heh uuhh Zalure,Comparing that Old School 2012 Season "Smile" to "Hirogaru Sky" is like Comparing Elixers/Eithers (Chrono Trigger) to Poison Mushrooms in SMB: Lost Levels.lol

The Main Difference Here is,that Smile's Fillers Were at least Entertaining,Even Some of the Weird/Cringe ones (The only Smile Filler that outright sucked from that old School season was the OMG I FORGOTZ MY HOMEWORK while we played Carnival Games episode.XD) while these Hirogaru Sky fillers are Just FlatOut/Outright Cringe/Train Wreck/TRASH.lol

and this ep shows,We're almost towards the End Game/FInal Battle Finale,and they waste it with Garbage/Pointless Fillers like this,and not just skearhead Zalure,but all these Generals Flat Out SUCK ass,especially Battamonda !! Uhhhh Writers??? Look,if your not gonna do anything useful with this guy,for the love of God,just kill this Loser Clown off already??? and yeahhh uhhh....uh huh.......That whole thing with Battamonda trying to get close to Mashiro and her feelings was not doing me any favors this week.

and really,at this Point,Skearhead is no longer a character/Villian,but instead just a random Plot Device as an excuse to Drag out a pointless Storyline that no Longer has a basic Keyplot anymore other than "OMG LETS Kidnap This Bratty Baby Named Elle Chan who's suppose to BE CHILD OF DESTINY!!!"

Oh and about this week's Pokemon Horizons,Yep,not much on Black Rayqueza this week Zalure,but instead,all we get is some much needed backstory on Orio and why she became this Rising Valt Tacker;s Main Ship Engineer in the first place.but heres the big taker on this one Zalure!.......she used to work as a Ship Engineer in the Hoen Region in the past (Yes! That Classic gen 3 Region where May is From!!!!!!!!!!) heh,wasn't expecting that!

Now yes,I know that this Season is an entirely new storyline in it's own universe,but i wonder how the outcome would have been if Orio had met Version of May from that classic gen 3 region.lol

Yeah,not much for the rest of this ep,except Roy makes a Dumb Ass out of himself pissing off a Group of galar region Versions of Weezing testing out Khana's Epic Failed Fake/Poke-ball Experiments.......but yeah,this Khana Sucks big time,and Orio proved a point right here fixing her Fake Pokeballs maker machine heh.

Overall,Kind of a Weak Sauce ep,but at least we now know why the Rising Volt Tackers chose her as the ship's main Engineer!

Before i close this off,i also want to point out this one bit of dialouge that Bell said at the beginning of this Episode!:P

https://i.imgur.com/F2jjuNa.png

"At this Rate,Nothing will change. Nothing will be changed"

Bell....HOney!!!.....you just took the words right out of my Mouth right there!....because thats exactly how I describe the majority of Hirogaru Sky's 2nd Half in a Nutshell!!

Wow,even Toei Animation no longer have faith in they're own actual regular 2023 Mainline Season anymore.lol

but joking aside,you can Tell right off the bat Zalure that Toei Animation putted more budget and effort into this one short Spinoff series,than the majority of Hirogaru sky in general. sadly though,this spinoff will only be 12 episodes from what i heard,which is a shame,because This Otano/Adult Yes 5 Spinoff is soooooo Freaken Good!

which another small highlight here is,the way urara calmed that baby down also prooves she hasn't completly forgotten about her singing career from the original 2007 Yes 5/Gogo Seasons,but unfortionatly had to take a backseat to her recent Acting Career. also another highlight moment in this episode is that cocoa is starting to get much Closer to admiting his feelings for Nozomi right here! and yeah eh......that apartment building he was planning on renting earlier in the episode,when he found out that nozomi lives just next door to him.lol

another big take away was the song that was playing during Cure Lemonaid's/Urara's FIght against the Latest Shadow attacks was also a nice touch,and cure lemonaid's fighting style is just as amazing as ever,just like in the original 2007 Yes 5 seasons,girl's still got it:P

and not just this fight,this whole entire Spinoff feels just like classic old School Precure/90's/2000's Magical girl seasons in general!

Can't go wrong with More Neptunia Content eh Zalure?.lol

but wasn't this particular Neptunia Spinoff game also on the PS4 and Steam as well?

but hey,from the trailers I saw from the PS4 Version,a spinoff focusing on the younger siblings of Neptune and Noire (Nepgear and Uni???) Sign me up!:P

anyways for this Week's Otano Pretty Cure,we get our Urara Focused episode at long last,and this week's episode gives us a taste of How the Theater/Stage Acting Career world Works,which the Bosses will Chew you out for not giving it your all in your Own Unique Flavor,because yeah ehhh....just simpilly following the basic orders isn't enough,as Urara gets a severe taste of this from her Boss as she's threatening to replace Urara....Yikes. thats how the Theater/Acting career choice is like in real life too,which I remember once seeing an old 2000's Anime gem that displayed a perfect example of that called Kaleido Star

https://myanimelist.net/anime/427/Kaleido_Star

ahh yes,i remember that gem,which focused on a girl from japan who comes to america to get into a stage acting career,just like what urara is struggling with in this week's Otano Precure,also majority of this ep is focused on Urara spending an off day pepe talk from Syrup while getting some flashbacks of Urara's Younger days from the original Yes 5 Seasons,which a small highlight here is,the way urara calmed that baby down.

also,getttin back to This week's Stardust Telepath for a bit,so yep,this show somehow managed to put a unique spin of the classic Tsudere trope by having this Raimon matataki being a model rocket Engineer who is part of a Model RocketShips Clubs,which her talents of Rocket Making and engineering in general are downright halarious.lol

come to think of it,Raimon actually reminds me of a character from Star Ocean 2 named Precis F. Neumann,which she was also a mechanical/Engineer,from the original playstation 1 version i played back in the day,except the main difference between her and Raimon is,she doesn't build model rockets though.lol

https://starocean.fandom.com/wiki/Precis_F._Neumann

Also, that Trailer of On Your Tail you showed me! Holy crap,this is giving me some Serious BNA: Brand New Animal Vibes right here,and that 2020 Anime gem was amazing!

funny that you mentioned shantae,because those anime cutscenes from shantae and the seven sirens were animated by studio trigger,the same guys that did the animation for both Brand new Animal,Kill la Killl and Littlle Witch Academia.lol

But yep,Great to see the Canceled GBA Project back alive and Kickin!!!! Because i remember reading about that cancelled GBA Shantae Project back in the day in an issue of Nintendo Power,and Boy did we get cheated out of a great gem back than,which was a damn shame it got cancelled back in the day,because that would have been a huge Hit! But hey,at least we now have it revived!

OH yes,this week's Stardust/Telepath was quite a good one this week.XD

but yes,Zalure,I actually have a mixed bag towards Tsudere's in general,it depends on the genre on how you execute them,like on one hand you have an outright irritating shitty Tsudere,like the main character from Toradora....uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....was not a fan of that old 2008 show,because how downright irritating the main female protagonist was,so i'll leave it at that.lol

but on the other hand,you have awsome rare exceptions like Black Lady from Shy

now the reason it worked With Sailor Mars in the 90s Sailor Moon back in the day,which she was an early example of this trope,which at least thats how she was in the 90's show compared to the Crystal reboot.lol is because she was a no nonsense Sailor Scout who didn't tolerate any of serena's Ditzy Shanannigans which Crybaby Wuss Serena needed someone like her to toughen her up,so that she can survive the latest Onslaught youma attacks from Queen Beryl and her generals like Jedite,Nephlite,Zoizite and Malichite,i mean yeah,Rei/Sailor Mars was a bitch,but thats her way of showing tough love to tough up Serena from a crybaby Wuss to a strong leader.lol

Tsudere's are a very difficult Character Trope to Write in Shows in general Zalure,but this week's Stardust Telepath proved me wrong that some can be written well.lol

https://chapmanganelo.com/manga-fw119790/chapter-14

https://chapmanganelo.com/manga-fw119790/chapter-15

https://chapmanganelo.com/manga-fw119790/chapter-16

anyways,I wanted to point that little bit of info out,because that was something i noticed right away when i was reading both the manga and watching this week's episode,which again,why the anime adaptation decided to switch around/Rotate around the Keyplot North Pole Mission arc with the Magical Girl Mall Filler Part out of order like that is beyond me.lol and thats odd,because ussially Manga's don't have Filler arcs!

anyways,back to this episode at hands,anyways,shy decides to prove this Brat Boy wrong when Shy relunctantly Rescues his Balloon from flying away,when dumbass brat boy trips and drops it,and than he's all like "I was totally wrong about you,you really are like my fav superhero Revozeale" ehhhhhh Yeah......lets just leave it at that.

Great first half regarding pepesha and Iyo's Keyplots,amazing stuff right here:P........,but second half was just MEH,and even if this 2nd half bit was part of the Manga Canon,that 2nd half of this episode still felt like pointless Filler to me.....shy being a fangirl of Super Sentai/magical girl shows was fine and all but.lol.......Yeah....Bratty Boy ruined this moment right here!

aside from a few flaws from this week's ep,this show continues to shape up really nicely!

2nd half of this episode is a light hearted Breather which is very odd,which in the 2nd half,Teru/Shy is a huge Fan of this Tokusatsu/Super Sentai/Magical Girl-like Ripoff TV Show called "Revozeale (Revozexal) where Teru is asked to participate in a Superhero Stage/Talk Show at the Mall dress like her fav Tv Show Magical Girl Character "Revozeale" Answering Questions which shy through out the second half of this episode has to deal with some Brat boy which he's all like "PFFFF Girl,your a Fake...SHy is no Hero.....Your not like my precious Revozeale"

yeah...ehhhhh.......but heres where this second part gets weird,which beleive it or not Zalure,at first glance this 2nd half may look like a Filler,because whats weird is,that this part was actually in the manga,no Joke @_@

https://shy.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_12

But they did make some small changes here,because in the manga,they putted this "Magical girl Stage Show" filler story before the "North Pole MIssion: Pepesha X Tzveta" Story arc,but for whatever reason what-so-ever,they switched it around for the anime adaptation,which they decided to stick this Filler story bit after the North Mission Rescue/Mission Arc,which i find that weird,why did switch these 2 story arcs around like this for the anime version was.......Bizzarre,which even i was confused by this......lol

https://chapmanganelo.com/manga-fw119790/chapter-12

https://chapmanganelo.com/manga-fw119790/chapter-13

Than as Pepesha/Spirit is heading home to recover from her injuries,than Teru/Shy tries to dig up some info on Pepesha which some Dark Superhero drama Pep Talk regarding her past history with Tzveta,which even pepesha is confused about this herself:

https://i.imgur.com/uqHqIwR.png

https://i.imgur.com/N3hdwUy.png

https://i.imgur.com/QRc4bVR.png

Also in this ep,we get this odd awkward moment right here @____@

https://i.imgur.com/trOjG5l.png

https://i.imgur.com/Bal2k0A.png

at first glance that weird moment may seem like Pepesha is trying to develop a Yuri Crush on Shy,but NOPE.....thats just her in her temporarially "Drunk Mode" trying to cheer up shy/Teru to make her not worry about her too much,but hey,what do you expect from Pepesha?.lol

This could also explain her Drinking habbit as she does this as a way to block out her tragic dark Past regarding TzvetaTzveta ,but this could get interesting later on Zalure!

Oh and BTW,for this Week's Shy,is actually an interesting one,so put on your deep listening ears on this one,which i actually have quite alot to say on this one based on what I read in the Manga version so that i can compare to this week's episode,which the anime made a few small changes from the Manga version which i'll get to that Later,why you may ask? Because this week's episode this time is split into 2 different story segments,the first half being a dark Serious Episode continuing where Last week's episode left off with the "Shit's getting Real" Keyplot,and the 2nd half segment of this ep being a light hearted Breather (DOn't worry I'll explain Later on this one.lol)

Anyways,this Week's 1st Half continues where Last week Left off Which is mostly a dark serious "Lets talk serious battle strategy Plan and keyplots backstory" episode as pepesha is recovering from her wounds thanks to Black Lady,which not only do we get some much needed Backstory on Pepesha and her relationship history with Ice girl Tzveta,but heres also another take away Kicker,because it also seems that Teru's Classmate Iko Koishikawa also knows something here regarding to stigma and his past involving his Powers from his weakness being his Heart!!

Some pretty intense Stuff right here!!