DaruNodo edit that was literally a nightmare because adobe spark just kept freezing whenever I added a photo of Cure Grace so this was partially made in adobe spark and partially made in microsoft word
I’d initially planned to draw Asumi as she’s my fave Cure from this season but.........DaruNodo
This is only the second PreCure series I’ve seen (the first being the original), and I’m looking forward to seeing more! I really liked this one a lot; while it wasn’t super deep, it had a lot of cute moments. It also had Daruizen which is important lol.
I am still upset about the fact that the creator said Daruizen doesn’t deserve a redemption this goes right against the Quakers values of being a Quaker! People are allowed to redempted and have second chances not this doesn’t apply to everyone! However I think it does apply to him!
that last episode of Healin Good gave me approximately 5ish minutes of DaruNodo interaction and it was really everything I wanted and also with incredible animation so i’m vibrating
thinking once again about how fascinating they are as both perfectly opposite to each other and yet inextricably connected and i have so many emotions tbh
anyway i was gonna apologize for waxing poetic about a ship from a cartoon for nine year olds but then I realized! I’m not sorry! thoughts continued below
like, for one thing, the girls’ new upgraded transformations for Healin Good Arrow are angelic, while the Pathogerms’ evolutions are decidedly demonic, so you’ve already got the demon/angel parallels aesthetically, which I am so so so super into in any possible iteration
But then it’s just like. These two are just so interesting as enemies. They have totally, completely incompatible worldviews that necessitates that they fight each other - Nodoka has grown up surrounded by love and support and the belief that people have to take care of each other, and the desire to give something back to the world that helped her make it through her darkest times. She wants to fix things, to heal, she wants to make people happy and to live life with all the joy she can muster.
Daruizen, on the other hand, is literally a parasitic virus. The only way for him to survive was to take, to hurt. Destroying is the only thing he knows and he thinks that that’s the way it should be. He can’t imagine relying on anyone else, always looking out for himself and no one else - even though he obeys the orders of King Pathogerm, he doesn’t do it out of any sense of loyalty, but only out of his own sense of protecting himself. He can’t see the joy in living things.
These two have to fight each other. There is no other option. Neither of them can live comfortably with the others’ viewpoint, in fact, both of their desired realities actively destroy the other’s.
And yet! There’s also something about them that connects them inextricably that can’t be forgotten. Neither of them would truly exist without the other. For the obvious, Daruizen wouldn’t exist if Nodoka hadn’t been his host. He wouldn’t even be alive without her. But Nodoka, too - her entire worldview stems from a childhood being sick - she’s so enthusiastic about life now that she can live it healthily because her childhood framed her current ideas about the world and her desired reality. If she had never been sick, she’d be a completely different person. Daruizen and Nodoka sharing their lives for a brief time inescapably made who they are today.
And that’s just fascinating to me. I know I’m reading way too far into a cartoon for nine year olds, but the layers to this premise is just so intense that I can’t help it. Two people who would not be themselves without the other, who have no choice but to be opposed to each other - it’s Romantic in the most Gothic sense of the word.
I’m extremely interested to see how their story ends - in any other medium I would say they would have no choice but to end up with either one or both of them destroying each other, but Precure is a little kids’ show, and Daruizen did look pretty surprised here at the end at Nodoka’s determination in her values....
So while I doubt they’ll ever be allies, and Daruizen will likely disappear in some fashion in the way that Precure villains do (from my experience of exactly 1 other precure), I can at least hope that there may be some fundamental change in their relationship as we head towards the end of this series. I’m looking forward to it~
Nodoka is in pain after having a Mega Part forced inside her. However, when Rabirin and the others combine their powers to get it out of her, something else appears... (From: Pretty Cure Wiki)
