Pretty Cure is a long-standing magical girl series!! There have been TONS of different seasons of this, each featuring a team of different Cures, but THIS is the first. Fans refer to this first season by its Japanese title, “Futari wa Pretty Cure” to differentiate it from Pretty Cure as a franchise.

What’s really cool about Pretty Cure is how action-y and martial arts-centered the combat is!! There is a combination of sparkly friendship-based magical beams with very cool kicks and punches! These girls are STRONG!!

It feels very retro to watch this season now (it’s from the mid-00’s), with fuzzy yellow subtitles and everything, which is appealing if you happen to be a retro lover. 😀

Check these links for:
episodes 1-12 (you are here), 13-24, 25-36, and 37-49.

These are official, legal streams from Crunchyroll – watching them here helps support the anime industry!

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Episode 1 – You Want Us to Transform?! No Way!

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Episode 2 – Give Me a Break! A City Targeted By Darkness

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Episode 3 – Beware of the Cute Student Teacher

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Episode 4 – A Miracle? The Art Museum Comes to Life!

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Episode 5 – Serious Trouble! A Desperate Pisard

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Episode 6 – A New Darkness! The Bear in the Dangerous Forest

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Episode 7 – A Bitter Lacrosse Battle! A Maiden’s Heart is So Delicate

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Episode 8 – The End of Pretty Cure! Isn’t It Too Soon for That!?

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Episode 9 – Give Him Back! The Great Mepo Mepo Strategy

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Episode 10 – Honoka Explodes! A Wonderful Birthday

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Episode 11 – Save Ryota! Gekidrago Panic

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Episode 12 – The Evil Flower! Poisonny Appears

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Check these links for:
episodes 1-12 (you are here), 13-24, 25-36, and 37-49.

This is a REALLY CUTE AND SWEET magical girl series!! It’s pretty retro, with loads of bodacious 90’s outfits you’ll get to see on the characters in their casual clothes, and tons of classic anime tropes (like her step-sister’s GREAT ojousama laugh).

The storyline is SOOOOO sweet – you will get so invested in Himeno and her triumphs as a magical girl, while she struggles at home with her new, rich family. Being surrounded by the handsome dudes who offer her their powers, the Leafe Knights, offers some happy salvation (…when it isn’t adding more drama).

A cool detail unique to this magical girl is that her costume and powers are different depending on which knight she connects with!! They are all REALLY cool!!

These are official, legal streams from Crunchyroll – watching them here helps support the anime industry!

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Episode 1 – Winds of Destiny

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Episode 2 – Let Me Hear Your Heart Flutter

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Episode 3 – The Way of Becoming Pretear

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Episode 4 – Promise Made Under the Sunlight

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Episode 5 – Smile of Darkness

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Episode 6 – Secret of Rouge

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Episode 7 – Can’t Protect Anyone Anymore

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Episode 8 – Moment of Awakening

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Episode 9 – Unreaching Melody

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Episode 10 – The Furthest Reaches of One’s Emotions

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Episode 11 – Eyes of Glass

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Episode 12 – Warmth, Once More

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Episode 13 – The Legend of White Snow

The “Monthly Girls'” in the title refers to shoujo manga, which is published monthly, lol;; To search for merch and stuff, also try the Japanese title, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun~

This show is SOOOO FUNNY, omg. And the cast of characters is wild! One by one, you will be introduced to the colorful classmates that have influenced Nozaki as he writes shoujo manga in secret. The heroine of the story is the only sane person here, for real.

These are official, legal streams from Crunchyroll – watching them here helps support the anime industry!

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Episode 1 – This Love… is Being Turned into a Shoujo Manga

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Episode 2 – Say Hello to the New Heroine

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Episode 3 – Violence VS. The Prince

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Episode 4 – There are Times When Men Must Fight

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Episode 5 – The Man Who Envisions Love

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Episode 6 – I’ll Cast a Spell on You

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Episode 7 – The Manga Artist’s Brain, Nozaki-kun

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Episode 8 – The Prince (Girl) of the School’s Problems

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Episode 9 – Do You Have Enough Excitement?!

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Episode 10 – What’s Strengthened is Our Bond and Our Reins

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Episode 11 – Let’s Rice

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Episode 12 – If This Feeling Isn’t Love, Then There Is No Love in the World

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(Tbh I am not a fan of the localized title for this show – I think “Cleanliness Boy! Aoyama-kun” is way better! The Japanese title, for those searching for it, is “Keppeki Danshi! Aoyama-kun”~)

This is a comedic sports anime about a mysophobic character, and the incredibly weird characters all around him. Although it’s mostly jokey, I do appreciate that they spend some conversation in the first episode to make it clear that his fixation is a highly inhibiting disability, and how difficult it is that he has to work around it!

Though there is some cool soccer action in this series, there are all kinds of other hijinks going on, and sometimes it seems that Aoyama-kun isn’t even the central character, only showing up and doing something amazing when it’s important, lol!

Also enjoy the super retro thowback-style credits sequence LOL.

These are official, legal streams from Crunchyroll – watching them here helps support the anime industry!

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Episode 1 – Aoyama-kun is a Clean Freak!

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Episode 2 – Aoyama-kun, Do You Remember?

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Episode 3 – The Reason Aoyama-kun Isn’t Here

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Episode 4 – Narita-kun Keeps it a Secret

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Episode 5 – Tsukamoto-kun’s Life is All About Laughs

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Episode 6 – Ozaki-kun Has His Pride

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Episode 7 – Odagiri-san Can’t Get it In

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Episode 8 – Umeya-kun is Very Patient

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Episode 9 – Miwa-chan Wants to Do a Training Camp

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Episode 10 – Aoyama-kun Has Many Secrets

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Episode 11 – Sakai-kun’s Hairstyle Has Changed

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Episode 12 – The Reason Behind Aoyama-kun’s Choice

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Do you remember being little and having a bamillion choices of fruit snacks and stuff, and you HAD to get them in your favorite cartoon character shapes??  That’s what these Pokemon snacks and things remind me of, lol!

These have the added bonus of being imported Japanese food, so you KNOW that they are packaged cutely and are a fun novelty to eat!

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FURUTA POKEMON Jelly

These are convenient for putting in a bento-style lunch –
they are individually-packaged little servings of jelly,
for spreading on sandwiches or anything else appropriate in your lunch.
There is a different cute Pokemon on each one!

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SANYO Sapporo No.1 Pokemon Noodles Seafood Flavor

Instant!!  Noodles!!  Y’all!!
This cup of instant noodles has little Pikachu faces in it,
along with Chimchar in the sample photo (I don’t know
if there are different Pokemon you can get, though)~
It looks SO TASTY!  Oh man, I’m craving noodles now…

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TOHATO Pokemon White Chocolate Biscuits

These crunchy-looking cookies are white chocolate flavored
and come in little Pikachu shapes!

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MARUMIYA Pokemon Rice Sprinkles Minipack 

You know, I’m not totally sure what these are, but maybe you guys can tell me?
There are a WHOLE BUNCH of individually-packaged servings of “rice sprinkles”
that you get here, decorated sort of like Pokemon cards.
I don’t know if it is flavoring for your rice?  But it seems to be another convenient,
single-serving thing to put in your bento. :3

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Pokemon Get Chocolate Maker Tsukuru Oyatsu DIY Chocolate Kit

This is a whole kit for making your own milk + white chocolate Pokeballs,
with Pikachu (and Rowlet!) inside!
I think this is probably the coolest thing in this roundup –
DIY sweets things are just totally my weekness!

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