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And to continue where novalisk left off, other than both shows having cards in them, the concept is nothing like CCS's. Your post would be more appropriate in the Prisma Illya comments (disclaimer: I like Prisma Illya).

Speaking of target audiences, I wonder if Fantasista Doll really started off as a project aimed at the seinen demographic. Other than maybe the dolls occasionally being faux-naked (which stopped making sense after the 2nd episode anyway), there's nothing in this that Precure doesn't do already. The show certainly feels very shoujo-ish (complete with Tuxedo Monocle) and the actual TCG could be pretty popular with that demographic.

Then again, what do I know about marketing things to little girls.

It was intended for male audience all along. You can't miss out the countless fetish appeals in practically every scene, if you look carefully.
My best guess is that the show targets the (surprisingly sizable) "adult male" part of the Precure fandom, so that's why it has similar feel so often.
Still, unmistakenly, this IS a seinen, much like Ichigo Mashimaro was.

Are they gonna lose the white skinsuits in the BD version? It sure looks like sloppy censoring.

Rozen Maidenish with a Cardcaptor Sakura flavor to it.

Generalities aside, it's like they cherry-picked key shoujo elements to parody (take a look at the fourth episode around the 17-minute mark if you don't believe they're doing it on purpose) and then stuffed them all into a doll/moe-fetish framework. The end result is a series that feels extraordinarily artificial.

That it's done deliberately doesn't make much of a difference.

I just rolled with the premise until that doll died from getting hit by a car. For a second I questioned where the dolls' data is kept, why there's no redundancy (especially for that one doll, since she was connected to the internet) and why an even earlier doll is seemingly invincible. Happens every time someone tries to attach some bullshit technobabble to magic. Especially when it's a contemporary setting.

In the infodump episode they set up a bunch of plot threads, but those will probably be resolved in one of the 3 manga or 2 LNs. Can't expect much after all from an ad for... a smartphone app and... a booster pack for an unrelated TCG.

Also, what Offkorn said.

This makes Busou Shinki seem like a rousing tale that has you on the edge of your seat the whole time.

this is the worse anime ever,