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So happy to see more love for Splash Star. It is severely underrated in my opinion. From what I can tell, back when it aired it was looked down for changing the protagonists, and nowadays it is looked down for being too much like the first series in many aspects. Saki and Mai are probably among the Cures with less fans, and I don't see the show's qualities being brought up often in discussion, often because not that many people watched or paid much mind to it. There's also the fact the fights are less physical and more energy attack based, something that doesn't sit well with a portion of the fanbase, and doesn't help matters with Splash Star's popularity. Splash Star was full of first attempts at things that future seasons will also employ (some better, some worse), but often the credit goes entirely to said seasons instead of where it's due.
You've got me interested in how future seasons will draw influence from Splash Star. Still being on the second season of Yes! 5, it's difficult for me to say just yet. One might say Splash Star was the first to go with the group dynamic instead of Precure being a pair, once Michiru and Kaoru got on board late in, and Yes! 5 expanded that notion by having Precure always be a group. Yes! 5 still has plenty of physical fighting but also more "energy attacks" than I remember from Futari wa, perhaps searching for a healthy balance? Gotta start watching out for this.
Yes, I have the same impression about how Michiru and Kaoru were a test run for an actual Precure group. Max Heart had Shiny Luminous but to be honest she never really felt like a part of the group with Nagisa and Honoka. I think the more unique villains with more quirky personalities are also something it did first, as well as the whole "villain that eventually questions their choices and try to change" thing. I'm not considering that a spoiler because I'm not saying which series contain that. Fairly sure Splash Star is also the first series that flirts with the idea of different transformations for the heroines, being an early example of something that will become more common much later. Of course, none of that is untreaded territory for kids shows (and for that era's Toei Animation itself. Digimon which predates Precure for a few years did all that, for example), so I don't know if I'd say it's drawing from Splash Star, but Splash Star was certainly the first attempt at implementing those elements, from which they learned from.
There's also that until you get further along it comes across as a carbon copy of the original. Later on it gets its own identity and does some interesting stuff that Max heart never did but that requires getting past the first few episodes. Even the monster of the week sounds and looks like a no-effort rip-off of Zakenn (apart from a palette swap Uzaina really aren't that different)
I think the main reason the twist worked so well for you is that it has a similar sort of set up as the first precure's big bad, only for Splash Star to then COMPLETELY turn it on its head
I loved Splash Star so much. It took almost everything terrible about the first 2 series and turned them on their heads, ESPECIALLY the villains. Having watched every Precure series, I still think this one has the best villains of the whole franchise.
splash star is my fave season, not gonna lie. not because it is the BEST but because i have a very deeo emotional connection to when it came out and entered my life and i LOVE Mai/Egret
I reaaally like the villians in Splash Star, the fire guy is funny, and also that saki forgets any time the name of the water lady is also a nice running gag, the ground guy is also a bit funny because he is a bit shy (because he spokes quietly), but the best of the villians IS the golden guy. I liked him from the frist episode where he appeares, just because he likes the bread and says "The land of greenery seems not so bad at all when they could make so good things" and I like the fact that the loooves the sweet pastry I think that makes him likeable as well, besides his "honor is all" thinking, which I also really like it and which is an own motivation to fight at all for the land of fall. So not just because he has to because of commands, but because of it's own motivation "I wanna to fight a good fight" and thats all!! (I also like the fact that he... falls a bit in love with the water lady and she as well at the end of the series, where they two fight against precure the - really - last time. That was a funny extra I really like it).
I would like to point out that this series featured one of the best ending songs in the franchise which would also later make its return in the yes fives, much to my elation
Splash Star is pretty good. I especially like the villains. I’m not sure if I liked this or Max Heart better, but disregarding the filler that they’re both decent. I can now say with confidence that I will make it through the Precure franchise and will enjoy the ride. I’ve also decided to go in release order, the way you are.
Splash Star imo only had that comedy duo as good supporting cast that weren't the families. I remember Shiho and Reha. I don't remember the names of any of the other friends Saki and Mai had. Everything else I agree with though.
So, I guess you can say that Splash Star is where Precure truly started to come into it’s own? It’s like what a certain analyst that I admire said about the first two JoJo parts: “If part one is the body, then part two is the soul”. I think that that’s also true of Futari Wa and Splash Star respectively.
Hah, Moerumba, Kintolesky, and Ms. Runny Nose were pretty good. No mention of the fairies this time? I personally found them much less annoying than previously. ...granted a good chunk of that was probably down to one of them sharing a voice with Yoshinoya from Hidamari Sketch (perfect casting choice). Also, I think the general pace was much better this time around because of how villains were spaced. Unlike Futari and Max Heart where the generic bad guys hung around for what seemed like forever, in Splash Star, there was a much more regular turnover. If memory serves, every seventh episode, they'd beat one and the next quirky miniboss would come to harass them. But damn, I'd forgotten a lot of the particulars of why I loved Michiru and Kaoru so much. One thing that I think really stood out that you didn't really cover was how they formed connections and developed shared interests with Saki and Mai SEPARATELY. Fiction in general is too often reluctant to let these sorts of "close sister" pairs split up to be their own people outside of the requisite "petty disagreement over banal triviality" sub-arc that only serves to hammer home the obvious fact that these two people who spend all their time together really DO like each other. By the end of it, it feels like Michiru is closer to Mai and Kaoru is closer to... well, Minori, actually. But also Saki. And that's okay.
Splash Star is a fantastic season! The characters especially Michiru and Kaoru are so well done and just so fun to watch. I do think Kiriyia which is the name of the boy you kept forgetting did do a better job with his farewell just cause I wasn’t expecting it and the acting really sold it but Michru and Kaoru version of it wasn’t to bad either and when they came back I was screaming hell ya! The villians were a massive step up with fun and dynamic characters and Saki and Mai are great characters in their own right especially their dynamics with Michiru and Kaoru as well as their families. So far of the 4 seasons I’ve scene it’s my favorite but I will say next season is a very close second
Honestly, what makes this series good is that that fixed nearly all of the mistakes of Futari Wa and Max Heart. The villain redemption was one of the most amazing redemptions if I’m being honest.
Fun fact Kenta if you thought he sounded familiar then he should because he's voiced by Junko Takeuchi the same voice actress who does Naruto and in Yes Pretty Cure 5 and Yes Pretty Cure 5 GoGo did Cure Rouge. But this character is more of the type of characters that she is well-known for the goofy class clown boy with a heart of gold. Cure Rouge is more of your typical childhood friend who is more mature compared to the main hero.
I dropped Splash Star after 28 episodes. To me, it felt like it was devolving a little too much into "screw the rules, we have friendship" territory, and the ineffectiveness of the villains kept getting on my nerves, as well as how petty they were getting with their acts of evil (like setting up a competing snow cone stand on the beach so that the Precures wouldn't get any customers. ...the fiend!?).
I would say that from Kiriya to Michiru/Kaoru to Setsuna to Ruru, the writers are testing waters with the Heel-Face Turn trope. Kiriya lacked the resolution to turn on the Dark Zone. Michiru and Kaoru had their resolution but was taken out of action forcibly for extended period of time. Setsuna had the resolution and the enemy faction let her go instead of holding her as a POW allowing her to convert entirely to the good side. Finally Ruru rebelled.
Going by how much you loved Michiru and Kaoru, I'm guessing it has/will piss you off to see in the crossover movies they're put on the bench with either no speaking lines, or very few lines and never actually get to help in any battles of any kind. I know I was pissed....
Exactly you could’ve done so much interesting stuff with them in those movies especially with old villians returning but no unfortunately they are relagated to the background
i love splash star, it’s the first season i watched and it’s still my favourite so far. i doubt if i’ll be able to watch futari wa if i’ve already watched the better version. the villains are great, moerumba is my favourite and even if i hate him, 15:02 is the funniest scene from a villain i’ve probably ever watched.
lul DIO is also the silver metal alien goop guy in the Fresh crossover movie ~ and some guy in 5 I think ~ xD Now I remember why I didn't want to watch the 2 OG series; cuz THIS is obviously the superior ver ~ I initially started this cuz of how much I liked Eas from Fresh and wanted to see our "proto-Eas-es" in action and development, but got something more out of it. It's great how the final boss was not the final boss but his secretary was xD makes sense seeing as how they developed him quite a bit vs the big hulking shadow at the back that did absolutely NOTHING xD
I swear when I was just watching the trailers for splash star I thought that saki and mi where just nagisa and honoka just with a different art style just to find out that they were totally new characters
SERIOUSLY?!?! First I find out Nagisa's dad is Dio, now this?!?! I had no idea my favourite anime franchise had so many references to my something else number favourite anime franchise
Oh... ok. I guess I should apologize for my last comment (still not sure why you dodged the quote the last episode though.) It really came out in the last episode that you didn't like villains for being villains, but you just don't like them being bland. That is completely understandable. Moerumba and Kintoleski are great villains, and great examples of just villains for the sake of villains. Gooyan though... yes, he is a great villain in how he acts. His plan was amazingly executed, and it was a nice surprise to see it unfold... until we found out his motivation. It was one of the worst motivations of being a villain ever. It was on par with Broly, F***ING BROLY! It wasn't motivation it was an excuse and a terrible one. I would have liked him more as a villain if he just said something like, "Why am I doing this? Because I have the power and I feel like it." That would have been 100% a better motivation than because he didn't like that everything had become "noisy" since after the Big Bang... He is the equivalent of a Magnificent Bastard who has the mindset of a child.
I see your point but I still kinda love Gohyaan's motivation cause it's a representation of an older figure regressing to the pettiness of infancy, rather than stepping up and becoming a mentor for the younger generations.
unfortunately not really or non that we're focused on just them. Note I'd love to be proven wrong because their might be on some other site but I haven't had any luck unfortunately
I think this might be the season I start on once I finish my anime list for the year (BTW Tyranno, have you ever seen the anime, Snow White with the Red Hair? It's super adorable and in the dub, there's an extremely whiny villain played by Todd Habercorn)
I suppose it's as good a start as any. I wish you luck on your journey. Have not seen that, but have heard of it. In fact, it is on my backlog. You know, that infinite thing that'll never disappear no matter how much I chip away at it.
Actually Saki and Mai never seem to me so similar to Nagisa and Honoka. Nagisa and Honoka take multiple episode to become friends, and even when they became best friends, they have their own friends and activities not together. They are best buddies. Saki and Mai are not best buddies, they are Soulmate. They meet together long time ago and were reunite by Fate at the time they must save the world. Saki took Mai into her own friends, her world, she serve as model for her drawing while Mai go watch her match. They seems to live to each other. Actually it's even the only time before Dokidoki precure that I could believe the serie have yuri undertone(the first ending is very yuri). For me, Mai love Saki(not sure that Saki love Mai however)
I liked Splash star more or less, there were times when it was interesting but not others. For example, except for Michiru and Kaoru, the villains had the same structure as in the previous two series. They were 5 or 6 chapters trying to defeat the protagonists but in the end they did not succeed. There are funny scenes but others recycled from Futari wa and Max Heart. But hey, I did not dislike. By the way, when you have seen Hugtto precure, you will consider one of your villains as one of the best.
After finishing the first 3 seasons, I'm beginning to think the animators have a thing for muscley men with all those male villain designs.... and it was made even worse in the movies.
Sak and Mai are likable than Homura Akemi from Puella Magi Madoka Magica Rebellion (Which in case you weren't aware is a sequel to the anime series, with said name, - the Rebellion title!) So there!!!
@@Tyranno im so sorry!! i was just rewatching the healing good video when it suddenly froze and I reloaded and it was Gone along with the rest of the series this is definitely fair use, I can't believe how unfair this is and I hope it gets refuted somehow
Just to let you know another PreCure RU-vidr, AzenZone, also faced copyright issues for his videos like you did and was able to refute the claim for the videos to come back. These deletions could be fraudulent and not actually from Toei, so I hope you would continue trying your best to bring your videos back on this channel.
Good riddance no one cares You went out of your way to go to EVERY Precure video to complain about dubs and dubs only Pls go to therapy I don't think you even care about Precure, you never talk about the show in any way that matters, all you care is DUB DUB DUB like get a grip You just want to be entitled and needlessly annoying
