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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!