Board Thread:New on Pretty Cure Wiki/@comment-25034020-20181022151836/@comment-26491804-20181107190320

Popping in a bit rudely, I apologize but I found this interesting (taken from https://www.animefeminist.com/trademark-filed-for-star%E2%98%86twinkle-precure/ ):

''Junichi Sato (Aria the Animation, Sailor Moon) and Akifumi Zako (Go! Princess Pretty Cure the Movie Go! Go!! Gorgeous Triple Feature!!!, Dream 9 Toriko & One Piece & Dragon Ball Z Chō Collaboration Special!!) were tapped to direct the series at Toei Animation, with Toshie Kawamura (Glitter Force, Karneval) providing character designs. Fumi Tsubota (Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live, 12-Sai: Chiccha na Mune no Tokimeki) is in charge of series composition.''

Source: Twitter (trademark_bot)

Personally, I enjoyed the Princess Precure Triple Feature (even though that first CG short was a little rough imo because I'm 22 LOL) and I've been a fan of Sailor Moon pretty much all my life (that and Gargoyles were the first cartoons my young infant eyes were exposed to), so these directors give me high hopes that next year's Precure will be a banger. It should also be noted that Sato's extensive resume includes a manegerie of magical girl animes and even Maple Town (for those of you who actually remember that show, which was before my time) so we should definitely be expecting some cuteness overload.

Kawamura is designing characters again like for Smile! (which I honestly didn't like all that much, I thought their hairstyles were too flamboyant and costumes were too bland for my taste) but I've always thought Candy was one of the cuter fairies, so we should be getting some fairly adorable fairy counterpart(s).

Now, I haven't seen much of Tsubota's work (I couldn't get into Pretty Rhythm whatsoever, maybe I'm too "American" for it and I'm way past the target audience for 12-Sai) but, she has written scripts for a few episodes of this season, and is creditied as a writer for Kira Kira A La Mode, so while she's no stranger to Pretty Cure, the idea of bringing her on for series composition leads me to believe idols or "celebrity" (or stardom as someone on this thread metioned earlier) may be one of the main themes to this series. On the other hand, her work on 12-sai also leads me to believe the show may focus on issues that young girls (tweens and younger) will face, which is a staple of Pretty Cure storylines anyway. Perhaps that's too broad of a hunch, but that's my idea.