I was wondering if you could help with a problem. I'm trying to do an oc for every precure team/season. I'm not even close to this season yet but, I have no clue what to do for hugtto. I don't really get their concept. Most teams have a central theme and similar ish outfits but hugtto is kind of all over the place. Any tips?
I don’t have a very good answer since this is a problem I have myself as well.
I haven’t written much anything about Huggto, but let it be known that I’m not a fan of the magical outfit designs of the season. I don’t think their designs look interesting enough on their own, but there’s not enough of a theme for them to look nice as a group either. And first there’s the whole career thing going on, but then they go and make an “idol” design. Which I don’t like, because 1) there’s been plenty of idols in Precure already, pick something that’s new and unique for this season, 2) I’ve read enough about the problems of the teen idol business that I wouldn’t mind them appearing a bit less in shows aimed at little girls, 3) idol outfits already look so similar to magical girl outfits that it’s kind of boring to magical girl-ify one, 4) then they go and waste two character design opportunities on this idol theme and 5) don’t have the decency to include the see through fabric in them that was the only unifying thing in the first three designs. Can you tell that Amour and Macherie didn’t exactly wow me with their looks?
And then there are the minor Cures who totally fail to utilise this whole career based outfits idea, like it shouldn’t be that hard to make a magic chef or police or astronaut outfit, but no, everyone (apart from Infini I guess) just has a generic one colour fantasy getup. HapiCha was a mess writing wise, but it sure got the outfit department right.
(seriously though, the character designer has done 3 Precure seasons and all of them are on my not-so-liked Precure design list, though this time for the opposite reason as the boring sameyness of Yes and Smile. I’d rather not have them design any more Precure…)
Ahem, sorry I got a bit sidetracked, you probably didn’t expect to unleash a rant that has been building up for months. Now onto your question. I would say
Pick a career that has an identifiable outfit
Add some frills, ribbons and general weirdness to it
Include some see through fabric somewhere
Finish with the PreHeart.
Sorry, I don’t think I can be much more help with this.