This episode was a classic case of "hunter becomes the hunted".
No you're actually fine.
I guess that it's still better than a "met by chance" encounter
Got 1 air bike trick, better than nothing i guess ... And whip-girl was screaming and it
yet another reason why az-chan > *
It's some cliche about nerds needing thick glasses to see.
First things first, we all know what the most important thing is about this movie… The best character of all time, Minori, returns! For all of about 15 seconds.
Best mascot also returns! …And gets about as much screentime as Minori D:
Did they really just go there? Oh, you bet they did!
NATSUKASHIIIIIIIIIIII
Got enough mascots there? I dread to think what the later All-Stars movies must be like!
Ah, I can always count on Chiffon to provide the requisite adorableness. I'm pretty sure this is the best use to which a Miracle Light has ever been put.
This movie achieved many things. One of them was finally giving Takehito Koyasu a role befitting of his sheer fabulous superlativeness. Fusion is a pretty cool guy, he transforms into whatever the fuck he feels like and doesn't afraid of anything. Beats Koyasu's last Precure villain, Scorp, any day. (Though of course his seminal Precure role will always be Nagisa's dad =p)
Fusion's transformation abilities and desire to unite everything into a singularity of Koyasu fabulousness also provided an excellent excuse to bring back the Zakenna, Uzaina, Kowaina and Hoshiina all at once. Nakiwameke clearly got rejected on grounds of not ending in "na".
Other things Fusion brought to the table: fabulous light effects…
…and even more fabulous liquid-shifting effects. He was doing this shit pretty much constantly whenever he was on screen. It took all the willpower I could muster not to just gif half of the movie.
Is that Zakenna a goddamn aeroplane? DAMN RIGHT IT'S AN AEROPLANE.
So uh, guys, is it wrong if I found this scene kind of hot?
If there's one thing I learned from this movie, it's that the hometowns of all the various Precure are surprisingly close to one another. Like, you can literally see the Fresh girls' hometown from any of the other locations in all the series. (No, not that kind of hometown…
And while we're here, I'd just like to draw attention to the greatest crime committed by Max Heart: erasing the original duo's original transformation sequence from existence and replacing it with this shit. Thanks, Max Heart, for ensuring that we'll never see Nagisa and Honoka's classy original transformations again even in a nostalgia-fest like this movie. Thanks a lot.
This movie did bring the series back to its roots in a lot of ways, though, not least in its big theme. With Fusion's goal being to unite the entire world into one being, the Cures' objection of choice was of course that what makes them such a great team is that they're all so different, which was a big theme of the original series (Nagisa and Honoka being diametric opposites).
Strength in diversity is ostensibly a theme of the series as a whole, but I don't feel like it's really been brought to the forefront so much lately, so it was cool to see it being given the spotlight as the main theme here. And of course it tied in perfectly with the idea of all these different teams coming together as one, united despite their different origins.
That said, I'm not sure it's really fair on the other Cures to be fighting in the same battle as the Splash Star girls. They can't really compare, can they? Nothing to see here, just Saki and Mai reminding us why they're the BEST GODDAMN CURES EVER.
Holy crap, Milk, when did you learn that trick?
Why would anyone not want this to happen?
2009, the year Toei was bitten by the crossover bug. This, too, is Decade's fault.
