Both Toei Animation and ABC Asahi Housou today updated their official sites for the upcoming Go! Princess PreCure, the 12th installment of the long-running PreCure TV anime series, revealing its main character visuals, story background, director, and OP/ED song artists.
Main visual 1: (from left) Cure Twinkle, Cure Flora, Cure Mermaid
Toei Animation's Yuuta Tanaka, who has been working on the PreCure series since Yes! PreCure 5 in
2007-2008, finally makes his debut as a series director. Yukiko Nakatani, who has mainly worked on the
One Piece anime series, including the character designs for the three "Episode of" TV specials, designs the
new PreCure characters.
Main staff:
Producer: Shigehaki Doi (ABC), Tomoko Takahashi (ADK), Hiroaki Shibata (Toei Animation),
Yu Kamiki (Toei Animation)
Series director: Yuuta Tanaka
Series composition: Hitoshi Tanaka (One Piece, Dokidoki! PreCure, HappinessCharge PreCure!)
Music: Hiroshi Takaki (Dokidoki! PreCure, HappinessCharge PreCure!)
Production manager: Takamune Yamazaki (HappinessCharge PreCure!)
Art design: Ryutaro Masuda (HappinessCharge PreCure!)
Color design: Yoshiko Sakuma
Character design: Yikiko Nakatani
The OP song "Miracle Go! Princess PreCure" is sung by 20-year-old Karin Isobe, who was Miss Universe Nara
in the Miss Universe Japan 2014 and recently performed as Darry Adai in the stage play adaptation of
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann in October. This song is her anison debut. Meanwhile, the ED song "Dreaming
☆Princess PreCure" is performed by 24-year-old musical actress Rie Kitagawa. The CD single containing both
songs will released in Japan on March 4, 2015.
Karin Isobe (left) and Rie Kitagawa (right)
For the first time in the franchise's 11-year history, the story of Go! Princess PreCure is set in a boarding junior
high school, named Noble Gakuen (Noble Academy). The protagonist Haruka Haruno is a 13-year-old first
year student. Her big dream is to be a princess someday, because she has admired a princess in the picture
book she has kept since her childhood. One day she transforms into Cure Flora with "Dress Up Key" which
Prince Kanata of Hope Kingdom gave her as a good luck charm when she was little. Then she also finds other
PreCure girls in her school, 14-year-old Minami Kaidou as Cure Mermaid and 13-year-old Kirara Amanogawa
as Cure Twinkle. As the Princess PreCure team, with two fairies Pafu and Aroma, they decide to fight against
dark witch Disupia (or Despair) who hates all the dreams in the world and wants to turn them to despair.
The highly anticipated Go! Princess PreCure is scheduled to premiere on February 1, 2015. The first PV will be
introduced in the end of the next episode of HappinessCharge PreCure! to be aired on December 28.
Main visual 2: (from left) Cure Twinkle, Cure Flora, Cure Mermaid
Source: Toei Animation, ABC Asahi Housou
© Toei Animation/ABC
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