Country of origin Japan Original network ANN (ABC) | No. of episodes 48 | |
Original release February 5, 2012 – January 27, 2013 | ||
Glitter Force, known in Japan as Smile PreCure!, is the ninth installment of the Pretty Cure anime television series produced by Toei Animation. The series follows a group of magical girls who protect Earth from enemies from a fairy tale fantasy world. The original Japanese version aired in TV Asahi in Japan from February 5, 2012 to January 27, 2013 for 48 episodes, replacing Suite PreCure in its initial timeslot, and was succeeded by DokiDoki! PreCure. The opening theme is "Let's go! Smile PreCure!" (Let's go!スマイルプリキュア！, Retsu gō! Sumairu Purikyua) by Aya Ikeda. For the first 24 episodes, the ending theme is "Yay! Yay! Yay!" (イェイ！イェイ！イェイ！, Yei! Yei! Yei!) by Hitomi Yoshida, whilst the ending theme for episodes 25-48 is "Mankai * Smile!" (満開＊スマイル！, Mankai*Sumairu!, Full Bloom * Smile!) by Yoshida. All of the songs are composed by Hideaki Takatori. The series was well-received, placing regularly in Japan's weekly top ten anime shows broadcast.
The series was adapted by Saban Brands under the name Glitter Force and was released as a Netflix original series outside of Asia and in multiple languages. This version consists of 40 episodes, the first twenty of which were released on Netflix on December 18, 2015, and the second season on August 26, 2016. The dub, which was produced by Studiopolis, features changes to the character's names, terminology, catchphrases, and music. The theme song is "Glitter Force", performed by Blush, who also perform the insert songs before the closing credits that use footage of the girls in various computer animated dance sequences.
The series was made available in home media. In Japan, a Blu-ray box set by Marvelous AQL and TC Entertainment was released on October 26, 2012, in the same fashion as Suite PreCure. Standard DVD releases were also issued.
Episode list
Summaries are written using the names and terminology from the Saban English adaptation with Japanese names and terms in parenthesis where first introduced. For Japanese-only episodes that were skipped by Saban's version, the Japanese names are placed first followed by the English names.