Star☆Twinkle Precure

Hikaru Hoshina is an energetic middle school student with a love for space and the occult. As she draws constellations in her notebook, a small and fluffy creature suddenly appears from it! The creature, which she names Fuwa, turns out to be an alien with the ability to create warp holes.

When Fuwa's companions, the aliens Lala Hagoromo and Prunce, arrive on Earth, they declare that they are searching for the Precure, legendary warriors who will save the universe. But an organization known as the Notraiders soon follows and attacks, intending to capture Fuwa and its power. Overcome by a desire to protect Fuwa, Hikaru finds herself transforming into "Cure Star," one of the Precure that Lala and the others have been searching for!

It is now up to Hikaru and the rest to fend off the Notraiders' onslaught, discover the rest of the Precure, and find the Star Color Pens, artifacts that will awaken the 12 Star Princess who keep the universe in balance.

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Hagoromo, Lala Main

Kohara, Konomi Japanese

Hoshina, Hikaru Main

Naruse, Eimi Japanese

Yuni Main

Uesaka, Sumire Japanese

Amamiya, Elena Main

Yasuno, Kiyono Japanese

Kaguya, Madoka Main

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Fuwa Supporting

Kino, Hina Japanese

Prunce Supporting

Yoshino, Hiroyuki Japanese

Garuouga Supporting

Tsuruoka, Satoshi Japanese

Aiwarn Supporting

Murakawa, Rie Japanese

Himenojou, Sakurako Supporting

Taichi, You Japanese

Yazaki, Fumi Producer

Yanagawa, Akari Producer

Hasegawa, Yuri Assistant Producer

Miyamoto, Hiroaki Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

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Jan 25, 2020

CURE_WAVY

Recommended

Star Twinkle Precure delivers a beautiful collage of art, music, and emotions that comes together to form something really special!

The show follows the main girls on a galaxy spanning adventure, effortlessly switching between whimsical exploration, and slice of life comedy on one hand; and relatively dark and emotional stories involving loss, anger, and isolation on the other. All without missing a beat.

The art is superb. The science-fiction designs feel fresh while comfortable, and the diverse settings of interstellar space are exploited well. But the standout is the character designs, especially Lala (who i'll return to) . The transformation sequences are STUNNING, amazingly cute and ... graceful and the girls also sing while transforming which is beautiful and releases so much pent up emotion after a tense or dramatic episode. Hearing the precure's break out into song after 20 minutes of building emotional weight is an incredible catharsis, and enough to make me tear up.

Personally the girls other than Hikaru and Lala fall into the background for me. But it's a testament to how great this show is that Madoka, Elena, and even Blue-cat had scenes that excited, and moved me.

Hikaru's enthusiasm and curiosity is easy to take for granted at first, but by the end of the show I started to realize how serious she actually was, and she really started to make me feel something. Combined with her really cute character design, and lynch pin position on the shows cast, and character-dynamics she's a solid and important character that's executed well. I thought I had Hikaru's stereotypical character all figured out when I first saw her, but in the end she had me in tears on more than one occasion...

Lala had me from the start. Her character design is simply perfect, perfect color scheme, cute alien feelers, and her really cute outfits with her iconic loose yellow socks. Lala makes cute alien expressions like 'Lun~' and 'oyo~' which is very cute and charming. Her voice is really cute and expressive. There's about 100 different way's for Lala to say 'oyo' or 'lun' and they all make perfect sense, its amazing.

While Hikaru is right at home on earth, the whole time Lala is making a concerted effort to fit in, learn about human culture, and explore. She even enrolls in the school just for the experience. It's easy to forget and let Hikaru's enthusiasm and excitement outshine her, but Lala is a long way from home.

Lala's story is a great one, and her personality is also wonderful and inspiring. I don't think I'm really capable of expressing my love for Lala in this review, and it would be out of place to try lol.

Star twinkle precure is one of the only animes I can think of that can make me Laugh and Cry in the space of a single episode. And one of the only animes that managed to catapult one of its characters so deeply into my heart (LALA!!!!!). It's great and you should watch it.

ALso Kappard is sick and his arc is awesome, and his design is cool.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jan 26, 2020

ZettaiRyouiki

Mixed Feelings

Warning: Spoilers!

Why is this franchise still around? I’m not being facetious here, I genuinely want to know this. This was a franchise built on friendship and cool fights, and now the cool fights are gone, the friendship thing has less weight each time for some reason, and the quality of the previous two seasons was nonexistent. Meanwhile Aikatsu is on its last legs, despite being a far better franchise. How unfair.

But this isn’t the topic for that. Welcome to the Star Twinkle review by everyone’s favorite caustic reviewer.

Star Twinkle is a step on the right direction compared to KiraKira and Hugtto, but only because when ... you hit the bottom there’s nowhere to go but up. The plotline is simple enough: the universe is gonna be destroyed unless our plucky heroines gather 12 Star Pens and revive the Star Princesses to fix this mess. Seems Toei realized the more “intricate” storylines of DokiDoki/GoPri/Hugtto were terrible and decided to keep things simple which frankly is a wise move. There are a few twists and surprises during the way but that’s basically it. It works, there’s no big plotholes nor issues, good so far.

The characters are… mixed bag. Most are alright, but the pink Cure and the baby mascot are terrible. Did I mention they hog much of the screentime? Why do you keep doing this, Toei?

Anyway. Hikaru is the pink Cure and she’s plain terrible. Loud, obnoxious, childish, and utterly annoying, Hikaru encapsulates the worst traits of pink Cures in a twintailed package. Her catchphrase is dumb and forced and gets thrown in all the time, to ear-shattering points. Her plotline is also barely touched on, and while it shows she could’ve been a better character… She’s not. Lala is the GREEN Cure who doesn’t look green because for whatever reason Toei hates green. She’s an alien and has cute verbal tics and is serious but earnest and overall one of the best girls in the show. She deserves being the most popular Cure this season. Shame after the plot featuring her home planet she becomes background noise, aside from the movie. Erena with R is the yellow Cure and she’s basically Nao from Smile but with dark skin. She spends most of the season being a walking prop though once they remember to give her focus her storyline isn’t too bad and is linked to the main plot even. I still don’t get why they did 3 plots about discrimination in 4 episodes but sure. Madoka is the purple Cure and much like Erena is Nao then Madoka is Reika because the season about imagination lacks any. Seriously, change the strict grandpa for a strict dad and you get Madoka. Both even have the same plotline which just screams lazy and shows how little Toei cares about her. Finally there’s Yuni the blue Cure that joins “halfway”, more like 40% in now, and she’s a weird one. Not her personality, which is fine and dandy, but rather she appears somewhat late and then joins in a rather shoehorned way and barely gets focus outside her spotlight episodes. It’s almost like Murayama had the plot outline done and his editor said “Dude, you forgot the mid-season Cure” and he then just went “Oh shi-“ and shoved her in rather haphazardly. But no way is Toei that incompetent, right?

For other characters, we have Prunce and Fuwa the two mascots. Prunce is cool and thus gets treated like dirt. Fuwa is annoying and she gets put on a pedestal. Yeah. The various family members and friends of the Cures are all fine, except Hikaru’s dad who is basically just as annoying and obnoxious as his daughter down to the stupid catchphrase. Luckily he’s only in two episodes. The villains are cool though, and they even make good points about things which is either really good writing or really bad one. The jury’s out on this one. Still, all in all it’s not a bad cast.

The sound is fine. I could do without Hikaru screaming “KIRAYABAAAAAA” every five seconds and the OP and ED all feel identical to previous ones. But if it ain’t broken don’t fix it.

As for the art, the designs of the characters are good. The main girls are all cute and easily recognizable, the villains have a youkai patter which is pretty neat, and there’s no real issue here. However the fights are subpar and among the worst in the franchise. Too much beamspam, not enough physical contact. Even the final battles are 90% beamspam. It’s not even COOL beamspam, since they reuse stock animation all the time. Boring!

All in all, Star Twinkle is not one of the strongest entries in the franchise. It’s a decent entry point, and if you wanna watch everything PreCure it won’t be the worst part of that, but the glory days of Splash Star and Fresh and Heartcatch are long gone. A pity about that.

PD: Haircuts are the worst.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 10, 2020

BlueAkhekh

Not Recommended

This is just gonna be an abbreviated version of a review, because I'm honestly pretty surprised that people are giving this season such high scores.

This season is kind of a garbage fire and falls into the exact same pits as Kirakira does

Good Points:

+Character design is on point; all characters read well and their costumes are gorgeous
+Art direction is overall super solid
+Transformations look very nice (at least half of them), and they SING during it, which is way too catchy for its own good
+Speaking of music, it checks out! Has some slapping tracks just as with the previous seasons since they share composer
...
And that's honestly really it, now-

Bad Points:

-Characters don't really have any development during the show at all. They kind of tease you about it sometimes, but in the end, characters never really grow or improve in the slightest
-The novelty of them being in space wears out super quick, because it doesn't really change how they fight or interact with the villains, it really seems like a waste of potential
-The fights are super boring. All 5 cures have a special attack of their own that they always perform, so you always see the same cutscenes over and over again, which drag the fights on way too much
-The animation sucks pretty stinking hard. A lot of fights have very little detail to them or are straight-up stills of the characters. I can't remember any episodes having memorable fights, unlike some Hugtto! ones
-The reason the cures fight seems really disjointed. It would've been really easy for them to say "I fight because I want to protect the universe", but they all say that they "want to protect" the fairy of the show, which is...strange? it's just a plushie that all it does is just kinda stand there
-I'm pretty sure the writers don't know what "Imagination" is, because the bad guys are supposed to harvest it, yet I only recall one single episode in which a character actually has their imagination taken away
-The slice of life parts of the story kinda try to seem interesting, but in the end, they're all dropped by the writers and nothing really happens out of them

All in all, extremely weak season, and pretty objectively so. Nothing that happens in it is entertaining in the slightest. I wouldn't call it **boring**, it's just very...inoffensive. It tries nothing new, and nothing in it stands out at all (or is good) aside from probably the transformations.

Not worth the watch at all.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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