DokiDoki! PreCure
DokiDoki! PreCure (Japanese: ドキドキ!プリキュア, Hepburn: Dokidoki! Purikyua, lit. "Heart-Pounding! Pre Cure"), is a Japanese anime series produced by Toei Animation as the tenth installment in Izumi Todo's Pretty Cure metaseries, featuring the eighth generation of Cures. The series is produced by Hiroaki Shibata, who produced Digimon Data Squad and written by Ryōta Yamaguchi, who wrote the scripts for The Vision of Escaflowne. Character designs were handled by Akira Takahashi, who previously did designs for Suite PreCure. The series aired on the ANN network between February 3, 2013, and January 26, 2014, replacing Smile PreCure! in its timeslot, and was succeeded by HappinessCharge PreCure!. An animated film based on the series was released on October 26, 2013. This series' main topics are love, emotions, selflessness, and selfishness, with playing card suits as the Cure's main motifs.
DokiDoki! PreCure | |
Key visual of the series featuring the five main Cures. In clockwise order: Cure Ace, Cure Sword, Cure Rosetta, Cure Diamond, and Cure Heart in the center. | |
ドキドキ!プリキュア (Dokidoki! PuriKyua) | |
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Genre | Magical girl |
Created by | Izumi Todo |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Go Koga |
Produced by | Hiroaki Shibata |
Written by | Ryōta Yamaguchi |
Music by | Hiroshi Takaki (JP) Noam Kaniel (Noam) (US) |
Studio | Toei Animation |
Licensed by |
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Original network | ANN (TV Asahi, ABC) |
English network | |
Original run | February 3, 2013 – January 26, 2014 |
Episodes | 49 (Japanese and South Korean versions) 30 (Glitter Force Doki Doki; International version) |
Manga | |
Written by | Izumi Todo |
Illustrated by | Futago Kamikita |
Published by | Kodansha |
Magazine | Nakayoshi |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Original run | March 2013 – February 2014 |
Game | |
DokiDoki! PreCure: Narikiri Life! | |
Developer | Namco Bandai Games |
Publisher | Namco Bandai Games |
Genre | Minigame |
Platform | Nintendo 3DS |
Released | August 1, 2013 |
Anime film | |
DokiDoki! PreCure the Movie: Mana's Getting Married!!? The Dress of Hope Tied to the Future! | |
Directed by | Naoyuki Itō |
Written by | Ryōta Yamaguchi |
Studio | Toei Animation |
Released | October 26, 2013 |
Under its SCG Characters unit, Saban Brands produced an English dub of the series, Glitter Force: Doki Doki, abridging the original forty-nine episodes into thirty. Despite the Glitter Force trademark having moved to Toei in June 2017, Saban Brands was still credited with the production of the English dub. The first fifteen episodes began streaming on Netflix from August 18, 2017. The second season, also consisting of fifteen episodes, was released on November 10, 2017. It is the third installment of the series to receive an English dub, and the second and last English adaptation under the Glitter Force brand, and the last anime to be dubbed by Saban Brands. Hasbro currently owns the rights and names to the program and the brand alongside other Saban Brands entertainment assets as of June 14, 2018.