| Pretty Cure Super Stars! | |
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| Kanji | 映画プリキュアスーパースターズ！ |
| Revised Hepburn | Eiga Purikuya Sūpa Sutāzu! |
| Directed by | Yoko Ikeda |
| Screenplay by | Shōji Yonemura |
| Based on | Pretty Cure byIzumi Todo |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Shinichi Igarashi |
| Edited by | Yoshihiro Aso |
| Music by | Yuki Hayashi |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Toei Company, Ltd. |
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Running time | 70 minutes[1] |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Pretty Cure Super Stars! (Japanese:映画プリキュアスーパースターズ！,Hepburn:Eiga Purikyua Sūpa Sutāzu!) is a 2018Japanese animatedactionfantasy film based on thePretty Cure franchise created byIzumi Todo. The film is directed by Yoko Ikeda, written byShōji Yonemura, and produced byToei Animation. The film was released in Japan on March 17, 2018.[2]
Marking the tenth entry to thePretty Cure All Starscrossover film series, theHug! Pretty Cure team joins forces withWitchy PreCure! andKirakira Pretty Cure a la Mode teams to stop a rampaging monster named Usobakka.
TheHug! Pretty Cure team: Hana, Saaya, and Homare encounters a mysterious rampaging monster named Usobakka while flower viewing. As they transform and fight, Usobakka turns their transformation devices into stones and reverts their transformations. As Usobakka kidnaps Saaya and Homare, Hana proposes to seek help from other Pretty Cures. Few hours later, Hana encounters theKirakira Pretty Cure a la Mode team: Ichika, Himari, Aoi, Yukari, Akira and Ciel after they rescue Hugtan from a stroller. Usobakka appears again, and like from before, he turns their transformation devices into stones and kidnaps theKirakira team but Ichika.
Ichika and Hana goes to the Magic World, where they try to alert theWitchy PreCure! team: Mirai, Riko and Ha-chan about Usobakka, but he appears once again and kidnaps Riko and Ha-chan. As the three girls escape, Hana reveals that the monster was known as a boy named Clover, as she had befriended him as a child and couldn't fulfill her promise to see him again. Meanwhile, the other trapped girls meet up with Saaya and Homare, whom realizes that they are slowly being turned into stones. Mirai proposes to Hana to find the Door of Time to prevent and save Clover from being turned into Usobakka. As they find and enter the door, Hana apologizes to Clover, and rescues him by exiting his world.
As Clover realizes that his partner, Dark Onibi had deceived him, Onibi reveals his true intentions and turns into a gigantic monster. To make up for his mistakes, Clover uses his powers to reunite the three Pretty Cure teams and restore their transformation items. The Cures transforms and fight Dark Onibi, but are bested, even withKirakira andWitchy teams' powerful state. Clover then uses last of his powers to aid the Pretty Cures, and with the additional aid of the Miracle Lights, they attack Onibi with "Pretty Cure Clover Formation" attack. As Onibi is cured, Clover takes his flames with him to theafterlife, but not before making another promise with Yell.
The newPretty Cure All Stars crossover film was announced in January 2018.[2][3]Pretty Cure episode director Yoko Ikeda directed the film, with screenplay byShōji Yonemura, whom was in charge of writingSmile PreCure! series, and character design and chief animation direction byHisashi Kagawa, whom previously designedFresh Pretty Cure! series.[4]Kazuki Kitamura andKensho Ono was announced to voice the original film characters; Usobakka and Clover respectively.[5][6]
The film was released in theaters in Japan on March 17, 2018.[2]
The film opened at number 3 out of top 10 in the Japanese box office in its opening week,[7] and consistently stayed on the charts the following weeks.[8]
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