Thread:CureHibiki/@comment-386913-20171124112329/@comment-386913-20171219033121

-It was still creepy for me seeing the relations of Nozomi and Coco or Komachi and Natts, no matter how you try to slice it. They're still fairies regardless of their human forms and it just feels bizarre seeing them fall in love in that sort of way, especially with the huge age difference between the Cures and those two. Heck, the only potential couple I actually don't mind is Urara and Syrup, mostly because at least they're closer in age than Coco is to Nozomi or Natts to Komachi. I get they wanted to go for romance but it still just felt weird.

-I get why people like Tsubomi and Erika, but I just never fell in love with them. While Heartcatch is my third-favorite Cure season of the original ten, it was still tough to get through if it weren't for an interesting world system and other characters of note; the main duo here just felt almost like they were the means to keep people interested for all the better or more interesting elements (Itsuki, Yuri, Kaoruko, Coupe, Dark Cure; even some of the one shots!); and while many found them loveable, they felt really tough for me to get through during my HeartCatch watch.

-Mana probably doesn't have a breakdown because she is probably just the strongest personality. She sort of had to be strong internally because of all she had been through, with her more or less being forced to be capable on her own and supporting the likes of Rikka and Alice prior to everything that happened. I know people wanted struggle but I just think Mana's the type who isn't going to bend for any real reason; it may be a simple idea but it's sort of why I appreciate her.

-Oh since we last chatted, I finished Fresh. Sadly it isn't even in my top five Cure seasons now...but my feelings for the villains are the exact opposite of Smile surprisingly: Smile had amazing subordinate villains (the Bad End Trio, Joker) but a rather lazy and bland final villain (Pierrot); while Fresh...I never really liked any of the subordinates of Labyrinth for some reason or another (Eas wasn't good until she became Cure Passion; Westar was too wacky; Soular just got too outlandish in his plans; Northa felt too much like a cackling witch; and Klein...did Klein even matter!?). Yet despite how terrible the subordinates were, Moebius was an amazing final villain: yeah "evil supercomputers" have been done in pop culture before (Moebius is more or less a fusion of Skynet, the computer from "Logan's Run" and the Axiom computer from "WALL-E"), but the idea that the people of Labyrinth invented him and he just became too obsessed in control that he basically threatened all universes while the people became too subservient over time to do anything about it was just an amazing and cool plot for a final villain. Not only is the "humanness" of the villain good, it's just an amazing twist that it's just following the ideas of "free will = disorder = bad; order = rules = submission = good" and it does make one wonder how Labyrinth will move on once he's finally defeated. Oh and as a side thought: why was Azukina in the final episodes? Seriously, that Hohoemina created from Buki's Cure Angel wing in the final episode was way more important and beneficial in the ending than she was during 7 episodes...her whole point was to give Tarte someone to interact with while everyone else was doing things!