Thread:CureHibiki/@comment-386913-20171124112329/@comment-386913-20180203150537

Quick runthrough of the Futari VAs in later seasons: -Yeah, Fake Black Natsuko is the easy one since she's Hibiki. -Tarte is Wisdom -The teacher is Mint -Shiho (triplicate girl as I nickname her) is Shiho -The head of the glee club was Pine...she was also the vice-student rep in Splash Star -The annoying one of Hikari's two friends (Miu Kageyama) is Marine (obviously) -Scarlet...was this girl named Arisa in Max Heart ep. 29 (the second one with Lulun) -And while not a Cure, Black's rival was the dance girl Miyuki in Fresh.

I do admit that HapCha is getting slightly better...not that much better but since it's focused on the stuff with Princess and Fortune, it has improved. My only complaint is simple: why won't they just let Hime say what really happened instead of just jumping to conclusions? Oh and seriously the more I see Yuko and her honey candy, the more I realize she's just the embodiment of a Cure drug dealer. (that scene where Hime makes it like she doesn't want the candy, but takes the bag anyway until she runs out...where Yuko's there to give her a fix)

I'm not sure they ever mention when they got the Clover Box; if it was always there or if it came with Chiffon. I assume it came with Chiffon and they knew that another disaster was coming, so they just stored it away in case they needed it. I know they don't like doing back history of this sort of thing, but you don't just say "something like this happened before" and then not go into it. It just makes the Clover Box look more like a plot device...and considering it sort of is a plot device, it sort of doesn't help things.

The Chairman. How much do I loathe the Chairman of Eternal. It's tough to say if he's "the" worst Cure main villain (the Proto-Selfishness garbage and Baldez were rather crappy too...and I think Dune was just rather pointless, especially since the whole season basically became a massive delay tactic until he arrived...and oh yeah, there are enough Cures powerful enough that can defeat him WHEN he arrives which wouldn't have happened if they didn't allow for Cure Moonlight to be born in the first place!), but he is one of the ones who pissed me off the most. Really the whole end of Yes! 5 GoGo was a mess outside giving final redemption for Bunbee and his comedic epilogue of trying to start his own company...and maybe the weirdly poignant end of Anacondy waiting for the Chairman in whatever afterlifes villains go to.

One last note: I was doing some VA searching earlier and found out that Eri Kitamura, the same VA who did Cure Berry/Miki Aono in Fresh...was Miki Sayaka in Madoka Magica. Suddenly a ton of stuff just makes way more sense connecting the two together and almost makes me wonder if Madoka's Miki was just a satire of the Cure franchise as a whole.