Tropical-Rouge! Precure

It's an exciting day for fashionable teenager Manatsu Natsumi, who is moving into the big city for the first time. Upon arriving, Manatsu is immediately charmed by the city's spectacles. However, things take an unbelievable turn when she encounters Laura—a real-life mermaid!

Laura is searching for the Precure, a group of radiant warriors who may have the key to rescuing Grand Ocean, Laura's home. This duty soon falls upon Manatsu, whose unwavering determination causes her to awaken as one of the Precure: the vivid Cure Summer. As new friends join the team, Manatsu needs to adapt to her hectic, new life while protecting humanity's liveliness from oceanic invaders! With each battle more difficult than the last, the girls must discover what is truly valuable to them.

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Apollodoros Hyginus La Mer, Laura Main

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Natsuumi, Manatsu Main

Fairouz Ai Japanese

Suzumura, Sango Main

Hanamori, Yumiri Japanese

Ichinose, Minori Main

Ishikawa, Yui Japanese

Takizawa, Asuka Main

Seto, Asami Japanese

Kururun Supporting

Tanaka, Aimi Japanese

Natsuumi, Aoi Supporting

Gi, Ryouko Japanese

Chongire Supporting

Shirokuma, Hiroshi Japanese

Sakuragawa, Saki Supporting

Tokui, Sora Japanese

Shiratori, Yuriko Supporting

Fukuhara, Ayaka Japanese

Tsuchida, Yutaka Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Kakudou, Hiroyuki Episode Director, Storyboard

Tanaka, Yuuta Episode Director, Storyboard

Minamikawa, Tatsuma Episode Director

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Dec 29, 2023

ElliotInfinity

Recommended

So, this is the first Precure season/series I’ve seen. How do I feel about it? Now, to set something straight: when it comes to this season in particular, you’ll either love it, or you’ll hate it.

Me? I absolutely ADORED it. It’s so silly!!! But even though it was, it still had a great story. I loved all of the characters, especially everyone’s favorite sea fairy, KURURUN.

The music in the show I wouldn’t necessarily say is phenomenal, but it IS iconic and really enjoyable, especially the second ending.

The visuals in this show are absolutely gorgeous, and there were several arcs in the show that were extremely ... fun to watch. My favorite episode HAS to be episode 33: its just one big compilation of alternate-universe shorts LOL

Overall this season is EXTREMELY great, and I would highly recommend this to…quite literally everyone.

Therefore, my rating: 10/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jan 29, 2022

ZettaiRyouiki

Mixed Feelings

Warning: Spoilers!


Ah, Tropical-Rouge. After Healin’ Good turned out… well, good, there was a sliver of hope for this franchise. It seemed like we were back to the glory days were all the Cures were likable, had fair screentime, and the villains were evil and gave us cool fights. Sadly Tropical-Rouge (With a hyphen for some reason. Like crap-hole.) doesn’t really do much of that. Let’s check out how!

First, there’s the story. Or rather, there isn’t. See, Tropical-Rouge was created to cheer up people after COVID, much like Smile after that huge earthquake. And much like Smile that means it barely has a plot. Actually, it’s ... even worse than Smile, since at least Smile loudly pretended to have a plot and progress. Tropical-Rouge… Doesn’t. For the first two thirds of the series or so (not exaggeration), the only “plot” we get beyond the Cures joining is a short arc for the mid-season Cure, who was the most obvious choice for one by the way. Like, I get this is a fun season, but that doesn’t mean it needs to have Max Heart levels of filler. It’s a bit hilarious how near the end of the season we get a recap episode and most of it is just recalling on how each Cure joined and showing their attacks once again. Yes, even the recap has padding. Wow. Seriously, why is this season the one to get a recap episode, when it doesn’t need it?

Anyway, once we get to episode 29 Toei remembers plots are things and that stories are better with them, so they throw a massive infodump in that episode and from there onwards we get actual stuff happening until the end. And you won’t believe this, but despite what little plot this season have they STILL manage to make it a huge mess! For starters, the Witch of Delays (the main villainess) is made sympathetic and we’re told she wasn’t really evil the whole time. Except when the Cure who joined halfway was captured and the Witch tried to make her join her team. Guess she felt evil that day. Worse, when she captures the Cure she says her motivation is creating a world of lazy people. Why? Who cares! But then at the end she has forgotten her motivation, which is then given as something entirely different. It’s like the first half of the series and the second half were written by different people who didn’t check notes, or a higher-up forced a change halfway, consistency in storytelling and proper plot logic be damned. So to summarize, there’s almost no plot and what there is, is lazy and poorly written. Fantastic. And for a “comedy” it’s not very funny either. The ending, while cute, it’s also a clear example of Toei somehow wanting to have its cake and eat it too. It’s not a bad ending but it really feels too convenient. Still, it’s probably the least offensive part of the story.

Now some people will be saying “Eh, PreCure isn’t big on plot, the characters matter more.” and I agree with that. The problem is the cast is poorly used too! The main issue is Manatsu, the leader Cure. She doesn’t wear pink or has pink anywhere minus partially her hair when transformed, but she’s the “pink Cure” regardless. And boy, does she pink Cure the crap outta the series. Basically, remember Haruka “loud ugly hog” Haruno and Hikaru “loud cacophonic idiot” Hoshina, the GoPri and Star Twinkle pink Cures? Well, Manatsu is a mix of their worst traits, with more negative traits added on, and none of their few good bits. She’s easily the worst Cure in the franchise and is just plain awful. She has no hobbies and no special interests, and only really cares about having fun and doing fun things. Instead of Cure Summer she should be called Cure YOLO as that summarizes her character. Hell, there’s one episode where the other girls talk about their future jobs and the episode makes a big deal from what Manatsu will pick, but at the end she only says “I dunno lol, will think about it” which is a really lame copout. And the series treats this as a great reply! Oh yeah, did I mention she has more screentime than everyone else and is favored by plots consistently? Figured you would expect this. Plus her “Tropica-shine” catchphrase is spammed way too much all the time, and is dumb and ridiculous too. Manatsu is terrible. Oh, and ugly to boot, especially transformed. Why did Toei hire again the GoPri character designer, the world will never know!

Thankfully the other Cures are good! But only one has real spotlight and screentime: Laura, the mermaid who becomes a Cure one third into the series. She’s funny, amusing, has a decent arc for the series, a popular VA that fits her well, and is overall the best girl in the series (But not my favorite). Yeah, sometimes she’s ridiculously proud or overly ignorant of the surface, even lacking common sense, but she’s likable overall. Sadly the other three are often moving background and don’t get much screentime. Asuka actually gets a better-late-than-never plot involving Yuriko the student council president (a recurring character) and is not too bad, but shy fashionable Sango and kuudere bookworm Minori get scraps. Toei giving the introverted heroines crap for focus? That has never, ever happened before. Other characters ae the aforementioned Yuriko who is cool, family members, the token bumbling villain trio, and… Kururun. For some reason Kururun got stupid popular, which must probably be some sort of joke I’m not allowed to get, because Kururun SUCKS. They add nothing to the plot, do nothing important, and in fact don’t do anything period except causing trouble (which is the source of suffering for Manatsu for one episode, but of course Kururun is not punished) and being annoying. They also have no dialog beyond parroting their name. Kururun is the worst mascot in the franchise in spite of stiff competition, which says a lot.

Moving elsewhere, there’s the fights. After all, Toei was interviewed recently and they said again PreCure was about cool fights, so they must be good this time around, right? They, huh, aren’t. There’s ONE good fight (episode 29 again) and all the other fights are decent at best. Even the final battle is lame as hell, barely taking half the episode (if that) and being as generic as possible. I’m not expecting Splash Star levels of kickassery here, but at least like the previous season? Come on! Art and music stay good overall, aside from some ugly designs (Manatsu…) because as said the GoPri character designer should rethink their job. The ending song is still the “same” ending they’ve had since Fresh, so no comment there. The VAs are good, but I feel really bad hearing Ai Fairouz waste her voice yelling dumb things when she can do better, like she does with Jolyne for example. At least she’s happy with the job I guess.

Overall Tropical-Rouge is just bad. Not bad-bad, but definitely a Bottom 3 season (so far). It tries to be a comedy (and fails) but then it tries to be serious (and also fails), the worst character hogs the spotlight, and the fights are subpar. Avoid this season unless your age is a single digit. Hopefully Delicious Party will satiate my hunger for a good season!

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jun 29, 2022

RobloxElie

Not Recommended

First off, I would like to say that many people are hyping this season which did not live up to my expectations while watching it. I actually do like the Precure designs. To start, for me, it’s somewhat of a boring season due to the more of lighthearted tone and not a serious one. I know that this is supposed to be a fun season for a pandemic but it wasn’t that interesting. The villains of this season are not that threatening. However, I do think that the first 5 episodes were decent and the fight scenes were done alright and the rest are either ... boring episodes and perhaps, short or even no fight scenes at all. There is one later episode that has some nice animation fight scenes but the art-style suffer a little. The final battle is questionable since the fight scene animation scene is decent but the overall combat scene were fairly short. Also, the later half of the story took for a downfall. This season wasn’t really constructed that well or actually prepared for a decent storytelling near the end. Although, near the end of the series, the other main characters does get their own final development arc which is done decently. Wish they get more developments throughout the series, though. Many people noticed that the spotlight or well developed has been shine upon one of the characters which is definitely true. Overall, it’s not a really great season for me at least but the older seasons such as Smile Precure is recommended. However, feel free to this show to see if it fits your taste. Also, apparently this season did not do well in terms of Japan toy selling rating for some reasons which are either the pandemic or many people in Japan were having similar issues with this season.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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