Futari wa Precure: Max Heart

My Review of We are Pretty Cure Max Heart

Misumi Nagisa aka Cure Black is still the same Tom boy as season one that is also a lacrosse player, which fine I guess , she still have her brother with her in some episodes


Yukishiro Honoka aka Cure White is still the smart one which is also fine I guess , this season 2 isn’t the best at giving the characters something new to their personality

The new Cure Kujou Hikari aka Shiny Luminous , she the kind girl of the 3 and is the first ever Pink Cure , even if Toei calls her ... Yellow cure , with Cure Black being classified as a pink Cure , and White as a Blue Cure by their eyes , she give the big boost in Cure Black/White attacks with a big heart , and she not human too she part of the life force of the Queen from Season one , you know the CGI being , she fine I guess , her design is based on Classic magical girls too

The villains are still not good , Circulas, Uraganos , Viblis , and Baldes

Also yes if you have seen the original a very big villain is coming back at the end of the show , anyway Max Heart is a Decent Sequel, with subpar animation thanks to way too many Reuse animation, over 5 Minutes of stock footage is in this season alone , so yes it did not ruined anything , this is just a another sequel anime season , same as the first , as Toei believes if it aren’t broke don’t fix it , and they fix it by season 4 Yes Pretty Cure 5 , Max Heart is good to me but maybe others will find offensive

Despite all my complaints about Max Heart, this was probably the perfect ending for a series. For a series I thought would never end, and for what I hated about last season's ending, along with the amount of pointless filler, they can really pull together some tear-jerking moments. Honoka and Nagisa giving up and dropping to the bottom of despair only to find hope. That's really a wonderful moment because it felt so genuine and wholesome. I didn't actually think Hikari would be able to give up her life, but when she did, it was really sad seeing the graduation scene, and I was as ... shocked as Nagisa to see she returned. (it's a deus ex machina, but I don't mind really. Other series get away with this as well, so why not.) That said, the season does have a fair degree of problems; some of these include severely limited animation. The animation in the first half of the series is frequently off-model and only vaguely illustrated at times; most scenes take place in the mansion, Tako Cafe, or the school. As a character, Hikari's characterization appears to be wildly inconsistent, showing an unnatural degree of mood swings and actions which suggest the opposite of what she's saying. She is also overly reliant on Nagisa and Honoka to protect her, not even bothering to transform half the time, despite stating she wants to protect them, as one example. The evil generals were serviceable to the plot, but lacked the charm that previous Dark Zone members had. After a while, Hikaru/the little boy simply became boring as there was nothing to his character outside of his relation to the Dark King, and thus most of his scenes felt wasted, especially when they occurred every episode. Character development was also limited; nearly every episode with Nagisa involved her as the butt of a joke, or involved her in a needless and fruitless romance with Fujimura. The series also relies overtly on stock footage; about four minutes of each episode is devoted to stock footage or 6-7 minutes including the opening and ending themes. Porun wasn't a problem, but Lulun was; Lulun's character served no real purpose at all other than to provide Porun with his own annoyance. This wouldn't be a problem if done properly, or if Porun was actually as annoying as other mascots who would deserve this. This show also lacked the animation to demonstrate the villains as a serious threat; for instance, let's say a character was thrown 20 feet down into a wall. Instead of showing the impact, the character would simply "cushion" themselves, as though they'd landed on a pillow, depleting much of the impact. As for Honoka and Nagisa, many of the impacts can't be said to have hurt them whatsoever; for about 80% of the attacks directed at them, they would simply backflip to perfectly land on their feet standing up MID ATTACK. This makes no sense whatsoever. The Heartiels were somewhat grating and dragged on the plot more than needed, considering each Heartiel stayed around about 3-4 episodes, for no apparent reason other than to watch the main characters live their lives. Unfortunately, I will be required to rate the series only a 5/10.

I am PreCure fan. The first series is an especially wonderful TV anime. So, I was very, very disappointed upon getting around to watching Max Heart.

My problems stem from the fact that the show has no real direction. We are treated to a endless number of "Monster of the Day" episodes. In FwPC, we often had a showdown against an enemy general. Here, we don't get that. There really is nothing but MotD episodes. What about character development? That's practically non-existent. Nagisa and Honoka do not grow any at all. Nothing is added to them. In fact, throughout the series, they become flanderized to hilarious ... extremes. Shiny Luminous adds nothing either. She is a talking plot device.

As for the animation quality, it ranges from mediocre mid-2000's quality to just plain atrocious. In an early episode, a fight focusing on Shiny Luminous has it's animation quality slowly degrade, finally to the point where it looks like an acid trip.

Sadly, there isn't much more to say than the above. This is essentially MotD episodes repeated 45 times (not counting the first & last episode) with varying levels of animation quality that never gets better than mediocre. If you really like Nagisa and Honoka, pick a random episode, think of it as a side story, and you can probably have some fun. However, I do not recommend watching this from start to finish. You're better off just watching the first and last episode, pick a few random ones, and just watch some other PreCure shows.