Audience reviews
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FreshCupOfAngst
Futari Wa Precure is a great series with a lot to love, though it is best enjoyed as a casual watch. One's best enjoyment of it can additionally be incredibly reliant upon one's expectations when going into it, as well.
So what should one expect from Futari Wa Precure?
Story:
Futari Wa Precure is primarily an episodic series, which means that the vast majority of the episodes are lighthearted and low-stakes. While the series has regular antagonists, they typically summon a unique monster to battle the heroes in a "monster of the week"-esque formula. Due to the regularity of this routine, the series can become incredibly repetitive, and thus: very predictable.
Occasionally, however, the show will switch things up. Despite being an incredibly character-driven show which usually places…
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I've been looking for a long time for an anime that takes the topic of female friendship seriously, and I finally found Futari wa Precure. This anime is really worth watching and recommending. The plot idea is original and well-executed. The relationship between the heroines is born slowly, and the heroines slowly mature into a friendship. It also touches on important problems that best friends encounter. The heroines themselves (their characters, interests, etc.) are well-rounded, and although they refer to certain patterns they use them in interesting ways. The events depicted in the anime are extremely engaging and properly explained. In addition, the character designs and the entire anime have been beautifully designed, making it impossible to take your eyes off them.
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Futari Wa Pretty Cure A.K.A the curse of the first historical 70's Kamen Riders and Sentais strikes again. Why I am making this comparison, you ask? because this is not a majokko but an animated Kamen Rider and Sentai/Super Sentai show masquerading as a magical girl one, and you don't need anything past the typical super sentai/kamen rider "plotline" (or, better said, lack of plotline) and the coreography fights to see that this thing is a 100% product of those tokusatsus and not of Sailor Moon (on itself, already influenced by the Super Sentais) or Ojamajo Doremi barring some slight elements reminescent of those two (hell, even the two protagonists' costumes are very similar to a Kamen Rider one). The problem is, if you've ever had the misfortune to watch the first 70's Kamen Riders (Don'…
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My Review of We are Pretty Cure
Misumi Nagisa aka Cure Black is a Tom boy of the two who great at sports but not at anything else , she the leader , and was the best part of the show for me , she the star lacrosse player at Verone Academy
Yukishiro Honoka aka Cure White is the Yang to Nagisa Ying , so she bad at sports but good at Science, and is smarter than her Jet Black Counterpart , and her parents aren’t always around with her
The plot is about the Prism Stones to put into the Prism Hopish , so of course the toys they need to sell in real life , the villains were the low point for me both in terms of Design , and in character personalities
Dotsuku Zone
Pisard looks cool but was taken out very early
Gekidrago is just the big muscle , Poisony is the girl villain , Kiriya was…
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Just finished my first Pretty Cure season!!~ 💕 This show is really funny & heartwarming, it even made me feel nostalgic even though I never watched it when I was younger. The music was incredibly catchy and I never got tired of listening to the intro & outro. I would recommend this to you if you like early 2000’s anime/magical girl shows, or if you like Precure and want to see how the franchise began/start watching from the beginning. I would not recommend it if you are annoyed by repetition or are looking for a deep story or fantastic villains.
🌸 My Favourite Characters 🌸
Honoka Yukishiro (Cure White)
Mipple
Kiriya
🎀 **MINOR SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT** 🎀
The Good!!~
Nagisa & Honoka’s friendship was incredibly genuine and you can feel their bond grow throughout the show. I also lov…
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Futari wa Pretty Cure was the first season of Pretty Cure I have ever watched. I will say off the bat that as an introduction to the series, it works quite well, defining themes for all seasons to come, drawing the basic "starting point" for all series: that a magical fairy will come into your window and grant you magical powers. It also introduces the first transformation where you are required to be with someone in order to transform. As characters, Nagisa and Honoka are both well-written on their own merits; Nagisa is an athletic tomboy who is extremely popular, while Honoka appears to be an introverted bookworm. I believe that while the girls do have a nice friendship, I would be hard-pressed to find this type of interaction occurring in a natural setting. The girls appear to balance e…
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This is your cliché magical girl anime, but as one of the first (and THE first of the precure series), there is something nostalgic about it.
The characters are likeable enough, and though it's been a hot minute since I've seen it, I remember really enjoying the story itself. It kind of builds the world of precure, giving it a history and context.
The transformations are cute, the outfits are cute, everything is very cute. What really deterred me is - and this is a personal preference - I'm hard-pressed to enjoy any type of entertainment without romance. The show/movie/book has to be AMAZING for me to look past a lack of romance.
That said, there's a brief romance between a couple characters in this show that at least kept me hanging on. Bottom line: if you enjoy magical girl anime an…
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I'm a Pretty Cure fan and I love this series!But this season is not for me.. I already watched other seasons and in comparison with this one, the others stand out so much more! I know lots of people love it but it's an okay season at best..
STORY 4/10
The girls find two fairies and become Pretty Cure, together they have to fight agains the Dark King and his minions and protect the garden of light and that's it. The story is decent enough to a magical girl series, not many twists happens and after the 2nd half the plot is very repetitive and boring.
ART 7/10
It's good, it had great moments in some fights but that's it, doesn't have much to talk about it.
SOUND 6/10
It's fine, I barely remember any soundtracks but I think they do their job well!
CHARACTER 3/10
Nagisa is kinda annoying w…
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I am a big fan of magical girl genre, especially older-style. I kept seeing Pretty Cure for ages and I finally gave it a try. It was a pleasant surprise. The story is in continuation despite being randomish at times, the girls level up in character and they don't magically know what to do from the get go. Very good and fun.
The story is enjoyable. Nothing too special, but interesting regardless.
I truly love the art so it gets a 10 from me as does the sound. I rarily do not skip openings and this one I *never* skipped.
Characters are amazing. I don't know do I prefer Nagisa or Honoka.
In general, I truly like this show and anyone who likes the genre will have fun. It's not hard on the brain, but well done. I usually review only things I really like so, obviously, a 10 - or rather 9.5…
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I'm not sure how much Toei had planned for Pretty Cure, but I really doubt that, at the time of this review, they expected it to be already close to start its 16th entry with Star Twinkle. In my way to watch all the franchise it finally came the time to tackle the original, that I wouldn't recommend as your first Precure, the fantastic main duo makes this anime well worth a watch and did overall did a great job building the foundation for one of the most successful series in Japan.
The premise is pretty simple yet effective: A big baddie wants to take over literally everything with the power of the seven stones, and to prevent that, our main characters, with the help of strange but pretty cute creatures, recieve the power to become Precure, giving them superhuman powers that they will use…
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The mahou shoujo genre has come a long way since its beginnings in Himitsu no Akko-chan, and today it is almost as wide as pizza topping options. We have series that are cute and series that are dark; series with magic beams of lights and series with mecha piloting; Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen and Mahou Shoujo no Ore. Things have changed a lot since the sixties, huh?
One of the stepping stones of these changes is Futari wa Pretty Cure (literally “We Are Pretty Cure”), which started airing in 2004. The first in a franchise that nowadays includes more than fifteen titles, this series was one of the first to join the idea of physical action with the concept of the magical girl. The power of friendship is discussed as a theme when applied to the way Nagisa and Honoka — the two girls in…
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Don't make this your first Precure.
I had mixed feelings toward this series even beyond the halfway point before I made up my mind on what I thought of it, and those thoughts never really changed or felt challenged afterwards: that this is a wholly average, yet enjoyable series.
The show developed a good bond between Nagisa and Honoka and fleshed out their respective personalities quite well. This extended to the fairies also, which is more noteworthy in Mepple's and Popo's cases because I didn't like either of them at first. The villains' personalities and motives fluctuated a lot in quality, but overall I thought they were quite serviceable.
The plot was a lot more shaky and was the overall low point of this Precure iteration. Although there were definitely highlight episodes in relat…
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This is the original Pretty Cure serie and is a good season to start Precure. Is weird how can some Precure fans judge this show because this story is great and it shows what Precure is about.
Friendship is the most important thing and the characters portray this very well. The characters´s development is great and there are very emotional and deep episodes. Misumi Nagisa and Yukishiro Honoka are like ying and yang.Nagisa and Honoka didn´t start close from the beginning and had to overcome many obstacles to become the best friends. They complement each other no matter how different they are. Nagisa is a girl who loves sports and has a tomboyish personality menawhile Honoka is a very smart girl who is very calm. But both have other sides of their personalities, Nagisa can be very girly and…
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A lot of the older "fighting hero" type shows have something about them that all the modern day ones do not. While I'm unsure what that is, it always seems to be the 90's shows that entertain me no matter what their target demographic is.
Pretty cure is almost exactly what you'd expect a magical girl anime aimed at pre and early teens, to be. Each and every episode is an excuse to kick ass. However unlike some shows of this age, Pretty Cure ties it all in despite being 49 episodes long, making it seem like there are no fillers and every episode, whether it even just be character development, is there for a reason. They go though their everyday school life while dealing with things an everyday student of that age would deal with. Only, to make it more entertaining, they throw in magic powe…
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We've reached the end of magical girl month, so let's dive back into the Precure franchise. It wasn't that long ago that I looked at Doki Doki Precure, one of the more recent installments in the franchise. This time let's go far, far back to 2004 when Toei animation first started the franchise with Futari wa Precure. Was the series as good back then or is this one of those franchises that got a rough start? Let's take a look and find out.
Story:
Young Misumi Nagisa is in her room when she notices falling stars. One of them crashes into her room, hits her in the head and turns out to be a strange creature that had turned into a cell phone like device. He calls himself Mepple and asks Nagisa to take him to Mipple. She goes out, following his directions only to run into a classmate she bare…
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Let me say, if you like heroines, watch it!
I liked this anime because it was one like I have never seen. I've watched Sailor moon and Powerpuff girls z(and afterwords I started watching Sailor Moon Crystal), but this one stuck out to me.
I honestly don't know why exactly, but maybe because they're basically powerless without each other. They can't even transform by themselves. In Sailor moon, usually not all the sailors are present. In powerpuff girls z, They can kind of survive by themselves, but are still stronger together.
Perhaps it's because there's only two people. In the other animes, there were more people.
Perhaps it's because their powers are more associative with each other thus making a better team. If you notice in the other animes, they work side by side, but don't seem very…
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I love magical girl themed anime's and thought i'd give this one a go; My expectations were let down started off pretty well enough.
Story: 4/10
Nagisa and Honoka meet Mipple and Mepple and find out that they're the legendary soldiers, Pretty Cure, destined to protect the Garden of Light from the Dark Zone and rest was fillers. I enjoyed the story but after a few ep's got boring and the fight scene's were becoming dull repeating the same battle movement and till half way through 1st one marble screw! 2nd rainbow marble screw such creativity and really original. Most of the ep's were just nagisa and honoka going to school and they get attacked by dark zone i got bored half way through but i kept to it and watched it all.
5/10
Art was decent enough well drawn backgrounds and the outfits i…
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I'm a big fan of the magical girl genre, so I decided it was about time I watched Pretty Cure, a show which has had 7 seasons so far. I don't know if the other six seasons are any good, but the first one certainly wasn't, which has put me off watching the rest of the show.
Story: 3/10
Basically, Nagisa and Honoka meet Mipple and Mepple and find out that they're the legendary soldiers, Pretty Cure, destined to protect the Garden of Light from the Dark Zone. And that is pretty much it. The entire series is basically filler, with Nagisa and Honoka fighting one enemy after another from the Dark Zone in every single episode. There are no major plot twists and the romance between Nagisa and Fujipi-senpai doesn't seem to go anywhere. Possibly the most interesting thing that happened was the intr…
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Synopsis & Plot:
Pretty Cure is the first Precure! of the Precure! series. It features Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro, two girls of Verone Junior High’s 2nd year Sakura class. One night Nagisa makes a wish to be noticed by boys instead of girls and is greeted by a strange creature named Mepple from the Garden of Light. Honoka finds a box containing a cellphone that turns into Mipple, the Princess of Hope. Mepple and Mipple were sent from the Garden of Light to find Pretty Cure and gather and protect the Seven Prism Stones from the inhabitants of the Dark Zone. From that point on, Nagisa and Honoka fight the Dark Warriors as Cure Black and Cure White to protect the Garden of Light and their own realm, the Garden of Rainbows.
Characters:
Nagisa Misumi is the ace of Verone Junior High’s…
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(as written on the Hateful Anime Truth on Facebook)
Don't judge me on this line alone; I love some obscure anime. And thus I chanced upon Futari wa Pretty Cure about 6 years ago in a newspaper review in The New Paper. The preview picture looked a bit intriguing to me, so I gave it a shot.
Basically, what do you get when you pit your typical Mahou Shoujo anime, with a genius directing mind? You get what Sailor Moon failed to do. Pretty Cure is one of those easy-to-skip over animes because of its looks alone, but when you find out it's done by the directing mind of DBZ director, Daisuke Nishio (which is why he's in my favorite people list)... you'll probably still not be impressed. But regardless, that's why I'm here. Let's get on with the review.
Story:
The sad thing about 99% of Mahou…
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