Smile Precure! (Glitter Force)

To teenager Miyuki Hoshizora, fairy tales are a world of wondrous encounters and happy endings. Inspired by her love for these stories, she lives every day searching for happiness. While running late on her first day of school as a transfer student, Miyuki meets Candy—a mysterious fairy from the world of fairy tales, Märchenland. However, when Candy disappears as quickly as she appeared, Miyuki is left believing the encounter was only a dream.

After an eventful first day, Miyuki finds a mysterious library at school. While combing through the bookshelves, she is transported next to Candy, who claims to be searching for the so-called legendary warriors, Precure. When forced to protect Candy's and everyone else's happiness, Miyuki transforms into "Cure Happy," one of the Precure warriors! As Cure Happy, Miyuki is now tasked with finding the other legendary warriors and protecting the world from destruction, all while possibly discovering her very own happy ending.

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Sasaki, Reiko

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Umezawa, Atsutoshi

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Ootsuka, Takashi

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Shida, Naotoshi

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Opening Theme

	"Glitter Force" by Blush (English version)
	"Let's go! Smile Precure! (Let`s go!スマイルプリキュア!)" by Aya Ikeda

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	1: "Yay! Yay! Yay! (イェイ! イェイ! イェイ!)" by Hitomi Yoshida
	2: "Mankai * Smile" (満開＊スマイル！)" by Hitomi Yoshida (eps 25-48)
	3: "Wake Up, Shake Up" by BLUSH

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Sep 29, 2022

NikoNikoNiiLover

Recommended

Smile Precure was the very first anime I ever watched. I was pretty young when it first came out, and it was later dubbed and localized as Glitter Force on Netflix. A lot of people bash on dubs, so this one is no exception. After all, the localization also resulted in a ton of episodes being removed from the run. So, obviously, the dub isn’t well-received by Precure fans. However, I have to say that I really love the dub. I just love this anime in general. It is just the perfect magical girl show with tons of lighthearted slice of life moments and action-packed ...

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Aug 7, 2021

CataOrShane

Mixed Feelings

The theme for this Precure season is Fairytales! Stories like Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Momotaro, etc. Can this season replicate that kind of magic?

Visuals:
1) zero creativity in monster design. Every single monster is copy and paste. The first enemy is every enemy for 99% of the episodes.
2) the animation is usually consistent except for some rare occasions

Sound:
1) unlike every season of Precure up to this one, the seiyuus cast have been very experienced with tons of roles and popularity. This one decided to mix legendary seiyuus with less experienced ones. This is not a complaint just something I ...

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Mar 7, 2022

Animelover875

Not Recommended

To begin the final rating of Smile, I'm going to begin by stating that the season quality has been inconsistent as a whole, which can make this type of analysis somewhat difficult; there are an equal number of moments from the plot that are both highly remarkable (even for a franchise such as Precure) as the number of moments that makes one wonder where exactly they were heading with this season. To begin with, it seems that a lot of elements from the series had potential which never saw the light of day, or rather, weren't accurately touched upon in an in-depth manner. For instance, ... several elements (such as the various-colored clown noses) weren't utilized to their full potential and seemed to only be used as a plot device in order to increase the difficulty level; however, this never felt like taking a drastic step, as the Cures were still able to defeat them as always with their standard attacks. Other elements that seem to have been forgotten about were the bookshelf which allowed one to travel anywhere across the Earth, which is a feature that was only utilized to the potential it had in a single episode. As for villains, Majorina and Akaoni unfortunately failed to invoke any form of terror whatsoever; Majorina's plots simply revolved around continuously losing plot-related items, causing misfortune for the Cures, whilst Akaoni had an even less defined theme of simply destroying things. Wolfrun, to me, was the only enjoyable member of the trio, as he seemed to at least be somewhat intelligent and cunning. However, the worst villain of the series was Pierrot; after finally being awakened by Bad Energy, he was on-screen during the midseason finale for approximately five minutes and was promptly defeated, only to return in the season finale. However, even by this point, it was too little too late; his presence in the series as the "big bad" was almost nonexistent and when defeated a second time, he vanished into thin air in a manner of seconds.
As for Joker, I would like to say that Joker was, unexpectedly, quite a competent villain...Mostly. Able to manipulate the Cures' fears, hopes and dreams to his will, as well as having direct control even over seemingly all of the other villains in the season, even Pierrot, this was not the extent of his abilities; he was able to create powerful illusions and items to various effect (such as the Sloth Ball or Bad End Precure) as well as having a very high amount of tangible power during his fights. This leaves the question of why he was left with the fate of being absorbed inside Pierrot; I believe that if given the proper opportunity, Joker would actually be able to defeat the Cures, had he not succumbed to his fate. The fate and backstory of the other three generals was given far too little, too late; by the point in the series that it was revealed, there's not enough time for their words to create impact, and their "reform" felt highly rushed and didn't make much sense, as it seemed to come completely out of left field. While I did mention that Pierrot was wholly incompetent, I do believe there was a character worse than him, even; the Royal Queen of Marchenland. Several times the Cures completed the "layers", if you will, of Decors, only for the Queen to be almost completely inert and unresponsive and halfheartedly tell them that she needs more power. Even after gaining enough Decors to fully awaken her, she had almost no impact on the battle besides helping the awakening of Royal Candy. I also believe that Pop accomplished nearly nothing and only existed to attempt to order the Cures around as well as provide plot information.
While it may be said that the season suffered because of real-world events, I disagree; even so, there were numerous episodes when the writers had an opportunity to create wonderful, wholesome moments, only to plunder it on nonsensical filler episodes which amounted to almost nothing in terms of character development (this is mainly in reference to Majorina). Some of these include episodes based on the following premises: the characters turning invisible, Miyuki being transformed into a Transformers-esque fighting robot, the characters shrinking to a size smaller than ants, and becoming children, to name only a few. Had the series been properly able to utilize the elements it had set up in order to create an effective story, I believe it could have fared much better. As well, the visual comparisons to Yes 5 only serve to distract rather than entice, as it makes similarities in personalities only even more transparent. As it has likely been stated numerous times as well, the Cures feel significantly weaker than other Cure teams. I would like to give the series an overall rating of 4/10.

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