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Hello, everyone. I would consider myself a fan of PreCure and decided to make a page for it. This is my general PreCure containment zone resource,
but maybe this will help someone else get into the franchise as well. Contact me if I need to add or revise information. Here's some music!
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PreCure is a magical girl / action anime that airs on TV Asahi's children programming block at 8:30 JST since 2004 with Futari wa Pretty Cure. Although not well-known in the West, it has considerable viewership among children and adults alike in Japan.
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Each season has a formulatic plot around girls who turn into legendary heroes / warriors / wizards / whatever known as Pretty Cure. Usually they receive their powers from a "fairy" and fight dark forces. Episodes typically have a "monster of the week" style structure where they transform and fight at the end.
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PreCure has been airing weekly for over 20 years now, with over 1000 episodes broadcast in total. The best way I can describe PreCure is a mix between Super Sentai / Power Rangers and a magical girl anime. The watching experience gives a different feel than say, Cardcaptor Sakura for multiple reasons. For one, PreCure is known for melee combat with fists and explosions like Tokusatsu media. Two, PreCure is made into an original anime every year with the express purpose of selling toys to children (Bandai). Contrasting with other shoujo magical girl series which are instead adapted into anime from manga, PreCure's themes, tone, and aesthetics are much more colorful, flashy, and "kiddish". (Altough there are dark themes as well.)
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Yes, it has a core demographic of 4-9 year old girls. However, anyone can enjoy PreCure. The companies behind PreCure also consider the older fanbase with figures, expensive collector DVDs, garage kits, sequel anime in late night timeslots, even lingerie (yes really, for adult female fans of the OG anime)!
I fully acknowledge that I enjoy a kids show. To me it's not ultimately that different from adults enjoying Saturday morning cartoons, Bluey, or something from Cartoon Network. Like most weeb-adjacent interests in my life, I will keep hobby private from my coworkers or acquaintances, but I feel no shame lmao.
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The atmosphere is comforting. The simple story can be calming in the same way someone may rewatch a sitcom multiple times. I enjoy the cutesy aesthetics and action-packed fight scenes.
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Every year (with a currently two older exceptions) a season will have completely new characters and aesthetics. You can watch PreCure out of order because of this. A season will start at the beginning of February and stop at the end of January. There will usually be around 50 episodes for nearly every week of the year. There will also be 1-2 movies, with the movies either being a crossover event or a stand-alone movie. Trademarks have been dropping around late November lately, so that's when the next season will be announced.
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Ask yourself 3 questions. Would you be okay watching a show made for kids (even if it's still enjoyable)? Do you like
"monster of the week" and "slice of life" style plots? Do you enjoy series such as Sailor Moon? If so, you may like it! If you're sick
of constant ~dark and edgy~ or ecchi magical girl stuff, then maybe give Heartcatch or Hugtto a go. There's darker moments, but
the show is played straight and isn't try-hard.
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I am not a superfan nor do I claim to be. I have been a fan since December 2022ish. I actually got into through Sailor Guardian Hope's PreCure Iceburg video on YouTube (now deleted). I watch the anime, the movies, read the manga, light novels, started watching the stage plays... I recently came to the somewhat disturbing realization that I'm probably going to watch most or all of Precure at some point... It just makes me so happy. I'll also make sure to summarize the light novels at a certain point in case non-Japanese speaking fans are interested in the plot-details.
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So far it's Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure and Heartcatch PreCure!
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You could watch the original Futari wa Pretty Cure. That's what I did and enjoyed it. But a lot of the fanbase
recommends and celebrates HeartCatch PreCure!, Go! Princess PreCure, and HUGtto! PreCure.
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Cure Marine and Cure Milky as my top two. But I also love Cure Summer and Cure La Mer.
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I love shipping Honoka x Nagisa / Cure Black x Cure White!!! Also the two leads from Mahoutsukai Precure! They kiss (kinda) in the official manga! Riko and Mirari are a popular pairing. Another pairing is Cure Chocolat / Akira x Cure Macaron / Yukari. They are based on a cat and dog and sing a romantic duet together. They are based on Sailor Uranus and Neptune according to a staff interview ♥ Their pairing is referenced quite often in official material. Also Cure Chocolat is based off of Takarazuka musicals, so check out Kirakira☆Precure A La Mode!
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See my Ships section for more!
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that PreCure makes money off of selling toys. There's the plastic toys, plushies, dolls, figures, keychain, knick-knacks, CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, manga, clothing, calendars, school supplies, artbooks, coloring books, light novels (for some), fanbooks, magazines, art, tapestries, and more that come with mostly every season. Plus a lot of movies and live-events and extra stuff too. Essentially PreCure is merchandized in every way you can think of.
For PreCure stuff in general, I would use Amazon.jp or AmiAmi for new goods. Secondhand stores, ebay, and Yahoo Auctions will have older goods. Always keep in mind that shipping costs will be high overseas.
I personally try to hold off on buying the plastic toys to minimize just buying stuff to buy stuff. I do have a pretty sweet Futari wa figure though. And I like buying the ebook version of manga / light novels. (They're cheaper than a McDonald's cheeseburger.) I kinda do want the Talking Kururun plush, but I want to hold off on CONSOOMING for a little bit. She's not going anywhere!
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If you are not in Japan, Crunchyroll currently licenses some PreCure seasons on their streaming service. All of the recent seasons up to Healin' Good♡Precure, then Kirakira☆Precure A La Mode, and Futari wa Pretty Cure. Then your other opinions are... buying blu-rays without subs and well, yeah. You're kind of SOL legally for the rest of the series and movies. Do what you will with that information.
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I know the basic themes and characters of every season through talking to other PreCure fans. But I try not to give firm opinions or engage in content until I watch certain seasons myself.
Season | Watched it? | Number | Episodes | Favorite Cure |
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Futari wa Pretty Cure | ✔ | 1 | 49 | Cure White? (hardest choice) |
Futari wa Pretty Cure: Max Heart | ✗ | 2 | 47 | - |
Futari wa Pretty Cure: Splash☆Star | ✔ | 3 | 49 | Cure Egret |
Yes! Precure 5 | ✗ | 4 | 49 | - |
Yes! Precure 5 Gogo! | ✗ | 5 | 48 | - |
Fresh Precure! | ✗ | 6 | 50 | - |
Heartcatch Precure! | ✔ | 7 | 49 | Cure Marine |
Suite Precure♪ | ✗ | 8 | 48 | - |
Smile Precure! | ✔ | 9 | 48 | Cure Sunny |
Dokidoki! Precure | ✗ | 10 | 49 | - |
Happiness Charge Precure! | ✗ | 11 | 49 | - |
Go! Princess Precure | ✔ | 12 | 50 | Cure Flora |
Mahoutsukai Precure | ✔ | 13 | 50 | Cure Felice |
Kirakira☆Precure A La Mode | ✔ | 14 | 49 | Cure Custard |
Hug tto! Precure | ✗ | 15 | 49 | - |
Star☆Twinkle Precure | ✔ | 16 | 49 | Cure Milky |
Healin' Good♡Precure | ~ | 17 | 45 | - |
Tropical-Rouge! Precure | ✔ | 18 | 46 | Cure Summer |
Delicious Party♡Precure | ✗ | 19 | 45 | - |
Hirogaru Sky! Precure | ✔ | 20 | 50 | Cure Butterfly |
Wonderful Precure! | ~ | 21 | - | - |
(6/27/24): And again, I am not claiming to be a superfan. I don't think I can even call myself a real fan since I haven't watched every season. But I am making my way through. I am not a NEET, enjoy non-precure content and hobbies, and have been a fan for less than two years (started very late November 2022). What do you guys think of my list so far?
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Most sixth rangers are not officially revealed at the beginning of the series as a surprise. Some PreCure fans go to great lengths to figure out everything they can possibly know about the sixth ranger ahead of time. See Toy-Hacking.
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♥ Pink Cures: Usually leads. Similar to to the red of Super Sentai leaders, but pink for girls. Genki, sometimes airheaded, passionate, and inspiring.
♥ Red Cures (and Orange Cures): Very passionate and intense.
♥ Blue Cures: The parter to the pink one. Calm, intelligent, mature, and beautiful.
♥ Yellow Cures: Usually a supporting role. Cutesy, happy, and kind.
♥ Green Cures: Not a common color. Many fans openly wish for a green cure in new seasons.
♥ Purple Cures: Cool, mysterious, calm, or mystical. Common midseason-cure color.
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Let me know if I need to add anything! I probably should archive these sooner or later too.
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♥ https://www.youtube.com/@sghope
♥ https://www.youtube.com/@doreimani
♥ https://www.youtube.com/@ScienceProject99
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There's also this site (Safebooru) which seems to work somewhat well as a SFW source for anime fanart. This is a great way to find fan-artists if you look at the image sources!
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As always, feel free to disagree with any or all of these!
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トロピカ I・N・G (the first Tropical Rouge ED) is an amazing song. I was surprised to hear that people don't like it.
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- Cure Black is a black cure, but it's more accurate to say she is a proto-pink cure.
- Cure White is a white, proto-blue cure.
- Shiny Luminous is a yellow cure.
- Cure Felice is a green cure.
- Cure Parfait is a rainbow cure. Green as a subcolor. Feel strongly about this.
- Cure Milky is a green cure (duh).
- Cure Soleil is a yellow cure.
- Cure Cosmo is a blue cure.
- Cure Summer is a rainbow cure.
- Cure La Mer is a blue cure (also duh).
- Cure Finale makes complete sense as a gold cure (grouped with yellow) to me. I do think she would also be a good rainbow or purple cure.
Wouldn't Cure Finale look good with her dark purple civilian hair color? - Cure Nyammy should be a white cure (but blue is fine).
- All "teal cures" are green.
- Orange cures (Sunny and Wing) are their own category, but should be grouped with red or yellow (ideally). Lots of yellow cures have orange which is great for preventing colorblobness.
- Subcolors exist and help organize cures.
- Again, I hate colorblobs, so I actually love designs that confuse people when it comes to color categories! xD
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Each PreCure season has an OPs, EDs, character songs for each Cure, and more. Here are some of my favorite songs for seasons I have seen. Click the title of each season to reveal or hide the songs. These are all on Spotify! KIRAMEKUUUUU HOSHI NO CHIKARA DEEEEE
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Futari wa Pretty Cure
- DANZEN!ふたりはプリキュア (DANZEN! Futari wa Purikyua)
- ゲッチュウ!らぶらぶぅ?! (Getchū! Rabu Rabu~u?!)
- 雨のち天晴れ (Ame Nochi Appare)
- 好きなのに…ビミョ~!!(Daisuki na no ni...Bimyo~!)
- ありったけの笑顔で (Arittake no Egao de)
- プリキュア登場!~VOCAL RAINBOW STORM~ (Pretty Cure Tōjō! ~VOCAL RAINBOW STORM~)
- ここにいるよ (Koko ni Iru yo)
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Futari wa Pretty Cure: Splash☆Star
Heartcatch PreCure! (BOP WARNING)
- Alright!ハートキャッチプリキュア!, only the original
- ハートキャッチ☆パラダイス! (Heartcatch☆Paradise!)
- つ.ぼ.み〜Future Flower〜 (Tsu.Bo.Mi ~Future Flower~), both the original and remix
- スペシャル*カラフル (Special*Colorful), both the original and remix
- 変身! (Transform!)
- 太陽のシンフォニー
- FULL MOON〜月が満ちるまで〜
- HEART GOES ON
- LET'S GO!
- あしたのあたし(The Me Of Tomorrow)
- Power of Shine, the remix in particular
- MOON ~月光~ ATTACK (MOON ~MOONLIGHT~ ATTACK), both the original and remix
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Go! Princess PreCure
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Mahoutsukai PreCure
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Kirakira☆PreCure A La Mode
Star☆Twinkle PreCure
- キラリ☆彡スター☆トゥインクルプリキュア(Sparkle☆彡Star☆Twinkle Pretty Cure)
- コズミック☆ミステリー☆ガール(Cosmic☆Mystery☆Girl)
- ドキドキ☆La・La・Lun TOUR (Exciting☆La・La・Lun TOUR)
- Moonlight Signal
- TO BE LOVE ~扉~ (TO BE LOVE ~Door~)
Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure
- Viva! Spark!トロピカル~ジュ!プリキュア (Viva! Spark! Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure)
- トロピカ I・N・G (Tropica I・N・G)
- OH! TEMPT SUMMER DAY
- アクアプリズム (Aqua Prism)
- プリティル~ジュデイズ! (Pretty Rouge Days!)
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Hirogaru Sky! PreCure
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Wonderful PreCure!
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Muh merch goes here..I'm watching on some exciting stuff! In general, I try not to be a mega consoomer and mindlessly buy the plastic toys. Instead, I'm drawn to adult-targeted merch such as figures, books, etc.
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I don't ship every single popular pairing...but I like to have fun! Again, I'm not some ship wacko... live and let live... ship and let ship... I don't GAF if you hate whatever I ship as long as we agree to disagree. And if you don't agree to disagree? Well...
I'll save my BokuPuri ships and yaoi science for that sub-shrine... for now... muahaha.
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Here are of my fanworks dedicated to PreCure!
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If there's anything I'm WORSE at than actually finishing seasons, it's finishing shrines. Here's some sub-shrines. They're always a WIP, take them or leave them!
- BokuPuri / Dancing☆Star Pretty Cure The Stage
- WanPuri / Wonderful Pretty Cure!
- TroPuri / Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure
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