Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo!

[Guido]

Surely, this was an unexpected surprise. This is the continuation sequel to Yes! Pretty Cure 5! Originally, I have had thought that if TOEI ever decided to come up with another Pretty Cure title, in order to keep milking their cash cow, they'll be setting it up in another universe, non-related to the current series.

Basically, it happens that in the sequel to Pretty Cure 5 another Pretty Cure will be added to the team, thus increasing the number to '6' Cures, as I am speculating when Yes! Pretty Cure 5 is airing.

I really wonder how the writers are going to keep all the current team to stay together.

Currently in Pretty Cure 5, Karen and Komachi are in 3rd year of junior-high while Nozomi and Rin still deal with the 2nd junior-high grade, and Urara started her freshman year in junior-high.

When Pretty Cure 5 GoGo! starts broadcast the storyline will be moved onto the next school year, thus Karen and Komachi will have graduated junior-high and enter their freshman year as high-schoolers, while Nozomi and Rin and Urara will be still in junior-high.

Date: February 3rd, 2008. Sundays, 08:30 a.m. (Tokyo time)
Studio: TOEI

Staff
Yuko Sanpei as Nozomi Yumehara / Cure Dream
Junko Takeuchi as Rin Natsuki / Cure Rouge
Mariya Ise as Urara Kasugano / Cure Lemonade
Ai Nagano as Komachi Akimoto / Cure Mint
Ai Maeda as Karen Minatsuki / Cure Aqua
Takeshi Kusao as Coco
Miyu Irino as Nuts

According to a TOEI spokesperson, the GoGo in the title is a parody reference to the title of Mach Go Go Go (a.k.a. Speed Racer).

[Guido]

I apologize for the double post, but since no discussion has arisen due to the lack of fansubbers for the first YPC5! series it was only natural.

And it aired! The first episode has aired, and I watched the pics at 2chan. Looks like this series will be promising.

I'm treating you all with the pics for the opening sequence.

[Guido]

Seriously, it couldn't happen!

The day came that I finally stepped into this ghost thread, that opened almost five years ago, and which no one else bothered to leave a single post.

As of today, I began to watch Yes! Pretty Cure 5 sequel, Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GOGO.

This is the last Pretty Cure title left behind from the first seven shows that I restricted myself from ever starting, because first I wanted to conclude Yes! Pretty Cure 5; this same circumstance happened to me over six years ago when I finally got the chance to start Futari Wa Pretty Cure Max Heart but only after being done with Futari Wa Pretty Cure, classic and first series in the franchise.

Just like happened to the protagonists in Max Heart, for GOGO Nozomi and friends got new power-up: items, upgrades, and all brand-new, Pretty Cure uniforms.

The heading at the top of this post says it all. I became a completist after all desiring to finish all pending Pretty Cure series from the past before moving on with the more recent ones that aired after HeartCatch.

The reason why I chose to follow GOGO revolved around two characters of my particular interest:
1) Syrup, who like Coco and Nuts, is a magical character (a duck-sparrow) capable of transforming into the shape of a boy in his middle teens. Moreover, my interest in Syrup is more particular than the rest of all characters combined because he is voiced, nonetheless, by Paku Romi.

2) Milky Rose is the brand-new Pretty Cure debuting in YPC5's sequel and who will appear later in an earlier episode. Her introduction increases the overall team of Cures from five to six.

Now, onto the bad news.
The bad news is that I will have to endure another round of Nozomi's sugary but moronic naivety along with Coco's unbearable "Co-Co" sound and voice in his mascot form.

However, the good news is that both CureCom and Doremi have been releasing subs during the time lapse I was waiting for sub releases plus finishing the last batch of episodes to Yes! Pretty Cure 5 from Zalis.
That means that unlike YPC5 it won't take both that very long and that long for me to be over with this sequel.

This particular Pretty Cure series to me leaves a curiosity note, that's because this is the very first Pretty Cure show that I began very long after it's original datetime broadcast ended in Japan; I started the other six series when they were still getting broadcasted in Japan.

Since, this thread remained absolutely desolate and inactive the day it was opened, then I'll come to it to leave only three and just three posts.

This one is the first one which I left my impressions for the start of this series.
For my second post I will leave a review and synopsis for the film which got released during the time GOGO was airing.

Then, in my final post I'll leave my comments for this show's last episode and conclusions about what will be my feelings overall towards this series once I get to finale.

Just a comment to the MODS: since subs have already been released a time ago, and this show ended almost four years ago, then it would be safe to move this thread to the Older Series section.

[gsilver]

I started watching Pretty Cure with Heartcatch, and I've slowly been going through it. Admittedly, sequel seasons have been low priority for me, and I haven't finished either Fresh or the original Precure 5.

Gogo has had a high barrier to entry, without all of the original series being subbed until a few days ago. Still, I've got a long ways to go before starting it.

[Von Himmel]

I thought there was going to be another sequel Speaking about the subs... have they finished subbing all of the episodes?

[Liddo-kun]

Didn't notice there's a thread for GoGo already.

Well, I pretty much liked the prequel of this anime, so I'm inclined to finish GoGo as well.
Currently on episode 27, and enjoying it so far.

Just a little trivia: The first villain they encounter.. Scorp is voiced by Koyasu Takehito (same person who voiced Zechs Marquise in Gundam Wing).


EDIT: Perhaps this thread should be in Older Series section of Animesuki?

[SaintessHeart]

I always tell myself not to watch Pretty Cure anymore because I am neither a kid nor a lolicon.

But I just have to.......*succumbs to temptation*

[RRW]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

I always tell myself not to watch Pretty Cure anymore because I am neither a kid nor a lolicon.

But I just have to.......*succumbs to temptation*

SaintessHeart, you cheap liar

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by RRW

SaintessHeart, you cheap liar

I swear I started out with Heartcatch because of my goddess Mizuki Nana. Then I realise that it is such a cute show so I watched every other season onwards......

It is the show that is cute! Not the girls!

[Liddo-kun]

It's been subbed up to episode 29 now.

[elorse211]

so cure!!!!

[Guido]

Seen in the second episode, and now I'm speculating why this particular Pretty Cure series either went overlooked or bashed at its time.

Yikes!! The sequel is worse than the first YPC5. I mean there's a lot more of insane Coco-sounds, and the voice of that furball got upgraded to new levels of annoying psychosis.

Just as worse, the Cures in this sequel got even more preachy lashing out at the bad guys not only with force, but with all her moral speeches about treasuring friendship and giving it all out without resignation.
Gosh, can't they just shut up? or restrain themselves from preaching unnecessary stuff?

Sure, this is a show meant by TOEI to earn them money with the marketing and sales of the toys and products, but there are limits as to how much preaching and morality tales are crammed and splattered on the audiences.

[Liddo-kun]

Adding some more to this thread.
The article is for Smile Precure movie.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...top-box-office

But there is a short mention of ..

The fifth Precure movie, Yes! Precure 5 GoGo! Okashi no Kuni no Happy Birthday, came the closest to topping the box office before, but reached #2 instead.

[Guido]

I'll be giving posts, as long as there's some discussion going on.

Bunbee returns to the battlefield in the sequel's third episode, however, his form did not receive any power-ups or upgrades save that he can now use Hoshina monsters.

Although he explains how he survived the bottomless fall after getting blasted by Kawarino in YPC5 (how dumb not to realize, until falling down that he can fly), he never explains exactly how and when he got hired by Eternal.

And, looks like from the second up to the sixth episode each one of the Cures separately are going to awaken new power attacks.

[Guido]

GoGo's ninth episode to me is worth mentioning.

The basic outline is to celebrate the re-opening of the Natt's House Coco, Nuts, the girls, and Syrup bought a fashion cake. Before they start to cut the cake into equal pieces each one of them went down to retrieve items such as utensils, plates, and music CDs.

When they return upstairs to start feasting with the cake the latter was gone. Then, Komachi dons a cap and cowl a la Sherlock Holmes style and begins an investigation checking up for all of the eight suspects' alibis in order to single out possible culprits.

Things take a bad turn as seven of the members, except for Nozomi, start accusing each other of eating the cake with trolling fashion. That's until Bunbee himself arrives to take advantage of a potential split-up within the Cure ranks to defeat them. However, all the present note he sports cream on the side below his right lip, suggesting that Bunbee is the cake-eating culprit.

The girls transform into Pretty Cure imperially pissed off mode and then hilarity ensues.

Basically, this episode to me was worth enjoyable because it broke from a standard trope: Bunbee did not use a monster of the week like all villains do when engaging the Pretty Cure, and comically he got blasted off a la Team Rocket style pretty much ending a very brief fight.

The second standard broken in this episode is that the Pretty Cure for a change did not deliver their so overworked, clichéd, and exhausted preaching about the power of bonds and friendship; the girls didn't take themselves seriously as magical-girl heroines but more as spoiled, pampered, little princesses objecting with justification that their cake got eaten and making a comical ruckus about it.

Honestly, we need more of this type of episodes when and where the Cures do not take that seriously their role as magical heroines. They need to be given a break from time to time.

[Guido]

Since starting GoGo, I've been watching one episode per week.

Right now, episodes 15 and 16 deserve my praise, because in those two consecutive episodes the Pretty Cure managed to defeat their enemies with just half of its team members present relying on their brains to triumph instead of their full numbers.

The aforementioned strategy tells a whole new dimension about the PreCure that sometimes they're strong enough to rely on themselves in very sticky situation.

I know that this wasn't possible in the first three shows which have the legend "Futari Wa" along with the Pretty Cure titles since the teams back then consist only of a Pretty Cure duo and couldn't possibly transform without the other.

Definitely, this strategy never happened at all in the GoGo prequel, but it was thanks to GoGo introducing this device that it was followed from time to time in subsequent sequels: Fresh, HeartCatch, etc.

So, right now I'm done with one-third of this entire series altogether.

[Guido]

I apologize for the multiple posts, but they won't be frequent as I'm only interested at posting in here whenever a particular episode feels memorable.

I found out that both Syrup and Urara make up for such a nice chemistry together after watching the eighteenth episode to GoGo. This particular one packed such a nice drama not only giving an insight for things to come in future between Urara X Syrup, but also exploring as well Urara's childhood past and the reason that made on her such an impact to take on becoming a singing idol and actress; she wants to put a smile on everyones' faces the same way her mom did, hence, she's following the same path her late mother did.