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Dokurokushe and Deusmast were both pretty big letdowns and neither felt like much of a threat. In fact, despite being the main villain, Deusmast felt more like a victory lap because of how effortlessly he was defeated even compared to Kushe because of how much stronger the Cures were at that point in the show. And compared to Noise and Dune ending the world, his impact on it was pretty minor even though he should have been a far more powerful entity than either of them. Hell, they could have just kept the worlds merged again after he was defeated with no downsides since nothing really bad was happening outside of him trying to eat it. Both had little dialogue as well so they couldn’t even have the benefit of being entertaining when they were on screen either.
The side characters were pretty average, but I did like how the Headmaster tried to take an active role with the Cures, even though I wish he wasn’t regulated to being a jobber who fizzles out after a couple of spells.
I will say that the ending itself was stronger than Suite’s and parts of Heartcatch’s as well, as well as Mofurun turning back into a normal teddy bear for a few years leaving Mirai alone hit me in the feels again, but I think it would have been a bit more effective if they reorganized some things (i.e. ep 47 + 48 be the final battle, 49 the separation + timeskip, and 50 the reunion + ending). I felt like the epilogue episode kind of detracted from the somewhat emotional ending, especially when it was probably just to throw in the Ichika cameo.
In terms of the OP/ED, the start/end of the OP was an earworm, and the EDs being sung by the Cures was surprising and was kind of surprising how rare that is and wonder why they never bothered doing it until Maho.

Overall score: 7/10
Liko > Haa-chan > Mirai

(2/2)
(I have a lot to say about Heartcatch so it'll take a while to write up)