Board Thread:New on Pretty Cure Wiki/@comment-25034020-20181022151836/@comment-37117761-20181026212653

FairySina wrote: The show is Pretty Cure and the seasons are the different 15 seasons we have. But we had the fight before. You can define seasons in different ways, there isn't just one and most people prefer to call the other teams seasons. After all, if you say "Heartcatch is the 7th show", it sound like it is not related to Pretty Cure, which in fact it is. But if we want to be totally correct, it would be "HUGtto is the 15 year of Pretty Cure", cuz if I'm right, Toei and other anime creators go with 年 (nen) aka year when announcing their new season.

That was firstly, secondly, they do have different art styles. Since Fresh, every season had a different style. Yes, it's always anime, cuz, guess what, Pretty Cure is an anime. But even among the one genre there are dozen of different artstyles. Heartcatch has a different art style as GoGo! has, and if you don't agree, I really recommend you to look at the different animations. They aren't drawn/animated the same. That's what you call a different art style. Each Pretty Cure season is different from the other unlike Sailor Moon or Doremi for example. Oh by the way, Sailor Moon and Doremi also have different art styles though both being animes.

@GlitterInformer; I hope that it will be a cute artstyle again, like HaCha had. I really loved everyone's expressions except for Blue and just adored how cute it was drawn. I don't know, but the logo kinda gives me "cute" vibes. So maybe we will get something like that again? Anime in general look more similar to each other than western cartoons do. In Japan, the majority of cartoons follow the same guidelines, sometimes with minor changes; in America, each cartoon is a lot more different. But that's just my opinion.

You are right in that the seasons/installments/shows/whatevers have different art styles. But I think that even from the very beginning they all had different styles. Still, few of them stand out.

Futari wa and MaX Heart: It had a washed-out, old look to it. It's not bad, but it's still interesting that it looks older than Tokyo Mew Mew, which was released two years earlier.

Splash Star: While it also looked old, something about the big, expresive eyes had a Disney-like style to it. Also, everyone has tsurime eyes. I can't really describe it.

''Yes! 5 and GoGo'': We're starting to look more modern, though we haven't quite jumped the line. Also, the colors are slightly muted. The backgrounds are understated and incredibly detailed, though.

Fresh: Fully transitioned to modern. The colors are bright, and the girls' figures are more mature. (I once saw a joke image online about the other pink Cures getting mad because Peach was the only one with breasts.)

HeartCatch: The most stylistically distinct of them all. With the same character designer as Ojamajo Doremi, which also had a unique style, the characters look younger and thinner and are more likely to go off-model and make exaggerated faces. The eyes are also bigger, and the lashes are thinner.

Suite: The characters look even older than Fresh's. They're smaller and taller, and their hair is longer and curlier.

Smile: We have some of the youngest-looking characters here. The eyes are large and blush is prominent.

Doki Doki: The characters straddle the line between young-looking and old-looking. The eyes don't have black pupils, but rather pupils that are slightly darker than the irises.

Happiness Charge: The characters have elongated faces, and everyone has tareme eyes.

Go Princess: The characters have big eyes, but they still look mature (except for Haruka/Flora). They're also very tall.

Mahou Tsukai: Not much to say about this one, but that the characters look younger than they are. In their teenage civilian forms, they look like fifth graders, and in their adult Cure forms, they look like teens.

Kira Kira: The style seems to be a cross between HeartCatch and Smile. The eyes look HeartCatch-y, and there's no blush, but it where it doesn't have the zing of HeartCatch, it falls into the style of Smile.

HUGtto: The characters once again straddle the line between old and young. The pupils are small, and the shines in the eyes are plentiful and big.