Delicious Party♡Precure

So, apparently my profession is being completely at odds with the so-called "internet fandoms" or "internet opinions", being those concerning comic books, tokusatsus, dragon ball animes and, last in the line, Pretty Cure series. Why, you might ask? because I don't understand what people see of wrong in this, exactly. This is what the original terrible manga by Naoko Takeuchi tried to do with the Sailor Moon franchise (regurgitating badly the Toei tokusatsus by meshing them with the shoujo and magical girls, something already tried by the terrible 70's Cutie Honey animated monster) just polished and perfected to an insane degree (it's the same company ... doing these Pretty Cures shows, go figure) in a way that it 100% works this time around from start to finish, something the 70's Kamen Rider of the franchise (Futari Wa) nor the terrible two series I've watched before getting into Kimi To Idol and this (Smile and Go Princess) did. There's also an insane amount of fanservice for the fans of the animated life-changing experience made from the horrible Naoko Takeuchi manga in the 90's, with particular attention to the Seiyuus of the sexy ASF Kokone and Amane trying to impersonate as much as possible the eternally relevant performances of the legendary Aya Hisakawa and Michie Tomizawa as Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury and Rei Hino/Sailor Mars while voicing character that are reminescent of them, so moonies should be confident to give this series a go more than they should give confidence to the completely useless SM remakes. The chara is great, the music is great, there are no ultraboring mary sues to speak of a là Go Princess Precure (URRAH!), everything is great...except for ONE THING ONLY, that being the Black Pepper character. As a person who understands the problem of characters with universal appeal mainly advertised from the source to women that are his favourites like Wonder Woman, I get why they did it. Still, this being a Kamen Rider/Super Sentai show with an all cast of beautiful women who are the reason why grown men like me watch these shows (thank you XXX fanart of Amane Kasai/Cure Final on Pixiv for convincing me to give this series a try, once again), the presence of a man doing rider jumps/rider kicks is distracting. I already have the Kamen Rider and the Super Sentais for me every week in that sense (I'm thinking of the last excellent episode of the reborn No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger and Gozyu Polar beating the shit out of the main monster of that episode with his own legs), another man in the middle of the action doing the same activity where the main attraction are the ladies serves nothing (which is the reason why they correctly sidelined the terrible manga Gary Stu Tuxedo Kamen in the 90's Anime, of all things). For the rest, watch this show and enjoy the hell out of it - possibly in tandem with the equal, in terms of being a Superhero fiction Masterpiece, my second favourite Rider of all times, Kamen Rider Geats, and with also very good Avataro Sentai Donbrothers show, all from this same year that served us this show - like I did and don't care one single bit of the MAL or any other site's ratings. You won't regret it.
As a side note, since I managed to do what I couldn't with Smile Pretty Cure (finishing and enjoying it plenty while also watching well-written episodes), you can be sure the fan-favourites (?) Kamen Rider Kabuto and Decade and the likes of Urutoraman Max and Urutoraseben X by, respectively, Shoji Yonemura and Yuji Kobayashi (the writers of Smile Precure) as well as single episodes of these two (episode 17 and 18 of my favourite Kamen Rider of all times, the Kiva, permitted) from now on will NEVER BE TOUCHED BY ME even under torture, since clearly the problem of that terrible show was in those two people, whose career in the toku and anime field again I strongly question. Thank you for reading my review.

For a score of 6.96 as of the time of writing this, which is lower than the usual pretty cure MAL score, this series doesn’t deserve the hate that it gets. Of course, everyone has different preferences, but this anime needs a higher rating. I will explain what I thought this precure entry did well, and what it didn’t do so well.

The story is similar to all of the other entries: a magical land gets attacked and three to four precures have to protect their world and the magical land, so I can’t really say much about the premise of this show. The spacing in ... between the cure debuts helped developed the friendships between each of the current cures, with the friendships between Yui (Cure Precious) and Kokone (Cure Spicy) getting more depth, and allowing Kokone to develop her social skills with the main cast. It also helped with Rosemary’s friendship with Yui.

While we are on development, I would like to note that while the show does develop relationships better, it has a flaw: It doesn’t have consistent character development. There is a big gap in the amount of development that Yui gets compared to Kokone and Ran (Cure yum yum), as well as the mid season cure, Amane (Cure Finale). Kokone gets the most amount of development because she is the only cure except Amane that gets a character flaw. Yui, our main leader, doesn’t get much character development because she isn’t given any flaws. She is portrayed as the usual genki girl protagonist, and pretty much only talks about how food brings smiles and quotes her grandma gave her.

As a matter of fact, her only development is the death of her grandmother when she was young. Ran gets some development as she learns to accept her uniqueness. Amane does get some too when it shows her transformation from a villain to a cure. But she is overall a flat character.

The art style of the anime is well done, and the way the eyes and hair shading were done was very different from most pretty cure seasons. This anime has one of the prettiest art styles. Character designs for both the civilian forms and cure forms were another strong point, but Amane/Cure Finale’s design was confusing. Colors were all over the place for her precure form and it was hard to identify her theme color, which turned out to be gold instead of purple.

The villains of the show were likeable, especially Narcistoru. The revealing of who was Godatz was unexpected and they could have introduced Godatz’s real form earlier.

The romance that Takumi had for Yui was very underutilized, and a waste of potential. There was a lot they could have done with the development of their friendship to potential lovers. I was disappointed that Takumi had never confessed. The entire idea of the romance was there to be there, and I wish they could have done more with it.

The food theme was utilized and it was great that the anime had shown how food brings smiles.

Overall, this show is a good entry to the precure franchise.

Delicious Party♡Precure , a let down from Tropical Rouge ! Pretty Cure , Delicious Party♡Precure is a poor man’s Kira Kira Pretty Cure A la Mode , from the designs , and characters , even the villains weren’t as great in this , it’s short that the best part of this season , would recommend to not watch this as your first Pretty Cure Season , it’s not good it’s the weakest of the Franchise so far , plus the movie for this season , doesn’t even have The Kira Kira Pretty Cure a la mode cast why Toei ? It’s rock bottom ... from here folks , but there is hope in this darkest hour Soaring Sky ! Pretty Cure