Thread:CureHibiki/@comment-386913-20171124112329/@comment-386913-20180504023732

Nah, it happens. Lots of conversations are better than this one.

I don't get why they went with pandas for the HaCha fairies. It's just a panda with an accessory and a weird-colored hair swirl; they're not cute, they're not interesting to look at...it just furthers how they didn't care about the fairies in HaCha because they had Blue...yeesh, they had Blue. (still consider him the main villain after writing my HaCha review finally)

Love has never been handled well in this franchise; maybe Saki with Mai's older brother but it was a tad creepy and just made it like the two had to do everything together...then again it still worked better than Nozomi and Coco. (really it's both the fact he's a fairy and just look at the difference in age...when you have Milk closer to her age in fairy terms and Coco and Natts are much older, you just realize how wrong it feels even if you ignore the "they're fairies" part) At least Love and Megumi felt more honest in that regards.

With where I am with Go Princess...hoo boy. Made it to ep. 20, love Kirara but Haruka sort of goes in and out with me in whether I like her or if she gets too much. I get it: she doesn't have everyone else's background and thus she has to play catch-up, but I think she's given too much in getting into an academy like this, then getting help from the likes of Kaido, then getting Miss Shamour! (who I think is a huge problem but that's mostly cause she just makes things too convenient and easier for Haruka and isn't like she's training the other two) They make it like Haruka wants to be "her own kind of princess"...yet she also keeps copying from everyone else she meets. And while Twilight's been a good villain, the backstory regarding Towa and how "everyone became so sad that Dyspear shows up and takes over and Kanata's fighting for nearly a decade against her" just felt a bit much. I know you're not a fan of Towa but I sort of fear for what will happen when she becomes good with how she's been so good as Twilight.

And quickly in the movies I've seen since last chat: DX2: Weakest of the three All Stars so far; but did like the Fresh/Heartcatch bonding scenes and the characters still felt like the characters.

HeartCatch: Mostly good when it remembers what made Heartcatch work and doing it's own thing while basically reintroducing the characters for a presumed French audience...but then you realize it's Heartcatch. The worst part: the reveal that basically Olivier caused the whole season: he released Salamander, who in turn turned Yuri's dad evil, basically leading to everything up to and including Dune destroying the world. So...yeah, there's that.

DX3: I think it's reputation is overrated. It's a supremely depressing movie and keeps trying to top the last one over and over. (the new villain...HE'S GOT EVERY GROUP POWER, EVERY MAIN VILLAIN, ALL THE MONSTERS AND THE REGULAR AND ALL STAR MOVIE VILLAINS!!) Suite's usage was crummy but I did like the color split ups (found it funny that Komachi was stuck with the Blue and White Cures) and the "everyone else squad's" board game with Toymajin and Salamander was hysterical. (especially Urara and Rin's comedy moments...and considering that Muse was active at this time, I consider Urara the replacement Ako)

Suite: Excellent and probably the best movie yet. I sort of theorize this is where that missing episode taken out due to the Fukushima disaster went due to all the key plot elements with Ako and Mephisto here. Probably not going to be appreciated except by Suite fans but it just felt like episode 36.5...heck they even got the Miracle Lights and the power-up done in a way that felt appropriate and not annoying!