Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage 2: Friends of the Heart
A shadow threatens Fairy Academy; the Pretty Cures unite.
Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage 2: Friends of the Heart is a 2013 Japanese animated action fantasy film based on the Pretty Cure franchise created by Izumi Todo. It is the fifth entry in the Pretty Cure All Stars crossover film series and the second installment of the New Stage trilogy, directed by Kōji Ogawa, written by Yoshimi Narita, and produced by Toei Animation.
- release_date
- March 16, 2013
- director
- Kōji Ogawa
- writer
- Yoshimi Narita
- producer
- Toei Animation
- country
- Japan
- genre
- Action fantasy
- series_position
- Fifth All Stars film; second New Stage film
Quick Facts
- Native Name
- hide=no · header=none · kanji=映画 プリキュアオールスターズ New Stage 2 こころのともだち · revhep=Eiga PuriKyua Ōru Sutāzu Nyū Sutēji Tsū: Kokoro no Tomodachi
- Director
- Kōji Ogawa
- Screenplay
- Yoshimi Narita
- Based On
- Pretty Cure · Izumi Todo
- Starring
- Hitomi Nabatame / Minako Kotobuki / Mai Fuchigami / Kanako Miyamoto / Misato Fukuen / Asami Tano / Hisako Kanemoto / Marina Inoue / Chinami Nishimura / Ikue Ōtani
- Cinematography
- Kenji Takahashi
- Editing
- Yoshihiro Aso
- Music
- Yasuharu Takanashi
- Studio
- Toei Animation
- Distributor
- Toei Company, Ltd.
- Released
- 2013 · 3 · 16
- Runtime
- 71 minutes
Facts from the source article.
Lore & Background
The film is set at Fairy Academy, where fairy Tart lectures students about the Pretty Cures. Two fairies, Grell and En-En, are drawn to a forbidden tree where a being called Shadow takes the form of Grell's shadow and convinces him to steal the Cures' transformation items. The Pretty Cure teams receive invitations to a party at the academy, and the Smile PreCure! team contacts the DokiDoki! PreCure team, who accept.
Reader's Guide
Shadow coerces Grell into capturing the Cures' fairy partners and transformation items, leaving them defenseless. Most Cures are defeated and imprisoned in statues. The Smile team is also captured after Shadow uses a guidebook to counter them. En-En and Grell seek help from the DokiDoki! team, who fight Shadow's minions. With aid from fairy students and Miracle Lights, the transformation items are returned, allowing all Cures to transform and defeat Shadow, who becomes a giant spider. Grell befriends his shadow, and the academy is repaired for a party.
Did You Know?
- The film features voice actors from DokiDoki! PreCure, Smile PreCure!, Suite PreCure, HeartCatch PreCure!, Fresh Pretty Cure!, and Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart.
- The film opened at number 3 at the Japanese box office in its opening weekend.
- Key staff from the previous New Stage film returned, with Kōji Ogawa taking over as director from Junji Shimizu.
- The film's Japanese title includes the phrase 'Kokoro no Tomodachi,' meaning 'Friends of the Heart.'
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