| Go! Princess Pretty Cure the Movie: Go! Go!! Gorgeous Triple Feature!!! | |||||
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| Screenplay: | Kaori Yamagata (as Sakurako Akino) | ||||
| Music: | Hiroshi Takaki | ||||
| Cinematography: | Tomoya Kamijō | ||||
| Editing: | Yoshihiro Aso | ||||
| Studio: | Toei Animation | ||||
| Distributor: | Toei Company, Ltd. | ||||
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| Country: | Japan | ||||
| Language: | Japanese | ||||
| Gross: | 560 million yen | ||||
is a 2015 Japanese animated action fantasy film based on Pretty Cure franchise created by Izumi Todo, and its twelfth series, Go! Princess PreCure. The film is divided into three segments: Cure Flora and the Mischievous Mirror, Pumpkin Kingdom's Treasure and Leff's Wonder Night!. Each segments are directed by Yukio Kaizawa, Akifumi Zako, and Hiroshi Miyamoto respectively, and produced by Toei Animation. The film was released in Japanese theaters on October 31, 2015.
The catchcopy of the film is
Cure Flora enters a room, admiring her flower tiara, and comes across a mirror where a group of ghosts try to play a prank on her by copying her appearance. During their battle, Flora's tiara is broken, so the ghosts replace it by transforming into a pumpkin dress.
After fighting a Parfait Zetsuborg, Haruka and the others are suddenly transported to the Pumpkin Kingdom, where a Princess Convention is being held to determine the kingdom's new princess. As the girls participate in various contests, Towa suspects something is amiss, prompting Haruka, Pafu, and Aroma to follow a trio of fairies to the kingdom's true princess, Pumplulu, who is being held captive. Upon hearing that the kingdom's minister, Warp, had locked Pumplulu up and caused her parents to forget about her, Haruka decides to help her out, learning that the citizens are being forced to make pudding nonstop. As Warp traps the other girls after they win their respective contests, Haruka makes her family's special pudding for the king and queen, restoring their memories of Pumplulu. Warp then traps the Cures in crystals, revealing that he had targeted the kingdom to capture them. Haruka manages to break everyone free as the fairies work to rescue their trapped friends. As Warp transforms into his true form and starts absorbing the kingdom's citizens, Pumplulu unites the dreams of her citizens and the power of the Miracle Princess Lights. This creates the Halloween Dress Up Keys and gives the Cures the power to defeat Warp and restore peace to the Pumpkin Kingdom. As thanks, Pumplulu invites the girls to participate in a special ball.
One day, a doll on Haruka's desk named Leff comes to life and asks her and the other Cures to help her stop Night Pumpkin, who plunged her kingdom into darkness. While Leff distracts the Zetsuborg guards with her singing, the Cures make their way to the top of a castle, where they must place the Miracle Princess Light to restore light to the kingdom. After learning that Leff is the kingdom's princess, the Cures soon fight against Night Pumpkin, who overwhelms them and takes the Miracle Light. However, Haruka and Leff remain determined and get the light back, allowing Leff to reach the top and restore the Kingdom's light.
Kuroro makes a non-speaking appearance at the end of Treasure, while Haruka's family makes a non-speaking appearance in Haruka's flashback.
The film is split into three-parts: a 50-minute 2D film ; a 20-minutes CGI film ; and a 5-minute CGI short film .[6] [7]
About this screening form, Takashi Washio, who was in charge of planning the film, said:
Washio described his concept as:
According to this configuration, the three-part film was to be screened in 75 minutes. Washio described the reason of making the feature-length fifty-minutes long:
The film's Miracle Light, the, was distributed to the audience for them to participate. Puff and Aroma were in charge of explaining the Miracle Light, though explanations and warnings are omitted. A paper sun-visor "Princess Tiara" was also distributed.
An exhibition for the film was held at the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival, and the world premiere screening was held there on October 24.[8] In addition, on October 22, an opening red carpet in Roppongi Hills where Pretty Cure kigurumi, the four Pretty Cure seiyu, and Every Little Thing participated,[9] and a red carpet-walk at “Shinjuku Art Heaven 2015” on October 24 featured a Cure Flora kigurumi, the four Pretty Cure seiyu, and three of the directors.
Due to the film's success, an all-night screening of the five last fall Pretty Cure films was held on November 13 for adults fans aged 18 and over at Shinjuku WALD 9. At the same event, a talk show was held with the guests being the three directors, Washio, assistant producer Risa Nikaidō, and series producer Yū Kamiki.[10] Also on October 27, Karin Isobe, Rie Kitagawa, and Shōko Ōmori were talk show guests.[11]
This was the final work recorded in the old studio of Tavac in Shinjuku before the franchise's move to Toei Digital Center in Higashiōizumi, Nerima, Tokyo; Yu Shimamura said:
The CG short film “Cure Flora and the Mischievous Mirror” is a story centered on Cure Flora who becomes a super deformed character, and is the first attempt in Pretty Cure of a short story without dialogue. Washio said:
The film's director is veteran director Yukio Kaizawa. Kanako Miyamoto was the motion-capture actor of SD Cure Flora. Washio said that the reason for hiring Miyamoto was:
The cell-based feature length second part, The Pumpkin Kingdom's Treasure, is an ōdō-like story where the Cures have an isekai adventure.
It was directed by Akifumi Zako; Washio said of him:
The scriptwriter is Kaori Yamagata, who is credited under the pen name .
Kana Hanazawa, who voices the film-only character Princess Pumplulu, said:
The theme song for the second part, Kira Kira, was written by Every Little Thing. Member Kaori Mochida said:Washio said:
It was also announced that Hanazawa and Uegaki (described in the next section) will sing their songs in their respective part.
The film-only enhancement mode for this film,, is given to all four cures instead of, as for the films of between Suite and HappinessCharge, the main cure.[12] The dress was designed by,[13] and was worn by Reina Triendl for the November 2015 issue of ,[14] and was exhibited at Shinjuku WALD9 and other places when the film was released.[15]
Pretty Cure and Leff's Wonder Night! is an action work with a story expressed in CG as mentioned above. Director and character design were handled by Hiroshi Miyamoto. Washio said that:
According to Miyamoto, this work was originally not related to Pretty Cure, and was planned to be created as an original work on the theme of Halloween with Leff as the protagonist, but since the release of the Pretty Cure movie was on the day of Halloween, Takeshi Himi, who was in charge of production management, asked if it would be merged with that movie.[16] Also, initially the story and Leff's appearance was different, but it later changed to its current form in Washio's opinion.
Hinata Uegaki was cast in the role of Leff. Uegaki had played a young Nala in the Shiki Theatre Company's production of The Lion King and was the winner of 's "Musical Kids NO.1 Ketteisen".Ryusei Nakao voices the antagonist Night Pumpkin.
In December of the same year, Hiroshi Miyamoto was awarded the "1st CG WORLD Grand Prize" sponsored by CG WORLD magazine.[17]
The opening song of both The Pumpkin Kingdom's Treasure and Leff's Wonder Night is , sung by Karin Isobe.
The ending song of The Pumpkin Kingdom's Treasure is "KIRA KIRA" by Every Little Thing, while the ending song of Leff's Wonder Night is by Rie Kitagawa.
The insert song of The Pumpkin Kingdom's Treasure is by Sharin' Miracle by Pumplulu (Kana Hanazawa), while the insert song of Leff's Wonder Night is Happy Happening♪ by Hinata Uegaki.
See main article: Kira Kira/Akari.
| Sharin' Miracle | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Princess Pumplulu (Kana Hanazawa) and Leff (Hinata Uegaki) |
| B-Side: | Happy Happening♪ |
| Released: | October 28, 2015 |
| Genre: | J-pop, Anime song |
| Length: | 17:22 |
| Label: | Marvelous |
| Composer: | Hiroshi Takagi |
| Lyricist: | Shoko Omori |
Sharin' Miracle/Happy Happening♪ is an insert song of the anime film Go! Princess Precure the Movie: Go! Go!! Splendid Triple Feature!!!. The single was released from Marvelous on October 28, 2015 The single topped at #114 in the Oricon Singles Chart on November 9, 2015.[18]
Takaki described Sharin' Miracle as a "soft ballad" and Happy Happening♪ as a "lively, up-tempo song".[19]
Sung by: Pumplulu (Kana Hanazawa)
Lyrics: Shoko Omori
Work and Arrangement: Hiroshi Takagi
Sung by: Leff (Hinata Uegaki)
Lyrics: Shoko Omori
Work and Arrangement: Hiroshi Takagi
| Go! Princess Precure the Movie: Go! Go!! Splendid Triple Feature!!! | |
| Type: | film |
| Artist: | Hiroki Takagi |
| Released: | November 18, 2015 |
| Recorded: | 2015 |
| Genre: | Soundtrack |
| Length: | 49:12 |
| Label: | Marvelous |
The film's original soundtrack was released on November 18, 2015. Hiroshi Takaki recorded the soundtrack. It topped at #271 in the Oricon Albums Chart on November 23, 2015.[20]
It was released on 211 screens nationwide, and in its first two days (October 31) and (November 1), 118,292 people attended the film and a revenue of ¥129,383,300 yen was recorded; this was the first time Kōgyō Tsūshin ranked a Pretty Cure film at fourth-place in film attendance.[21] It ranked #2 in Pia's first-day satisfaction survey.[22] Its final revenue was ¥560 million.
The film's DVD/BD was released on March 16, 2016. On March 28 the special-version DVD and regular-version DVD charted at 32 and 73 in the Oricon DVD Chart, while the BR charted at 19 in the Blu-ray Disc Chart.[23] [24] [25]
A tie-in paperback book, was released by Kodansha on March 15, 2017. Sakurako Akino said that she had talked to the person in charge of Kodansha's paperback division, a friend of her husband Keisuke Ishida, about a novelization of the film.[26]