Yes! Precure 5

My review of Yes! PreCure 5


Yumehara Nozomi aka Cure Dream is a caring individual with a big heart and a bright perspective. While realizing she may not be talented or have any usable skills, she makes up for it by being very friendly and kind towards others, even her enemies. A bit of a late thinker, she sometimes gets distracted and She is also childish, loud, and clumsy, and does not seem to make decisions rationally

Kasugano Urara aka Cure Lemonade bit materialistic, but calm and polite, Urara is naturally cheery and sweet, but while she normally shows this to others without hesitation, she ... is actually very shy until she befriended Yumehara Nozomi. She is somewhat similar to Nozomi in that they are both shown rushing head-first into things, and they love eating.

She can also be absent-minded and a little clumsy, but she has more self-confidence in comparison

Natsuki Rin aka Cure Rouge Rin is both tomboyish and feminine. Throughout both of the seasons, Rin shows a passion for accessory design and is usually the one in charge for designing She is usually calm-tempered, but she can also be hot-blooded, impatient, and passionate, so she tends to clash with girls who are more reserved and show a stubborn side. Deep down, Rin fears the loss of a loved one, most noticeable Nozomi.

Akimoto Komachi aka Cure Mint , the one does not talk much in both shows , maybe because Green isn't a color girls want ?  She is very kind towards others and retains a calm and peaceful nature, and is also shown to be wise and polite regardless of the situation or how angry she may be. She is also very delicate and can shut-down entirely if given even the smallest critique. She seeks approval from others and enjoys showing her work to those who are interested, using her writings to reflect her true feelings

The last member Minazuki Karen aka Cure Aqua 
She is strongly admired for being calm and stoic, a mature young woman who has come to cover up her insecurities and feelings of loneliness. She dearly misses her parents as they are usually away, but out of obligation and feeling that everything rests on her shoulders she refuses to let it get to her, she has come to think she needs to do everything by herself  

The villains this time around are animals that eat butterfly,  as the main team have a butterfly motif 

The villain team Nightmare is a group of villains working in a corporation for despair  ,and their leader Desperaia

Kawarino The Chameleon

Bloody The Bat 

Hadenya The Chicken

Bunbee The Bee

Girinma The Mantis 

Arachnea The Spider
And Gamao The Toad

All (Except for Bunbee ) are Butterfly predators in the real world 

This show is better than  Splash Star but not much , it's Super Sentai style 5 team girls is a new gimmick for the franchise,  so yes its good  better villains again , and much better characters,  so how is the sequel? That my next review

I'm watching everything related to Pretty Cure in chronological order and it was time for the 4th season: Yes! Precure 5

There's a lot of good things about this season but also a ton of things that went wrong and I'll explain why I had to give this season a low score.

Visuals:
1) I like the character design but the backgrounds don't fit at all. They're pretty to look at but they have nothing in common with the characters and it looks very out of place. 49 episodes in, I still wasn't used to it.
2) I like the effects used in some of the ... special attacks animations.
3) Sometimes the animation gets really sloppy like characters with different proportions (ex: one eye bigger than the other and such)
4) I really like how each Precure has a slightly different uniform

Sound:
1) the soundtrack could be better
2) Most of the seiyuus are incredibly talented, famous, have versatile ranges and are of legendary status. Most of them have also worked together on different animes. You'd expect top notch voice work but that isn't always the case because someone who must have had an ear infection thought it would be a great idea to have two grown man with very deep voices to squeal all their lines for 49 episodes. I'm talking about Coco and Natsu's in their real forms. Good lord, my ears are bleeding and I'm pretty sure their throats at the time must have been as well. They should've went with Takeuchi Junko which was cast as Natsuki Ren and Sugiyama Kazuko which was cast as Desparaiah to voice them. They certainly have the range for it.


Story and characters:
1) This season has a theme and it's dreams. Dreams that you have and pursue. Or, like our girls, haven't theirs figured out yet. I believe we can all relate to that on a personal level. I think this was a nice change for the Precure series.
2) I love how the show doesn't focus on the main girl. In fact, it never really felt there was one main girl but 5 main girls. All of them are important and are the protagonists of their own arcs equally throughout the story. Nozomi (the leader) isn't always the one that finishes fights or makes the plot move forward and this makes watching the show that much more interesting and unpredictable.
3) However, there's still a lot of predictability in this season. Some arcs suffer from this, there's not any strategy involved in the fights and no new combination of moves used to beat up the baddies. This made the action scenes kind of a bore to watch sometimes.
4) Milk's addition to the story was awful. She's one annoying useless brat without a true impact on the story. My enjoyment with this anime suffered greatly with her joining the cast.
5) I really liked the way the girls handled the last boss. It was unexpected and it felt appropriate.
6) SPOILERS ABOUT CHARACTERS AND RELATIONSHIPS: for whatever stupid reason, someone thought it would be a great idea to have squirrels that turn into 20-something year old men date 14 year old girls. This makes no sense at all and it's outright disgusting. Also, Urara's grampa introduces himself to the same 14 year olds as someone who'd sexually abuse them if he was 30 years younger. Isn't this fun? No. It's outright disgusting.


Despite a lot of things that I like about the anime, the flaws with voice acting and characters really hurt my overall enjoyment and that's why despite loving some changes to the precure formula, I can't give this any score above 6.

Yes! 5 Precure is so boring. All of the other Precure seasons I’ve seen thus far have something to offer, but this one has absolutely nothing, and I mean that with complete sincerity.
Most of the Precure are your bog standard tropes that Toei loves using, like the blue one being the rich girl, and the red one being athletic. I know this was the first series to have more than two/three girls, but still. They could’ve done way better. The characters are super boring, and while their relationships were cute, they’re nothing special. I was considering actually dropping this season outright because it was so ... boring, but Milk saved the entire show. Yeah, I like Milk. She’s bitchy, and honestly, it’s a breath of fresh air. Besides, after her debut, she’s really only mean to Nozomi, and has a nice friendship with Karen. Nuts is also a great character, mostly because he’s brutally honest, and his trauma of causing the ruin of his kingdom is really interesting.
The backgrounds are pleasant to look at, but the animation is a bit strange at times. Plus, the transformations are so boring. For context, I watched this series after finishing Star Twinkle, the Precure season with the most elaborate transformation sequences, so that definitely added to my disappointment. The magical girl outfits are also lacking.
The episode I had the most to say about was the writing episode with Komachi and Nuts, and that’s mostly because I’m a writer myself. By the way, I agreed with Nuts and Komachi’s sister.
All in all, Yes! 5 is not the best or the worst of the Precure seasons, but it’s the worst thing a piece of media can be: boring.