This show is really pretty. It’s very much a modern day Sailor Moon in terms of animation quality and background quality. I also enjoy it’s dumb 90s-style localization with constant jokes and incidental music.
i noticed this on netflix the other day, and apparently it’s the 9th season of pretty cure
Kid’s gonna want matching eye and hair color
Wait, I want matching eye and hair color. Gosh darn it anime
What is a good show to raise little girls on? Jem?
In the first episode of this show, the main character harnesses the power of hopes and dreams to fire a kamehameha at a clown house.
It’s okay.
Not gonna lie, one of my thoughts while watching Heartcatch (which is themed around fashion to an extent) is how it normalizes things traditionally/stereotypically seen as feminine like clothes and flowers and makeup and the such while ostensibly being targeted to little girls (yes, yes, I know, precuredemographics.jpg). It doesn’t seem to be a thing every series does, nor is it the biggest offender (the current running show is about princesses!).
Anyway, as a grown man with fine tastes in cartoons for young girls, Precure is pretty cool.
Seriously like the colours of this show though. Some real chewable bubblegum hair on those girls.
More anime need ridiculous americanized localizations. Are Netflix themselves doing it? How does it differ from some others attempts like Disney and 4kids?
i haven’t watched any of it, but when i saw it listed i looked it up, and saban are doing th localisation! what a bizarre throwback.
i think netflix paid for the seven deadly sins anime to be localised, though that was a straight localisation aimed at anime fans.
I only saw one episode of Precure, but it was OBARI AS FUCK
Yeah pretty sure basically all modern anime is terrible for impressionable little girls
I would allow a hypothetical daughter of mine to watch Girls und Panzer, maybe Kiki’s Delivery Service, and that’s it.
Basically, once you get away from anything that could be seen as being for “general audiences” and towards shows targeted to any sort of demographic, you made a wrong turn down Anime Main Street
My theoretical child would be raised on a diet of Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry so they can learn casual outdated racism and 30s- and 40s-era cultural references. It worked out okay for me, I think
Hoping Little Witch Academia won’t just be some flash in the pan.
The Enchanted Parade seemed more like a pilot for a continuing series than the original (another group of named girls and asshole male counterparts!), so I think that’s down to if Trigger can get the money without crowdfunding and want to do it.
They already blessed me with Ninja Slayer, so if it never happens, that’s fine by me.
So I’m not the only one who got “okay, this how we’d work with these characters in a serial, give us money” out of LWA2, which I finally watched my Kickstarter BD of today. Trigger being restricted to generally PG-material in LWA seems to really work in their favor.
I seriously think the only way we’ll get a LWA series is either one of those wacky arrangements where several European state TV channels co-produce it or if CN or Disney catch wind of it because I can’t see the show existing in the modern domestic anime market.
Then again, I am constantly mystified over the kind of stuff that sells over there, so 
Full circle thing: whoa, both LWA shorts are up on Netflix now
Maybe Netflix will throw money at it now that they’re trying to establish a foothold in Japan
Maybe I’ll tell normal people that it’s a cool-time show and they can watch it and still be normal
I avoided Little Witch Academia because it simply sounds dangerous. I got burned once on a title with “Little Witch” in the title and I ain’t gonna make that mistake twice.
I’d watch it if it’s on Netflix now, but I share my account with my mother and that’s just going to be too hard to explain. It’s a hard business, being in what used to be a Catholic family. You gotta watch stuff so your queue assures your heterosexuality, but you can’t go overboard or you cross over into crass licentiousness.
I ran into a similar issue when sharing an account with my friends - don’t wanna watch Blue is the Warmest Color or Kyss Mig or anything like that, but also don’t want to watch anything they’ve not gotten around to in case it screws up their recommendations/to-watch list. So I would just end up not watching anything, or setting up a temporary guest profile.
I remember LWA ep 1 being up on Vimeo or maybe Youtube for free, but it looks like they pulled it after the Kickstarter for season 2 ended.