If you are wondering why this season is getting a sequel, episode 49 should give you an answer. While all Pretty healing Series have some elements that are darker and more depressing (though rarely as dark as Healing, good, pretty healing receive), Nice witch cure!The penultimate episode of is a real tearjerker. It’s remarkable how it goes from demonstrating the true strength and power of the Cures to making it seem like everything they built together was ultimately for nothing – yes, they saved the worlds, but what does that mean if they can’t be together? The fact that a time jump of about five years takes place shortly after only adds to the tragedy of the outcome of their final battle. Yes, it was sad in Yes Pretty healing 5 Let’s go when Coco and Natts left, but that is no comparison to the consequences of Nice witch cure!‘s final battle. It’s toned down somewhat at the end of the episode and the baton handoff continuation in episode 50, but part of what makes the episode so powerful is that it’s haunting – and even though we were able to fast forward about five years, Mirai and Liko had to live through this.

It’s impactful because the series as a whole tries so hard to show us that Mirai and Liko are a team, if not something more than that. I think it’s perfectly valid to see them as either best friends or potential girlfriends (and those two interpretations aren’t mutually exclusive), and her relationship with Ha-chan certainly supports that. In the first half of the series, Mirai, Liko, and Mofurun all refer to each other as Ha-chan’s mothers, which she’s OK with, as episode 26 makes clear. When the truth about Ha-chan’s identity becomes clear later, we see that she’s important both as herself and as Cure Felice because she’s the physical manifestation of Mirai and Liko’s love. Her Cure name Felice means “happy” in Italian (and the series uses the Italian pronunciation), and she’s only able to use her power because she knows what it means to be loved by people in both the magical and non-magical worlds. This love also gives her the strength to protect both worlds, which is crucial to the finale. It’s easy to feel like Cure Felice/Ha-chan overshadows Cure Magical and Cure Miracle at times, but the truth is that she couldn’t be the person she needs to be without their support. Every moment of her screen time is an ode to the girls who raised her.

This idea of ​​bonds and family forms a major thread in the overall plot of the second half of the series. From the beginning, Mirai is very close to her family (mother, father, grandmother, and Mofurun), but Liko has a more complex relationship with hers. In episode 40, Liko’s birthday, we see that she created this distance herself, based on her perception that she is less worthy than Liz. Episode 30 shows how this has led to a difficult relationship with her father, but the truth is that they all love her; she’s just not good at letting them get close to her. Since we saw this at the beginning of her relationship with Mirai as well, it’s part of Liko’s nature: she gets stuck on her need to be the best. Her attempt to run for student council at her non-magical school forms the center of this arc; she wants the job because she thinks she’s the best and deserves it, but her opponent Yuto is running because he wants to help others. Liko’s admission is her acknowledgement of personal growth and change, a realization that her ego does not have to be the driving force behind all her actions.

While we don’t see as much of this as the other relationships, it’s also important to acknowledge the Director’s feelings for his friend Kushi. Kushi was the villain for the first half of the series as Dokuroxy and seems to disappear when the group of dark magicians are defeated. But he’s never really disappeared from the Director’s mind and in episode 27 it looks very much like he feels like he’s let his friend down. As the series continues, we see that Kushi is still very much present and that the news of what happened to him hasn’t eased the Director’s pain – especially when he realizes that Kushi always cared about him, even if he couldn’t say it. It’s implied that the headmaster’s feelings and patience will be rewarded in the end, if that’s what you’re willing to see, and it adds to the overall theme that nothing can separate people who truly care about each other.

This comes into play with the other villains as well, though it could be argued that Kushi is less of a villain and more of a catalyst for them. Almost all of his followers, the swamp animal-themed Gametes Yamoh, Sparda, and Batty, are able to bring about some sort of reformation, and Orba’s fairy henchman Chikurun sums up their situation when it’s revealed that he’s not so much evil as he is trapped in an untenable situation where he feels he has no choice but to obey Orba’s orders. This allows the girls and the viewers to think about issues from different angles. True villains are punished, but those who may have been misguided or coerced into their evilness are given another chance to prove they are more than their worst deeds. It’s generally a good theme for a magical girl story, because the true power of most magical girls is to keep going even when it feels like there’s no hope left.

It is always interesting to see how the Pretty healing Series influence each other; this one is no exception. The truth about Cure Felice reflects Cure Earth in Healing, good, pretty healing in an interesting way, and the Cinderella Episode is reminiscent of the fairytale villain of Yes Pretty healing 5 And Let’s go. Even funnier is an Easter Egg that alludes to the time jump at the end of the series; in episode 46 we see something that looks suspiciously like a little Ichika Usami wearing the pink Cure of Kira Kira Pretty Cure a la Modethe series that follows it. Still, Mirai and Liko feel like an unusually close pair, even when we consider other Two-Cure teams, and that, along with the numerous transformations Nice witch cure! to stand on its own alongside its sister series.

At the end of the day, the main victory was for the girls from Nice witch cure! is how they help each other to believe in themselves. Whether it is their school friend who has to believe in witches, Liko who realizes that she is good enough on her own, Ha-chan who is supported until she can stand on her own two feet, or Mirai who finds a future for herself, they all learn to be better, happier people through their relationships with each other. The time jump is crucial because it shows that they may get by on their own because they spend time together. But the final episode reminds us that even then, they’re better together.