Audience reviews
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Wszechmistrzyni
"Heartcatch Precure" didn't quite live up to my expectations as the highest-rated and critically praised entry in the franchise, but this title isn't exactly unmerited either.
The things it does well, it does really damn well. Heartcatch certainly doesn't pull its emotional punches, even more so than other Precure series. Most episodes focus on deeply personal problems and emotions that most of us will have to confront at some point and are able to empathize with. Even background, victim-of-the-week characters were given lots of emotional depth. Themes of death, family loss, and depression were handled very gracefully and to an extent no other Precure season did even 14 years later.
Unfortunately, as all fans of the series know, Precure fillers are generally hit-or-miss, and this season…
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Heartcatch Pretty Cure taught me the importance of the precure template used in each series. The heads and bodies are of similar design. Factors as eyes, hair color and texture, relative size work to differentiate each girl of the team. These external factors plus that most important internal.
Personality.
I was surprised at the animation style used for HeartCatch. The characters appear more cartoonish than the precure series before and after them. Eyes accentuate each member. But, for the extremely different style, I would say that important changes were made with the coming of Cures Sunshine and Moonlight. As if their entry into the plot demands a stricter presentation. So much so, that I would have Cure Sunshine as one of the 'Five Most Stunning' Pretty Cures in the franchise. For the…
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Back in 2010, I wasn't the biggest fan of the Precure franchise, and it's mostly because I hardly ever saw any of the shows back then. I remember watching the first episode of the first series long ago but I never went further than that because one fairy's voice annoyed the living heck out of me. But since about 2014, I've actually made an effort to watch a good majority of the shows for that franchise. So far, including this one, Heartcatch Pretty Cure, I've seen ten whole series in their entirety, though I did watch the first episodes of every series. Basically, Precure pretty much follows the same formula as Sailor Moon: a great evil and their minions try to take over the world, ditzy girls and their friends are given items that turn them into heroes by cute little animal creatures, and…
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Heartcatch Precure was another disappointing Precure season for me. This will be spoiler free.
Visuals:
1) it's a drastic change from all previous seasons. It has a very cartoonish, very western style that I don't appreciate. I thought that maybe I would learn to like it but it wasn't the case;
2) poor monster design
Sound:
1) legendary seiyuus, as usual
2) soundtrack was okay Story and characters:
1) Overall, it's too predictable and repetitive to be enjoyable. Every single episode, aside from character introductions and the final showdown, follows the same exact script: present new character and theme, have them meet precure girls, have them be attacked by villains, have precure girls fight villians using the same old attacks without strategy whatsoever. 40 something episodes o…
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After Hugtto Precure convinced me hard to give a chance to the rest of the franchise, I went for the entry that seems to be the most loved and popular (except maybe the original) of the franchise, did it live up to the hype? Well, it sure did in my opinion!
Tsubomi, the protagonist of this story, is a shy girl who definitely didn't fit with what the image of what the standard Precure protagonist looked to me, I think that this is played very nicely through the story and seeing her open up more while keeping what makes her be her was so satisfying to see. Together with the cheerful and absurdly lovable Erika by her side, they form the main duo of the story for a good time before the other Precure join.
Those episodes with them alone were "the weakest" part of the series to me (saying that…
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Heartcatch Precure is absolutely gorgeous to look at and Yoshihiko Umakoshi’s character designs are absolutely stunning, the fight scenes in this series are well-choreographed. If you’re looking for a series that is rich in pretty sakuga then Heartcatch is definitely that, oh!, and if you like this then Katanagatari would definitely be up your alley!
• To me, Heartcatch is far more of a story-driven plot than character. I didn’t feel much of an affinity for any of the characters. I felt like a had a girlfriend, who looked very pretty, but I didn’t like hanging out with her for too long. Yeah, that’s an apt comparison.
• As the Precure series have evolved, Japan seems increasingly aware that their target is no longer children, but mostly otaku… because, well, the Japanese aren’t reproduc…
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How many times have you heard the saying that ‘The flower who blooms slowly is the best of them all’? Yeah, you are probably thinking that you might have heard it in some other ways, but, anyways, as old and boring as that saying sounds, Heartcatch is proof of that. And it takes it to another new level.
Flowers, like everything else, have a reason for being given, gifted. Heartcatch is here to explain that, and the main character’s heart seeds beautifully bloom. One thing that I will always like about Heartcatch is its creativity and experimenting with different flowers. At each episode’s end, they will say what somebody’s heart seed says about their personality. Now that’s something to watch, with that many different things. But nevertheless, the characters and their own development are a…
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Heartcatch has one massive point in its favour over every single other Precure: It can do drama. It’s not stupid. I can’t stress enough how important this is. In Heartcatch, the evil monsters that fight the Precure are created using the wavering hearts of humans. What that means is every episode has someone worried about something happening in their life, and the episode tends to revolve around how they get over that problem. Usually the issue is just that they don’t have enough confidence in themselves. A girl is afraid of talking to the Student Council President she admires so much because she gets all nervous when she’s around her. A boy is afraid his mum won’t approve of his ambition to become a manga author. Very simple little stories, but each one is handle…
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