Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32453627-20190724191444/@comment-24740411-20190915220532

Anzan wrote:

The best compromise would probably be to just introduce a Tuxedo Mask esque figure who wasn’t a Cure per se but was still technically a part of the team and helped out every once and a while. While not all of them had powers we’ve technically already had a few male allies who could fight in the past (Coupe, Jonathan, Seiji) so there’s even some precedent for this. I've said it before but I really hate this idea and think it's overused. If said character was an actual fighting team member, so more than Seiji for example, but still not a Precure, It, albeit in a subtle meta-ish way, intentionally makes the male team member be "othered". And the morals of Precure, are tbh against that idea at this point. So it'd basically be the meta of the show going against the show itself. Not so good. I hope Precure NEVER pulls a Tuxedo mask. so far fighting male allies,although they have happened, have never gone quite that far -  and I hope if they ever do, that they are actually Precure.

And, like I said, the name of the perceived "genre" and the name of the series itself are NOT interchangeable!

And genres are a loose idea that can be mixed!