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"Go! Princess is also a solid contender. Both sides of the alignment are pretty delightful with loads of charisma sans Dyspear."

All the main villains are music themed for absolutely no reason. Shut creeps on Twilight for most of the early season despite being much older than her. Twilight has a bland personality aside being a dignified, but evil princess. If you compare her to Siren and Eas, it's obvious who has a much more interesting plot involvement. Lock is a terrible villain, sorry. None of them have real backstories aside Kuroro perhaps. Not a big fan of Tanaka's writing, to be honest. A lot of the same problems were present in KiraKira (same main writer), as in the villains aside the Kirakiraru Thieves and Julio aren't related to sweets or business, they don't work together either. They seem jumbled together instead of unified, as if Tanaka thought of them on a whim. "Oh, that guy is a Yakuza." Super boring.

I think for the villain department, both seasons are kind of weakly written, but Go! Pri makes up for it with the animation and aesthetic that season (a lot of talented directors too who could turn bad writing to visual gold, somehow).

Smile was a good season for the villain department, I think part of it is Otsuka's pure energy, Yonemura (the Anpanman writer) being responsible for series composition too, but I am not a fan of the villains turning into (SPOILERS!) mascots in the end and thus being condemned to obscurity, feels almost like a punishment because their personality are also completely changed.