this season , maybe next time , Smlie Precure is a must watch Precure season , don’t watch the dub too , that my review of Smlie Precure
Read at the sourceAniStrawberry
NOTE: I HAVE ONLY WATCHED THE DUB, SINCE I AM NOT YET FINISHED WITH THE ORIGINAL VERSION. KEEP IN MIND.
I always remembered this anime to be the very anime to introduce me to Pretty Cure Franchise, and didn't quite know what pretty cure was until I looked "glitter force". I would remember my confusion on my face when I found that out lol. To be honest, while there were some downsides I would like to explain, overall it was pretty enjoyable for me especially when I was younger and never felt at home with dubs, and I still don't exactly prefer subs over dubs. Both are equally good. However, I will only do the dub as I said at the beginning. So let's start;
STORY:
The story is very good in my honest opinion. The nice thing about this season that set itself apart from the others was the fact…
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To begin the final rating of Smile, I'm going to begin by stating that the season quality has been inconsistent as a whole, which can make this type of analysis somewhat difficult; there are an equal number of moments from the plot that are both highly remarkable (even for a franchise such as Precure) as the number of moments that makes one wonder where exactly they were heading with this season. To begin with, it seems that a lot of elements from the series had potential which never saw the light of day, or rather, weren't accurately touched upon in an in-depth manner. For instance, several elements (such as the various-colored clown noses) weren't utilized to their full potential and seemed to only be used as a plot device in order to increase the difficulty level; however, this never fe…
Read at the sourceCataOrShane
The theme for this Precure season is Fairytales! Stories like Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Momotaro, etc. Can this season replicate that kind of magic?
Visuals:
1) zero creativity in monster design. Every single monster is copy and paste. The first enemy is every enemy for 99% of the episodes.
2) the animation is usually consistent except for some rare occasions
Sound:
1) unlike every season of Precure up to this one, the seiyuus cast have been very experienced with tons of roles and popularity. This one decided to mix legendary seiyuus with less experienced ones. This is not a complaint just something I feel like pointing out because even though the cast is more diverse in terms of professional background, everyone gave a solid performance.
2) soundtrack i…
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(This review may contain spoilers. Please do not read until you've watched the entire series.)
Smile Precure is the fifth season I watched in the Precure franchise. Prior to my viewing I already had a brief experience with one of its episodes, before I started watching Precure. So I was excited about what this season had to offer.
In my opinion, if you're just getting into the swing of things and need some good old Precure tropes and what the franchise is about, Smile Precure is a perfect way to demonstrate that, with its story and its immense humor.
Story: 8.5/10
The Precure franchise has always kinda targetted a much younger fanbase. This season's theme and simplistic story match that well. A fairytale involving the Precure, a magical land, and of course, fairies, this season brings…
Read at the sourceRebekahw595
The show is enjoyable for what it is, but don't expect too much. It's just a cutesy group of friends doing the same thing over and over again. It does start to pick up in the last few episodes and some actual plot starts to come into play, but it's really not all too high-stakes.
I'd started watching it for the first time when I was about 13 or so, and I was definitely more invested back then, but I was still able to enjoy watching it now.
This is one of many Precure series, there are about 500 episodes in all. If you enjoy this I'd definitely recommend checking out the other series, they tend to have greater development and more plot.
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Just as a warning, this is a review of Smile Precure and not from the dubbed version of the same series called Glitter Force, which I haven't watched (and for what I know isn't exactly loved by the fans, in any case I recommend this one).
After having watched and loved some of the more serious Precure when it comes to tone (Heartcatch, Hugtto and Princess) I was curious and somewhat worried about how I would feel for one that goes more for the comedic aspects of the franchise, well, there was nothing to fear because this one delivered hard!
Smile Precure uses the theme of fairy tales for its story, with the elements that the series plays around being based on picture books, including the villains who are looking for a "bad end" to the world and its all up to the Precures to stop them, th…
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Smile Precure, known on Netflix as Glitter Force, is the most overrated Precure series. I pity those who have this one as their first Pretty Cure show, because it is among the worst. The characters are generic and forgettable, and there are absolutely no mature messages. There’s just a furry that everyone pairs with the characters, who are little girls.
• The most well written character is Cure Peace, but she’s only well-written in one episode. That one episode explains how she has had to struggle being raised by a single mother and how her father’s death affected her. But after that ONE episode, never again!
• It just goes back to the characters being their generic archetypes. Cure Happy, being the happy-go-lucky, childish one. Cure Beauty being the smart, beautiful, and good-at-every…
Read at the sourceMayoChan456
This show is incredibly fun. In a sea full of melodramatic, complex, gritty, mature shows, every now and then you just have to sit down and go for some stupid mindless entertainment. Smile Precure is just that, a better than average entry in the popular unironic magical girl series Pretty Cure that has the themes of comedy and fairy tales.
Even among its own series it's really lighthearted, and after dragging its feet for the first half dozen episodes it immediately goes into all kinds of wacky, fun, isolated plots for nearly every episode except for the mid-season climax and the final cour. Some would argue that it's its weakest point, as some people get pretty invested in the plots of these shows, but I'd argue back that it's not the point. It's a comedy season, made in response to the…
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I have way too much to say on this season, so I'll keep it brief. I watched this solo, since my friend and I decided to watch the Precure seasons we haven't watched together, and we didn't watch to watch them all together. She picked Yes 5, Futari Wa/Max Heart, and Suite (which we eventually watched together since she loved it). I picked Smile and Hacha, since I already solo'd DokiDoki and can typically persevere through terrible shows. Anyway. Smile.
My overall opinion is that it a clear attempt by Toei to try and profit off of the PMMM market by using the Yes 5 setup. I don't just mean that because the ending was very Godoka (it's also a ripoff of one of the Suite Allstars movie ending), I mean because the show is stuffed with cutesy moe girls who are repeatedly put through heavy trauma…
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Starting from the 70s and 80s, kids shows, especially in America, cared more about selling toys than allowing animators to create the stories they wanted and develop characters. The more toys that sold, the more money went into the cartoons. But characters would be given the shaft in favor of new ones, and the stories were very basic, the characters being boring and flat, and being aimed mostly at children. However, nowadays, even shows that come off as toy commercials are putting in more effort to just tell a story and create characters that audiences can care about, rather than just making a show just for the sake of selling toys. Anime has been doing this for a while now, probably since Pokemon, so it's no slouch in the animation and storytelling department. Some examples of good kids s…
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Please bear with me as this is my first review for this site.
Smile Pretty Cure is among the best in the franchise alongside Heartcatch and the original Futari Wa Pretty Cure not because it tries to outshine them but rather it explores our imaginations and emotions like the way Disney would. Case in point, it asks its viewers (both children and young adults) "What is happiness? Where does it come from? Why are dreams and goals so important in the grand scheme of happiness? What do friends have to do with being happy?" These are very deep questions, even for young men to bear; but for a kids show, its a brilliant concept because its the kind of thing these developing minds need to ask themselves so they can find their answer and be ultra happy themselves. While the story is great, its majo…
Read at the sourceMahouS
Have you ever watched a show that is so clearly just trying to have as much fun as possible? That is for the most part so light and fluffy that it doesn’t have a care in the world? That’s the type of show Smile Precure is.
Miyuki Hoshizora and her friends Akane, Yayoi, Nao, and Reika have been enlisted as Pretty Cure to help Candy, the fairy from Marchenland, resurrect the Royal Queen who sacrificed herself to stop the evil Pierrot of the Bad End Kingdom from painting a bad end across the world. Pretty Cure must collect the various decor that hold the Queens power, while the other villains of the Bad End Kingdom seek to gather Bad Energy from people to revive Pierrot. Always spouting her catchphrase of "Ultra happy", Miyuki takes on the challenge with glee.
Smile is a simple show. It do…
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