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Star Detective Precure! Film’s New Video Reveals Cast for Guest Characters – News

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The staff for Eiga Meitantei Precure! Fushigi na Niwa to Futari no Himitsu (Star Detective Precure! The Movie: The Mysterious Garden and the Secret of 2 People) — the film for Star Detective Precure!, the 23rd main anime entry in the Precure franchise — announced the cast for the three film-original characters in a new video on Sunday. 


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Image via Star Detective Precure! film’s website

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The cast members who will voice the original characters are:

  • Akari Kitō as Karin (center in image above), a 14-year-old girl who holds the key to the story
  • Nobunaga Shimazaki as Alan (left), a fairy who watches over Karin
  • Kōki Uchiyama as Rain (right), a fairy who requests the Detective Precures’ help
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Image via Star Detective Precure! film’s website

©2026 映画名探偵プリキュア！製作委員会

The film’s story begins with the Detective Precures investigating the “X Mark Incident,” when a fairy named Rain appears and requests for the Detective Precures’ help. Rain leads the team to a lovely garden called “Karin’s Garden,” but it is being overrun by tiny creatures called “Dame Dame.” The team investigates the “Dame Dame” creatures and discovers the secret hidden in the garden.

Past Precure characters from You and Idol Precure♪ and Wonderful Precure! will also appear in the film.

Hanako Ueda (You and Idol Precure♪, Summer Time Rendering My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON episode director) is directing the film. Yoshimi Narita (Eiga HappinessCharge PreCure! Ningyō no Kuni no Ballerina, Eiga Precure All Stars New Stage 3: Eien no Tomodachi, Eiga Tropical-Rouge! Precure: Yuki no Princess to Kiseki no Yubiwa! films) is writing the script, Erika Fukasawa (Eiga Kimi to Idol Precure♪ Omatase! Kimi ni Todokeru Kirakkilive!) and Misaki Umase (You and Idol Precure♪) are composing the music, and Emiko Miyamoto (Eiga Precure All Stars F, Precure Super Stars! original character designer) is designing the characters and is also the film’s chief animation director.

Additional staff members include art director Risa Fujii, color designer Satoshi Takezawa, compositing director of photography Takumi Arai, and production manager Hirotaka Naota.

Yūka Masui and Chihaya Yoshitake performs the film’s ending theme song “FIRST PRISM.” Ami Ishii performs the insert song “First Step.”

The film will open in Japan on September 18.

The Star Detective Precure! anime debuted on February 1 on ABC TV, TV Asahi, and their affiliate channels at 8:30 a.m. JST. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and CIS.

The anime centers on Anna Akechi, a second year middle school student who lives in Makoto Mirai Town. She travels back in time from 2027 to 1999 when her “companion fairy” named Pochitan appears on her birthday. In 1999 Makoto Mirai Town, Anna meets Mikuru Kobayashi, another second year middle school student who dreams of becoming a great detective. The two girls witness the troubles caused by the Phantom Thieves who steal people’s precious belongings, and they transform into great Precure detectives and use their deductive reasoning skills to protect the people’s smiles.

The anime stars:

Ami Ishii performs the series’ opening theme song “Heart ni Hint! Meitantei Precure!” (Hint In My Heart! Star Detective Precure!). Akane Kumada and Yūka Masui perform the ending theme song “Naze? Nazo?! ANSWER” (Why? Mystery?! ANSWER).

Sources: Star Detective Precure! film’s website, Comic Natalie

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Webtoon ‘Villains Are Destined to Die’ Gets TV Anime

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Publishing company Kakao Piccoma announced a television anime adaptation of Gyeoeul Gwon’s Villains Are Destined to Die webtoon on Sunday, revealing a visual commemorating the conclusion of the main story (pictured above).

Gwon penned the original web novel on the KakaoPage website from March 2019 to August 2020. D&C Media published the series in four volumes, as well as the side story the following month.

SUOL originally began drawing the webtoon on the Kakao Webtoon platform in May 2020 and ended the main story with 214 chapters on Sunday. D&C Media published the ninth volume on January 29.

Tapas released the web novel in English between September to December in 2023. Yen Press licensed the novel in English for physical release under its Ize Press imprint in October 2024 and released the third volume on May 12. The fourth volume is planned for a September 15 release.

Tapas began publishing the webtoon chapters digitally in English in October 2020. Yen Press licensed the webtoon under its Ize Press label in July 2022 and published the eighth volume in November 2025. The ninth volume is scheduled to go on sale on August 18.

Synopsis

The latest otome game is all the rage recently, so a regular university student decides to see for herself if its fame is well-deserved. She clears the normal mode in no time and finds herself pitying the villainess, Penelope Eckhart. Penelope is a fake―a replacement for the duke’s missing daughter, the protagonist of the game.

Initially confident about clearing the hard mode as well, the woman is shocked by the sheer leap in the level of difficulty, eventually passing out from exhaustion. However, when she wakes up, she no longer recognizes her surroundings, for she has been reincarnated into the body of the villainess!

In a world where everyone seems to be out for her blood, Penelope must make wise decisions that keep her away from the death route. A tyrant prince, a suspicious magician, a nobleman from a fallen nation, or one of her nasty adoptive brothers―whose affections will she win? [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Webtoon special site: https://page.kakao.com/content/54845189/

Source: PR Times

News submitted by NokkiMal

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Happy International Cat Day 2026 From Around the Anime World, Part II – Interest

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If Cat Day in Japan on February 22 wasn’t enough, Japan gets a second dedicated day to celebrate cats with International Cat Day on August 8. While Cat Day in Japan is primarily a wordplay on the number two (ni) in Japanese sounding like a cat’s meow (nyan), International Cat Day raises awareness on the health and welfare of domestic cats — and the anime and manga worlds are celebrating with their very own cats:

Akira Failing in Love


International Cat Day
Manga panel: Carried away by cats


Black Torch

Cyberpunk 2077

HIDIVE

Inherit the Winds


Today is International Cat Day🐈‍⬛
The world belongs to cats🌎


Atsushi Kamijou (To-Y)

August 8 is International Cat Day🐈

August 8 is International Cat Day🐈 blue cat

August 8 is International Cat Day🐈 Niya and Nia

August 8 is International Cat Day🐈

Yori Katakura (Yakuza vs. Cat)

May all the cats be happy🐾

Mitsuru Kido (Too Cute Crisis)


Today, August 8 is International Cat Day
May all the cats and their owners around the world be happy.


Kodansha

Kojima Production

Licca-chan


Today is International Cat Day☆
The kitties all gathered for Dad’s birthday party♪
Everyone’s gathered around the cakes, and it’s so lively, meow♡


Pragmata

Here are the cats from Pragmata🐱✨

Daisuke Sakuma


International Cat Day
Tomboish Shachi-chan←
　　　　　　　　　　　Mischievous Tuna-kun→


Miki Tori (Anywhere But Here)

International Cat Day

Yajima (Neko oji: Salaryman reincarnated as a kitten!)

International Cat Day

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Happy International Cat Day 2026 From Around the Anime World, Part I – Interest

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August 8 marks International Cat Day around the world. The International Fund for Animal Welfare created the day in 2002 to raise awareness for cats. Today, the unofficial holiday is run by International Cat Care, which strives to improve the health and welfare of domestic cats. The anime and manga worlds are doing their part to celebrate the holiday with greetings and more:

ANGYAMAN (Red Cat Ramen)

International Cat Day

Kamen Rider

International Cat Day

Medalist


🐈⛸️✨
International Cat Day


Yūsuke Nakamura

I am International Cat Day.

I’m also International Cat Day

Manabu Nii


International Cat Day 🐾
Takina: “Thanks for… the ears?”


Nontan

Have you read it?

Masami Ōbari


International Cat Day
A distinctive shot from my opening animation sequences
A kitty that embodies “that dazzling thing from the upper left”🐱✨


Ocha-ken

Let’s pretend to be cats and relax~🐈

Oyoneko Boonyan


Today is International Cat Day
We’d love to do something for cats through Oyoyo😺


Red Cat Ramen


＼＼　 \ 　/ 　／／
　Today, August 8 is
🐈International Cat Day🐈‍⬛　
／／　 /　 \　 ＼＼
May all the cats around the world be happy✨
Please share your favorite photo 📸🐾 too!!
“Red Cat Ramen Season 2”
Premieres in January 2027🍜


Rui (Usagi no Tsumori no Katatsumuri)

International Cat Day

Umi Sakurai (A Man and His Cat)


Toady, August 8, is International Cat Day meow🐱🐱🐱❗️❗️
I’ll make everyone in the world happy with my fluffiness, meow✨


Sega

SEGA & cat

Shikaruneko


Today is International Cat Day!
Today is “World Cat Day”!
May all the cats around the world live in happiness!!
To all you cat owners out there, show off your beloved cats in the comments section!🐾
Comic: Panel 1: Apparently today is International Cat Day
Panel 2: So, please spend the day playing with cats❤️
Panel 3: Hey! Not all day long! People have busy lives, after all…
Panel 4: Look, look❤️


SNK

Today is International Cat Day 🐈

Did we miss any International Cat Day 2026 greetings? Feel free to let us know in our forums or by email!

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