Star Detective Precure! Film Reveals More Future Forms and Pochitan Light Trailer

Staff released a Pochitan Miracle Light trailer on Sunday for Star Detective Precure! The Movie: The Mysterious Garden and the Secret of 2 People (Eiga Meitantei Precure! Fushigi na Niwa to Futari no Himitsu).

They also revealed movie-exclusive future forms for Cure Mystique, Cure Eclair, and Cure Arcana, following the earlier reveal of Cure Answer’s future form. The film’s website later added a “Future Form” trailer.

The movie opens in Japan on September 18. It adapts Star Detective Precure!, the Precure franchise’s 23rd main anime series.

Moviegoers in junior high school or younger will receive bonus Pochitan Miracle Light sticks while supplies last. As with earlier films, audiences can use them at key moments to cheer on the Precure girls.

The story follows the Detective Precures as they investigate the “X Mark Incident.” A fairy named Rain asks for their help and takes them to the beautiful Karin’s Garden.

Tiny creatures called Dame Dame are overrunning the garden. Investigating them leads the team to a secret concealed there.

The film’s original characters and their voice actors are:

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

Comedy duo cotton’s Jinji Nishimura and Kyon join as guest performers, voicing Dame Dame creatures. These creatures place X marks on objects, leaving them unusable and unable to move.

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

The film’s main production 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!
• Composers: Erika Fukasawa, credited on Eiga Kimi to Idol Precure♪ Omatase! Kimi ni Todokeru Kirakkilive!, and Misaki Umase, credited on You and Idol Precure♪
• Character designer and chief animation director: Emiko Miyamoto, credited on Eiga Precure All Stars F and as original character designer for Precure Super Stars!

Additional staff include:

• Art director: Risa Fujii
• Color key artist: Satoshi Takezawa
• Compositing director of photography: Takumi Arai
• Production manager: Hirotaka Naota

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 on February 1 at 8:30 a.m. JST on ABC TV, TV Asahi, and their affiliated channels.

Crunchyroll streams the series in 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. On her birthday, her “companion fairy,” Pochitan, appears, and she travels from 2027 back to 1999.

There, in Makoto Mirai Town, Anna meets Mikuru Kobayashi, another second-year middle school student who hopes to become a great detective.

When the Phantom Thieves cause trouble by stealing people’s treasured belongings, the girls transform into great Precure detectives. They use 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).