Thread:CureHibiki/@comment-386913-20171124112329/@comment-386913-20180707105501

Neat to hear about the Cure Twinkle role. A fan dub could be neat but somehow I fear that I might be heard; plus not sure if/whether I'd be good for any real role in the franchise. (tough to say any good male roles exist, though if I had the chance I'd probably be either Bunbee or Mephisto; maybe if my voice was suave enough I wouldn't mind being Deep Mirror/Red...or heck if I was doing Go! Princess, I wouldn't mind trying Shut)

Yeah, 3 years isn't really a "binge" but I need to do some other stuff and I'm happy I got this far. I moved to a few other franchises to sort of recover after all that goodness so it isn't like I'm completely abandoning it.

Oh and a few extra things:

1. Finished Go! Princess. Final verdict: the first half was probably stronger than the second, especially with a lot of the reveals towards the end. While the whole "Four Rainbows" arc was amazing for Minami and Kirara (mainly for fixing some massive mistakes Yes! 5 and Smile did), it really just made me confused with Towa since basically it suggests that the Hope Kingdom could have had a Cure Scarlet way earlier than it did...but it didn't. (and Haruka's is the same story as before and didn't need to reinforce it yet again) The ending stuff with Dyspear, though, was basically HeartCatch lite and I wasn't really a fan of that endgame either. (made more ridiculous in trying to say that there really is no end to this; even if I did like Haruka's "I've been through despair and I've overcome it" speech at the end to Close...really his fate is basically the same as the Selfish Trio only more powerful)

2. Finished all the movies up to "Minna de Utau! Kiseki no Mahou". Quick reviews:

-New Stage 2: Worst All Stars movie, no question.

-DokiDoki: Worst main series movie, no question. (I don't know what's worse: the cloning of "Love's Grandpa" episode from Fresh (and maybe hinting at the Phantom/PhanPhan mess in HaCha), what happened to Mana's grandma, the sentient clarinet, the extraneous trip to the future or Aguri defying all logic whatsoever...yeah as terrible as Yuko is, Aguri remains worse...but Hikari's still the pinnacle)

-New Stage 3: A tad cliche but it was more action packed, plus the returning Cures are used way better here and Nozomi literally steals the movie.

-HapCha: Shockingly...the second best movie of the franchise. Seriously, this movie and the endgame proved HapCha could have been way better than it was.

-Haru no Carnival: A guilty pleasure movie and better than others give it credit. Seriously: it feels the most in tune to all the other seasons and not just some messy crossover, but mostly due to the music videos; though the song choices were interesting (they went with Splash Star's OP instead of "Ganbalance de Dance"? Though I did like the updated "You make me happy" and "Wonderful Powerful Music" with the later members)  While with problems (the flimsy excuses for Go! Princess's arc, the dragon), it actually was a lot of fun...plus Utaen and Odoren are hysterical.

-Go! Princess: Only worth it for the fun final phase, which was way more action pack, fun and had a Jack Skellington expy as the main villain. (voiced by Noise no less) The first was cute but meh, and the second was the cliche typical movie only good for Towa's role...oh and I did sort of like Warp's scheme.

-Minna de Utau!: This is a cross-over movie!? Seriously: it's a Mahou Tsukai movie with the rest of the Cures guest starring and only the main team (and maybe Go! Princess at the start) singing. The four-Pink Cure squad was hysterical, though (even though they needed Miracle to make their finisher even work...and Black, Bloom and Dream are a part of the stupid "and everyone else is in jail until the final ten minutes" crowd) and while he was a tad obvious of his means, Trauma was a competent villain and had the most disturbing number in the movie. (in a good way)