Thread:LeahCCinnamon/@comment-25034020-20170525142709/@comment-26868869-20170528074912

I personally am enjoying KKPCALM a lot more than MTPC. Mahou's battles had great potential due to the form changes not being reduced to stock animation like with Happiness Charge, and due to the fact that their magic could have led to creative fights.

However, Mahou chose to do boring battles which were too quickly resolved by their respective finishers. Another thing with Mahou that it copied a lot from Splash Star regarding villains and dialogue - down to the villain having a monologue and the Cure telling them "I don't care about you, I only care about (friends/family)" and the villains being easily revivable. However, the stakes were not the same so the Mahou villain treatment ended unfair.

In Splash Star, Karehan was a self-absorbed jerk who tried to dry out a forest, thus Saki talking him down felt funny and justified. In Mahou, the villains barely seemed like villains, more like bullies or delinquents. I was kind of disturbed by the finishers and how they affected the villains and the Yokubaru. The difference between Yokubaru and most other monsters of the week is that those monsters were something that was corrupted (the Notes were corrupted into the Negatones, the hearts of people were corrupted into Jikochuu) or people are actively in pain due to it (the Bad End making people depressed).

However, Yokubaru was the creation of life due to fusion, and they were sometimes made out of trash like banana peels too, so they are actually quite amazing. They are an enemy, but they weren't "healed" like the Notes, they were simply returned to lifeless items. Mahou had a duality motif (two worlds, two Cures), and thus the villains also fused, but somehow their fusion was bad, unworthy of existing.

The show itself dealed too many villains with too little development and acted cruelly towards them - every season since Fresh had very benign treatment of villains and the option for healing for at least most of them. Yamoh loses the person he loves most and even cries because of it, he then spends several episodes alone, homeless and in a terrible outfit to take revenge while Pretty Cure don't show any kind of concern. I was unsure if I was supposed to sympathize with him or not.

They gave him his happy ending in the end but randomly left Sparda and Gamettsu in their animal forms in the last episode and mocked them for it - I remember this happening to Bel but Bel was a terrible person who killed fellow villains, so he definitely deserved that, while those two don't deserve it any more or less than the others. Meanwhile the Endless Chaos villains just die or what.

Benigyo and Shakince were horribly underdeveloped and neither of them had a villain shtick, which is the least one can do when writing a villain. So I hated MTPC's battles because of its lack of creative ideas, the cruel treatment of the villains and also the bland interaction between the Cures themselves. I feel like they could have done tons of things with Mahou and on paper it looks okay, but many of the episodes have really awful writing.

KKPCALM on the other hand has yawn-worthy hand-to-hand combat, but better pacing and ideas. The Kirakiraru Thieves as an introduction to Kirakiraru and how it works was good, and they also stopped them exactly at the point where they started getting boring. Every one of them had a different shtick so yeah, each of the Kirakiraru Thieves already had more to them than Shakince and Benigyo, who didn't make use of their Karasu tengu and Raijin motifs at all.

Giulio has a boring design but his interaction with the Cures is fun - his obvious suspiciousness as Rio and how easily Yukari figured it out was great, on the other hand Rio figuring out the Cures' secret identiy and using that information to harm them is a new but obvious concept and I'm glad they are finally making use of it.

The different uses of Kirakiraru and how it affects his staff are brilliant ideas - if only the hand-to-hand combat was on par with it because not using a monster of the week and bringing focus to the villain themself and their strength is great. Now that they introduced Bibury I am pumped to see more of their ideas and I'm glad Giulio is not out of the picture yet. I want to see them combine their strength too.

Along with that, I like the KKPCALM Cures better too - there are a lot of unique concepts and they have better chemistry. Akira is the most unique because Precure shied away from having Cures be too boyish. I was pleasantly surprised she wore a Hakama at Yukari's home, usually this is the scene where the boyish girl wears something more feminine, is embarassed by it and everyone comments "seems like xy does have a girlish side to them" which is. Yawn. So boring and enforces that girls have to be a certain way. I'm glad Akira dresses how she wants and I'm really annoyed Metalluigi keeps bringing up how he disliked her (nobody cares, lol!).

I can see the idol thing but I think they want to try doing something unique because every other show is idols now - if they do do it I can see them coupling it with a space theme however. Last year's sentai had an animal theme while this year's Precure has an animal theme, and this year's sentai has a space theme soooo... it would be fun to see Cures in space xD

By the way, you should check out the official MTPC manga - it's good. Don't click any further on this website however, there are some creepy manga on this site.

https://dynasty-scans.com/series/maho_girls_precure