Sort of a weird character arc to have Ellee grow up throughout the series and her learning to walk and getting a first pair of shoes be a big thing and then speed run her growing up but eh, it’s nice finally getting her origin story and her being an incarnation kinda sorta of Ellelain (which kinda reminds me of several other franchises there being generational incarnations of the same hero) and I kinda wonder what happens to her after everything. Also pretty interested in seeing what sort of resolution there’ll being with Empress and Ellelain’s relationship, particularly since the latter is seemingly gone… I liked everybody’s big eye faces when Ellee did the gymnastics tumbling routine. Skearhead’s mind palace gets another mention! It looks like Ellee also got Magic Hour’s End from Ellelain, which is nice because it’s my favorite move name of this iteration (although now that I think about it, wouldn’t it be a bad thing in general for the magic to end?)

I tend to mix up letters and sometimes letters in acronyms so maybe I would be confused with Skyland words like Strichmas or Tasan and I forget what other words they mixed up or maybe it would be no different to me. Looking at “Futari wa Precure” written in Sora’s diary, I vaguely remember there was one ep with a reference or two to the original series back towards the beginning of the season? I guess the Princess comes up with her own ideas now? Anyways, sorta feels like endgame now with all the characters coming back, although the SOLy-ness kinda makes things not feel like endgame, but I guess it’s the brief respite from tension before the final climactic push. Also, I guess helping out Tasan is the second time they’ve done their henshin for non-fight purposes? They even managed to cram two finishers in (I think the Updraft Shining kinda makes a little more thematic sense here though since it’s wind related but eh). The lighting was nice with Sora and Mashiro in front of the tree, but the pacing of the cliffhanger was kinda weird but eh.

Magic Hour’s End is a pretty awesome name for a move. Was that Yuu Yoshiyama for Sora’s ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA (and also I guess throughout the ep)? Also, I guess this is the second time I’ve seen a magical girl do an ORAORAORAORA (the other time being

). The punk birds were pretty funny. Wait, Princess Elleelain isn’t the Empress? Smh, 2 for 2 wrong in this series (I forget what else I was wrong about). The fight between Princess Elleelain and the Emperor was pretty awesome too (and all her yells). The ep got kinda dark for a bit (at least for Precure) with the Empress getting cut. Anyways, pretty awesome episode and pretty hype.

In other news, I finally watched Amagi Brilliant Park and so discovering Mashiro has the same VA as Isuzu is something.

I’m a fan of goats. The last goats I remember seeing in anime were in Gundam shows and movies. I like their tendency to climb on top of things but I guess we didn’t get that this ep. That squirrel bit with it posing and having a big smile on its face after Sora sneezed was a little weird lol.

Also a fan of when anime take place in more rural settings like Gin no Saji, Sakura Quest, Non Non Biyori, Hanasaku Iroha, Yuru Camp, etc etc etc etc etc. The shot of the fields reminds me a lot of parts of California, but then again I guess those fields look like a lot of places. Anyways, I liked the backgrounds in this ep with the smudgey leaves.

alright, holding off on the otona precure for now since i haven’t seen the prequel series to it but i’m here for hirogaru sky. animation quality seemed to dip a little bit compared to previous eps? characters seem to be drawn a little weirdly, especially when they’re a little further away in the scene. Bits of the fight looked pretty good though and felt yuu yoshiyama-ish. Anyways, it was a nice episode. It’s nice seeing Ageha in her role as a nursery school teacher and how she engages with the kids.

Finished binging Tropical Rouge at the beginning of the week and then there was a gap of no mahou shoujo anime during the week but then here we are again. Overall, the animation was pretty solid but the lower-res versions of Mashiro and Sora were kinda freaky looking when they were walking up the hill around the 8:25 mark. I found Battamonda funnier this ep than last, I guess he works better in smaller doses for me. Surgery seemed a little bit extreme for pitcher’s elbow but I guess it’s an option if things don’t improve after 6 months? Chroniclon is still pretty hype after the 3rd-ish time.