History YMMV / HappinessChargePrettyCure

* {{Narm}}:
** Hime's full OverlyLongName.
** Cure Moonlight's cameo. Some viewers think that her extreme close up, compared to the other three before her, is hilarious.
** Cure Honey's seemingly beautiful and soothing [[MagicMusic battle song]]. Here's a hint: its title translates to "Happy Rice Love Song".
** Cure Melody's VocalEvolution. Her cameo is cute, but her voice is higher than usual. It's not that high, but it's different enough for some viewers that they think she sounds weird. Could probably count as NarmCharm.
** NarmCharm: Again, Cure Honey's "Happy Rice Love Song", which despite the cheesy lyrics still manages to work because of how genuine it comes off as.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: For the most part Megumi has the role of TheProtagonist and TheLeader, but Hime gets more screentime and development than Megumi. As a result, there are many fans who believe that Hime is the real main character and this would make Megumi more of a SupportingProtagonist. If this really is intentional, this would be the first ''Anime/PrettyCure'' season to have the Pink Cure as a side Cure rather than the main one, as well as the first season to have the main character as a Cure who isn't TheLeader. However, Megumi does have the spotlight all to herself when the final story arc of the show comes around, so it makes up for all of that lost screentime.

** There's a lot of fear that this may happen with the Precure cameos, seeing as the first two cameos went from ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' (Cure Black) to ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5GoGo'' (Cure Dream), making fans fear that after ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' (Cure Moonlight) is gonna be ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'', thus avoiding the less-popular ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' and ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' on its first gos. [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Cure Egret]] finally appeared in episode 6, and [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Rhythm]] appeared in episode 9. Amazingly, it ended up taking 12 episodes to get someone from ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure'' to show up, since four series got to have two representatives - Cure Aqua, Cure Pine, Cure Blossom and Cure March respectively.

** In Episode 8 Elenyan hugs Hime after her splitted the cracker from her and friends, and later Hime hug Megumi from the paid entry from fortune teller.

* EthnicScrappy: To some, the International Cures can fall under this, since their designs use base-level assumptions of the culture in which they originate from (The Bomber Girls, for example, is a Texas-based Pretty Cure team that has a Caucasian girl dressed in a Native American motif along with her two partners having cowgirl motifs, which would ''not'' fly especially now). And that is not going into the accusations of whitewashing as the Hindi and Egyptian Cures are designed with the same fair skin as everyone else, the only international team with darker skin being the Hawaiian team (and even then, it's not by much compared to everyone else).

* EthnicScrappy: To some, the International Cures can fall under this, since their designs use base-level assumptions of the culture in which they originate from (The Bomber Girls, for example, has a Caucasian girl dressed in an Indian motif along with her two partners having cowgirl motifs, which would ''not'' fly especially now). And that is not going into the accusations of whitewashing as the Hindi and Egyptian Cures are designed with the same fair skin as everyone else, the only international team with darker skin being the Hawaiian team (and even then, it's not by much compared to everyone else).

* TheScrappy: It's hard to find anyone online who actually ''likes'' Blue, citing how he doesn't do much to justify his Guardian Of The Earth status, often doing nothing to the point where people say '''''[[Anime/DragonBallZ Shin]]''''' got more done than him. [[spoiler:These feelings became worse when it's revealed Blue single-handedly caused the entire plot to happen due to pulling a random rule out of his ass stating that Cure's can't fall in love, which kickstarts Cure Mirage's StartOfDarkness, with Red and Phantom going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge in response]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In Episode 8, one of the Megumi's friends, Rin, is revealed to have a crush on a guy, and is given a fortune by Iona saying that the relationship can work out. Come Episode 25, where said guy is revealed to be [[spoiler: Seiji]], and Rin confesses to him, only for her to be rejected. Not only is she rejected by the one she admires, but the fortune she received turned out to be wrong.

* RomanticPlotTumor: A good chunk of the series is overran with this, due to the odd LoveTriangle between Megumi, Seiji and Blue that seems to utterly eclipse the rest of the plot. It's made even worse due to the awkward way the plot was resolved. According to a [=PreCure=] fan, this is due to the writers didn't want the morals of the story to be distracted by the results. The morals is that romance can be happiness but at same time causes misfortune and everyone should be mindful of other people's feelings even if they don't feel the same way.

** Or rather, ''characters''. The international Cures are, for the most part, just there to advertise the fact that there are Cures all over the globe, with little else to make them noticeable. This is slightly justified by the fact that the Happiness Charge Cures are the main characters of the story, but when there are international Cures who show up for one scene and are never mentioned again, one has to wonder about the purpose of showing them in the first place. Maria Hikawa/Cure Tender also fell for this trope because she only appeared for a few episodes after freeing from being BrainwashedAndCrazy and she got totally removed after the season ended. Because of this, she didn't appear in the NonSerialMovie and the CrisisCrossover ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' movie series.

** By the end of the series, the "collecting cards for a wish" plot is dropped. Heck, even Megumi's reason to make a wish - the illness of her mother - is dropped with the reveal that Megumi's mother isn't as sick as Megumi thought. Other than the episode about the Hawaiian Cures, the international Precure only get a small BigDamnHeroes moment in the final episodes when they could have had a whole WorldTour StoryArc. Hime is reunited with her family in ''a montage''. Many people felt that the final battle could have been much better and that the second half of the series put too much focus on Megumi -- specifically, placing her at the center of a RomanticPlotTumor.

** Even The NonSerialMovie has shades of this. It ordinally seems that the movie's BigBad, Black Fang, has created a LotusEaterMachine that allows a girl, Tsumugi-chan, who has a love of dance but is no longer able to use her legs, to dance again. This could have been used to set up GrayingMorality as defeating the villain would mean causing Tsumugi-chan to become paralyzed again, therefore utterly crushing her dreams and happiness. Unfortunately, the movie crashes straight into BlackAndWhiteMorality, as Black Fang reveals he used magic to disable her legs so he could have a power source of despair, with the Cures in the right all along. To compound things, it even goes beyond and crashes into IdiotPlot territory as Tsumugi-chan shows Megumi her backstory via projector earlier in the movie, with it flat out showing the anklets used to control her legs, the ones Black Fang gave her to allow her legs to work again, appearing on her legs in said projector, yet Tsumugi-chan never realizes this, nor does Megumi point this out.

* LesYay: Can't be a Precure anime without it:

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The Hawaiian Precure being redesigned in order to give them both darker skin tones.

* FandomRivalry: While not filled with the hostility of most rivalries, Happiness Charge's fandom tends to earn the ire of the ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' (which coincidentally stars an actress who would later voice [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure a pink PreCure 6 years later]]) for perceiving the former as a TakeThat to the latter. The characters in Happiness Charge can achieve their dreams without being punished for it, they can act selflessly for others without expecting to benefit for it, and so on.

* AwesomeEgo: Oresky clearly has a very high opinion of himself, and loves to express it. [[NoIndoorVoice As loudly]] [[LargeHam (and dramatically)]] [[NoIndoorVoice as possible]]. Then again, he is [[Creator/TakehitoKoyasu voiced]] by [[Anime/JoJosBizarreAdventure Dio the vampire]] and [[Anime/SoulEater Excalibur]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Black Mask goes over by using [[IllGirl Tsumugi-chan]] as a pawn in his game against Pretty Cure.

** Episode 31: Megumi goes into some kind of CuddleBug [[UpToEleven overdive]], glomping and snuggling first Hime and then Iona.

* UncannyValley: The head-to-body proportions of episode 15. With normal-sized heads and tiny bodies, the 3 Cures look almost like [[Manga/AttackOnTitan titans]].

** Phantom. Some people think he's awesome for being the first villain to thoroughly defeat Cures rather than coming close to defeating them. Others hate him and think he's [[TheScrappy a Scrappy]] because of the fact that he defeats Cures on a daily basis.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Or rather, ''characters''. The international Cures are, for the most part, just there to advertise the fact that there are Cures all over the globe, with little else to make them noticeable. This is slightly justified by the fact that the Happiness Charge Cures are the main characters of the story, but when there are international Cures who show up for one scene and are never mentioned again, one has to wonder about the purpose of showing them in the first place. Maria Hikawa/Cure Tender also fell for this trope because she only appeared for a few episodes after freeing from being BrainwashedAndCrazy and she got totally removed after the season ended. Because of this, she didn't appear in the NonSerialMovie and the CrisisCrossover ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' movie series.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many feel the show dropped the ball on the form changes, which Pretty Cure hasn't had since [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Cure Bright and Cure Windy]]. Almost every time, they're used solely to perform a fully-CGI attack, then they change back. A later episode confirms the Cures can use unique attacks in those forms. However, this is rarely addressed, as the only ones used are Lovely's Cherry Flamenco, Princess's Sherbet Ballet, and Honey's Coconuts Samba, and even then Cherry Flamenco is used the most (twice). The Cards used outside of their Cure forms get used a lot more instead. This is made all the worse by the form changes practically vanishing after the introduction of [[SuperMode Innocent Form]].

** Blue is becoming a contender, especially as of Episode 24. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment That's all that needs to be said]].

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: For the most part Megumi has the role of TheProtagonist and TheLeader, but Hime gets more screentime and development than Megumi. As a result, there are many fans who believe that Hime is the real main character and this would make Megumi more of a SupportingProtagonist. If this really is intentional, this would be the first ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' season to have the Pink Cure as a side Cure rather than the main one, as well as the first season to have the main character as a Cure who isn't TheLeader. However, Megumi does have the spotlight all to herself when the final story arc of the show comes around, so it makes up for all of that lost screentime.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many feel the show dropped the ball on the form changes, which Pretty Cure hasn't had since [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Cure Bright and Cure Windy]]. Almost every time they're used solely to perform a fully-CGI attack then they change back. A later episode confirms the Cures can use unique attacks in those forms. However, this is rarely addressed as the only one's who get more use other than the traditional attack are Lovely's Cherry Flamenco, Princess's Sherbert Ballet, and Honey's Coconuts Samba, and even then Cherry Flamenco had this use the most (twice). The Cards used outside of their Cure forms get used a lot more instead. This is made all the worse by the form changes practically vanishing after the introduction of [[SuperMode Innocent Form]].

** Even The NonSerialMovie has shades of this. It oringally seems as the the movie's BigBad, Black Fang, has created a LotusEaterMachine that allows a girl, Tsumugi-chan, who has a love of dance but is no longer able to use her legs, to dance again. This could have been used to set up GrayingMorality as defeating the villain would mean causing Tsumugi-chan to become paralyzed again, therefore utterly crushing her dreams and happiness. Unfortunately, the movie crashes straight into BlackAndWhiteMorality, as the Black Fang reveals he used magic to disable her legs so he can have a power source of despair, with the Cures in the right all along. To compound things, it even goes beyond and crashes into IdiotPlot territory as the Tsumugi-chan shows Megumi her backstory via projector earlier in the movie, with it flat out showing the anklets used to control her legs, the ones Black Fang gave her to allow her legs to work again, appearing on her legs in said projector, yet Tsumugi-chan never realizes this, nor does Megumi point this out.