Couldn’t decide on what sort of title to go with so just went with both which I guess is kind of approriate for wishy washy show like this.
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0:00 Fair Use Buffer
0:22 How Bad Was It?
4:01 Addressing the Hack & Its Possible Ramifications
5:59 The Gentle Arc
10:00 The Narcissist/Spiritor Arc
12:34 The Time Travel Plot Holes
15:48 The Cook Fighters Show feat the Precure
19:35 The Inexperienced Writers’ Room
22:18 Sawako Hirabayashi’s Main Issue
24:32 The Worst Character…
29:49 Character Analysis – Godatz and Secretor
33:51 Character Analysis – Narcissist
36:48 Character Analysis – The Energy Fairies
38:49 Character Analysis – Rosemary
40:27 Character Analysis – Takumi
42:09 Character Analysis – Amane
44:45 Character Analysis – Ran
47:04 Character Analysis – Kokone
49:16 Character Analysis – Yui
55:12 Who Was This Show Made For
56:27 Better Cooking Anime
57:36 The Core of Precure
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I guess my "An Undercooked Season" title was maybe a little too predictable of a title? XD
To me, the Precure fight against nihilism. They scream at a universe that sees people as imperceptible specks around for the tick of a clock "We matter!" This is why the villains have often represented despair and desolation and claim they are inevitable. The villains are not just people and monsters to fight, they're an antithesis to the ideals and story of the Precure team.
While Godatz holding the world hostage makes for an interesting threat, it's not an antithesis. He doesn't challenge the ideals of the Precure. He doesn't mock their right to exist with his very presence. He's just a bad person that needs to be stopped. And he's not even stopped by the Precure, but a freaking DEAD GUY!
However, that's because the Precure have no thesis. What do the Delicious Party team represent? You can say food, but I mean an aspect of the human condition. HeartCatch represents our growth. Smile represents our reaching for a happy ending. DokiDoki represents our balance of caring for our selves as well as others. Go Princess represents our dreams. Hugtto represents our hope for the future. Healin Good represents our resilience. The answer is the Delicious Party team represents nothing, so their fight come down to nothing more than punching a bad guy in the face.
This is why I have more hope for Hirogaru Sky, because they represent an aspect of the human condition: our wish to do good. Granted, the villains have so far been nothing but the pig running across them and trying to beat them up, but the series is young and we know he's just the tip of an iceberg (and he's infinitely more interesting than all the Bundles combined) .
When you put secondary writers in charge of a PreCure series, without having common knowledge, you could have pretty dismal results. I know I've always said that the Toei hacks forced the writers to cut corners, but looking back on it, I have to admit that the moment Amane/ Gentle Arc was done, the die was cast. Because of this, the rest of the episodes were kind of on autopilot.
I have no issue with Kokone and Ran. But, the others were pretty lackluster due to the writers.
First off, Amane is the only 6th ranger PreCure that was criminally underutilized; we still don't even know how she was able to turn to the dark side. I have to say that she should have had at least two more episodes on how Narcissist turn her OR how food in general made her sour. But, nope. We may never know and I really liked Amane as one of my favorite 6th ranger Precure.
Takumi, on the other hand, got it worse much more than Amane. There were flashes of greatness in the beginning, but it fizzled out later on. He could have gone the Tuxedo Mask route, and helped out the girls whenever there was a pinch. Then, he could have been captured and brainwashed to fight for the Bundoru Gang, which would have helped him out in the least!
Now, I'm not going to hate on Yui, considering that she had much layers to her. During the 1st half, we had all seen her quote her Grandmother's words. In the 2nd half (starting from ep 25, in my opinion) there should have been a huge character arc for Yui in increments! Throughout the latter half, she would come to realize that her Grandmother's words were no longer having an effect on and off the battlefield and she would start searching for her own words. This would have helped Yui in the long run, instead of trying to cram it all in one episode.
As for Godatz, for me, it would have one or the other. I, understandably, think that you would say Ginger would had been the bad guy, considering his influence was all over the damn place, but I really did not get that vibe from him. Fennel, on the other hand, growing up, truly believed that Ginger knew he wasn't ready or worthy to become a cook fighter and suffered a massive inferiority complex because of it. If this would had started at the beginning of the 2nd half, just like Yui, it end result wouldn't have come out of nowhere.
If the writers would have studied PreCure, they would've known what worked and what didn't. And for that, we got ourselves a moderate, but very undercooked season. I say, "moderate", because I think that Star Twinkle still is the worst season. Hopefully, when Hirogaru Sky is completed we won't have any big problems.
As Firebrand once said to start the new year: "Why do you hire writers who hate the things they're writing?"
Also, Jesus, how many Square Enix references for KH, FF14, and Union X can I make with this staff?
Anyway, depenind on how Hirogaru Sky goes, will Sora be a mainstay on intros now?
22:59 That right there is why the season was destined to fail. The writer didn't like cooking and Toei picked them for a season about for… I got nothing. It's scary that, unlike other seasons, this season was destined to fail from the start. If it wasn't for that interview, we would assume it was Toei's normal business practices (which is still the case because I feel like this is just a filler season), but that interview just caused everything to click. (also, me thinks Jin Tanaka loves to cook which is why Kira Kira feels like part cooking anime.)
Speaking about Kira Kira a la Mode, even the MacGuffin works better and how the girls become Precure fit with the food theme better than Delicious Party. In Delicious Party, the Recipixies are just cute versions of the foods they represent and the girl just happen to get their power with a bond with a fairy (which just feels like a rip-off of Healing Good Precure). But in Kira Kira, the kirakiral is all of the emotions put into the sweets and as such, the Precure wanted to protect the emotions in those sweets, and as such the sweet they personally made became their power. The power to protect others' emotions ie sweets. It's stuff like that does allow me to like Kira Kira more (also, Himari is our precious squirrel girl and we stan for her in this house)
Delicious Party was odd to me, and even I can't deny on how clunky it is. Especially with my biggest gripe being when they never give us any explanation on how Amane was nabbed by the Bundoru Gang and became Gentlu. Or even anything on Amane as a whole. Also, from the backward storytelling, I can understand from after Amane's villain status was shafted unceremoniously and eventually becoming the 6th Ranger, I was feeling…how to put it…mostly bored as nothing was going on until the very end when Fennel was revealed to be Godatz. Before that, the conflict was at the minimum with no stakes raised. Especially Episode 31, where the Bundoru Gang didn't even show up in that episode, and I had to compare that episode with two Precure series when they're in their 31st episode and the stakes were raised. Go Princess episode 31 with Close's return and Healing Good episode 31 with Shindoine's upgrade. Overall, I am going back to Delicious Party just to fix Amane's character arc, but I have no other reason to come back to the show anyway.
First off all, is that a ghost? What is that? 25:50 Anyway, Delicious Party Precure is a cooking anime? I thought it was about enjoying the power of eating food this whole time. They do cook but it was never really a focused if I’m correct, more like appreciating the taste of delicious food. Thinking through, maybe it was best to make this season both cooking and appreciating the foods afterwards but it needs a writer who is passionate about both of those qualities
My final note to delicious party: YOU FUCKING SUCKED!
Yui: damn she was terrible, her character was terrible, had no development whatsoever and the writers really do expect us to care? (well maybe some people do). But jeez I felt nothing, When she was in despair I just didn’t feel shit minus the sick girl (Nodoka)
And her grandma was even worse, she was annoying and was just trying to butt in the most OBVIOUS scenes, (minus movie she only spoke twice and wasn’t that annoying) she makes hikaru look a bit better. Yes hikaru made the whole ass universe in peril but comparing her to yui.
She got the bare minimum while yui got ALMOST NOTHING, worse lead cure. Makes me feel bad for her seiyuu.
Kokone: ok just for the most part, she was fine and is the most memorable of all the cures can’t really say shit about her but are we sure that she ISN’T the lead cure?
Ran: ok I guess?
Amane: girl where in the everliving fuck is your backstory- but in character yeah she was just there and boring, can’t really feel her guilt because of her lack of backstory and her grudge on narcissist is no more AFTER WHAT Rosemary said to her. She honestly has nothing going for her minus her being president and her being friends with the dollar tree sundae (fairy)
Just let the fairy fox getting taught by the fox rider Kamen rider Geats and she'll be a lot better than this disjointed garbage.
Anyone would have to be a total idiot to write a story regarding a subject that that person has absolutely no passion for.
Ladies and gentlemen, me and Adam would like to introduce to you….an idiot:
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I’m so glad I never have to see this PATHETIC excuse for a season EVER AGAIN
You have that Ice Episode that clearly said "June 30".
I'd rather have Them Redo Queen Mirage's Story, expect She's the Mastermind behind everything not a Puppet to Another.
Fennel look like He SHOULD STAY a Good Guy.
Fennel is basically Anakin Slywalker that He dosen't get the Master Title even do He's a Council Member.
With a writer who previously working on Kuroko's Basketball (sort of…), I'm not that surprised to find that the boys has more character development than the PreCures themselves…
I really hope Hirogaru Sky goes well. Hopefully that season can be able to dive into more dark and complex concepts that even cover real life social issues. So far the writing was a lot better than Delicious Party, not perfect, but better. Let’s hope they keep it up
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On that note: WHY HASN'T HE VOICED A PRECURE VILLAIN YET!?!?!?! (Final or movie at least.)
Honestly I really liked the first episode of this season but as I keeped watching it I was getting really bored and not happy with delicious party precure
It's a very disappointing season which is a shame since the first episode of it was pretty enjoyable (and to an extent the cures first episodes of being precure were pretty good too)
Please give Kira Kira Precure a proper Overview after the OG Review is finished. It would be really interesting to compare this series with DPP. What did KKP better and what not?
The Don Brothers finale will happen tomorrow! The show was weird yet super fun at the same time, probably what you didn't expect from a writer like Toshiki Inoue, but hey It's a show that I highly recommend to all. Is it weird to say that this show is the greatest sentai of all time! I shouldn't get my hopes up for the next season!
The Original Kome Kome died for Nothing.
What's weird is for a show called Delicious Party Precure, there were almost no episodes centered around parties or any kind of social gathering.
It's really sad, and kinda no coincidence, that my two least favorite Pretty Cure seasons are the two seasons about food.
But honestly, I think Delicious Party took KiraKira's title in this regard.
Looking back, I can appreciate KiraKira's art tyle, the better gay rep, and actually teaching people how to bake. This season? I've tuned out of it ten episodes in from boredom. At least KiraKira wasn't boring to me.
I came back just three episodes before Hirogaru Sky aired, and I did not care for the story whatsoever.
So yeah, this is my least favorite Pretty Cure season so far. But hopefully it's just an appetizer for Hirogaru Sky, which is already starting off great. If it keeps up, we could have a great season ahead of us and maybe justify Delicious Party's lackings.
Objectively, this season is not the worse but it is to me for how offensively mediocre. By offensive, I mean it went out of its way to not even try and it refused to do more when there are ways to do so or when it is needed. It's 2022-2023 and Precure or any media should not be this boring or basic when comparing to other series. Now being basic is not bad in itself but there has to be some quality and should not be an excuse to not put effort.
If I had to make a comparison in terms of quality, I say this is the Power Rangers Super Megaforce of Precure for how little effort was put into it. Both series put so little effort on the character development and the story in a time where we had shows that went beyond. All while failing to enforce their themes. Sure we got Kokone but their arcs is like surrounded by lots of filler and she alone does not carry the show enough.
Say what you will about Tropical Rogue, at least the characters are likable even if the development is not that good. Healin Good's fillers are annoying but the characters were developed. Star Twinkle was painful for me but Lala was special and there were good ideas that were better than Delipa. Kira Kira ironically managed to developed all of their characters, even if I felt the execution was off, they managed to do so. And that used to be my least favorite season.
I wish to know more on behind the scene stuff as there is no way this season is the way it is due to just incompetence as what you said about the head writer really riles me up. Like what makes her think this is okay, what makes Toei think this is okay, was there any drama? Your description of the head writer really reminds me of the directors of Godzilla 1999 who not only understands Godzilla but went out of their way to not be faithful due to their incompetence. I really want to know if this is the case for reals as I doubt Toei would stoop this low.
Say what you will about Star Twinkle as despite having similar issues, the themes, concepts, and some of the characters had effort. Delipa does not have that hype and from the beginning, I never really gave much thought to this season but never thought it be this plain. Hence why for now, I consider Delicious Party to be the worse season of Precure with Star Twinkle being second.
To be honest. Delicious party pretty cure is like that kind of meal that looks good, but gets worse after every bite. From Yui being the cure with least character development despite being the leader, to Amane not getting any backstory to her being Gentle. It's just not good.
And the thing with Kome Kome being a more special fairy. Well aside from her giving the cures a new attack, being the only one able to turn human in the beginning and power of time travel. There is so much more they could have done with her. One theory I had in the beginning was that she was gonna be the next ruler of the Cookingdom. Sense her pillar she came from was different by having a crown on it. But nope.
And Narcistoru. Why make his backstory that he was a picky eater? I was actually liking the idea he couldn't taste anything. But nope instead he's a pathetic picky eater who becomes a bad guy for just being picky.
Then we have the big bad. Fennel. Ginger was much better fit for the big bad. Sure they would maybe had given him a lame reason for him turning bad. But it would have probably been better than Fennel's "oh no. My master isn't paying much attention to me. And I'm not able to be special." Reason. That's even more pathetic than Narcistoru.
That's all I have and I wanna say. Thank Sora for hirogaru sky pretty cure. Just the first three episodes has better story than the whole delicious party.
This imo was the most generic season that has ever been made in the franchise. There was absolutely no story element that hasn't been done before in a previous season and done better. This is the only season imo that is a skip for everyone honestly, if you have watched a couple precure seasons, you've already seen this. This season read like someone who didn't know how to approach writing Precure panicking while trying to write trying to pull as many familiar elements that made good stories before, completely missing the point of what made those elements work, so it just feels empty, underdeveloped and uninspired. I really can't name a season that took no risks at all like this one, unless you count adding male characters, which detracted from the show's focus.
You did an excellent job at highlighting every single thing that went disastrously wrong in this show, both the big and the little. And most baffling of all, why on Earth would they hire a head writer who, out loud, admits she hates cooking…..and put her in charge of the COOKING SHOW??? Suffice it to say, I'm so glad we can put this awful season behind us. If anyone wants to see a great story about a young female chef, then read the manga, "Kitchen Princess".
15:37 In BOTH of those trainwrecks of seasons.
38:53 Glad you brought up my, and possibly a few others', point: The head writer is far more familiar with writing guys and keeps retreating back to familiar territory that doesn't quite belong in Precure.
I think the Delipa wanted to do something new, but failed to bring up
I found DeliPre to be the worst anime I have seen in 2022. Trust me, I watched much better anime that year compared to that dumpster fire of a season.
Edit: I dropped it by the time the final arc had started because it was that bad. I had to give it a 1 on MAL.
Ah Delicious Party Precure. How do you try and fail to be a successor to TR? TR had it's ups and downs but I was entertained despite it faltering near the end.
Delicious Party Precure can be summed up as a giant bowl of "MEH". It seems like any time the story was going in an interesting direction the writers basically were like, "oh noes, that'll scare the kids, time to dial it back!" Which is a shame because this series has a lot more going for it in comparison to Kira Kira. The food motif is better incorporated into the actual outfits (the animals + food motif was too messy in my opinion). The actual relationship people have with food was well established and we had all the ingredients for an interesting story.
So what went wrong?
*They didn't commit.*
TR for all it's faults at least committed to the wacky nonsensical settings, even with it's flaws. DPP doesn't seem to know when to commit and when not to. It's the same problem with Star Twinkle Precure in which there's just an overall lack of stakes. Which shouldn't be the case because DPP again, has way more going for it. Food is important to people not just physically but emotionally. It's been studied quite a bit. And while Precure doesn't need to go full psychological with it's themes, they already has a catalyst for that, the villains! Mr Narc. was pretty good at this as he genuinely has a bad relationship with food. If they killed him off early and then brought him back for the finale, I wouldn't mind because he was the most entertaining of the villain generals. Everyone else was such a wet fart. They used Secretarou for FAR FAR TOO LONG (she should've been axed mid season) and don't get me started on Godatz. What a wasted opportunity.
And then there's the main cast. Don't get me wrong, Individually, each character is fine (minus a few exceptions) but as a group, their dynamic is completely off. Yui treats Takumi more like a classmate than she does an actual friend she hangs out with, Ran is just…Ran. And Kokone is probably the only character I like. There's a reason she's winning the popularity polls. Because despite having a simple arc, just like Chiyu, when the focus on her struggles, she stands out the most. It's not the best, but it works.
In comparison, let's get this out of the way, who is the worst character? You could say Yui because she's a non-character with zero filling or substance to make her interesting, but I'm going to go with Amane. Gentlu>>>>Amane. While Gentlu was evil, at the very least, she HAD a personality and goals, what does Amane want? Why did she become evil? We never even see her backstory at all with the Recipipis, the MAIN CATALYST FOR HER ARC.
Now I give Iona and Coral a lot of flack because of their backstories, but at least they HAVE ONE. Did they just forget? If you want a character to have a redemption arc, how can you do it if there's no actions to redeem? She at worst, caused a minor inconvenience to her family. No ramifications are ever discussed. In comparison, Iona had an actual reason to despise Hime, Hime suffered the ramifications of her actions with her kingdom getting destroyed AND most of all Iona actually apologizes for being antagonistic to Hime. You get NOTHING here. NOTHING. And if you want proof of that, I've seen more people draw fanart of Gentlu than Finale. Not only does Gentlu have the better design, but you can work with it a lot more than what they gave us.
Don't even get me started on the worldbuilding. Absolute trash. Now TR had this issue as well with some dumb decisions, but I'll be fair, it's not the main focus for that show. This show wants you to care about Takumi's father, Rosemary, and Godatz relationship but gives you barely anything to work with. The Cookingdom? A non-entity. Which is weird because they have the equivalent of an iPAD that they used to call the girls multiple times beforehand but then it's never used again. There's a reason why Azenzone made a top 5 dropped plot points for this seasons alone. It's because even TR for all it's faults at least kept the tone consistent.
What is DeliPre trying to achieve? Who is it made for? The food theme is so poorly implemented outside of costume design and basic setting that you don't get much out of it, no special recipes like Kira Kira either, and you have to sit through a pretty mid season with bland characters for what really?
If this is your first Precure season, I guess I could see someone getting enjoyment, but I'd just recommend them Healin Good any day. That show despite having issues, it still far more consistent and has a much better cast. I'd say, maybe check it out if you like the food theme, but you're not getting much with your serving.
Regarding Yui's issue of just parroting her grandma's quotes rather than having any original thoughts, I remember My Melo from Onegai My Melody quoted her mam a lot, but it worked there unlike with Yui here. Why does it work so much better for My Melo than Yui? While My Melo is the titular character who resolves all the episodic conflicts and the villain is primarily motivated by a one-sided rivalry with her, the show arguably isn't about her or her philosophy. It's debatable whether My Melo or the Yumenos (namely Uta) are the main characters, It's curious as a magical girl anime, it has most of the things magical girl shows have- except the actual magic girl. It was mostly just between the familiars, and the humans were kind of sidekicks to them. Is My Melo the driving force of the good guys, or are the humans who get roped into it and personally know most of the victims? My Melo was always kind of portrayed as an airheaded/absent-minded ditz, but good-hearted and well-meaning and attentive, even competent in her own way (at least outside of like half the Kuromi incidents, which were legitimately her fault, even if the other half weren't). Citing her mama's quotes (which she really only did extensively in the 2nd season) showed that while she was simple, she was competent enough to know what wisdom to apply to what situation. She's fairly family-minded, even if she didn't know how to address a social matter directly herself she knew what wisdom to pull from to most relevantly invoke understanding. Her Mama didn't dictate her philosophy, knowing how to cite her Mama's wisdom was a symptom of her philosophy, which we also saw manifest in other ways that Mama had nothing to do with. Also, My Melo doesn't really need to be the driving force, she wasn't a squad commander fighting a great evil conspiracy, she was just a girl trying to help clean up the mess she was indirectly responsible for, trying to keep Kuromi from hurting people in her pursuit of the wrong path- which My Melo would probably still do even if she wasn't obligated.
Whereas Yui was a squad commander, she was supposed to be the main character, she's supposed to be the one whose philosophy refutes the villain philosophy and inspires the allies to deal with their own personal hangups and join the fight. The humans in Onegai my Melody were never directly involved in the monster-of-the-week until the finale with the boss, they were just caught in the crossfire and ensured My Melo was able to able to get into the position where it could be resolved. They didn't really need to be inspired, they were the victims who were just calling in the designated resolver, helping realize the necessary conditions where applicable. By the time the final boss showed up where the humans did have to get directly involved, they were used to the threat and knew to take it seriously and that they had to help My Melo get into such a position where she could resolve it. This time, my Melo couldn't directly resolve it, which was understood well in advance. By this time, the humans had a whole season worth of getting to know My Melo, thoroughly establishing that they like her and consider her part of their Nakama, a whole season worth of getting indirectly involved with the conflicts and wanting to help her deal with them. Whereas Precures usually get recruited same episode or within a couple episodes that they're properly introduced as civilians. Yui didn't really have a philosophy, she was just friendly and pushy and got involved with a few peoples' lives through the power of food- which her grandma apparently did dictate the philosophy of. Also, My Melo's Mama's quotes were ALWAYS relevant and insightful, whereas granny's were hit-or-miss.
Nice video Azenzone