I am wondering why they are so "lazy" with the OP animation, too. The most visible changes came after Parfait debut, and those are minor (mere add ons, nothing is redrawn odr re-arranged). There are however two intriguing things to note regarding the OP: 1. When the girls are shown in the sliding show (sec. 23 - 30), you can see evil fairies in Himari & Yukari shot. The first few episodes show Gummi under Himari's desk, as well as Hotto underneath a mannequin while Yukari is shopping. In later episodes, but before Parfait-version (!), they change position and appear more prominently behind the lamp and bahind the mannequin, respectively. 2. There is a long intro version, giving some details about Precure legend and showing Lumiere. That long intro ver., though even being released on 2nd vocal album and 2nd OST, has never been shwon after ep. 7 or so.
This makes me wonder if something, that was furtherly planned out, had to change due to some (unknown?) event??? PreÀLa is created by the same person who did Go!Pri, right? Latter series was extremly well planned, even the OP changed with every newly added character!
Yeah, GoPri OP were great - every single new person the girls met were added to the OP, Stop and Freeze were added week after they appeared in the show, Kanata briefly disappeared from the OP (fortunately, only briefly!! I was so freaking worried when he didn't show in the OP for the first time!) and Towa/Scarlet immediately looked like part of the team. And as much as I hate MTP, second OP was amazing. Not only Toei made Felice look like part of the team, they even added a little montage of Haa growing up from a baby fairy into a teenage girl!
KiraKira OP was nice until Parfait appeared - Toei just got so freaking lazy with this one and put her into random places. Honestly, they had four weeks to fix this because we had the movie promotion OP!!! Julio isn't the bad guy for like 20 episodes now but they didn't even remove him from the "bad guy" spot. Nor did they add Bibury, Elisio, Glaive and Noir.
Did HapCharge's change much? I know they kept Queen Mirage in for the whole show but, I don't recall too much else being touched up.
belltier_user They do have the same head writer, yeah. Though, I... don't think he'd have much say in terms of how the OP is put together. If they did, I'd love to ask Shoji Yonemura a few questions regarding Smile's OP credits, haha.
There are however two intriguing things to note regarding the OP:
1. When the girls are shown in the sliding show (sec. 23 - 30), you can see evil fairies in Himari & Yukari shot. The first few episodes show Gummi under Himari's desk, as well as Hotto underneath a mannequin while Yukari is shopping. In later episodes, but before Parfait-version (!), they change position and appear more prominently behind the lamp and bahind the mannequin, respectively.
2. There is a long intro version, giving some details about Precure legend and showing Lumiere. That long intro ver., though even being released on 2nd vocal album and 2nd OST, has never been shwon after ep. 7 or so.
This makes me wonder if something, that was furtherly planned out, had to change due to some (unknown?) event??? PreÀLa is created by the same person who did Go!Pri, right? Latter series was extremly well planned, even the OP changed with every newly added character!
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KiraKira OP was nice until Parfait appeared - Toei just got so freaking lazy with this one and put her into random places. Honestly, they had four weeks to fix this because we had the movie promotion OP!!! Julio isn't the bad guy for like 20 episodes now but they didn't even remove him from the "bad guy" spot. Nor did they add Bibury, Elisio, Glaive and Noir.
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belltier_user They do have the same head writer, yeah. Though, I... don't think he'd have much say in terms of how the OP is put together. If they did, I'd love to ask Shoji Yonemura a few questions regarding Smile's OP credits, haha.
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