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DokiDoki! PreCure

Japanese anime television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ605298 ↗
Source-derived summary

DokiDoki! PreCure (Japanese: ドキドキ！プリキュア, Hepburn: Dokidoki! Purikyua; lit. "Heart-Pounding! PreCure") is a Japanese anime series produced by Toei Animation and the tenth installment in Izumi Todo's Pretty Cure metaseries, featuring the eighth generation of Cures. The series is produced by Hiroaki Shibata, who produced Digimon Data Squad, and written by Ryōta Yamaguchi, who wrote the scripts for Sailor Moon Sailor Stars, Cutie Honey Flash and The Vision of Escaflowne. Character designs were done by Akira Takahashi, who previously did character designs for Suite PreCure. The series aired on the ANN network from February 3, 2013, to January 26, 2014, replacing Smile PreCure! in its timeslot, and was succeeded by HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “DokiDoki! PreCure” is japanese anime television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through DokiDoki, PreCure and Japanese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, DokiDoki, PreCure and Japanese is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “japanese anime television series” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q605298. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2014.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “DokiDoki! PreCure”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow DokiDoki! PreCure primary sources, DokiDoki! PreCure archive and DokiDoki research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “DokiDoki! PreCure” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.