Star Detective Precure! Joins Street Fighter 6 in Four-Part Story
A Precure crossover with a mainline fighting game pushes the franchise further into game licensing, though CAPCOM has kept the whole run inside Japan for now.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
CAPCOM will run an original four-part Star Detective Precure! story in Street Fighter 6's Battlehub starting December 17. The Precure team investigates a destroyed arcade machine in part one, and Luke, Jamie, and Kimberly appear in the anime's art style. The collaboration adds avatar items and illustration fliers at tie-in events, CAPCOM stores, and Precure Pretty Store locations across Japan. No international release has been announced.
The story begins on December 17 inside Street Fighter 6's Battlehub, where the Precure team takes on a case about a destroyed arcade machine. Street Fighter 6 characters Luke, Jamie, and Kimberly are drawn in the Star Detective Precure! art style for the collaboration.
CAPCOM is also tying merchandise to the run: avatar items in the game, plus illustration fliers distributed at tie-in events, CAPCOM stores, and Precure Pretty Store locations across Japan. The flier art comes from CAPCOM illustrator Tamio. At press time the collaboration has only been announced in Japan, with no international release plans.
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