Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25034020-20170630040525/@comment-1290700-20170701002734

My biggest problem with KiraKira thus far is two words: scale reduction. I'm sorry, but is the overall goal of this series just to give a handful of fairies their clearing in the woods back so that they can make sweets again? In the past, it was always another world at stake. Even if it wasn't really that big (the Palmier Kingdom is barely a city), it felt big because it was another stinking world that had been attacked by evil. And the fact that it took 18 episodes to even get the name of our Big Bad is inexcusable. KiraKira dragged its feet like no show I've ever seen in establishing even the bare essentials of its plot, and for a franchise with such simplistic plots as Precure (which isn't a bad thing, mind), that's pretty lame.

I feel like KiraKira has been asking its audience to bear with it a lot and cut it some slack, only to fail to really deliver to make up for it. Every episode needs to have some new dessert to show off? Well, that sounds like it could get old and hold back the episodic writing. What have you got to make up for it? Oh, nothing. Hand-to-hand combat taking a back seat to shooting cream out of wands? Okay, what incredible feats of action directing do you have up your sleeve to still get my blood pumping? Oh, nothing. Five Man Band setup likely leading to the character focus being stretched thin, with a sixth Cure on the horizon? Okay, what emotional character arcs and significant development do you have in store to make up for how throwaway the secondary cast will likely be? Oh, nothing. No actual friggin' villains in the first eleven episodes? What possible purpose could a move like that serve? Oh, nothing.