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I know we’ve still got one more episode left but I figured this was a good time to share some thoughts on the current season.

Star Twinkle isn’t a bad series but it is sort of an uneven one. It’s like they couldn’t decide whether to make it a serious space drama or a standard Magical Girl show and wound up not really committing that hard to either. Hikaru is also sort of a terrible leader who winds up causing some problems for her team (Kappard actually made some pretty good points regarding her blind optimism early on). While still important, I did kind of like that this season wasn’t quite as laser focused on the Pink Cure the way some others were. While Elena finally got a bit of development towards the end Madoka was sort of just there aside from a few early episodes (not Cure Honey level pointless or anything but kind of underdeveloped none the less).

Lala and Yuni were clearly the real stars of the show and got the most development overall. I kind of like that Yuni was sort of a break from the usual Precure mold (she never went to school, she was mostly focused on her mission of restoring her homeworld and while her heart was in the right place she was willing to do some slightly morally questionable things to achieve her goals), I kind of wish the relationship between her and Aiwan was expanded on a little more though.

Also stuff like the whole Elena/Tenjo thing and the Ophiuchus Star Princess were kind of interesting concepts, why did they wait until almost the tail end of the season to introduce them? But despite that I enjoyed Star Twinkle for the most part and am cautiously optimistic for Healin Good (hopefully it’ll be a little better in terms of giving every member of the team a fair shake though).