History YMMV / DokiDokiPrecure

** Prior to her backstory being revealed, it's hard not to see Cure Ace/Aguri as anything but this, since her existence was never foreshadowed.

** The NonSerialMovie constantly builds up Marsh as the main villain, leading the charge against the heroes, trapping them in their own memories, and has the most personal connection to Mana Aida specifically as he personally taunts her while her memory ends and loops... [[spoiler:except he's not the main villain at all. It's his ''[[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere clarinet]]'' calling the shots. At no point prior did the movie made any attempt to show or even hint that his clarinet was even cognitive ''at all''.]]

** Prior to her backstory being revealed, it's hard not to see Cure Ace/Aguri as anything but this, since her existence was never foreshadowed prior.

** Creator/EiichiroOda considered a previous installment in the franchise, ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', as his rival to ''Franchise/OnePiece''. Creator/MayumiTanaka plays both Luffy and Ira.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Episode 46 brings a rather interesting spin on the Selfish vs Selfless nature of the season, [[spoiler:in that Marie-Ange's selfless love for her kingdom conflicts with her selfish love for her father and her need to save him, preventing her from doing what needs to be done to truly save everyone, something Bel takes advantage of and what leads to the creation of Aguri and Regina. Had this been introduced earlier, it could be a way of arguing that selfless love for the masses can be emptying, and selflish love isn't always the results of self-gain, but because this plotpoint was revealed in the last three episodes of the season, there was no way to properly expand on this. Thus, the story quickly rolled back to the earlier extremist message of "All forms of selfish feelings are wrong, no matter what," which can come across as a BrokenAesop to some, especially since Mana is the only one out of the heroes to ultimately do the BigBad in]].

** Name changes like "Cure Rosetta" to "Glitter Clover" and "Cure Sword" to "Glitter Spade" have been heavily debated. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks The ones who didn't like it say it should have been kept the same]]. While the ones who liked it say their more in line with the card theme and that "Clover" and "Spade" make much better sense name-wise than "Sword" and "Rosetta".

* Macekre: While either less documented or simply less severe, Saban once again took contentious liberties with their English dub.

** Aguri's body is set on fire when she transforms into Cure Ace. [[Manga/OnePiece Portgas D. Ace]] had fire as his devil fruit powers. Cure Ace is voiced by Creator/RieKugimiya, who voiced [[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana Shana]] with the blazing eyes and flaming red hair - Cure Ace has these, too. Ace's weapon - no, [[NamesTheSame not that]] [[Manga/OnePiece Ace]] - is called "Love Kiss Rouge". The first red Cure was [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Rouge]], who had fire powers.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Between the {{Gender Blender Name}}s, typical cute mascot looks, and the fact that they're all voiced by women, it's very easy to miss the fact that Raquel and Lance are male.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: After [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure the previous season]] consisted almost entirely of {{Filler}} episodes, ''Doki Doki'''s entire season is practically relevant to the plot.

* HarsherInHindsight: The fact that this show was [[MythArc/DokiDokiPrecure written in a way that should have prevented any potential dub cuts]] qualifies as this due to the fact that the Saban dub wiped out not just episodes and the movie, [[spoiler: but also historic moments like Makoto signing as a failed cure for Regina's brainwashing, non-Charle fairies getting the HumanityEnsues treatment, and Reina getting character development, [[UpToEleven but also ''an entire arc involving Blood Rings and a crying baby that powers up monsters]]''!]]

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** After [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure the previous season]] consisted almost entirely of {{Filler}} episodes, ''Doki Doki'''s entire season is practically relevant to the plot.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Perhaps the only thing many fans liked about the otherwise-hated Cure Ace was her TransformationSequence, especially the SexySilhouette.

* UncannyValley: Ai-chan just looks ''weird'', being more humanoid-looking than other ''Pretty Cure'' fairies.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Episode 46 brings a rather interesting spin on the Selfish vs Selfless nature of the season, [[spoiler:in that Marie-Ange's selfless love for her kingdom conflicts with her selfish love for her father and her need to save him, preventing her from doing what needs to be done to truly save everyone, something Bel takes advantage of and what leads to the creation of Aguri and Regina. Had this been introduced earlier, it could be a way of arguing that selfless love can turn selfish when taken to an extreme, and selflish love can be considered selfless when approached differently, but because this plotpoint was revealed in the last three episodes of the season, there was no way to properly expand on this. Thus, the story quickly rolled back to the earlier extremist message of "All forms of selfish feelings are wrong, no matter what," which can come across as a BrokenAesop to some, especially since Mana is the only one out of the heroes to ultimately do the BigBad in]].

* FanPreferredCouple:
** [[RedOniBlueOni Mana/]][[ChildhoodFriends Rikka]] was a popular ship among fans before the show even aired. When Mana and Rikka were shown to have a great deal of [[HoYay Les Yay]] between them in canon (i.e. episode 2), the ship became even ''more'' popular, to the point of pretty much being this series' [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Hibiki/Kanade]].
** Judging by the amount of fanworks alone, Ira/Rikka is now the most popular hetero couple of ''Doki Doki'', and one of the most popular of the franchise as a whole, only to be beaten by [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure previous season's]] [[InterspeciesRomance Wolfrun/Miyuki]]. To illustrate: in Pixiv, Ira/Rikka has '''''1000+''''' artworks. Other hetero couples of ''Doki Doki'' only reach '''one-tenth of it''' at most.

** The Regina plot and the reveal of Cure Ace is either an ambitious subversion of the standard DarkMagicalGirl plot or a poorly written ShockingSwerve. [[TakeAThirdOption Or]] [[GoldenMeanFallacy both.]]

* ShockingSwerve: [[spoiler: Regina turning evil ''again'' and Cure Ace being someone ''we've never met.'']]

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* EndingAversion: People are divided on the last episode. Specifically, whether you think it's a conclusive ending, or not conclusive at all. [[spoiler:Then there's the fact that Mana no-sells and solos the final boss, as up to that point, other Precure had always finished the BigBad off as a team. On the other hand, the TrueFinalBoss was nothing more than an overpowered MonsterOfTheWeek who had no control over the actual BigBad and merely corrupted him. The actual BigBad was still beaten through team effort, without the need of an EleventhSuperPower. This however tends to be overlooked.]]

** [[FoeYay Marie-Ange/Marmo]] is this somewhat, probably because Marmo was the only Selfish member who personally confronted her.

* FoeYay: Regina and Mana. Hammered home in episode 22, where they're shown sharing a bed in a rather romantic-looking manner.
* FoeYayShipping: Mana/Regina has become a popular choice. Ira/Rikka had become popular as well since episode 4, and became much more popular after episode 26.
* FranchiseKiller: While the main [[Anime/PrettyCure franchise]] is still going strong today, the underperformance of Glitter Force DokiDoki put the final nail in Saban’s attempts to localize the franchise.

** People in the fandom either think Mana/Cure Heart is a too-perfect protagonist who always gets away from actually learning anything because of her PlotArmor or think she's a great, strong protagonist whose flaws are still there even if she manages to push through them every time. There's a reason she gets the Wrestling/JohnCena treatment.

** The announcement of another Creator/SabanBrands' ''Glitter Force'' dub series once more divided the fans before it came out. People who liked the ''Glitter Force'' version of ''Anime/SmilePrecure'' were a lot more positive at having more of the show but people who already disliked it had no reason to believe it was going to improve on any of their existing complaints. Then it was revealed that a season that was extremely reliant on a complex plot with very little filler would have ''19 episodes'' cut out. When the release this base became a lot less broken. Fans of the previous ''Glitter Force'' did find the first half to be reasonably strong as most of the critical parts of the story were recut into new episodes, it was still easy enough to follow, and the voice cast was once again very strong. However even die-hard fans found the second half of the series where entire story arcs disappeared to be almost incomprehensible. ''Doki Doki'' is already a very heavily criticized season for over-focusing on its protagonist, having new characters pop up out of nowhere, and for the storyline being excessively convoluted... but ''Glitter Force'''s second half only made these problems worse since what little development there was for characters that ''aren't'' Mana was excised and the loss of origin stories and critical story arcs made the last half of the series feel like one AssPull after another. Then it came out that the season was just Saban fulfilling a contractual obligation and after how badly the first season of ''Glitter Force'' had gone, the production budget was slashed and only the absolute minimum number of episodes that Netflix would carry were dubbed. They allowed the license to expire ''before the show even aired'', dooming it to failure even harder than the previous season.

* HarsherInHindsight: The fact that this show was [[MythArc/DokiDokiPrecure written in a way that should have prevented any potential dub cuts]] qualifies as this due to the fact that the Saban dub wiped out not just episodes [[spoiler: and historic moments like Makoto signing as a failed cure for Regina's brainwashing, non-Charle fairies getting the HumanityEnsues treatment, and Reina getting character development, [[UpToEleven but also ''an entire arc involving Blood Rings and a crying baby that powers up monsters]]''!]]

* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Mana Aida is proving to be quite possibly the most shipped person in the series' history. Most of the girls that fans ship her with including Rikka, Alice, Makoto, Regina, and Aguri. And then there are jokes abound about how Dokidoki is a stealth HaremSeries. Pixiv even has a tag specified for ''her harem'' (マナハーレム). And ''then'' she still gets shipped with at least ''five'' guys.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The fact that this show was [[MythArc/DokiDokiPrecure written in a way that should have prevented any potential dub cuts]] qualifies as this due to the fact that the Saban dub wiped out not just episodes [[spoiler: and historic moments like Makoto signing as a failed cure for Regina's brainwashing, non-Charle fairies getting the HumanityEnsues treatment, and Reina getting character development, [[UpToEleven but also ''an entire arc involving Blood Rings and a crying baby that powers up monsters]]''!]]

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Between the {{Gender Blender Name}}s, typical cute mascot looks, and the fact that they're all voiced by women that don't even try to sound masculine, it's very easy to miss the fact that Raquel and Lance are male.