The PreCure franchise is in the middle of its theatrical and merchandising cycle for Detective PreCure! The Mysterious Garden and the Two Secrets, which opened September 18 and drew 440 million yen and 357,000 admissions in three days. The film is holding at No. 3 in its second weekend, and a bathhouse tie-in runs through October 20.
The PreCure franchise's current release is the film Detective PreCure! The Mysterious Garden and the Two Secrets, which opened in Japan on September 18. It drew 440 million yen and more than 357,000 admissions in three days, and it stayed at No. 3 in its second weekend with 134,000 tickets and 174,435,520 yen. Coverage treats this run as the anchor of a wider merchandising and cross-promotion push, not a standalone theatrical event.
The film is built on crossovers. Trailers before release brought together teams from Detective PreCure!, Kimi to Idol PreCure, and Wonderful PreCure!, and stills after release show characters and fairies from those series appearing and transforming. Toei Animation released an all members version of the TV opening that added Cure Eclair and Cure Arcana, and the film's supporting cast includes original characters voiced by Akari Kito, Nobunaga Shimazaki, and Koki Uchiyama, with comedy duo cotton as the Dame Dame creatures.
Outside the theater, the rollout spans bathhouses, a game, and goods. The Gokurakuyu and RAKU SPA collaboration runs from October 1 to October 20 at 16 stores with merchandise and eleven menu items, while CAPCOM is running a four-part Star Detective PreCure! story in Street Fighter 6 starting December 17. Stage and collector lines continue in parallel: Colorful Runway! PreCure the Stage plays in Tokyo and Osaka in December, and Bandai has announced new entries in the Narikiri DX Fight Collection, Ichiban Kuji, and Q posket Miniature Collection lines.
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The Star Detective Precure! film has sold 977,000 tickets and earned an estimated 1.24 billion yen in its first month, passing the 1.24 billion yen total of 2024's Wonderful Precure! The Movie! Dokidoki Game no Sekai de Daiboken! and becoming the franchise's highest-grossing standalone film. It opened in Japan on September 18 and ranked third in its opening weekend, selling 358,000 tickets for 446 million yen in three days.
The official website for Star Detective Precure! announced the anime will cross over with Ojamajo Doremi (Magical DoReMi) in its 39th episode on October 25. A collaboration visual and character visuals show the Star Detectives in Ojamajo Doremi-themed witch apprentice costumes. The Halloween-themed episode follows Star Detective Precure!'s story, which is set in 1999, the year the original Ojamajo Doremi anime premiered in Japan.
Toei Animation announced that Detective Pretty Cure!, the 23rd Precure series now airing, will cross over with Ojamajo Doremi in episode 39 on October 25. The four Curette Detective Agency members dress as witch apprentices for a Halloween story. Yoshihiko Umakoshi, who designed Heartcatch Precure! characters, drew the collaboration visual. Doremi appears as an in-show TV anime, since Detective Pretty Cure! is set in 1999, the year Doremi began airing.
In its 11th weekend, Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of Mermaid Island fell from #2 to #4, earning 178,447,600 yen. Its cumulative total is 17,169,165,400 yen on 11.76 million tickets. The Star Detective Precure! film dropped from #3 to #5 in weekend three with 117,562,850 yen, reaching 1,088,603,930 yen cumulatively.
Movie Detective PreCure! The Mysterious Garden and the Two Secrets opened on September 18 and drew 440 million yen and more than 357,000 admissions in three days. New stills show Cure Idol, Cure Wink, and Cure KyunKyun from Kimi to Idol PreCure alongside Cure Wonderful, Cure Friendly, Cure Nyammy, and Cure Lillian from Wonderful PreCure. Satoru Toyama and Daifuku also appear and transform.
Toei Animation announced on October 1 that Season 4 of the Precure spin-off short anime "Petit Cure ~Precure Fairies~" began streaming on YouTube the same day. Season 4 adds Choppy from Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash☆Star, Rachel from Doki Doki! Precure, Latte from Healin' Good Precure and Pam-Pam from Delicious Party Precure to the cast.
In its 10th weekend, Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of Mermaid Island fell from No. 1 to No. 2 at the Japanese box office, selling 182,000 tickets and earning 280,160,700 yen from Friday to Sunday. Star Detective Precure! The Movie stayed at No. 3 in its second weekend, with 134,000 tickets and 174,435,520 yen, while Cosmic Princess Kaguya! dropped to No. 10.
The Star Detective Precure! movie opened at #3 in Japan, selling 358,000 tickets and earning 446 million yen in its first three days, then 606,000 tickets and 746 million yen through September 23. Eiga Chiikawa: Ningyo no Shima no Himitsu stayed at #1 in its ninth weekend, and Cosmic Princess Kaguya! returned at #6.
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.
Gokurakuyu Holdings is running a collaboration between the Gokurakuyu and RAKU SPA bathhouse chain and the film Detective Precure! The Mysterious Garden and the Two Secrets, scheduled from October 1 to October 20. The tie-in uses newly drawn illustrations of four Detective Pretty Cure members, including Cure Arcana and Cure Eclair, who appear in their movie-only Future Form. Merchandise includes a muffler towel that costs 1,100 yen on top of the admission fee, a random trading sento key acrylic carabiner at 1,100 yen, trading can badges at 550 yen, acrylic stands at 1,980 yen each, acrylic hair clips at 990 yen each, flake stickers at 1,100 yen per eight-sheet pack, and a clear file set at 1,100 yen. Buyers get a mini illustration card for every 2,000 yen of goods purchased. The menu runs the widest, from Anna's Hanamaru Naruto Ramen at 1,650 yen to Ruruka's Chicken Steak Plate at 2,200 yen.
Hikari Senga, who plays Cure Answer in "Detective Precure!," appeared as a guest on the 100th broadcast of "SHIBUYA ANIME BASE." The episode featured a special on the film "Detective Precure! The Mysterious Garden and the Two Secrets," which opened in theaters the same day. Senga said she cried watching the completed film despite already knowing its content, and discussed her path to winning the role while still a newcomer.
Cure Answer from Detective Precure! will appear as a special commissioner on the September 18 broadcast of Detective! Knight Scoop on ABC TV in Kansai. On the show she meets the senior detectives and is asked about Master Kanpei's gags; she says she does not know them, so Kanpei teaches her one. A one-week catch-up stream runs on TVer after the broadcast, while other regions, including TOKYO MX on Sundays, air the episode several weeks later.
Toei Animation released on September 13 two new trailers and a key visual for its Precure film, opening September 18. The first trailer, labeled Kimi to Idol and Wonderful, shows characters from Kimi to Idol Precure and Wonderful Precure joining the four Detective Precure leads. The sequel series is set in 1999, and the previous two series have their own time settings, so the crossover's plot mechanics were unclear before the footage. In the trailer, Komugi Inukai runs ahead while dragging along Iroha Inukai, and the two series' characters speak. The second trailer, This Is A Detective, follows the four Detective Precure leads refusing to give up on a difficult mystery, including Anna Akechi's line that they will not give up. The same footage shows Jet-senpai taunting them. Toei also announced that all three TV series will stream back to back on ABEMA starting September 18 at 19:00.
The staff for the Star Detective Precure! film, subtitled The Mysterious Garden and the Secret of 2 People, released two trailers and a new still on Sunday. One trailer and the still bring together the Precure girls from Star Detective Precure!, You and Idol Precure, and Wonderful Precure! The other trailer focuses on the Star Detective Precure! cast. The film opens in Japan on September 18.
The Gokurakuyu and RAKU SPA bathhouse group is running a Detective Precure! collaboration from October 1 to 20, 2026, across 16 stores. The campaign ties into the film "Eiga Detective Precure! Fushigi na Niwa to 2-ri no Himitsu," which opens September 18. Newly drawn illustrations show the four Precure in their movie-limited Future Form, including Cure Eclair and Cure Arcana, who were absent from the previous collab. Visitors can pay an extra 1,100 yen on admission for a random towel from eight designs. Goods include acrylic stands, clear files, and hair clips, with a random mini illustration card for every 2,000 yen spent in stores. Eleven menu items are offered, each order including a coaster, and ordering four items earns an extra coaster. Five themed baths rotate by store and date. A quiz test with a clear card prize, an X campaign, and a high-five greeting event at RAKU SPA Tsurumi on October 17 round out the program.
Toei Animation released a non-credit version of the new opening theme video for Detective Precure! on September 6. Titled the All Members Version, it adds Cure Eclair and Cure Arcana, who have joined the Curett Detective Agency, plus new scenes and battles with enemy Phantom Thieves. A character previously shown only from the legs is now revealed.
The staff for the Star Detective Precure! film presented a trailer for the Pochitan Miracle Light and revealed future forms for Cure Mystique, Cure Eclair, and Cure Arcana. The film opens in Japan on September 18. It features original characters voiced by Akari Kito, Nobunaga Shimazaki, and Koki Uchiyama, with guest appearances by the comedy duo cotton.
The Colorful Runway! Precure The Stage production committee announced the new stage-original male Precure series on September 1, following Dancing☆Star Precure. The play runs December 5-13 at Tennozu Galaxy Theater in Tokyo and December 26-27 at COOL JAPAN PARK OSAKA WW Hall. Staff includes original work by Izumi Todo, supervisor Ami Washio of Toei Animation, character design by Toshie Kawamura, and script and direction by Yo Hosaka.
The all-male Precure stage play returns with Colorful Runway! Precure the Stage, a fashion-themed production running at The Galaxy Theatre in Tokyo from December 5-13 and at Cool Japan Park Osaka WW Hall in Osaka from December 26-27. The cast includes Kazan Yokoyama as Cure Silhouette, Jumpei Mitsui as Cure Collage, Ryusei Kitade as Cure Flash, and Takuya Ide as Cure Trad. Hosakayo directs and writes the script.
Bandai announced the 3rd entry in the Precure Narikiri DX Fight Collection gashapon series, releasing on Gashapon Online starting August 28, 2026, at 11:00 AM. The set includes five items: Dream Torch from Yes! Precure 5, Princess Candle from Smile PreCure!, Love Pre Brace from HappinessCharge PreCure!, Twinkle Stick from Star Twinkle PreCure, and Heart Rouge Rod from Tropical-Rouge! PreCure. Each play costs 400 yen, with delivery around late December 2026.
Bandai Spirits has announced the full lineup for its upcoming Ichiban Kuji Precure ~Endless Grace~ lottery, set for sequential in-store release starting September 26, 2026. Online sales begin October 19, 2026. The headline prizes are two approximately 17 cm figures: the A Prize Cure Dream and the Last One Prize Milky Rose, both sculpted in transformation poses and designed to be displayed together. The lottery spans 14 prize tiers in total, including the palm-sized PUNY BEANS deformed figure series covering all six members of the Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo! team, plush mascots of fairies Coco, Nuts, Milk, and Syrup, a CureMo-inspired card case, bag charms, pouches, hand towels, and stickers. Several tiers, including the fairy plush mascots, character charms, and daily items, are selectable, allowing winners to choose their preferred variant rather than relying on random draw. A Double Chance Campaign offers a Cure Dream and Milky Rose figure set to 50 winners. Each draw costs 770 yen including tax.
Bandai's Vender Division is releasing the second volume of the Precure All Stars Q posket Miniature Collection, a gashapon line that shrinks its crane-game prize figures into boxed miniatures. The new set draws entirely from Yes! Precure 5 GoGo!, with all four characters from that series appearing: Cure Lemonade, Cure Mint, Cure Aqua, and Milky Rose. Each capsule costs 500 yen including tax, and the release is scheduled for the fifth week of August 2026, though timing may vary by region and store. The figures are detailed miniatures whose packaging reproduces the design of the standard Q posket boxes, and they can be removed from their packages. The collection is a capsule product with four types in total. Bandai lists Toei Animation as the copyright holder for the Precure characters. The first volume of the series launched earlier in the Q posket Miniature Collection line, which also includes a separate Detective Conan set debuting in the same month with four characters of its own.
The staff for Star Detective Precure! The Movie: The Mysterious Garden and the Secret of 2 People announced that Jinji Nishimura and Kyon from the comedy duo cotton will voice the Dame Dame creatures. The film opens in Japan on September 18, with Hanako Ueda directing and Yoshimi Narita writing the script.
The staff for Star Detective Precure!, the 23rd main Precure anime, revealed Sunday a new ending theme song and character visuals. The theme, "Itsuka Wakaru ☆ Kitto Aeru," is performed by Akane Kumada and Yūka Masui. The staff also unveiled visuals for new Star Kiraring forms of Cure Answer, Cure Mystic, Cure Eclair, and Cure Arcana, plus a Future Form visual for Cure Answer in the upcoming film.
A Pretty Store POPUP runs at SHIBUYA TSUTAYA 1F from August 22 to 31, 2026, themed around an airport departure with Pretty Cure. New products using new illustrations for the PRECURE TRAVEL! series and Futari wa Pretty Cure go on early sale at the venue, with 13 types of ticket-style cards offered as POPUP-exclusive novelties.
The staff for the Star Detective Precure! film announced the cast for three film-original characters in a new video on Sunday. Akari Kito voices Karin, a 14-year-old girl who holds the key to the story. Nobunaga Shimazaki voices Alan, a fairy who watches over Karin, and Koki Uchiyama voices Rain, a fairy who requests the Detective Precures' help. The film opens in Japan on September 18.
Toei Animation Museum Channel will premiere past PreCure works for two consecutive weeks starting August 9. Each week offers a free double feature: the Suite PreCure film with the first episode of You and Idol PreCure♪, then the Maho Girls PreCure! film with the first episode of Wonderful PreCure!. Archives stay up one week.
TVer began a limited free streaming run of three Precure films on August 2: Hugtto! Precure, Star Twinkle PreCure, and Healin' Good PreCure. The end date is not yet announced. The lineup includes the 15th anniversary crossover film featuring 55 Precure characters with original voice casts.
Marvelous announced the late ending theme for Meitantei Precure!, titled Itsuka Wakaru Kitto Aeru, performed by Akane Kumada and Yuka Masui, with lyrics by Kumiko Aoki and composition by Kouki Hamada. The single releases September 30, with the TV-size version now streaming. The late ED replaces the popular first ED.
Ticketplus announced that its official resale service, Ticketplus Trade, is now handling tickets for the Dancing☆Star PreCure The Stage PARTY live event. Resale opened July 25. The event runs August 21 to 23 at Sunpearl Arakawa in Tokyo, with all seats priced at 11,000 yen.
Video Research released Japanese animation TV rankings for July 13-19, 2026. Sazae-san topped the list with a 5.9% household rating in the Kanto region. Detective Conan and Chibi Maruko-chan followed at 4.6% and 4.2% respectively. A Kingdom special earned 7.0% but was not part of the regular animation chart.
The staff for the Star Detective Precure! film revealed the main trailer, staff members, and the ending theme song "FIRST PRISM" by Yūka Masui and Chihaya Yoshitake. The film also features an insert song "First Step" by Ami Ishii. The film opens in Japan on September 18.
On July 20, 2026, numerous anime, manga, and game franchises posted Marine Day greetings on social media. The Japanese national holiday, which honors the ocean and marks the end of the rainy season, prompted official accounts and creators to share beach-themed illustrations, character birthday messages, and promotional content. Among the posts, the official Kaiju No. 8 account promoted an upcoming original short anime titled "Narumi's Weekday" with a pun on the character's name and the kanji for sea. The MAPPA studio released a new illustration by Rie Nishimura for the soccer series DAYS, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2026. The Sound! Euphonium account reminded followers that the film Sound! Euphonium: The Final Part 2 opens on September 11. Classroom of the Elite noted that July 20 is also the birthday of character Honami Ichinose. The That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime account promoted the streaming of its movie Tears of the Azure Sea on U-NEXT. The Chiikawa movie account promoted the July 24 release of Eiga Chiikawa: Ningyo no Shima no Himitsu. Voice actor Yuki Kaji posted a personal greeting, and the band Orange Range shared a summer song. The roundup, compiled by Anime News Network, spanned three articles covering dozens of entries.
The film "Movie Detective Pretty Cure! The Mysterious Garden and the Two Secrets" is collaborating with ROUND1. Original goods featuring newly drawn illustrations of Cure Answer, Cure Mystic, Cure Eclair, Cure Arcana Shadow, and others will be sold at four ROUND1 stores and online starting August 1, 2026. Additional items are scheduled for September 7.
The Precure franchise released its first short video teaching children proper movie theater etiquette. The Petitcure ~Precure Fairies~ short will play in T-Joy Movie Theaters before feature films starting July 24. It features fairy mascots from across the franchise and arrives two months before the next Precure movie, Eiga Meitantei Precure!.
The Star Detective Precure! anime is running a fan poll to guess Cure Eclair's secret identity before her July 19 reveal. Four candidates appear in episodes from June 14 to July 12. Voting is open online and at physical locations in Japan.
Toei Animation announced the Cure Éclair Arc for Detective Pretty Cure!, starting June 21 with four consecutive episodes focusing on candidate characters. The true identity of Cure Éclair will be revealed in episode 25 on July 19. A voting campaign will run alongside the episodes, and the character song title is "I am a Mystery."
Following crossover episodes that aired on May 31 and June 6, the Precure franchise has announced a line of Star Detective Precure! x Detective Conan merchandise. Items include acrylic stands, pins, coasters, a t-shirt, and a towel, available from June 23 at Precure Pretty Stores and via Premium Bandai preorder until June 30.
June 9, Rock Day in Japan, saw anime and manga properties including Girls Band Cry, My Hero Academia, Precure, and Haibara's Teenage New Game+ post themed art and messages. The date is a wordplay on the numbers 6 (roku) and 9 (ku).
Anime Feminist's weekly round-up for January 7-13, 2026, covers a range of topics including mixed Japanese representation in PreCure, a discussion of shojo manga adaptations, and Cygames' response to backlash over generative AI. The round-up features premiere reviews of over 20 winter 2026 anime series, with highlights including "Isekai Office Worker" for its unique BL premise and "The Holy Grail of Eris" for its innovative villainess setup. A segment titled "Drama Over Anime" compares influential shojo series like "Boys Over Flowers" and their live-action adaptations, noting the cultural footprint of shojo manga beyond anime. The round-up also announces the upcoming launch of Mothership, a queer- and women-owned video game publication co-founded by former Polygon writers. Cygames issued an apology after backlash over generative AI, stating it will not use AI in its products without prior notice and that all current games are crafted by staff. Additional segments cover Shuzo Oshimi's works, otome game videos, and news about sexual harassment in Japanese politics.
Toei Animation is streaming five detective-themed episodes from past Precure series on YouTube, starting with 'Yes! Precure 5 GoGo!' Episode 9, where Cure Mint plays detective over a missing cake. Each episode is available for two weeks.
Detective Conan and Star Detective Precure! will air crossover episodes in late May and early June. The Star Detective Precure! episode featuring characters from Detective Conan airs on May 31. In that episode, an art piece is stolen, and protagonists Anna and Mikuru encounter Conan Edogawa, Ran Mouri, and Kogoro Mouri while they visit Makoto Mirai Town. The group tracks down the Phantom Thieves together. The Detective Conan episode featuring Cure Answer airs on June 6. In that episode, a string of jewel robberies occurs in Beika Town. Ayumi becomes excited because the situation reminds her of a Precure plot, and she hopes to meet a Precure if the thieves appear. The Junior Detective League is assigned to guard a jewelry store that is rumored to be the thieves' next target. They capture the thieves, but Ayumi then feels uneasy. The crossover was announced on Sunday. This is the first time these two series have crossed over on screen.