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New service lets you get calls from anime magical girls to say goodnight and that they love you

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 3, 2025
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PreCure offer encouragement and praise for a monthly price.

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Sanrio and magical girl anime PreCure join forces for new merch line【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 10, 2024

Six magical girls from the fifth arc of the anime franchise pair off with Sanrio partners.

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• (anime • cute • Hello Kitty • manga • My Melody • PreCure • Sanrio • Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo!)

McDonald’s Japan has Precure anime magical girl Happy Meal toys, and they’re Wonderful!【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 18, 2024

Cures Wonderful, Nyammy, and more characters from the hit series are headed to McDonald’s Japan in two batches of toys.

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• (anime • COK • cool • cute • food • Happy Meal • Happy Meals • Happy Set • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • PreCure • Pretty Cure • SNJO • Wonderful PreCure • Wonderful Pretty Cure)

Adult magical girl anime series Power of Hope: PreCure opening cafe in Tokyo【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 10, 2024

Magical woman Cures get special food, drinks, and exclusive merch for fans who grew up with the series.

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• (anime • cafes • COK • food • manga • Power of Hope: PreCure Full Bloom • PreCure • Pretty Cure • restaurants • themed cafes)

For-adults PreCure anime could be on the way this year, trademark filing suggests

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2023

Adult PreCure’23 Power of Hope could be the for-grown-ups version of the magical girl anime that veteran fans have been waiting for.

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• (anime • magical girls • PreCure • Pretty Cure • Toei Animation)

For-adults PreCure novels get re-release for grown-up fans of magical girl anime series

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 11, 2023

Just because you’re not a girl anymore doesn’t mean you have to leave the magical girl adventures behind.

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• (anime • books • manga • PreCure • Pretty Cure)

Every PreCure magical girl ever now appearing on awesome anime digital mural in Tokyo【Pics, vid】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 1, 2023

The PreCure franchise celebrates its 20th anniversary while looking ahead to its newest arc.

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• (anime • awesome • COK • cool • manga • PreCure • Pretty Cure • Shinjuku Station • SNJO • video)

We use makeup from Japanese kids’ anime Tropical-Rouge! PreCure on our adult faces【Photos】

• Katy Kelly
  Mar 26, 2021

Will we look as glamorous as Cure Summer if we use the products in the show?

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• (anime • beauty • COK • cosmetics • cute • fashion • kids • magical girls • makeup • PreCure • Pretty Cure • SNJO • Tropical-Rouge! PreCure)

49-year-old comedian can identify any Pretty Cure figure blindfolded

• Master Blaster
  Feb 7, 2021

He must be healin’ pretty good about himself now.

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• (anime • Fujiwara • Manzai • PreCure • Pretty Cure • Takayuki Haranishi • Toshifumi Fujimoto)

Naomi Osaka becomes shojo manga star for new series set in outer space

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 1, 2020

Professional tennis player set to be the newest heroine in Japan’s biggest girls’ comic magazine.

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• (anime • manga • Nakayoshi • Naomi Osaka • PreCure • shojo manga • sports • tennis)

City in Japan receives donation for kids with letter signed by two ultra-popular anime characters

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 11, 2020

Cash in the mail to pay for kids’ Christmas gifts supposedly comes from Demon Slayer and PreCure stars.

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• (anime • Demon Slayer • donations • kids • Kimetsu no Yaiba • moving • PreCure • Pretty Cure • Tiger Mask • touching • Yokohama)

For the not-so-low cost of US$1,300 you can own almost every Pretty Cure collector’s badge set

• Ingrid Tsai
  Aug 31, 2020

Emissary of Light, Cure… Badge!!!

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• (anime • badges • collector's item • crazy • expensive • magical girls • PreCure • Pretty Cure)

Japanese kids can get boo-boos treated by augmented reality anime characters in Bandai-d form

• Katy Kelly
  Feb 2, 2019

These Bandai band-aids come with an app that lets Super Sentai or PreCure characters wish away the pain. Aww!

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• (anime • AR • augmented reality • bandages • Bandai • cool • kids • PreCure • Pretty Cure • Rysoulger • Super Sentai)

Children’s anime PreCure features magical girl actually giving birth to a child in series finale

• Katy Kelly
  Jan 31, 2019

Hugtto! PreCure’s final episode has aired, and only truly draws to a close after we see the protagonist as an adult screaming in labor pain.

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• (anime • childbirth • Hugtto Pretty Cure • magical girls • mothers • Parenting • PreCure • Pretty Cure • society • weird)

4-year old wows Twitter with perfect pixel portrayals of Pretty Cure anime magical girls

• Katy Kelly
  Dec 6, 2018

The future looks bright for this budding artist, who made over 50 of the core PreCure cast out of acrylic beads.

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• (anime • awesome • beads • crafts • cute • kids • magical girls • PreCure • Pretty Cure)

After 15 years, the first male Pretty Cure has arrived… perhaps

• Master Blaster
  Dec 2, 2018

Cure Infini has something 55 of his predecessors never possessed: a Y chromosome.

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• (anime • Hugtto Pretty Cure • PreCure • Pretty Cure • television • video)

Adult PreCure fans learn anime game for little girls can be emotionally devastating for grown-ups

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 29, 2018

Dialogue in new Nintendo Switch video game is just fine for little kids, but “a form of harassment” for older fans.

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• (anime • funny • magical girls • nintendo switch • otaku • PreCure • Pretty Cure • society • video games)

Pretty Cure’s latest movie clip stars 55 sparkly magical girls from the anime franchise【Video】

• Katy Kelly
  Jul 7, 2018

The latest movie from Toei Animation’s PreCure series showcases every single magical heroine from the series’ 14-year run. Let’s get dancing!

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• (anime • cool • cute • kids • magical girls • PreCure • Pretty Cure • video)

Japan’s most popular anime series for little girls inspires sexy lingerie line for grown-up fans

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 29, 2018

Pretty Cure is here to cure monotony in lingerie design with bra and pantie sets for Cure Black and Cure White.

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful women • fashion • lingerie • magical girls • PreCure • Pretty Cure • Super Groupies)

Popular anime declares “Boys can be princesses too,” prompts apology from Japanese resort hotel

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 14, 2018

Pretty Cure encourages boys who feel like it to wear dresses and be princesses, hotel apologizes for not being progressive enough.

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• (anime • gender • hotels • Huggto! PreCure • LGBT • magical girls • PreCure • Pretty Cure • society • travel)

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