This one’s actually not that bad for being a Magical Girl show. Once you get past the product placement (which is in every magical girl series, really), it’s pretty good. The girls actually fight back against the monsters and bad guys through physical contact, rather than simply generally relying on Magical Abilities and using those all the time. Most of the time, they do finish them off with a special attack though.

My only issue is… well… The materials that Toei supplied you guys. Unfortunately, instead of redoing the subtitles onto better masters, they simply redumped the Nippon Golden Network tapes and uploaded those. Whatever the source of those tapes were, they have some annoying hissing. Some episodes are better than others.

Ah well.

Having said that, atleast it’s up and available for free for people who want to check it out.

I like the new stuff

Pretty Cure is the only show I’m interested in from this Toei partnership. So I’ll be sure to watch it. It’s too bad we can’t get something like GeGeGe no Kitaro that would really benefit from this kind of distribution.

Pretty Cure was the only of the Toei series that really caught my attention. No snobbery involved, I’ll watch anything old or new, this just happened to be the only one that jumped out at me.

I hope the materials you got aren’t quite as bad as Mendinso indicated. (And if any DVDs were to ever come out in the future, I hope the best material could be gotten.)

Personally, I’d like to see Toei stop messing around and grant Funi the big series digital deals like for One Piece.

Hooray that you got this, great to see it available for free

Boo for the crappy masters they gave you.

This series is well worth watching though, so if you’re not put off by hissy audio, go watch it.

I’ve watched episodes 1-5 so far and Pretty Cure is quite good. The hissy audio and non-Funi subs aren’t good but the show is very enjoyable with fun leads. Nagisa is so far my favorite. I agree with her mild irritation at the transforming Mepple and Mipple. (Those two creatures need a cold shower. )

I like Honoka but so far I haven’t quite gotten into her head enough.

I love series where evil infects regular objects and we get freakish, surreal monsters to fight. The Vacuum of Evil was awesome. (Loved how when it was sold later it still had Nagisa’s foot imprint.)

Wish this were getting a Funi dub and an uncut-DVD release. I know it’s getting dubbed and released in Canada but name changes irritate the daylights out of me. (Though they are nothing compared to the new opening. Ick. Funimation knows how to do English songs right but apparently whoever worked on that one doesn’t.)

One thing I like so far is that although it’s a bit episodic, the episodes flow together. It feels more like chapters in a book rather than stand alones. I really hope this stream will get people interested in the series again and maybe generate enough revenue and interest that a DVD release (please with dub) becomes a reality.

Come on Toei, this deal is already a damn good decision, make it pure epic win!

Anyway, here’s hoping for more magical girl licenses, especially dubbed ones, in the future. (HINT: I want Nanoha StrikerS licensed and dubbed please.)

The plans for a DVD release depends on the property. When we provide the Press Release on FUNimation.com, you can read the details on what rights have been acquired. Some shows are purely a digital acquisition like Phantom where we only have the rights for digital streaming. That’s not to say we won’t get DVD distribution rights in the future, but we won’t know until later.

I just finished watching it and other than the hissing noise issue and the Max Heart preview being kept in the last episode when that season is not in the list of shows (damn Toei) this show overall was indeed awesome.