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INTEREST: Junichi Sato Reflects on Making Anime With Women, For Girls

Speaking generally about creating anime for children, Sato emphasized the importance of communicating with them on their level, without condescension. It is also important to portray various experiences that children may encounter while growing up, so that even if they may one day forget the title they watched, the experiences will still linger with them in some way.

Sato isn't my favorite director for nothing. He doesn't need to make the trendy stuff; rather, he helps connect people growing up with common hardships.

I completely agree. The mention of Hugtto! Precure in the article reminds me, I haven't seen it but would really like to at some point.

If you're completely new to Pretty Cure as a whole, I wouldn't recommend watching Hugtto as your first season, namely because several episodes feature characters from the other seasons appearing as plot devices, and you'll be very thrown off by their utterly Deus Ex Machina-like appearances unless you've seen every season that came before Hugtto.

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If you're completely new to Pretty Cure as a whole, I wouldn't recommend watching Hugtto as your first season, namely because several episodes feature characters from the other seasons appearing as plot devices, and you'll be very thrown off by their utterly Deus Ex Machina-like appearances unless you've seen every season that came before Hugtto.

A similar logic was applied to the creation of Looking for Magical DoReMi, which tells the story of various women struggling with young adult problems. Sato said that the film draws upon the experiences relayed to him by the various women who worked with him on the project. When portraying experiences specific to women, Sato frankly acknowledged that although he knows about such things as part of his knowledge base, he feels a gap with his own experiences as a man. Therefore, he defers to what his female colleagues tell him, especially when it comes to depicting emotional catharsis.

Speaking generally about creating anime for children, Sato emphasized the importance of communicating with them on their level, without condescension. It is also important to portray various experiences that children may encounter while growing up, so that even if they may one day forget the title they watched, the experiences will still linger with them in some way.

Speaking generally about creating anime for children, Sato emphasized the importance of communicating with them on their level, without condescension. It is also important to portray various experiences that children may encounter while growing up, so that even if they may one day forget the title they watched, the experiences will still linger with them in some way.

It's great that Crunchyroll has been simulcasting the recent entries, but I do hope they and Toei will be able to dig further back in the back catalog at some point as I'd like to be able to watch there.