So! Celi asked me if I could do up a miniguide to Pretty Cure, so I'm just going to do that now.

Pretty Cure (Precure, if you want to shorten it) is a very popular magical girl franchise is Japan! It's not really all that well known to western audiences and the various shows in the metaseries only started getting consistent subs when Heartcatch Precure began airing. There are actually still some earlier shows that, as far as I know, don't have any subs that last for the entire show.

Precure tends to follow the monster-of-the-week formula with some lessons mixed in, but it is so much more than just that. The plots are wonderful, and as far as I know, many Precure series get very dark at the end. It's not really something you'd expect from a magical girl show aimed at little girls.

Also, another thing to note is that Precures tend to be the brawlers of the magical girl genre. If you watch a Precure show, you can expect kicking and punching to make up the majority of the fight, although that doesn't mean they don't have some pretty cool magical attacks or finishers.

... So I guess the next best part to get to here is all of the different series this magical girl series has spawned. As a note, for many of the series, the most I know is what I have seen in the Pretty Cure All-Stars movies. The only ones that I've seen entirely are Heartcatch and Suite.

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