Kimi to Idol Precure♪ Episode 38 Discussion

Very good episode, it reiterates the idea that there are no Mary Sues in sight AND it's very cool to see my two main wives from this show supporting each other. As their own husband, I approve it. The only things I don't like is, as for the previous episode, the ubermegagigacrappy new transformation (again, I fail to see how anyone could like it to begin with) that nonsensically ruins an otherwise perfect chara (couldn't they do it the way Star Twinkle Precure did it?) and the preview of the next episode. Again with the male cures BS, Toei? just stop it, please. 8 out of ten (without the shitty new transformation would have been a 9). Today, for the people who don't like tokus (yet they love this IP, makes zero sense to me), there won't be any comment on the new Gozyuger episode because I refuse to watch Naruhisa Arakawa throwing feces at my eyes again like he did the last week. Now, onto Vanny Knights!

@ProudElitist If I'm not mistaken, the five male Precure we see in the next episode preview are from the stage play called "Dancing☆Star Pretty Cure The Stage"! They're the first all-male precure group, which I personally think is really cool!!! Though, I suppose it's fair for some people to be put off by an all-male team if the reaction Cure Wing from Hirogaru got is anything to go by...but I think people should give the concept of male cures a chance, whether or not they've seen Hirogaru!

It really makes me wonder why this team is here...is it advertising because the stage play being performed again or something? I'm not on places where info like that could be readily available like Twitter, so all I can do is theorize and wait for next week!

@Rozu667 for now I have no intention of watching that series because Gozyuger has made me disinterested in anniversary shows like that one or Zenkaiger, so I'm watching other non-anniversary stuff for now. I don't give it a chance because I don't watch an animated all-female equivalent of the Kamen Rider and the Super Sentais to watch men performing what the original tokusatsus IPs already give to me. I watch the pretty cures because I like seeing women in action - women with which I like to think I'm in love with, like Cure Idol and Cure Wink - beating the shit out of monsters, if I wanted men doing the same I would stick to the Super Sentais and the Kamen Rider. See for example Black Pepper in Delicious Party precure, that series is awesome but seeing him performing a Kamen Rider kick when already I have the Kamen Rider doing the same every week is ridicolous. Me and the women have already the Kamen Riders and the Super Sentais (there's a reason why, objectively speaking, males in the Toei tokusatsus are all hunks), so what gives?

@ProudElitist To each their own, I suppose! :D

@Rozu667 I finished watching the Kyuranger movie minutes ago, if women don't like at least the guy who portrays the Red Ranger's human identity I am Donald Duck. The Kyurangers also sport henshin devices similar to the ones of the male cures in the preview of the next episode. Again, I don't see a point of animated men doing the same thing the Kyurangers do, me and the women already have the Kyurangers and all the other sentais. The Cures are perfect without any men inbetween, except for secondary/support roles not as agents on the field with them. And neither I believe Toei male pretty cures for "inclusivity" of my ass, Toei are the same people that for "inclusivity" put the writer of episode 35 and other ones of this Pretty Cure season behind an hack like Keiichi Hasegawa in Gotchard while having no problem whatsoever in putting debuting men like Yuya Takahashi (who I like really much) as writers of entire KR seasons from the very beginning and the same people who clearly bothered Akiko with insistance of shitty Red Kamen Rider crap in No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger when she wasn't interested one bit in turning the Sentai in that sense. An army of possible love interests/waifus beating the shit out of monsters alone >>>>>> fake inclusivity that is already redundant in every sense to begin with.

@ProudElitist


I'm not familiar with the Super Sentai franchise, so correct me if I'm wrong in saying this: They're not magical boys and, respectfully, it feels like you're comparing birds to bats—similar, yes, but very distinct in their own ways.

The reason boy cures exist, at least from my POV and understanding, is because magical boys have been pretty much unheard of up until the past few years and it's kind of like a blue ocean market. There were even boy cures before Cure Wing in Hirogaru Sky, though they were mainly for gags ("Cure Gorilla" from Smile Precure comes to mind). However, technically speaking, the first genuine boy cure was in HUGtto (though he wasn't made a permanent member like Wing), but I suppose you don't care about that because that season, like Hirogaru Sky, was meant to celebrate an anniversary.

Men want to be magical, too—in a way, it feels like the inverse of women wanting to play sports when it was considered "something boys do".

You can debate about diversity and how fake it is all you want, idrc about that because I wanna see sparkly magical girls and boys duke it out with darkness. But at the end of the day, you can just...skip any season with boy cures like Hirogaru Sky (anniversary or otherwise) without any issue and/or just learn to deal with things like the possible cameo of the Dancing☆Star cures (I say possible because there is also a chance they play a bigger role in the episode given the fact it looks like they transform in the preview) if you really want to keep watching seasons like You and Idol.

Apologies if this ultimately ends up sounding like a bunch of nonsense. I tried to keep things consistent and coherent, but admittedly I do like to ramble. I don't know if I'll say anything else after this because, no offense meant, you seem very negative if your comments in the previous forums are anything to go by and I'd rather not put myself through any of that. I hope you have a great day, though! Let's cheer on our favorite cures this season together!! :D

I know any costumes Meroron and Purirun wore would win the costume contest in a heartbeat.
I could see Jogi is thinking about Kaito more this episode.

Plus Cure Idol new power up is so cool.
The hair, outfit, everything is chef kiss.

Uta reminded me of myself when I was younger. I was scared of horror stuff like crazy. I mostly conquer my horror fear in the 2010s.