Yeah, the Lulu Redemption Arc was pretty awesome. It's when I started to realize that Hugtto was going to be something truly special.
First her interactions with Emiru in episode 15, which were absolutely hilarious and led to Lulu starting to show emotions... then the amazing fight scene in episode 16 and Lulu getting absolutely destroyed and taken back by Criasu. That was a severe case of mood whiplash, going from the most hilarious and light-heartest episode in the series to arguably the darkest and most dramatic. Follow that up with the fight in episode 17 where Lulu gets befriended hard by Hana and the gang... It was fantastic, and it only gets better from there!
A fun fact that I probably mentioned when I watched the episode myself months ago: Lulu is voiced by Yukari Tamura, and Yukarin also voiced Nanoha Takamachi from the Lyrical Nanoha franchise, who is world-famous for befriending her opponents by blasting the everliving shit out of them. So in a sense, Lulu/Yukarin being befriended like that in Hugtto Precure was also Nanoha herself being on the receiving end of a befriending for a change. Not really important, but amusing and interesting nonetheless.
