[Kamen Rider Lucha]

After 5 episodes, I had to drop Heartcatch PreCure.

If, like everyone claims, this is far and away the best the PreCure franchise has to offer, the show is not for me. Sure, it was beautifully animated and well designed, but damn, this shit is way too precious...

It's not because I don't like the genre. Sailor Moon is one of my favorite things in existence. This show takes the SM format, rips out the lovable characters and complex bad guys, throws in some wretched product placement, and screams its content into the audience's face at the most ear-piercing audio frequency humans have yet devised. Seriously, listening to this show was like listening to a car alarm go off in my living room for 22 minutes straight. DARPA should watch this show as research for their audio-based crowd-dispersing weapons.

I know it's weird for a Kamen Rider and Sentai obsessive to complain about obvious toy advertisement in a show -- but it is unbelievably awful here.

But the worst part? Every victim-of-the week is allowed to have one emotion: depression. From the episodes I watched, they're all sad-ass crybabies, and the result in a total of zero-out-of-5 sympathetic victims. I wanted to slap them all and tell them to stop being so self-obsessed.

Sorry if I'm harsh, but this show was just not for me on almost every level.