Cotton Duo Joins Star Detective Precure! Movie as Mischievous Creatures

The Star Detective Precure! film's staff announced Thursday that comedy duo cotton's Jinji Nishimura and Kyon have joined the guest cast. They voice Dame Dame, creatures that slap X marks on things, making them unusable and unable to move.

Star Detective Precure! The Movie: The Mysterious Garden and the Secret of 2 People (Eiga Meitantei Precure! Fushigi na Niwa to Futari no Himitsu) opens in Japan on September 18. It adapts Star Detective Precure!, the Precure franchise's 23rd main anime entry.

The film's original characters also include:

• Akari Kitō as Karin, a 14-year-old girl central to the story.
• Nobunaga Shimazaki as Alan, a fairy who watches over Karin.
• Kōki Uchiyama as Rain, a fairy who asks the Detective Precures for help.

Characters from You and Idol Precure♪ and Wonderful Precure! will also appear.

The story opens as the Detective Precures investigate the “X Mark Incident.” A fairy named Rain arrives seeking their help and guides them to the lovely “Karin's Garden.”

Tiny Dame Dame creatures have overrun the garden. As the team investigates them, they uncover the secret concealed there.

The film's main staff are:

• Director Hanako Ueda, whose episode-directing credits include You and Idol Precure♪, Summer Time Rendering and My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON.
• Scriptwriter Yoshimi Narita, whose film credits include Eiga HappinessCharge PreCure! Ningyō no Kuni no Ballerina, Eiga Precure All Stars New Stage 3: Eien no Tomodachi and Eiga Tropical-Rouge! Precure: Yuki no Princess to Kiseki no Yubiwa!
• Composer Erika Fukasawa, whose credits include Eiga Kimi to Idol Precure♪ Omatase! Kimi ni Todokeru Kirakkilive!
• Composer Misaki Umase, whose credits include You and Idol Precure♪.
• Character designer and chief animation director Emiko Miyamoto, whose original character-design credits include Eiga Precure All Stars F and Precure Super Stars!

Additional staff include:

• Risa Fujii as art director.
• Satoshi Takezawa as color key artist.
• Takumi Arai as compositing director of photography.
• Hirotaka Naota as production manager.

Yūka Masui and Chihaya Yoshitake sing the film's ending theme, “FIRST PRISM.” Ami Ishii performs its insert song, “First Step.”

The Star Detective Precure! television anime premiered February 1 at 8:30 a.m. JST on ABC TV, TV Asahi and their affiliated channels.

Crunchyroll streams the series across North America, Central America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and CIS.

The series follows Anna Akechi, a second-year middle school student living in Makoto Mirai Town. When her “companion fairy,” Pochitan, appears on her birthday, she travels from 2027 back to 1999.

In the town's 1999 counterpart, Anna meets Mikuru Kobayashi, another second-year middle school student who hopes to become a great detective.

The girls see the Phantom Thieves cause trouble by stealing people's treasured belongings. They transform into great Precure detectives, using deduction to protect people's smiles.

The television cast includes:

• Hikari Senga as Cure Answer/Anna Akechi.
• Kaede Hondo as Cure Mystic/Mikuru Kobayashi.
• Nao Tōyama as Cure Arcana Shadow/Ruruka Moria.
• Emiri Katō as Pochitan.
• Hina Yomiya as Mashtan.
• Yūki Kaji as Jet Senpai.

Ami Ishii sings the opening theme, “Heart ni Hint! Meitantei Precure!” (“Hint In My Heart! Star Detective Precure!”). Akane Kumada and Yūka Masui perform the ending theme, “Naze? Nazo?! ANSWER” (“Why? Mystery?! ANSWER”).