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All-Male Precure Stage Play Returns With Colorful Runway! Production in December
posted on by Alex Mateo
The official website for Dancing☆Star Precure, the first stage play in Toei Animation's long-running Precure (Pretty Cure) anime franchise, announced a new all-male stage play centered on fashion titled Colorful Runway! Precure the Stage that will run at The Galaxy Theatre in Tokyo from December 5-13 and at Cool Japan Park Osaka WW Hall in Osaka from December 26-27. The website unveiled a visual and cast:
The stage play stars:
- Kazan Yokoyama as Cure Silhouette/Ayato Kamishiro
- Jumpei Mitsui as Cure Collage/Itsuki Hachibari
- Ryusei Kitade as Cure Flash/О̄ji Mikuriya
- Takuya Ide as Cure Trad/Envy
- Asahi Amano as Akihiko Momose
- Kennosuke Matsuoka as Bogart
- Tsukasa Taguchi as Banshee
- Masato Yoshihara as Gothic
Hosakayō is again directing the stage play and penning the script. Toshie Kawamura (Yes! Precure 5, Smile Precure!, Hugtto! Precure) is again credited for designing the characters. Takashi Washio, the producer of the original Futari wa Pretty Cure series and producer for every subsequent Precure series since then, is returning to supervise the stage play.
The stage play's sequel ran in February 2025 at the Theater H in Tokyo, and that March at the Kyoto Theater, where the third stage play was also announced after the final performance.
The third stage play Dancing☆Star Precure The Stage 3 ran in December 2025 in Tokyo and Osaka.
The stage play's story centers on high school boys and their everyday lives as dancers, as well on their mission as Precures.
The franchise's Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure featured the first male Precure in franchise history with Tsubasa Yūnagi/Cure Wing, played by Ayumu Murase. The show also features the franchise's first adult Precure Ageha Hijiri/Cure Butterfly, played by Ayaka Nanase. The series premiered in February 2023.
The Star Detective Precure! anime, the most recent in the franchise, debuted on February 1 on ABC TV, TV Asahi, and their affiliate channels at 8:30 a.m. JST. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and CIS.
Sources: Dancing☆Star Precure stage play's website, Comic Natalie
