YMMV / Power of Hope ~PreCure Full Bloom~

• Alternative Character Interpretation: At the end of the series, we see Saki and Mai getting ready to go their separate ways, but Saki gets really emotional over this, especially since that we still don't see her supposed fiance. Some viewers have taken to this as Saki is actually lying, that she isn't engaged at all and is doing this to hide feelings for Mai.
  • Alternately, Mai feeling guilt for not being sad about her jerk boyfriend dumping her, her encouraging Saki to tell her fiancé the truth because if she were marrying Saki she'd be supportive, and the common thread throughout the series being everyone getting in touch with their feelings and ideals that they'd buried because they'd grown up lead to the theory that Mai is in love with Saki but won't get in the way.
• Americans Hate Tingle: Of all the characters, Coco suffered this the most with the Anglosphere side of the fandom. While the Japanese fandom were pleased at his and Nuts return in the fifth episode, Western fans, due to Values Dissonance, were livid that his affection towards Nozomi didn't change at all during the fourteen-year long Time Skip, which only became more apparent come the final episode, where he and Nozomi actually get together once they return to the former's homeworld, further igniting the flames from the fandom who were hoping that the series would put an end to the pairing for good.
• Broken Aesop: The story's Green Aesop is delivered through the Big Bad, Bell, whose motivation for turning humans into Shadows is that anthropogenic climate change will eventually destroy the city she's been watching over for decades because of humanity's selfishness and unwillingness to act. It's too bad, then, that the only genuine threat to the city comes from those very Shadows, no matter how many Anvilicious shots of pollution there are. To make matters worse, the very last scene of the anime shows a selfish Jerkass littering, which implies that the Green Aesop didn't inspire that many people even In-Universe.
• Contested Sequel: Mostly in the West, anyway. It’s either a decent series that draws on nostalgia and has a decent message, a lackluster series that had a lot of They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot, or it’s an abomination that sank ships fans loved and didn’t sink the one ship they wanted sank.
• Continuity Lock-Out: As to be expected of a sequel series set more than a decade after Yes! Pretty Cure 5, the show expects you to have watched it (as well as Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star and arguably the original Futari wa Pretty Cure, given Cure Black and Cure White's Big Damn Heroes moment at the end) all the way through. The dynamics between the characters, as well as the many flashback scenes, don't work nearly as well without prior context.
• Die for Our Ship: Episode 4 reveals that Saki and Mai are not together — Saki is engaged to a random person she met at cooking school and Mai has a boyfriend and is having major relationship problems with him, and neither appears on screen — as well as Episode 5 reuniting Coco and Nozomi once more— bearing in mind that this pairing has been... contentious, to put it mildly — the flames of the shipping wars have been reignited once more. Several fans were even more furious when Coco and Nozomi actually do get married at the end of the series, and while Mai breaks up with her boyfriend, Saki does not.
• Epileptic Trees:
  • Astute viewers of the first major trailer noticed that Saki has a silver ring on her left hand, which some have pointed out probably means Saki is married. However, Mai doesn't have a ring on her hand, so now we have people wondering if Saki is married, and if so, who do they need to kill to make Saki/Mai canon? Turns out the (un)lucky guy is just some random she met at cooking school.
  • The third episode has Kurumi returning to be Milky Rose, but you never see a rose bloom before she does, suggesting she never lost her powers. Was it an oversight or is the sixth rose meant for someone else, like possibly Saki and Mai?
  • In episode 6, astute viewers noticed one of the contacts on Rin’s phone is listed as just “Hikari-san”. A few fans have suggested that Rin has been in contact with a familiar face… ^note Hilariously, Episode 10 has the Max Heart team appear.
• Fanfic Fuel:
  • Even before the reveal of the extra cast, many fans have always wondered how the girls would be all grown up. The reveals and the first trailer go even further with the ideas.
  • The final episode reveals that Nagisa and Honoka have been travelling the world, trying to stop environmental disasters like a modern day Takeshi Hongo and Hayato Ichimonji. Just what other adventures has these two been going on? Who have they met?
  • What happened after Milk decided to run for Prime Minister of the Palmier Kingdom in the last episode? Is the government still a monarchy, or does it shift to a representative democracy with King Coco and Queen Nozomi as figureheads? Does a revolution take place?
  • What horrific events have happened in the past to give the Time Flowers their reputation as portents of disaster?
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: One of the show's major flaws is that its runtime is only twelve episodes (as opposed to the main Pretty Cure seasons, which each have about 50). As a result, none of the main characters have enough screen time to have believable character arcs; each Cure mostly gets A Day in the Limelight instead, with the others getting shifted Out of Focus.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: If there is one downside to the Cure alter-egos' return that bummed out a few fans, it's that we don't get to see adult versions of them, instead reverting back to their teenaged selves with recycled footage and voice clips.
• Les Yay:
  • This being Pretty Cure, it's no surprise, but the first major trailer shows Kurumi laying her head on Karen's lap on a bed and the intro shows Kurumi giving Karen a glomp and getting a loving glance in return.
  • In the third episode proper, the above scene is both expanded and given more context. Kurumi decides to randomly take Karen out for a meal, getting herself heavily drunk on an apple brandy mixer, Karen taking her to her house, with her nursing her, Kurumi refusing initially to get up before she reverts back to Milk and Karen is able to tuck her into what may well be the same bed as she used all those years earlier, before she tells her why she drinks those drinks, and then uses a term that has rarely appeared in Pretty Cure before in that context...
    "...Karen wa daisuki..." (I love Karen)
  • While Mai is encouraging Saki to go after her dreams and tell her boyfriend even if it would inconvenience him, she tells Saki that she'd respect her decision if she were the one marrying her. In an episode called "Their Bond."
• Like You Would Really Do It: Did you actually think that Nozomi would be dead? And did you really think Coco and Nozomi would break up?
• Romantic Plot Tumor: For viewers who got squicked out by Coco and Nozomi's Teacher/Student Romance in the original series, this series' focus on their relationship is likely to be a major turn-off.
• Ron the Death Eater: While people are still understandably squicked by the Teacher/Student Romance in Nozomi and Coco’s relationship from the original series, some go so far as to claim that Coco was grooming Nozomi since adolescence and that his reluctance to approach her again in adulthood is indicative of either her being too old for his tastes or just straight up being a creepy Stalker with a Crush. Needless to say, neither the original series nor this one depict Coco’s intentions for Nozomi to be remotely as malicious as those claims. His observation of her from afar is presented by the show as him trying to be respectful of her goals for the future despite those goals making their relationship that of Star-Crossed Lovers, while detractors misrepresent it as him being a Stalker with a Crush. This feeling got worse with the ending, which shows their wedding during the end credits.
• Special Effect Failure: The Shadows are all rather crudely animated with CGI, which sticks out like a sore thumb next to the brightly colored and well-polished 2D animation the rest of the characters have.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • The Splash Star duo, Saki and Mai, are much more Out of Focus than the six Cures from Yes! Pretty Cure 5, and only have their brief arcs culminating in their transformations towards the very end of the show's runtime. Then it's time for the Final Battle, and they're only seen again at the very end with a scene of Saki choosing to study abroad. A story about Saki and Mai could have served as its own short spin-off, as they also take time away from the arcs of the other six Cures.
  • Saki's fiancé and Mai's boyfriend. While the Precure 5 has established love interests (save for Rin), Saki’s crush on Kazuya never went anywhere and Mai had none of the sort, thus them having love interests caught fans by surprise. Furthermore, both men are portrayed as The Ghost, existing to serve as off-screen plot devices and sources of problems for our girls.
  • Nagisa and Honoka are used purely as 11th-Hour Rangers for the Final Battle and only make brief appearances as adults in episode 11, with any hope of other onscreen interactions with them after said Final Battle is done being crushed since the focus quickly changes to Nozomi falling into her coma.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • While it was nice to see the original Cure forms again as well as there being a justification for them having the original forms, some fans felt disappointed that the series didn't even try to show adult forms for the main characters despite the whole gimmick of the story being their adulthood.
  • Additionally, the reason why Nagisa, Honoka, and Hikari all still looked the same in their Cure forms. Unlike the Yes 5 and Splash Star characters, it's never shown if they were also using the Time Flowers as a power source.
• Unexpected Character: Given that the series was initially marketed as strictly a sequel to the Yes! 5 subseries, no one expected several references to the rest of the Washio era.
  • Saki and Mai are marketed alongside the Yes Pretty Cure in early advertising. Even more so when they actually transform into their Cure alter-egos (the death of Choppy’s VA having been thought to make this unlikely out of respect).
  • Michiru and Kaoru regularly cameo, running a Virtual YouTuber channel with avatars that make it very obvious it's them, and join the supporting cast later on.
  • Kenta Hoshino and Yuuko Outa are shown as a married couple running a sushi bar that Nozomi frequents after she's finished work.
  • From the original Futari wa Pretty Cure, Sanae Yukishiro, Honoka’s grandmother, makes an appearance in episode 8.
  • Not to be outdone, episode 10 sports a cameo from the original team, Honoka and Nagisa, only for episode 11 to take it a step further by having them pull a Big Damn Heroes as Cure Black and Cure White! Hikari from Max Heart also shows up in episode 12 to aid all three Precure teams in the Final Battle.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The show's Big Bad, Bell, turns out to be the city's Guardian Angel. She's turning humans into Shadows so that they can't contribute to climate change, which she knows will eventually cause the city to be abandoned and destroyed. She's meant to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist, but her plan is extremely short-sighted and limited in its scope — climate change is caused by the collective misdeeds of billions of people, so even if she wins and converts the entire population of the city into Shadows, the rest of the world's continued contributions to global warming would probably destroy it anyway. Because of this, Bell comes off less like a misguided protector resorting to extremes and more like a hypocrite who attacks the civilians (whom she claims she wants to protect) out of an Irrational Hatred of humanity. The writers didn't intend to write a Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist motivated by misanthropy — Bell pulls an unambiguous Heel–Face Turn at the end — so her actions seem mind-bogglingly stupid, which makes it very difficult to sympathize with her even though her motivations are apparently sincere. Further details can be found on the "What an Idiot!" page.
• The Woobie: The show doesn't pull its punches in showing just how stressful adult life can be for the protagonists.
  • Nozomi is still a kindhearted and selfless girl, but unlike in the original series, she realizes that not every problem can be solved with blind idealism even if it's for a noble cause. During the first episode she actually breaks down in tears at her inability to help one of her students, and is implied by Rin to have developed some Stepford Smiler tendencies. She's even briefly overtaken by the antagonist, only to remind the world why she's also called Cure Dream.
  • Rin was originally The Reliable One of the group, acting as the voice of reason and generally having episodes that served as An Aesop about working hard. 15 years later her Establishing Character Moment has her taking a quiz saying that she is unsatisfied with herself. On top of that she has become much more pessimistic as despite having achieved her dream job as a designer, her designs don't always make the cut and her boss is passive-aggressively indicating that she's lost her touch and ought to move to sales, leaving her to wonder if it's possible to succeed with the hard work she puts in.
  • Kurumi puts on a brave face, but it's clear she's suffering, dividing her time between overseeing the Cure Rose Garden and working for a supervisor who forces her to work overtime all the time with no extra pay, which means she's overworked and literally underpaid and underappreciated.
  • Komachi fulfills her dream of writing an award-winning novel which by itself is a great achievement! Unfortunately she now doesn't really know what to do with herself after the fact. She appears to be suffering from both writer's block and poor self-esteem as she refuse to acknowledge any of her achievements.
  • Mai has run into problems with her art job, and her boyfriend doesn't appreciate the work she's putting in, eventually dumping her over text message. She ends up feeling happy to be rid of the guy, but is crushed by guilt over it because she feels she should want this relationship, and no one, not even Saki, seems to understand.

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