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Arlia said: I guess this is a new record for the youngest Precure ever... Even if she lacks "Cure" in the name Shiny Luminous would still be younger I think. Anyway. You know, DokiDoki really abuses the "begin with a fight" thing. This is like the fourth or fifth time they do it. Nothing wrong with it, but really. Still having Mari find out this way was, well, lame. It would've been better if they had incorporated this to last week's episode somehow. The reveal about Aguri's origins was nice and stuff, but it begs the question if a year has gone by then she should, you know, have had a birthday somewhere and "the day I met you" is a perfect choice. Aguri says she suddenly turned 10 even though if she's in the 4th year of elementary school then she would've turned 9, or alternately she's 11 now. Screw it, the "I don't have a birthday" thing makes no freaking sense and never has. One last thing, between Aguri being like Kaguya-hime and Mana being the Happy Prince this season has used more fairy tales for its plot than Smile. TOEI! The actual Mari and Aguri drama is nice so no complaints there. Also props for Toei FINALLY remembering Regina doesn't need someone to be acting selfish to create a Selfish, only took them a month! Boo Mana stealing AGAIN saying the transformation line from Aguri, especially because Aguri didn't even do her Ace line later. I could SO sympathize with Regina telling Mana she was annoying! Hey, Makoto did her new move! Now the only girls left to do their iCurePad move are Mana and, guess who, ARISU. As in the girl whose entire point to her attack was something different came out each time. Toei wants us to forget she said that but I'm not letting them get away with this. Speaking of Toei doesn't really get "A Selfish or any other monster of the week destroyed a thing, DRAMA" doesn't really work when winning fixes everything, and this is a series-wide issue mind you. Ah well, minor issues aside it wasn't too bad. The preview is another Mana episode. Never mind every episode is a Mana episode. Plus it's a student council-related episode like every Mana episode. At least not every Nagisa episode was about Lacrosse. |
RLinksoul said: The whole confusion about how she lost a battle back then and Ai-chan turned into an egg isn't making this any easier though. This show always seems to throw new plot details at us and not explain them properly. Theory: Marie Ange is a Digimon. Upon death she became an egg and eventually revived in her In-Training Stage, Ai-chan. Hey, it makes more sense than some of the stuff out there. |
RLinksoul said: Then what is that block of ice Joe ran off with some 20 episodes ago? Your theory is funny because Ai-chan was originally theorized to be Ange, or related to her in some way. It feels like kind of a let-down for the show to just be like "Oh she's Cure Ace's fairy partner." That's just.... significantly more mundane than say the role of Chiffon from Fresh Precure, and doesn't really answer how she's able to dish out power-ups so easily. There's gotta be more to her that we still don't know. A life-sized Marie Ange doll used to distract the Selfish, of course :P. Actually I forgot about that, drats. But yes, they have a lot of things to answer and just 6 episodes left, or just 5 since it looks like giving Mana some random plot is far more important than, say, explaining what Ai-chan IS. |
| Ok :D so at least question why she wasn't on any birthday so far and some issues with how she lived so far were solved, kind of. And one more scary grandmother in Precure-land, not as powerful as Honoka's but it was nice. Not bad episode I say - sure Ace looks dumber and dumber with each pasing moment but well, it's beauty of DDP. ZettaiRyouiki said: One last thing, between Aguri being like Kaguya-hime and Mana being the Happy Prince this season has used more fairy tales for its plot than Smile. TOEI! But they are using it in smarter way, I think - actually there is some connection. While in case of Smile, between episodes that were "inspired" by Yes 5 I can't say that Miyuki had enough charisma to drag anyone into her "I just love tales" mindset. And I think they skipped that part of her personality quite early leaving not much left for her to be unique (except tendency to fail at everything). |
Dalek-baka said: But they are using it in smarter way, I think - actually there is some connection. While in case of Smile, between episodes that were "inspired" by Yes 5 I can't say that Miyuki had enough charisma to drag anyone into her "I just love tales" mindset. And I think they skipped that part of her personality quite early leaving not much left for her to be unique (except tendency to fail at everything). That wasn't a complaint at DokiDoki, it was a jab at Smile for not using its supposed theme very well. I think the movie used it far more in a hour than the TV series in 49 episodes. And yeah, it's like a third of Smile episodes were recycled Yes plots, as if the main cast itself wasn't bad enough. |
| Teary-eyed for good chunk of episode. Family issues is what gets me everytime. Also Mari gets The Best Supporting Character/Best Parental Figure award. I was so satisfied when she punished Aguri at the end. Not because I hate Ace or something, but for earning A in bringing children up. It usually gets dusted under the carpet iin children shows. My theory still stands (or at least I'm still clinging to it): Aguri and Regina are part of Marie Ange, her body is just a shell that needs to be confined in ice (also it's so Snow Whitish, I bet Joe must be ecstatic). I don't know where to put Ai though. At first I thought she's part of Marie Ange too, but that's three people already to be one person. Maybe Ai is Ange's messenger or something. Maybe she was a grown-up fairy too but reverted due to Selfishness attack/Ange's defeat? |
| Aguri's origins were explained. Nice. The bond between Aguri and her grandma is so heartwarming. :3 |
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