User blog comment:GlitterInformer/Doki Doki! Pretty Cure/Glitter Force Doki Doki SDC: Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage 2/@comment-37117761-20191109040410

AzenZone just made a review of New Stage 2! You can watch it here.

In his review, AzenZone made a great point: Gureru is a complete jerk, and he probably didn't deserve to be forgiven so easily by EnEn and the other fairies. He had a huge problem with the message the movie taught to kids: that they should forgive people who do bad things because they might turn good someday, not because they have turned good already. He said this could lead to abusive relationships.

AzenZone's right. I think I didn't pick up on how bad Gureru was because I didn't watch this movie with English subtitles. I could have, and I should have, but I didn't. So a lot of what I got out of the movie was my own interpretations of what the characters seemed to be doing. I interpreted Gureru's hatred of Pretty Cure as hatred of the idea that, as a fairy, he had to be submissive to a Pretty Cure instead of being a hero on his own. So I kind of empathized with him, even though I knew he was still a villain. But according to the review, Gureru was just being selfish for no reason other than his own inflated ego.