So, apparently my profession is being completely at odds with the so-called "internet fandoms" or "internet opinions", being those concerning comic books, tokusatsus, dragon ball animes and, last in the line, Pretty Cure series. Why, you might ask? because I don't understand what people see of wrong in this, exactly. This is what the original terrible manga by Naoko Takeuchi tried to do with the Sailor Moon franchise (regurgitating badly the Toei tokusatsus by meshing them with the shoujo and magical girls, something already tried by the terrible 70's Cutie Honey animated monster) just polished and perfected to an insane degree (it's the same companydoing these Pretty Cures shows, go figure) in a way that it 100% works this time around from start to finish, something the 70's Kamen Rider of the franchise (Futari Wa) nor the terrible two series I've watched before getting into Kimi To Idol and this (Smile and Go Princess) did. There's also an insane amount of fanservice for the fans of the animated life-changing experience made from the horrible Naoko Takeuchi manga in the 90's, with particular attention to the Seiyuus of the sexy ASF Kokone and Amane trying to impersonate as much as possible the eternally relevant performances of the legendary Aya Hisakawa and Michie Tomizawa as Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury and Rei Hino/Sailor Mars while voicing character that are reminescent of them, so moonies should be confident to give this series a go more than they should give confidence to the completely useless SM remakes. The chara is great, the music is great, there are no ultraboring mary sues to speak of a là Go Princess Precure (URRAH!), everything is great...except for ONE THING ONLY, that being the Black Pepper character. As a person who understands the problem of characters with universal appeal mainly advertised from the source to women that are his favourites like Wonder Woman, I get why they did it. Still, this being a Kamen Rider/Super Sentai show with an all cast of beautiful women who are the reason why grown men like me watch these shows (thank you XXX fanart of Amane Kasai/Cure Final on Pixiv for convincing me to give this series a try, once again), the presence of a man doing rider jumps/rider kicks is distracting. I already have the Kamen Rider and the Super Sentais for me every week in that sense (I'm thinking of the last excellent episode of the reborn No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger and Gozyu Polar beating the shit out of the main monster of that episode with his own legs), another man in the middle of the action doing the same activity where the main attraction are the ladies serves nothing (which is the reason why they correctly sidelined the terrible manga Gary Stu Tuxedo Kamen in the 90's Anime, of all things). For the rest, watch this show and enjoy the hell out of it - possibly in tandem with the equal, in terms of being a Superhero fiction Masterpiece, my second favourite Rider of all times, Kamen Rider Geats, and with also very good Avataro Sentai Donbrothers show, all from this same year that served us this show - like I did and don't care one single bit of the MAL or any other site's ratings. You won't regret it.
As a side note, since I managed to do what I couldn't with Smile Pretty Cure (finishing and enjoying it plenty while also watching well-written episodes), you can be sure the fan-favourites (?) Kamen Rider Kabuto and Decade and the likes of Urutoraman Max and Urutoraseben X by, respectively, Shoji Yonemura and Yuji Kobayashi (the writers of Smile Precure) as well as single episodes of these two (episode 17 and 18 of my favourite Kamen Rider of all times, the Kiva, permitted) from now on will NEVER BE TOUCHED BY ME even under torture, since clearly the problem of that terrible show was in those two people, whose career in the toku and anime field again I strongly question. Thank you for reading my review.