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NEWS: Yes! Precure 5, Maho Girls Precure! Series Both Get Sequel Anime for Grown-Ups

And Toei is never going to make Precure "sexy."

They've already done that plenty of times, though. You should follow some of the animators and directors on social media and see their comments on designing the characters or framing certain shots. Some even post art they draw themselves. . Plus, they've put out official cast-off figures of the characters. It's not exactly something Precure has ever shied away from

The possibilities are endless, anything from the first yuri Precure to a legit sexy Precure installment with a darker story that puts Heartcatch to shame, basically a more colorful Cutey Honey.

"Toei would never make dark and/or sexy version of their kids franchises"

Toei themselves: Amazons, Shin Kamen Rider, Black Sun, etc. And who can forget Super Sentai's various SEXY VIOLENCE ACTION ENTERTAINMENT spin offs.

NHK polls conducted years later and with a limited polling base have nothing to do with the actual audience at the time of airing, or the intended audience (which is and will always be little girls buying toys).

I'd say even late night otaku anime don't need to be unsafe.
I dearly remember Houkago no Pleiades as a late night mahou shoujo show whose gravest sin was putting the cast in swimsuits once.

To be fair something like that might be enough to upset some people. Tokime had her detractors when Fuuto PI was airing despite her fanservice only be a little bit of breast focus. Perhaps it was just general anti-fanservice people complaining, but I feel like some people just dislike any kind of 'adulting' of a kids franchise. Although I would say Japanese kid shows tend to do that already by western standards. Precure has already has fanservice, violence, and other stuff in it that would never fly in American kids shows.