Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25034020-20181114071230/@comment-37117761-20181115025410

Redshoebox96 wrote: GlitterInformer wrote: MetalLuigi64 wrote: Let's be clear here. Emiru and Ruru are NOT romantically in love. Emiru is TOO YOUNG to be in a relationship. For a robot, Ruru looks like she is 16 or 18. That's like if a 10-year-old would be in love with a 20-year-old. That would be taboo in any culture. Emiru and Ruru are just friends. Pretty Cure is about friendship, not romance. Romance shouldn't be in Star Twinkle. If they're going to feature something like that in the next season, the older person would have to act like a parent. I think a child Cure is fine because we did have Cure Muse, and it worked. Alien mascots have kind of been done before because I think the fairies who came to Earth did come from outer space. And the aliens do look like animals. I would like to see a humanoid fairy who is the shape of a child with wings who about the same size as all the other mascots. I am in agreement. I oppose Ruru x Emiru not because they're gay (of course not) but because 10-11 year old Emiru is way too young for 16-18 year old Ruru. The subtext is there, but the idea of them being a couple makes me uncomfortable (though not as much as the idea of Harry x Hugtan).

As for the mascots: are you saying you want Ai or Ha-chan to be this installment's mascot? Or somebody who looks similar, but is older and more mature? The age of consent in Japan is 13 (with some fine print), and while Emiru is suppossed to be 13, like Hana (they're in the same class), and I'm not sure they ever mention Ruru's age (her being an android, I'm gonna guess she's supposed to be closer in age to Homare and Sayaa). You can say it's "taboo" in any culture, but the fact is... in Japan, relationships amongst teens are seen differently than they are in the west. That's just how it is; I was looking at Japanese drama films and there's one about a 14 year old who gets pregnant with her boyfriend. A relationship with a 13 year old, and say, a 16 year old, is going to be looked at entirely differently in Japan than it is in the US. If they're the Precure of Love, well... Love can mean romance. It's probably safe to say Toei means for Ruru and Emiru to be shipped. That was obvious with Chocolat and Macaron in KiraKira.

As far as mascots go, I'm kind of over the whole "baby" dynamic. If anything, it could be a baby alien, but I think the "baby" dynamic as far as mascots and faries go has been done to death. I'm actually pretty sure Emiru isn't in Hana, Saaya, and Homare's class. In her first appearance, she's shown to be classmates with Hana's little sister, Kotori, which implies that Emiru is in elementary school.

To get things back on track, I don't mind seeing another baby. However, I would prefer that the mascot be a teen or adult. I also think it would be cool if it had a natural-sounding male voice, though that isn't necessary. I stated this in the old thread, but it was right before it hit its limit, so people might not have read it: it would be cool if Star☆Twinkle had a mouse mascot, because it would be ironic following Harry, who vehemently and repeatedly insists that he's not a mouse.