Star Twinkle PreCure
Japanese anime television series
Star Twinkle Pretty Cure (Japanese: スター☆トゥインクルプリキュア, Hepburn: Sutā Touinkuru Purikyua; stylized as Star☆Twinkle PreCure) is a Japanese magical girl anime series by Toei Animation. It is the sixteenth installment in the Pretty Cure franchise, and the last series released in the Heisei period. It features the fourteenth generation of Cures. It is directed by Hiroaki Miyamoto (One Piece Film: Gold) and written by Isao Murayama. The series aired on all ANN stations in Japan from February 3, 2019, to January 26, 2020, succeeding HUG! PreCure in its time slot. It was then succeeded by Healin' Good Pretty Cure on February 2, 2020. The series' main topics are imagination and diversity, with outer space, constellations and singing as the Cures' main motifs.
Story
The Starry Sky World (星空界, Hoshizora-kai) is the home of the twelve Star Princesses, who are based on the Zodiac signs and maintain order in the universe. When the Notraiders attack the Star Palace, the princesses scatter themselves across the universe as the Princess Star Color Pens.
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