Line #8 YMMV/FutariWaPrettyCure


1	* AccidentalInnuendo:
2	** In the very first episode, Nagisa [[{{Malaproper}} messes up her words]] and (at least in the subtitles) says, "I wish I could tabulate [Honoka]", before hurriedly correcting it to "emulate". The word is so random and out-of-place that one can't help but wonder, "is that what they're calling it now?"
3	** Three characters with totally innocuous names in Japan have rather snicker-inducing UnfortunateNames to English viewers. Firstly, one of the mascots is the Princess of Hope, Mipple (ミップル ''Mippuru''), whose name sounds like a certain part of the body. Then there's the StarterVillain, Pisard (ピーサード ''Piisaado''). Not an innuendo on its own (in fact, it sounds somewhat elegant) but some subtitles rather JustForFun/{{egregious}}ly render it as '''''Pissard'''''. It doesn't help that Pisard is the one to introduce himself --「我が名はピーサード」(lit. "My name is Pisard", but "I am called Pissard" in subtitles). The voice actor's delivery puts extra emphasis on the "pi" (as in, "pee"), which makes it even funnier. Lastly, a new mascot character called Pollun (ポルン ''Porun'') debuts roughly halfway through ''Futari wa''. This one's unlucky even for Japanese audiences, since the Japanese loanword ポルノ ''poruno'' is only one letter off and means [[PornStash exactly what you think it means]] -- viewers who already laughed at "Mipple" might start wondering if the Garden of Light names its fairies like this on purpose.
4	** In [[Recap/FwPCEp09GiveHimBackTheGreatMepoStrategy episode 9]], Mepple falls ill with a fever. The viewer is treated to several shots of him with a LuminescentBlush, panting, with his tongue lolling out; his face looks less "feverish" and more "[[TheImmodestOrgasm ahegao]]".
5	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Nagisa gets hit with this, especially for those who came in [[OldGuardVersusNewBlood during the]] ''[[Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure HeartCatch]]'' NewbieBoom. Some fans find her pessimism, constant whining, incredulity, arguments with her fairy partner, and selfish streak so long that she overcomes through CharacterDevelopment as a refreshing take of a MagicalGirl lead, while others are put off with the ''very same reason'' and the seasons in which she stars. However, many fans do agree that she's a badass despite these traits. It also helps that Creator/YokoHonna is involved with the ''Series/KamenRiderBlack'' duology during her childhood years.
6	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In [[Recap/FwPCEp16FullThrottleStress episode 16]], Nagisa and Honoka randomly [[MickeyMousing play "Turkey in the Straw"]] with chalkboard erasers. It doesn't come up again, and it has absolutely no bearing on the plot.
7	* BrokenBase: Also regarding Cure Black- do you like her first or second design better?
8	* ContestedSequel: How some feel about ''Max Heart''. Although it has been VindicatedByHistory, the spotlight focuses heavily on Nagisa, and a lot of the plot is a RecycledScript. Much like with Polnareff taking the spotlight in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'', how much one likes Nagisa seems to determine how much they like the season.
9	* DieForOurShip: Poor Fujipi/Shougo. Despite being a very minor character and a generally NiceGuy, Nagisa's crush on him is enough to make him utterly ''despised'' by Nagisa/Honoka shippers, with many seeing him as bland and forgettable. Unsurprisingly, given how minor he is, many fans prefer to just ignore him altogether in Nagisa/Honoka fanworks. The only time fans tend to have him be shipped with Nagisa is if Honoka is being shipped with Kiriya.
10	* EnsembleDarkHorse:
11	** Uraganos is this amongst the warriors of the Dusk Zone, due to having his own personality quirks. The butler Zakennas are also quite well liked for their bumbling-ness.
12	** Out of the supporting cast, Shiho is generally well-liked especially with her VerbalTic.
13	* FanPreferredCouple: Despite Nagisa's canonical crush on Shougo, most fans prefer to ignore Shougo and pair her with Honoka instead, due to their LesYay and PseudoRomanticFriendship. It helps that Nagisa and Honoka's friendship is front and center, while Fujipi/Shougo is a minor character.
14	* FirstInstallmentWins: Though there are fans of later seasons of ''Anime/PrettyCure'' (most notable so far being the fan-favorites ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' and ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure''), the VocalMinority that screams "Ruined!" tend to give out this trope.
15	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:
16	** The Canadian dub is pretty popular in the UK thanks to [=PopGirl=]'s Daily Broadcasts, [[ScrewedByTheNetwork compared to the rate YTV back in Canada broadcasted the show.]]
17	** Sort of zig-zagged in Spain. For a long time, the series was the hottest anime prospect in RTVE: it received an unusually expensive dub, was advertised ad nauseam, and its run was succesful enough to distribute ''Max Heart'' and the movies (and even talk about bringing ''Splash Star'' and ''Yes! 5''). However, roughly two years since its emission, the channel decided to shoot the franchise dead and replace it with ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch''. This caused that ''Pretty Cure'' as a franchise got forgotten not much after, though in turn it ensured ''Futari Wa'' remained as its most popular season in the memory of many Spaniards.
18	* HilariousInHindsight:
19	** Cure Black's outfit was modified a bit to cover her midriff after complaints from MoralGuardians. It's pretty funny now since succeeding Cures like [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Cure Berry]] and [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Melody]] wear midriff-revealing outfits with zero complaints.
20	** Similarly, people thought that this show [[FirstInstallmentWins was the best one]] due to having the GoodOldFisticuffs toned down in later seasons, as the hand-to-hand combat have become just as violent as of ''[[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Heartcatch.]]'' [[note]]In fact, the violent action scenes ironically returned as early as the latter half of ''[[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Splash Star]]''. [[/note]]
21	** [[Creator/YokoHonna Cure Black's voice actress]] was a child actress before becoming a voice actress, appearing in series like ''Series/KamenRiderBlack'' and ''Series/KamenRiderBlackRX''. This means Cure Black really is a Kamen Rider!
22	** Two supporting characters in the series are named Akane and Nao. Eight years later, out comes ''Anime/SmilePrecure'', which featured two ''Cures'' named Akane (Sunny) and Nao (March)!
23	** Nagisa's English name is Natalie. Years later, Creator/SabanEntertainment resused that name for [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Aguri]] when they released ''Anime/GlitterForceDokiDoki''.
24	* LesYay: Nagisa/Honoka is the FanPreferredCouple for this series. [[HoYay/PrettyCure And that's only the tip of the iceberg.]]
25	* MemeticMutation: [[Memes/PrettyCure See this page for examples; after all, this season had some and they were the first...]]
26	* MemeticPsychopath: Owing up to EarlyInstalmentWeirdness, Cure Black and Cure White are sometimes seen as the most brutal of all the Cures that came after, doubly so when you take into consideration the fact that they do have a body count throughout both seasons. While future Cures have purifying attacks and special trinkets that lets them access all new abilities while being more considerate towards their [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]] and their [[FreudianExcuse motivations]], [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer Cure Black and Cure White only has their fists, legs, and the Marble Screw...]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and they'll be damn sure to let any villain know just how deadly they are with them]].
27	* MoralEventHorizon:
28	** Pisard crosses it in [[Recap/FwPCEp03BewareTheCuteStudentTeacher episode 3]] when he uses his MindControl on Ms. Takenouchi to make her climb up to a steel beam on the ceiling, the implication being that he'd [[PsychicAssistedSuicide make her fall off the edge]] if the Cures didn't rescue her. If not then, he definitely crosses it in the next episode: there, he turns the Cures' entire class and several other art museum patrons to stone, then uses the bodies as a HumanShield. Pisard even taunts the Pretty Cures with the knowledge that they could [[LiterallyShatteredLives break an innocent to pieces]] if they try to aim a special attack at him.
29	** If Gekidrago didn't cross it by [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals having a Zakenna possess an innocent mother bear]], then he does when he attacks Cure Black's little brother, a [[WouldHurtAChild ten-year-old boy]]. The latter is [[RelativeButton particularly notable]]: it results in Cure Black [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge brutalizing Gekidrago out of pure rage]], and she later outright ''kills'' him with a Marble Screw pushed past the limit by her anger. It also has both the Cures aghast at him and saying "ThisIsUnforgivable".
30	** Poisony crosses it when she uses a pair of the Cures' classmates as {{brainwashed}} pawns, then callously orders them to [[PsychicAssistedSuicide walk off the roof of a tall building]] -- ''not'' to kill them, but to force Pretty Cure to that same edge, knowing they'll try to rescue them.
31	** Illkubo hurtles far across it when he uses his CrystalBall to [[VampiricDraining drain the Power of Light]] from the entire city, rendering all of its citizens unconscious, merely as [[OfferingsToTheGods an offering to Jaaku King]].
32	** Jaaku King may have crossed it before the series began with his goal of swallowing the universe in darkness, but he goes much farther beyond that when it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Power of Darkness he commands [[PowerIncontinence affects him too]] and is [[BodyHorror slowly and painfully eating away at his body]], meaning he wants to subject ''[[OmnicidalManiac all of existence]]'' to that same fate, is well aware of the effects it will have, and doesn't care.]]
33	* {{Narm}}:
34	** Gekidrago's VerbalTic, "uga uga", makes him sound like a goofy ogre yelling "ooga booga" at the Cures instead of a serious threat. It doesn't help that he is generally [[LaughablyEvil played less seriously]] than Pisard because he's the DumbMuscle.
35	** In the Latin-American Spanish dub, [[spoiler:Kiriya's MadnessMantra and ensuing screams after the death of his sister Poisony]] sounded so fake that they ruined the scene for some.
36	* NightmareFuel: See the [[NightmareFuel/PrettyCure franchise-wide page]].
37	* OnceOriginalNowCommon: While it still gets acknowledgement of starting the franchise, due to the popularity of ''[[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Heartcatch]]'' which have [[ArtEvolution greatly improved artwork and animation]] along with over-the-top [[GoodOldFisticuffs hand-to-hand combat]] that rivals that of this series, and the [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar successor]] having been VindicatedByHistory, the idea of FirstInstallmentWins has pretty much faded.
38	* PeripheryDemographic: Adult males and ''Anime/SailorMoon'' fans who didn't outgrow MagicalGirl shows.
39	* RetroactiveRecognition: When Creator/RinaHidaka was a child, [[https://twitter.com/magicalgirlayu/status/1355127622624104448?s=20 she starred in a commercial]] for the ''Futari Wa Pretty Cure'' edition of the children's coloring toy Rakugakincyo. This becomes HilariousInHindsight when she played [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Laura [=LaMer=]]].
40	* TheScrappy:
41	** Pollun and Lulun's whiny personalities did ''not'' endear them to the audience. Pollun [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap became more tolerable in the sequel]]. Lulun, on the other hand...
42	** Shiny Luminous is disliked among a group of fans for "not being a Cure" and/or having "a flat personality" and doesn't fight.
43	* {{Shipping}}: Nagisa and Honoka are the undeniable poster girls for friends shipped together by yuri fans. The PseudoRomanticFriendship cultural view may have something to do with this.
44	* SpoiledByTheFormat: Episodes 23 to 26 feature the Cures getting the last of the Prism Stones, defeating Illkubo, and visiting the Garden of Light, ending with a climactic battle against Jaaku King. It has all the trappings of a GrandFinale, complete with an insert song and an AndTheAdventureContinues ending... but if you're watching through the entire series, you'll quickly realize there are still 23 episodes left in the season! Turns out episode 26 was only the SeriesFauxnale.
45	* TearJerker: The Kiriya arc in the first half. He initially starts attending their school to steal the prism stones, but ends up gradually developing a bond with Honoka (even at one point secretly going against his sister to save her and Nagisa). It's when Poisony, his older sister, is defeated that he accepts his fate and comes clean to Honoka about his origins. He challenges the precures to a fight, but quickly gives up when he realizes he can't bring himself to fulfill his duty. He ends up giving his prism stone to the girls and leaving with Illkubo to face his punishment, all while Honoka has to be held back from going after him.
46	* {{Woolseyism}}: The English dub uses MANY terms used by a notorious fansub group like Dark Zone, Dark King and so on. It also adds some of its own, most notably with the famous FirstNameBasis scene in episode 8.

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