[momobunny]

Well so far I don't really like Cure Ace.

Spoiler for episode 23:

She's so far above everybody else that it feels a little ridiculous to me. Not to mention how poorly this episode painted Cure Rosetta, Cure Diamond, and Cure Sword to the point of them being completely useless in Cure form while Mana managed to do more in human form... I know it was to show her change of heart and resolution but I found it incredibly ridiculous.

Also... Alice knows martial arts... why does this not influence her abilities as a Pretty Cure? Mana hasn't the same fighting prowess as Alice... and she completely outshined her in combat this episode... same goes for Cure Ace, for all we know she could be a martial arts master but at the same time I doubt that they're willing to go that route again. If they chose to then at least that would explain why Cure Ace is so powerful but it wouldn't explain why Cure Heart seems to outshine Cure Rosetta (who does about the same as Cure Sword and Diamond) in combat.

The episode is so Mana focused and once again her friends are put on the back burner (which I pretty much saw coming from the beginning for Cure Rosetta and Cure Diamond) to the point where they don't even bother showing their transformations while Cure Heart's is shown in its entirety (which they should've skipped as well in my opinion)... and somehow after Cure Rosetta and Cure Sword's attacks failed completely, her's manages to work...

This episode just seemed really sloppy to me, it probably would've been better if Cure Ace took all of their loveads in order to give an explanation as to why Alice, Rikka, and Makoto couldn't help the situation instead of putting them all in an extremely helpless situation like they did after transforming...