Yes! Precure 5 GoGo!

Nozomi and friends are back, their role as Precure far from over. The girls are given new powers by the mysterious Flora, who awaits their arrival in a place called the Cure Rose Garden. But to reach that garden of legend, they have to use a magical relic known as the Rose Pact. Problem is, our heroes don't know how to use the thing. This leads them to seek help from the four monarchs of Palmier's neighboring countries.

Not to make things too easy, dark forces are afoot once again. An evil organization, Eternal, is keen on adding the Rose Pact to its ever-growing collection of treasures. To make matters worse, the director of this dastardly museum seems to have a vested interest in the Cure Rose Garden.

Fortunately, a new story brings with it new allies. Enter Syrup, the courier boy with a bad attitude. His desire to reach the Garden is pure, but who exactly is he? And for that matter, who's the new girl in town and why does she smell like roses?

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Yumehara, Nozomi Main

Sanpei, Yuuko Japanese

Kasugano, Urara Main

Ise, Mariya Japanese

Akimoto, Komachi Main

Nagano, Ai Japanese

Mimino, Kurumi Main

Sendai, Eri Japanese

Minazuki, Karen Main

Maeda, Ai Japanese

Natsuki, Rin Main

Takeuchi, Junko Japanese

Nuts Main

Irino, Miyu Japanese

Coco Main

Kusao, Takeshi Japanese

Syrup Main

Park, Romi Japanese

Bunbee Supporting

Takagi, Wataru Japanese

Komura, Toshiaki Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Matsumoto, Rie Episode Director, Storyboard

Shida, Naotoshi Episode Director, Key Animation

Ishihira, Shinji Episode Director

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Jul 28, 2014

ihateeveryone

Recommended

While the original Yes Precure 5 had some very good points to it, it's undeniable that there were some consistent flaws in the series that bogged down its enjoyment. While GoGo is far from flawless, it definitely succeeds in being a very solid sequel that helps to pick up where the original Yes 5 had fallen.

The plot doesn't stray too far from the typical thing that you'd expect from a Precure season - an evil organization is seeking out items that, if in their hands, could destroy the world. The five girls, who had given up their powers at the end of the first Yes ... 5, are resurrected as Precure when a guardian named Flora calls for their help. The plot proceeds pretty typically, though it does have some strong points to it. For one thing, there's a sideplot that revolves around one of the characters' past and inner conflict with the evil organization that flows very well. The plot also ties up many important things that are brought up. In general, the plot of GoGo can shine when it truly wants to. There are some aspects in it that could be better fleshed out, and there's also the fact that the plot takes a while to properly progress. There's also the fact that later on in the show, GoGo ends up completely dropping and forgetting about two of its villains and never gives us a resolution in terms of their whereabouts. Regardless, the story of GoGo manages to be one that keeps itself steady throughout most of the run.

However, most people don't watch Precure for the plot, but for its endearing characters. GoGo has the advantage of having viewers that already know and are attached to the main cast, so it's not hard to become reattached to them in the sequel. Seeing as there are five (later six) girls on the team, the show makes it a point to give everyone equal screentime. Although our leader is quite obvious, the spotlight doesn't hesitate to shine on the other girls when need be. GoGo also makes it a point to focus a bit more on the girls' goals and the struggles they face when attempting to achieve them. One of our main characters has an implied learning disability, yet seeks to be a teacher, and shows some very real struggle and inner conflict in trying to attain her dream. While most of the development took place in season one, GoGo still gives us room to give everyone a bit more depth to their character when it comes to things like their goals and dreams.

Anyone who watched the first season would know that there was quite a lot of, to be blunt, cilche and cheesy romance, namely between Nozomi and Coco. If you weren't a big fan of this, then you'll be very pleased to know that GoGo features little to none of the dramatic, shoujo-y romance subplots that Yes5 had. This season has a bigger focus on both our main female cast and our two new main characters, Kurumi and Syrup, and cuts out the unnecessary and kind of embarassing romance the first season had. Speaking of Kurumi and Syrup, the development for these two characters is also a big plus in GoGo. Syrup in particular undergoes a lot of inner and outer conflict and develops into a very solid ally of the Precure. While Kurumi's development doesn't reach near those levels, her relationship with the girls throughout the show helps her become a more fully-fleshed out character.

GoGo also improves with its villains in a way that would help shape Precure villains in the future. Pretty much every season pre-GoGo would follow a route of having one villain attack the girls for a few weeks, get killed off, and replaced. The reason this wouldn't work well is because it wouldn't give the viewer time to get to know the villain or their past and motivations. GoGo, while it still does do some quick villain killing, keeps its villains alive much longer than usual and also lets one become redeemed. This lets you become much more invested in what they're doing, rather than wondering when they're going to be replaced.

The art for GoGo has a much sharper and cleaner look to it, and it's definitely worth nothing that there's been an animation upgrade. Regardless of that, the season is still riddled with many instances of off-model scenes from Toei, which is to be expected in any long-running Toei show. When it tries, however, the animation can end up being extremely fluid resulting in very well-animated fights. The transformations also received an upgrade, which finally involved dynamic movements whilst transforming.

The soundtrack is not much different at all from the original Yes5, and still consists of composter Naoki Sato. There are many familiar tracks included in GoGo that you may notice when watching the show. Sato's music is very well-done and helps to exemplify both the slice of life and the dramatic moments of the show. His music generally compliments the show in a very positive way.

GoGo, in many ways, ranks above Yes5 when it comes to enjoyment. GoGo manages to have quite a few memorable episodes and the more consistent villains helps add on to this as well. Again, being familiar with a majority of the cast also helps to raise the enoyment of the series, giving it an advantage in that sense. It definitely does a great job at keeping the viewers entertained, and when it really tries, ends up doing an excellent job at just that.

While GoGo is far from a perfect sequel or season in general, it's able to have a solid enough cast and story to be one that is worth watching for anyone that got enjoyment out of the original Yes5. It's improvements in romance, villains, and even animation help bring it up a few notches over the original season as well. If you were a bit disappointed in how the original handled these things, then I'd recommend that you give GoGo a gogo and see how it fares up to the original. While it's a generally forgotten season, it's one that fans of Yes5 should definitely pick up.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Aug 26, 2021

Animelover875

Mixed Feelings

48, the final episode of Yes 5 Gogo! It's been quite a wild ride... but here we go. So the Director disregards Flora's seed as useless since it has no value, and he just wants to destroy everything that has no value. But despite the Cures attempts to tell him it doesnt need value, all it needs is to be loved and nurtured and it'll become something beautiful he refuses to listen. The Director destroys multiple worlds at once but something happens. Mailpo (who got lost earlier) reappears and delivers endless, literally endless streams of letters: born from the unbelievably strong feelings of everyone ... in different worlds and their desire to help Precure. So the Cures power up and combine the powers of the red and blue roses with Coco and Nuts and Milk's help and the attack warps into an ULTRA ROSE!!!!!!!! instead of destroying him it transforms into Flora who simply hugs the Director, trying to help him understand life's care and such. He seems to say something like "why didnt you tell me earlier" before he succumbs to ULTIMATE FLOWER POWER and dies. The entire Eternal building and EVERYTHING in the collection is freed and returns back to everything's original owners, and the Garden revives. Flora, entrusting the Cure Rose Garden to Nozomi, also dies Well she semi-dies; she claims she's going to be "reborn as a seed," and she literally is, which falls into Nozomi's hands.
Nozomi decides to make the Cure Rose Garden public and Coco and Nuts help rebuild their own gardens I think, everyone achieves their dreams, and Milk becomes a tour guide for the Garden. Nozomi also plants the Flora-seed and waits for any sign of life caring for it with her friends. She writes a letter to Coco desperately wanting to see him and bumps into him just like the first time they met. And Coco sense that the Flora-Flower is blooming and indeed, it's become a little sprout! Everyone gathers and decides to tell the other kingdoms, and Nozomi invites all the Cures and all the mascots, and simultaneously, they all do Nozomi's KETTEI! (It's Decided/Settled!) pose. And the ending is a bit corny but it shows all of their dreams coming true in their own way: Urara gets to stand on the stage her mother performed at and play, Rin and Karen take care of the Rose Garden, Komachi gets Nuts to be her editor, I think was the implication? But YES!!!!! We have GoGone into a very interesting series, I think, a slightly better take on the "life is precious" approach than Max Heart, although I can't place my finger on why. Anyway, the episode score I'll get over with, it gets a 5/5 as if there was any doubt. But there is a LOT to dissect here, almost enough for a third paragraph
I will say that the themes of life and roses worked out better than before, by a slow margin. The story was pretty good, even though it could be a bit sluggish at times and feel like it's retreading old ground. It was expected at least slightly due to it being a sequel season, but as I said, despite how happy the characters are, they're still barely any closer to achieving their dreams than they were at the end of Yes 5. THAT was their dreams coming true in my opinion, they never really changed from that perspective and it feels like the series is trying to act as though it's a new thing. Syrup's character arc was actually really well-built, as was the Director and Anacondy's specifically. The thing with Syrup is that his arc is way too slow, and the Director's motivation can be described as, how could you say it...overly simplified. His sole reason for wanting to see the Cure Rose Garden was to destroy it and kill Flora, for the singular reason that it "has no value." Anacondy was actually a REALLY interesting character (she came back when the Director saw the Flora illusion and went to go hug him). Flora's character is somewhat poorly explained I must admit; the Director himself states that Flora had power to protect the Cure Rose Garden, bringing into question why she didn't try to defend it and still held off attacking whatsoever in the series. Syrup's arc in particular was kept in the dark for too long and the villains were overly simplified, with the exception of Mucardio and Bunbee OH!!!!!! BUNBEE STARTS HIS OWN NEW BUSINESS WITH A KAWARINO LOOKALIKE
After taking all these factors into consideration, I must admit that I didn't enjoy GoGo as much as I'd hoped, sad as it is. I'll need to give it only a 5/10, possibly due to all the lukewarm elements. Fresh Precure apparently rebooted the franchise from the ground up so I've heard, so I'll be starting it tomorrow and hopefully we'll get off on the right foot with it. Here's to a FRESH new look at the series!

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jul 10, 2021

CataOrShane

Mixed Feelings

Yes! Precure 5 had a few things done right and a bunch of other things done wrong. The sequel Yes! Precure 5 Go Go! did very little right and had no choice but to continue doing the wrong things for another season.

Visuals:
1) they improved overall but there's a few scenes where the animation is very sloppy and inconsistent
2) dialog and animation aren't always in sync
3) I hate how their uniforms look more similar between the girls. Last season the little differences were more noticeable and it just gave more personality to the girls


Sound:
1) top notch casting for most of the new ... characters. Getting Park Romi to give her boyish lovely voice to a character similar to Coco and Nuts only proves that the casting for this original duo is a mistake since the prequel
2) soundtrack isn't memorable enough


Story and characters:
1) Once again we get pedosquirrels and 14 year old girls as one of the main focuses of the season
2) lack of creativity for each episode's plot. Evidence of this are the number of transformations and special attacks performed each fight. They take way longer than in the prequel and not only that, but 90% of the fights always follow the same routine: confront enemy, transform, kick & punch & twirl, special attacks, not enough, major power up out of "nowhere" and victory. Rinse and repeat for 90% of the fights. This is both annoying and boring to watch. They should've explored strategy and combos to keep things fresh and interesting. The fighting scenes were awful for this reason. However, the mini stories themselves are truly boring to watch, unlike the previous season. It seemed they had a point to give a platform to each character and develop them as characters but this sequel had very little of that.


This sequel was a huge mistake and completely unnecessary. 6/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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