Anime

Episode 20 of Dokidoki! Precure continues this week with vast developments in the main story and quest of the Pretty Cure. This vast and seemingly quick story progress brings up a few points about the show so far both bother and excite me, detract and highly engage me.

Let’s talk:

You know, I kinda saw this coming back in episode 04, but Alice is doing that thing that I feared she would: she—along with the stalwart and mustachioed Sebastian—is becoming the ‘Cure all for any major problem faced by the Precures (and yes, that pun was intended).

The main theme in Dokidoki! Precure is that of playing cards. We see this present in the Cure’s names and their attacks; we also get to see this in numbers and the names of characters and places (four members, Joe Okada, Trump Kingdom, etc.). Besides the obvious usage of this theme, there are a few others that are a little less blatant, a few which might have stronger implications of story, character, and plot.

Let’s delve:

So aside from a two week setback where I forgot to upload stuff, we're BACK! You can download the new episodes HERE and HERE.

In this episode we talk about:

Lewd nosecone wiggling.

Episode 19 of Dokidoki! Precure was quite… silly, for lack of a better word. We were presented with a battle between the Selfish Trio (now Selfish Quartet, really) and the Precures for sole ownership of all five Royal Crystals. If taken at face value, this episode is silly fun at its core; however, if one delves, there are gems just under the surface.
[P.S. BioShock spoilers ahead for all those who haven’t played it]

Let’s talk:

Episode 18 of Dokidoki! Precure was one of excellent exposition as to who our friend Jonathan Klondike is (or claims to be). From this we got to experience Kenzaki’s struggles with accepting this wild claim and her retaliation because of it.

Let’s talk:

Episode 17 of Dokidoki! Precure was a miasma of stunning reveals, each more exacerbating than the last. This truly was reveal central, with many new ideas and potential consequences and events emanating from them.

Let’s talk:

As I said only a few moments ago, we got a lot of stunning reveals this week, most notably (and importantly) Joe Okada’s true identity: Jonathan Klondike, the fiancé of Princess Marie Ange!

As one could easily guess from the events of last episode, this week’s episode focuses on Rukino Saki - and a fairly interesting persona she is. While she at first seems completely one dimensional, merely using her charms and sob stories to worm her way closer to Haruto in order to become more famous, it’s shown later in the episode that there’s something darker lurking under the surface. Her ‘lying’ to Haruto about parental abuse and needing to become famous to escape a tortured past was, in itself, a lie.

Episode 16 of Dokidoki! Precure introduces the power-struggle of possession between Mana and Regina. Regina finds Mana to be insatiably interesting and wants her for herself, for Mana to be her best friend. Mana obliges to only find her distanced from her true friends, thus starting a whole new entanglement.

Let’s talk:

Episode 15 of Dokidoki! Precure delves more into the search for the Princess all the while introducing more of the character of Regina and her importance and wild and wicked nature to the story at hand.

Let’s talk:

Episode 14 of Dokidoki! Precure has a focus on Rikka and her goals as a daughter and a girl. We see development on her dependency on others and her ability to outwardly express herself for things that she wants to do and be.

Let’s talk:

We've done it, we've passed the 10 episode podcast hurdle! Can you believe we've been doing this for ten episodes now? Join us again as we talk about what we've been getting, what we've been playing, and what we've been watching!

In this episode we talk about:

The elephant in the room.

Episode 13 is an Alice episode (finally); it sets Alice in the spot light and develops her as a calm and collected protector, a protector of her friends and ideals, a newly gained outlook for her.

Let’s talk:

Happy Walpurgisnacht! While some view April 30th in the traditional sense (witch’s holiday, six months to Halloween, blah blah blah) anime fans know what it REALLY is - a good excuse to watch “Madoka Magica.”