Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star

Futari wa PreCure Splash Star
Cover of the Second DVD-Box Set, showing Cure Bloom in her Cure Bright form, Cure Egret in her Cure Windy form, Moof and Foof and the Kiryu Sisters.
ふたりはプリキュア Splash Star (Futari wa Purikyua Supurasshu Sutā)
Genre	Magical girl, Action
Anime television series
Directed by	Toshiaki Komura
Studio	Toei Animation
Original network	TV Asahi
Original run	February 5, 2006 – January 28, 2007
Episodes	49 (List of episodes)
Manga
Written by	Izumi Todo
Illustrated by	Futago Kamikita
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	Shōjo
Magazine	Nakayoshi
Original run	March 2006 – February 2007
Game
Futari wa PreCure Splash☆Star: Panpaka Game Never Better!
Developer	Bandai
Publisher	Bandai
Genre	Side-scrolling beat 'em up
Platform	Nintendo DS
Released	November 30, 2006
Anime film
Futari wa PreCure Splash☆Star the Movie: Tic-Tac Crisis Hanging by a Thin Thread!
Directed by	Atsuji Shimizu
Studio	Toei Animation
Released	December 9, 2006

Futari wa PreCure Splash Star (ふたりはプリキュア Splash Star, Futari wa Purikyua Supurasshu Sutā^?), often shortened simply to Pretty Cure Splash Star, is a magical girl anime series produced by Toei Animation and Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, which aired in Japan TV Asahi's ANN network between February 5, 2006 and January 28, 2007. It is the third series in Izumi Todo's Pretty Cure franchise, following a new story different from the previous two series. The series is directed by Toshiaki Komura, who previously directed Kinnikuman Nisei. The character designs were done by Akira Inagami, who previously worked on the character designs on both Futari wa Pretty Cure and Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart. The series's theme and concept is based on the Japanese idiom "flower, bird, wind, moon" (花鳥風月, kachōfūgetsu^?), which symbolizes the beauties of Nature, or the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics.

Saki Hyuuga and Mai Misho met at age nine for the first time after they followed two glowing balls that flew towards the Sky Tree, a big tree situated on top of a mountain in their town. Five years later, they met again at the same place and became the new legendary warriors PreCure (Pretty Cure). Flappy and Choppy, spirits from the Land of Fountains, revealed that they were the glowing balls and the girls were chosen to protect the Fountain of Sun hidden in Saki and Mai's world, which they refer to as the Land of Fountains. Saki and Mai are transformed into Cure Bloom and Cure Egret using the spirits. Later they are gained new forms to Cure Bright and Cure Windy with help from two additional spirits Mupu and Fupu. The villains of this series are the Dark Fall, who are searching for the Fountain of Sun, the last of the seven fountains that feed the World Tree - the source of all life forms for all worlds. The Leader of the Dark Fall has set his aim on this tree, and it is Pretty Cure's job to protect it.