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NEWS: Hirogaru Sky! Precure Anime Casts Ayumu Murase, Ayaka Nanase

xxGoodxx wrote:

I'm down with an older cure but a male cure?! This is an insult to Precure and its foundation. Toei should take a look at the bigger picture and so as the people here who are been begging for male cures for years. We already have so many magical boys in this damn world. If I want them, I would go for Shonen Jump titles and the boys there are already magical. So much for strong independent women.

There are tons of gay, bi, and queer male fans and other gender fluid fans who are super excited about a male Cure that don't fit with the cis hetero views of more typical shonen super powered protags and there's nothing wrong with those fans who are happy for that don't feel seen by traditional cis male hetero superhero characters. This isn't even the first time Precure has had a male Precure. They had Henri in Hugtto Precure and the franchise has survived just fine. If you haven't even been watching the show in over 20 years, I don't know how you think you are more deserving to speak on behalf of the Precure franchise than the long time established fans who are excited for this.

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Women can't have anything for ourselves it seems. We always have to share it with men and cater to them and make sure their needs are met too. At least Naoko Takeuchi has always stuck to her dignity and stood by only women being able to be Sailor Senshi

Sailor Moon literally has Tuxedo Mask in the show.

Sailor Moon literally has Tuxedo Mask in the show.

I don't HATE this but it seems pretty weird to me. I'm fine with Precure having male allies like Black Pepper and Mary in the latest series but making Precure both boys and girls now makes it seem more like a Super Sentai series I thought the whole point of magical girls was to give girls something to admire or see themselves in. Like I said I don't hate it, but this certainly could be the jump the shark moment for the franchise.

If I want them, I would go for Shonen Jump titles and the boys there are already magical.

Exactly this. It's like a desperate tactic to pander to other groups because Precure hasn't been good for the last ten years or so. I don't think this will do any justice at all

I thought the whole point of magical girls was to give girls something to admire or see themselves in

Don't beg and scream for popular series to make your fantasies a reality. Don't act like they owe you something.

I see you all are happy about Precure have a male Cure (not the first time) because you have been wanting to see that for years. All while making excuses about why it needed to happen, like "Precure is for kids in general", "little boys across Japan are watching Precure and it is great that they finally have a character they can see themselves in" and "There are tons of gay, bi, and queer male fans and other gender fluid fans who are super excited about a male Cure."

This may be a little offtopic but I remember that Platinum's Bayonetta 3 snubbed off fans of having their preferred couple canon in favor of the one that they heavily despise so much despite all the subtext since the first game. And then there are Hibike Euphonium, Cross Ange, and Amanchu's authors who outright destroyed yuri fans' (who probably made 60% of the fanbase) dreams and went with the het route. The point here is that sometimes, it's not good for a series to cave in to the fans' demands. Don't let their backgrounds, experiences, or *ahem* "agenda" define what a series should be. Otherwise it will lose its own identity for the sake of what is "global/current" and thus upsetting the REAL fans who enjoy the series for sticking to said identity.

It's ironic that Precure did something similar that Blue Reflection, a once-yuri series, did recently. If you want magical boys so much, then maybe you should have made your own series or at least supported those niche magical boys series. That may surprise you but there ARE a handful of magical boys series out there but they are either very obscured or just don't fall in with your preferences. Don't beg and scream for popular series to make your fantasies a reality. Don't act like they owe you something. It's like you just want one series to follow your standards and then run off to find another one. But hey, Precure gave you one on a silver platter. I hope you're very proud of yourselves.

Cardcaptor Takato wrote:

Sailor Moon literally has Tuxedo Mask in the show.

Gr8 b8 m8. I guess all the technically-magical boys there, heroes and villains, are Sailor Moons too.

It's ironic that Precure did something similar that Blue Reflection, a once-yuri series, did recently. If you want magical boys so much, then maybe you should have made your own series or at least supported those niche magical boys series. That may surprise you but there ARE a handful of magical boys series out there but they are either very obscured or just don't fall in with your preferences. Don't beg and scream for popular series to make your fantasies a reality. Don't act like they owe you something.

>it's not good for a series to cave in to the fans' demands

add that the biggest issue that the legend of korra did have was the creators listening to the demands of the annoying fandom of asami and korra to become a couple because they were afraid nick cancelling it while they were intending korra to be with Mako from the beginning which is shameful that they didn't stick to what they were doing and listened to the fans which i won't be surprised that if the creators didn't listen to their demands, the fans would have made death threats , complain and scream like it's the end of their world.

Joker#941490 wrote:

>it's not good for a series to cave in to the fans' demands add that the biggest issue that the legend of korra did have was the creators listening to the demands of the annoying fandom of asami and korra to become a couple because they were afraid nick cancelling it while they were intending korra to be with Mako from the beginning which is shameful that they didn't stick to what they were doing and listened to the fans which i won't be surprised that if the creators didn't listen to their demands, the fans would have made death threats , complain and scream like it's the end of their world.

Why does it seem like most of the complaints in this thread about the male Pretty Cure are just barely disguised homophobia?

Why does it seem like most of the complaints in this thread about the male Pretty Cure are just barely disguised homophobia?