Star☆Twinkle Precure: Hoshi no Uta ni Omoi wo Komete

My favorite Precure of the season do cute things, the fight scenes are well-animated, got me to tear up a couple of times. That's all I'm asking for from a Precure movie. If I get those things I am perfectly satisfied and this one delivered. Lots of slapstick with Lala which is the best condition for that character. Some of the constellation forms look great, others look more ridiculous than a clown but I've come to terms with reality. Nice to see the Star Twinkles animated in forms other than their defaults. There's a really good world exploration scene that could pass for an advertisementfor planet earth. There's something important we have to discuss though, and that's the character design on the water seijin. The water-themed hunter that played a villainous role. That thing is extremely physically attractive. I want to be its gf or at least have it kill me or something. There are worse ways to die. I'd watch a 48 ep series with that thing as the main character. And that's just talking about its standard form character design, it fights in a really cool way too. The other hunters were of course really awesome but I want to bashfully hold hands with water seijin.

I love the Precure series, and Star Twinkle has quickly become one of my favourite seasons. I seldom ever watch the movies based on the iconic magical girl franchise, unless they directly tie into the anime's plot. I was expecting Hoshi no Uta ni Omoi wo Komete to be one of the better movies, but all it did was remind me of why I avoid these films in the first place. Honestly, all this film did was bore me. While it has some cute moments with the new alien, Yuma, and a girl trying to take Fuwa home as a plushie, the story was boring. Iam of the mindset that a movie based on a TV show really needs to justify itself with an amazing plot not possible in a 22 minute episode, and not only was the movie not an improvement from the anime, in all departments but the animation it was a downgrade! It's just mindblowing that they're able to make an interesting concept like an alien that can be dangerous with the wrong influences and turn it into something so boring. The biggest problem I had was how boring the villains were. We have grown to love Kappard, Tenjo, and the other villains from the anime, and the movie would have been a perfect opportunity to expand upon these characters or even finish Tenjo's arc in a larger than life way. Instead, we waste our time with a group of new elemental villains who are bland and generic. They are not threatening or interesting at all, the stakes feel so low even when the cures are trying to protect this alien. I wouldn't be surprised if these guys were rejected villains from the first draft of the anime. Of course the animation is spectacular, that would be the one redeeming aspect of the movie, but unless you're here solely for the animation and nothing else, this movie is very unlikely to satisfy you as a Star Twinkle Precure fan.

I didn't end up paying that much attention to it, so I'm not going to be too hard on it. Nonetheless, it seemed like the whole point of this movie was that they met a cute ("cute") animal and wanted to take care of it and then other people wanted to get in the way of that and they stopped them. That's it. Heck, even the DokiDoki movie I didn't really care for had the ambition to try for a more interesting theme. It didn't help that I also haven't seen the show, so I didn't have any frame of reference to observe their actions with.(And because of simultaneous production scheduling, these movies inevitably end up characterizing the girls differently anyway) So, if I haven't watched the show, why did I watch this...? Because I found a fandub entitled "Glitter Force Galaxy The Movie" and I just absolutely could not resist that. I'm all for fandubbing as an extension of extra-Japanese anime fandom. I wish there was more support for it overall, because it was just a delight to cheer on the performers!

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