As for this episode I am a little worried after Kanade got flustered when she interviewed the blonde male idol boy. My worry comes from I was hoping that friendship would play a big role in the series, I would hate for that to be sidelined by a focus on romance. Now I am not saying that romance shouldn't be touched upon, I just don't want it to steal attention away from friendship. Honestly though I get the feeling a love triangle is brewing with Kanade liking the boy but the boy liking Hibiki who honestly doesn't care for him that way. My hope is that if they do introduce this love triangle it is dealt with by the end of the first arc, right before the new Precures are introduced.
If they were going to do a romance plot in Pretty Cure I would prefer it if they skipped the Love Triangle BS and just had it be about how one of the benefits of friendship is that your friends can help you through your insecurities about the other sex.
I agree with you both, love triangles are too common of a theme to be used in romance related shows, or just any shows. The only time when it works is in the Macross series, where the series won't be complete without a love triangle, since that's what Macross has been known for. Aside from the slight hint of yurism that all the past Precure series might hint out, its still mainly focused on friendship, whether it'd be forming a bond, maintaing a bond, accepting someone despite their pasts, or friends helping you change to become a better person, etc, have all of reoccuring themes one way or another for he past 8 years of Precure.
They've kept a steady pace of maintaining this balance so far (at least from the ones that I"ve seen), and the only real time we saw anyone kiss was Nozomi and Coco in the 5 GoGo movie....... and even that was kinda...... forced...... but I haven't seen the subs yet so I"ll wait for that to make any further statements.
But ya did no one notice that the villians only "jumped" back up to their headquaters which was right above the battle scene ? Instead of vanishing into thin air like ususal ? :laugh: And what do they people of this town / world think of Precures ? are they celebs / neighborhood friendly heroines ? Or just random misc. low profile individuals ?