User blog comment:XCandyBeatX/Doki Doki Precure Discussions/@comment-1456019-20130205191607

The first episode is unique by its own, among the other starter episodes.


 * Featuring five monsters while two of them are summoned, two major villains attacking,


 * Cure Heart does not fight in this episode like Blossom and Melody, but still a monster is defeated (by Sword).


 * Mana's reaction to the mascots, the idea of transformation and how she lectured the monster instead being afraid and running away.

The monsters are quite different, though they does resemble Desertrian, they are the first and only monsters which are not made by objects. Mana's personality reminds me of Love and Saki, but she takes their traits to the extreme. Well, I already consider her as a completely different character as an expy. Cure Peach has (, in my opinion,) the best start among the lead Cures, I wonder how Cure Heart will do her first fight.

The relationship of Mana and Rikka reminds me of Nozomi and Rin. Rikka seems to be different than the other smart blue Cures, her personality does NOT resemble Reika's and Karen's who is willing to help personally. She's not typical, a bit cynical to Mana, but still smart.

Alice is an ojou... to the extreme. I doubt that she knows some stuff like hamburger.

Makoto seems to have an ice-sugar personality. Makoto=sugar, Sword=ice. I think her relationship with Mana will go like Love's and Setsuna's.