For a score of 6.96 as of the time of writing this, which is lower than the usual pretty cure MAL score, this series doesn’t deserve the hate that it gets. Of course, everyone has different preferences, but this anime needs a higher rating. I will explain what I thought this precure entry did well, and what it didn’t do so well. The story is similar to all of the other entries: a magical land gets attacked and three to four precures have to protect their world and the magical land, so I can’t really say much about the premise of this show. The spacing inbetween the cure debuts helped developed the friendships between each of the current cures, with the friendships between Yui (Cure Precious) and Kokone (Cure Spicy) getting more depth, and allowing Kokone to develop her social skills with the main cast. It also helped with Rosemary’s friendship with Yui.

While we are on development, I would like to note that while the show does develop relationships better, it has a flaw: It doesn’t have consistent character development. There is a big gap in the amount of development that Yui gets compared to Kokone and Ran (Cure yum yum), as well as the mid season cure, Amane (Cure Finale). Kokone gets the most amount of development because she is the only cure except Amane that gets a character flaw. Yui, our main leader, doesn’t get much character development because she isn’t given any flaws. She is portrayed as the usual genki girl protagonist, and pretty much only talks about how food brings smiles and quotes her grandma gave her.

As a matter of fact, her only development is the death of her grandmother when she was young. Ran gets some development as she learns to accept her uniqueness. Amane does get some too when it shows her transformation from a villain to a cure. But she is overall a flat character.

The art style of the anime is well done, and the way the eyes and hair shading were done was very different from most pretty cure seasons. This anime has one of the prettiest art styles. Character designs for both the civilian forms and cure forms were another strong point, but Amane/Cure Finale’s design was confusing. Colors were all over the place for her precure form and it was hard to identify her theme color, which turned out to be gold instead of purple.

The villains of the show were likeable, especially Narcistoru. The revealing of who was Godatz was unexpected and they could have introduced Godatz’s real form earlier.

The romance that Takumi had for Yui was very underutilized, and a waste of potential. There was a lot they could have done with the development of their friendship to potential lovers. I was disappointed that Takumi had never confessed. The entire idea of the romance was there to be there, and I wish they could have done more with it.

The food theme was utilized and it was great that the anime had shown how food brings smiles.

Overall, this show is a good entry to the precure franchise.