u/SudrianMystic

I haven’t really seen the entire series. The problem for me is not seeing the girls as grown-ups, but it’s the question that are the Yes Precure 5 and Splash Star girls technically now grown-ups in official canon? I know Otona is only dubiously canon like the creators claim it to be and it does work in our "real world" timeline. So technically the vast majority of Precures might all be grown up by now if you follow Otona. Especially the Smile Precure girls since there's a novelisation which takes place ten years after their series ended, which is 2013, so technically the novel would also take place same year as Otona, which means the Smile Precure girls are also grown women now. Which means a lot of groups are as well.

But another thing is that the Yes 5 girls had appeared in the Healin' Good movie just two years ago, still as teens when in civilian forms. And not only that, they, the Smile Precure, and all the other Precure girls have remained exactly the same as teenagers as seen in the All Stars movies. Now thinking about it they're also just as confusing but not that much.

And the Yes! Precure 5 team have already gone through so much between the original series and Otona already, they clearly cannot grow that rapidly between two years. In a nutshell I have absolutely no idea how the Precure timeline works, and I don't know if I ever will understand it. Someone did assure me that it’s all how I choose to see it though, and another one even said that the All Stars movies shouldn’t really be treated as canon. But…what do you guys think? I’m not as terribly confused as I used to be before though…