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Anzan wrote: Hugtto was surprisingly progressive for a Japanese show I’ll give it that (it did sort of dance around certain issues like depression and suicide but it wasn’t focused on too heavily). And yeah, while HeartCatch is still one of my favorite seasons I will agree that it kind of went too far in some areas.

Granted, there was some pretty dark stuff in Smile (Almost everything involving Joker, Pierrot literally committing mass genocide in the finale), and DokiDoki (Makoto is essentially a knight who failed her kingdom, Regina attempting suicide to save Mana, Bel killing Leva and Gula in cold blood, most of King Selfish and Marie Ange’s backstory, etc) but to be fair most of that got undone by the end (well except for Marie Ange but technically she’s still around as two different people and a fairy baby).

Even in Star Twinkle we’ve got stuff like Madoka’s somewhat emotionally abusive father and Yuni’s people currently being frozen in stone while at the same time being fully alive and conscious (as evidenced by Aiwan turning one of them into a NoTrigger).

And yeah, by the established laws regarding space travel technically the entire Star Twinkle team is an illegal organization (Earth is not part of the Alliance and Yuni is an infamous Phantom Thief). But fortunately the GA wisely seems willing to overlook that currently in the name of restoring peace.