With this second half of the year go! Princess PreCureone thing becomes obvious: Haruka is a pillar of strength. While she doesn’t necessarily show it concretely in the first half, we can now see that she’s internalizing much of what she’s learned and is now ready to share it with the world, using her new knowledge to protect her dreams of those she loves and maturity. This is important because she is Pink’s (primary) healer, and because it is integral to the show’s theme of hopes and dreams. Dreams are not static. As we grow, they may change. That’s okay: it’s just our dreams that grow with us, and Haruka understands this better than any of her friends. It wasn’t that her dreams had changed; She still wants to be a princess. but she understand In the first twenty-five episodes, the meaning of “princess” has changed so that in the second half, she can become a princess more fully. Nowhere is this more evident than in this episode, when Cross traps Haruka in a facsimile of her favorite picture book—it’s cute, but bland. When the fake prince tries to tell Haruka that the reason why the flowers are wonderful is because they are beautiful, she denies his statement. Haruka retorts that flowers are beautiful because they grow. They overcome obstacles and emerge from the cold, hard ground, and in blooming and ultimately dying, they demonstrate determination even in the face of eventual withering. That This is what it means to be a princess.
Haruka fully embodied that ideal in the second half. Looking at these two courseDifferent people try to destroy her dream, including the amnesiac Beyond. While some of them succeeded in the short term, Haruka always bounced back, pushing her way on the solid foundation of their steadfast denial of her fervent desire to become a princess. This is something Haruka has been dealing with since she was a child, and Kanata’s denial of her dreams is especially heartbreaking because he was the one who encouraged her to achieve her dreams as a child. Even more impressive is her persistence in her aspirations. Likewise, Nan struggles with the rejection of her wishes, although to her, it’s something she’s done to herself. When we first meet her, Nan says her dream is to work for her parents’ company alongside her brother, but over the course of this set of episodes, she realizes that’s not necessarily what she wants to do. Instead, she wants to become a marine biologist, specializing in the veterinary care of marine mammals, which is foreshadowed when she introduces her friends to Tina, a wild dolphin with whom she has a close bond. But Nan is conflicted about her new dream, part of her thinks she shouldn’t have it – she is hypothesis Working with her family. As she struggles, her powers as a healing mermaid gradually diminish, and they don’t fully return until she admits she wants to take another path. Just like Haruka realizes that “princess” isn’t a literal wish, Minami comes to terms with what she wants to do, which defines her character arc, and in accepting it, she ultimately comes to terms with herself.
Kiara’s struggle is a little different. From her first appearance, she’s not entirely sure she can balance being a healer, her modeling career, and school, and by episode forty-two, she starts to think she has to make a change immediately. She’s not entirely happy with this, and it has serious consequences. In episode forty-three, she realizes this isn’t a binary choice. Kilala able Doing all of this, just not at the same time──but she still has a long way to go in life. If Haruka is about moving forward, Minami is about learning to understand yourself, Kirara is about balance: you can have it all, but you have to find a way to do it. It would have been easy for the three girls to fall into that kind of despair that Towa would be brainwashed or take over Chrollo’s body, but they didn’t. They keep fighting, finding a way forward, and if there’s any message in the second half of this season, it’s that even when things get tough after you’re done crying, you pick yourself up and try again.
Yui is a great example. older Sailor Moon Fans may remember the joke that Molly (Naru) is the official power source of the Negative World, with Yui ostensibly being her successor. The poor girl was targeted at least four times, only to be passively locked in a cage and instead constantly fought against her oppressors. She keeps fighting until she saves herself in the final battle, proving that you don’t need to transform to be a superhero. Yui gains strength from watching her friends fight, and her determination and dreams allow her to find the strength she needs within herself. Haruka says no matter who you are you can be a princess. Yui proved it.
All this combined makes go! Princess PreCure One of, if not the strongest this The Strongest Season will be officially released in English. The characters, especially Haruka and Yui, show steady growth, and they don’t just exist as thematic elements of the show; They embody them. use sleeping Beauty The imagery of tangled thorn vines and villains who steal dreams and put the dreamer to sleep helps to show the growth of the heroine and completely changes the idea of a passive princess. Many people overlook the fact that Sleeping Beauty is very active before going to bed. If she hadn’t gone out and explored, she wouldn’t have found the spindle. In many early versions she was punished for this, but go! Princess Girls don’t allow anyone to do this to them – Yui’s growing strength is a testament to this. The story also takes into account bad times. When the final villain is not defeated but retreats, and when Haruka cries after saying goodbye to the other side, the story acknowledges that sometimes things yes Bad. We have to leave someone, we encounter obstacles, we cry. But the important thing is: even if bad things happen, you keep going. It’s okay to cry and feel hopeless. Pick yourself up later. Keep chasing your dreams and one day you will achieve it.