Delicious Party♡Precure

The mysterious, delicious world of CooKingdom, which rules over all the cuisine in this world. CooKingdom has closely guarded the Recipe-Bon, in which it's written how to prepare any dish. But, oh no! One day, it gets stolen by the Bundoru Gang! The Bundoru Gang plans to monopolize everything for themselves, and their next target is the Cuisine Fairy Recipeppi... The Energy Fairies have come to Oishi-Na Town in the human world in search of the Recipe-Bon. With their help, an unexpected turn of events leads to three ordinary girls transforming into Pretty Cures! They stand up to the Bundoru Gang, to recover the Recipe-Bon, and to protect everyone's delicious smiles!

(Source: Toei Animation USA)

Nagomi, Yui Main

Hishikawa, Hana Japanese

Fuwa, Kokone Main

Shimizu, Risa Japanese

Hanamichi, Ran Main

Iguchi, Yuka Japanese

Kasai, Amane Main

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Shinada, Takumi Supporting

Uchida, Yuuma Japanese

Rosemary Supporting

Maeno, Tomoaki Japanese

Kome-Kome Supporting

Takamori, Natsumi Japanese

Narcistoru Supporting

Sakaguchi, Shuuhei Japanese

Mem-Mem Supporting

Hanba, Tomoe Japanese

Pam-Pam Supporting

Hioka, Natsumi Japanese

Yazaki, Fumi Producer

Hasegawa, Yuri Assistant Producer

Fukazawa, Toshinori Director

Koshi, Shigeo Episode Director

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May 23, 2023

AniStrawberry

Recommended

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For a score of 6.96 as of the time of writing this, which is lower than the usual pretty cure MAL score, this series doesn’t deserve the hate that it gets. Of course, everyone has different preferences, but this anime needs a higher rating. I will explain what I thought this precure entry did well, and what it didn’t do so well.

The story is similar to all of the other entries: a magical land gets attacked and three to four precures have to protect their world and the magical land, so I can’t really say much about the premise of this show. The spacing in ... between the cure debuts helped developed the friendships between each of the current cures, with the friendships between Yui (Cure Precious) and Kokone (Cure Spicy) getting more depth, and allowing Kokone to develop her social skills with the main cast. It also helped with Rosemary’s friendship with Yui.

While we are on development, I would like to note that while the show does develop relationships better, it has a flaw: It doesn’t have consistent character development. There is a big gap in the amount of development that Yui gets compared to Kokone and Ran (Cure yum yum), as well as the mid season cure, Amane (Cure Finale). Kokone gets the most amount of development because she is the only cure except Amane that gets a character flaw. Yui, our main leader, doesn’t get much character development because she isn’t given any flaws. She is portrayed as the usual genki girl protagonist, and pretty much only talks about how food brings smiles and quotes her grandma gave her.

As a matter of fact, her only development is the death of her grandmother when she was young. Ran gets some development as she learns to accept her uniqueness. Amane does get some too when it shows her transformation from a villain to a cure. But she is overall a flat character.

The art style of the anime is well done, and the way the eyes and hair shading were done was very different from most pretty cure seasons. This anime has one of the prettiest art styles. Character designs for both the civilian forms and cure forms were another strong point, but Amane/Cure Finale’s design was confusing. Colors were all over the place for her precure form and it was hard to identify her theme color, which turned out to be gold instead of purple.

The villains of the show were likeable, especially Narcistoru. The revealing of who was Godatz was unexpected and they could have introduced Godatz’s real form earlier.

The romance that Takumi had for Yui was very underutilized, and a waste of potential. There was a lot they could have done with the development of their friendship to potential lovers. I was disappointed that Takumi had never confessed. The entire idea of the romance was there to be there, and I wish they could have done more with it.

The food theme was utilized and it was great that the anime had shown how food brings smiles.

Overall, this show is a good entry to the precure franchise.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jan 29, 2023

Firechick12012

Mixed Feelings

After the colossal disappointment that was Tropical Rouge Pretty Cure, once Delicious Party Pretty Cure was announced, I was like "PLEASE let this be good! PLEASE let this be better than Tropical Rouge!!!" Thankfully, to my relief, Delicious Party did go out of its way to address a lot of issues that TroPri had, though even as it is now, DeliPre still has a lot of issues of its own. The CooKingdom is the origin place of all cuisines from all around the world. However, because of a theft incident involving the sinister Bundoru Gang, a group of elusive phantom thieves, the kingdom's prized treasure, ... the Recipe-Bon, is gone. Three fairies of the CooKingdom must venture to Earth and meet three girls in order to reclaim the Recipe-bon from those phantom thieves. When they cross paths with Yui Nagomi in the town of Oishina City, they grant the little easy-going, vegetable-loving girl the power to become a Pretty Cure to combat the bandits, with her friends Kokone Fuwa, Ran Hanamichi, and Amane Kasai joining her in their cause. Together, they must defeat the Bundoru Gang and make sure food in general doesn't get erased out of existence.

I'll get the positives out of the way first, because there's a lot that DeliPre manages to do right that Tropical Rouge just flat-out didn't. In Tropical Rouge, the main narrative was that the villains stole people's energy and motivation and gave it to their leader, and the way it was presented there gave the series no real sense of tension. All it really resulted in doing was making people lazy, and as a result, the battles were about as boring as eating lunch, and there was literally no real conflict save for the very end. DeliPre addressed this in that its villains basically want to either steal food, make it taste bad, or make it disappear completely, which is shown to have very serious implications and consequences, especially if you think about it on a grander scale. They basically want to make people starve to death by erasing food completely, which makes for a far more compelling, palpable, and serious threat than just making people lazy. Granted, this is a children's show, so we know that everything's inherently going to be all hunky-dory at the end of every episode, but that doesn't change the fact that the villains' schemes here, if left unchecked, are inherently more threatening and compelling than TroPri's could ever hope to be.

It also helps that DeliPre actively spent quite a bit of time fleshing out its main plot, even if it didn't do so all the time. Again, TroPri had such a thin plot that it resulted in a lot of useless filler episodes that could have easily been used for other, more important things, like fleshing out any character that's not Manatsu or Laura. DeliPre remedies this issue by having several episodes dedicated to trying to figure out just what's going on, who stole the Recipe-Bon, and other things related to its plot, particularly in regards to several side characters, even if not all of those episodes manage to hit the mark. Points for trying! Speaking of characters, another issue TroPri had was that it not only gave so much screentime to Manatsu and Laura, it did so at the expense of the other Cures, who didn't even get relevant character arcs until over halfway into the series' run, with several not even getting so much as whole arcs. Poor Sango/Cure Coral. She deserved so much better. Plus, it didn't even try to flesh out or develop Manatsu beyond having her be an overexcited five-year-old who had too much sugar. DeliPre, while not doing it as well as other series, manages to flesh out not only the other Cures, but other side characters as well, giving them all their time to shine and compelling character arcs that actually make them feel more interesting than at first glance. Kokone and Ran especially wound up being more well-developed than I initially thought, with Kokone in particular being the most fleshed out of the cast, IMHO. The villains manage to do their job and are genuinely more threatening than the TroPri villains ever were, but barring Gentlu, their backstories could have used more fleshing out, and the resolution to Narcisstoru and Secretoru's plotlines seemed kind of...half-baked. But overall, the cast is much better this season.

...Though the producers might have gone overboard with trying to remedy TroPri's mistakes, because in their attempts to flesh out the other Cures and even some of the side characters, they completely dropped the ball on giving that same treatment to their main character: Yui. Not gonna lie, Yui literally has nothing to her beyond worshipping her grandma and her dumb catchphrase "Deliciousmile!" Any development she eventually gets is relegated to the finale, rather than having it naturally occur across the entire series or a lot earlier, and because she's basically spent the whole series relegated to the sidelines, any attempts to flesh her out come too little, too late for it to really have any real weight to her character. To be fair, I found Yui to be a lot less annoying than Manatsu from TroPri, but while TroPri had the problem of giving Manatsu a lot of screentime and not using it to flesh her out as a character beyond her one main personality trait, Yui has the opposite problem—she was constantly put on the back-burner in favor of the other Cures, and as a result, she comes off as bland and woefully underutilized. Even her friendship with Takumi doesn't get fleshed out enough. Speaking of Takumi, for all the show's posturing about him being a Tuxedo Mask-like figure for the Cures and helping them out, he was hardly ever relevant half the time, and was often excluded from the group except for when the girls could benefit from involving him in an activity outside of fighting. The series really should have made him more involved with the girls and the plot, and like Yui, a lot of his important character moments were shoehorned into the finale rather than having it happen across the entire series. On the flip side, you have Kome-Kome, one of the mascots, who the series tries to claim is more important than she actually is, and even gave her a lot of cool powers and focus episodes, but not only does her whole aging from a human baby to a teenage girl thing feel needlessly tacked on, but any development Kome-Kome gets doesn't really go anywhere, especially when all it results in is her being a MacGuffin for the Cures' power-up.

But mismanaged and underutilized characters aren't DeliPre's only problem. For God's sake, would it seriously kill anyone to NOT talk about JUST food for more than two seconds?! Seriously, I know food is the series' big theme and all, but it seems like every single thing in the characters' lives revolve around food and only food! They literally never talk about anything outside of food or show interest in anything besides food! It borders on being almost creepy in how obsessed these people are with food. People can have more than one interest, even if some aren't as strong as others! For example, Heartcatch Pretty Cure's big theme was fashion and flowers, but the characters in that show did have varied interests and lives outside of those two things, which gave them a lot of depth and additional layers to their personalities! Furthermore, later episodes in the show seemed to just either shoehorn in new elements that came out of nowhere or just flat-out pulled them out of their ass, with literally no foreshadowing or build-up whatsoever, along with falling apart at the finale and making no effort to resolve things in a meaningful manner.

So while Delicious Party Pretty Cure tried its hardest to rectify the mistakes Tropical Rouge Pretty Cure made, it's still plagued with plenty of its own issues, preventing it from being one of the better Pretty Cure series. But that doesn't mean there isn't anything to like about it, and is still a fairly cute show regardless. I am looking forward to Hirogaru Sky Pretty Cure after this, so you can rest assured I'll be watching that for sure, especially since it seems to be trying to break a lot of Pretty Cure conventions right out of the gate.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 14, 2023

RealYRC

Mixed Feelings

Delicious Party♡Precure , a let down from Tropical Rouge ! Pretty Cure , Delicious Party♡Precure is a poor man’s Kira Kira Pretty Cure A la Mode , from the designs , and characters , even the villains weren’t as great in this , it’s short that the best part of this season , would recommend to not watch this as your first Pretty Cure Season , it’s not good it’s the weakest of the Franchise so far , plus the movie for this season , doesn’t even have The Kira Kira Pretty Cure a la mode cast why Toei ? It’s rock bottom ... from here folks , but there is hope in this darkest hour Soaring Sky ! Pretty Cure

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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