History YMMV / YesPrettycure5

** Masuko Mika the IntrepidReporter became this thanks to her [[LargeHam outgoing personality]] and her few episodes providing a fun change of pace. She proved popular enough to get an adult {{Expy}} in ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'' who even shares the same surname.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Despite her prevalence and importance in several episodes during the first season, Masuko Mika is weirdly absent for the majority of Go Go!. Given her persistence in finding more about the Precures, it is strange that she isn't more involved with the main plot, especially since she got attacked by the villains more than one time and didn't have her memories altered or anything of the sort. She is just absent from the story altogether, save for a few cameos.

** Kawarino goes over the line when he [[spoiler:backstabs his former superior Bloody just because he [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness 'served his purpose']] of seeing the Dream Collet completed and sends him to the depths of Hell. He gets his comeuppance when [[TakingYouWithMe Bloody ends up dragging him down with him]]]].

** None of them are nice people (except maybe for Bunbee), but Nightmare employees' defeats are enough to make you feel uncomfortable.

* ContestedSequel: The season after the first, ''Yes Pretty Cure 5 [=GoGo!=]'', while still having some fans, is met with a bit more criticism on the whole, with many feeling it was a needless sequel with not enough connections to the original season, as well as being even more MerchandiseDriven then the first season, and is often seen as a form of SeasonalRot for this continuity. This affected Real Life sales as well. ''[=GoGo!=]'' tanked compared to the original series in terms of merchandise sales and TV ratings so badly, Toei has never made a sequel season to any continuity of the franchise since then. In a way, ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' was made because Toei noticed how people felt tired of the core team of 5, and wanted to refresh the series afterwards. This was also because the staff behind this series was getting tired of being with the series for 5 years straight and new blood was needed, and had ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' failed financially, the franchise would have had its plug pulled then and there.

** So Coco, voiced by Creator/TakeshiKusao, goes with the alias 'Kokoda Kouji'. Meanwhile, Kusao has played [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Ky Kiske]] who occasionally tend to yell "Koko da!" ([[{{Mondegreen}} or "Coconut!"]]). This makes Coco's choice of alter ego name a bit more hilarious.

* {{Squick}}: While Coco/Nozomi is a good deal healthier than teacher/student relationships would be in real life — Coco's an emancipated minor just posing as an adult, the teacher-to-student and Precure-to-fairy power imbalances arguably even each other out, and there's a clear foundation of mutual respect there that's hard to find in most canon shoujo relationships even between peers — a lot of people still despise the ship and Coco himself because of the squick factor.

** In terms of the Pretty Cure franchise, Dream is super popular, being the 4th most popular Cure in the entire NHK poll.

** Among the Pretty Cure franchise, Dream is super popular, being the 4th most popular Cure in the entire NHK poll.

* HilariousInHindsight: So Coco, voiced by Creator/TakeshiKusao, goes with the alias 'Kokoda Kouji'. Meanwhile, Kusao has played [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Ky Kiske]] who occasionally tend to yell "Koko da!" ([[{{Mondegreen}} or "Coconut!"]]). This makes Coco's choice of alter ego name a bit more hilarious.

* CompleteMonster:

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Italians Love Yes! Precure 5]]: In Japan, this part of the franchise is decently popular, but not wildly beloved like ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' or ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', let alone North America, but in Italy, these seasons, along with ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' were a favorite among many fans, and scored some of the best ratings on [=RAI=] 2.

* CounterpartComparison: While the series draw comparisons to ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGorenger'' for having the first [[FiveManBand five-women Cure team]], it is also based on ''Series/KamenRider555'' (for having CorruptCorporateExecutive villains), ''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman'' (for the main characters having ElementalPowers), and Sentai shows with the number "5" as the NumerologicalMotif such as ''Series/DaiSentaiGoggleFive'', ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'', and ''[[Series/KyukyuSentaiGoGoV Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive]]''. Ironically, the titular team themselves are the SpiritualAntithesis and {{Good Counterpart}}s of the Psyma Clan.

* AwesomeArt: While tempered by the frenquent OffModel, ''Yes'' was the first season to be produced in high-definition, [[ArtEvolution so the artwork takes a much more vibrant look compared to previous seasons.]]

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Italians Love Yes! Precure 5]]: In Japan, this part of the franchise is decently popular, but not wildly beloved like ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' or ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', let alone North America, but in Italy, these seasons were a favorite among many fans, and scored some of the best ratings on [=RAI=] 2.

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** ''Yes! Precure 5 GO!GO!'': This direct sequel features the [[BigBad Director of Eternal]], whose goal is to collect treasures and valuables from all the worlds and [[{{Greed}} keep everything of value for himself only]]. His collection includes various living creatures frozen in stasis, precious objects stolen from people, and anything else he finds valuable. In particular, he wishes to acquire Flora from the Cure Rose Garden for her beauty. To him, anything that holds no value ([[ItsAllAboutMe and only he gets to decide what has value]]) must be destroyed, including humanity, friendship, love, and life itself. When he goes to Earth, he levels the Pretty Cure's school because he sees it as worthless. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness He kills two loyal minions, one of whom loves him, when he sees no more use for them]]. Upon arriving at the Cure Rose Garden, [[PersonOfMassDestruction he starts to turn it into a wasteland]], which severely damages Earth, the Palmier Kingdom, and the other kingdoms in the process. Flora tries to help him see the infinite possibilities of life with a flower seed, but he considers them worthless and continues his rampage until he is defeated.

** [[TheHeavy Kawarino]] in the first season is TheDragon to [[BigBad Despariah]], but he ends up being much worse than she is. He enjoys [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating people]] and crushing their dreams just because he can. The Nightmare organization may never have been a nice place, but Bloody, Kawarino's former superior, notes that Nightmare at least had teamwork before he took charge. He claims to be working for Despariah's immortality, but this seems to be just an excuse to spread despair. He {{mind rape}}s the Pretty Cure with his despair masks to turn them into Nightmare's slaves. Then he starts giving his minions the black mask, which gives them a [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity power-up at the cost of their minds]]. When Hadenya and Bloody refuse to wear it, he shoves it on them anyway. He blasts Bunbee off a building when he tries to leave Nightmare. It's revealed that he was the one who tricked Nuts into opening the gates to the Palmier Kingdom, meaning he was responsible for its destruction and all its citizens becoming brainwashed employees of Nightmare. In the end, when Despariah contemplates a HeelFaceTurn, Kawarino is shocked and outraged at her before Bloody comes back to kill him.
** The [[BigBad Director of Eternal]], whose goal is to collect treasures and valuables from all the worlds and [[{{Greed}} keep everything of value for himself only]]. His collection includes various living creatures frozen in stasis, precious objects stolen from people, and anything else he finds valuable. In particular, he wishes to acquire Flora from the Cure Rose Garden for her beauty. To him, anything that holds no value ([[ItsAllAboutMe and only he gets to decide what has value]]) must be [[OmnicidalManiac destroyed]], including humanity, friendship, love, and life itself. When he goes to Earth, he levels the Pretty Cure's school because he sees it as worthless. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness He kills two loyal minions, one of whom loves him, when he sees no more use for them]]. Upon arriving at the Cure Rose Garden, [[PersonOfMassDestruction he starts to turn it into a wasteland]], which severely damages Earth, the Palmier Kingdom, and the other kingdoms in the process. Flora tries to help him see the infinite possibilities of life with a flower seed, but he considers them worthless and continues his rampage until he is defeated.

* CounterpartComparison: While the series draw comparisons to ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGorenger'' for having the first [[FiveManBand five-men Cure team]], it is also based on ''Series/KamenRider555'' (for having CorruptCorporateExecutive villains), ''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman'' (for the main characters having ElementalPowers), and Sentai shows with the number "5" as the NumerologicalMotif such as ''Series/DaiSentaiGoggleFive'', ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'', and ''[[Series/KyukyuSentaiGoGoV Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive]]''. Ironically, the titular team themselves are the SpiritualAntithesis and {{Good Counterpart}}s of the Psyma Clan.