Yes! Pretty Cure 5

[Guido]

Originally Posted by Maximum Burst

I don't believe it. Masuko struck me as a sharp kid, but I can't believe that they story writers would pull something worse than Clark Kent on us. I would have preferred it if Masuko immediately knew Precure's identities, and just decided to keep their secret.

Probably I am awared that I will receive a scolding for complaining about the unreal DEUS-EX-MACHINA the writers pulled out in order to make Masuko forget about Pretty Cure.

I am as well appalled and unhappy with the outcome. With Masuko's sharp intuition and reporter sense, I was hoping she would be a regular character for this series but seemingly that would not be the case. Maybe, she'll return in about other 20 episodes again.

Spoiler:

It is simply unrealistic to me that she abandoned the scoop on Pretty Cure, because Nuts human-bishie looks stunned her and chose instead to write her article about him.

It was a pretty bad move for the writers, since during the course of the episode she was depicted as a professional, hound dog reporter that sniffs the most suspicious leads. They even had her to tail and follow the group and to come to the house behaving persistently about the mystery of the five girls hanging together.

But right after the aftermath, she gives chase again to look for clues about Pretty Cure, bumps with human Nuts, and well you know her hormones took over from there.

I am also of your opinion, that she should have found out the identities of Pretty Cure, or a more plausible solution to the dilemma would had been for either Nuts or Coco to cast a memory charm on her to delete her memories on what she saw that day.

It is obvious that TOEI is playing or toying with the magic-girl genre rules (not bending them), but those guys should at least come with some believable DEUS-EX-MACHINA stuff.

And after watching this episode I was struck with an epiphany. That may well be a high possibility for a sixth Pretty Cure character appearing, but that would be around the second half of this series. Probably, around the late 20's or early 30's of episodes.

[Maximum Burst]

Originally Posted by Guido

And after watching this episode I was struck with an epiphany. That may well be a high possibility for a sixth Pretty Cure character appearing, but that would be around the second half of this series. Probably, around the late 20's or early 30's of episodes.

What would give you that idea?

Spoiler:

And by the way, you're right.

[Quarkboy]

Originally Posted by Maximum Burst

What would give you that idea?

Spoiler:

And by the way, you're right.

Cure GeGeGe?

[sb075]

From Gintama episode 50.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGV43BZu8fU

[Tatiana Razajev]

Originally Posted by Maximum Burst

I don't believe it. Masuko struck me as a sharp kid, but I can't believe that they story writers would pull something worse than Clark Kent on us. I would have preferred it if Masuko immediately knew Precure's identities, and just decided to keep their secret.

It does come off as rather odd, but I guess in the end they decided rather than a serious scene to solve the dilemma they'd instead use a humorous scene. Which as shown can backfire. I'm not sure what to think about it myself. Other than to say hopefully they won't make a habit of it.

[Guido]

Cure Scoop ?

[Maximum Burst]

Originally Posted by Guido

Cure Scoop ?

Did you get that pic from 2chan? I remember seeing it somewhere, but I forgot from where.

[Guido]

Have we come that far into the storyline? I mean it's been almost three months since Pretty Cure 5 began, and the show has already reached its 10th episode.

What surprises me is the activity going smoothly at this thread and that is due thanks to Arienai fansubs, since they continue to be consistent with their episode releases.
I once again thank you so much for the hard work Arienai

Spoiler:

It is an irony that this episode focuses on the girls' efforts to advertise store in order to make sales when they only needed bishie Nuts to have his looks advertised on the school's newspaper, after they failed with the TV commercials; promotions; and the flyers.

And all thanks that Masuko happened by chance when Nuts handed a flyer to her.
Yep. On last episode, I thought that Masuko would had made a one-time guest appearance, but she's staying in the show. I hope as a regular character and not a stand-in.

I wonder if this episode tried to make a reference or a mock to all the publicity and merchandising the Pretty Cure franchise gets from TOEI to its target audience?
It's certain that Pretty Cure is still popular among girls from the 4-12 age group, but I heard that the effect of the whole franchise is wanning away.


On another note, I have already caught up with Arienais' releases for Max Heart. Took quite long.

[Quarkboy]

Originally Posted by Guido

Have we come that far into the storyline? I mean it's been almost three months since Pretty Cure 5 began, and the show has already reached its 10th episode.

What surprises me is the activity going smoothly at this thread and that is due thanks to Arienai fansubs, since they continue to be consistent with their episode releases.
I once again thank you so much for the hard work Arienai

Spoiler:

It is an irony that this episode focuses on the girls' efforts to advertise store in order to make sales when they only needed bishie Nuts to have his looks advertised on the school's newspaper, after they failed with the TV commercials; promotions; and the flyers.

And all thanks that Masuko happened by chance when Nuts handed a flyer to her.
Yep. On last episode, I thought that Masuko would had made a one-time guest appearance, but she's staying in the show. I hope as a regular character and not a stand-in.

I wonder if this episode tried to make a reference or a mock to all the publicity and merchandising the Pretty Cure franchise gets from TOEI to its target audience?
It's certain that Pretty Cure is still popular among girls from the 4-12 age group, but I heard that the effect of the whole franchise is wanning away.


On another note, I have already caught up with Arienais' releases for Max Heart. Took quite long.

If ratings I've seen are any indication, Yes! has reenvigorated the franchise, garning about 25-50% higher ratings than splash star did (about what max heart did near the end). Whether that has translated into merchandise sales, etc, I'm not sure.

And by the way, the "timely" release is due to me deciding to prioritize speed and not fancy typesetting or multi-layered editing/qcing.

I download the ep, translate it and time it simultaneously, typeset it (which generally is nothing more than a sign or two and coloring the character's text with find/replace), make a qc encode and alert my 2 qcers. They get back to me in a few days and I final encode it and release. The encode itself takes longer than the rest of the process for me . They aren't the best scripts I've ever made, but they're pretty good and the show is quite simple, plus, I like keeping up with the airing, it's a good feeling.

[Maximum Burst]

Maybe I fail at the internet or something, but I just can't seem to find any good sites with Precure art. I know of this place

http://diary.fc2.com/cgi-sys/ed.cgi/kazuharoom/

and the art is good except that some of it is too "fanservicey" for me.

I've come across these at 4chan:

(Random Evil Kaoru)

but I can't find the artist sources for them.

There's also this that I found:

And I would really like to have the whole set.

[chrno]

Ok, I'm in. I really didn't want to start another magical girl show (Considering I never was a 'SM' fan, but started with 'PC'). But...

I watched ep. 10 this past Sat. and I have to agree that this installment has definitely revitalized the franchise. It's like they took everything they could find in most shows and combined them to make this show. I do like the way that all 5 characters have their own personality. The oddest combination having 2 3rd years, 2 seconds and 1 first all hanging out. And while 'Nozomi' sort of reminds me of 'Arika' from 'Otome', she's pretty gung-ho when it comes to getting the job done. And is relentless if anything downright scary when her mind is made up. The fact that the gang gave her leadership and her managing to live up to it was surprising. Not only that but the support her team-mates gave when she came up with a plan that worked. Well, only in a kid show. Episode 10 was the one that convinced me.

Not to mention having cute animals that turn into cute guys which plenty of chances to make tons of "naughty" jokes. Even the grandmother 'PC' didn't have that. Seems like 'PC' to 'MH' and 'Ye5! Might be the ones. Not saying 'SS' wasn't bad either but it doesn't have what the others have. And that's not necessarily a bad thing considering the audience it was aimed at.

[zrdb]

They can call it Tom, Dick and Harry's (no-not Potter)wild escapade and I'll still watch it-mascot creatures, lolicon magical girls and all-I was hooked on the originial series when I saw it at a local anime clubs meeting 3 years ago-goofy ending theme and all.

[Tatiana Razajev]

I will say this much in response to episode 13.

Spoiler for 13:

I like how near the end of the battle Cure Rouge just stomps on the mask and breaks it. Now that's the type of decisive action a magical girl should be taking.

[Quarkboy]

Originally Posted by Tatiana Razajev

I will say this much in response to episode 13.

Spoiler for 13:

I like how near the end of the battle Cure Rouge just stomps on the mask and breaks it. Now that's the type of decisive action a magical girl should be taking.

Yeah, I guess we know where that particular aspect of Nagisa's personality went. I.e. the "don't make her mad" part...

[mintyfresh]

Originally Posted by Maximum Burst

There's also this that I found:

And I would really like to have the whole set.

[Maximum Burst]

Originally Posted by mintyfresh

Hmmm...Looking at the page numbers, there's got to be other ones. The styles of these and the style of the one I posted seems different. Oh well. I'm still loving these. Thanks!

[Guido]

I really missed you guys from Arienai fansubs over the past two weeks. Thanks to you the thread is back to business.

I do have my complain concerning the animation issues for this episode, as it was plainly bad. I really dislike when the animation staff is rotated or changed, and I was fearing it would happen for this season and did.


Fortunately, this episode has a lot of strong points to its favor that made me interested and enjoyed it.

Spoiler:

For this season we are going to witness key development and exploration upon the characters of both Coco and Nuts.

In this episode it was shown that Coco has his own individual share to help others which ask him for advise.

Some kind of unexpected developing is that Nozomi may or not develop overall feelings for Coco, as she felt embarrased being hugged by the human Coco and blushing.

Second. Nozomi's abysmal talent for studying and lack of attention did remind me of Arika Yumemiya during the first half of My-Otome.

This episodes discusses that people focused better and are more inclined towards things that captures their curiosity and interest regardless if do not possess a natural talent for them.

Nozomi does fatal for her grades, but thanks to Coco's advise and encourage she managed to find her own manner to make studying funny, and it reflected a week later when she scored higher; a dramatic improvement. Though like Karen felt, I am also feeling off that Nozomi did not improvement a great deal over last time.

Third. Arachnea nearly had Dream disposed of by effectively isolating her from the rest of the team, and used the Kowainaa to trap her inside the cloud which was seemingly out of reach for the rest of the team but thought their way in to get to Dream.

[molitar]

What surprises me is this one being subbed even before season 2 and 3 are even finished.

[Quarkboy]

Originally Posted by molitar

What surprises me is this one being subbed even before season 2 and 3 are even finished.

Why not? It's fun and it's really a completely different series.

As long as I plan on finishing max heart too, I don't see an issue with it.

[NoSanninWa]

Originally Posted by molitar

What surprises me is this one being subbed even before season 2 and 3 are even finished.

Why not? It isn't as though season 2, 3 or 4 have any relationship with each other.