Trivia / Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure

• Breaking News Interruption: During the original airing of the 26th episode, a news banner announcing Yuko Takeuchi's suicide was displayed. Given the subject matter and the fact that it was displayed on a children's show, many parents were not happy about this, to the point where one viewer filed a complaint to the BPO about it.
• Completely Different Title: In the Vietnamese dub, the show is titled Vitality Magic♥Beautiful Girls of Light.
• Dear Negative Reader: In the Official Complete Book, series director Yoko Ikeda addressed the backlash from Nodoka refusing to save Daruizen, stating that she has the right to live a healthy life without the fear of being controlled by a parasite that caused her so much suffering.
• Defictionalization: The mascot plushie from episode 15 was made into an official piece of merchandise to buy.
• Delayed Release Tie-In: Due to production delays of the show itself from the COVID-19 Pandemic, the series suffered from this trope in regards to merchandising:
  • The Element Bottle for Pretty Cure Miracle Leap was released on the original date the movie was slated to be released, just days after the film was delayed to May 16, 2020.
  • Merchandising depicting Cure Earth was released the week the episode that introduced her was supposed to air.
  • Episode 16 has a brief shot with a poster for Majo Minarai wo Sagashite, the 20th anniversary movie for Ojamajo Doremi. Had the hiatus not occurred, the episode would have aired a few days after the intended release date of said film, but both the episode and the movie were postponed to later dates that put them out of sync with each other.
• Demand Overload: When episode 11 was originally broadcast in Japan, Twitter crashed for a minute during the scene where the Cures use Healing Oasis for the first time because of too many fans posting their reactions to this moment.
• Died During Production: Yuuji Yamaguchi suddenly died while working as a storyboard artist for this series. His last work for the series was the second episode, which aired after his death.
• Life Imitates Art: The theme of the show revolves around staying healthy and medicines, with the bad guys employing disease-related powers. Coincidentally, the show started airing right in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic. (Thankfully, there are no giant monsters for the WHO to be concerned about.)
  • Ironically enough, the Sunday Live! news broadcast that played before the second episode aired on TV Asahi spent a majority of its time covering said outbreak in regards to a cruise ship.
  • Another example of this involved the show's "saving the Earth from danger" premise. When episode 5 premiered, most affiliates showed an earthquake warning regarding the occurrence of a minor earthquake in Nambu. Another superimposed earthquake warning appeared on a repeat of the first episode during the scene in which the Healing Animals attempt to find a partner, which later turned out to be the foreshock to a larger than usual earthquake (ironically, the warning banner for that earthquake showed up on fellow Nichi Asa Kids Time series Mashin Sentai Kiramager).
  • Ironically enough, the series would be delayed after episode 13 due to production being stopped as a result of the virus, as well as two Healin' Good-related projects: the Pretty Cure Miracle Leap movie and two pieces of merchandise.
• Milestone Celebration: The Non-Serial Movie for this season is a Crossover with Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo! to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the original Yes! Pretty Cure 5 series.
• No Export for You: Averted, as this will be the first Pretty Cure series to have a simulcast on Crunchyroll, particularly in the United States. Played straight with The Movie however, with there being no word about it receiving any kind of international release.
  • On November 10th, 2020, the French TV channel J-One confirmed that they are broadcasting the series in France, averting the trope for French fans of the series.
• Promoted Fanboy:
  • If their statements in promotional interviews are anything to go by, the voice actresses for the three main Cures — especially Aoi Yūki — are enormous fans of the franchise and were all overjoyed to be cast. Suzuko Mimori mentioned in her own interview that she’s wanted to voice a Pretty Cure since the beginning of her career.
  • Real life fashion model Nicole Fujita has a cameo As Herself in The Movie. In an interview, she mentioned that she watched the original Futari wa Pretty Cure as a child and was surprised to be able to participate in the franchise as a voice actress.
• Release Date Change: Because the toy was produced in China, the place where the coronavirus outbreak occured, the Healing Room Bag toy, as well as the Wonderful Juice Gummi cases, were delayed from a mid-March release to a late April one.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: The Pretty Cure mangaka duo Futago Kamikita tweeted their fanart◊ of Cure Grace with Madoka Kaname along with their mascots Latte and Kyubey. Unfortunately it was deleted because Toei requested they remove it since they didn't want people to assume it was an official collaboration when it wasn't.
• Spoiled by the Merchandise: See this page.
• Staff-Created Fan Work: Aoi Yūki celebrated the release of the Miracle Leap movie by drawing fanart of Grace, Fontaine, Sparkle, and Earth.
• Troubled Production: Production stopped after episode 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, a "best episode selection", a practice commonly done with children's anime, usually during the period between a show's Grand Finale and while an anime related to it is in production. (examples of this include Tamagotchi! Tamatomo Daishuu-GO! and Pretty Rhythm: All Star Selection). Eventually, the series made a return on June 28, 2020 when Episode 13 came out, but as a result of the delays, it was shortened to 45 episodes in order for Tropical-Rouge! to air on schedule.
• You Sound Familiar:
  • Aoi Yūki, starring in the lead role as Nodoka Hanadera/Cure Grace, previously voiced Cook, the Big Bad in The Movie for KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode.
  • Chiyu’s voice actress, Natsu Yorita, played the Gemini Star Princess as well as Takuto & Ikuto Amamiya in the immediate previous season.
  • The villainess Shindoine is voiced by Shizuka Itō, the same VA behind Kurumi Momoka of HeartCatch Pretty Cure!.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The reason why Episode 26 was a Recap Episode is because there was going to be a 3 week break after episode 25 due to the Olympics that were postponed due to the pandemic.
  • The pandemic-induced hiatus also reduced the season’s total episode count somewhat, leading to it ending at 45 episodes. Reportedly, four episodes were cut; a Christmas episode, a Hinata focus episode, an episode where the Cures' Healing Animals would transform into humans and a crossover with Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo! to tie in with the movie.
  • The Byogens were originally intended to be more sympathetic, but since the series aired during the onset of the pandemic, the creators eventually decided that having sentient diseases be portrayed sympathetically would come across as being tasteless in light of current events, so they settled on having them be straight villains.
• Word of Saint Paul: Series director Yoko Ikeda has said in the Official Complete Book that she thinks that the generals weren't Killed Off for Real at the end of the series and instead became Nano Byogens like in the last episode's ending card.