• The most well written character is Cure Peace, but she’s only well-written in one episode. That one episode explains how she has had to struggle being raised by a single mother and how her father’s death affected her. But after that ONE episode, never again!
• It just goes back to the characters being their generic archetypes. Cure Happy, being the happy-go-lucky, childish one. Cure Beauty being the smart, beautiful, and good-at-everything character. Cure March being the athletic one who gets spooked easily. Cure Sunshine (a Cure Black clone) is the loud, second athletic one who works at her family business.
• And, Cure Peace is just the shy, artsy one, that gets only an episode of development. If you think that those characters sounded archetypal as fuck; you’re not alone! I did, too! I mean, there’s not terribly much to be gleaned from this series, since does primarily seem focused on children. But, this is worse quality than Digimon.
• I did not like the villains, they were among some of the most boring Precure villains that ever came into artistic existence. I tuned out whenever they were on screen. I have no idea why Smile is such a huge otaku phenomena; it garners such a massive amount of fan art on Zerochan, I don’t understand! I know their character designs aren’t bad looking AND they have dark alter-ego forms. But, you know which Precure show did that infinitely better and has less of a fan reception: fucking Heartcatch!
• The ending is a cope-out. It’s one of those conclusions where the mascot cries and says, “Once I go over to my world, I’ll never see you ever again because the dimension portal will be cut off.” And then you know what happens… the show pulls an asspull like Kyoukai no Kanata and brings the little fucker back in the end. Just when I thought the show was addressing mature themes about people having to live apart and possibly never see each other again!
• I was duped! What does the little mascot say when he breaks all of the show’s logic and causes little girls to cry, is is just like, “Just kidding guys, I just like little girl tears! Hehe?” Aside from my ramblings about the terribad ending, Smile Precure is such a hollow kid’s production that I could barely make it through most episodes without wanting to drop it or go to sleep. I give Smile Precure a 2/10.
