Thread:CureHibiki/@comment-386913-20171124112329/@comment-386913-20180124125941

Oh I know how terrible Shiny Luminous is. I don't get why she was created: I understand the concept of "she's the Queen's light" and they didn't want "non-Earth Cures" at the time, but her combat capabilities and the magical crap she got was just ludicrous. I remember the episode that they finally decided "hey, let's let Luminous fight for a bit"...and she fails and basically the lesson becomes "you stay right back here and let Nagisa and Honoka fight" and she doesn't try again for the remainder of the franchise! The only good thing about Max Heart remains her connection with the boy, and that's more because of him than her. (then again if it weren't for "The Boy"/Hikaru, the villains would be terrible too)

What I didn't like about Hosshiwa is just the floppy hat on top of the curls. It just feels distracting: what's the point of sexy oujo curls if you have this huge floppy hat covering a good chunk of them? If you want to create a villainess with oujo curls, at least let her look more bitchy/princessey, ala an evil Alice/Reina. That's why the idol look at least looked cuter.

I have a while before getting to KiraKira. I'm probably slowing down after I finish Happiness Charge and Go! Princess, moving my Mahou Tsukai watch to two episodes a week instead of four a week like I've been doing for all the other series. So hopefully it isn't that mad. (debating on doing Hugtto as it airs, I don't like doing that because when I tried to watch shows as they aired, I always fell behind and thus why I decided to watch shows after they've finished or at my own pace.

The easy way to solve Popcorn Cheer as I may have mentioned: have Ribbon sneeze it up after the first one/two encounters with Cure Honey. Simple: they know of her, they basically know its Yuko prior to her revealing it, and thus there it is. But...instead it just magically comes out of nowhere. (and to make it stupider: I just watched the episode that Coconut Samba is sneezed up...they treat form change Cure cards as way more special than typical costume changes, so why wasn't it revealed!) Admittedly these card changes are just bizarre and not one of the better gimmicks the franchise has done.

Yeah, giving her a fairy pre-Lovely/Princess would have been too much a clone of Cure Moonlight...sort of happy they didn't go in that direction.