Fresh PreCure! | |
Cover of 8th DVD volume featuring (from left to right): Cure Passion, Chiffon and Tart (top), Cure Pine, Cure Peach and Cure Berry
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フレッシュプリキュア! (Furesshu PuriKyua!) |
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Genre | Magical girl, Comedy-Drama |
Anime television series | |
Directed by |
Junji Shimizu (All Episodes) Akifumi Zako (Episodes 16-50) |
Written by | Atsushi Maekawa |
Music by | Yasuharu Takanashi |
Studio | Toei Animation |
Original network | TV Asahi |
Original run | February 1, 2009 – January 31, 2010 |
Episodes | 50 |
Manga | |
Written by | Izumi Todo |
Illustrated by | Futago Kamikita |
Published by | Kodansha |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Magazine | Nakayoshi |
Original run | March 2009 – February 2010 |
Volumes | 12 |
Anime film | |
Fresh PreCure the Movie: The Kingdom of Toys has Lots of Secrets!? | |
Directed by | Junji Shimizu |
Written by | Atsushi Maekawa |
Music by | Yasuharu Takanashi |
Studio | Toei Animation |
Released | October 31, 2009 |
Game | |
Fresh PreCure! Asobi Collection | |
Developer | Bandai |
Publisher | Bandai |
Genre | Minigame |
Platform | Nintendo DS |
Released | October 29, 2009 |
Fresh PreCure! (フレッシュプリキュア! Furesshu PuriKyua!?) or Fresh Pretty Cure!, is a Japanese anime series and the sixth Pretty Cure installment by Izumi Todo. Produced by Toei Animation, the series was directed by Junji Shimizu (who also directed Jigoku Sensei Nube The Movie) and written by Atsushi Maekawa (writer for Bakugan Battle Brawlers and Jewelpet). Character designs were created by Hisashi Kagawa, who previously designed the characters in the anime Saikano, Bomberman Jetters and Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne. The series aired on TV Asahi's ANN network between February 1, 2009 and January 31, 2010, replacing Yes! PreCure 5 Go Go! in its initial time slot, and was succeeded by HeartCatch PreCure!. This is the first Pretty Cure series to extend the target-audience demographic beyond young girls, as well as the first to introduce CG-animated end credits focused on dance routines.
The series' main themes involve traditional playing-card suits, fruits and clovers, symbols that are associated with the cures, magical devices and attacks used by the series characters.