The 10th episode of "Detective Precure!", the 23rd installment of the popular anime "Precure" series, titled "Unravel the Mystery of the Painting!", will air on ABC TV and TV Asahi on April 5th at 8:30 AM.
A woman named Moe Saiki comes to the Cyuatt Detective Agency as a client. Her request is to "investigate her mother's self-portrait." A photograph she has shows a painting by Kristina Pipopovich Fumie, an artist who was popular overseas about 30 years ago, and she wants to know why her mother, Fumie, who only painted landscapes, painted this one self-portrait.
Anna and the others went to bookstores and art classes but couldn't find any clues. On the way, they met Hoba Kurea and visited Patisserie Tutu. When Moe saw the macarons that Kurea had brought, she remembered the oddly shaped macarons that Fumie sometimes brought back from overseas. When Anna and the others asked if they were actually homemade macarons, Moe said that she had never seen her mother making them. However, thinking that they might find a clue if they actually looked at the painting, Anna and the others went to the apartment where Moe lived.
The motif of "Detective Precure!" is "detective," and the theme is "seeing, feeling, and thinking for yourself to find the 'real' answer." The main characters are girls who work as detectives with the desire to "help people in need," and guided by a mysterious power, the main character time-slips from the present day of 2027 to 1999. A story of new encounters, friendships, and growth for the Precure transcends time.
Hikari Chiga will appear as Cure Answer/Anna Akechi, Kaede Hondo as Cure Mystic/Mikuru Kobayashi, and Nao Toyama as Cure Arcana Shadow/Aruru Mori. It has also been announced that the mysterious Pretty Cure, Cure Eclair, whose true identity is unknown, will make an appearance.
*Staff for Episode 10 (titles omitted)
Script: Kento Sata▽Direction: Tomoki Watanabe▽Storyboard: Takayuki Murakami▽Animation Directors: Nobuto Akada, Mika Hironaka, Noel Añonuevo▽Art Director: Yuki Nakabayashi
