She hadn't even uttered a single line, yet she had already driven all the otaku in Japan into a frenzy, boosting the sales of the Precure series to unprecedented heights. How did she do it?
Step 1: Be evil
>>285986952Stop liking evil women
>>285987091Stop getting redeemed
>>285986952She likes ice cream.
>>285986952idk but air intakes still being on vogue is great. Big friends liked Mahoustukai too so this show being from the same writer will hopefully give it a similar appeal.
>>285987399She's strong!
>>285987091Evil women are for domestication. She will become my maid, then my wife.
>>285986952I'll be honest I only incidentally click on any precure thread because this character is in the OP
>>285988852Based
>>285986952the design's pretty cute but the character also looks like an otaku targetted magical girl and she has pitiable lore that makes her moe.I think as I get older, i actually find this part weirder though; the idea that I'm supposed to yearn for a certain character our of a form of misplaced paternalism that stems from perceiving them as helpless or vulnerable.I feel like it's bad for self-actualisation if you condition yourself into experiencing relationships as hinging on an axis of "helpful" and "helpless".
>>285986952Zonda?
>>285991195I get the vague feeling that this season's a little strong on the otaku pandering. Arcana Shadow feeling that way may be intentional.
>>285986952>boosting the sales of the Precure series to unprecedented heightsreally? I can't wait to see the chart
na nana
>>285986952Artificial hype.
>>285991817
>>285983018Been here from the beginning: >>285991856
>>285987399>>285988805AI is getting way too good at this
>>285987399>>285988805AI keeps getting shittier and shittier
>>285991747
>>285992038Are you twelve? Do you really think your low effort shitpsots are funny? There's no humor to editing a post above yours if your statement ends up being completely wrong. This format only works if following post is correct, or at least less incorrect than the one preceeding it.
>>285992038lmao you're funny
>>285991953These people are really predicable, they believe they're "free thinkers" when everything they do is just [hates/downplays popular thing].
>>285992048The local stores going out of stock on things could mean the chart looks very nice if it's not just managers being bad at stocking things. Toei should be able to afford to bring Super Sentai back to life in no time!
>>285987399Is Ultraman good? Also what do you call that? Super Suit?
>>285992139The important thing here is that it's Arcana alone going out of stock. Others are behaving normally. Precure is a twenty years old franchise, stores know how to stock it up. Arcana merch going out of stock shows how unique this situation is - especially since she has yet to debut.
>>285992204Even a simple typo or misclick could lead to stocking issues. It doesn't have to be lack of ignorance or stupidity. Another indicator though is all the art. I don't think you can really judge anything by the volume of AI art, but there are a lot of real artists drawing her.
>>285992285*lack of experienceI thought ignorance sounded better and flubbed the edit. Sorry, Sango.
>>285986952Thanks!
>>285991747Starting January 25, 2026, Precure's products have been selling out instantly every day, a level of popularity that even HeartCatch PreCure in 2010 never achieved.>Keyword search>precure + sold outhttps://x.com/search?q=プリキュア%20完売&src=typed_query&f=live>precure + popularityhttps://x.com/search?q=プリキュア%20人気&src=typed_query&f=live
>>285992048those are bad men
>>285986952wut?
>>285992179I think Ultraman is the more underrated tokusatsu franchise still running.It's the rare case of a kid's franchise doing 24 eps per season instead of a full year because the production values are higher (or at least the post-2010 seasons are like that).Personally though I only watched the first two seasons, I would say the first one (1966, it's not even a 70s show) was downright revolutionary as a superhero show on TV, period.I think Ultraseven (second season) is more interesting, it has higher highs and lower lows, but the highs are great and downright iconic. You can find out references to these shows in all sorts of anime, hell the whole "monsters in capsule" thing of Pokemon actually came from Ultraseven, as well as many monster designs.
>>285992358The mark up on Arcana Shadow cure friends dolls that scalpers are actually successfully selling is insane. People will pay anything to get their hands on her.
>>285992285>typo>missclick>in countless stores across Japan, on dozens of different types of merch, ones which are standardized between all characters to be present in same amountsAnon, use your brain.Arcana beign unusually popular is an absolute fact.
>>285986952The Arcana is the means in which turns the future into profitable business growth.
>>285992358if only Cure Mofurun got that kind of hype around her. probably it couldnt be because MOVIE EXCLUSIVE, but maybe that could have given her a more than 3 min cameo at the end of Maho2.hopefully IF theres a Maho3, they finally make her a regular.
>>285991210Darkness
>>285992619also... while i do trust the man behind Maho and ST with a good enough story, i feel it would be a miracle to make a series on the level of Heartcatch.
>>285991195since she hasnt debuted yet, and she wont for at least like 5 eps. people are coming up with all sorts of shit for her personality. theres anons who want her utterly obsessed with Icecream, theres anons who think she is gonna try to act all evil, but when fighting the cures she will be all 'piss her pants' shy. theres anons who want her to be a Yuki Nagato 'no emotions, no fun' expy.a lot fof people ate gonna be really dissapointed when she appears actually. and yeah, i know she appears in next eps. preview, but a 10 second scene of her spouting cryptic bullshit while sitting on a rooftop, invisible to anyone except the audience is not really a debut.
>>285992461brutal
>>285991195So what, you just want girlbosses?Talking in the context of family, the most long-lasting relationships always have a "top" and a "bottom", a leader and a follower. Sure people can complement each other and a relationship is all about giving and receiving, not just receiving, but it's not like it's completely unrealistic either to want "bottom" qualities in a partner either, at least in the right dosage. When it comes down to two dominant people in a relationship it won't last very long because no one is willing to listen. Obviously your argument goes beyond the context of family and also into friendships, the leader/follower dynamic also kinda exist there but it's less heightened because people who don't live together can share more of the victories and less of the defeats, which is to say they have to deal less with your bad aspects so that's why it doesn't matter as much.That all said, in the first place why are you only allowing yourself to enjoy characters that can serve as "ideals"? Because that's the implication when you use the word "it's bad for self-actualisation if you condition yourself", do you think it's indulgent to have pet? To have a kid to care of? There's no need to reject basic human impulses, Precure is a franchise full of dorks in the first place so this is hardly something new, we had clumsy characters, we had characters that needed redemption, I'm sure a lot of people thought of Precure characters as "daughters" before, and if they did, so what?"Misplaced paternalism" would imply that it's wrong to have those emotions, that you're either being manipulated or that enjoying endearing "negative" traits in FICTION is not ideal.Is traditional theater also manipulative for having gripping stories that makes you feel for characters? Fiction in the first place is a reflection of what we value in the real world, and that might be the wish of protecting and proving (like for a wife and daughter). Its in our DNA and [ran out of space]
>>285991678Many of the aspects you associate with "otaku pandering" actually originate from shoujo manga.
>>285986952She has loose morals
>>285993901I don't knowwhat that anon meant but armpits focus is very strong otaku pandering and something I immediately took note of while watching the episode.
>>285994165Armpit focus goes back as far as HappinessCharge but I'm sure you can find earlier examples.
Where is the Pretty Holic promotion?
name this rock album
I'm tired of boys in Precure and the removal of Yuri which was a core concept of precure. The twins were right in leaving forever...
>>285994490
>A guy is here...>*sigh* What do you want? And make it quick.
>>285994521nice try but I actually watch these shows unlike all the posters here do, also im sick of seeing asian shit so next time scrub out the moonrunes.
>>285994683The point is boys have been in Precure since the very beginning so it's weird to act as if it's some recent trend.
>>285994683>I actually watch these shows>im sick of seeing asian shitWhat do you do when the lyrics come up on the screen for the OP and ED? Or any sign or paper appears in-universe? Close your eyes and hope it goes away by the time you open them again? Does it make you cry?
>>285994165okay fair that one is on itaoka
>>285991210It really is a 10/10 design.
>>285991210Hag her up
>>285995569Nah
>>285992679Fate
>>285996044Arcana probably isn't a lesbian, though.
>>285996102She isn't one... yet
>>285996240if she's going to be a mom then...she's going to get some "ice cream" first...
>>285986952Would detective precure have swimsuit episode unlike Idol precure? Swimsuit ep is tradition of precure.
>>285994490>removal of YuriYuri is only in HC
>>285996429No.>But why?Because I work at Toei and I told them so.
>>285986952She looks like a fate character
>>285996804She looks like starrail character. She looks like Firefly from starrail. Zetz's hyper battle video used Firefly's plug suit.
>>285996804Cure Arcana Shadow solos Gilgamesh, Japanese JC conceptual advantage
>>285986952She doesn't have the usual silliness that Precure designs do and blonde hair + red eyes is a killer combo that anons already posted
>>285997216Pure blond sucks. Blond + pink hair is the meta now. Get on with the time old man
>>285996240I'm looking forward to butterfly on lily action
>>285986952She is what meroron wanted to be.Plus cute feet.
>>285987315>>285996266>ice cream
>>285992038White.>>285992099Brown.
>>285991678They literally hired the 100kano anime guy for character designs. It was explicitly marketed to big friends. Of course they were hoping to score a wide net.
>>285994490The twins left because Narita wouldn't let them have Rin x Nuts.
>>285992285I remember at the end of last year, many people were already touting the January anime season as the strongest in history, but in the end, none of the anime that aired in January were as popular as this year's Precure.
>>285986952Goth Girl is the easiest way to bait Otaku whales into investing in a kids show. Same thing happened with Aikatsu a decade ago, it was decently successful at first but then Yurika debuted midway through the first season and its popularity exploded into new heights.It does make you wonder too how they didn't do this earlier. Dark Dream, Dark Precure, Regina and Bibury were all extremely popular characters. They never actually capitalized on any of them beyond a few shirts or wallscrolls for them.
>>286001069>>286001661>>286001825The tech's a little wonky but it really is making leaps and bounds compared to last year. Will it be over for animators and inbetweeners soon?
>>286003475nah, there's no logical continuum to this
>>286003582>bilibili->twitter->4chan
>>286003475Look at Vivio vs Einhard and then look at those AI slops. Still a long way
>>285993685>So what, you just want girlbosses?
>>285986952uncslop
>>286003825>64k viewsThat's not a lot, 2bh
>>286004230In fact, the first day's live stream had already garnered over 130,000 views, and Precure had the highest number of views of all programs on the entire niconico website on the same day, ranking first not only in the animation charts but also in the overall charts.
>>286004230It tripled in the meantime, but yeah, of course it's going to be a low number since niconico is in general an awful platform for watching anime.People usually watch it on TV.Only the most hardcore oldfag fans go to the niconico release (which btw is a week behind) there specifically to have fun with the on-screen comments, which are a unique feature of niconico.Precure specifically attracted the largest number of viewers this season since it's the first entry that's on there, and everyone went crazy about the news that a franchised aimed at preschool girls is going to allow stinky middle-age otaku to make public comments shown to everyone on the screen by default.
>>286003825
>>286004230Furthermore, Niconico is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kadokawa and serves as a promotional network platform for Kadokawa's light novel adaptations. Theoretically, children's anime like Precure would be at a disadvantage on Kadokawa's platform.
>>286003825>>286004317Can you link this page? I'd like to check it out every now and then.
>>286004497These images were posted by two twitter users; I don't visit that website.
>>286004530Ah right, filenames do suggest images were taken from twitter. I'll try to fiddle with nico next time. I tried looking for it in the past but gave up quickly.
>>286004497https://www.nicovideo.jp/ranking
Is the makopi anon still alive?
>>286004497
>>286003475The most logical use of this tech is to guide the AI using keyframes to completely streamline production.
>>286004594>>286004624Thank you.Did they change the layout? I don't remember nico using the screen space this well in the past.
>>286004631
>>286004530Go back.
Based on this, Precure is indeed Niconico's most popular show, at least this week.
