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Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure

Japanese anime television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ115513752 ↗
Source-derived summary

Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure (Japanese: ひろがるスカイ!プリキュア, Hepburn: Hirogaru Sukai! Purikyua; "Hirogaru Sky! Precure") is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation. It is the twentieth installment in the Pretty Cure franchise and was released in commemoration of the franchise's 20th anniversary. Koji Ogawa serves as the series director, with Ryunosuke Kingetsu as head writer, Atsushi Saitō as character designer, and Hajime Watanabe as sub-character designer. It began airing on all ANN stations in Japan from February 5, 2023, to January 28, 2024, succeeding Delicious Party Pretty Cure's timeslot. It was succeeded by Wonderful Pretty Cure! on February 4, 2024.

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The public source identifies “Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure” as japanese anime television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Soaring, Pretty and Cure.

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—2023, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Soaring, Pretty and Cure providing the first useful test.
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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 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115513752. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure” 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.