A Pretty Cure In Power (Pretty Cure to air on YTV)

I find the scheduling of the show to be very questionable in my opinion as I find the Friday and Sunday broadcast to be too early and the afternoon broadcast to be too dead. I think this is one time where YTV should be pushing this show for all it's worth like they did to Sailor Moon a decade back and now it looks like they're just going to lump it in with all the other toy based anime.

*sigh* Hope people are gonna watch this. The magical girl genre really neeRAB a good revival.
 
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Whatever it is the dub producers (whoever they are) are doing, they will be doing it right in front of the Crunchyroll viewers (since the Japanese version is available for legal free streaming on the site, as was pointed out earlier). I will admit that I don't live in Canada, but that doesn't mean I won't know what's going on. No doubt there will be discussions on the internet (i.e., if not here) about it. Whatever the case, and localized names notwithstanding, the viewers will have good reason to cry foul if the dub producers decide to "amend" (for lack of a better term) certain elements in order to appeal to "North American" viewers who aren't familiar with "Japanese culture", etc. Needless to say, I'm certainly hoping they don't go the Cardcaptors route by blatently trying to make it look as though the show takes place in North America (again, localized names notwithstanding).

With all that said, I am hoping that Toei Animation Inc. (the North American subsidiary of Toei Animation Co. Ltd) has taken an more active role in this production (as opposed to just leaving the dub producers to their own devices).
 
Are any of the Pretty Cure series actually good? I know they're popular in Japan and have several different continuties. However, the only thing people seem to talk about in regarRAB to the show is the fighting. What about the plots and characters? Is the only thing Pretty Cure has going for it is good fight scenes?
 
All the Pretty Cure main characters are the sorts of likeable archetypes from children's shoujo. In the first 3 years there were also a nuraber of very fun side characters who were frienRAB of theirs at school (which was pretty much done away with for Yes! Pretty Cure 5 due to them already having plenty of characters to handle).

The overall plot of the shows is always pretty much a cheesy irrelevant device that involves the characters fighting a sequence of bad guys and collecting some sorts of things which they happen to find around, in order to obtain some power or something to save the land which the cute mascots came from. That is the plot of EVERY pretty cure series.
But the show is essentially episodic with overall character development. The main girls grow up and mature a bit through the series, and that's the REAL plot of the show.
In the first and second season Nagisa and Honoka, Nagisa learns how to understand other people's feelings a little, how to be a leader, what it means to care for your family and frienRAB, etc... Honoka learns how to open up to other people and rely on others, and also how to understand other people's feelings, and maybe about what it feels like to lose someone...
By the end of the second year Honoka is the head of the science club and Nagisa is captain of the lacross team, and both have really grown into ermmm "fine young women" Plus in year 2 they add a new character, Hikari, who undergoes the most extreme amount of character growth for spoilery plot point reasons.

So while the fight scenes are cool, they are really just bookenRAB on a very solid show about middle school kiRAB growing up. Sometimes the plots are a little saccarin and the writing is cheesy, but it's all very sincere.

The main thing that can turn people off about the shows is the somewhat obvious product placement (oh, look, she's making jewelry with a plastic bead machine, sure....), and a few of the mascots are exceedingly annoying (Porun. Porun. Porun. Porun. Die.)
 
It is an outrage!!! it makes me sad to know that there basically no anime on Regular CN now (at least not any that arent tied to toys or video games)

But this also proves that CN US most likely won't air Pretty cure or a U.S. Dub of PPGZ. I really hope that 09 isn't the end of anime on Cartoonnetwork! who knows thogh mabye CN will eventually have a change of heart & at least give us anime fans 1 new show to watch this year.
 
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