Thread by @Yuyucow

Tropical Rouge Precure #04 was good! Hiroaki Miyamoto's boards have a clear, classic theme in the constant contrast between Minori standing in the shadows while everyone else is in the light. Wouldn't be a classic if it wasn't so effective

While they all encourage her (and Natsunatsu physically reaches out because she has no concept of personal space to begin with), it's an episode explicitly about her taking the first step, as noted by both the script and the visuals

Strong job by Koji Kawasaki directing the episode, cushioning that stark contrast with a very particular atmospheric approach that gives more nuance to the binary ideas of the storyboard. He's been praised by his ability to execute & expand on their peers ideas, easy to see why

More basic stuff done right in the usage of her glasses to show when she's put up an emotional wall (and how Natsunatsu makes her naturally lower that guard)

Otherwise the show is still a crazy amount of fun. I'm glad that Laura having an awful time because she happens to live in a toy carried by a feral dumbass is a recurring thing now, even with Sango trying to remind her about it

Sango slowly getting used to hanging out with someone who is just, like this, always

Always.

Just having a good laugh with a floating mermaid head and my somewhat incredulous friend

Less intense corrections than expected from Hamano because he didn't supervise the whole episode in the end, but when the action kicks in, he still knows how to give it impact

And the stock footage is completely unhinged once again because someone had the brilliant idea of entrusting the whole show to the one director at the studio that all his pals affectionately call a madman. She turns into the world's deadliest papaya and then dances? Sure. Good

Love to use my earrings to shoot papaya juice eye beams to blind my enemies so my pals can beat the shit out of them. That is a thing that I do, and it's good

(More nice Hamano corrections after the stock)

Even the more traditionally graceful transformation ends with her bouncing on her butt and rolling around, because of course it does