rolling Healin' Good Precure on crunchyroulette after marathoning a bunch of anime slushie's backlog of episodes about awful post-madoka trashy magical girl shows was... so pleasant

nature healing

just a wholesome show about earnest girls using cute powers to defeat mean bad guys

without male adult otaku infecting it

I remember internet otaku shitting on Precure a lot in 2011 and a few years after because it wasn’t tryhard Madoka grasping shit and it’s just

look who’s laughing now

Honestly I got a bit emotional during it and I'm not even sure why

it wears its heart on its sleeve

EsperBot : yeah I was like tearing up a bit? just so completely unpretentiously wholesome

precure lives without irony or fear in the world of 2021

And it’s more powerful for it

it's just like "here's a nice story we wanted to tell, about being good to each other"

healpre unfortunately did get hit really hard by covid so the ending is really weird and rushed

also damn if Nodoka's backstory doesn't put a lot of the edgy tryhard grimdark magical girl shit to shame

turns out that as far as generating pathos and emotional connection goes, "I almost died of anime disease but with care and support I got better and now I'm out of the hospital and just so grateful to be alive and healthy I've decided I'm going to help others now" does just fine

You have one episode to establish the basics of your conflict and your main character, and the character beat they went with was that when there’s a giant monster on the loose and everyone else is running away, Nodoka looks around to see who needs help.

yeah. yeah.

Precure... good

I like Nodoka a lot