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On another note, I’ve also noticed that the NotRaiders are, well, not raiders. They don’t actually seem to have much interest in actually conquering planets (otherwise why not just swoop in and take over Earth while the Precure are busy off world and can’t stop you?) and instead seem more focused on getting the star pens and later Fuwa.

There’s almost definitely something up with Darknest himself as well. During closeups you can see scanlines in his eyes and there’s one episode where the armor is shown to be completely empty but then the face suddenly just turns on. Also his voice is distorted and Toei still seems to be hiding the name of his actor (which I’m not sure if they’ve ever done before).

I’ve mentioned this before but my current theory is that he’s an AI or otherwise some sort of mechanical construct being puppeted by someone or something elsewhere (the prime suspect at the moment seems to be Madoka’s father due to his general attitude, the way that he talks like he’s had experience with aliens in the past, and the fact that as a high ranking government official he’d likely have access to the technology needed to pull something like this off). I wouldn’t be surprised if Darknest was directly responsible for the destruction of the other NotRaiders’ homeworlds and was just using them for his own ends.

I could be wrong of course but either way if handled right we should have one heck of a final arc coming up before too long.