#heartcatch

[pretzlforpresident]

itsubomi my niche queens

[cosmic-nopedog]

I wanted to draw tsubomi :3c

[artofsoleil]

My 2025 wallpaper

Cure Blossom amidst the flowers

[karensparkle]

I draw Erika more than I draw my OC's

[curewimdy]

we need to look past the old cgi and respect the first Heartcatch ed for 1) being an absolute bop and 2) having the girls go through a couple of civilian outfits before transforming into their Cure forms midway through. i don't think a single other Precure cgi dance ed has done this because making models for multiple outfits and hairstyles creates so much extra work. it's honestly pretty technically impressive and so so charming. the dance is great too

[shmell0]

Myoudouin-sempai!!!

[b0ytemper]

watching heartcatch precure and feeling conflicted because itsuki is really endearing, but i can’t stop feeling sour that any time mainstreamish media does a gender identity narrative it’s always about a girl embracing femininity. like wow it’s okay for a girl to be girly? how groundbreaking.

like, for sure, the pressure on girls and women to reject hyperfemininity in order to be taken seriously under patriarchy is a real issue. i’m sure there were girls who felt seen by itsuki and that’s great. but i can’t help but also think of all the little girls out there who wish they could be more masculine without getting shunned for it, or the ones who don’t want to be girls at all, seeing a girl who looks like their ideal self shaking off their masculinity like it’s a burden and joining all the other normal feminine little girls in frilly dresses and perfume land. it’s never allowed to be about girl who WANTS to be more masculine, it’s never about a character realizing they’re trans, it’s never a man being encouraged to embrace his inner femininity.

and they have to come up with this crazy convoluted reason that barely makes sense for her to actually end up in that situation. like what ten year old watching this show is going to see itsuki struggling with gender expression because she feels pressured to disguise herself as a boy by her mysterious rich family to cover for her sicky femboy older brother and think that’s relatable or map that onto their own feelings and experiences at all

like i’m not expecting this japanese children’s cartoon to cater to me, white american 25 year old man, but it’s not just precure, it’s everywhere, so i’m bitching about precure because that’s what i’m watching right now. it honestly would have made more sense than the weird convoluted rich secret gender swap thing to just fully commit to what they seem to be trying to say with her character and made her a boy who’s either just longing to embrace his feminine interests, or straight up a closeted trans girl who comes out when she becomes a magical girl. i’m gonna watch the rest of the season pretending itsuki is a trans girl for my sanity

[m00nb04rd5]

Sharon (Tropical Rouge Precure)