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8 September 2020: Healin' Good ♡ Precure hasn't made me care about Cure Earth yet

Cure Earth
Cure Earth's transformation hasn't been integrated with the other three.

There have been five Healin' Good ♡ Precure episodes already featuring Cure Earth and I still find her presence entirely pointless. Mid-season additions to the Pretty Cure franchise aren't always popular. Maybe everyone liked Cure Passion (because she's fuckin' awesome, okay), but there were definitely viewers who were less receptive toward Regina when she became Mana's friend and started absorbing screen time in Dokidoki! Precure.

Cure Fontaine, Cure Sparkle, Cure Grace, and Cure Earth
Lot of scenes showing Cure Earth saving the others.

Granted, I am well outside the target demographic of the Pretty Cure franchise (i.e., little Japanese girls), but I'm struggling to identify anything Cure Earth brings to the show. You would think her arrival sets up a variety of fish-out-of-water scenarios, but this isn't even like the alien girl trying to adjust to traditional anime society in Star☆Twinkle Precure. Asumi (what Cure Earth is calling herself when she isn't calling herself "Cure Ass") is a cipher whose main characteristic is not having any characteristics. It doesn't make her particularly compelling. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe little Japanese girls are actually huge fans of Cure Earth, but that would come as a big surprise.


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