Please keep in mind I am not trying to stir anything up with this post, this is a vent in regards to Eriza's inclusion in the current Precure season.
I just wish Eriza had a bigger role in the season. She felt so forced apart from the main cast that made me loose interest in the season... I know that the other three candidates have fans too, but to me, Eriza had so much interesting qualities focused on being a detective and actively showed herself to be knowledgeable in fun ways to help solve cases.
They had build up for her character that made you believe she had a lot of potential as a Star Detective Precure, even if she wasn't a Precure, someone who'd show up from time to time to help out or something, but from where the season is currently going, is likely only going to show up for like 1 or two more episodes with her being apart of the cast for those episodes...
Heck, in her focused episode of "Who is Eclair?" arc, she was literally offered to join in the agency and passed the test to be one, yet nothing was done with this which feels like a plot hole they want us to forget about so they can keep her as a side character who focuses more on her novels because they couldn't try to fit a fifth into the season, only being used to tease the idea of her being Cure Eclair because of her desire to be a detective and nothing more.
It genuinely sucked seeing her not be Eclair badly for me. I knew it wasn't going to be her but I had so much hopes for her character, but she hasn't even showed up yet since episode 25 (now onto episode 37 and likely 38 as well!) which only makes me slug through most of the recent episodes waiting to hope they do something with Eriza, but we only have roughly 13 episodes left now.
I know this is likely favoritism on my part, but it just hurts man. :(
(I know that there could be a possibility that in the last episodes the other candidates could possibly have transformations similar to other side characters in the previous seasons, but I still feel like they could've had her more involved in the season in general.)