Pretty Cure Celebrates 1000th Broadcast in Same Time Slot

The June 1, 2024 episode of Wonderful Pretty Cure marks the 1000th total broadcast for the Precure series. The Twitter (X) account for Wonderful Pretty Cure commemorates this with a picture of Cure Wonderful and Cure Black.

According to the Tweet, episode 18 of Wonderful Pretty Cure was the 1000th episode of Precure. Not only that, but it was the 1000th broadcast aired in the same 8:30am JST Sunday time slot on Japanese television. This is a fairly big deal, as TV companies tend to move shows around time slots depending on a multitude of factors. For example, Detective Conan, which is another very long-running anime series in Japan, changed its TV slot several times between 2007 and 2009. Yet another long-running series, One Piece, also changed slots multiple times in 2006.

Here is a video to celebrate the 1000th Pretty Cure broadcast:

The Pretty Cure (or PreCure) series started in 2004 with Futari wa Pretty Cure. There have been several spin-off series since then, but they all focus on magical girls who use their powers to fight against the forces of evil and defend Earth. As each show progresses, they usually get more powers or magical items. PreCure also tends to defy expectations of the magical girl genre in a different way from trope subversion (like Puella Magi Madoka Magica did, for example). Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure in 2023 introduced Cure Wing, who is the franchise’s first permanent male Cure. The newest and current entry, Wonderful Pretty Cure, stars a dog that can turn into a human. She is the Cure Wonderful posing with Cure Black.

Wonderful Pretty Cure is available for streaming via services like Crunchyroll.