I prefer Nao & Reika too, but just because there are a lot of doujinshi about them, I tried to watch some episode of Smile Precure before, but don't see any realate between Nao and Reika, they just like 2 strangers in a power ranger team, I even don't see they talk to each other alone, will their friendship be improved in the later episodes or their relationship is just something that the fan build up ?
Nao and Reika are often shipped with each other because they are childhood friends, and that's about it. When I first started watching Smile I was pretty excited to see what kind of yuri goodness would come out of their relationship since I had seen that they had a lot of doujinshi together, but I was disappointed to find that there was little between them in the actual show. Smile is one of the best PreCure shows for comedy, but in terms of yuri it's pretty weak.
However, the next show DokiDoki is full of subtext bordering on explicit.
