Alright! Should be back on track on for episodes with a new webpage look! How do you guys like it? This week, Komugi and Iroha make up! Yay!

• WE GET THE FIRST LOOK AT AN ACTUAL VILLIAN! Wolfrun? Jk. I hope the Cures beat the shit out of him if he's sadistically hurting animals! Poor Kirarin Lion....
• Okay but before that in the episode, Satoru thankfully finds Komugi! She's okay but sad, aw
• "a runaway PreCure!" LOL
• Lul the thing about Daifuku eating grass. Yeah, cookies would probably be better for you, Komugi
• I really want to see Sora, Manatsu, and Komugi in an All Stars Movie together. All sharing a brain cell.
• HAHAHAHA "Is Daifuku really like that?" A cool Daifuku! I like it! Please be a midseason
• Glad Mayu had the courage to reach out back to Iroha :)
• Okay, Daifuku is awesome and loves Satoru so much, aw
• Oh, it does seem like Komugi can use the tact now!
• Friend Liberale, the duo attack. Kinda meh for a duo finisher, but whatever.
• Aw, it's very nice to see them made-up : ) What a nice ending

 So far I have been happy with WanPre. I think the story is very plot-centric so far, and the character pacing is well-done. We see Satoru, Daifuku, Yuki, and Mayu all through the episodes, building up to their presence. The fight between Komugi and Iroha was teased in episode 5, brought out in episode 6, and then resolved nicely in episode 7 with some character growth. Excited to see what's next! It seems like Komugi's going to school? Can't wait to see Mayu / Yuki too!
 Also the movie for WanPre was announced today.. with a video game theme? I'll talk about that briefly some other time. みんななかよし！わんだふる～！

 Yep! This is a late entry due to my laziness and the HTML page update I was planning. This wegpage looks a lot better, doesn't it? Let's do the late review! Uh oh, this is the fight episode! Grab your pet or stuffed animal for a good snuggle :(

• So we're in the Niko Garden, and Komugi won't STFU about the Friendly Tact. Iroha and MeyMey have no idea why it won't work. Poor Komugi just wants to help Iroha and be with her ;^;
• Poor Mayu, again being shy about making new friends. At least she made something for Iroha back.
• Interesting how her father is looking at lions. Again with the animal theme I guess.
• After a cuddly night with her owner, Komugi gets mad over her missing leash. The insistance on the old one is probably just a pet's resistance to change and her jealousy over the Friendy Tact. Either way, no walk for Komugi. Poor doggie...
• I love how even someone as nice as Iroha can't resist venting to Satoru lol.
• Daifuku is a brave little bunny it seems! Please be a midseason
• I can understand both sides of the arguement after Komugi tried and failed to jump in. Her bravery / stubborness could have gone very wrong and could have hurt both of them...
• And then at the end, there's the saddest part of the episode with Komugi running away ARGH that's not what Iroha means, Komugi!

みんななかよし！わんだふる～！

 Yep! This is a late entry due to my laziness and the HTML page update I was planning. This wegpage looks a lot better, doesn't it? Let's do the late review! This is an important episode with Komugi's backstory and the Friendly Tact. I actually took notes right after I watched it a couple weeks ago!^^

• Alright Komugi has grown on me, confirmed. She is so cute and her naivety isn't annoying at all. It's early to say, but it's likely she will turn out to be a great and memorable leader! Her logic is similar in some ways to pets in real life lol. Which makes sense, the smartest dogs have an IQ around a 2 or 3-year-old's level. Not a perfect comparison lol, but the fact still stands
• I actually wasn't expecting her sad backstory though. I don't know why, but the whole animal mistreatment angle wasn't something I anticipated. It makes sense with the Garugaru though.
• Iroha gradually built up Komugi's trust after being abused / mistreated. How sweet. Did anyone else want to hug an animal after watching this? ;^; It hurts my heart how people can be sadistic to creatures like that, for no good reason...
• The Friendly Tact power is interesting! I bet that Komugi can use a different set of Kirarin animals than Iroha.
• I wonder if the people who mistreated Komugi will come back.
• I wonder if the Cures will outright attack the villians mistreating the Garugaru.
• Uh oh, it looks like trouble is coming. It seems Komugi isn't used to handling her emotions like a mature human can...

みんななかよし！わんだふる～！

 I'm a day late here because Sunday for me was kind of busy @ ~ @;; But I watched the episode around when it aired and have some thoughts!

• Satoru again becomes MeyMey's therapist lol. I don't think MeyMey is the cutest supporting character / fairy (if you can call him that), but I think the gag of Iroha / Komugi ignoring him is cute. How will Mayu and Yuki react to him?
• Speaking of the cat duo, this episode makes it even more likely that they will be my favorites this season! I love shy characters in general, but especially in PreCure as well! Mayu's anxieties are likely more relatable than ever to the 2024 audience.
• Komugi is growing on me. I'm still not a fan of her design, but I love her sweetiness and naivety. I predict than Yuki's boldness and confidence will contrast nicely with the rest of the team.
• I think the owner / pet setup for the Cures is interesting! Komugi and Iroha are a pair to each other, but Komugi and Yuki also will get some nice character interactions as foils to each other. And vice-versa! Interesting setup.
• I love how Yuki calms Mayu down : 3 I also think that cats smell good (this isn't weird to say, is it?)
• The OP theme is also starting to grow on me. How will the character songs sound, I wonder.
• The Kirarin Rabbit and her house appear! To be honest, a lot of the merch this season looks very cheap to me, especially the Friendly Tact and the Kirarin Animal plushes... The Wonderful Pact is the best out of the bunch.
• UGH I still keep wishing that Cure Wonderful's main outfit contrasted with her hair a little more >.< Some people online say they don't like Cure Lillian's design, but Cure Wonderful's clashes way more to me!!
• Interesting to see the Pretty Holic placement in this season, very typical. Sango and Mayu would be good freinds.
• Ah, the chase action is still a bit of a bummer tho. I don't care what anyone says, I want to see some fights!

Next episode has the Friendly Tact... lol Friendly Tact, but they named Iroha Cure Friendy...みんななかよし！わんだふる～！

 This episode gives exposition about the Niko Garden, Niko, and the Garugaru. Also Satoru joins the mix and meets MeyMey and the Cures! Shorter thoughts on today's episode, but I'm looking forward to Mayu and Yuki's episode next week!

• Satoru is way more involved in the show as a supporting character than I initially expected. The whole PreCure secret was leaked to him on the third episode, plus he's played a role in the past two ones as well.
• This makes the midseason cure predictions for him a little more probable in my eyes. Do you guys think it will be him and Daifuku, or just Daifuku? Or another character we haven't seen yet?
• We get the first Kirarin animal, the rabbit! So cute! I love the shade of pink she (?) has. I think the Kirarin Penguin's gemstone clashes with her body too much.
• I would what Niko looks like. What if he's the twist villian, lol?
• Although MeyMey isn't that cute, I like how he puffs up when mad.
• Komugi's hot tea gag was cute. I wonder if she's going to try to eat food with her face directly lol. Can't wait to see her in crossover movies.

みんななかよし！わんだふる～！

 Cure Friendy's debut! Another calming, playful episode. Two other things about this series as whole: 1) There will be "chase action" which seems to confirm less of a focus on fights. 2) The title is written in hiragana because Komugi is a dog and can't read katakana yet! This information is based on staff interviews. A "cute" season after the "cool" Hirogaru Sky season. How wonderful!

• I officially love Komugi. I love her playfulness, I love how she lectures the Garugaru, I love her naivety. I expect the humor in this season to be great.
• Iroha is a great little foil to Komugi's rambunctiousness. Her civilian design is also very pretty. I like the shade of her hair. Good little debut episode for Cure Friendy.
• MeyMey (I guess that's how we're romanticizing his name?) is funny as well! I wasn't expecting him to be so noisy after being so formal lmao. DAMEEEE
• The way Iroha met Komugi is very sweet as well. I was expecting the whole box in the rain kinda thing, so I'm not very surprised lol
• Friendy's transformation was very short, just like Wonderful's. I'm expecting a duel transformation like everyone is expecting.
• It looks like Friendy's main trait is her speed? I wonder when we'll get a duo attack with Friendy + Wonderful.
• Again we see Daifuku and Satoru. They are the biggest suspects for the midseason cure at the moment, but I'm wondering if Toei would really do two male cures... What colors would they even be? I can't even envision Cure designs for them.
• Komugi gets a stock animation for becoming human. Neat.
• It's disappointing that there isn't such melee action at all this season, but I have been enjoying the chase scenes so far.

みんななかよし！わんだふる～！

 The season is off to a great start! I loved the new episode and want to share my thoughts and predictions! But first, I want to talk a little more about the character designs post-official reveal.

Cure Wonderful's design is okay in my opinion overall. Compared to other pink cures, she seems middle of the pack. One thing I don't like about her design is how her hair ends right at the bottom of her skirt. Her hair seems too much for my tastes too, and I would have liked to see another hair color besides yellow. But she is very cute and I love Komugi's little hair ears.

Cure Friendy's design is one I really like. I like how we have a blonde purple cure with nice contrast. Her braids give a very sweet image as well. I think her design translates well into dolls and plushies.

Cure Lillian's design has been bothering me a little. Well, I do like the color (green!) and even the shade. I don't like the fan-edits which give her a booger green shade. I wish it was a little more mint green, but that's okay. I just think she looks a little too "color blob"-y. "Color blob" monocolor Cures (like the ones from Smile) aren't my favorite because my eyes just gloss over easily. I wish her socks were PINK and there was another color to go along with her teal. Complain about Delicious Party all you want, it did not have this problem

Cure Nyammy is by far my favorite design. Enough said. Love the sharp white hair, ears, skirt, everything. She's gonna sell the most merch, I can tell.

 Onto the episode... Random thoughts here! By the way, I avoided looking at other discussions online beforehand, so these thoughts are original~

• Komugi and Iroha's relationship is adorable! It makes me want to hug a kitty
• I don't know why, but I expected Animal Town to look different... like some Animal forest-type place? Idk...
• Komugi's dog design is really cute, and I am not a dog person.
• It was amusing seeing Iroha's dad in an apron
• I haven't read the manga (yet), but saw some pages floating around yesterday. The plot here seems repeated except that the manga starting with Komugi already being able to talk in dog form. Also implying she already had her Cure powers. It was hard for Komugi not to talk as a dog lol.
• Satoru and Daifuku! I love the name "Daifuku", and I want her him to be a Midseason Cure. Do we have leaks yet from the Trunk toy? Satoru seems to like Iroha
• Mayu and Yuki were the great in this episode. I can relate Mayu, I can relate. Yuki killed me with her face too. That duo is going to be my favorite.
• Cure Wondeful's transformation was nice! They're really playing up the "wan" puns lol.
• I love Komugi's personality! So innocent and earnest like a real dog. The gags should be good this season.
• Cure Wonderful is a shield-user and didn't punch the monster... please don't be a no-combat season : (
• The ending song doesn't have Nyammy or Lillian. Hm.
• The OP and ED are catchy and cute but not top-tier.

If someone is reading this and has thoughts too, let me know! I'm going to do this weekly! Andd eventually change my crappy html layout みんななかよし！わんだふる～！

There's a lot I want to talk about before this season officially starts, but I drew Cure Nyammy with help from my new drawing tablet! She has my favorite design out of all of the new Cures.

 Guys. Look at these designs. To be honest, when I first saw the leaks, I wasn't completely sold on the artstyle. It reminded me of Happiness Charge! a little, and I really don't like that artstyle. It looks so cheap in my opinion, like a parody show of PreCure. But this? Holy crap! They look adorable and high quality here. I am so excited for the Wonderful Precure! movie; I can only imagine how good the animation will look! This reminds me more of Delicious Smile, and I love the DeliPuri designs.

 We also have a synopsis on the plot now.The lead's name is Komugi, and guess what? She is a dog! You can see one of the toys right there that they are selling a おしゃべりたっぷりこむぎ which is a super-talking Komugi dog plush with lots of voice lines. Someone found a toy listing from Tokullectibles (here) that says "Join Komugi in Animal Town, where people and animals live together, and help them face off against all those who dare disturb the peace by transforming into one of the 21st Precure!". So yes, Komugi / Cure Wonderful will be with Friendly and work to save / collect animals. There is also a "smile sparkle trunk" (キラニコトランク) screen toy which holds animals they collect. We're have a good idea how this season will look! By the way, I really like the colors of the Wonderful Pact. I think the rainbow + pink / purple ribbons + gold look well together. Looking at it makes me feel happy and smile in real life :)

 One last thing I want to talk about is this magazine scan. There's a fairy-type character with the name Swan (スワン) and the text says "Let's protect the sparking animals and help them return back to the Smile Garden" (〇〇ガルになったキラリンアニマルをほごして、ニコガーデンにもどしてあげよう。). I can't read the word ending with ガル since it's cut-off, but it also says the sparking animals that became [that word]. In any case, they're going to be collecting and protecting animals from evil.

 What a good time to be a PreCure fan! みんななかよし！わんだふる～！ I hope this season will turn out to be maximum comfy and cute.

 Shortly after the logo dropped, the teaser webpage went up for WanPre (that's what I'm calling it now). みんななかよし！わんだふる～！means We're all friends! Wonderful~! That's probably the lead cure's tag line. I should probably also mention that "Wan" is the sound of a dog barking in Japanese. So the title of the show is a dog pun (same pun used in the Mahoutsukai Opening). The webpage is here. Speaking of the lead cure...

 On 12/3/23, I came across these pictures being shared within the PreCure fandom. There's multiple angles of these bags. Yep. I and many others believe it to be real. The cure names are Cure Wonderful (pink), Cure Nyammy (blue), Cure Lillian (green!), and Cure Friendly (Purple). Some thoughts below~

Cure Wonderful looks very genki and cheerful, perfect for a lead. She definitely seems dog-themed with her hair resembling dog ears. Some people have theorized that she is a dog belonging to Cure Friendy while Cure Nyammy is a cat belonging to Cure Lillian. That makes perfect sense to me, but I think the pets would mostly stay in a human civilian form, similar to Tsukasa / Cure Wing. Going off of that, I theorize that one of the themes of the season is going to be "being friends with different people".

Cure Friendy, aka Cure Wonderful's owner in my head, looks sweet and shy. Think Nene from Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun. I guess that she will own Wonderful and then make friends with the help of Wonderful's extrovertedness. Speaking of which...

Cure Lillian seems quite confident and lady-like. By the way, I love green cures and am so excited to see another! I love the pastel shade she has. Hopefully her outfit isn't too close in color to her hair.

Cure Nyammy! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this name and "Nyammy" is enough for me to think this is real. I'm guessing that she is the cat and is reserved and shy. I'm wondering how Cure Lillian and Nyammy's personalities will differ. Lillian seems more confident based on design. I love Nyammy's white and silver hair! A first for a cure.

 Lastly, I think there will be a yellow / orange midseason Cure. I'm guessing she will be animal-based as well. Maybe a pet the team rescues or adopts? I also predict that NYAMMY will be my personal favorite although they all look good. I guess this season will be more Slice of Life with less action and may be similar to Delicious Party. The mascot / fairy characters are up in the air. My prediction for the plot: Friendly is a shy girl at a new school who wants to make friends. She adopts a dog (Wonderful) which helps her break out of her shell. Wonderful is excited to go to her new home and do dog stuff. However, there is an evil team who uses the energy from animals or friendship and Wonderful + Friendly become Pretty Cure to save the day. Then they recruit Lillian and her cat Nyammy. They all become friends. Midseason shows up later.
 What do you guys think? Is the leak real, fake, stupid-looking, whatever? Thoughts, predictions? I'll end with a doodle of Cure Wonderful.

 Allllright. We have our first look at the 2024-2025 season with the trademark drop. Source here! Wonderful Precure! The logo just dropped less than 2 hours ago as of writing this, so let's so through with some predictions and opinions! What can we guess from just the logo?
 First off, I love the pastel colors! The hiragana writing along with the pastel-y pinks and purples are giving it a very cutesy look. "Wonderful" isn't as descriptive of a theme as say, "Tropical Rouge" or "Hirogaru Sky".
 However, as anyone with eyes can see, this looks like an animal-themed season! There are bone, heart, and bow-shapes all throughout the logo along with a tail. And some paw-prints! The maru on the ぷ is stylized with cat ears as well. Awesome! Obviously KiraPre had an animal sub-theme, but it's nice to see this theme again.
 My prediction for team colors? Pink lead, blue, yellow, purple, and a possible green! Praying for green. The lead will be a dog-themed cure while the second-in-command blue will be a cat! The midseason will probably be the purple one, let's be honest. The mascots / fairies will be animals too! I hope they're cute animals, I didn't really think Latte was cute-looking, but Rabirin and the others were. I'm hoping for something that's similar in proportion to Mepple / Frappy.
 I will update this page as time moves along and more info comes out about this season~!

みんななかよし！わんだふる～！

 Welcome to my Wonderful PreCure! page! Here I (try to) talk about the weekly episodes, give thoughts, and post content relating to the currently airing PreCure season. You can watch PreCure in Japan at 8:30 JST on TV Asahi's Sunday morning children's block (on Sunday obviously). If you are American, you can stream Wonderful PreCure! on Crunchyroll legally.

 Please select a page from my Table of Contents on the left. Thanks for visiting! I'm still messing with this page too, so it's another WIP!^^