The folk song Beatrix had on her audio player was Sakura Sakura, which seems fitting for her character.

The lighting at the beginning was quite nice with the long shadows and everything, feels like this show doesn’t show off lighting like that often. I wanna see Bocchan in a skirt, why not show us that in a Viola’s imagination scene smh. Nico’s and Flea’s hair remind me of Kirika from Symphogear.

The intro was quite pretty, but mb I would’ve liked more of that worldbuilding sprinkled into the rest of the season, feels kinda weird tojust put it in the last episode. The transitions to the performances are kinda abrupt in this series, particularly in this last ep. It kinda makes me want the performances in less usual idol-garb and their fantasized stages and stick closer to the theming in the rest of the show, but eh.

I liked this show and it’s been a show I’ve been most looking forward to watching week-to-week , it’s on the prettier side of shows and more aligned with my usual preferences as a SOL. Yeah, pacing throughout the show has been a little weird and the same sorts of events to push the plot forward was a little annoying, but the fantasy world is pretty interesting (and wouldn’t mind seeing another season or two of), both the OST and new Aquors tunes were nice, and I’d say Yoshiko ahem,… Yohane was probably one of my favorites from the original series. Yeah, the themes of finding yourself and finding your place in the world and how that relates to everybody else aren’t super unique, but the way the show tied it to expressing yourself and putting yourself out there through song and also tying it to the whole “kokoro no oto” thing and Lailaps was pretty nice.

I guess being Cure Majesty is rubbing off on Ellee’s speech abilities? “Descend, mystical nobility! Cure Majesty!” seems pretty complicated for a toddler to say. Or maybe the scriptwriters are abandoning trying to organically develop toddler speech patterns… I kinda like how Ellee’s patty-cake affinities paid off with opening the ruins, which are incidentally reminding me of Link to the Past. Also, I guess we foreshadowing again with Ellee saving Mashiro in her play fight at the beginning of the ep. I wonder if Ellee could’ve figured out the hands thing like Cure Majesty did.

Anyways, I’m pretty sure Minoton wanted to defeat the Precures even before the undergu energy shenanigans? I still can’t unhear Kaguya with Cure Majesty. Nice that we got new music cues this ep. The fight scene animation looked nice and energetic too. This episode’s themes were pretty nice with the ideas of trust and protection and how they intermingle. Majestic Chroniclon kinda feels similar to Mix Palette (whatever that’s supposed to actually do) but whatever, the animation is really cool and they get to do Majestic Halation, which of course inevitably reminds me of Snow Halation, which is good.

If that really was Flea in the anime, why was he wearing a shirt?

I kinda wonder if that little gold bird sculpture was there in previous episodes and/or has any significance, other than giving something with the characters to play with and to give some dynamism to the scene by falling off the fireplace.

Mentioning killing Sade seemed a little too inconsequential? There’s probably more to that whole situation.

It seems like Lailaps and Yohane’s staff have a tendency to get lost in this series… Quibbles about plot structure repetitions aside, I liked how this plotline has played out with connecting Lailaps’s talking (and Yohane being the only one being able to hear her talk) with growing up (and the breaking of the “spell”). Plus, I liked how Lailaps got connected to the titular mirror and showing Yohane the magic (and sunshine) she had in her all along. It was nice having a little parallel to the Lailaps/Yohane plot event with Sakura too.

The animation when Yohane first cast her “spell” on Lailaps was nice and the music was too, think that was my favorite scene if this ep. The lyrics were probably important to the whole emotional climax and I guess I’ll have to look elsewhere as to what they were…

I can’t imagine the mental whiplash of being non-toddler Cure Majesty (who doesn’t seem to act like a toddler) and toddler Ellee and kinda hurts my head to think about, like things she would only understand as a non-toddler but still somehow remembering in a way as a toddler? In any case, it’s fun having Aoi Koga using a non-toddler voice for Cure Majesty because it’s easier to imagine Kaguya saying all the lines.

Was kinda half-expecting “ora-ora-ora” or “muda-muda-muda” with punch flurries from Ellee but I guess “da-da-da-da-da-da” works too (and I guess we got “muda muda muda” in a way from Minoton later). The colored-pencil-ish coloring with the thick outlines was a neat aesthetic. Also, I guess the blurry hands she did next was a Bruce Lee reference?

I think the piano + reversed piano bits are my favorite cues in the series, I’m a sucker for the sparseness.

All the lighting this ep was nice, especially when Yohane woke up from her dream and there were the shadows cast by the moon from the window. Also apparently auroras (aurorae?) are part of the ominous fog in this anime, but as somebody who has never seen them irl but is a fan of them and aurora-infused anime, I appreciate it.

Kinda felt weird pacing-wise to go back to the cheer up Yohane bits (esp after the threats of imminent danger that ended last ep/started off this one), but the talent show was fun (I particularly liked Mari’s magic show).

I kinda liked the designs for Hugo’s old “buddies”, they kinda look like they come from a different anime.

Interesting translation of “gyaru” to “trendy girl” (wasn’t there a “trendy guy” in one of the original Pokemon games or something? I forget, it’s been a long long time).

Looks like we have drawing on windows/longing for two episodes in a row.

Ellee the princess starts glowing purple and then an mysterious 5th Precure appears conspicuously with Ellee’s purple colors and calling herself Cure Majesty 👀? And all of this after the whole first bit of Ellee dressing up as all the Precures and then deciding on this purple dress instead 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀? And the ep begins with Ellee drawing herself into the picture with purple 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀? Cure Majesty’s identity is truly a mystery…

In other news, the show seems to be speedrunning Ellee’s talking abilities, now with saying everybody’s names and “I hate you” and “I love you” and cheering on the Precures. The (obviously not foreshadowing things are about to happen) reflecting of Sora on their situation and the temporality (is that even a word) of it all was nice (also, I’m pretty sure out of everyone she’s the one most able to watch Ellee grow up… or maybe all of them will be able to see Ellee grown up 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀👀 👀 👀 👀 👀👀 👀 👀 👀 👀👀 👀 👀 👀 👀👀 👀 👀 👀 👀).

The animation took a big step-up today. The lighting in general was quite nice like during the car scene and Cure Majesty’s hype arrival and the background art for the scene of the fight was quite detailed. Also, the fight included some angles to the Precure moves that I don’t think we’ve seen before (could be wrong on that though). It was kinda funny to see Skearhead bring his hand to his head when he was fighting off Cure Majesty (although I suppose his sphere already turned gold so he already lost).