- Abandon Shipping: The fact that Cures Wonderful and Nyammy are actually Cure Friendy and Lillian's pets made a number of international fans immediately pump the brakes on any sort of romantic shipping between the two, especially when they have more or less established themselves as their owners' sisters when they take human form. This was amplified as of Episode 36, when Satoru and Iroha became the first Official Couple in Pretty Cure history, with many Japanese fans now shipping Komugi with Daifuku or Torame. However, the Japanese fanbase has no issue shipping Mayu and Yuki together still.
- Alternative Character Interpretation:
- Whoever can be considered the protagonist proper between Komugi and Iroha. While Komugi is the lead Cure, being the first to transform and the one to receive the baton pass, most of the events are told from Iroha's POV and she is the one who covers the role of the protagonist best.
- While Zakuro has admitted to knowing she wasn't speaking with the real Gaou the whole time, does the same apply to Torame? Did he know the person before him was Subaru or did he genuinely believe it was the real Gaou?
- And You Thought It Would Fail: When it was confirmed that the series was going to be a non-violent one with chase scenes taking the place of normal fighting scenes, and that it has the same writer as the controversial HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!, the fandom didn't think much of the series and presumed it was going to be a mediocre one. However, not only was it very well liked by the fandom, but it had the highest sales since HuGtto! Pretty Cure.
- Do Not Do This Cool Thing: The moral message of Nyammy's debut episode is not to use violence to solve the problems at hand, as the Garugaru are Brainwashed and Crazy victims and ruthlessly beating them up is very much a bad thing since they're clearly under an evil influence and aren't acting aggressive on purpose (and since the anime is aimed at a young audience, beating up animals would come across as animal abuse even if they're the Monsters of the Week). 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, outside of the strength-based abilities of the bear Kirarin, 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.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Kanie, a minor classmate of the main characters who only gets a couple of lines, has become extremely popular
among Japanese fans to the point of trending on Twitter twice. Even Kanie's voice actress was surprised by her reception, and posted about it publicly
. - Fan Nickname: After the preview of episode 21 showed Cure Wonderful transformed into a tire, many call her "Bun Wonderful" referencing Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger, which has the rangers being nicknamed "Tire Persons" in-universe and airs concurrently with Wonderful Pretty Cure!.
- Fan-Preferred Cut Content: Considering Satoru and Daifuku's popularity, many hoped that they would become Cures, which didn't happen with them, instead having unnamed warrior forms. Many fans were disappointed to learn in interviews that Satoru was intended to be a Cure, but the idea was rejected for unknown reasons, despite how the previous season included a male Cure.
- 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.
- Since the early episodes, this series quickly gained attention from fans of Ultra Series, especially of Ultraman Cosmos. Comparisons were made based on how the both series are much Lighter and Softer within their respective franchises, and the heroes are Badass Pacifist who instead of destroying the Monster of the Week are mainly using non-violent methods to purify/calm them down, but they are still capable of actual combat when the situation calls for it.
- 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".
- After Fuku’s death from natural causes in Episode 44, a rainbow appears in the skies. This is a reference to the poem "The Rainbow Bridge", which is about an afterlife for pets and departed souls reuniting with them.
- I Knew It!:
- When the Big Bad of the series, the vengeful wolf Gaou, was first shown in a cameo, some fans guessed that the character would be motivated by revenge at some prior mistreatment by humans. When he and his pack are finally unveiled in episode 29, their motive is revealed to be avenging the extinction of wolves at human hands. Even the few fans who guessed this from the beginning weren't expecting it to be shown front and center!
- Fans commonly portrayed Daifuku's human form as a short young boy with white or grayish hair, red eyes, and an expressionless face. The movie shows that they were, within tolerances, exactly right.
- A fanartist
depicts Iroha's hypothetical dog form as looking very similar to Komugi, but with her hairstyle and color. In episode 40, where Iroha and Mayu are turned into animals, Iroha looks very similar to his fanart and while Mayu looks very different, he does depict that her scrunchy would become her collar. The one character they completely misjudged was Satoru, who has no distinguishing features outside his eye color. - Quite a few people noticed how Gaou, instead of looking like a wolf, looked more like a tokusatsu monster, with the mouth not moving, making him seem to be speaking through telepathy, making them think that it was someone in a costume. In Episode 48, Nico gets a shot in that causes the mask to shatter, revealing that it's Subaru, with his backstory revealing he was reborn in the guise of Gaou to be a spirit of vengeance, his plan being to return the Earth to the animal kingdom using power stolen from Nico.
- Improved Second Attempt: Yoshima Narita's previous attempt (and, for the western fans, the one before it with Nozomi and Coco's Student/Teacher Romance) at romance with Megumi's love triangle with Blue and Seiji and how it became a Romantic Plot Tumor to the fans due to how much it eclipsed the plot, while also being unresolved, proved to cause a huge stir among the fanbase. However, the romance between Iroha and Satoru is more well-received since not only was Age-Gap Romance averted by having Satoru be of a similar age to Iroha, but he is also a popular character for his kind and helpful personality, while still having his own quirks that prevent him from feeling generic. The build-up and proper conclusion towards it was also done better with Satoru's confession and Iroha's answer proving to be one of the highlights of the season.
- Les Yay: Give your heart a wonderful feeling with these moments!
- Memetic Molester: Episode 36 rapidly threw Zakuro into this territory among the fans with her predatory behavior and attempted abduction of Satoru. Exacerbating the matter for the Western fanbase is the fact that Crunchyroll decided to Spice Up the Subtitles by having her explicitly describe her intentions for him as seeking “romantic thrills,” taking what was most likely an ambiguous Parental Bonus and turning it into straight up text.
- Memetic Mutation: You can be wan wan with these memes!
- Misaimed Fandom: Yuki/Cure Nyammy's storyline leading up to Mayu becoming a Cure is meant to show her as an Anti-Hero, a well-meaning person who is trying to protect someone but her actions make problems worse and their goal is ruined because the person decided to act. However, because of her beautiful looks, her no-nonsense attitude and that she acts like a standard Cure who pummels Garugaru, fans find her a lot more appealing and see nothing wrong with her.
- 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.
- Among the human cast, Mayu takes the cake for being an Adorkable and relatable Kindhearted Cat Lover who gradually overcomes her Shrinking Violet nature.
- Niko-sama is a tiny unicorn that you just want to cuddle close to you and keep safe.
- No Yay: Zakuro’s brief infatuation with Satoru in Episode 36 comes with a heap of uncomfortable elements, namely when she tries to kidnap him against his will and the fact that he’s 14 while she looks like an adult and her Vague Age leans in the direction of being Really 700 Years Old. That Zakuro is a wolf given a human form, and one that was brought back from the dead at that, makes it even squickier. Her relationship with 'Gaou' also gets torpedoed by the fact, while he is as old as she is, he's still not a wolf.
- Older Than They Think: Yuki isn't actually the first cat to be able to turn into a Pretty Cure. Eren/Siren from Suite Pretty Cure ♪ already had that covered. It's easy to forget because Siren ended up trapped in a human body after her Heel–Face Turn, and was as such forced to live as Eren, but by all means, she was born and grew up as a cat (or at the very least a cat-like fairy).
- One True Threesome: A number of fans have floated the idea of Iroha, Mayu, and Satoru as a throuple, accounting for the canonical Ship Tease between Iroha & Satoru, the Les Yay interpretation of Mayu’s Shipper on Deck antics for them as her having a Matchmaker Crush on Iroha, and the surprising chemistry between Mayu & Satoru in their interactions with each other after she gets comfortable enough to be The Gadfly instead of a Shrinking Violet to him.
- Shocking Moments:
- Satoru confessing his feelings for Iroha was surprising, considering it was done three-fourths into the series rather than at the end. But Iroha actually reciprocating his feelings was even more surprising, since the franchise has tried hard to avoid romantic relationships between the various protagonists, with the only exception being Nozomi and Coco, and even that was in an adults-aimed spin-off.
- The death of the real Gaou, as we actually get to see him being shot to death by guns. For a series so child friendly and discouraging towards violence, seeing a noble character, let alone an animal, meeting his end in such a realistic and brutal way is shocking.
- Slow-Paced Beginning: For a huge chunk of the season, the characters faces off only against wild Garugarus in a Gotta Catch 'Em All-like way. Episode 23 is where things start to take off with the wolves' surprisingly dark history, and Episode 29 finally expands upon Gaou's only appearance in the former episode, while also introducing the two generals, Zakuro and Torame.
- Spiritual Adaptation: As explained in the Friendly Fandoms entry above, some Ultraman fans consider Wonderful as the closest thing they got (so far) to a "New Generation Cosmos".
- 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 mostly null and void once the series came out, as the primary romance hinted at (and eventually confirmed) was between Iroha and Satoru who are the same age.
- 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. When Cure Nyammy and Lillian were fully introduced, the series moved to include more action scenes with the chases winding down as the generals were introduced, with the latter half of the series being much closer to what fans expected.
- 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.
- Unexpected Character:
- Who’d expect this series to crossover with Crayon Shin-chan of all things?
- Many fans had guessed that the Soaring Sky! PreCure team would guest star in The Movie. No one expected the Maho Girls PreCure! team to join them! While it makes sense since Maho Girls's sequel has been announced for January 2025, it was still a big surprise.
- Notably, the entire Undergu Empire, all the Hirogaru Sky Pretty Cures as well as Mirai, Liko, Ha-chan and Mofurun all appear in one episode, with the Undergu Empire generals being a set of highly ironic freeze frame bonuses. There’s even a zookeeper at one point that resembles Skearhead (and has a python wrapped around him to boot), though it is never stated if this is the same person.
- Viewer Name Confusion: More than a few English speakers have misread Cure Friendy's name as Cure Friendly. It doesn't help that she uses the Friendly Wand.
- Win Back the Crowd:
- The confirmation that there won't be traditional fights with them instead being replaced with "chase" scenes disappointed several fans who feel it goes against the franchise's identity. However, the series became very popular thanks to its Slice of Life moments, great character work and chemistry, and worldbuilding. It helps that the latter half of the series introduced the true villains of the story, who do indeed provide some of the fighting fans expected without compromising the original "no harm" rule towards the brainwashed animals, and proved to be surprisingly dark and tragic figures despite the series' Lighter and Softer tone
- This also applies to Yoshimi Narita. After her last run as the head writer was criticized for the Romantic Plot Tumor, and Power of Hope ended up leaving many fans questioning her capabilities as a writer, her run in this series has been considered to be a nice improvement despite the initial criticism regarding the lack of action involved.
- The Woobie:
- Komugi can certainly qualify as one, having run away from an animal shelter after her previous owner couldn't care for her anymore due to his failing health. You can imagine how hard and scary things must have been for her being alone for such a long time until she met Iroha.
- Yuki was abandoned and lost in the snow for so many years before finally ending up found and brought in by Mayu, and while her initial Knight Templar Big Sister stint was uncalled for, it's somewhat understandable given that Mayu is the first person who expressed love for her.
- Iroha in episodes 44 and 45 suffers the effects of Fuku's death and is reduced to constantly trying to put on a fake smile to hide her concerns (which Satoru and Mayu quickly pick up on).
- Zakuro is somewhat a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds, wholeheartedly wanting to be Gaou's packmate, knowing his past and identity as Subaru, being his dedicated and loyal general, with the worst thing she could do is to betray his trust. During episode 47, she came to an answer for Yuki's Armor-Piercing Question towards her about Gaou's actions and his happiness with her realizing that Gaou's revenge plot is meaningless since even if he were to destroy Animal Town, all the wolves will remain dead. However, her pleas to him are ignored with her reluctantly going along with his ill-fated plans until she finally defects to the Cures' side to save Gaou or rather Subaru from himself.
- Subaru is also a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds who wholeheartedly wanted to restore his pack at all costs and completely breaks down upon the haunting memory of Gaou sacrificing his own life to save him, causing him to completely break down.
- The biggest one so far has to be Otsuru. Every day her dog Fuku has been gradually losing strength until episode 44, Fuku finally gives in and passes away, much to her devastation.
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