From an animation standpoint, the show seemed to have an aversion to Stock Footage: if Nagisa and Honoka were in different clothes when they transformed, a new transformation sequence would be animated. The show focuses heavily on the developing friendship between Nagisa and Honoka, even throwing in some blatant yuri subtext for the older audience. It's worth noting at this point that the director of Pretty Cure was Daisuke Nishio, whose resume also includes Dragon Ball Z.Īll their magical abilities come from teamwork: they have no solo attacks and cannot even transform into their Pretty Cure forms unless they do so in unison. Both girls possess super-strength and agility, making them far more formidable in hand-to-hand combat than the usual magical girl. The girls are very physical when fighting: leaping, punching and kicking their foes and reserving magical attacks for the final blow. Pretty Cure bucks the formula in other ways. To defend themselves, Nagisa and Honoka use the fairies' power to transform together into Cure Black and Cure White: the Emissaries Of Light, Pretty Cure. Fleeing from the Dusk Zone's monsters, Nagisa runs into Honoka, who happens to have Mepple's partner (and lover) Mipple. That was until the day Nagisa made a wish on a shooting star and (violently) came into contact with Mepple, a fairy on the run from the sinister agents of the Dusk Zone.
Honoka is the star pupil and class president, incredibly popular with all the guys but not too fussed about acting upon it. Nagisa is an energetic jock and ace of the lacrosse team, loved by all the girls but secretly wishing for a male admirer straight from a romance novel. Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro are two eighth-grade girls who normally would have never become anything more than passing acquaintances.
Futari wa Pretty Cure ("The Two of Us Are Pretty Cure"), shortened to just Pretty Cure and nicknamed PreCure, is an Anime First Magical Girl show done with a modern, self-aware approach to an old genre, as well as the first series in what would become the Pretty Cure franchise.
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