YMMV / Wonderful Pretty Cure!

• Abandon Shipping: After realizing that Cure Wonderful is actually Cure Friendy's pet, a number of fans immediately pumped the brakes on any sort of romantic shipping between the two, especially when Komugi has more or less established herself as Iroha's sister when she takes human form. Same thing goes for Cures Nyammy and Lillian. However, this sentiment dominantly applies to the international fans. The Japanese fanbase has no issue shipping them together still.
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing: The moral message of Nyammy's debut arc is to not use violence to solve the problems at hand, as the Garugaru are victims and ruthlessly beating them up is very much a bad thing. Many a comment section, especially western sections of the fandom, are happy to see classic Precure-style fight scenes because they are, in fact, cool in and out of context. It doesn't help that the Precure franchise has always been known for its action sequences, so many critics of this show see this as a return to form, and the way of dealing with the monsters of the week in Wonderful fails to generate the desired emotions thanks to the fact that several of them are aggressive animals and even natural predators in real life. In addition, the battle techniques obtained from the Kirarin Animals are not related to either their abilities shown as monsters of the week, or with natural abilities of animals in real life.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • Has a minor one with KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode for both being tamer compared to their predecessors and involving dog and cat themed Cures. In fact, it's very common to see crossover fanart of Macaron and Nyammy, with Chocolat and Wonderful fanart being slightly common as well. Likewise, it helps that Toei has been releasing the entirety of KiraKira on their YouTube channel daily since the beginning of February, which led some fans to wonder (no pun intended) if it will have a crossover with Wonderful in the future, whether in the upcoming Non-Serial Movie or within the series.
  • There's also a slight one with Frieren: Beyond Journey's End due to the two main characters (Iroha and Frieren) sharing the same seiyuu, with a lot of crossover fan art between the two. It also helps that the broadcast runs of both anime overlapped as well.
• Genius Bonus: When Cure Friendy introduces herself, she makes a gesture akin to clasping her hands. In Japanese Sign Language, this hand action means "friend".
• Memetic Mutation: You can be wan wan with these memes!
• Moe:
  • Human or dog, Komugi is adorable with her round eyes and cheerful disposition.
  • This also extends to the other pets, Yuki and Daifuku, too.
• Tainted by the Preview:
  • The news that the head writer of Wonderful would be the long-time writer Yoshimi Narita was a bit divisive to the Western audience, due to concerns about her penchant for writing Age-Gap Romance in the previous seasons she was in charge of (like Blue’s reviled Romantic Plot Tumour in HappinessCharge Pretty Cure! and the controversial Teacher/Student Romance between Coco and Nozomi in Yes! Pretty Cure 5, the latter of which saw a resurgence in backlash when Power of Hope brought it back the previous year). Thankfully, these concerns were null and void once the series came out, and while the only possible romance in it is between Iroha and Satoru who are the same age, there is no hint of any age-gap romance whatsoever.
  • When the opening was previewed, Western fans were equally dismayed as they showed the Cure chasing down tiny monsters instead of fighting, suggesting it’ll be another KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode with no fisticuffs or toned-down action scenes. Episode 1 promptly confirmed the latter action with what happened to the first Garugaru, with a Twitter post confirming the monsters will be dealt with via chases.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The fact that combat has been toned down significantly (with how the openings show the Cures chasing down monsters and hugging them), even compared to KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode (where characters didn't use fisticuffs), has gotten some flack from fans who feel like it's not in the spirit of the Precure series.

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