Fresh Pretty Cure!

Fresh Pretty Cure! (フレッシュプリキュア!, Furesshu PuriKyua!?) is a Japanese anime series and the sixth Pretty Cure installment by Izumi Todo. Produced by Toei Animation, the series was directed by Junji Shimizu (who also directed Jigoku Sensei Nube The Movie) and written by Atsushi Maekawa, (writer for Bakugan Battle Brawlers and Jewelpet). Character designs were created by Hisashi Kagawa, who previously designed the characters in the anime Saikano. The series premiered on TV Asahi's ANN network on February 1, 2009, and concluded on January 31, 2010; it replaced Yes! PreCure 5 Go Go! in its time slot. This is the first Pretty Cure series to extend the target-audience demographic beyond young girls. It is also the first to feature mature-looking characters, and Cure costumes resembling fashionable outfits. All subsequent seasons have continued this change, with costume design a focus.

The series's main themes involve traditional playing-card suits, fruits and clovers; these symbols are associated with the cures, magical devices and attacks used by the series' characters.