Kimi to Idol Precure♪ Episode 40 Discussion

This day should be remembered as the Akiko Inoue day. This episode was legitimately great and for whatever reason it reminded me of the first few episodes her father wrote in Choushinsei Flashman (particularly the episode where Yellow Flash and Pink Flash have a small fight between themselves) despite being based on the same old premise of Sailor Mercury/Ami Mizuno going abroad etc. etc, the No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger written by her is very good and its only real annoyance is the Dekaranger cameo (series of which I couldn't care less even if I tried), I guess the old Inoue thing of hoping for a light to help you in turbulent times has became reality. She has shone both in this episode and in Gozyuger while all the harsh controversy sorrounding the latter is going on. Also, THANK YOU TOEI for scrapping the garbage Pink Hair/Red Dress transformation of my wife Uta/Cure Idol, which is nowhere to be found in these 24 minutes! 9 for this episode, 8 for the Gozyuger one.

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I don't think the Idol Heart Ribbon Style is gone (it's definitely not "scrapped" either, because that would mean it wasn't used at all in the season and would instead be cut content; think scrapped designs for a character, for example). It just wasn't present this week because this was a Nana/Cure Wink focused episode.

Ah the obligatory PreCure group being threatened by one of the members prospect of moving away. Tanaka is an idiot, “Cure Wink will graduate from Idol PreCure”… you don’t graduate from having responsibilities of fighting evil. I really hate how this PreCure generation keeps acting as if they’re real idols with real idol problems. They’re magical girls who happened to trend online with music

@ajw215799 it's not Jin Tanaka that wrote this episode (he has no involvement whatsoever with Kimi To Idol, actually. Luckily so), it's Akiko Inoue. And it wouldn't be an idea of hack Jin Tanaka the same, it's taken from the episode of Sailor Moon where Sailor Mercury needs to go abroad to study and she doesn't know if she wants to do it or not, and it ends with the other Sailor Senshi supporting her choice to go abroad AND Sailor Mercury deciding to not do it because she doesn't want to leave the girls. This episode right here https://wikimoon.org/index.php/The_Friendship_of_the_Sailor_Senshi!_Goodbye_Ami but it's nothing out of the ordinary for tokusatsu-like series to repeat the same concept and same episodes over and over and over. It's also one of the best episodes from the 90's Sailor Moon anime Masterpiece in general.

@ProudElitist what are you on about? I’m on about Tanaka the character. Plus an episode dedicated to the threat of a Cure moving away has been featured many times in PreCure history

Ah, yes. The old as time episode that one of the Cures can have an international career, and need to choose between the future or the be a Cure.
Not that was really explored really Nana's piano talent, honestly.

I like Meroron just saying to forget about being a Cure and think about. Good friend.