Star☆Twinkle Precure: Hoshi no Uta ni Omoi wo Komete

Star Twinkle Precure as a season performed mediocre if not worse compared to many other seasons of the franchise, despite it was a season that I really enjoyed watching. So when it came to the movie, I didn't expect much.

But it's exactly that which made me very thrilled and more glad I watched this movie.

The story itself had a very interesting theme of having an alien named UMA get exposed to Earth life. That sense of fascination was satisfying and relaxing to sit through. And, to have UMA decide its perception of how Earth is like based on the things that happen around it is ... a very clever implication of how people are in the real world. I would know, because I am someone like that.

The insert song Twinkle Stars is one of my favourite songs of all time in Precure and while it may have repeated a similar trope of Go Princess' all-star movie it was a very fitting end to the story.

The movie also focussed on Lala's opinion as an alien living on Earth. It was an absolute fit for the character and showed her responsible, cautious side in addition to being a friendly and sweet girl. The fact that the season had thrown Cure Star out of the window for a unique take on having Milky seemingly breaking the typical Pink Cure spotlight trope of Precure made the movie's continuation of it fresh.

In a nutshell, I wouldn't exactly recommend the movie in comparison to some other Precure movies but for all the backlash the main season received, it elevated the status of its movie and made it a hidden jewel I was thrilled to uncover.

My favorite Precure of the season do cute things, the fight scenes are well-animated, got me to tear up a couple of times. That's all I'm asking for from a Precure movie. If I get those things I am perfectly satisfied and this one delivered. Lots of slapstick with Lala which is the best condition for that character. Some of the constellation forms look great, others look more ridiculous than a clown but I've come to terms with reality. Nice to see the Star Twinkles animated in forms other than their defaults. There's a really good world exploration scene that could pass for an advertisement ... for planet earth.

There's something important we have to discuss though, and that's the character design on the water seijin. The water-themed hunter that played a villainous role. That thing is extremely physically attractive. I want to be its gf or at least have it kill me or something. There are worse ways to die. I'd watch a 48 ep series with that thing as the main character. And that's just talking about its standard form character design, it fights in a really cool way too. The other hunters were of course really awesome but I want to bashfully hold hands with water seijin.