{"id":947956,"date":"2026-10-27T08:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947956\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:46:15","slug":"precure-franchise-gets-spinoff-tv-anime-dual-shadow-precure-villain-heroines-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947956\/","title":{"rendered":"Precure Franchise Gets Spinoff TV Anime Dual Shadow ~Precure Villain Heroines~ &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anime debuts in 2027 with original story, characters<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=145\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toei Animation<\/a> announced on Tuesday that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=25076\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Precure<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/lexicon.php?id=70\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">franchise<\/a> will receive a television anime spinoff titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=40735\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dual Shadow ~Precure Villain Heroines~<\/a> that will premiere next year. Unlike most of the previous spinoffs in the franchise, the new anime will feature an original story and characters.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>Since the villain character Higashi Setsuna\/Eas in 2009&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=10499\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Precure!<\/a> became the hero Cure Passion, the Precure franchise has had a tradition of villains turning into heroes.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=38058\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Star Detective Precure!<\/a> anime, the 23rd and latest main television anime in the franchise, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2026-01-11\/star-detective-precure-anime-unveils-main-cast-staff-theme-song-artists-february-1-debut\/.232949\" data-pasted=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debuted<\/a> on February 1, and is ongoing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=7606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crunchyroll<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2026-01-27\/crunchyroll-to-stream-star-detective-precure-anime\/.233534\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streaming<\/a> the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and CIS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=38940\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eiga Meitantei Precure! Fushigi na Niwa to Futari no Himitsu<\/a> (Star Detective Precure! The Movie: The Mysterious Garden and the Secret of 2 People) \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2026-04-05\/star-detective-precure-anime-gets-film-opening-on-september-18\/.236103\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">film<\/a> for Star Detective Precure! \u2014 opened in Japan on September 18, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2026-09-24\/star-detective-precure-film-opens-at-no.3-cosmic-princess-kaguya-returns-at-no.6-in-japan\/.242124\" data-pasted=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked<\/a> at #3 in its opening weekend. The film sold 358,000 tickets to earn 446 million yen (about US$2.82 million) in its first three days.<\/p>\n<p>Toei Animation recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2023-03-13\/yes-precure-5-maho-girls-precure-series-both-get-sequel-anime-for-grown-ups\/.195939\" data-pasted=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">produced<\/a>\u00a0two\u00a020th anniversary projects for the franchise. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=27384\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Power of Hope: Precure Full Bloom<\/a> television anime debuted in October 2023, and was a sequel to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=7465\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yes! Precure 5<\/a>\u00a0featuring the cast as adults.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=27385\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mah\u014d Tsukai Precure!!: MIRAI DAYS<\/a>\u00a0debuted in January 2025, and was a sequel to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=17962\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Witchy Pretty Cure!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources: Dual Shadow ~Precure Villain Heroines~ anime&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toei-anim.co.jp\/tv\/dualshadow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">website<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/natalie.mu\/comic\/news\/695318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anime debuts in 2027 with original story, characters Toei Animation announced on Tuesday that the Precure franchise will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-947956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}