User blog comment:Anybody's You/HUGtto PreCure Thoughts!!/@comment-25034020-20190120035817

I am going to be honest.

Hugtto was just an okay season. It had major flaws that really urked me. It's pacing in majority of its episode were bad. They were executed so badly. The ideas are great but the execution was bad to say the least. On top of that character development was well, not the best. Homare started out great, she had so much potential and then for some reason, oh she has to fall in love. Why???? WHY??? That ruined her character for me. Saaya was pretty much forgotten and then her final focus ep was just... to cliche. Did she really ahve to become a doctor??? And EmiRuru hardly developed in my opinion. All they did was sing and dance and uggggh. Hana is probs the only character who stayed pretty decent the whole way through.

In terms of entertainment and ideas, it's very good. The topics that Hugtto dealt with were amazing and not what you'd expect a child friendly show to touch upon. It also wasn't afraid to get dark at times. If I had to say the first 15 episodes (minus ep 9) were amazing but ep 16 onward really fell flat imo. Granted it looks like Hugtto is ending on a strong note but that's enough for me to be like "BEST SEASON". The middle was bad and poorly executed. No matter how enetertaining or brilliant the ideas were, the execution matters as well and sadly that is also I can think of when someone utters the words "HUGtto Pretty Cure". Don't get me wrong, it's probably one of the best show in the last 3 years but does it top Heartcatch or Go! Princess or even stand on the same tier as them. No. No sorry. Not for me. Hugtto is probably on the same tier as Smile for me. It's middle ground if you want a translation. It's good but it has issues that makes it fail to get into my top 5.