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The story
In a Sunday-morning live-watching thread for the Pretty Cure series, posters on 5ch’s VIP board chronicled everything from their back-and-forth banter during the broadcast to a post-show croquette run and, finally, drifting back to sleep. The commentary kept dropping character names like Cure Éclair and Uso-cchi, with plenty of screenshots posted along the way. At one point someone needled the group with “aren’t you embarrassed, grown adults watching a show for little kids?” but the thread stayed laid-back from start to finish.
What people said
Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it ‹‹\(´ω` )/››
Blocked it with a completely dead-eyed stare, lol
Even during the transformation sequence she just draws a circle 🙆
That last one is straight-up uncanny valley
Aren't you ashamed of yourselves?
Don't you dare jump to conclusions! 😡
Anyway, off to buy croquettes ٩(๑´3｀๑)۶
See you all next week ヽ(´･д･｀)ﾉ
"Totally rad, totally the worst" isn't just little-girl talk, age~ (chobe-rigu/chobe-riba are retro '90s slang for "super good/super bad")
Background and Talking Points
Sunday-morning Pretty Cure shows — “Tan Pri” being the current example — have long had a culture of fans live-watching together on 5ch and social media as the episode airs, and this thread is a textbook case of that. The emoji-heavy commentary, the constant swapping of screenshots, and the banter built around character nicknames (Uso-cchi, Shiruku-san, and so on) only work because everyone following the series is in on the same in-jokes. The jab that pops up midway — “aren’t you embarrassed, grown adults watching a kids’ show?” — echoes a long-running tension around the franchise: it’s aimed at children, yet it has always pulled in a sizable adult fanbase. Nobody in the thread takes the bait seriously, though, and it wraps up with the same everyday beat it started with — a croquette run after the episode, then back to bed for a nap.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Newsspeed VIP) thread “Tan Pri → Mais → Omega Horn → Croquette Run → Back to Sleep.”
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