History Anime / SmilePrettyCure

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->''Twinkling, shining, the light of the future! Cure Happy!\\
The brilliant sun, hot-blooded power! Cure Sunny!\\
Sparkling, glittering, rock-paper-scissors! Cure Peace!\\
Courageous, high-spirited, a clean-cut match! Cure March!\\
Snowing, falling and gathering, a noble heart! Cure Beauty!\\
The five lights that guide us to the future! Sparkle! [[TitleDrop Smile Precure!]]''

The 9th entry in the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise, which aired from February 2012 to January 2013.

OnceUponATime, there was a [[AllMythsAreTrue kingdom of fairy tales]] called Märchenland where all the good characters lived together in harmony. However, one day the kingdom was attacked by the evil characters of the Bad End Kingdom, led by the Evil King Pierrot. At the climax of the conflict, both the Queen of Märchenland and Pierrot were sealed away by each other, leaving the ending to the story unfinished.

Miyuki Hoshizora is a NewTransferStudent who absolutely adores fairy tale books, and hopes that one day she too will live HappilyEverAfter. Her first day gets off to a wild start when she [[CrashIntoHello literally comes face-to-face]] with [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Candy]], a fairy from Märchenland sent to recover the [[MacGuffin scattered Cure Décor]] that can [[SealedGoodInACan revive the Queen]].

Faced with the agents of the Bad End Kingdom, who seek to plunge humans [[HeroicBSOD into despair]] and [[EmotionEater collect the resulting "Bad Energy"]] to revive [[SealedEvilInACan Pierrot]], Miyuki's belief in standing strong against adversity despite her own fears grants her the power to transform into one of the legendary warriors, Pretty Cure. It's just a shame that no-one told Miyuki that part of being a "legendary warrior" is actually ''[[LovableCoward fighting]]''.

Eventually, Miyuki assembles a complete team of Precure from her classmates:

* '''[[ThePowerOfLove Cure Happy]]''', [[TheHero Miyuki]] herself. Despite her [[CuteClumsyGirl clumsy]] and [[ThisLoserIsYou scatterbrained]] nature, she's always out to find and make happiness.
* '''[[PlayingWithFire Cure Sunny]]''', [[TheLancer Akane Hino]]. An outgoing and HotBlooded volleyball player that is both PluckyComicRelief and DeadpanSnarker. Speaks with [[KansaiRegionalAccent Kansai-ben]].
* '''[[ShockAndAwe Cure Peace]]''', [[TheChick Yayoi Kise]]. A [[ShrinkingViolet timid]] and [[FragileFlower tearful]] girl who aspires to be a manga artist, which means that she thinks that becoming a superhero is both terrifying and [[AscendedFangirl really awesome]].
* '''[[BlowYouAway Cure March]]''', [[TheBigGuy Nao Midorikawa]]. The [[CoolBigSis oldest child]] in a [[MassiveNumberedSiblings large family]], she is held in high esteem by the student body for her soccer skills and natural leadership.
* '''[[AnIcePerson Cure Beauty]]''', [[TheSmartGuy Reika Aoki]]. A [[YamatoNadeshiko tranquil]] and intelligent girl, she is the [[ClassRepresentative representative of her class]] and the [[StudentCouncilPresident vice-president of the Student Council.]]

An English adaption from Creator/SabanBrands, under the new title of ''Glitter Force'', [[http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/netflix-orders-7-original-kids-series-including-legos-bionicle-and-dreamworks-croods-1201607216/ is currently being streamed worldwide (excluding Asia)]] on Creator/{{Netflix}}. Its first season of twenty episodes premiered on December 18th, 2015; its second season premiered on August 26th, 2016.

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!!''Smile Pretty Cure'' has examples of:

* AdultFear: In episode 42, two of Nao's siblings leave the house while Nao is in charge (as her parents are at the hospital), without telling her. And then while they're in town, all alone, Majorina finds them.
* AllMythsAreTrue: Or at least all fairy tales are in Märchenland.
** Episode 27 has Tengu and Kappas, though they stay out of sight and are only somewhat alluded to.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: {{Deconstructed}}. [[spoiler:Being the character that is always hated turned Majorina, Wolfrun, and Akaoni toward Pierrot's side. If you have nothing invested in the world and it always hated you, you would want to destroy it too just to make the pain stop.]]
* AnIcePerson: Cure Beauty, complete with a sword made of ice and the power to make a blizzard. Bad End Beauty is this too, thanks to her being Cure Beauty's EvilKnockoff.
* AnimationBump: Any time Cure Beauty fights Joker the animation goes up several notches in quality.
* AnimeAccentAbsence: Averted in episode 36; Creator/TetsuyaKakihara plays Brian with a pretty strong accent.
* AnimeHair: As seen on the page image. Cure March is the first Pretty Cure to wear her hair in a TomboyishPonytail and GirlishPigtails ''simultaneously''.
** Excluding hair-color, Miyuki is currently the only Cure in the Precure franchise to have an implausible hairstyle in civilian form, sporting two cone-pigtails, each cone with three distinctly-sized sections, complemented by bows that sit on top of said cones.
* AprilFoolsPlot: Episode 9. [[spoiler:Yayoi decides that telling Miyuki she is transferring would be an excellent April Fools joke. Miyuki bolts to tell everyone else before Yayoi can reveal the prank.]]
* ArtShift: The first half of episode 28 emphasizes shadows, darkened interiors, and character under lighting, all cliches of the ghost stories that were the topic of the episode.
* AscendedExtra: Creator/ChinamiNishimura, Reika/Cure Beauty's seiyuu, had a previous stint as Dark Dream. Now she's voicing a real Pretty Cure.
* BadassAdorable: [[spoiler:Cure Candy]] from episode 8. She proves agile enough to dodge the MonsterOfTheWeek's attacks and eventually neutralize it.
** [[spoiler:Candy herself as of episode 31.]]
* BadassPrincess: [[spoiler:The Cures' Princess Modes.]]
* BadLuckCharm: Miyuki draws a "terrible luck" fortune on the Kyoto trip, which says "Watch where you step, what you carry and what you eat". HilarityEnsues. For once they do not go into the 'tying it to a tree to get rid of the luck' thing, as the bad luck ends [[spoiler:when the fortune gets turned into the Monster Of The Week and beaten.]]
* BeehiveHairdo: Cure Sunny's hairstyle is close enough.
* BeingEvilSucks: [[spoiler:The Big Bad Three were used to live as fairies in Märchenland. However, due to being fairy tale villains they were disowned, hunted and despised by other fairies. Joker used their negative emotions and brainwashed them.]]
* BittersweetEnding: Episode 48. The {{Grand Finale}}. To wit: [[spoiler:Remember ''Pretty Cure All Stars DX3'''s end? The Grand Finale may be just a similar reused scenario, but no less effective, imagine the Smile Precures going through what their predecessors went through when they tried defeating Black Hole last time, except for the Smile Precures against just Pierrot. Less people involved, but no less effective to make you tear out. They get their turn in crying over the possibility of losing their fairy just for one final attack against the Big Bad with the world at stake, and unlike All Stars which kinda ruin the sad moment with happy music, you get to hear all girls bawling at Candy's departure... and instead of still pictures, the bawling is ANIMATED. Of course, the ending also share similar {{Heartwarming moment}} afterwards.]]
* BlowYouAway: Cure March. Her attacks have a wind theme to them and she gains the power to run ''very'' fast. Bad End March, being Cure March's EvilKnockoff, is this too.
* BookcasePassage: Interestingly, the bookcase itself becomes a warp portal with careful moving of the books.
* BookEnds: More than appropriate for a season based off fairy tales. [[spoiler:During TheStinger of the last episode, Miyuki and Candy reunite in the exact same spot where they first met.]]
* BorrowedCatchPhrase: Near the end of episode 5, Cures Sunny, Peace and March borrows Miyuki/Happy's "Ultra Happupu~" and said it in tandem.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Subtly done in the opening by one of Nao's little brothers, Yuuta, who grins upon noticing the camera behind him.
* BreakThemByTalking: Joker attempts this on Reika during episode 43, [[spoiler:using her conflict between quitting being a Cure and disappointing her friends by not studying abroad to drive her into a breakdown and cause her to lose her transformation. It takes the other Cures showing up and confessing that they really don't want her to leave to make her snap out of it.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: Earlier than most Pretty Cure examples. Pop is basically just there to dump some info for the Cures. Then he [[RidingIntoTheSunset flies into the sunset (in his book!)]], back to Märchenland. It's implied that the kingdom is facing a serious threat, requiring his presence; otherwise he would rather stay with Candy.
* ByThePowerOfGrayskull: "Pretty Cure Smile Charge!", said every time the girls transform.
* CatchPhrase: Quite a bit, including things like Miyuki's "[[GratuitousEnglish Ultra Happy!]]", "Happupu~", or Nao's "Straight-up bout!" or Reika declaring that "Path X' is a hard one". However, the Bad End Kingdom generals have a certain shared one in order to initiate Bad End space:
-->''"The worst possible ending in the world! Be covered in Bad End! Your white future shall be painted black!!" *Bad End space initiated, HeroicBSOD abound, person laughs* "The Bad Energy of *insert relevant infected creature here* will revive the Dark Emperor, Lord Pierrot!!"''
* CherryBlossoms: These are in the background when the girls discuss about various guys around school that Miyuki might like.
* ChildishPillowFight: During the Kyoto trip, initially Reika resists joining in, till she takes one to the face [[NotSoAboveItAll then its]] LetsGetDangerous mode... the end result ends up spilling a pot of hot coffee on their teacher.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: When Wolfrun, Akaoni, and the Cures are all turned into kids by accident, more time is spent with all 7 playing games than fighting each other. When Majorina shows up to end the fun, even Wolfrun and Akaoni join in on the game of tag the Cures start with her.
* ClarkKenting: Averted for once. Everyone who's snapped out of the Bad End spell easily recognizes the Cures. It doesn't help that Miyuki can't keep her big mouth shut.
* ClassTrip: To Kyoto in episode 13, and later Osaka in episode 14, where the villains coincidentally are going too.
* ColorCodedCharacters: In addition to their color-coded {{Nonuniform Uniform}}s, the girls usually wear street clothes in their designated colors. At their secret base, they even drink out of color-coded mugs.
* ColourfulThemeNaming: With the exception of Miyuki, all the Cures have last names related to their signature colors.
* CombatPragmatist: Episode 6, Majorina tried to prevent the girls from transforming. Then she attacked them while they were posing AFTER transforming.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In the ShaggyDogStory episode [[spoiler:Miyuki, Akane, Yayoi and Nao were looking at Reika during their remedial class, and Reika concluded that they must be thinking "Don't worry about us, you can go home!". When in truth, they actually meant, "Help us, Reika!!"]]
* CouchGag: It appears that every episode the EndingTheme will start with a different Cure (Happy in episode 1, Sunny in episode 2, and so on and so forth).
** It seems to be rotating through five versions, one for each Cure. It rotated through the five versions three times, then repeated Beauty for episode 16 instead of Happy.
** Peace's Jan-ken-pon is a really good examples of this. The sign changes every episode.
* CrashIntoHello: Miyuki is very savvy and excited to experience this trope. In the first scene of the first episode, she is LateForSchool and sees a corner; she thinks about this trope, goes full speed into the corner to encounter no one, laments about it for a second, then turns around for a MentorMascot to the face.
* {{Crossover}}: Not a canon one, but the fanartists at Pixiv definitely had a [[IncrediblyLamePun field]] day with the fact that both ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' and ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' had FieldTrip episodes at Kyoto in the same week.
** Also, in episode 19, it's revealed, not so subtly, that Yayoi's mother Chiharu works for [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Fairy Drop]]. She even mentions "Kurumi-san", so both series [[WildMassGuessing possibly take place in the same continuity...]]
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: All five Cures sport this, moreso in Cure form than civilian.
* CutesyNameTown: Rainbow Hills [[note]]Nanairogaoka[[/note]]
* DancingTheme: Both ending themes count, complete with CGI dancing of the Precures!
* DarkestHour:
** '''Episode 22'''. [[spoiler:Joker has appeared again, [[CurbstompBattle curbstomped]] the Precures, gained the last batch of Bad Energy from them, and runs off with the single remaining Cure Decor to revive Pierrot.]]
** [[spoiler:Episode 47's ending even more so. Just when it seems the ultra forms of the cures seems to defeat Pierrot, he absorbs all the darkness monsters he unleashed into himself and becomes as big as '''[[Anime/PrettyCureAllStars BLACK]] [[OhCrap HOLE]]!''']]
* DavidVersusGoliath: Cure Peace VS Akaoni/Brute is enough to fit this bill.
* DeathOrGloryAttack: Using finishers will leave the Cures exhausted, justifying why they can only use it once per transformation. This lessens as the season goes on, though.
* DebutQueue: The same general deal as ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'', only played straighter as there's no additional drama concerning Cure Beauty's debut.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Miyuki's flashback on how she got her optimistic view are different between the TV series and the movie, though the premise is the same; a 'fairy' encouraged her to always smiling so she could have friends. In episode 44, the 'fairy' came from a mirror necklace given by her grandmother, while in the movie, the 'fairy' is actually the main character in a storybook Miyuki read. It can be chalked up that Miyuki is being a UnreliableExpositor, [[spoiler:as by forgetting the exact circumstance of her meeting with the 'fairy', the storybook character, AKA [[ForgottenChildhoodFriend Nico]], becomes vengeful and it kicks start the movie's plot.]]
* DownerEnding: This is the villains' goal, to give the world a "bad end".
* DubNameChange:
** ''Smile Pretty Cure'' -> ''Glitter Force''
** Marchenland -> Jubiland
** Candy ends up being an Aversion with her name, but she's classified as a "pixie", not a "fairy".
** Wolfrun -> Ulric
** Akaoni -> Brute
** Akanbe/Super Akanbe/Hyper Akanbe -> Buffoon/Super Buffoon/Twilight Buffoon
** Miyuki/Cure Happy -> Emily/Glitter Lucky
** Akane/Cure Sunny -> Kelsey/Glitter Sunny.
** Yayoi/Cure Peace -> Lily/Glitter Peace
** Nao/Cure March -> April/Glitter Spring
** Reika/Cure Beauty -> Chloe/Glitter Breeze
** Joker -> Rascal
** Majorina -> Brooja
** Pierrot -> Nogo
** Bad End Pretty Cure -> Glitter Shadow Force
%%* DullEyesOfUnhappiness:
%%** Eating the food of the Bad End Kingdom brainwashes you, and it gives you these.
%%** [[spoiler:All the Precures got this when Pierrot covered the Precure book with black ink]].
%%* ElementalHair: The girls follow pretty standard [[ColorCodedElements colors]] and styles for their elements, though Cure Happy's is mor ein line with her secondary element.
* ElementalPowers: Each of the Smile Precures have these, one for each Cure with Cure Happy technically getting two. Cure Happy gains ThePowerOfLove and LightEmUp powers, Cure Sunny gains PlayingWithFire, Cure Peace gains ShockAndAwe, Cure March gains BlowYouAway, and Cure Beauty gains AnIcePerson abilities.
* EleventhHourRanger: Just when we think this season will have no {{Sixth Ranger}}s, [[spoiler:episode 47 has Candy becoming Royale Candy, a BarrierMaiden in the vein of [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Shiny Luminous]].]]
* EleventhHourSuperpower: In episode 47, we see [[spoiler:the Precure's Ultra Forms, which gives them enough of a power boost to defeat Pierrot in his first form]].
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The names of most of Majorina's inventions pretty much describe exactly what it does.
* {{Expy}}:
** The five Cures have a similar color scheme as the Cures of ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5''. The similarities can be chalked up to having the same character designer (Toshie Kawamura) for both series.
** Candy was often described as [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Potpourri]] with sheep ears, and Reika/Cure Beauty was constantly compared to [[Manga/MagicKnightRayearth Umi Ryuuzaki]].
** Joker is like a G-rated of [[TheJoker his namesake]] from Creator/DCComics. From the in-series perspective, he's also an {{Expy}} to [[Anime/YesPrecure5 Kawarino]]
* ExposedToTheElements: In episode 6 Miyuki is accidentally sent to the ''South Pole'' in her civvies, and wasn't bothered by the cold... Until she got back to Japan.
* EyeCatch: Normally shows one of the Cures for the beginning side commercial break and Candy afterwards, but in two episodes the commercial end one showed ''[[RuleOfFunny Akanbe]]''.
* FairyTaleMotifs: All over the place. This is more notable with the QuirkyMinibossSquad; each member is based off a fairy tale villain (Wolfrun, for instance, is based off TheBigBadWolf).
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Played straight with Yayoi, but averted with Akane and Nao; both girls are {{Tomboy}}s but they're still excellent cooks.
* FiveBadBand: Bad End Kingdom.
** BigBad: Pierrot
** TheDragon: Joker
** TheBrute: Akaoni
** EvilGenius: Majorina
** TheDarkChick: Wolfrun
* FlatCharacter: A common complaint is that ''Smile'' seems to go out of it's way to avoid having the characters grow or change. Any OneShotCharacter is this by default in this series.
* {{Foil}}: The Bad End Generals to the Cures.
** Wolfrun against Miyuki and Akane. He's a NietzscheWannabe, while Miyuki is hopeful and Akane is passionate.
** Akaoni, TheBrute, and Yayoi, the crybaby of the team.
** Majorina, who specializes in tricks, vs. Nao's adherence to [[CatchPhrase a straight-up bout]].
** And Joker, with his sadism to Miyuki's desire for happiness, and tendency to manipulate his teammates against Reika's role as TheSmartGuy.
* FountainOfYouth: In episode 38, a potion made by Majorina turns the 5 girls, Wolfrun and Akaoni into kindergartners and Candy into a baby. [[spoiler: They turn back to normal 5 minutes before the episode ends.]]
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Like with ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' before, the Smile team also has this among 5 people; but it's done a little differently here: Miyuki is Sanguine, Akane and Nao are Choleric, Yayoi is Phlegmatic, and Reika is Melancholic.
* FracturedFairyTale: Cinderella gets... ''weird'' in episode 39.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Miyuki and Candy in episode 8 end up in each other's bodies and have to go about the day that way.
* FrillyUpgrade:
** "Pretty Cure Rainbow Healing" -- the girls lose their FeatherMotif and gain crowns and a few additional frills during the move.
** Later, in episode 23, the girls get the Princess Forms and Princess Candles exclusively for their new attack, Pretty Cure Rainbow Burst.
** And then they got the Royal Clock, allowing them to use a power-up of the aforementioned attack, Royal Rainbow Burst.
** [[spoiler:As if ''these'' weren't enough, TheMovie has Cure Happy get a third upgrade, Ultra Cure Happy, which takes the "Frilly" part of "Frilly Upgrade" UpToEleven. The other Cures gain this for the final fight alongside Cure Happy against Pierrot in episode 47]].
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Two during the ending. The first involves Peace falling on top of March, while the second has Sunny volleying a ball right onto Happy's face.
** Peace's variation of the ending adds a third one to the mix. At the very beginning, she {{face plant}}s while skipping away from the camera to join the other Cures, and the next time we see her there's a noticeable red spot on her face.
* GetBackHereBoss: The Akanbe from episode 39 runs away instead of fighting Cure Happy because it's trying to stall her into missing the midnight deadline (it's a ''Cinderella'' reenactment, see), forcing Happy to chase it all over the castle.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the English dub, [[DubNameChange Kelsey]] (Akane in the original), when commenting on the [[AprilFoolsPlot the April Fools joke that Lily/Yayoi is moving away]], they manage to get away with her saying "that it sucks". Probably being on Creator/{{Netflix}}, which gives more leeway than broadcast or cable standards might have to do with it.
* GoKartingWithBowser: In episode 38, the Cures are turned into young kids because of Majorina's newest invention; so are Wolfrun and Redoni by accident. So when the two groups meet as kids, they forget their enmity and start playing tag. Justified as being turned into kids gives them the urge to play instead of fight.
* GoodWingsEvilWings: [[spoiler:The Smile Precures have little white angel wings adorning their hair while the Bad End Precures have black bat wings]].
* GottaCatchEmAll: The Cure Decor features as the collectible item this time around.
* GratuitousEnglish: Besides the obvious, episode 7 has a toy shop which has a sign that says "Stuffed Shop."[[note]]Yes, the period is included[[/note]].
** Despite the SurprisinglyGoodEnglish in episode 36, a letter later comes that is strangely written in a low level for a native speaker. Could be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] that it was written simply so the recipient could have an easier time understanding it.
* GretzkyHasTheBall: The relay race in episode 18 has five runners, while normal relay races in the real world have four.
* HairDecorations: All five Cures sport angel wing hair decs and tiaras when transformed. Also, both Miyuki and Nao sport ribbons on their hair in civilian form, as does Candy. Yes, even the MentorMascot gets a turn in this carousel.
* HeartBeatDown: Cure Happy, though not as obvious as some examples. Her attacks have a clear heart-shape to them and she is all for genuine happiness. Bad End Happy's own attacks are heart-shaped too, [[ItsAllAboutMe though she only cares for her own happiness]].
* TheHighQueen[=/=]BigGood[=/=]KingInTheMountain: The Royale Queene of Märchenland. She made a HeroicSacrifice TakingYouWithMe after all her Cure Decors are stolen by Pierrot, and is now [[NeverSayDie sleeping]]. [[spoiler:She was expected to wake up when the Cures collected all the Cure Décors, but because Pierrot was revived earlier, instead she grants them the Princess Modes.]]
* HimeCut: Reika/Cure Beauty again.
* HopeSpot: At the end of episode 21, [[spoiler:it seems like the Cures have accomplished their goal of completing the Décor Décolle and reviving the Royale Queene... When suddenly Joker comes along and steals, not just the last Cure Décor, but also ''the entire Décor Décolle and Candy''.]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: Cure Happy has a hard time using her finisher, and they're still trying to figure out the [[SuperStrength strength boost]] they get from becoming Cures.
-->-- "[[{{Kiai}} KIAI DA! KIAI DA! KIAI DA!]] '''''KIAI DAAAAAA!!'''''"
* HubLevel: The Mysterious Library, where all Book Doors are connected to, and where the Cures decide to set up their [[ElaborateUndergroundBase Clubhouse.]]
* HumongousMecha: Happy Robot with [[MechaExpansionPack Buttlerfly Wings]] and RocketPunch, and the Hyper Akanbes of Wolfrun and Akaoni in episode 35. The Hyper Akanbes of Wolfrun and Akaoni double as CombiningMecha.
* IdiotBall:
** Candy making a fool of Miyuki in [[FreakyFridayFlip episode 8]] could've been avoided if they'd claimed she was sick or used some similar excuse to get her out of class.
** Nearly every episode due to an unfortunate oversight in the format of the show, in which the villains always achieve their goal before summoning any Akanbe and the only thing summoning said Akanbe does is allow the Precure to collect a Decor. If they never summoned anything but the blue noses, which don't drop Decors, they would have won by episode 23.
* InelegantBlubbering: [[EverybodyCries All 5 Precures and especially Candy]] in [[spoiler:the last episode, when they discover they'll have to say goodbye to Candy since the exhausted Miracle Jewel won't allow travel between the worlds.]] It's pretty effective as a sad scene despite it.
* {{Invisibility}}: Episode 20 had [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwJI46XWiSg Miyuki and Akane turn invisible]] due to Candy finding a camera that turns things invisible which was created by Majorina.
* ISOStandardUrbanGroceries: In episode 4, Nao is carrying several grocery bags, with a leek protuding from one and a daikon radish from the other, when she encounters the panicking Miyuki on the street.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: Akane/Cure Sunny speaks like this, given that she originates for Osaka, where this accent is normal.
* LateForSchool: The stereotype is [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] with Miyuki, her introduction is this but lacking the bread aspect and the CrashIntoHello was not where she was expecting.
* LaughingMad: [[spoiler: Joker during his VillainousBreakdown.]]
* LaughThemselvesSick: Akaoni actually pulls a ROFL (Rolling on the floor laughing) after finding out the Precure have bad luck.
* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: Several times, the background music slowly fizzles out, including when [[ButtMonkey Happy's]] attacks fail or miss in the first and second episodes, and when Candy [[EpicFail completely fails]] at explaining the premise of the series in episode 6.
* LightEmUp: Cure Happy [[spoiler:and Royale Candy]]. Both of them have sparkles in their attacks and a steady glow; pink for Cure Happy [[spoiler:and white for Royale Candy]]. Bad End Happy has these powers too as Cure Happy's EvilKnockoff.
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' and ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'', this show is more [[RuleOfFunny comedy driven]].
* LotusEaterMachine: Joker's Ball of Neglect that appears in episode 31 and 32. Inside is a CrapSaccharineWorld where you're drowned in endless pleasure, while you're subtly encouraged to care about nothing but your own [[ItsAllAboutMe indulgences]]. [[spoiler:Joker states quite clearly this is the Bad End waiting for the whole world.]]
* LuminescentBlush: Constantly. It's somewhat justified in Cure form as they tap themselves with the Smile Pacts' powder puffs while transforming.
* MeaningfulName: For the first time in a ''Anime/PrettyCure'' series, the meanings behind the Cures' names are explained and discussed.
* ModestyShorts: The triumphant return of the more noticeable bike shorts under the Cures' dresses; ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' had these but upskirt shots were needed to notice them.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: '''[[PokemonSpeak AKANBE]]/Buffoon!''' Whose faces have a MonsterClown vibe to them. They even come in multiple flavours:
** Red-nosed Akanbe are the standard for the first half of the series, created from the stolen Cure Decor.
** Blue-nosed Akanbe are weaker than red-nosed Akanbe, but as they are not created from Cure Decor, they are immune to the standard {{Finishing Move}}s of the Pretty Cure.
** Yellow-nosed Akanbe seem to share the same traits and strength as red-nosed Akanbe, but like blue-nosed Akanbe are not created from Cure Decor.
** Super Akanbe, made from two Cure Decors, have dark red noses.
** Black-nosed Hyper Akanbe, introduced in episode 31, are made from just one Decor again and can fuse with the Bad End Kingdom generals to give them direct control and boost the Akanbe's power.
* MorphicResonance: When Miyuki and Candy BodySwap, not only do [[VoicesAreMental their voices flip along with them]], so do their hairstyles, and Candy's BlushSticker is given to Miyuki.
* TheMovingExperience: Yayoi decides to play an April Fool's joke by saying that she was moving away. However, the person she told it to, Miyuki, believed it wholesale and went to tell ''everyone''. Yayoi's unable to reveal the truth until Akaoni does it for her and the team is quite upset at this... until they realize that they only believed it because Miyuki believed it.
* MumLooksLikeASister: Ikuyo Hoshizora and Chiharu Kise. Both look incredibly young to the point where you would be forgiven for thinking they're older siblings and not parents.
* MythologyGag: Many, as of the first episode:
** Cure Happy's pose in the group's final pose is identical to [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Blossom's]] group pose with Marine and Sunshine.
** Miyuki's transformation into Cure Happy [[http://i44.tinypic.com/2z68sgw.png takes inspiration from transformations from all previous installments]] excluding ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar''. Yayoi's transformation involves [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure spreading sparkles by using the powder-puff as a tambourine]].
** Candy crashes into Miyuki the same way Chypre crashes into [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Tsubomi]] and Mepple crashes into [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Nagisa]] when they first meet.
** Akane interupts Miyuki during her self-introduction similar to how [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Erika]] interupts Tsubomi during her's. Akane is seated in nearly the same location as Erika in her classroom as well.
** #26: One of the candy sculptures is Coffret from ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure''.
** #30: Yayoi talks about one of her favorite superheroes: Taioh Man (Sun Man), who [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Souta]] posed as during a "film shoot" in Kanon Town.
** #33: The title of the movie the girls become actresses in? ''{{Youkai}} [[Anime/PrettyCureAllStars All-Stars DX]]''. Furthermore, the whole episode is a MythologyGag to other Pretty Cure episodes with an [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureMaxHeart edo-movie]] [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 theme]], including a CastingGag with Creator/WataruTakagi ([[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureMaxHeart Uraganos]] and [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Bunbee]]). Also, Akane wears a Jorogumo costume which makes her looking very similar to [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Arachnea]].
** #47: Cure Sunny and Cure March combine their main attacks to create the "Fire Shoot." Or in other words, they recreated that of [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Rouge!]]
** #48: [[spoiler:The final battle between Pierrot and the Precure plays out in a way that might remind one of [[Anime/PrettyCureAllStars All Star Precures vs. Black Hole]] and Miyuki turning into a giant version of herself looks like [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Mugen Silhouette]].]]
* NoOntologicalInertia: Weaponized by Majorina in Episode 35. Earlier in the episode, Majorina's "turn-into-a-robot" gun was accidentally fired on Cure Happy, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BalefulPolymorph turning her into Happy Robo]] - and of course, it can only be used once. When the Precure (sans Cure Happy) manage to work out how to pilot the new Happy Robo and are about to use Happy Robo's finisher on the combined Hyper Akanbe, Happy suddenly reverts to normal, sending the group groundwards. Cut to Majorina, who states that since the gun was one-use only, all she had to do was destroy it to reverse the effects, thus keeping the Akanbe from getting its butt kicked (At least, until [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperMode Princess Form]] comes into play).
* NonUniformUniform: Apparently, Rainbow Hills Middle School is quite lax about uniform rules, as a good portion of the students has a different way to wear the uniform. The Cures are no exception, but take it a step further by having ties of their respective colors.
* NotSoFastBucko: [[spoiler:Joker in Episode 31 simply opts to hang back after the MonsterOfTheWeek is deafeated and the MidSeasonUpgrade revealed, and simply ambushes and takes out four of the five Precure with little fuss while they're busy celebrating.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: Pierrot, whose idea of a Bad End at the very ''least' involves ''ripping out a chunk of the planet''. That's not even getting into his plans for the rest of the universe either. Bad End Sunny too, since she wants to become the sun that burns everything up.
* PantyShot: There is one in Episode 4, but you probably don't want to watch it. [[spoiler:It's Akaoni doing his laundry, which includes [[FanDisservice a gratuitous shot of his underwear]].]]
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Candy emerges from a pink book; her brother Pop comes out of a blue book.
* PlayingWithFire: Cure Sunny. Her transformation involves fire literally over her body and her hair changes in a fiery fashion. Bad End Sunny, being Cure Sunny's EvilKnockoff, has this too.
* PummelDuel: Cure Sunny and Wolfrun get into one after the latter goes completely berserk at the thought of losing to the former.
* PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage: In episode 43, Reika lost her powers as Cure Beauty during a fight with Joker because the latter used the former's conflict between quitting being a Cure and disappointing her friends by not studying abroad to drive her into a breakdown.
* PsychoRangers: The Bad End Precure created by Joker at the end of episode 45. [[spoiler:All five of them physically resemble their respective counterparts and share their ElementalPowers, albeit in a darker form. There are slight differences in hairstyle and major differences in attire, however.]]
* RaceForYourLove: Akane does this in Episode 36.
* RedemptionDemotion: [[spoiler:In the beginning, the fairytale villains start out as badass dark sorcerers with awesome evil magic. Then, after some "We Care About You" nonsense, they're puny little pixies with no powers. What's so great about redemption, anyway?]]
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Candy and Pop, though Pop doesn't like being described as such.
* RunningGag: [[spoiler:In episode 45. In the beginning, the three villains begin as badass sorcerers with awesome dark powers. Then, after some "We Care About You" nonsense, they become puny little fairies with no powers. Exactly how is redemption a benefit again?]]
** It seems like this universe likes throwing things at [[TheHero Miyuki's]] face.
** Many episodes' plots are kicked off by one of Majorina's newest inventions going missing because of Wolfrun and/or Akaoni, said inventions usually ending up wherever the Pretty Cure are. And she usually runs to the ''same'' police station to ask for directions before finding the invention on the Pretty Cure's hands.
%%* SeizaSquirm: Miyuki briefly goes through this in Episode 5.
* ShaggyDogStory: Episode 29. [[spoiler:On the last day of summer vacation, the Cures resolve to stop playing around and finish their summer homework. Instead, they're dragged into a theme park world they're ''forced'' to play through all day to escape, and by then it's already too late. Despite the Aesop, they still have to take remedial classes after school for something not their fault]].
* ShockAndAwe: Cure Peace; her main attack is "Pretty Cure Peace Thunder!" and involves lightning. Bad End Peace is this too, being Cure Peace's EvilKnockoff.
* ShoutOut:
** The way Miyuki pouts everytime she says "Happuppu~" might remind you of [[Anime/OjamajoDoremi another pink-clad Toei main character]].
** #5: "[[Series/KamenRiderDecade We're just passing-through superheroes...]]"\\
\\ Said by Cure Peace, even, thus cementing her {{fanon}} status as a {{Tokusatsu}} fangirl. The line even became [[http://www.pixiv.net/tags.php?tag=%E9%80%9A%E3%82%8A%E3%81%99%E3%81%8C%E3%82%8A%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%92%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC a tag]] on {{Pixiv}}.
** #6: "[[Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger Gonin sorotte! Go-Pretty Cure!]]"
** #8: The shots in which Majorina proudly announces the (lazily thought of) names for her body-switch rings and their antidote are a reference to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO1YcNVNTy8 this commercial]].\\
\\ Also in that same episode, there was a possible shout out to ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''. In one "Screaming With Binky" short that played before "Attack of the Mutant Guppies" about a diamond cutter, seconds after Binky disrupts a diamond cutter, he sneezes, blowing away the diamond dust. In the Pretty Cure episode, Akaoni blows away the rings with a sneeze. This might have been a shout out to Akaoni's voice actor doing Binky's voice on the Japanese dub of Garfield and Friends.
** Episode 25 contains another shout-out to Garfield and Friends. Akaoni is the main villain. This is yet again another "Screaming With Binky" shout-out, as in one episode of that quickie, he went to the beach, screamed and disrupted a man building a sandcastle.
** Candy is very similar to another Toei character: Culumon (Calumon) from ''Anime/DigimonTamers''. Not only do they have the same VerbalTic, but Candy has some special power the bad guys want, just like Culumon did.
** #23: The way Cure Happy uses Happy Shower to avoid falling into lava lake is reminiscent of how [[Manga/DragonBall Son Goten]] avoids ring-out during the Tenkaichi Budoukai in Buu saga.
** #35 The face of Happy Robot is more like [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Rosie]]. Not to mention the episode basically consisted of seeing how many SuperRobot cliches and shout outs could fit into one episode. The show even gets Creator/MasamiObari in as a guest animator!\\
\\ Speaking of Obari, can't forget that Robotaa from the ShowWithinAShow is kind of similar with [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Compatible Kaiser]].
** To the Franchise/SailorMoon series, there are the Precure's Princesses Form, the Princess Candle looking just like Sailor Moon's Kaleidomoon Scope, and gaining power from the Pegasus but is really a WingedUnicorn.
** #41 When Cure Peace obtains her Ultra Decor and powers up, her stance and energy field almost mimics the [[SuperMode Super Saiyan]] mode from ''DragonBall''.
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Iron Warrior Robotter'', an anime of the SuperRobotGenre that Yayoi enjoys, and which is the background for the theme of episode 35 (affectionately lampooning those sorts of shows).
* SpecialGuest: Japanese comedy duo FUJIWARA appear as themselves in Episode 17.
* SpoilerOpening: [[spoiler:Aside from the Princess Modes being spoiled in the opening theme, we also see battle footage straight from the opening being reused in Episode 23. And Pierrot's giant hand being reused and mirrored in the final episode.]]
** Episode 1 of the English adaptation, Glitter Force, begins with [[spoiler: Emily having a dream about joining the Glitter Force, which spoils some parts of the first half of the series, including the Princess Forms!]]
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Invoked by Pop in Episode 33. The girls play in an edo movie with kunoichi Nao as the main character. However, after she's defeated by Jorogumo (Akane) and tries to kidnap Princess Reika, vagabond Pop appears, defeats the villain and goes away, like a lonely samurai hero. Then he tries it to do again, when the girls are trapped by Akaoni's Hyper Akanbe, but he fails, so ''Candy'' saves them. And finally, [[spoiler:he cuts the movie by himself and removes the recorded Precure scenes, and the movie is only about vagabond Pop and the girls are entirely removed, the latter was to preserve the girls secret identity, though]].
* StatusQuoIsGod: Episode 23 was practically a SeasonFinale: all of the Cure Decor are recovered, and all of the major villains (including the BigBad) are fought and defeated thanks to a new SuperMode. Episode 24 reveals that the BigBad was ''not'' destroyed, all of the villains are resurrected, and the show returns to the ''exact same plot'' as before: the villains try to collect Bad Energy to revive their SealedEvilInACan, while the heroes collect the Cure Decor to revive their SealedGoodInACan. The director stated in an interview that this was done because he wanted ''Smile'' to be "simple".
* StoryArc: The [[ClassTrip School Trip]] Arc from Episode 12 to 14 (''see ClassTrip above'')
* StudentCouncilPresident: Reika is the vice president [[spoiler: until episode 37, where she is elected president. Wolfrun, Akaoni, and Majorina got the idea to run after seeing the trope played straight on TV, and turned themselves human to do just that.]]
* SuperMode: The [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess Forms, which lets them use their most powerful group finishers]] [[spoiler:and, later on, Ultra Forms, which gives them enough strength to beat a Pierrot the size of Black Hole.]]
* TakeAThirdOption: Episode 29, during the game level 5. Wolfrun vs Cure Beauty in a swimming contest. [[spoiler:There's an Akanbe-Shark on Beauty's line, her options are either stare the Akanbe while stuck in place, or jump and swim with the Akanbe hunting her underwater. Solution: Precure Beauty Blizzard the WHOLE POOL (with Wolfrun), then get to the goal by ice-skating.]]
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: The girls have a long conversation towards the end of Episode 9, while Akaoni and the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Akanbe of the Week]] just sit around waiting for them to finish before continuing the fight.
* TeleporterAccident: When your means of instantaneous travel involves imagining the place you want to go to, you probably should not be thinking about penguins.
* TheMagicGoesAway: In the final episode, [[spoiler:the [[TransformationTrinket Smile Pacts]] were turned to stone by Pierrot and the Miracle Jewel had the sacrificed just to give a chance of averting the Bad End; the latter forces Candy and Pop to return to Marchenland with the magic of Pretty Cure. Though it presumably [[TheMagicComesBack comes back]] in TheStinger.]]
* ThemeNaming: Every Cure name is a word which you make a smile when saying.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Episode 13, where Miyuki has an incredible streak of bad luck during their ClassTrip to Kyoto.
* ThrowItIn: InUniverse and taken UpToEleven in Episode 33. The Director allows the main cast to go so far OffTheRails that it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCYSDWDls9A must be seen]] to be believed.
* ToiletHumour:
** Rare for a Precure series (unless you count the [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Heart Seeds]] and toilet scenes in episode of ''Heartcatch'' and ''Fresh''), but after drawing a Terrible Luck Fortune a bird flies by and poops on Miyuki's head.
** In episode 10, Majorina says she made a potion from frog farts.
** In episode 38, poop flies out of Baby Candy's diaper when Kindergartner Yayoi trips on a rock.
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Reinforced in Episode 4 -- Akaoni waited until Peace's TransformationNameAnnouncement to try to beat her at RockPaperScissors (Jan-Ken-Pon). [[spoiler:Peace threw "paper" instead of the expected "scissors"/VSign, much to Akaoni's disappointment.]]
* {{Troperiffic}}: The previous installments had [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure flowers]] and [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure music]], now it's FairyTales, so this is probably inevitable. The main character, being an absolute fairy tale {{otaku}}, [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] and sometimes [[InvokedTrope invokes]] tropes.
* VerbalTic:
** Candy ends her sentences with "-kuru" (possibly a pun on "Decor"). On the other hand, her brother Pop uses "[[{{Keigo}}-de gozaru]]".
** ''[[InvokedTrope Invoked]]'' by Miyuki when [[ItMakesSenseInContext Pop turns the girls into fairies]]. All the girls but Akane embrace the idea, with some of them continuing briefly after turning back into humans.
* VisibleInvisibility: Partial Transparency and Complete Invisibility are demonstrated when Miyuki and Akane run afoul of Majorina's "Become Invisible", as seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Kk9qsuSk4 here]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c6vZLYXbpE here]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQk8-8cLQm0 here]]. It's even possible to see both methods used simultaneously in some parts of the episode.
* WalkOnWater: The EndingTheme cranks it UpToEleven by having the Cures ''[[DancingTheme dance]]'' on water.
* WingdingEyes:
** Miyuki and Candy get these all the time. During the Kyoto trip Miyuki pretty much goes though the list with Spirals, [[NonLethalKO Xs]], DullEyesOfUnhappiness and even random scribbles for eyes.
** And in Episode 33, [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb7grsEede1qjwx5ho1_250.gif Yayoi gets hearts for eyes]] after seeing [[spoiler:Pop in human form for the first time]].
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: The three Bad End generals, who are actually fairies from Märchenland. Because they were based on villains of fairy tales, they were hated and treated badly for no reason other than the fact, even if they weren't even doing anything at the time. This gave Joker the perfect chance to change them.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair
* {{Youkai}}:
** Akaoni is, naturally, based off an Oni.
** #27 implies the existence of {{Kappa}} and {{Tengu}}.
** And we get a whole movie about this in #33, complete with a blue Oni that Akaoni starts idolizing.
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* RedemptionDemotion:

* RunningGag:

An English adaption from Creator/SabanBrands, under the new title of ''Glitter Force'', [[http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/netflix-orders-7-original-kids-series-including-legos-bionicle-and-dreamworks-croods-1201607216/ is currently being streamed worldwide (excluding Asia)]] on Creator/{{Netflix}}. Its first season of twenty episodes premiered on December 18th, 2015; its second season will premiere on August 26, 2016.

* DubNameChange: So far, we have:

** Akanbe -> Buffoon
** Miyuki -> Emily
*** Cure Happy -> Glitter Lucky
** Akane -> Kelsey
*** Cure Sunny -> Glitter Sunny
** Yayoi -> Lily
*** Cure Peace -> Glitter Peace
** Nao -> April
*** Cure March -> Glitter Spring
** Reika -> Chloe
*** Cure Beauty -> Glitter Breeze

* DullEyesOfUnhappiness:
** Eating the food of the Bad End Kingdom brainwashes you, and it gives you these.
** [[spoiler:All the Precures got this when Pierrot covered the Precure book with black ink]].
* ElementalHair: Except for Cure Happy, who has pink hair, the others follow pretty standard [[ColorCodedElements colors]] and styles for their elements.
** Cure Happy's hair more closely follows her secondary element.
* ElementalPowers: Each of the Smile Precures have these, one for each Cure with Cure Happy technically getting two.
* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:Just when we think this season will have no {{Sixth Ranger}}s, episode 47 has Candy becoming Royale Candy, a BarrierMaiden in the vein of [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Shiny Luminous]].]]
* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler:The Precure's Ultra Forms]].

* {{Expy}}: The five new Cures have a similar color scheme as the Cures of ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5''. The similarities can be chalked up to having the same character designer (Toshie Kawamura) for both series.

* FiveManBand: For the first time since ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5''.
** TheHero: Miyuki/Cure Happy
** [[TheBigGuy The Big Guys]]: Akane/Cure Sunny (SuperStrength), Nao/Cure March (Super Speed and has a close range upgraded move)
** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart]] [[TheLancer Lancer]]: Reika/Cure Beauty (The [[StudentCouncilPresident Student Council Vice-President]] (thus more likely to take lead if it isn't Miyuki), the smartest girl in school, and a lot more contrasting, serene and graceful than TheHero (who is kind of klutzy))
** TheHeart: Yayoi/Cure Peace

* FreakyFridayFlip: Miyuki and Candy in episode 8.
** MorphicResonance: When Miyuki and Candy BodySwap, not only do [[VoicesAreMental their voices flip along with them]], so do their hairstyles, and Candy's BlushSticker is given to Miyuki.

** "[[{{Kiai}} KIAI DA! KIAI DA! KIAI DA!]] '''''KIAI DAAAAAA!!'''''"

* IdiotBall: Candy making a fool of Miyuki in [[FreakyFridayFlip episode 8]] could've been avoided if they'd claimed she was sick or used some similar excuse to get her out of class.

** #48: [[spoiler: The final battle between Pierrot and the Precure plays out in a way that might remind one of [[Anime/PrettyCureAllStars All Star Precures vs. Black Hole]] and Miyuki turning into a giant version of herself looks like [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Mugen Silhouette]].]]

* ShoutOut: The way Miyuki pouts everytime she says "Happuppu~" might remind you of [[Anime/OjamajoDoremi another pink-clad Toei main character]].

** #35 The face of Happy Robot is more like [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Rosie]]. Not to mention the episode basically consisted of seeing how many SuperRobot cliches and shout outs could fit into one episode. The show even gets MasamiObari in as a guest animator!
*** Speaking of Obari, can't forget that Robotaa from the ShowWithinAShow is kind of similar with [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Compatible Kaiser]].

* InelegantBlubbering: All 5 Precures and especially Candy in [[spoiler:the last episode, when they discover they'll have to say goodbye to Candy since the exhausted Miracle Jewel won't allow travel between the worlds.]] It's pretty effective as a sad scene despite it.

* CastingGag / HilariousInHindsight: The film director Fukasawa from episode 33 is voiced by Creator/WataruTakagi. The movie he directed has the edo era as its theme. The villains Uraganos and Bunbee appear at edo-themed movie sets (the former appears even in a edo-themed theatre play, later) and both of them are voiced by Wataru Takagi.

* {{Invisibility}}: Episode 20 had [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwJI46XWiSg Miyuki and Akane turn invisible]] due to Candy finding a camera that turns things invisible which was created by Majorina.

* AnimeAccentAbsence: Averted in Episode 36; Creator/TetsuyaKakihara plays Brian with a pretty strong accent.

* ArtShift: The first half of Episode 28 emphasizes shadows, darkened interiors, and character under lighting, all cliches of the ghost stories that were the topic of the episode.

* BadassAdorable: [[spoiler:Cure Candy]] from Episode 8. She proves agile enough to dodge the MonsterOfTheWeek's attacks and eventually neutralize it.
** [[spoiler:Candy herself as of Episode 31.]]

* BadLuckCharm: Miyuki draws a Terrible Luck fortune on the Kyoto trip, which says "Watch where you step, what you carry and what you eat". HilarityEnsues. For once they do not go into the 'tying it to a tree to get rid of the luck' thing, as the bad luck ends [[spoiler:when the fortune gets turned into the Monster Of The Week and beaten.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Episode 48. The {{Grand Finale}}. To wit: [[spoiler:Remember Pretty Cure All Stars DX3's end? The Grand Finale may be just a similar reused scenario, but no less effective, imagine the Smile Precures going through what their predecessors went through when they tried defeating Black Hole last time, except for the Smile Precures against just Pierrot. Less people involved, but no less effective to make you tear out. They get their turn in crying over the possibility of losing their fairy just for one final attack against the Big Bad with the world at stake, and unlike All Stars which kinda ruin the sad moment with happy music, you get to hear all girls bawling at Candy's departure... and instead of still pictures, the bawling is ANIMATED. Of course, the ending also share similar {{Heartwarming moment}} afterwards.]]

* CastingGag / HilariousInHindsight: The film director Fukasawa from Episode 33 is voiced by Creator/WataruTakagi. The movie he directed has the edo era as its theme. The villains Uraganos and Bunbee appear at edo-themed movie sets (the former appears even in a edo-themed theatre play, later) and both of them are voiced by Wataru Takagi.

* ClassTrip: To Kyoto in Episode 13, and later Osaka in Episode 14, where the villains coincidentally are going too.

* CouchGag: It appears that every episode the EndingTheme will start with a different Cure (Happy in Episode 1, Sunny in Episode 2, and so on and so forth).
** It seems to be rotating through five versions, one for each Cure. It rotated through the five versions three times, then repeated Beauty for Episode 16 instead of Happy.

** Also, in Episode 19, it's revealed, not so subtly, that Yayoi's mother Chiharu works for [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Fairy Drop]]. She even mentions "Kurumi-san", so both series [[WildMassGuessing possibly take place in the same continuity...]]

* DependingOnTheWriter: Miyuki's flashback on how she got her optimistic view are different between the TV series and the movie, though the premise is the same; a 'fairy' encouraged her to always smiling so she could have friends. In Episode 44, the 'fairy' came from a mirror necklace given by her grandmother, while in the movie, the 'fairy' is actually the main character in a storybook Miyuki read. It can be chalked up that Miyuki is being a UnreliableExpositor, [[spoiler:as by forgetting the exact circumstance of her meeting with the 'fairy', the storybook character, AKA [[ForgottenChildhoodFriend Nico]], becomes vengeful and it kicks start the movie's plot.]]

* ExposedToTheElements: In Episode 6 Miyuki is accidentally sent to the ''South Pole'' in her civvies, and wasn't bothered by the cold... Until she got back to Japan.

* FreakyFridayFlip: Miyuki and Candy in Episode 8.

** Later, in Episode 23, the girls get the Princess Forms and Princess Candles exclusively for their new attack, Pretty Cure Rainbow Burst.

* GoodWingsEvilWings: [[spoiler: The Smile Precures have little white angel wings adorn their hairs while the Bad End Precures have black bat wings]].

* GratuitousEnglish: Besides the obvious, Episode 7 has a toy shop which has a sign that says "Stuffed Shop."[[note]]Yes, the period is included[[/note]].
** Despite the SurprisinglyGoodEnglish in Episode 36, a letter later comes that is strangely written in a low level for a native speaker. Could be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] that it was written simply so the recipient could have an easier time understanding it.
* GretzkyHasTheBall: The relay race in Episode 18 has five runners, while normal relay races in the real world have four.

* HopeSpot: At the end of Episode 21, [[spoiler:it seems like the Cures have accomplished their goal of completing the Décor Décolle and reviving the Royale Queene... When suddenly Joker comes along and steals, not just the last Cure Décor, but also ''the entire Décor Décolle and Candy''.]]

* IdiotBall: Candy making a fool of Miyuki in [[FreakyFridayFlip Episode 8]] could've been avoided if they'd claimed she was sick or used some similar excuse to get her out of class.

* ISOStandardUrbanGroceries: In Episode 4, Nao is carrying several grocery bags, with a leek protuding from one and a daikon radish from the other, when she encounters the panicking Miyuki on the street.

* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: Several times, the background music slowly fizzles out, including when [[ButtMonkey Happy's]] attacks fail or miss in the first and second episodes, and when Candy [[EpicFail completely fails]] at explaining the premise of the series in Episode 6.

* LotusEaterMachine: Joker's Ball of Neglect that appears in Episode 31 and 32. Inside is a CrapSaccharineWorld where you're drowned in endless pleasure, while you're subtly encouraged to care about nothing but your own [[ItsAllAboutMe indulgences]]. [[spoiler:Joker states quite clearly this is the Bad End waiting for the whole world.]]

** Joker is like a G-rated of [[TheJoker his namesake]] from DCComics. From the in-series perspective, he's also an {{Expy}} to [[Anime/YesPrecure5 Kawarino]]