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Yay for all the Gainax poses. Liked the animation quality jump this episode (especially with all the livelier character animation and the thinner outlines), even Skearhead in the desert looked kinda cool, or at least more expressive and rounder. A lot of quality expressions too, like when the Precures couldn't warp and when everybody came back to visit. The insert song going over the henshin scene was pretty hype (and so was the Sekai Punch, which kinda reminded me of Symphogear again).

Overall a pretty solid show (and the first Precure that I've finished while airing!). Pacing felt a bit weird throughout, but maybe half of that was that I couldn't binge episodes like I could with other Precure shows.

I think I like the name Skearhead better than Darkhead, but I like the cape he gained and the speckly animated skin. Transportation powers always make for fun fights (and always seemingly tend to be used by villains in anime, I guess due to the easy thematic extension to duplicity?). Seems like the enemy strongholds are always in dark blues and purples in this franchise. Turning Sora's ideals of hero and strength against her is pretty nice for a ending sorta-conflict (and I like her design with the black wings). Sora blended for with Darkhead made for some pretty awesome animation (and Darkhead getting more angry and flustered let his VA act with less of a subdued tone), especially that giant flaming fist sorta attack (which incidentally sorta reminds me of Symphogear but only kinda). Kinda wish dark-themed Sora lasted a bit longer and got to wreak more havoc but oh well.

Alright, I'm here. (copy/pasting my comments from the other site)

I like it how Prism Light is "gentle light" when Mashiro charges it up spirit bomb DBZ style. Mirror Pad Maintenance Mode is pretty amusing with its low-res representation of the barrier in all its pixelated glory and the cheesy "beep boop" AM/FM-synthy sorta noises, kinda reminds me of the sounds in Kraftwerk's Pocket Calculator. Kabaton's fart attack was pretty amusing too. I guess I should've seen the "strength isn't everything" realization being the turning point in the ep coming, with how much the theme has popped up.