Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure

Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure
Cover for the official Thanksgiving Event Blu-Ray, featuring the 5 main Cures in the series. From front to back: Cure Summer, Cure La Mer, Cure Coral, Cure Papaya and Cure Flamingo.
トロピカル~ジュ!プリキュア
(Toropikarūju! Purikyua)
GenreMagical girl, Slice of Life
Created byIzumi Todo
Anime television series
Directed byYutaka Tsuchida
Produced byAkira Tanaka
Aki Murase
Written byMasahiro Yokotani
Music byShiho Terada
StudioToei Animation
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkANN (ABC TV, TV Asahi)
Original run February 28, 2021 January 30, 2022
Episodes46
Manga
Written byIzumi Todo
Illustrated byFutago Kamikita
Published byKodansha
MagazineNakayoshi
DemographicShōjo
Original runMarch 2021February 2022
Volumes2
Anime film
Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure the Movie: Petit Dive! Collaboration Dance Party!
Directed byTakashi Otsuka
Written byRyunosuke Kingetsu
Music byShiho Terada
StudioToei Animation
ReleasedMarch 20, 2021 (2021-03-20)
Runtime5 minutes
Anime film
Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure the Movie: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!
Directed byJunji Shimizu
Written byYoshimi Narita
Music byShiho Terada
StudioToei Animation
ReleasedOctober 23, 2021 (2021-10-23)
Runtime70 minutes

Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure (Japanese: トロピカル~ジュ!プリキュア, Hepburn: Toropikarūju! Purikyua) is a Japanese magical girl anime television series produced by Toei Animation. It is the eighteenth installment in the Pretty Cure franchise, and is directed by Yutaka Tsuchida and written by Masahiro Yokotani. The series premiered on ANN on February 28, 2021, succeeding Healin' Good Pretty Cure's time slot. It was succeeded by Delicious Party Pretty Cure on February 6, 2022.

The show's themes are motivation and responsibility, both of which are emphasized in reference to its protagonists creating and forming the Tropical Club, as well as one's ability to take accountability for their actions. While not directly stated, another theme is dance, the third series to feature it after Fresh Pretty Cure! and HappinessCharge PreCure!. The Cures excel at several dance styles and incorporate them into their fighting and attacks, and it contains the series' first dance-focused opening. The Cures' main motifs are mermaids, tropical and ocean themes, and cosmetics.