Though Smile! PreCure's English variant Glitter Force would not be the recommended starting place for the franchise, Futari wa Precure and Healin' Good are fine places to start. Luckily, the majority of PreCure composes of standalone series, with only Futari wa Pretty Cure and Yes! Precure 5 having direct sequel series.
With hundreds of episodes, getting into the PreCure series at first glance may seem rather daunting. The English dub erased these messages, instead centering on generic magical girl themes of friendship and unity. Smile PreCure! was release in 2012 in response to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, including themes focused on being happy regardless of the hardships one may face. This excessive editing continued in Glitter Force DokiDoki, which cut down DokiDoki! PreCure from 49 episodes to 30. Akin to the 4Kids dub of One Piece or the Dic Entertainment dub of Sailor Moon, Glitter Force is riddled with Americanized name changes, erasure of Japanese text, rescored music and editing out episodes that were either too dark in content or too Japanese-focused, causing Glitter Force to be a total of 40 episodes instead of the original 48.
Skip ahead to 2015 and Netflix premieres Glitter Force, the English version of Smile PreCure! dubbed by Saban Brands.
The first series Futari wa Precure did get an English dub many years after its Japanese release, but it only aired on Canada's YTV channel and the UK's Pop Girl digital channel. PreCure has had trouble getting licensed.
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