List of You and Idol Pretty Cure episodes

List of You and Idol Pretty Cure episodes
Season 22
No. of episodes	5
Release
Original network	ANN (ABC TV, TV Asahi)
Original release	February 2, 2025 (2025-02-02)
Season chronology
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You and Idol Pretty Cure is the twenty-second television anime series in Izumi Todo's Pretty Cure franchise, produced by ABC Television and animated by Toei Animation. The series aired in Japan on February 2, 2025, succeeding Wonderful Pretty Cure! in its timeslot. The opening theme, "Kimi to Idol Precure Light Up!" (Japanese: キミとアイドルプリキュア♪ Light Up!), is performed by Ami Ishii, Chihaya Yoshitake and Akane Kumada, and the ending theme, "Trio Dreams", is performed by Misato Matsuoka, Minami Takahashi, and Natsumi Takamori as their characters. ^[1]

Episodes

No.	Title  [2] [3] [a]	Directed by  [2]	Written by  [2]	Animation directed by  [2]	Art  [2]	Original release date  [4]
1	"Cure Idol Debuts!" Transliteration: "Kirakkiranran! Kyua Aidoru Debyū!" (Japanese: キラッキランラン！キュアアイドルデビュー！)	Chiaki Kon	Yōichi Katō	Yukiko Ueda	Nian Chen Tong	February 2, 2025 (2025-02-02)
In Hanamichi Town, while walking by the river with her dog Kyutarou, Uta Sakura discovers a peach-like object that opens to reveal a creature inside. The creature follows her back to her home, the coffee shop Cafe Glitter, where she attempts to tell her family what she saw; however, they believe it to be a stuffed animal because it fell asleep. While serving customers, including manga artist Ema, she notices that the creature has disappeared. In her room, it explains that it is the fairy Purirun, who has come to Earth to find the Idol Pretty Cure who can bring light to the darkness, and that they believe she has the potential to become one. After convincing her to search for potential candidates, they search around town, but do not find anyone. Meanwhile, at Team Chokkiri's headquarters, Chokkirinu sends Cutty to steal humans' Kirakira. As Purirun explains to Uta that Team Chokkiri plunged their homeland, KirakiLand, into darkness, Cutty attacks, stealing Ema's Kirakira and transforming her into a Makkuranda. Uta's resolve to save Ema grants her the Idol Heart Brooch and Pretty Cure Ribbon, allowing her to transform into Cure Idol. After purifying the Makkuranda with Idol Smiling, Uta realizes that she is now a Pretty Cure.
2	"Suddenly Popular! Mystery New Idol" Transliteration: "Watashi, bazu tchatteru!?" (Japanese: 私、バズっちゃってる！？)	Directed by : Yōichi Katō Storyboarded by : Kazuki Yokouchi	Kazuki Yokouchi	Mikio Fujiwara	Eiji Hamano	February 9, 2025 (2025-02-09)
Following Idol's battle with the Makkuranda, she goes viral on social media due to Purirun filming and uploading her performance, wanting others to see it. They are contacted by Queen Pikarine, who explains to them that KirakiLand's inhabitants once lived happily until Darkine invaded and cut the Big Kirakira Ribbon, plunging it into darkness and sealing them in crystals. She tells Uta that she must collect the Kirarun Ribbons, which can restore KirakiLand, while keeping her identity as a Pretty Cure a secret from others and from Darkine, as they do not know what her plans are. At school, Kokoro establishes the Cure Idol Research Club, which Uta's classmate, Mikoto, wants to join. Fujimi, their homeroom teacher, asks for suggestions for the welcome party for the first-year students; Uta suggests choir, while Nana, whom she invites to have lunch with her, says that she will play the piano. On their way home from school, Cutty attacks, stealing Mikoto's Kirakira and transforming her into a Makkuranda. While fighting it, Idol becomes reckless after taking pride in her newfound popularity, but regains her resolve after defending Purirun, who is hurt by Cutty's insults. After purifying the Makkuranda with Idol Smiling, Idol tells Mikoto to continue supporting her while recognizing her new role as a savior.
3	"Have Courage! Cure Wink Debuts!" Transliteration: "Yūki o Dashite! Kyua Uinku Debyū!" (Japanese: 勇気を出して! キュアウインクデビュー！)	Directed by : Tsuyoshi Tobita Storyboarded by : Chiaki Kon	Chiaki Kon	Makoto Ozawa & Keisuke Katayama	Natsuko Tosugi	February 16, 2025 (2025-02-16)
Following choir practice, Uta invites Nana to walk home from school with her, but she tells her that she has to practice for a piano competition the next day. The next day, during choir practice, Nana messes up playing the piano after being reminded of a mistake she made during the competition. While eating lunch together, Nana confides in Uta about her mistake and Uta attempts to cheer her up with her song, but accidentally reveals that she is Cure Idol; however, Nana promises to keep her secret while revealing that she witnessed her fight as Cure Idol. After school, Uta brings Nana over to her house, where, after being shown a photo of them together, she remembers that they met when they were younger and played piano together, with Uta teaching her to wink in order to boost her confidence. Nana plays piano with Hamori before returning home, where she reflects on her fear of not living up to expectations despite her talent. Meanwhile, Chokkirinu sends Zackly to steal Kirakira after learning from Darkine that they will receive a special bonus. As Hamori is heading to the welcome party, Zackly attacks, stealing her Kirakira and transforming her into a Makkuranda. While fighting the Makkuranda, it traps Idol in a cage; despite her telling Nana to run away, she refuses, noting that she gave her courage while Hamori helped her regain her love for playing piano. Her courage and resolve to help Idol grants her the Idol Heart Brooch and Pretty Cure Ribbon, allowing her to transform into Cure Wink. After she purifies the Makkuranda with Wink Crescendo, she and Uta perform at the party together while vowing to work together as Cures.
4	"The Legendary Idol?! Kaito Hibiki" Transliteration: "Rejendo Aidoru!? Hibiki Kaito!?" (Japanese: レジェンドアイドル！？　響カイト)	Emi Tezuka	Akiko Inoue	Katsumi Tamegai & Hiroshi Numata	Yuki Nakabayashi	February 23, 2025 (2025-02-23)
While Nana is performing at Cafe Glitter, she and Uta learn that, just like Idol, Wink has gone viral on social media because Purirun uploaded her performance. However, Uta tells her that her favorite idol is Kaito Hibiki, who is known and loved all over the world. Suddenly, Hibiki arrives to visit the cafe, having studied singing in New York before going on hiatus to study abroad. As Uta's family leaves to get supplies, Nana and Hibiki help her serve the customers, with Nana telling her that this is an opportunity to see him at work and learn what is important to him. However, as they serve customers, Uta begins to become jealous of his skill, which she learns is due to him playing a waiter on the show "The Waiter Saw". After Uta's family returns, Hibiki leaves after telling Uta and Nana that what he values is being someone who people will want to see and look forward to seeing again. As a cafe customer is heading home, Cutty attacks, stealing her Kirakira and transforming her into a Makkuranda. After Idol purifies the Makkuranda with Idol Smiling, she and Hibiki perform together at the beach, where he used to perform before leaving for New York, and is able to properly thank him for his help; after he leaves, a mysterious manager approaches Uta and Nana, saying that he knows of their identities as Cures.
5	"We Got A Manager!" Transliteration: "Manējā-san, Tsuichatta!" (Japanese: マネージャーさん、ついちゃった！)	Directed by : Yuka Yamada Storyboarded by : Noriyo Sasaki	Tomoki Watanabe	Mitsuru Aoyama	Zhuxing Xu	March 2, 2025 (2025-03-02)
The manager visits Cafe Glitter, where Nana and Uta wonder if he learned of their identities as Cures by watching their performances. However, after contacting Pikarine, who learns that Nana has become a Cure, they learn that he is Tanakhan, a fairy from KirakiLand and Purirun's friend, who she sent to aid them as their manager. Though Purirun doubts that they are the same person, Tanaka proves his identity by petting Purirun in the same way he did. While taking them to the KirakiLand Branch Office in Hanamichi Town, he tells them that he works there and has disguised himself as a human while on Earth. There, though Uta and Nana believe that he will be their manager as idols, he reminds them of their mission to save KirakiLand, which he will support them in. After receiving a message from Koharu Mori, who is in charge of advertising for Pretty Holic, asking them to appear in a commercial for its spring lipstick campaign due to a new store being opened in Hanamichi Town, Tanaka agrees to help them under the guise of them being managers in training. There, Mori tells them that she has loved Pretty Holic since she was a child and now seeks to use it to bring joy to others. While out in town, Uta encounters Hibiki and asks him for advice on being an idol by asking about his first job, which he reveals was a cosmetics ad. During the photoshoot, Idol is nervous until Mori suggests she look at her rather than the cameras, after which it goes successfully. However, during the shoot, Zakkuri attacks, stealing Mori's Kirakira and transforming her into a Makkuranda. After Wink purifies the Makkuranda with Wink Crescendo, Pretty Holic receives an influx of new customers due to the commercial, while Uta learns from Hibiki that what he valued when he first began his career was wanting to make others smile. Afterwards, Tanaka begins working at Cafe Glitter part-time in order to be close to the Cures and support them.
6	"My Heart's Going Kyun-Kyun!?" Transliteration: "Mune ga kyunkyun shi chau! ?" (Japanese: 胸がキュンキュンしちゃう！？)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	March 9, 2025 (2025-03-09)

Notes

1. English titles are taken from Crunchyroll.

References

1. "Kimi to Idol Precure♪ Reveals Teaser Trailer, Character Visuals, Main Voice Cast, Theme Song Singers". Crunchyroll. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
2. "Story". TV Anime "You and Idol Pretty Cure" Official Website (in Japanese). Retrieved February 7, 2025.
3. "You and Idol Pretty Cure - Watch on Crunchyroll". Crunchyroll .
4. "You and Idol Pretty Cure｜Asahi Television Broadcasting". asahi.co.jp.