Hirogaru Sky! Precure

Soaring Sky Pretty Cure the 20th Anniversary Season , and the 20th Season of the Precure franchise as a whole , this was a surprisingly good Season for a Anniversary Season, its pretty great from a animation standpoint , and a Character standpoint , the problems are the lack of good villains or really anything good from past seasons , Cure Sky a good main character , Cure Prism a good secondary character, Cure Wing the first male Cure also fits in really well , Cure Butterfly the first 18 years old Cure is also here ... , there also a spoiler Cure for the last one but I won't ruined that for ya

Soaring Sky Pretty Cure is a right direction for Precure , the lack of good villains is a minus for me , and the lack of Edge from Past season really irks me in that regard

Hope Wonderful Pretty Cure fix that

Hirogaru Sky is a wonderful Hopepunk series. A mix of magical girl transformations, tokusatsu battles and craziness, shojo manga emotion, slice-of-life, a bit of Cute Girls Doing Cute Things, and even some Iyashikei, all rolled into one! The youngest viewers love the color and cuteness, but the grown-up themes may fly over their heads, while appealing to adults.

Toei has a habit of breaking character stereotypes, and this year is no exception. The lead Cure, Sora (blue), is focused on heroism, athleticism, and constant training. Mashiro's forte is her strength and dedication to kindness- usually the lead Cure's role.

Ageha, as an 18-year-old Cure who ... is training to be a nursery-school teacher. She brings adult perspectives and skills to the team, and her child-handling abilities come in handy when kids are in danger and need to be evacuated. Her main themes are excitement and protection, and she adds a lot of fun to the series.

Tsubasa / Cure Wing is the first boy who's a full member of a team. Thankfully they avoid the savior/love interest trope while still giving him a boy's personality. Toei went above and beyond to create a role model for boys who shows he can work alongside girls, making use of his strengths while valuing theirs.

Kabaton, the first villain general, is a fat purple pig who initially uses a toxic farting attack.Unusual for a cartoon villain, he quickly learns not to underestimate the Cures and never makes the same mistake twice. He may be questionable as a credible villain at first.

Another standout is the background and incidental music. They change the battle themes and other music regularly. If possible, listen with good earbuds, headphones, etc because a lot of the layers won't be heard otherwise.

Hirogaru Sky's a good entry point for the Precure metaseries- each season has its own themes and strengths. So far it's a good all-rounder and being the newest, it's one of the easier ones to access.

Hirogaru Sky! Precure is probably one of the biggest disappointments I've had when it comes to mahou shoujo. Hirogaru carries the proposal of being an innovative anime compared to other Precures, breaking certain character-related clichés: the protagonist is the blue heroine, a boy is part of the "magical girls" group, and there is a Cure who is already in college. This breaking of stereotypes is interesting, but unfortunately, it seems that the anime is just fulfilling a quota of characters for the main cast. The innovative points of the anime are limited to this; the rest is the typical episodic superhero show, where every episode ... results in a confrontation with a random monster and a moral lesson. I believe Hirogaru Sky! Precure is more akin to Paw Patrol than to a mahou shoujo.

Hirogaru Sky does not escape the flaw of many Precures in being a childish anime. I believe a children's show should not be limited to being moralizing, constantly trying to teach a lesson to the audience in the most pedagogical way possible. There are children's animes and infantilized animes. The latter merely reproduce adults' views on what children's things are, always in a hierarchical, didactic tone, teaching what they need to learn at that stage of life. The work's space becomes an educational field, and the artistic part is left aside. This is the case with Precure; the conflicts in the work always seek to teach basic values as if the audience were imbeciles. This does not belong to the children's universe. A child does not have an understanding and concerns related to morality, justice, or even the importance of friendship, which is so emphasized in the anime. This is an outsider's view, an adult's perspective on what they consider important for a child's development. Above all, in infantilized animes, the experience of being a child is disrespected.

On the other hand, children's animes seek to reach the child audience by embodying the essence of seeing the world from a child's point of view, creating a story rich in imagination, fantasy, or even filled with play. Unlike an infantilized work, the adult visits the children's world seeking to have a child's perspective, being curious, turning the world into a stage of constant discoveries. Creamy Mami, for example, is a mahou shoujo that uses magic to bridge Yuu's childlike world with the adult environment of show business.

Unlike Hirogaru Sky, Creamy Mami is not a lesson about what kind of adult a child should become by imparting a set of rules for the character to learn. Instead, it is an anime that encourages the imagination of what the child wants to become in the future. Using her powers, Mami can be anything she desires, just as a child can dream of becoming whatever they wish. Works that achieve this can be enjoyed by both children and adults, as we have all been children and experienced these sensations. This respects childhood, the child's subjectivity, without a top-down perspective.

In summary: although the target audience of the anime is children, this should not prevent an adult from watching without feeling like they're watching a well-produced episode of Peppa Pig or receiving a moral lesson from their parents. So, there are no excuses.