Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31557511-20170418143313/@comment-1290700-20170701004241

Been a while since this was posted, but I'll throw my hat in the ring. As stated, if you're okay with the long haul, you can't go wrong watching everything in order. Gives you a good context of the whole franchise, why they would do that in contrast to the prior season, the ups and downs, etc., not to mention that trying to watch the All-Stars movies gets a lot more problematic when you've seen the seasons out of order. However, if you, at any point, really aren't feeling it with the original continuity (Futari wa and Max Heart), immediately jump to Splash Star.

If you just want to jump to the cream of the crop, I recommend Fresh, HeartCatch and Go! Princess. I wouldn't recommend going to Suite, Smile, Mahou Tsukai or especially DokiDoki until you've decided that you're going whole hog on the franchise.

Oh, as for the movies, try to watch them in the order of release, i.e. the Fresh movie came out between episodes 38 and 39. You're generally okay if you're off by a few episodes, but with Suite in particular, it is to be watched between 36 and 37. Period.