My Initial thoughts and hopes on Tropical Rouge Precure!

Hi, Everyone! It has been two months since my last post and if you think I kicked the bucket (Well, of course not!) I am still around but you can tell from the last few episodes of Healing Good Precure, I am not really keen in doing the reviews as it felt like fillers or rather episodes that were supposed to come out three months ago and now showing it. 

I felt that Toei doesn't want to waste those delayed episodes that were done already and aired it now which leave myself very uninterested. I will probably pick back the series once the final quarter begins but until then, let's talk about Tropical Rouge Precure!

So when the initial title was announced a few weeks back, my head was trying to guess what the theme of the show will be- since Tropical and Rouge are in the title, it most probably had to do with the ocean and beach for Tropical. For Rouge, I took a wild guess that it is probably fashion and sure enough, I was right about for this new season.

From what it was described in the synopsis which is about our new lead, Natsumi Manatsu moved to Aozora City and encountered a real-life mermaid named Laura and her companion Kururu who are finding the legendary Precures to battle an Evil Witch who has conquered Laura's kingdom in the ocean. 

It sounds too familiar like Happiness Charge and Go Princess's plotline but what this new season stand out was instead of a Pink Cure, we have a White (or Rainbow) Cure as the main lead! Natsumi will become Cure Summer (which Natsumi is the Japanese word for Summer) and instead of Pink hair, we are getting a Blond with shades of primary colours for Cure Summer. (Maybe because Zekaiger who is also a Multicolour ranger and it is also Super Sentai 45th anniversary next year, Toei might want to do something special between the two series)

Rounding up the rest of the cast, we have Suzumuru Sango who becomes Cure Coral (Sango is the Japanese word for Coral), Ichinose Minori who becomes Cure Papaya (Ichinose means Waves in Japanese) and Takizawa Asuka as Cure Flamingo (Takizawa means Graceful Waterfall). Probably interesting that this team doesn't follow the usual primary colours which I am okay with that as long as the story and characters are interesting enough. 

My only hopes that it doesn't get delayed like Healing Good and we will end up having storylines that don't make any sense or do not add anything into the whole narration of the series. From the way this promo picture look, the girls are holding their weapons which is another rod stick gimmick, I really want back my physical fights again. Healing Good has the issues of holding the stick on one hand and not doing much with non dormant hands or even their legs. Other than that, not much to say until we get a voice cast list and the first promo video to predict how the overall tone of the show will be. 

So who is your favourite cure for Tropical Rouge based on your initial thoughts? Mine is Cure Flamingo since I am a sucker for tough girls with a soft heart. Until then, see you in the next post! Happy New Year and hope for a better year in 2021!