History Anime / MahoGirlsPrecure

On March 14, 2023, [[https://anime-precure.com/news/00021/index.html an adult-focused sequel was announced]] under the name ''Maho Girls Pretty Cure 2''. The series is set to air in 2024 and will last 12 episodes.

On March 14, 2023, [[https://anime-precure.com/news/00021/index.html an adult-focused sequel was announced]] under the name ''[=ANiMAZiNG!=]''. The series is set to air in 2024 and will last 12 episodes.

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[[caption-width-right:290: ''Putting the Magical in MagicalGirl.''[[note]]Clockwise from top right: Cure Felice/Kotoha Hanami/Ha-Chan, Mofurun, Cure Miracle/Mirai Asahina, and Cure Magical/Riko Izayoi.[[/note]]]]

* BreakingOldTrends: This installment was notably the first since ''Splash Star'' not to use [[TitleDrop "Pretty Cure"]] as part of the [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull transformation phrase]]. It wouldn't be used again for a number of installments until ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'' brought it back.

* OffModel: Has some very noticeable moments of this sprinkled throughout most of the episodes. Compare the students in the foreground to Mirai and Riko in the background in [[http://imgur.com/s0lCYBC this image]] in episode 6. Most likely because Ken Ueno, who was animation director for this episode, has a tendency to have mostly on-model drawings and less off-model drawings.

* MegaTwintails: The Ruby Style gives both Cures this.

** A character who's voiced by Creator/RieTakahashi and uses magic? Why does that [[LightNovel/KonoSubarashiiSekaiNiShukufukuO sound]] [[LightNovel/ReZero familiar]]?

''Maho Girls Pretty Cure'' (''Mahoutsukai Pretty Cure''; "Magician Pretty Cure", known internationally as ''Witchy Pretty Cure''), is the thirteenth entry in the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise. It is the eleventh separate continuity in the series and began airing in February 2016.

''Maho Girls [=PreCure=]'' (''Mahoutsukai Pretty Cure''; "Magician Pretty Cure", known as ''Witchy Pretty Cure'' on the Toei Animation US webpage), is the thirteenth entry in the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise. It is the eleventh separate continuity in the series and began airing in February 2016.

* NiceHat: The Cures wear mini witch hats, and they also wear much larger witch hats in their Alexandrite style. Every student at the Magic Academy has a normal-size witch hat, and the headmaster also has a unique one.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While Mirai, Riko and Kotoha are all beautiful girls, the art style of the manga makes it stand out [[UpToEleven even more]].

* AnimeHair: Cure Magical's strange hairstyle manages to combine a SciFiBobHaircut in the front, RapunzelHair in the back, and has [[ImprobableHairStyle wing-like protrusions held together by a bow]]. And to top it all off, she still manages to have [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking two very specific cow-licks]] in the front.

[[caption-width-right:350: ''Putting the Magical in MagicalGirl.''[[note]]Clockwise from top right: Cure Felice/Kotoha Hanami/Ha-Chan, Mofurun, Cure Miracle/Mirai Asahina, and Cure Magical/Riko Izayoi.[[/note]]]]

->''With the magic words "Cure Up♥Rapapa!", two worlds will now be connected!''

* MythologyGag: [[MythologyGag/PrettyCure Has its' own page]].

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Mirai and Riko are more or less forced into this sort of relationship as early as episode 4 by the headmaster, who suggests that they take the remedial classes together and share the same score sheet. This becomes finalized by the end of episode 9, when Riko realizes she wants to be with Mirai when she has to head back to the No Magic World.

* ExactWords: In episode 2, Mirai meets the Magic School's Headmaster under the wand tree and he explains how said trees work thusly. "''When a new life is brought into the Magic World, as if waiting for that moment, a wand sprouts from the tree; and is then given to that child.''" Saying this, the anime shows the common example of a different wand tree giving a wand being to a newborn baby. However, Mirai is a child of the Non Magic World and 13 years old. Yet, the tree gives a wand to Mirai within the next minute. What's the technicality here? [[spoiler:The legend specifies being ''brought'' into the the Magic World, not birthed. Riko brought Mirai into the Magic World for the latter's first time after the shenanigans in episode 1. Since Mirai is a Precure by this point, she has a direct connection to the Magic World. Thus, the tree saw it fit to give a wand to her.]]

''Maho Girls [=PreCure=]'' (''Mahoutsukai Pretty Cure''; "Magician Pretty Cure", known as ''Witchy Pretty Cure'' on the Toei Animation US webpage), is the thirteenth entry in the ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' franchise. It is the eleventh separate continuity in the series and began airing in February 2016.

* MythologyGag:
** The cat statue in the town the girls visit in Episode 3 is said to protect the "Passion Flame", which references [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Rouge's]] title, "the red flame of passion".
** The Sapphire Style manages to reference three blue Cures at the same time. The jewel's title, "Aoki Chisei/Blue Wisdom/Intelligence", refers to both [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Aqua]] (whose title is "the blue spring of intelligence") and [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure Beauty]] (whose last name is Aoki). The outfit for the Sapphire transformation resembles [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Mermaid's]], and, coincidentally, the episode where the jewel is found takes place in a mermaid village.
** Two life-sized mascots that bear a striking resemblance to [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Mepple and Mipple]] appear briefly on television with the idol who Riko recognizes in Episode 38.

One day, junior-high student Mirai Asahina spots a mysterious girl [[FlyingBroomstick flying through the sky on a broom]] and discovers there is an entire [[MagicalLand world of magic and wonder]] existing parallel to Earth. The stranger, a [[CuteWitch novice witch]] named Riko, has crossed over to this world in search of the "[[MineralMacGuffin Linkle Stone Emerald]]", and the two girls realise they somehow possess identical pendants.

When they are suddenly attacked by a minion of the Dark Sorceror Dokurokuse, their pendants shine with a blessed light and grant them incredible magical power. Now Mirai and Riko must study and fight together as both magicians and warriors: the Maho Girls Pretty Cure, Cure Miracle and Cure Magical! Mid-way through the series, they are joined by new Cure, Cure Felice.

** The second half features a variation. The Cures enounter strange spirits that have a connection to the Linkle Stones. The spirits disappear into a spell circle when the Cures display some kind of emotion or virtue...but the Cures are unaware of most of this.

* SpinoffSendoff: Invoked for the third straight time since [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Lovely]] passed the baton to [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Flora]], but for this transition to ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'', it got even more ''[[Franchise/SuperSentai Sentai]]''-influenced. During Episode 50, [[spoiler:an epilogue episode set in the time skip that occured after the final battle with Deusmast, the girls come up to a patissierie called the Kira Kira Patisserie. There they meet Ichika Usami, one of the bakers there, and got served up Mofurun-style sweets. Later, as they were battling out their final MonsterOfTheWeek, a reincarnation of Dokurokushe merged with a lollipop that was stealing all the sweets in the world, Cures Miracle, Magical and Felice got help from a mysterious [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing bunny-themed heroine]], but she disappeared as they defeated Dokurokushe.]] After the end credits, Cure Whip was properly able to introduce herself to Cure Miracle.

* OlderAlterEgo: Compared to past Cures, Cure Miracle, Cure Magical, and Cure Felice are noticeably older physically than their respective civilian identities. It's not to the extremes of [[Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure Cure Ace]], but it's still there.

* ConspicuousCG: The Cures' Linkle Sticks get this every now and then.

* BreakingOldTrends: This installment was notably the first since ''Splash Star'' not to use [[TitleDrop "Pretty Cure"]] as part of the [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull transformation phrase]]. It wouldn't come back until ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'' in 2020.