Howdy of us, and welcome again to Flawed Each Time. At the moment’s a kind of days the place I’m feeling all of the pressures of life bearing down on me, the sort of day the place I might actually use a break from the manifold anxieties of recent dwelling. As such, I’m declaring this the best time to return to Hugtto! Precure, and discover some peace within the charming adventures of Hana and her pals. Hugtto’s eminently likable characters, lush and heat artwork design, and constant poignancy of perspective really feel like a sanctuary for viewers of all ages, providing a transparent expression of artwork’s capacity to information, consolation, and unite us.
When final we left off, the ladies’ collaboration with friggin’ Santa Claus had culminated in a comfortable Christmas celebration for all our companions, with Traum sharing an in depth second with Lulu, and even Gelos escaping from the mercenary shadow of Criasu Corp. With Gelos now trying ahead to a happier future, I think about we’re diving straight into Hugtto’s endgame for these final 4 episodes. And although I’m fairly unhappy to go away Hugtto behind, I’m additionally desperate to see our heroes step in direction of their futures, guided by the boldness in tomorrow’s fortunes that this sequence has labored so exhausting to domesticate. Let’s return to Hugtto Precure!
Episode 46
Our intro sees the entire group in color-coded yukatas, desperate to rejoice the brand new yr. Oh good, I used to be actually fearful this episode can be about one thing vital. Deliver on extra lighthearted vacation episodes!
We then minimize to Hana in a bridal robe, wandering by a mysterious corridor lined with flowers and work
She stares up at a replica of Liberty Main The Individuals, marveling “that assured gaze… trying ahead into the longer term…” I knew Hana had large ambitions, however “destroying the age of kings by main the French Revolution” was not my first guess for her profession plans
George steps up subsequent to her and explains the portray. “A portray that captures the second the place somebody shines brightest is so lovely.” The important thing phrase being there being ‘seize,’ as George would like a superb second of stasis to an unsure future. After all, the hope of the portray was not the second it particularly depicted, however the resultant transformation of society it could facilitate. George has taken a portray embodying hope for the longer term and reframed it as a celebration of 1 shining second in time
“However as time goes by, that brilliance fades. The spirit of the folks modifications… The goddess that led them isn’t any extra.” Referring to Hugtan’s future identification whereas panning over photographs of moms with younger kids. He can’t recognize the thought of hope being provided to the following technology, that they is likely to be nurtured to ultimately attain related brilliance
“If solely your present happiness might final perpetually…” He appears to imagine in his philosophy, however the instance of characters like Popple and Gelos demonstrates that he’s simply in love with that exact aura of youth, joyful to discard those that not embody his “one shining second.” Hugtto’s core viewers is simply too younger for this present to totally explicate the gendered implications of George’s philosophy, however they’re straightforward sufficient for us to parse – he’s like so many males who solely see girls as shining baubles, to be revered solely as long as they flatter his personal coveting of youth and energy
George awakes in his workplace, the place Bicine questions him on why he took Risutol’s coronary heart
“It was the one happiness amongst all that he desired.” A chilly reply. Looks like we’d see the defection of George’s ultimate compatriots within the close to future
“Kurai Returns! The Good Flower That Blooms Without end!”
In the meantime, the ladies are busy having fun with new years festivities. Saaya apparently harbors an ideal ardour for warm sauce, yet one more demonstration of her superior style
We additionally get visits from a few of the present’s biggest facet characters, together with Hana’s grandmother and their two once-divided classmates
Daigan’s trying good! He’s grown his hair out a bit, he appears more healthy and happier
Hah, love these superdeformed renditions of the ladies enjoying out all of the upcoming vacation celebrations. Any given yr will be stuffed with issues to stay up for, as long as you stay current and engaged along with your neighborhood. A transparent distinction with George’s myopic perspective
That distinction is underlined as we minimize to Bicine crouching earlier than Risutol, questioning if he’s happier now that his coronary heart has been extracted
Dr. Traum joins the Nono household for brand spanking new yr’s dinner. Extraordinarily humorous seeing him commerce in his mad scientist lab coat for a equally coloured purple sweater. They’ve really domesticated him
Oh no! They’re out of soy sauce! Sure, that is exactly the extent of battle I hoped for
George then corners Hana with a bouquet of Craspedias, which stand for “everlasting blessings.” Cease creeping on Hana, you goddamn menace
“I used to be not the one who stopped the longer term’s time. Those who stopped time have been the folks of the longer term themselves. Civilization developed. However humanity itself was not equal to its progress.” A civilization the place science and financial cycles developed past the purpose of human relevance – it really fairly jogs my memory of the stagnant end-of-history future posited by Satoshi Mizukami’s Spirit Circle, the place future scientific progress was ultimately made unlawful as a way to keep some hope of humanity’s continued preeminence. Can our ambitions outpace our capacity to acclimate to our personal accomplishments?
“The facility of hope for tomorrow, asu-power, drifted additional and additional away from them.” Granted, Hugtto is framing this in considerably extra fantastical phrases. However the risk does appear actual, notably in our present period, the place the consequences of uniting humanity by the web appear to be altering each people and societies in methods we can’t clarify or management. At what level have we opened Pandora’s Field, has our rampant ingenious spirit created one thing inherently hostile to the expansion and enlightenment of our species?
That is definitely much more fascinating than George merely imposing his perspective on the longer term! He is aware of humanity did not navigate this threshold, and thus needs to cease time at a happier second, earlier than all is in ruins. To counter his philosophy, Hana must imagine that a greater future than the one which at the moment comes about is achievable
His ideas are contrasted towards Traum being tucked in by Lulu, and stating “I by no means thought I’d discover this sense once more.” The long run holds wonders past our capability for imagining, as nicely
“Put merely, Kurai is the person who does nothing. He merely watches.” After all, the one who’s least optimistic about humanity’s future is the one who’s incapable of altering it
“Hana’s not answering.” “Meals coma, possibly?” Harsh however truthful, Saaya
“I have to admit that the asu-power you woke up from Criasu’s staff was far past my expectations.” New hope can at all times be born, as long as you may have folks prepared to imagine in it, to imagine in your potential even once you can’t
“Are you able to really say that the human coronary heart is with out evil?” His phrases name again Hana’s time earlier than her reinvention, the quagmire of isolation that led her to embrace a completely new self
Ooh, love the timing of the elevator opening alongside her declaration to struggle, such that the sunshine of hope actually pours in round her to accompany her phrases
Hana relays the occasions of their assembly whereas safely ensconced in a kind of trauma restoration towels
Homare suggests a restoration sleepover
Minimal noises and funky blue colours emphasize the stillness and chill of the pre-dawn
“The entire city is altering colour!” Watching the solar rise from a excessive tower, the group witnesses a microcosm of Hugtto’s biggest hopes, its certainty that anybody can change, that we will all expertise sensible transformations in our personal lives
However then a darkish portal seems within the sky, and Criasu Corp descends from the heavens!
And thus time begins to freeze!
“That you just and I’ll reside in an period of happiness.” George says this whereas trying down at an image of himself and an grownup Hana, implying an idea too horrible to ponder
The ladies face off with a military of Oshimaeda as Harry continues to hold forth
“Hope for tomorrow turned an insatiable urge for food, and the dominion drove itself mad.” Of all issues to probably destroy humanity, I’d not have guessed it could be an overabundance of hope
Then a goddamn kaiju George emerges and swallows Hugtan!
And Carried out
Effectively shit, what are we gonna do now? That wasn’t cozy and heartwarming in any respect! Nonetheless, it was nonetheless fairly the robust episode, providing our fullest articulation but of the philosophy guiding George’s pursuit of stasis. The concept humanity ultimately created its personal static future is much extra compelling than some outdoors interloper inflicting stasis upon us, and provides a considerably higher sense of risk and urgency to Hana’s insistence that this time, we’ll discover a happier method ahead. And inside that foreboding construction, particular person moments of hope shined all of the brighter – Lulu and Traum expressing their emotions, household dinners shared with pals, and even Harry’s previous companion questioning if there would possibly nonetheless be a greater method. To imagine in a greater future is to imagine we will be higher than what we’re, that the roadmap of our failures and disappointments will be transcended by the religion we place in one another. Let’s seize that future, Precures!
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