The new precure season for 2016 will be Mahoutsukai Precure!!
(aka - Magician/Witch Precure)
or as I like to call it "Toei's Fantabulous scam to take allll of my money"

logo:

will this be a big game changer that's more akin to Ojamajo Doremi? or will it be witches punching people?
either way I'm so excited that my 2 favorite MG subgenres are merging together.

Hmm.. I'm a bit skeptical about the legitimacy of this. The name just doesn't seem Precure.

Heartcatch
Smile
Doki Doki
Happiness Charge
Go PRINCESS

I dunno, I kinda figured it'd be something more cutesy and fluffy sounding.

well it's on Anime News Network http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2015-10-19/maho-tsukai-precure-trademark-filed/.94388

so that's all I need to be convinced.

From the logo alone, I'm excited! This sounds awesome! Hopefully I can follow this one as it comes out...

Yay witches!! I might give this season a chance! Man I really need to finish Fresh and Suite...

Ooh! this one looks like it could be very entertaining and intriguing.

Pictures have been leaked of the protagonists!



It looks really good! The mascot reminds me of Pikachu for some reason. I think it's the eyes.

So are we going to have eight cures? 

I'm pretty sure those are the same two Cures in different forms. The picture is kinda blurry though.

I was thinking that as well. God I hope they don't have too many cures.

I'm more curious about the floating baby head

You know what's sad? They should have witch hats. 

They do have witch hats!

Just...really, really tiny ones.

Honestly, this is Pretty Cure, so I don't expect them to have witch hats. How would they stay on when they're beating the crap out of a monster?

I will see how the idea works, but i didn't like the design of the outfits. I feel the little hats out of place, and the rest of the outfits i feel them more princess like or from and idol show. I mean, they could give them bigger hats and outfits like the ones in Wadanohara or Sugar Rune, in my opinion. I liked the designs in Princess Precure because they fitted well on the characters and make us think of a princess, but here this doesn't make me think of witches.

Yea I wasn't about to get my hopes up for another Ojamajo Doremi. At the end of the day, it's still the same Precure formula. Monster of the week battles, possibly victim of the week filler, without the chance to truly explore the characters in the way Doremi did.

And the tiny witch hats on their headbands are really silly.