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I think one of the big things about Itsuki and even Tsubomi is that at first they go through fairly extreme image changes, as if to try and force out their desire for personal change, but then by the end it gets dialed back to a more neutral place that's more comfortable for both characters. If you don't watch to the end you never get to see this, but I felt like it was a really great way to cap off their respective stories. When we first meet Tsubomi, she appears shy and mousey, which Erika changes by giving her contacts, new clothes, and a different hairdo. In the final episode though, we see that she's kept the new hairstyle but gone back to wearing glasses. The makeover did its job and gave her a different outlook, which allowed Tsubomi to find some middle ground which was more to her satisfaction. In terms of Itsuki, as others have said she actually did like those girly things and felt that she had to suppress them because she wasn't "supposed" to act that way as the heir to her family's dojo. In the character designer's artbook, he mentions that Itsuki's transformation is meant to show that she gets the most joy out of transforming into a Precure compared to the others. When we look at Itsuki in the final episode, she's decided to grow her hair out and start wearing a girl's uniform, but is still shown being the heir to her family's martial arts style and is as strong a fighter as ever. Like Tsubomi, in the end she decided not to go with either extreme but found a balance that's right for her. I think especially with Heartcatch it's not as simple as saying the show teaches kids to behave a certain specific way because the characters grow and change throughout the series, and not in a way which is a simple linear progression from one type of person to another, and that each person's growth is different. This is why when they they fight their mirror images late in the series, the lesson Tsubomi has to learn is not the same as the one by the rest of the Cures, who were primarily about accepting their own flaws. Tsubomi's resolution instead is knowing that she has changed, that she isn't quite the same as she used to be, but that she'll never begrudge her old self because her history is a part of herself too.
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