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Overview

Each series focuses on a group of teenage girls who are granted special items that allow them to transform into legendary warriors known as the Pretty Cure. With the assistance of creatures known as fairies, the Pretty Cure use their magical powers and enhanced strength to fight against evil forces who create monsters to bring misery to the Earth. As the series progresses and stronger enemies appear, the Cures gain new magical items, new abilities, and sometimes new allies to help them in their fight against evil.

Main series

There are currently twenty-two anime television series in the franchise, two of which are direct sequels to their previous series. To date, three of the series have received English adaptations. Pretty Cure was dubbed into English by Ocean Productions and aired in Canada under the name Pretty Cure. Smile PreCure! and DokiDoki! PreCure were adapted by Saban Brands and released on Netflix under the names Glitter Force and Glitter Force Doki Doki, respectively. The series, Kirakira Pretty Cure a la Mode, Healin' Good Pretty Cure and Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure, began streaming in Crunchyroll on their respective territories. Each series has received a manga adaptation illustrated by Futago Kamikita, which is published in Kodansha's Nakayoshi shoujo magazine alongside the anime. Starting with Fresh Pretty Cure!, each ending movie featured a dance choreography by each series' Pretty Cure members.

As of 2020, Toei Animation Inc. owns the international rights to the franchise while both the dubs of Smile and DokiDoki alongside the Glitter Force brand is currently owned by Hasbro.[2][3][4][5]

No. Title Generation Run Episodes Series director Ref(s)
1 Pretty Cure 1st 2004–2005 49 Daisuke Nishio
2 Pretty Cure Max Heart 2005–2006 47
3 PreCure Splash Star 2nd 2006–2007 49 Toshiaki Komura
4 Yes! PreCure 5 3rd 2007–2008 49
5 Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo! 2008–2009 48
6 Fresh PreCure! 4th 2009–2010 50 Junji Shimizu, Akifumi Zako
7 HeartCatch PreCure! 5th 2010–2011 49 Tatsuya Nagamine
8 Suite PreCure 6th 2011–2012 48 Munehisa Sakai
9 Smile PreCure! 7th 2012–2013 48 Takashi Otsuka
10 DokiDoki! PreCure 8th 2013–2014 49 Go Koga [6][7]
11 HappinessCharge PreCure! 9th 2014–2015 49 Tatsuya Nagamine
12 Go! Princess PreCure 10th 2015–2016 50 Yuta Tanaka [8][9]
13 Witchy PreCure! 11th 2016–2017 50 Masato Mitsuka [10][11]
14 Kirakira PreCure a la Mode 12th 2017–2018 49 Kohei Kureta, Yukio Kaizawa [12]
15 Hug! PreCure 13th 2018–2019 49 Junichi Sato, Akifumi Zako [13][14]
16 Star Twinkle PreCure 14th 2019–2020 49 Hiroaki Miyamoto [15]
17 Healin' Good PreCure 15th 2020–2021 45 Yoko Ikeda [16]
18 Tropical-Rouge! PreCure 16th 2021–2022 46 Yutaka Tsuchida
19 Delicious Party PreCure 17th 2022–2023 45 Toshinori Fukasawa
20 Soaring Sky! PreCure 18th 2023–2024 50 Koji Ogawa [17]
21 Wonderful PreCure! 19th 2024–2025 50 Masanori Sato [18]
22 You and Idol PreCure 20th 2025 TBA Chiaki Kon [19]
Total 22 20 2004–present 1,018 20

Films

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Adaptations

Video games

Several video games have been produced by Bandai Namco Entertainment (formerly Bandai) for video game systems and educational consoles, as well as Data Carddass arcade machines.

Console video games
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Arcade game
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Educational titles
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Live-action drama

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Reception

The combination of transmedia text products, including anime series, films, live performances, theme stores, and toys, has been analyzed as a "system of consumption, knowledge and action [that] creates a lifestyle-text, a set of fictional media works that are synonymous with the lifestyle practices they promote."[22]

The Pretty Cure films are the seventh highest-grossing anime film franchise.[23] Bandai Namco's net income from Pretty Cure video game sales was Template:JPY (Template:US$) from April 2008 to March 2012, Template:JPY (Template:US$) from April 2012 to March 2013, Template:JPY (Template:US$) from April 2013 to March 2014,[24] and Template:JPY (Template:US$) from April 2014 to December 2020,[24][25] adding up to Template:JPY (Template:US$) net sales revenue for Bandai Namco.

Merchandise

Pretty Cure has had numerous licensed merchandise sold in Japan. By 2010, it became Japan's fifth highest-grossing franchise annually.[26]

Pretty Cure licensed merchandise sales in Japan
Year Japan licensed merchandise sales Note Ref
2004 Un­known
2005 Template:¥ [27]
2006 Template:JPY Bandai toys only [24]
2007 Template:¥ [28]
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2009 Template:¥ [30]
2010 Template:JPY [26]
2011 Template:JPY Bandai Namco toys only [24]
2012 Template:JPY [31]
2013 Template:JPY [32]
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2018 Template:JPY [37][38]
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2020 Template:JPY Bandai Namco toys only [24]
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References

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Further reading

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External links

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