Talk:Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure!/@comment-27517688-20161226182240/@comment-13215692-20170108105528

I would agree with Hibiki here.

I love this series, the characters (Albeit their flaws) the music (The greatest part about this series) and so but here's what I don't like about it.

1) Action: Admit it, most male anime fans only watch Precure to see Magical Girls fight like Goku, instead of flaunting around magic attacks like no end. Maho Girls have a DEFINITE lack of this. In fact most of their fights ended up a) Them engaging the enemy. b) Them getting beaten around. c) Villain gloats at them. d) Them talking back about the aesop of the episode, gets power up for no reason and blasted the villain away. Memorable fights in this series would be Episode 14 and the fight with Dokurokushe. Those were magnificent.

2) Characterization: Mirai hardly felt like a main character until episode 30+. Before that she feels like "I only follow Liko around" "Because it's wakuwaku monda". Only until episode 30+, she found a reason to actually fight and felt more like a main. Liko was better at this department. In fact the series would be a lot better if Liko was the main. Cause it feels like Happiness Charge all over again. And there is an imbalance between the characterization of the supporting characters. Let's start with the families. I feel like I know more about the Cures families in Go Princess compared to Maho Girls despite GoPri families having A LOT LESS SCREENTIME compared to Maho Girl's. Yep, it's called the satellization of a character. They are only there cause they have a relation with the mains. Now let's compare Mirai's Muggle friends and Magician friends, see how imbalance they are in the characterization department? We know more about her Magician friends but her Muggle friends are not much known other than Kana who had a tad more than the others.

3) Story pacing. It felt like there was too much filler. In short words, they spent too much on what does not need to be done and too rush on those that really matter (Eg. Ha-chan's origin. Her link with Mother Rapapa was just simply handwaved as a fact by Orba) The Magic World part I can understand as they want to expand more about that world, which we do not know the works of it. Episodes 30-40 is a very jarring example, especially the ones after obtaining the Alexandrite stone. Orba could've acted faster so that more episodes can be used to explore more behind his motivations. Instead, we learned of his motive and then he died in the same episode.

Overall, like Hibiki said, they have a very great concept (Magic and jewellery and so) but poor at execution.