Star Detective Precure! Episode 18 Story & Preview Cuts Released: Precure x Detective Conan Special

The story and preview images for Episode 18 of the new TV anime Star Detective Precure! (JP: 名探偵プリキュア！), the 23rd installment in the long-running Precure franchise, have been revealed. The series is set to begin airing on May 31.

Episode 18 Story

In Star Detective Precure! Episode 18, titled “The Great Detective Assemble,” Anna and her friends help prepare an exhibition by glass artist Misako Shindo at Hosho Museum while solving a mystery alongside Edogawa Conan.

The exhibition’s featured piece is a glass slipper titled “The Forgotten Item at 12 O’Clock.” However, chaos erupts when a delivery box suddenly spills out a large number of glass slippers. The scattered slippers turn out to be fake resin copies, and amid the confusion, the real “The Forgotten Item at 12 O’Clock” disappears.

Believing the Phantom Thieves to be responsible, Anna and Mikuru search outside the museum for clues. There, they encounter Edogawa Conan, Ran Mouri, and Kogoro Mouri, who are visiting Makotomirai City. The episode depicts Star Detective Precure and Conan teaming up to solve the mystery and confront the Phantom Thieves.

Introduction

Star Detective Precure introduces the first detective themed Precure storyline in the franchise and is set primarily in 1999. The protagonist Anna Akechi is a 14 year old second year middle school student living in Makoto Mirai Town. On her birthday, she encounters a fairy named Pochitan and is guided by a mysterious pendant found in her room, triggering a time slip from the year 2027 back to Makoto Mirai City in 1999.

There, Anna meets another 14 year old girl, Mikuru Kobayashi, who dreams of becoming a great detective. When a series of incidents begin to occur, the two girls find themselves unable to ignore people suffering from stolen treasured possessions. Together, they transform into the Star Detective Precure, solving mysteries with the catchphrase “That mystery will be cured” while protecting smiles through sharp deduction and searching for clues that may allow Anna to return to her original time.

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