Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37117761-20190430170317/@comment-200945-20200221135927

Anzan wrote: Is it even possible for Precure to become a successful franchise in the west at this point or is it too late now? Magical Girl shows are kind of a dime a dozen nowadays (heck, the west has even made a few of its own) so you’d really need to make it stand out somehow.

Then again, the previous attempts were barely marketed to my knowledge so maybe some actual attempts to advertise the series might help get people to pay attention to it.

In fact, at this point I’d even take an official subbed release of some kind. The first season of Futari Wa is up on Crunchyroll but that’s it as far as I know. Let's go over the history in the west so far: 1. yes season 1 is on Crunchyroll but it also got a dub for Y-TV Canada which I heard is not bad. This dub has never come south and I can't find it anywhere anymore 2. This was the last we heard of Pretty Cure in the west until Saban Brands dubbed Smile Pretty Cure! as Glitter Force for Netflix 3. This is a badly censored dub and since I really hate censorship and bad edits I just refuse to watch it myself 4. Saban then did an even worse dub of Doki Doki for Netflix. I actually kinda like Doki Doki but when you start editing episodes together and cutting stuff out you have an old style 4Kids mess.(something like Mew Mew power and the OG dub of One Piece comes to mind) 5. Hasbro bought Saban and I think this was mostly for Power Rangers 6. here we are talking about weather or not Hasbro will do anything with Pretty cure. Mostly their Business model is to sell toys first and make a show second. Even Friendship is Magic their best show just wants to sell pony toys...

Honestly in my opinion if you wanted to make a franchise out of it you'd need to consolidate the licensing and do some of the older entries that got skipped(because of the crossover movies). I could see going back as far as Yes! Pretty Cure 5 since it's full widescreen and not just 4:3(pretty cure 5 is not HD but).