Kirakira Pretty Cure a la Mode
Kirakira Pretty Cure a la Mode (Japanese: キラキラ☆プリキュアアラモード, Hepburn: Kirakira ☆ Purikyua Ara Mōdo, lit. "Glittering Pretty Cure à la Mode"), stylized as Kirakira☆PreCure a la Mode, is a 2017 Japanese magical girl anime series produced by Toei Animation and the fourteenth installment in Izumi Todo's Pretty Cure metaseries, featuring the twelfth generation of Cures. It is directed by Kohei Kureta and Yukio Kaizawa. Jin Tanaka wrote the script, and Marie Ino designed the characters. The cake and sweets designs were handled by pâtissière Junko Fukuda. The series began airing on all All-Nippon News Network stations in Japan on February 5, 2017, succeeding Witchy PreCure! in its timeslot. It was then succeeded by Hug! Pretty Cure on February 4, 2018. The series' main topics are happiness and creativity, with desserts and animals as its motifs.
| Kirakira ☆ Pretty Cure a la Mode | |
Cover of the final Blu-ray volume, featuring the six Cures. In clockwise order: Cure Chocolat, Cure Macaron, Cure Custard, Cure Whip, Cure Parfait and Cure Gelato in the center. | |
| キラキラ☆プリキュアアラモード (Kirakira ☆ Purikyua Ara Mōdo) | |
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| Genre | Magical girl |
| Created by | Izumi Todo |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Kohei Kureta Yukio Kaizawa |
| Produced by | Akira Tanaka Risa Endō Yu Kaminoki |
| Written by | Jin Tanaka |
| Music by | Yuki Hayashi |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Licensed by | Toei Animation Inc. (Licensing) Crunchyroll (Streaming)
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| Original network | ANN (ABC, TV Asahi) |
| Original run | February 5, 2017 – January 28, 2018 |
| Episodes | 49 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Izumi Todo |
| Illustrated by | Futago Kamikita |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Imprint | Wide KC |
| Magazine | Nakayoshi |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Original run | March 2017 – December 2017 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Anime film | |
| Kirakira Pretty Cure a la Mode the Movie: Crisply! The Memory of Mille-feuille! Petit☆Dream Stars! Let's・la・Cookin'? Showtime! | |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Released | October 28, 2017 |
Toei Animation Inc. licensed the series outside Japan for all territories, with Crunchyroll streaming the series starting on August 20, 2020. With the exception of Smile PreCure! and DokiDoki! PreCure, which were released by Saban Entertainment in English under the name Glitter Force, it is the third series to be released under the "Pretty Cure" name since Futari wa Pretty Cure.