Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure / YMMV

Adorkable: Asumi, given that she's a Fish out of Water who Really Was Born Yesterday, gets a few moments of these such as when she eats food for the first time in episode 21 or when she attempts to rap in episode 29.
Anti-Climax Boss:
- How the battle against King Byo-gen is presented in Episode 39. A lot of people felt like King Byo-gen barely got any character focus and was just bait for the other henchmen to take his place as the True Final Boss. This ended up getting averted considering King Byo-gen was alive the whole time, the "King Byo-gen" purified was actually just a part of him, and he quickly enters the stage as the proper Big Bad of the show. His true final battle is far more climatic.
- Compared to Daruizen and Guaiwaru, Shindoine's final battle felt a bit underwhelming, considering the fact that the former was able to overwhelm the Cures tremendously (with the help of the two generals) and Daruizen had a cool final form with Nodoka even calling him out. Shindoine gave the Cures a bit of trouble, but mostly felt like a minor roadblock to King Byo-gen. Even her defeat was identical to the other Byo-gens.
Base-Breaking Character: Daruizen is perhaps one of the most divided characters of the entire franchise (if not the most). Some like him for his bad-boy design and thought that he deserved to be redeemed (even though he himself states that he wouldn't turn good if given the chance) while others absolutely despise him for his sadistic nature and don't care at all that he got a Heel–Face Door-Slam.
Complete Monster:
- King Byo-gen is the leader of the Byo-gens, a group of beings who seek to make Earth devoid of life. Before the events of the series, King Byo-gen would force to watch as he turned her Cure Partner to stone. When she destroys his body, he manages to taint her victory over him by infecting the Healing Garden with diseases. In the present, King Byo-gen sends his minions to spread dark energy and diseases in order to get his body back faster. He verbally tortures the Healing Animals, and when Guaiwaru tries to usurp him after it appears he has been killed, King Byo-gen waits until the former grows strong enough to rapidly accelerate the process of getting his body back and then absorbs him, revealing that he had anticipated Guaiwaru's attempt and was counting on it. King Byo-gen later absorbs Daruizen and becomes Neo King Byo-gen, who proceeds to psychologically torture Cure Grace, easily defeat the Pretty Cures, reveal that he created the other Byo-gens, and knock most people on Earth unconscious with his plagues. He would then decide to absorb the Pretty Cures and the Healing Animals, and when they break free from his body stronger than ever, he tries one last push to end all life on Earth before being killed.
- Daruizen is the second highest ranking member of the Byo-gens behind King Byo-gen himself. Many years ago, Daruizen fed off of Nodoka's life force and health as a parasite, ruining her childhood all to grow stronger. When Daruizen returns in the show, he mocks Nodoka, who was unaware of that fact, about it to her face after making her relapse into her sickness with a Mega Part. When he creates Megabyogens and Gigabyogens, Daruizen sadistically makes sure the lifeforms he transforms into them are in as much pain as possible, to the point where some of them scream, which he delights in. Daruizen also creates Megabyogens and Gigabyogens for the sole purpose of murdering people faster, and creates another Byo-gen general, Batetemoda, who he doesn't care about in the slightest, in one of his schemes. When the King decides it is time to absorb Daruizen, he begs Nodoka for help, and loses it when she refuses and tries to force himself into her body, causing her to run away. When Nodoka asks if he'd quit being evil if she allowed him to go into her body again during the final confrontation between him and the Pretty Cures, he admits that he wouldn't and tries to kill them.
Discredited Meme: The below mentioned "Psychopathic Nodoka" meme quickly fell out of popularity from Pretty Cure fans once the initial shock of the episode wore off, as many saw the meme as insulting since it serves no purpose than to undermine Nodoka's growth as a character. Brining it up in current discussions will only bring groans and counter-arguments instead.
Draco in Leather Pants: Daruizen. Despite the fact that he's the reason for Nodoka being ill, fans clung to him and shipped the two of them together, most likely due to his pretty boy/bad boy design.
Fan Nickname: Batetemoda is generally nicknamed "El Rato" (generally on 4chan) due to being a dirty rat/rodent creature (both physically and mentally) and also due to the fact it's easier to announce.
Foe Yay Shipping: From the very first episode, a lot of shippers were making fan art pairing up Nodoka with her Arch-Enemy/Enemy Without Daruizen.
Friendly Fandoms: Several notable ones right from the get-go.
- With the Tokyo Mew Mew fandom, given the common themes and spirit, along with the convenient timing mentioned below.
- With the Symphogear and Puella Magi Madoka Magica fandoms as a result of Aoi Yūki voicing the lead.
- Within the already existing large overlap between the Pretty Cure and Kamen Rider fandoms, there’s a specific subset that takes amusement in the commonality connection between this season’s themes and the motifs of the Kamen Rider Ex-Aid video game medical drama and how one of the villains is connected to the protagonists by being their disease.
Genius Bonus: Many fans find Earth being purple as a bad color choice instead of her being green, finding it as just another case to shoehorn red, blue, yellow and purple Cures once again into another series. But, either due to it being intentional or unintentional, Earth's Purple color references the Purple Earth theory were at one stage of Earths history, the majority of single celled organisms that acted similar to plants were theorized to have a purple pigment, before the current green single celled organisms that would become modern day plants became dominant.
Harsher in Hindsight:
- The unfortunate timing of a Pretty Cure season that touches upon doctors and illnesses, launching shortly after the coronavirus outbreak in China.
- The timing also coincides with the outbreak of several environmental disasters around the globe (Australia's wild fires, a flood in Venice and coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef) and the call for saving the planet movement makes a Pretty Cure season that is also themed around healing the Earth seems like a godsend.
Heartwarming in Hindsight: In response to the delay of the 2020 Pretty Cure All Stars movie, this video was released, featuring Cure Grace explaining why they had to delay and urging everyone to keep healthy.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The official reveal of Healin’ Good came shortly after the revival of another magical-girl series with environmentalism and animal themes.
- This ain't the first time that a doctor-themed super hero series has one of the main villains be the personification of the main character's childhood illness.
- Episode 5 has the yellow-coloured hero making terrible puns that the blue-coloured hero can't help but laugh at, just like a certain other series airing at the same time.
- One episode that had to be shelved as a result of the show's hiatus from the COVID-19 Pandemic involved the Healing Animal trio gaining human forms. Jump to a few seasons later, and we have Ai Kakuma, who voiced Rabirin, starring as Cure Prism in Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure!
I Knew It!: Fans who had previously watched Kamen Rider Ex-Aid half-jokingly predicted the reveal that Daruizen is Nodoka’s Enemy Without in the same way Parado is to Emu, as the personification of the virus that afflicted her in childhood.
Memetic Molester: Daruizen, full stop. He has an extremely unhealthy obsession with Nodoka due to his origins, and the episode where he force-infects her with a Mega Part that resulted in Kedary's creation can raise some SERIOUS red flags. You'll find it hard to say Nodoka did anything wrong in leaving him for dead towards the end of the season.
Memetic Mutation: See this page for the memes in this season.
Memetic Psychopath: Especially in direct comparison to previous Cure leaders, who are quick to forgive their main villains despite all the atrocities they've committed, Nodoka/Cure Grace sticks out due to her refusal to show any form of compassion towards Daruizen when he was begging for mercy right before his death at the hands of King Byo-gen. This in turn, makes Grace out to be a Combat Pragmatist and a No-Nonsense Nemesis who will not hesitate to go for the nuclear option against any villain every other Cure would otherwise treat as the Godzilla Threshold.
Moe: Latte, a cute, little Precious Puppy that one can't help but want to hug and protect. but that isn't to say that other Healing Animals, Rabrin, Pegitan, and Nyatoran, aren't adorable either.
Moral Event Horizon:
- Batetemoda crosses it when he tries to kill Latte, all with a gleeful smile on his face. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he is killed in the episode after that.
- Daruizen crosses it when he stabs Nodoka with a Mega Part, summoning Kedary.
- Shindoine crosses it when she chooses to infect a child with a Nano Byo-gen. This was after she injected herself with a Mega Part to power herself up in an attempt to impress King Byo-gen.
- Guaiwaru crosses it when he comes up with a scheme to become the new King Byo-gen and infects all of the city by summoning an army of Megabyo-gens. Sadly for Guaiwaru, he doesn’t get to keep the power long as the King returns and absorbs him to regain his power.
Narm: Once Asumi joins, Latte helps her transform into Cure Earth. The problem with this is that Latte still gets sick whenever a Monster of the Week appears prior, resulting in some huge Mood Whiplash from her getting visibly fatigued to her energetically helping Asumi in her Transformation Sequence like nothing's wrong.
No Yay: While many fans ship Nodoka and Daruizen, there's another contingent of fans who absolutely loathe the pairing, confused as to why some people would want to ship what amounts to an abusive relationship.
Older Than They Think: The series stars a blue penguin with a yellow beak who is very anxious and has an energetic pink friend, which Western fans may find a little familiar.
Ron the Death Eater: Poor Nodoka was hit with this with episode 41 when she runs off in terror than allow Daruizen to reenter her to heal, with some viewers feeling she should have helped Daruizen even though he had attempted to kill her multiple times, including once that same episode.
Ships That Pass in the Night: Given Aoi Yūki's track record for her magical girl roles, it's not surprising to find Nodoka/Cure Grace getting paired with Cure Berry and Cure Blossom on account of their voice actresses being Sayaka and Tsubasa, respectively.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: It has its own page here.
Unexpected Character: The Movie for the team brings back Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo!.
The Woobie:
- Nodoka, being an ill girl. Her excitement at being able to run without tiring as Cure Grace is quite heartrending. Then it is revealed that Daruizen was the illness she had, making her blame herself for his actions while he takes great glee in tormenting her.
- Latte, given that the poor puppy is rendered ill Once an Episode from the presence of the Byo-gens.
WTH, Costuming Department?: Many fans dislike Cure Sparkle's rather tacky outfit, considering it looked a lot different than Grace's and Fontaine's.

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