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Star Detective Precure!

Meitantei Precure! · 名探偵プリキュア！

TV · Airing · Winter 2026 · 51 episodes · 24 min

Anna Akechi is a second-year junior high student living in Makoto Mirai Town. On her 14th birthday, she has a chance encounter with a fairy named Pochitan, and a magical pendant caused her to travel back in time from 2027 to 1999! In the Makoto Mirai Town 28 years in the past, Anna meets Mikuru Kobayashi, a girl her age who wants to become a great detective.

Meanwhile, people in town are in trouble as their prized possessions are being stolen from under their noses - the cause being a group of Phantom Thieves. To stop them, Anna and Mikuru turn into Precures! Maybe if they solve these mysteries, Anna can find her way back to her own time?

(Source: Official Website, translated)

Genres: Mahou Shoujo, Mystery

Tags: Female Protagonist, Henshin, Primarily Child Cast, Kids, Detective, Primarily Female Cast, Coastal, Crime, Fairy, Magic, Prophecy, Urban Fantasy

Studio: Toei Animation

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Episodes

  1. Episode 1: Debut! Star Detective Precure!
  2. Episode 2: Introducing the Genius, Jett-senpai!
  3. Episode 3: Everyone Come to the Curetto Detective Agency!
  4. Episode 4: Exciting! Our First Client!
  5. Episode 5: Star Detectives in Trouble?
  6. Episode 6: Miraculous Pre-Kit Mirror Loupe!
  7. Episode 7: Yikes! The School Is a Maze?
  8. Episode 8: Pretty Smiles at Pretty Holic!
  9. Episode 9: Don`t Make Assumptions!
  10. Episode 10: Solve the Mystery of the Painting!
  11. Episode 11: Cure Arcana Shadow Appears!
  12. Episode 12: The Secret of Cure Arcana Shadow!
  13. Episode 13: Star Detectives vs Thieves
  14. Episode 14: Pochitan`s First Outing!
  15. Episode 15: The Secret of Luluka Moria
  16. Episode 16: Detective Ellie`s Case Book?
  17. Episode 17: Memories with Mom
  18. Episode 18: Star Detectives Assemble
  19. Episode 19: Invitation to the Labyrinth Train?!
  20. Episode 20: Legend from a Certain Island!
  21. Episode 21: Detective Ellie`s Case Book, Part 2?
  22. Episode 22: Shiruku`s Resolve
  23. Episode 23: Kurea, Sleuthing, and Ice Cream!
  24. Episode 24: Case Closed with Rei!
  25. Episode 25: Cure Eclair`s Identity
  26. Episode 26: Cure Eclair Returns!
  27. Episode 27: I`m a Star Detective Now!
  28. Episode 28: The Mysterious Thief Decchi Agein!
  29. Episode 29: The Duo`s Past
  30. Episode 30: Eclipse Shadow
  31. Episode 31: Star Detective Cure Arcana
  32. Episode 32: I`m Back, Curetto Detective Agency
  33. Episode 33: The Path to Star Detective Starts with a Single Step
  34. Episode 34: Luluka and the Gold-Star Full Moon
  35. Episode 35: Love Detectives
  36. Episode 36: The Gold Medal of Trials
  37. Episode 37: Usonoir and Nijee`s Tea Time
  38. Episode 38: Kurea`s Answer
  39. Episode 39: An Ojamajo Halloween
  40. Episode 40: Luluka`s Answer

Reviews

Meitantei Precure "Star Detective Pretty Cure" is the newest season of the Precure franchise that began in 2004, and follows a new cast of characters, two human girls named Anna and Mikiru, human girls that become magical Pretty Cure girls, along with their two furry mascot friends, Jet Senpai and…

This is definitely one of the better seasons of Precure. Old viewers will usually describe post-2019 seasons as more generic or generally worse than the older ones, but there are some gems in them. This season especially is really a step up compared to Kimi to Idol's lackluster plot, characters…

An amazing upgrade from Idol Precure, I'm a new precure fan and had started with wonderful precure but I've thoroughly enjoyed star detective precure! The girls have much more depth and I find myself rooting for them each episode. The villains feel like a threat compared to Idol precures and the…