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
1AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:13
Talking dirty while we wait for it to start
3AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:18
Cure Éclair hasn't gotten to the dirty talk yet?
4AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:19
6AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:22
Good morning (･∀･) Might as well go straight from Tan Pri to the croquette run at this point ٩(๑´3｀๑)۶
10AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:28
Shinji-kun's looking like he stepped out of a fighting show today
19AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:30
Hey now, what happened to taking care of Uso-tan?
21AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:31
Is nobody looking after Uso-cchi, age~ ("age" is 5ch slang for bumping a thread, used here as a verbal tic)
25AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:32
That lecherous beast is useless, huh (´･ω･`)
26AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:34
27AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:35
You're the fifth Pretty Cure!
28AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:35
Suspecting whoever found the body first is investigation 101
29AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:35
Shiruku-san is HEEERE ｷﾀ━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━!!
30AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:35
Shiruku-san's heeeeeere
32AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:35
Shouldn't the one-day honorary police chief be in front of the cameras right now?
33AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:35
This is bringing back memories of a past screwup
43AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:37
Everyone taking the Urara role at once, that's a new twist
47AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:37
Goemon: "There's no running from the past"
49AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:37
Calling it now, there's definitely some scrap wedged in there
56AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:39
Knew that fridge was sitting there way too conveniently lol
58AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:40
Come on, hurry up and mash the transform button already
59AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:40
Guess you can't recover the jewels unless Hanninder handles it (a pun on "hannin," meaning culprit, plus the hero-suffix "-der")
64AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:41
76AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:43
Hang on, is that a scroll in the alcove that's been torn for ages?
80AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:44
Furuta's heeeeeere
81AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:44
Furuta Zone incoming ｷﾀ━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━!!
82AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:44
Ice cream that never melts and no mystery involved?
Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it ‹‹\(´ω` )/››
83AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:44
What exactly is this culprit even doing
85AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:46
Honestly it's about time we just made this guy the main character
87AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:46
Figured it'd turn out to be both Niji and Age, but nope
90AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:46
"Lies, reverse!" (wiggling side to side) ← love this bit
100AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:50
108AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:51
Kobayashi's barrier is no joke
121AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:52
Re: #108
Blocked it with a completely dead-eyed stare, lol
133AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:55
Does that mom seriously not know what shape a hanamaru (gold-star doodle) is?
141AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:56
Re: #133
Even during the transformation sequence she just draws a circle 🙆
144AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:57
164AnonymousSep 20, 2026 09:00
Re: #144
That last one is straight-up uncanny valley
156AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:58
You people are grown adults, happily watching a cartoon for toddlers on a Sunday morning?
Aren't you ashamed of yourselves?
160AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:59
Re: #156
Don't you dare jump to conclusions! 😡
163AnonymousSep 20, 2026 08:59
Re: #156
Anyway, off to buy croquettes ٩(๑´3｀๑)۶
See you all next week ヽ(´･д･｀)ﾉ
166AnonymousSep 20, 2026 09:00
Re: #156
"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.
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