Smile Precure!

To teenager Miyuki Hoshizora, fairy tales are a world of wondrous encounters and happy endings. Inspired by her love for these stories, she lives every day searching for happiness. While running late on her first day of school as a transfer student, Miyuki meets Candy—a mysterious fairy from the world of fairy tales, Märchenland. However, when Candy disappears as quickly as she appeared, Miyuki is left believing the encounter was only a dream.

After an eventful first day, Miyuki finds a mysterious library at school. While combing through the bookshelves, she is transported next to Candy, who claims to be searching for the so-called legendary warriors, Precure. When forced to protect Candy's and everyone else's happiness, Miyuki transforms into "Cure Happy," one of the Precure warriors! As Cure Happy, Miyuki is now tasked with finding the other legendary warriors and protecting the world from destruction, all while possibly discovering her very own happy ending.

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Kise, Yayoi Main

Kanemoto, Hisako Japanese

Hoshizora, Miyuki Main

Fukuen, Misato Japanese

Aoki, Reika Main

Nishimura, Chinami Japanese

Hino, Akane Main

Tano, Asami Japanese

Midorikawa, Nao Main

Inoue, Marina Japanese

Candy Main

Ootani, Ikue Japanese

Joker Supporting

Mitsuya, Yuuji Japanese

Wolfrun Supporting

Shimura, Tomoyuki Japanese

Kashimoto, Mayuka Supporting

Fujii, Yukiyo Japanese

Hoshizora, Ikuyo Supporting

Kouda, Mariko Japanese

Sasaki, Reiko Producer

Umezawa, Atsutoshi Producer

Ootsuka, Takashi Director, Episode Director

Shida, Naotoshi Episode Director, Key Animation

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Mar 10, 2013

aNinjaWithAIDS

Recommended

Please bear with me as this is my first review for this site.

Smile Pretty Cure is among the best in the franchise alongside Heartcatch and the original Futari Wa Pretty Cure not because it tries to outshine them but rather it explores our imaginations and emotions like the way Disney would. Case in point, it asks its viewers (both children and young adults) "What is happiness? Where does it come from? Why are dreams and goals so important in the grand scheme of happiness? What do friends have to do with being happy?" These are very deep questions, even for young men to bear; but ... for a kids show, its a brilliant concept because its the kind of thing these developing minds need to ask themselves so they can find their answer and be ultra happy themselves. While the story is great, its major downfall was its downplayed fairy-tale/children's literature theme. It's there, but not prominent enough to be a true interaction to any kind of viewer like the way Suite's musical themes or Heartcatch's floral themes were. Story 8/10.

The art is absolutely beautifully drawn and animated. The show's vibrant and lighthearted atmosphere fits its fairy-tale theme very well. The comedy really drove the show's pace and carried our hearts into it. If you don't laugh at any time during the show, you will never find your true happiness. period. The visuals have effort simply bled into them, especially the finishing attacks and transformation sequences. Art 9/10.

The voice acting and sound effects felt very natural and worked seamlessly. The characters' personalities and emotions were excellently expressed and felt like they were true teenagers. As for the music, all I can say is this: Yasuharu Takanashi-san, you impressed me with Heartcatch's soundtrack. I was thrilled with Suite's soundtrack as well, and you've certainly met my expectations here with Smile. The music played here just outright shines for each moment that accompanies the track. Believe me, as a fan who thinks each song is its own story, that speaks volumes of the incredible power behind the music. If anybody doesn't know what I'm talking about, then going through the soundtrack should yield some favorites even to someone that never watched the show. Sound 9/10.

The characters are just great balls of fun and joy, even the villains. Every one of the main characters contributes to the show's comedy and they are such goofballs to the point where even Miss Serious Business, Reika, cannot even begin to ruin the humor but only add to it. The clear winning character is Yayoi Kise/Cure Peace. Why? I feel is because she represents that overly shy, yet cute, archetype in a very humanistic manner and then developing it into someone that isn't afraid of the world. She also displays very realistic reactions to being a superhero and having to fight villains who are willing to hurt and destroy on massive scales. Writing about it is one thing, but having to experience it first-hand was quite the "shock" to her (pun intended). Joker also made a GREAT villain. He is everything every previous Pretty Cure villain wasn't: competent, clever, disturbing, threatening, and nightmarish. He was ALWAYS taken seriously despite the fact that he looks like that "other" Joker and certainly did not disappoint. This was a much needed character for the villains' line up and a breath of fresh air when it came to having a truly evil villain for the franchise instead of the typical gag villain we've come to expect from the franchise in general. Characters 9/10.

Overall, I give Smile Pretty Cure a 9/10. This is one show you will see yourself watching in rapid succession like I did should you be into either the comedy, magical girl, and/or action genres. If you find yourself smiling and being ultra happy, then you should have absolutely no problem finishing this show.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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May 4, 2020

Rebekahw595

Mixed Feelings

The show is enjoyable for what it is, but don't expect too much. It's just a cutesy group of friends doing the same thing over and over again. It does start to pick up in the last few episodes and some actual plot starts to come into play, but it's really not all too high-stakes.

I'd started watching it for the first time when I was about 13 or so, and I was definitely more invested back then, but I was still able to enjoy watching it now.

This is one of many Precure series, there are about 500 episodes in all. If you enjoy this ... I'd definitely recommend checking out the other series, they tend to have greater development and more plot.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 7, 2022

Animelover875

Not Recommended

To begin the final rating of Smile, I'm going to begin by stating that the season quality has been inconsistent as a whole, which can make this type of analysis somewhat difficult; there are an equal number of moments from the plot that are both highly remarkable (even for a franchise such as Precure) as the number of moments that makes one wonder where exactly they were heading with this season. To begin with, it seems that a lot of elements from the series had potential which never saw the light of day, or rather, weren't accurately touched upon in an in-depth manner. For instance, ... several elements (such as the various-colored clown noses) weren't utilized to their full potential and seemed to only be used as a plot device in order to increase the difficulty level; however, this never felt like taking a drastic step, as the Cures were still able to defeat them as always with their standard attacks. Other elements that seem to have been forgotten about were the bookshelf which allowed one to travel anywhere across the Earth, which is a feature that was only utilized to the potential it had in a single episode. As for villains, Majorina and Akaoni unfortunately failed to invoke any form of terror whatsoever; Majorina's plots simply revolved around continuously losing plot-related items, causing misfortune for the Cures, whilst Akaoni had an even less defined theme of simply destroying things. Wolfrun, to me, was the only enjoyable member of the trio, as he seemed to at least be somewhat intelligent and cunning. However, the worst villain of the series was Pierrot; after finally being awakened by Bad Energy, he was on-screen during the midseason finale for approximately five minutes and was promptly defeated, only to return in the season finale. However, even by this point, it was too little too late; his presence in the series as the "big bad" was almost nonexistent and when defeated a second time, he vanished into thin air in a manner of seconds.
As for Joker, I would like to say that Joker was, unexpectedly, quite a competent villain...Mostly. Able to manipulate the Cures' fears, hopes and dreams to his will, as well as having direct control even over seemingly all of the other villains in the season, even Pierrot, this was not the extent of his abilities; he was able to create powerful illusions and items to various effect (such as the Sloth Ball or Bad End Precure) as well as having a very high amount of tangible power during his fights. This leaves the question of why he was left with the fate of being absorbed inside Pierrot; I believe that if given the proper opportunity, Joker would actually be able to defeat the Cures, had he not succumbed to his fate. The fate and backstory of the other three generals was given far too little, too late; by the point in the series that it was revealed, there's not enough time for their words to create impact, and their "reform" felt highly rushed and didn't make much sense, as it seemed to come completely out of left field. While I did mention that Pierrot was wholly incompetent, I do believe there was a character worse than him, even; the Royal Queen of Marchenland. Several times the Cures completed the "layers", if you will, of Decors, only for the Queen to be almost completely inert and unresponsive and halfheartedly tell them that she needs more power. Even after gaining enough Decors to fully awaken her, she had almost no impact on the battle besides helping the awakening of Royal Candy. I also believe that Pop accomplished nearly nothing and only existed to attempt to order the Cures around as well as provide plot information.
While it may be said that the season suffered because of real-world events, I disagree; even so, there were numerous episodes when the writers had an opportunity to create wonderful, wholesome moments, only to plunder it on nonsensical filler episodes which amounted to almost nothing in terms of character development (this is mainly in reference to Majorina). Some of these include episodes based on the following premises: the characters turning invisible, Miyuki being transformed into a Transformers-esque fighting robot, the characters shrinking to a size smaller than ants, and becoming children, to name only a few. Had the series been properly able to utilize the elements it had set up in order to create an effective story, I believe it could have fared much better. As well, the visual comparisons to Yes 5 only serve to distract rather than entice, as it makes similarities in personalities only even more transparent. As it has likely been stated numerous times as well, the Cures feel significantly weaker than other Cure teams. I would like to give the series an overall rating of 4/10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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