Contents PlotHonoka's parents arrive home to spend her birthday with her by going out to a French Restaurant. But everything that could go wrong does; including the power being cut and an attack from a new villian. SynopsisHikari lost in thoughtOutside, the group chats about collecting Heartiels when they spot Hikari up ahead and surprise her.At school, Nagisa is busy playing Lacrosse when she thinks about the other day, when their enemies attempted to take Shiny Luminous. Worried over the situation, she decides their goal must be to hurry up and finish collecting Heartiels before it gets any worse.Honoka is in the middle of Lab checking over something in an attempt to fill the boring lack of activity.
But she finds herself growing annoyed when she finds the other members chatting and not paying the bottles they were using any attention- eventually causing a mess.After school ends, Honoka reunites with Nagisa and discusses how upset she got over this ordeal earlier. She genuinely feels bad now, but people got so upset that they threatened to quit Science Club. In her anguish, she runs off, causing Nagisa to curiously wonder what went on earlier.ViblisThe next day, Honoka arrives to the Air Port to wait for her parents. As they travel for work, they always make sure to come home on her birthday. Honoka is still worried over the Science Club drama but her parents manage to cheer her up by reminding her that it is her birthday.
Feb 06, 2005 Looking for episode specific information on Futari wa Precure: Max Heart (Pretty Cure Max Heart)? Then you should check out MyAnimeList! Shortly after the fall of the Wicked King, the Queen of the Garden of Light lost her memory and came to Earth, in the form of a 12-year-old girl named Hikari Kujou. Now, she—with the help of Nagisa and Honoka, endowed with new costumes.
So they have decided to take her out to a fancy restaurant to celebrate.Meanwhile, as this is going on, Viblis has began to attack in search of Heartiels.Nagisa and Hikari went to the mall in search of them as well, but just as they locate one they are distracted by the power in the city shutting off. They fight off the Zakenna to avoid problems from breaking out, whichBlack and White casting Marble Screwdoesn't go unnoticed by Honoka. She runs off to lend them a hand and transforms.As the fight goes on, the girls soon grow desperate due to their lack of power.
Hikari feels saddened for not being able to help them further, when suddenly she gains the chance to transform and joins them in a fight.After the girls are able to defeat the Zakenna, the power starts to return to the town and everything returns to normal.Rather then stay at there however, Honoka and her parents decide to head to the Tako Cafe when, to her surprise, she sees the other Science club members waiting for her. She is worried they came to tell her off for what happened- but as it turns out they came to make ammends for not focusing more.
She too exchanges apologies and as everyone expresses joy, Nagisa reveals the present she made for Honoka.Major Events., the third Heartiel, appears within a chest in a department store. The girls meet for the first time.Characters Cures.Mascots.Villains.Secondary Characters.Trivia. The third Heartiel appears.
Two very short references to the series (particularly ) were in this episode. A sign advertising the and a sign with the witchling 's name on it with what appears to be Takoyaki (something she's good at making).
Both of which we're destroyed by Zakenna.Gallery.
Overall4Story5Animation3Sound7Character5Enjoyment3I am PreCure fan. The first series is an especially wonderful TV anime. So, I was very, very disappointed upon getting around to watching Max Heart.My problems stem from the fact that the show has no real direction. We are treated to a endless number of 'Monster of the Day' episodes. In FwPC, we often had a showdown against an enemy general. Here, we don't get that.
There really is nothing but MotD episodes. What about character development? That's practically non-existent.
Nagisa and Honoka do not grow any at all. Nothing is added to them. In fact, throughout the series, they become flanderized to hilariousextremes. Shiny Luminous adds nothing either. She is a talking plot device.As for the animation quality, it ranges from mediocre mid-2000's quality to just plain atrocious. In an early episode, a fight focusing on Shiny Luminous has it's animation quality slowly degrade, finally to the point where it looks like an acid trip.Sadly, there isn't much more to say than the above.
This is essentially MotD episodes repeated 45 times (not counting the first & last episode) with varying levels of animation quality that never gets better than mediocre. If you really like Nagisa and Honoka, pick a random episode, think of it as a side story, and you can probably have some fun. However, I do not recommend watching this from start to finish. You're better off just watching the first and last episode, pick a few random ones, and just watch some other PreCure shows. Overall5Story4Animation6Sound6Character5Enjoyment5Last year one of the magical girl anime I looked at was Futari wa Precure, the first in Toei Animation's long-running Precure franchise.
It was a strong start with endearing characters, a lot of good moments and strong, surprisingly physical fight scenes. Unlike many magical girl works, Precure believes in having their characters kick and punch instead of just tossing out stock animation special attacks. It also had a pretty strong ending that wrapped everything up.
Which makes today's material a little odd. Futari wa Precure Max Heart is a direct sequel with the same characters, one of the only series of its like inthe franchise. So, do they have something interesting for Honoka & Nagisa to do?Story:After the events of the first series, Honoka and Nagisa have entered High School. It's t this point where Honoka notices some feelings starting to well up, but she's afraid to act on them since Nagisa hasn't shown interest in girls like that. Thus begins their sweet and sublime love story.Okay, so that doesn't happen. The actual story takes place with the two of them in their last year of junior high. They're living normal lives in the wake of the Dark King's defeat.
Unbeknownst to them, the Queen was critically wounded during their battle. She loses her cohesion, splitting into her life, her heart and her wills which take the form of tiny fairies called Heartiels. To make matters worse, the two heroines find themselves under attack by a new band of villains, Shampoo Advert, Moustache, Chin & Female. This time around they also have help, in the form of Shiny Luminous, Mai. In that fashion, Honoka, Nagisa & Saki find themselves in a race against time to find all the aspects of the Queen before their antagonistic foursome can bring back the Dark King.Let's start by looking at the big issue with the series as a whole.
There's way too much of a focus on Nozomi and Pollun. He's as obnoxious as he was in the last series, except now there's a lot more of him, and she's just boring. Consequently, all of the emphasis on the two of them is tedious at best. Aside from that, the series just feels pointless. They're back to fight the same big bad with the same major attack, except powered up while working towards gathering the pieces they need to get the same resolution. How very exciting for all of us.On the positive side, there are still some strong moments, particularly when Urara stays on the sidelines and lets Nagisa & Honoka do their thing, and there are still some remnants of the good humour and generally entertaining moments that made the first series work.
They're just not nearly as prevalent or as strong.Characters:Nagisa and Honoka are still really good characters and there are a lot of colourful and endearing personalities from our reoccurring side cast. Unfortunately, most of them have much more limited roles in this series. That being said, there are a lot of issues with the new characters. I've already mentioned how dreadfully dull Karen is, and how obnoxious Pollun is, so let's look at some of our other major characters.
Our antagonists in this series, Shampoo Advert, Moustache, Chin & Female, are really one-dimensional. The Heartiels are also really dull. Although, in their case there is some reason behind it. Each one is supposed to represent one aspect of the Queen's still non-existent personality.
I guess it was easier to imply that she has these traits than it was to actually show her use any of them ever. We're also introduced to Pollun's sister, Lulun. She has all of the characteristics that make him such a nuisance, but she's actually less annoying to me due to the simple fact that the one who suffers the most from it is Pollun and it's a bit cathartic to see him get a taste of his own obnoxiousness.Art:The art isn't as strong as the first series, oddly enough. It still has creative monster designs, although fairly bland designs for the main four villains. It's action sequences aren't as strong either. There are still some really good action sequences, particularly during the climax. The punches, kicks and grapples get used, especially in those stronger scenes, but they're downplayed in this one.
Komachi doesn't even bother with them. She either uses special attacks or, at one point, she lets the light coming from her device deflect attacks while she just holds it up like an idiot. Speaking of Luminous, there's also the issue of Rin's facial expressions. With the other characters, they're allowed to display a wide range of emotions. With her, most of the time she just has a blank look or an expression of dull surprise.
It's almost like the animators wanted to capture her lack of personality.Sound:The strongest performances in this come, like the last series, from Honna Youko & Yukana. Ikezawa Haruna and, to a lesser degree, Tanii Asuka are the big weaknesses. To be fair to them, they did get cast as the annoyances and I doubt anyone could make those characters sound pleasant or emotionally complex.
Even if they'd had Ishida Akira & Hayashibara Megumi voicing them they'd almost certainly still be cacophonous. To be fair, most of the actors sound fine. There are some, like Tanaka Rie, who sound like they're not trying but I'm almost certain that's a result of their characters having less emotional depth than your average paper-clip.
The music is still good although, in some cases, a bit lazy. The opening theme is seriously just a remix of the opening from the first series.Ho-yay:The les-yay isn't as strong in this series as it was in the first. Primarily because Setsuna acts as a third wheel, showing up whenever Honoka and Nagisa are having a moment and ruining the whole thing.Final Thoughts:Futari wa Precure: Max Heart is a pretty underwhelming sequel. While it isn't bad and it does retain some of the good aspects of the first series, it also gets encumbered with a lot of pointlessness and suffers from adding a whole lot of trite characters with the most egregious being Miki. Yuru Yuri likes to joke about Akari's lack of presence, but that girl is so unbelievably boring I'm not sure I even got her name right. It also suffers from excessive use of Pollun. All in all, I think the annoying moments and the good moments even out pretty well.
In the end, I give it a 5/10. It's an average series. Next week it's Overlord. Overall3Story3Animation8Sound8Character5Enjoyment2This was a disappointment. When I watched Prettycure, I loved it. This however, I didn't like.It almost seemed like it was 95% of their everyday lives and at the last 5% a monster appeared.
It felt very rushed when it finally came to transforming into prettycure.Their lives and their battles also didn't seem very connected like they were back in prettycure. Kind of if you watched the first part of a T.V. Show then watched the second half of another. It just doesn't flow very well. This show seems to have no relation to the original series. I also didn't like howthey seemed to put Nagisa(Natalie) and Honoka(Hannah) as'not the most important characters.' So I advise you NOT to watch this anime.
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