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| 6 | [[caption-width-right:350:Beating evil into the ground with rainbows and kicks [[LongRunners since 2004]].]] |
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| 8 | Base entry for the ''Pretty Cure'' franchise. Created by Izumi Todo (a pseudonym for the people at Creator/ToeiAnimation, who also created ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi''). |
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| 10 | This is a CashCowFranchise metaseries created AnimeFirst by Creator/ToeiAnimation and spanning many an AlternateContinuity. The basic formula is as follows: first, a parallel world of fairies is [[YouCantThwartStageOne attacked and conquered by an evil invading force]]. As a last resort, this world sends one or more fairy representatives to PresentDay Earth, a place that holds a MacGuffin that the evil force needs next. There, the fairies bestow their magical power upon a number (it ranges from two to six) of [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary school girls]] after [[ThePowersThatBe The Powers That Be]] grant them a [[TransformationTrinket Transformation Trinket]] as a result of their strong feelings of determination, who must then SaveBothWorlds when the evil force arrives. |
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| 12 | The series distinguishes itself from other MagicalGirl series in the high quantity of [[GoodOldFisticuffs physical fighting]] and (particularly early on) PostModernism included, and in the earliest series, through the dynamic of having two central main characters [[WonderTwinPowers who can only transform and use their most powerful abilities in tandem]]. The series focuses heavily on ThePowerOfFriendship and SliceOfLife moments that lead to CharacterDevelopment between the lead characters, though [[DarkerAndEdgier it is not afraid to go into darker places at times]]. |
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| 14 | The various series (and seasons) are: |
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| 16 | [[index]] |
| 17 | * ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' (2004-2005) |
| 18 | * ''[[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart]]'' (2005-2006) |
| 19 | * ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' (2006-2007) |
| 20 | * ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' (2007-2008) |
| 21 | * ''[[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Yes! Pretty Cure 5 [=GoGo=]!]]'' (2008-2009) |
| 22 | * ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' (2009-2010) |
| 23 | * ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' (2010-2011) |
| 24 | * ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' (2011-2012) |
| 25 | * ''[[Anime/SmilePrecure Smile Pretty Cure!]]'' (2012-2013) [[note]](dubbed in English as ''Glitter Force'')[[/note]] |
| 26 | * ''[[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure [=DokiDoki!=] Pretty Cure]]'' (2013-2014) [[note]](dubbed in English as ''Glitter Force Doki Doki'')[[/note]] |
| 27 | * ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'' (2014-2015) |
| 28 | * ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'' (2015-2016) |
| 29 | * ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'' (2016-2017) |
| 30 | * ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'' (2017-2018) |
| 31 | * ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'' (2018-2019) |
| 32 | * ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'' (2019-2020) |
| 33 | * ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'' (2020-2021) |
| 34 | * ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'' (2021-2022) |
| 35 | * ''Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure'' (2022-2023) |
| 36 | * ''Anime/SoaringSkyPrecure'' (2023-2024) |
| 37 | * ''Anime/WonderfulPrettyCure'' (2024-2025) |
| 38 | [[/index]] |
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| 40 | [[folder:Series Descriptions]] |
| 41 | * The first series was '''''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure''''' (''"The Two of Us Are Pretty Cure"''), a show where a RedOniBlueOni duo of Japanese schoolgirls- Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro- are forced to work together to fight the invading inhabitants of the Dotsuko Zone, [[GottaCatchThemAll retrieve all seven]] [[MineralMacGuffin Prism Stones]] and free the Queen of Light. As Cure Black and Cure White respectively, they set the standard for many of the show's recurring tropes. The show is also notable for its {{Seinen}} elements, including an abundance of [[GoodOldFisticuffs action-packed physical combat]] (directed by the guy who did ''Anime/DragonballZ''!) and blatant HomoeroticSubtext between Nagisa and Honoka. This season is the only one to be dubbed uncut yet still edited under the Pretty Cure name. |
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| 43 | ** The show did so well that it got a direct sequel as '''''Futari wa Pretty Cure [=MaX=] Heart'''''. The Evil King of the Dotsuko Zone revives ''again'' and the Queen of Light is forced to [[PiecesOfGod split herself into pieces]], one of which manifests as a young girl called Hikari. Cure Black and White are [[SoLastSeason gave a power-up]] and sent out to [[GottaCatchEmAll retrieve all the pieces of the Queen]] with the help of Hikari, who can transform into [[SixthRanger Third Ranger]] and SupportPartyMember Shiny Luminous. |
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| 45 | * '''''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar''''' is the first to be set in an AlternateContinuity. At first, the show was an awkward {{Expy}} of the original series, with [[{{Expy}} not-Nagisa]] Saki Hyuuga (Cure Bloom) and [[{{Expy}} not-Honoka]] Mai Mishou (Cure Egret) fighting to free the seven World Fountains from the control of the evil Dark Fall. In addition, MoralGuardians had forced many of the {{Seinen}} elements unique to ''Pretty Cure'' to be downsized, resulting in battles that focused less on hard-hitting fisticuffs and more on [[KiManipulation non-contact magical attacks]]. However, once past that initial awkward phase the series [[DivergentCharacterEvolution grew into its own identity]], adding two {{Dark Magical Girl}}s as rivals and establishing Saki and Mai as their own characters. |
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| 47 | * '''''Anime/YesPrettyCure5''''' caused an uproar by diverging from the previous ''Pretty Cure'' formula in favour of a more standard MagicalGirl show with a ''Franchise/SailorMoon''-esque team of [[FiveManBand five equals]]. IdiotHero Nozomi Yumehara (Cure Dream) and her four teammates have to [[GottaCatchThemAll catch fifty-five fairy critters]] with their [[MerchandiseDriven extremely cool and affordable watches]] before the evil Nightmare Corporation does. ''Yes!'' started a lot of new trends for the franchise: it was the first to have a full [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience color-coded]] team rather than just a duo, the first where the Cures get [[PowerDyesYourHair vibrant hair colors]], and the first to [[TitleDrop include the phrase "Pretty Cure"]] in every [[CallingYourAttacks attack name]] and [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull transformation phrase]]. |
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| 49 | ** '''''Yes! Pretty Cure 5 Go!Go!''''' ([[OneTwoThreeFourGo the 5 is still pronounced "faibu"]], slightly obscuring the {{Pun}}) [[MilestoneCelebration which celebrates the franchise's 5th anniversary]] continues the story of Nozomi and her friends, only this time they are trying to save the four rulers of MagicalLand from an evil museum called Eternal with the help of a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot flying mailman penguin]] named Syrup. They also pick up a mysterious SixthRanger called "Milky Rose", whose true identity is... shocking, really. |
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| 51 | * The sixth series, '''''Anime/FreshPrettyCure''''', switches to the adventures of Love Momozono (Cure Peach) and her two friends (Cure Berry and Cure Pine) as they fight against the sinister agents of Labyrinth over a mysterious MacGuffin called Infinity. There's plenty of [[DancingTheme dancing]], {{Mid Season Upgrade}}s that arrive [[SoLastSeason way too early]] and a pretty epic [[CharacterDevelopment character arc]] that results in the birth of the [[SixthRanger fourth Pretty Cure]], Cure Passion. |
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| 53 | * '''''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure''''' focuses on flower-loving introvert Tsubomi Hanasaki and fashion-loving GenkiGirl Erika Kurumi, who transform into Cure Blossom and Cure Marine (respectively) to fight the evil Desertrians and their quest to steal the "Heart Flowers" of innocent people and turn the world into a desert. Highlights include character designs by ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' illustrator Yoshihiko Umakoshi, and a heart-wrenching series-long subplot about a [[BrokenBird fallen Pretty Cure]] called Cure Moonlight. |
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| 55 | * '''''Anime/SuitePrettyCure''''' brings the WonderTwinPowers back again with TomboyAndGirlyGirl Hibiki Houjou and Kanade Minamino as Cure Melody and Cure Rhythm (respectively). The two fight against the villains of Minor Land, who seek to sing the Melody of Sorrow and plunge the world into despair. Helping them out is [[SixthRanger Third Ranger]] Cure Beat, a mysterious [[MaskPower masked]] AloofAlly called Cure Muse, and a ridiculous LensmanArmsRace of not-so-{{Mid Season Upgrade}}s. |
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| 57 | * '''''Anime/SmilePrecure''''' goes back to having a core team of five. The theme of the show is fairy tales, as the ''Smile'' team work with the storybook critters of Märchenland against the baddies of the Bad End Kingdom, who seek to awaken [[SealedEvilInACan their lord Pierrot]] and bring the "Worst Ending" to the world. ''Smile'' is more episodic than previous seasons; the creators wanted to keep things simple and lighthearted in the wake of Japan's devastating 2011 tsunami. The series was licensed by Saban Brands and released on Netflix as ''Glitter Force''. |
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| 59 | * '''''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure''''' inherits certain elements from ''Fresh'', such as the number of Cures and the playing card motif. When the Jikochuu invade Earth, StudentCouncilPresident Mana Aida becomes Cure Heart. She is later joined by her friends Rikka and Alice, as well as AloofAlly Cure Sword from the fallen Trump Kingdom. Midway through the series, they're joined by the mysterious [[SixthRanger Cure Ace]]. In contrast to other seasons, ''[=DokiDoki=]! Pretty Cure'' has a MythArc that runs throughout the series. The series was licensed by Saban Brands and released on Netflix as ''Glitter Force [=DokiDoki=]!''. |
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| 61 | * '''''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure''''' celebrates the franchise's tenth anniversary. Princess Hime Shirayuki of the Blue Sky Kingdom, also known as Cure Princess, flees her home when the Phantom Empire invades. By chance, she recruits Megumi Aino, who becomes Cure Lovely. They are eventually joined by Cure Honey and Cure Fortune. This season is notable for giving the Cures different forms they can change into, which has not been seen since ''Splash Star''. [[invoked]] |
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| 63 | * '''''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure''''' is the first series to take place at a boarding school. Haruno Haruka, a girl who always dreamed of being a princess, becomes Cure Flora when she meets the fairies Puff and Aroma. Along with her allies Cure Mermaid and Cure Twinkle, she protects people's dreams from the evil witch Dyspear and her minions. Midseason, they are joined by [[SixthRanger a fourth cure]], Cure Scarlet, in a ''Fresh''-style arc. |
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| 65 | * '''''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure''''' puts more emphasis on the "magic" in "MagicalGirl", having a CuteWitch theme. Mirai Asahina, a girl who is easily excited by anything she finds interesting, meets a girl named Liko who is visiting the "No Magic World" to search for the Linkle Stone Emerald. When servants of the evil witch Dokurokushe attack with the intention of finding the Linkle Stone Emerald themselves, Mirai and Liko team up to become Cure Miracle and Cure Magical. They are later joined by Cure Felice. |
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| 67 | * '''''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode''''' marks the return of five initial Cures for the first time since ''Smile''. Ichika Usami, a girl who often [[GenkiGirl hops like a]] [[MeaningfulName rabbit]] whenever excited, meets a fairy named Pekorin while trying to bake a cake. She then miraculously becomes the [[LittleBitBeastly rabbit-eared Cure Whip]] while protecting that cake from a [[OurFairiesareDifferent monster fairy]] named Gummy, who was trying to steal "kirakirau", magical energy that makes a pastry delicious, from the cake. Alongside four friends that have become her teammates, the legendary patisserie warriors Pretty Cure must defend the world and its sweets from the evil that looms within the universe -- and at the same time, [[YoungEntrepreneur run their own café!]] |
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| 69 | * '''''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure''''' celebrates the franchise's fifteenth anniversary. It tells the story of a girl named Hana Nono, who aspires to be a mature, big-sister like figure. On her first day at a new school, she cuts her bangs the wrong way when she realizes she's [[LateForSchool going to be late]], but the day is made better when she meets a mysterious baby named Hugtan, who helps her transform into the Pretty Cure of High Spirits, Cure Yell, to stop the Dark Tommorow Company and collect Tomorrow Power along with her friends Homare and Saaya, who become Cure Etoile and Cure Ange. Joining the trio later on are AscendedFangirl Emiru Aisaki and an android formerly under the enemy, Ruru Amour, the two assisting the three Cures as Cure Macherie and Cure Amour, respectively. |
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| 71 | * '''''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure''''' is about [[TheXenophile outer space-obsessed Hikaru Hoshina]] who one day gets to meet a few actual aliens: [[HumanAliens Lala]], [[OctopoidAliens Prunce]], and [[LivingMacGuffin Fuwa]]. The three of them are trying to find the [[WesternZodiac 12 Princess Star Color Pens]] to save the universe from being consumed by darkness. With Fuwa's mysterious powers, Hikaru and Lala turn into Cure Star and Cure Milky respectively to fight against the Notraiders, who are seeking the pens for their own gain. The two Cures are soon joined by fellow Earthlings [[SchoolIdol Elena]] and [[StudentCouncilPresident Madoka]] as [[SolarAndLunar Cure Soleil and Cure Selene]], and later on by the mysterious PhantomThief Blue Cat, who becomes Cure Cosmo. |
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| 73 | * '''''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure''''' focuses on Nodoka Hanadera, a girl who moves into Sukoyaka City with her parents after recovering from an illness. There, she encounters four Healing Animals, from another world, the Healing Garden, searching for humans who can help them fight back their enemy, the Byogens. When the Byogens initiate their attack on the city, Nodoka resolves to help them and becomes Cure Grace to save the world from the foe, who are intent on infecting the world. Nodoka is joined by two other girls, Chiyu, who transforms into Cure Fontaine, and Hinata, who becomes Cure Sparkle. Asumi Fuurin, who becomes [[SixthRanger Cure Earth]], later joins the trio as they continue the battle against the Byogens. |
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| 75 | * '''''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure''''' centers on the energetic Manatsu Natsuumi, who moves from Minamino Island to live with her mother in Aozora City. There, she encounters Laura, a mermaid from the aquatic Grand Ocean Kingdom searching for the legendary warriors foretold in the kingdom's legends, the Pretty Cure, in order to fight back against their enemy, the Witch of Procrastination. With the power from one of Laura's assigned Tropical Pacts, Manatsu becomes Cure Summer to battle the Witch's forces. Joining her in that fight are Sango Suzumura, Minori Ichinose and Asuka Takizawa, the three transforming into Cure Coral, Cure Papaya and Cure Flamingo, respectively. Laura later joins the four as Cure La Mer, becoming a human in the process. |
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| 77 | * '''''Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure''''' puts Yui Nagomi, a resident of Oishiina Town, in the spotlight. One day, some fairies and a prince from the [=CooKingdom=] cross paths with her to ask for her assistance to find the Recipe-bons and save them from the Bundle Land Bandits. As such, Yui becomes Cure Precious to combat the foe, later joined by Kokone Fuwa (Cure Spicy) and Ran Hanamichi (Cure Yumyum). Eventually they're joined by formerly brainwashed Bundle Land Bandit member Amane Kasai who becomes Cure Finale. |
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| 79 | * '''''Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure''''' marks the franchise's twentieth anniversary. Aspiring hero Sora Harewataru travels to the capital of Sky Land to further pursue her ambition, but gets sidetracked when she witnesses the abduction of the infant Princess Elle by an agent of the Underg Empire. Without missing a beat, Sora springs into action and rescues the child. In the process, the two pass through a portal and [[GravityIsAHarshMistress quite literally]] drop into Sorashido City, Earth. Kabaton, the aforementioned agent of the Underg Empire, pursues them to take Elle back, but Sora refuses to back down, even in the face of being overpowered by Kabaton's Ranborg. That determination is what allows Elle to awaken the power of Precure within her, resulting in Sora transforming into Cure Sky. Sora and Elle find assistance and shelter with the help of the gentle Mashiro Nijigaoka, who soon thereafter awakens to the power of Cure Prism. Over the course of the series, they are joined by the ambitious and scholarly Tsubasa Yuunagi as Cure Wing, and the enthusiastic kintergarden teacher Ageha Hijiri as Cure Butterfly. The four of them protect both Princess Elle and Sorashido City from the Underg Empire with action on a level not seen since the days of ''Futari wa.'' |
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| 81 | [[/folder]] |
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| 83 | [[folder:Spinoffs]] |
| 84 | * '''''Dancing☆Star Pretty Cure The Stage:''''' a [=2.5D=] stage show series centering around the first [[SpearCounterpart all-male]] team of Cures. |
| 85 | * '''''Anime/PowerOfHopePrecureFullBloom''''' a spinoff of ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'', ''Yes! Pretty Cure 5 [=GoGo=]!'', and ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' with both teams as adults. |
| 86 | [[/folder]] |
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| 88 | %%The series are generally divided into different periods according to the producer: |
| 89 | %%* '''Washio Takashi''' - ''Futari wa'' to ''Yes! 5 [=GoGo=]'', ''Go! Princess Pretty Cure'' (2nd half) - ''Mahou %%Girls Pretty Cure'' (considered "Neo-Washio" by some) |
| 90 | %%* '''Atsutoshi Umezawa''' - ''Fresh!'' to ''Smile!'' |
| 91 | %%* '''Hiroaki Shibata''' - ''[=DokiDoki=]'' to ''Go! Princess Pretty Cure'' (1st half) |
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| 93 | There is also a series of '''''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars''''' [[http://www.precure-allstars.com/ movies]], [[BatFamilyCrossover teaming up characters from all series]], as well as a short film and a video game that do the same. Once the sheer number of teams became too unweildy to do this, it shifted to usually having the three most recent teams meet up instead. Most series have at least one [[TheMovie movie]] that [[NonSerialMovie makes no canonical sense]] (most of the time) but [[RuleOfCool can't be thrown out because of something really awesome happening in it]]. Then there's a manga for each series, going into depth in various ignored aspects, like [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Rin's crush on Nuts]] and [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Saki's little sister's life]]. |
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| 95 | The franchise has a strong relationship with {{toku}}satsu: it's produced by Toei, which also produces ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/KamenRider'', and the three franchises are aired back to back in the appropriately named ''Series/SuperHeroTime'' block. The ''Pretty Cure'' and ''Super Sentai'' movies have been played as double bills, and crossovers are common as promotional material. Nagisa and Honoka even teamed up with ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' characters in an audio drama, and later with ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'' as well. Despite this, there's a somewhat ironic effect that actresses who play Cures later tend to play female villains or [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters of the week]] in toku series (usually in ''Super Sentai''). Inversely, actors who voice heroic characters in ''Super Sentai'' tend to play villains in ''Pretty Cure''; the same thing applies to ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'', funnily enough. |
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| 97 | The franchise is also known as ''[[PortmanteauSeriesNickname PreCure]]''. While this is technically a more accurate transliteration of the title logo (which reads "purikyua") and appears in [=URLs=] and such, said logo (as well as much of the truly astonishing amount of [[MerchandiseDriven merchandise]]) also explicitly spells out the title as "PRETTY CURE"… at least until ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' and subsequent series, which say "PRECURE" instead. The pronunciations ''purikyua'' and ''puritii kyua'' are used interchangeably both in theme songs ([[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 "1, 2, 3, 4, Purikyua 5! Puritii, kyu, kyu, kyu, kyua…"]]) and in-universe (including one odd instance of a character hearing the name for the first time as ''purikyua'' and immediately questioning "Puritiikyua?"). There are two ways to deal with this: one is to directly translate, taking "Precure" as a commonly used short form and "Pretty Cure" as their less-used full title, and the other, used by both fansubs and the first season's official subs, is to use "Pretty Cure" for both. Website/TVTropes does the latter [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial for reasons completely unrelated to "Pretty Cure" making a good]] Administrivia/WikiWord. |
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| 99 | There have been many attempts to bring the franchise outside of Japan and specifically into English-speaking territories. The first company to try this was Creator/FourKidsEntertainment, who eventually just gave up and didn't broadcast or even dub any episodes. Then came Canadian kids cable network Creator/{{YTV}}, who commissioned an English dub made by [[Creator/TheOceanGroup Ocean Production]]'s subcontractor studio Blue Water. This dub is notable because it is the only attempt to bring Pretty Cure to English-speaking territories under its own name. |
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| 101 | Creator/SabanBrands attempted to do what they did for both ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' and the ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' (Super Sentai) and licensed the franchise for the West in late 2015, first dubbing ''Smile'' and rebranding it as ''Glitter Force'', with the show being released on Netflix as a "Netflix Original" (except in selected territories) in 2016. They would later dub ''[=DokiDoki=]!'' the next year and release it as ''Glitter Force Doki-Doki!''. However, Saban Brands eventually sold their assets to Creator/{{Hasbro}} and shut down, with the franchise's international rights returning to Toei Animation, who has no interest in continuing the ''Glitter Force'' brand. Platform/{{Crunchyroll}} now hosts officially subbed versions of ''Futari wa'', ''Kira Kira'', ''Healin' Good'', ''Tropical-Rouge!'', ''Delicious Party'', and ''Hirogaru Sky!'' as part of their lineup, thus bringing the franchise Stateside proper, simulcasting the series starting with ''Healin' Good''. |
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| 103 | The IP's PunBasedTitle has no in-universe significance, but is simply very similar to the name for instant photo booths (purikura/print-clubs). This joke is only really referenced in the original season's opening credits, and one of the mascots therein [[AccidentalMisnaming being unable to pronounce the team name correctly]]. |
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| 106 | !!More than one installment of this franchise provides examples of: |
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| 108 | * ActionGirl: All of them, save for [[SupportPartyMember support fighter]] Hikari/Shiny Luminous and [[AscendedFanboy Ascended Fangirl]] [[Anime/PrettyCureAllStars Ayumi/Cure Echo]]. You wouldn't expect a magical girl franchise to be so full of movement and fighting. |
| 109 | * AloofAlly: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Milky Rose]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Muse, Cure Beat (for a few episodes)]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Sword, Cure Ace]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Fortune]] and [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Cosmo]]. |
| 110 | * AlternateContinuity: Generally speaking, each season is this to all other seasons, outside of the non-canon ''All Stars'' movies serving as a BatFamilyCrossover. ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'' and ''Anime/PowerOfHopePrecureFullBloom'' make it a little confusing. Hugtto has [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Cure Black and White]] be summoned from somewhere, later implied to partially be ''time travel'', and both imply that the Cures live within a short drive from each other, with ''Power Of Hope'' implying that the effect of each antagonist is limited to wherever the Cures live. Given that both series also involve [[AlternateTimeline alternate timelines]], however, anything goes. It's likely that the writers [[TimeyWimeyBall didn't think too hard about it]]. |
| 111 | * AnimationBump: Serves as this to most of Toei's other franchises in general. |
| 112 | * AnimeHair: In civilian form, seasons tend to vary in the hairstyles some of the girls have, ranging from fairly normal such as [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Nagisa's]] messy short hair to downright weird, such as [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Miyuki's]] magenta cone pigtails. The Cures, however, get more exaggerated hairstyles such as Cure March's pigtails and ponytail at the same time or Cure Lemonade's twin cone buns with strands of hair poking out. |
| 113 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Not in general and usually downplayed. Played straight with [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Ryouta Misumi]]. [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Souta Minamino]] is a milder example. |
| 114 | * ArchEnemy: Many seasons feature villains who often confront certain heroines more often than anybody or one of them has a specific relationship with the other. Sometimes ItsPersonal, and some of the arch-enemies are in fact friends to the heroines, which makes the conflict even more personal. |
| 115 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'': Kiriya was this to Cure White, because of his confused feelings towards her. In the end, their friendship was so strong that he refused to fight her and accepted punishment from Jaaku King. [[spoiler:He later saves her and Cure Black from the villains in the end.]] |
| 116 | *** ''[[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart]]'': Cure Black and Uraganos clash several times, mostly because he tends to ruin several important moments for her. A downplayed example would be Shiny Luminous and Viblis because of the deep hatred for the latter towards the former during the second half of the series but they otherwise don't clash with each other. |
| 117 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'': The Kiryuu twins, Michiru and Kaoru, was this to Cure Bloom and Cure Egret, for a similar reason like above. |
| 118 | ** ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'': Gameo is one for Cure Dream because of their conflicting ideologies (the latter even states that she hates him). Bunbee instead can be seen as one for Cure Aqua. |
| 119 | *** ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5GoGo'': Anacondy, who really hates Flora, is this to Milky Rose, who resembles Flora. |
| 120 | ** ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'': Eas was this to Cure Peach, and she developed a growing grudge against her ''while'' forging a friendship with her at the same time. Their relationship was the basis for her HeelFaceTurn. Because of this, Westar is this to Cure Passion, due to his belief in her loyalty to Labyrinth. Soular is also this to Cure Berry, mostly in the latter part of the series. |
| 121 | ** ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': Dark Precure is this to Cure Moonlight, to her massive hatred towards Moonlight. And PlayedWith in regards to the Desert Apostle Generals, where it is hard to recognize a relationship with them and the heroines. Cobraja fits this to Cure Sunshine, but Sasorina and Kumojacky often zigzag between two heroines, respectively. |
| 122 | ** ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'': Siren was this to Hummy. They were former friends, but Hummy became the singer of Major Land that year, which made her envious and easily [[spoiler:brainwashed]]. |
| 123 | ** ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'': Due to being {{Foil}}s, Wolfrun is this to Cure Happy and Cure Sunny, Akaoni to Cure Peace, Majorina to Cure March, and Joker to Cure Beauty. |
| 124 | ** ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'': Because of their friendship, Regina is this to Cure Heart and was [[spoiler:destined to be this to Cure Ace]]. Ira is the arch-enemy to Cure Diamond because of their kind of romantic relationship. Marmo is also an arch-enemy to Cure Rosetta and she's usually the first villain to learn Rosetta's TookALevelInBadass moments. |
| 125 | ** ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'': Phantom was initially this to Cure Fortune, from whom he took an important person. Afterward, his rivalry was transferred to Cure Honey. Cure Princess has an enemy in Namakelder, who likes to make fun of her because of her initial failures as a Pretty Cure. Also while Cure Princess is willing to work hard to reach her goals, Namakelder gave up on everything and rather stay passive. Queen Mirage instead can be one for Cure Lovely, in which where the former completely let herself be consumed by her bitterness over [[spoiler:not being reciprocally loved by Blue]], Cure Lovely decided to accept it and move on. |
| 126 | ** ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'' has an odd variation: The villain Shut has a grudge against [[SixthRanger Cure Scarlet]], but also acts rather {{Tsundere}} towards her. This is because [[spoiler: he fell in love with Scarlet before her HeelFaceTurn.]] There is also a more convential example with Close and Cure Flora. |
| 127 | ** ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'': Bicine is this to Harry, due to his betrayal. [[spoiler:He later becomes one to Homare, since they both harbor feelings towards Harry [[AllLoveIsUnrequited that they know he'll never return.]]]] |
| 128 | ** ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'': Kappard is this to Cure Milky, Tenjo to Cure Soleil, Aiwarn to Cure Cosmo and Galogre is loosely this to Cure Selene due to them being similar to each other. As such, Cure Star is the only one without one. |
| 129 | ** ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'': The rivalry among Cures and villains is not very obvious, with the brawling being more towards the basic fist-to-cuffs and saving/infecting the world between most of the team and the Byogens. However, Cure Grace has an enemy in Daruizen, whether it be differing world views, saving the world, or opinions on helping others. [[spoiler:The fact that Daruizen was born from Nodoka's illness when she got infected by a Megabyogen seed only fires up this rivalry.]] |
| 130 | ** ''Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure'': Gentlu is one for Cure Yum-Yum, who used her alias to capture Recipepes and repeatedly spoil her meals because of it, [[spoiler:before Yum-Yum finds out Gentlu was BrainwashedAndCrazy]]. |
| 131 | ** ''Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure'': Kabaton and Cure Sky certainly fall under this. Even their final battle is a one-on-one fight between the two. |
| 132 | * AnAsskickingChristmas: The Christmas episode, more often than not, overlaps with the final battle. |
| 133 | * BarrierWarrior: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Shiny Luminous]], [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar the Splash Star Cures]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Mint]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Sunshine, Cure Moonlight]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Beat, Cure Muse]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Rosetta]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure the HappinessCharge Cures]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Twinkle, Prince Kanata]], [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure the Maho Girl Cures in Topaz form]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Cure Ange]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Star and Cure Milky]], [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure the first three Healin' Good Cures]], [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure Coral]], and [[Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure Cure Spicy]]. [[Anime/SoaringSkyPrettyCure Cure Butterfly]], [[Anime/WonderfulPrettyCure Cure Wonderful and Cure Friendy]] Also, [[spoiler:[[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Mugen Silhouette]]]]. |
| 134 | ** The mascots [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Potpourri]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Pop]], [[spoiler:[[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Royale Candy]]]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Ai-chan]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Melan]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Ribbon]], and [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Ha-chan]]. In the case of Pop, he doesn't create barriers, he ''transforms'' into a shield. In Ha-chan's case,she later becomes Cure Felice and can create a flower-shaped shield by inserting the linkle stone pink tourmaline into the flower echo wand. |
| 135 | * BeachEpisode: Not for fanservice, owing to the target demographic. The girls rarely wear swimsuits or really swim at all. |
| 136 | ** There is a rare case where [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Karen]] wears a modest swimsuit at a swimming pool (still in the BeachEpisode), but she doesn't swim either. |
| 137 | ** ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'' actually does it ''twice''; the first time, they're deep-sea diving in wetsuits, and the other time, they're actually in swimsuits prepared to swim. Towa is hydrophobic, though, so she keeps diverting their attention. |
| 138 | ** ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'' finally broke both traditions as all the main cast are not only are in their swimsuits, but actually jumped into the sea (except Riko). There's even a drama CD serving as a prequel where they went shopping for said swimsuits. |
| 139 | ** ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'' has this, but with a twist. The cast doesn't visit a beach, but an entire planet made out of water. So in order to properly navigate it, they transform into mermaids using magical pearls. |
| 140 | * BecomingTheMask: |
| 141 | ** If you masquerade as a student at the school your enemies go to like [[spoiler:Kiriya]] or [[spoiler:the Kiryuu twins]] did, or as a friend to someone who's supposed to be your enemy like Setsuna did, you've completed your first step toward a full-blown HeelFaceTurn. |
| 142 | ** Returned once more in ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'' where [[spoiler: Ruru]] infiltrates the Nono household to spy on the Cures, only to slowly being "befriended" by the Cures. Ironically hilarious as she is voiced by Creator/YukariTamura of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' fame. |
| 143 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Several villains have either died and/or suffered an [[CurbStompBattle embarrassing defeat]] because of this, and many of the [[Awesome/PrettyCure franchise's awesome moments]] can attest to this as well. |
| 144 | * BewareTheQuietOnes: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Komachi Akimoto/Cure Mint, Karen Minazuki/Cure Aqua]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Inori Yamabuki/Cure Pine]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Tsubomi Hanasaki/Cure Blossom, Yuri Tsukikage/Cure Moonlight]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Yayoi Kise/Cure Peace, Reika Aoki/Cure Beauty]], and [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Alice Yotsuba/Cure Rosetta]] also overlap with the above. |
| 145 | * BigBad: [[BigBad/PrettyCure See here.]] |
| 146 | * BigGood: Almost every season has a character who supports the heroines and possesses great, mystical powers. They are usually, royals or are even divine and they tend to be in trouble, like being SealedGoodInACan. Their presence is feared by the villains. If there is more than one, the one who is the queen or goddess(-like) is the more important one for the setting. |
| 147 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' and ''[[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart]]'': The Queen of the Garden of Light. |
| 148 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'': Princess Filia. |
| 149 | ** ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5GoGo'': Flora. And the [[MentorMascot four rulers]], King Donuts, Queen Bavarois, Princess Crepe and King Montblanc could qualify. |
| 150 | ** ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': Kaoruko Hanasaki alias the former Cure Flower, who is the only human example. |
| 151 | ** ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'': Aphrodite. Otokichi Shirabe as well. They are later joined by [[spoiler:Mephisto]]. |
| 152 | ** ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'': Royale Queen. |
| 153 | ** ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'': Princess Marie-Ange. |
| 154 | ** ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'': Blue, who is ''male'' and ''God''. |
| 155 | ** ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'': Kanata, who is another male. |
| 156 | ** ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'': The Headmaster, yet another male. Mother Rapapa qualifies as well. |
| 157 | ** ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'': Lumiere, who ''isn't'' a male. [[spoiler: Elisio gets her, too.]] |
| 158 | ** ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'': Mother Heart. |
| 159 | ** ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'': The 12 [[WesternZodiac Star Princesses]]. They're actually a case of SealedGoodInACan, and the season's premise is to find them all. |
| 160 | ** ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'': Queen Teatine. |
| 161 | ** ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'': The Mermaid Queen. Melusine Muses Mnemosyne and Aunete/Cure Oasis. |
| 162 | ** ''Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure'': The [=CooKing=] and [=CooQueen=] of the [=CooKingdom=]. and Ginger. |
| 163 | ** ''Anime/SoaringSkyPrettyCure'': Princess Elleelain/Cure Noble. |
| 164 | * TheBigGuy: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Mint]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Cure Berry]] (who was TheLancer before Cure Passion joined), [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Sunshine]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Beat]] (also TheSmartGuy), [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure March]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Ace]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Fortune]] (also TheSmartGuy), [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Gelato]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Cure Etoile]] (she is the Pretty Cure of Strength, after all), [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Soleil]] and [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure Flamingo]]. |
| 165 | * BlackAndWhiteMorality: The Cures are good and the villains are all aiming for some sort of apocalypse. But at times, at least one member of the QuirkyMinibossSquad will possess enough redeeming qualities that he or she gets a [[DeathEqualsRedemption sympathetic sendoff]] or [[HeelFaceTurn get redeemed]]. |
| 166 | * BloodlessCarnage: Despite the fierce battle scenes, blood rarely appears, with one of the few examples being in the 20th episode of ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', when Cobraja's face was cut by one of his reflected cards. At one point in the ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'' movie, [[spoiler:Matthew in dog form ''clamps down on Mana in Cure Heart form and gores her shoulder up'']]. It's quite gruesome, even by most children's anime standards. |
| 167 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: Happens ''very'' often. |
| 168 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'': The Dotzuko Zone like brainwashing people, including Pisard deciding to Yoshimi Takenouchi-sensei in Episode 3. |
| 169 | ** ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'': [[spoiler:The whole Palmier Kingdom]] was brainwashed and enslaved by Nightmare. Later, four of the five Cures and Milk were brainwashed by [[TheDragon Kawarino]] for a short time. |
| 170 | ** ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'': [[spoiler:After Labyrinth had captured [[MacGuffin Infinity]], [[BigBad Moebius]] brainwashed the people from other parallel worlds including Earth.]] |
| 171 | ** ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': [[spoiler:Professor Sabaaku who has been revealed as Yuri's father was brainwashed by [[BigBad Dune]], and the Desert Apostle Generals were actually AnthropomorphicPersonification corrupted Heart Flowers of three humans.]] |
| 172 | ** ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'': [[spoiler:Mephisto, the king of Major Land,]] was brainwashed by [[BigBad Noise]]. [[spoiler:Then, Mephisto created Minor Land and brainwashed Siren and the members of Trio the Minor. Even after his HeelFaceTurn, the remaining villains were still brainwashed by Noise.]] Waon and Seika were both brainwashed by Noise, too. |
| 173 | ** ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'': [[spoiler:The Bad End Generals]] were brainwashed by [[TheDragon Joker]]. |
| 174 | ** ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'': [[spoiler:Regina is brainwashed by her [[AbusiveParents father]] [[BigBad King Jikochuu]] after she underwent her HeelFaceTurn. King Jikochuu himself was corrupted by [[GreaterScopeVillain Proto-Jikochuu]].]] |
| 175 | ** ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'': [[spoiler:The entire Phantom Kingdom]] is brainwashed by [[spoiler: [[ManBehindTheMan Deep Mirror/Red.]]]] |
| 176 | ** ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'': [[spoiler:Twilight and Lock]] are brainwashed by Dyspear in their final battles. |
| 177 | ** ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'': Elisio likes brainwashing people (especially Gelato). [[spoiler: He goes so far as to brainwash the entire world after becoming BigBad.]] |
| 178 | ** ''Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure'': [[spoiler:Gentlu was brainwashed by the Bundoru Gang.]] |
| 179 | * CharacterCatchphrase: Every lead Cure and sometimes even every Cure of a team has one or two catchphrases. Also, the villains usually say "I won't forget this!" when they lose. |
| 180 | * ClassicalAntiHero: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureMaxHeart Shiny Luminous]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Blossom]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure Peace]] and [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Princess]]. |
| 181 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Each of the girls' Cure forms has a specific theme color that more often than not [[ColorCodedSecretIdentity carries into their civilian identities]]. Colors in order of introduction: |
| 182 | ** Black: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Cure Black]][[note]]Due to pink being her sub-theme color, she is often retroactively grouped with the pink cures as the pink cure is usually TheLeader of their group.[[/note]] |
| 183 | ** White: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Cure White]][[note]]Like Cure Black, her blue sub-theme color causes her to often be grouped with the blue cures, however there are other white cures that are later introduced.[[/note]], [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Cure Egret]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Rhythm]], [[Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure Cure Prism]] |
| 184 | ** Yellow: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Shiny Luminous]] [[note]]She's classed as yellow even though her outfit is predominantly pink.[[/note]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Lemonade]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Cure Pine]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Sunshine]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Muse]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure Peace]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure Cure Rosetta]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Honey]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Twinkle]], [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Custard]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Cure Etoile]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Soleil]], [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Cure Sparkle]], [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure Papaya]], [[Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure Cure Yum-Yum]] |
| 185 | ** Pink: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Cure Bloom]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Dream]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Cure Peach]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Blossom]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Melody]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure Happy]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure Cure Heart]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Lovely]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Flora]], [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Cure Miracle]], [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Whip]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Cure Yell]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Star]], [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Cure Grace]], [[Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure Cure Precious]], [[Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure Cure Butterfly]], [[Anime/WonderfulPrettyCure Cure Wonderful]] |
| 186 | ** Red: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Rouge]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Cure Passion]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure Cure Ace]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Scarlet]], [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Chocolat]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Cure Ma'Cherie]], [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure Flamingo]] |
| 187 | ** Green: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Mint]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure March]], [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Cure Felice]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Milky]][[note]]It's debatable whether she counts as a green cure; though there are several indicators that this is the case, her shade isn't quite as unambiguous as the other three green cures, but she officially is classified as a green cure.[[/note]], [[Anime/WonderfulPrettyCure Cure Lillian]] |
| 188 | ** Blue: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Aqua]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Cure Berry]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Marine]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Beat]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure Beauty]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure Cure Diamond]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Princess]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Mermaid]], [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Gelato]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Cure Ange]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Cosmo]], [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Cure Fontaine]], [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure La Mer]], [[Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure Cure Spicy]], [[Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure Cure Sky]], [[Anime/WonderfulPrettyCure Cure Nyammy]] |
| 189 | ** Purple: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Milky Rose]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Moonlight]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure Cure Sword]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Fortune]], [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Cure Magical]], [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Macaron]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Cure Amour]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Selene]], [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Cure Earth]], [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure Coral]], [[Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure Cure Majesty]], [[Anime/WonderfulPrettyCure Cure Friendy]] |
| 190 | ** Orange: [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure Sunny]], [[Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure Cure Wing]] |
| 191 | ** Rainbow: [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Parfait]], [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure Summer]] |
| 192 | ** Gold: [[Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure Cure Finale]] |
| 193 | * ColorCodedSecretIdentity: The franchise takes this to ridiculous lengths since ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' as they not only wear color-coded civilian clothes, most of them have color-coded ''hair''. There are a few that defy this trope, mostly with mid-season cures: |
| 194 | ** [[spoiler:Ako/Cure Muse]] of ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' wears pink and purple despite wearing [[spoiler:black at first then going gold, and having a purple Fairy Tone through and through]]. |
| 195 | ** [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Heart]] is a very odd example. In her civilian form, she wears pink clothes and has pink hair, in keeping with her colour scheme as a cure. But, when she transforms, her hair turns blonde. |
| 196 | ** Cure Earth in ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'' wears a green dress and has blonde hair in civilian form, but her theme color as a cure is purple. |
| 197 | ** Laura in ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'' is equal parts blue and pink as a mermaid, but leans more definitely toward blue when becoming Cure La Mer. |
| 198 | ** Cure Finale in ''Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure'' has a purple outfit and purple hair as a civilian, but turns gold when transformed. |
| 199 | * CombatStilettos: Since ''Fresh'', each girl often gets a set of stilettos that they fight in. In the 8th ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' movie, the ''Maho Girls'' team weaponizes this to perform a [[Franchise/KamenRider Rider]] [[DivingKick Kick]]-esque attack called the "Precure Drill Kick". |
| 200 | * ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: [[ContrastingSequelMainCharacter/PrettyCure See here.]] |
| 201 | * ConvenientlySeated: |
| 202 | ** Most of the lead characters sit in window seats. Though, only one of them sits in the traditional anime/manga infamous seat: the second seat from the back, next to the window side. |
| 203 | ** In ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' and its sequel, Nagisa sits in the window seat of the third back row... the class seems to be bigger than other examples. The third main character Hikari sits in the infamous seat in her class. |
| 204 | ** In ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', Saki sits in the infamous seat. |
| 205 | ** In ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' and its sequel, Nozomi and Rin sit in the second front row, so the camera can catch them and their teacher Kokoda/Coco. Sometimes, they sit near to the window - they sit on benches. However, the windows are too high and nobody can look out of the windows. |
| 206 | ** In ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' and ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', the respective lancers Setsuna and Erika sit in the last seat along the windows, while the heroines Love and Tsubomi sit next to their right side. |
| 207 | ** In ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'', ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'', and ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'', the respective heroines Hibiki, Miyuki, and Mana, sit in the last seat along the windows. Akane, Miyuki's lancer sits in the infamous seat. |
| 208 | ** In ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'', initially it was Mirai seating in the last seat along with the window with her lancer, Liko, sitting in the infamous seat. Then at the halfway point, when Kotoha joins the class, she was placed right behind Mirai, making Mirai's seat the infamous seat. |
| 209 | ** In ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'', the main character Nodoka, sits in the last seat along with the window, with Hinata (Cure Sparkle) in the infamous seat. Conveniently, Chiyu (Cure Fountaine) sits on the right of Nodoka. |
| 210 | * CoolBigSis: |
| 211 | ** Out of the main Cures, [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Nagisa and Hikari]], [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Saki]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Rin]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Miki]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Tsubomi and Yuri (her case is very odd)]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Kanade]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Akane and Nao]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Haruka]], [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Akira]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Hana]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Elena]] and [[Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure Sora]] all have younger siblings. |
| 212 | ** [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Moonlight]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Ace]], and [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Macaron and Chocolat]], [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure Flamingo]] and [[Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure Cure Butterfly]] count for their teammates in spirit rather than actually being related. |
| 213 | ** [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Knight Templar Big Sister]]: Most of them count, but [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Nagisa]] is the most notable example, as she actually ''kills'' [[TheBrute Geki]][[DumbMuscle drago]]. |
| 214 | ** [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Fortune]]'s big sister is herself a Pretty Cure named Cure Tender. |
| 215 | * CoolCrown: Both the [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Smile]] and [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Princess]] Cures wear tiaras. [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Gelato]] wears a hoop crown. Cure Princess wears a tiara in her Sherbet Ballet form. The [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Star Twinkle Cures]] wear one decorated by five stars of pink, green, orange, purple and blue of different orders (with their main colour at the center) when in their SuperMode for their combination attack Star Twinkle Imagination. |
| 216 | * CreatorCameo: Mayu Kudou, singer of several Pretty Cure themes from ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' to ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'', has cameoed twice. Once in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' with the ending singer Kanako Miyamoto, and again in ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' with the opening singer Aya Ikeda. Oddly enough, both animated versions of Mayu look completely different from each other (the different art styles not helping matters). |
| 217 | * CuteBruiser: Most Cures are adorable teenage girls who rely on fisticuffs to fight villains. |
| 218 | * DancingTheme: Every season has one EndingTheme with dancing; from [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure 2009]] onward, CGI dancing themes have become the norm. The CGI has gotten [[ArtEvolution increasingly prettier]], too, with some of the endings approaching movie quality. |
| 219 | * DarkerAndEdgier: ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'', and '''especially''' ''Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure'' and ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'' the darkest series in the franchise, though all of them have their dark moments. None of the series lose their humorous aspects in spite of this, though. |
| 220 | * DarkMagicalGirl: |
| 221 | ** Most of the continuities have at least one: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Michiru and Kaoru]], the [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Dark Precure 5]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Eas aka Setsuna]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Dark Precure, Mirage Precures]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Siren aka Ellen]], the [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Bad End Precures]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Regina]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Queen Mirage, who was once known as ''Cure'' Mirage]], [[spoiler:[[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Twilight]]]], and [[spoiler:[[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Ruru]]]]. |
| 222 | ** Non-villainous examples are [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Moonlight]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Muse]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Sword]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Fortune]], and [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Yuni]]. |
| 223 | * {{Depower}}: Occasionally happens to the Cures, either [[BroughtDownToNormal temporarily]] (such as the TransformationTrinket getting lost or broken) or permanently (typically only at the end of a series). |
| 224 | * DistinctiveAppearances: Flip-flopped with NonuniformUniform between series. ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'' started a general rule that the Cures, in civilian form, are identifiable by distinctive hairstyles and accessories rather than outfits. |
| 225 | * TheDragon: Every BigBad has a Dragon, the most competent one of the underlings. Some Dragons are replaced by other Dragons, but these guys are the ''final'' Dragons who are the most loyal, often the evilest, most powerful, most dangerous, and most successful underlings. |
| 226 | ** [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Jaaku King]] has [[DragonAscendant Baldez]]...[[spoiler:more or less, since Baldez IS Jaaku King]]. [[BaldOfEvil Illkubo]] might also qualify. |
| 227 | ** [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Akudaikan]] has [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Gohyan]]. [[spoiler:Actually, [[TheManBehindTheMan Gohyan]] has [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Akudai]][[PuppetKing kan]].]] |
| 228 | ** [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Desparaia]] has [[DragonInChief Kawarino]] who in turn has [[CardCarryingVillain Bunbee]]. |
| 229 | ** [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 The Director]] has [[{{Medusa}} Anacondy]]. |
| 230 | ** [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Moebius]] has [[GreenThumb Northa]] and [[ScaledUp Klein]] [[spoiler:who [[FusionDance fuse into one being.]]]] |
| 231 | ** [[spoiler:[[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Dune]] has [[EvilGenius Sabaaku]]]] who has [[DarkMagicalGirl Dark Precure]] as his own Dragon. |
| 232 | ** [[spoiler:[[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Noise]] has [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Falsetto]].]] |
| 233 | ** [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Pierrot]] has [[VillainousHarlequin Joker]]. |
| 234 | ** [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure King Jikochuu]] has [[DaddysLittleVillain Regina]]. [[spoiler: Both of them are given {{Heel Face Turn}}s. Bel then tries to pull a DragonAscendant but is then taken over.]] |
| 235 | ** [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Queen Mirage]] has [[HeroKiller Phantom]]. [[spoiler: Both are just pawns of Deep Mirror/Red]]. |
| 236 | ** [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Dyspear]] has [[DaddysLittleVillain Twilight]], though later on it's switched to [[CreepyChild Lock]], and then firmly held by Close. |
| 237 | ** ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'' has a variation. Dokurokshe's top servant Yamoh isn't TheDragon, he's just a NonActionGuy NumberTwo. [[spoiler: After Dokurokushe is destroyed, Yamoh pulls a DragonTheirFeet and goes after the Cures personally.]] Deusmast is a bit more simple- his is Labut. |
| 238 | ** [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Noir]] has Elisio, [[spoiler:who decides to betray him and become the main villain near the end.]] |
| 239 | ** [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure President George Kurai]] has Listol, his secretary. [[spoiler:He ends up being the last obstacle the Cures face before George along with Bishin, a simple member of the QuirkyMinibossSquad who shares much in common with him.]] |
| 240 | ** [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Darknest]] has Galogre, who is trying his best to resurrect his master so they can recreate the universe InTheirOwnImage. Darknest does, however, give the QuirkyMinibossSquad a power-up from time to time. Eventually, Galorge succeeds in partially bringing Darknest back at the halfway point and joins the squad once Aiwarn goes missing. [[spoiler:When Darknest reveals herself as the Ophiuchus Star Princess, who destroyed his planet and intends to do the same to the rest of the universe, he switches sides and aids the Cures in defeating her]]. |
| 241 | ** [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure King Byo-gen]] doesn’t really get one until the final episodes, where Shindoine takes the role. |
| 242 | ** [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure The Witch of Procrastination]] has her seahorse Butler, [[spoiler:until she's peacefully defeated. Butler will then take on the role of main antagonist]]. |
| 243 | ** [[Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure Godatz]] has Secretoru, [[spoiler:but once he unlocks the Recipe Bon, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he leaves her behind]]]]. |
| 244 | ** [[Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure Empress Undergu]] has Skearhead... [[spoiler:only to reveal that the latter ''is'' the BigBad by using her for his own evil plans.]] |
| 245 | * {{Dramedy}}: The franchise fluctuates a lot between LighterAndSofter and DarkerAndEdgier, and this is a standard general tone among many of the sub-series as well. ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' and ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'' are especially notorious. |
| 246 | * DubNameChange: Besides changing some of the characters’ names (with most of them [[BarelyChangedDubName get some syllables deleted]], the Taiwanese Mandarin dub also changed "Cure [name]" into “[name] Angel” (For example, Cure Dream to Dream Angel) [[note]] This doesn’t applied to the Fresh Pretty Cures, who uses “Fairy” instead [[/note]] |
| 247 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: |
| 248 | ** While the elements of the series have stayed consistent for quite a while since the first season (PowerOfFriendship being the main theme, as well as hard-hitting physical attacks, over-the-top action scenes, and well-done SliceOfLife and character drama), the first few seasons (particularly the original, ''Max Heart'', and ''Splash Star'' especially) got into quite a few dark and relatively down to earth themes compared to later seasons on a whole (with some exceptions such as ''Heartcatch''). Fight scenes weren't quite as over the top and flashy compared to later seasons as well, preferring more straight forward grit and bone-crunching attacks, and the animation style and coloration feel a bit more gritty and realistic compared to the fanciful colors of later seasons. Hair and eye colors on a whole tended to be more realistic, even when a character transformed. The reasons for this is the result of MoralGuardians, who hounded the original series for its rather high level of violence for a show whose demographic was little girls, as well as Nagisa's midriff-baring outfit from the first season (this aspect has eased up a bit since ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5''). |
| 249 | ** The ''All-Stars'' movies hit this as well, seeing as they're made around the time they're starting up the new series. Thus, some characters end up acting completely different from how they are in-series. |
| 250 | * ElementalPowers: |
| 251 | ** BlowYouAway: [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure March]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Princess]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Cure Ange]], [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Cure Earth]], [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure Flamingo]] |
| 252 | ** GreenThumb: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Mint]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Blossom]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Honey]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Flora]], [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Cure Felice]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Cure Yell]], [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Cure Grace]] |
| 253 | ** AnIcePerson: [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure Beauty]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure Cure Diamond]], [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Gelato]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Selene]] |
| 254 | ** LightEmUp: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Lemonade]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Sunshine]], [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Cure Sparkle]] |
| 255 | ** MakingASplash: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Aqua]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Marine]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Mermaid]], [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Cure Fountaine]], [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure La Mer]] |
| 256 | ** PlayingWithFire: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Rouge]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure Sunny]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure Cure Ace]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Scarlett]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Soleil]] |
| 257 | ** ShockAndAwe: [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure Peace]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Milky]] |
| 258 | * EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:[[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Royale Candy]]]]. In ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', [[spoiler:[[QuirkyMinibossSquad Westar and Souler]] also count, despite not being Cures...and male]]. In ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'', [[spoiler:Regina eventually becomes one after a lot of trips through the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor]]. In ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'' we have [[spoiler: Shut and Lock with Kuroro.]] In ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'', we have [[spoiler: Cure Pekorin.]] ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'' takes this to an extreme by having [[spoiler:''the entire cast'' turn into Cures and participate in the final attack that takes George down.]] |
| 259 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: What the Pretty Cures are up against every time. |
| 260 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Nagisa (later, Honoka, too)]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Karen]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Itsuki]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Nao]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Mana and Makoto]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Minami]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Elena]]. [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Yukari and Akira]] takes it further, complete with their own respective fan clubs. |
| 261 | * EverybodyCries: Practically a tradition. You're pretty much guaranteed to see a scene like this at least once a season whether in the show itself or a NonSerialMovie. |
| 262 | * EvolvingCredits: Very common for the franchise as a whole. This happens whenever a SixthRanger appears in the show. |
| 263 | * ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName: Almost all of the episode titles are like this, and a good deal of them are {{Spoiler Title}}s. |
| 264 | * {{Expy}}: Most pink Cures are expies of Cure Black and most blue Cures are expies of Cure White. However, this trope is never played straight, since the expies usually have enough distinguishing factors to make them unique. ([[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Cure Bloom and Cure Egret]] are borderline, though.) |
| 265 | * FestivalEpisode: Several seasons include matsuri-themed episodes, such as ''Smile'' and |
| 266 | * FightingSeries: You wouldn't expect a ''mahou shoujo'' series to be one of these, but the ''Pretty Cure'' series pulls it off with aplomb. |
| 267 | * FleetingDemographic: Young girls, though fortunately they aren't the only demographic. It's not that fleeting though, since the ratings for the series have remained high throughout the franchise, and the writers loves their {{Continuity Nod}}s. The series even released it's own merchandise store, selling items like make-up and stationery, to allow for the fact most of it's early fans are ''very much'' adults. |
| 268 | * {{Flight}}: One of the most common villain abilities. The [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Agents from Labyrinth]], and [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Siren and Trio the Minor]] are exceptions. |
| 269 | ** [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Cure Bloom/Bright and Cure Egret/Windy]] are the only Cures with this ability, at least naturally. Several of the others can use this ability, but only if they have a certain upgrade or their fairy helps them. |
| 270 | ** The ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'' have costumes that allow them to fly and they don't need any upgrades to do that. |
| 271 | ** The ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'' Sapphire Style allows them to fly naturally. Though they can do that outside that form with the help of a FlyingBroomstick. |
| 272 | ** [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Parfait]], who is based on a Pegasus, can fly naturally too. |
| 273 | ** Tsubasa from ''Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure'' is a weird but justified case. He cannot fly in his bird form, as he comes from a tribe of flightless birds. But in his Cure Wing form, he can fly naturally. |
| 274 | ** Some mascots have this ability: On the one hand, [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Moop, Foop]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Chiffon]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Chypre, Coffret, Potpourri, Cologne]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure the Fairy Tones]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Charle, Raquel, Lance, Dabyi, Ai-chan, Melan]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Ribbon, Glasan]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Miss Siamour and (inconsistently) Puff]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Fuwa]], [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Rabirin, Pegitan and Nyatoran]]. [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Syrup]] and [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Pop]] can fly when they transform into giant birds, while [[spoiler:[[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Candy]] can fly when she is in her human form]]. For justifiable examples, [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Aroma]] is actually a bird, [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Ha-chan]] is your stock fairy with wings, and [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Prunce]] has a miniature FlyingSaucer. |
| 275 | * FriendlyTickleTorture: |
| 276 | ** In one of the earlier episodes of ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', the heroines get tickled by magical erasers thanks to a playful trick by Chiffon. |
| 277 | ** In episode 8 of ''Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure'', the Fashion Club girls tickle Erika when she complains about her sister Momoka during a photoshoot. Later, in episode 14, VictimOfTheWeek Nanami tickles Tsubomi to cheer her up for a misunderstanding. |
| 278 | ** In Episode 24 of ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'', Kirara inflicts this on [[PerpetualFrowner Towa]] to make her smile. [[WhenSheSmiles It works.]] |
| 279 | * FrillyUpgrade: Costume upgrades usually appear sometime after mid-season. Movies have their own special upgrades. |
| 280 | * FusionDance: |
| 281 | ** Some villains fuse with the MonstersOfTheWeek to get stronger. There are even special items for this like the [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Dark Bracelets]] or special monster types like [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Hyper Akanbe]] and the [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Beast Mode]]. |
| 282 | ** [[spoiler:[[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Mugen Silhouette is the fusion of the four Pretty Cures and their three mascots]].]] |
| 283 | ** Some of the villains fuse with each other. [[spoiler:[[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure The Giant is the fusion of the Seeds of Darkness]].]] [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5GoGo Yadokhan and Isohgin have a fusion as their true form.]] [[spoiler:[[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Northa and Klein can fuse into a humanoid dragon]].]] [[spoiler:[[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure And Leva and Gula fuse into one being]].]] In ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'', [[spoiler: Batty fuses with the wands of his defeated comrades to achieve the same result.]]. And in ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'', Aiwarn fuses with her two comrades into a Nottoreiga. |
| 284 | * TheGlassesGottaGo: All Pretty Cures who wear glasses in their civilian form ([[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Tsubomi and Yuri]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Ako]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Saaya]]. [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Minori ]]) all lose them when in their cure forms. The only exception to this is the Indian Cures from ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'' who wear glasses in their cure forms (and shown adjusting them during their attack). |
| 285 | * TheGoodKingdom: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure The Garden of Light]], [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar the Land of Fountains]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 the Palmier Kingdom]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure the Sweets Kingdom]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Major Land]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Märchenland]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure the Trump Kingdom]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure the Blue Sky Kingdom]], and [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure the Hope Kingdom]]. Several more appear in the movies. |
| 286 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: Most Pretty Cures fight against their enemies with powerful punches and kicking. |
| 287 | * GratuitousEnglish: 90% of the [[TransformationNameAnnouncement Cure names]], every [[ByThePowerofGreySkull transformation phrase]] and most [[FinishingMove finishing moves]]. A couple also have GratuitousFrench and GratuitousItalian scattered around. |
| 288 | * GratuitousPrincess: ''Go Princess'' aside, princesses have made their mark on this show as Pretty Cures, including [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Ako Shirabe/Cure Muse]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Hime Shirayuki/Cure Princess]], and [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Towa Akagi/Cure Scarlet]]. The latter is quite interesting, considering she's the only person in the aformentioned ''Princess'' Pretty Cures to be an actual princess. Also... |
| 289 | ** ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' added a Princess among an influx of royals. Yes, they were also mascot creatures. |
| 290 | ** In TheMovie of ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'', the girls and the mascots visit "Princess Land", a theme park where the female patrons all get to wear ballgowns and pretend they're princesses. As you would expect, it seems to be a very popular place. |
| 291 | ** ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' gave the second power-up in the series the name "Princess Form". |
| 292 | ** ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'' has the twelve Star Princesses based on Western Zodiac, who are SealedGoodInACan and the BigGood of the season. [[spoiler:Furthermore, there's a thirteenth Star Princess based on the Ophiuchus sign, who ends up being the primary villain]]. |
| 293 | * GroupPictureEnding: From Anime/SuitePrecure onwards, the final episode of every season ends like this as a way to thank the viewers. |
| 294 | * HalloweenEpisode: [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Suite]]'s Episode 37, [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Happiness Charge]]'s Episode 37, [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Maho Girls]]'s Episodes 38 & 39, [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Kira Kira a la Mode]]'s Episode 37, [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure HUGtto]]'s Episode 38, [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Star Twinkle]]'s Episode 37, [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Tropical-Rouge]]'s Episode 35 & [[Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure Delicious Party]]'s Episode 33. |
| 295 | * TheHeart: Mostly the yellow Cures: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Shiny Luminous]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Lemonade]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Cure Pine]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Muse]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure Peace]] [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Rosetta]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Honey]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Twinkle]], and [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Macaron]]. |
| 296 | * HeelFaceTurn: At least one per most continuities: [[spoiler:Kiriya]] in ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'', [[spoiler:Michiru and Kaoru]] in ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', [[spoiler:Bunbee]] in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'', [[LateArrivalSpoiler Setsuna]], [[spoiler:Westar and Souler]] in ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', [[spoiler:all of the Desert Apostles]] in ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Ellen]] and Trio the Minor]] in ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'', [[spoiler:Wolfrun, Akaoni, and Majorina]] in ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'', [[spoiler:Regina]] in ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'' and [[spoiler:''everyone'', even the BigBad,]] in ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure''. [[spoiler:Princess Twilight/Towa,[[DemonicPossession Kuroro]], Lock the one who possessed him and Shut]] in ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure''. [[spoiler:The Kirakira Thives, Julio, and Bibury]] in ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode''. [[spoiler:Ruru and then every single villain]] in ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure''. [[spoiler:The entire team of Notraiders besides Darknest]] in ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure''. However, this is outright averted in ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure''. |
| 297 | ** HighHeelFaceTurn: In general, since this is a magical ''girl'' series, female characters seem quicker to make the switch than male ones. Also, as seen in the SmurfettePrinciple below, Desparaia was the first BigBad who is redeemed in the end. |
| 298 | * HenshinHero: All heroines transform from normal civilian girls into frilly warriors of justice who use fisticuffs and rainbows to fight. |
| 299 | * HeroicSecondWind: Common, but most blatantly after ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5''. From that point onwards, ''every single movie'', with the lone exception of the seventh ''[[Anime/PrettyCureAllStars All Stars]]'' movie, has to include flashlight-esque items called the Miracle Lights, used by both the characters and [[AudienceParticipation the audience]] to bring the EleventhHourSuperpower. |
| 300 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: |
| 301 | ** [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Nagisa and Honoka]]. [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Saki and Mai]]. [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Nozomi and Rin]]. [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Komachi and Karen]]. [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Love and Setsuna]]. [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Tsubomi and Erika]]. [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Hibiki and Kanade]]. [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Siren and Hummy]]. [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Nao and Reika]]. [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Mana and Rikka]]. [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Megumi and Hime]], [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Mirai and Riko.]] [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Akira and Yukari]] may as well avert the "heterosexual" bit. [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Emiru and Ruru, Henri and Masato.]] [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Hikaru and Lala.]] [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Manatsu and Laura.]] [[Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure Sora and Mashiro.]] |
| 302 | ** Another from ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'', [[BigGood Kouchou]] and [[EvilFormerFriend Kushe]]. Yes, you better believe it. |
| 303 | * InASingleBound: |
| 304 | ** One too many Cures have this ability. In fact, there is one famous scene from the original ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' opening (and copied a lot in the ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' movies) which involves Black leaping away from an explosion; ''Max Heart'''s opening featured a similar scene but with White added in. |
| 305 | ** There's also the tendency of this trope appearing when [[HowDoIShotWeb the main Cure is just figuring out how their new powers work]]. AKA the "Holy-Crap-I-Can-Jump-This-High" Maneuver. |
| 306 | ** Justified by [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Whip]], since she's a [[LittleBitBeastly rabbit girl]] and all of the Cures in that season have animal characteristics. |
| 307 | * InterclassFriendship: Some Pretty Cure teams might include a member who comes from either a wealthy family or be part royalty and being friends with the other commoner Cures. |
| 308 | ** ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'': [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Hibiki Hojo and Kanade Minamino. Hibiki isn't wealthy but her house is fancy and her parents are famous musicians. Meanwhile, Kanade family owns a normal pastry shop. Play much straighter with [[spoiler:Ako Shirabe who is the Princess of Major Land]]. |
| 309 | ** ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'': There's Reika Aoki who comes from a wealthy family. She was actually ChildhoodFriends with Nao Midorikawa who comes from a large working class family. |
| 310 | ** ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'': There's Princess of the Blue Sky Kingdom Himelda Window. Her first friend in the group was Megumi Aino who is just a normal middle schooler. |
| 311 | ** ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'': The three main leads. Haruka comes from a working class family, Minami's family are rich, and Kirara's father is a famous movie star and her mother is a famous model. Later on they add [[spoiler:Towa who is the princess of Hope Kingdom]] into the group. |
| 312 | ** ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'': Madoka is the daughter of a government official and comes from a wealthy family, while the other two human leads are both from working class families. |
| 313 | * InTheNameOfTheMoon: Each Cure has a catchphrase they shout after finishing their transformation, ending with them announcing their Cure name. |
| 314 | * IntraFranchiseCrossover: The franchise has ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'', a series of crossover movies that teams up all of the ''Pretty Cure'' teams. Each film features Cures from all continuities joining forces to combat a new powerful foe, with focus given to the teams from the currently-airing season and the recently-ended one. |
| 315 | * TheMerch, since ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'', has included several items from the brand Pretty-Holic, which includes Pretty Cure branded make-up, candy and stationery, with stores appearing in every season with the Cures frequenting them.[[note]]Hilariously, during Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure, they had to censor the labels on the sweets they were enjoying since they had ''the Cures themselves'' on the front of the box![[/note]] |
| 316 | * JokerImmunity: Only seven {{Big Bad}}s are technically this at the ending: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Desparaiah]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Noise]][[note]]reborn as a chick[[/note]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Red]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Dyspear]][[note]][[AnthropomorphicPersonification nature]] makes her technically undestroyable[[/note]], [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Noir]][[note]]confirmed by ''Animage'' March 2018 to be reborn as the boy seen in the finale[[/note]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure George Kurai]], and [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Darknest]] ([[spoiler:the thirteenth Star Princess, Ophiuchus]]). |
| 317 | * KickedUpstairs: It's been said that one of the producers of the series, Hiroaki Shibata, has been let go from the animation department at Toei in favor of the toku department. No one is sure why, but his current track record with the franchise (both ''Doki Doki'' and ''Happiness Charge'' not only produced some of the lowest TV ratings to date, but the latter has the second worst merchandising numbers since ''Splash Star'') might have something to do with it. |
| 318 | * LadyOfWar: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Cure White]], [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Cure Egret/Windy]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Aqua]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Cure Passion]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Moonlight]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Rhythm, Cure Beat, Masked Cure Muse]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure Beauty]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Sword, Cure Ace]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Fortune]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Mermaid, Cure Scarlet]], [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Macaron]], and [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Selene]]. |
| 319 | * TheLancer: Mostly the blue, white or red Cures: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Cure White]] (also TheSmartGuy), [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Cure Egret/Windy]] (also TheSmartGuy), [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Rouge]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Cure Passion (took this role from Cure Berry]], also TheSmartGuy), [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Marine]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Rhythm]] (who is also TheSmartGuy), [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure Sunny]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Sword]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Princess]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Mermaid]], [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Cure Magical]],[[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Milky]] and [[Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure Cure Finale (took this role from Cure Spicy)]] |
| 320 | * LateArrivalSpoiler: Every SixthRanger. |
| 321 | * TheLeader: All the pink Cures with three exceptions: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Cure Black]] (despite her name, she's retroactively considered pink as it's her sub-color), [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Cure Bloom/Bright]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Dream]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Cure Peach]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Blossom]] (who is also TheHeart), [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Melody]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure Happy]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Heart]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cure Lovely]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Flora]], [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Whip]] (who doubles as the de facto Manager of their patisserie), [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Cure Yell]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Star]], [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Cure Grace]], [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure Summer]] (rainbow is her main color while pink is her sub-color), [[Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure Cure Precious]], and [[Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure Cure Sky]] (she's a blue cure while Cure Butterfly is the pink one of their group). |
| 322 | * LensmanArmsRace: You can expect the Cures to obtain a new power-up, additional Cure, and/or team attack whenever a new general shows up or a new stronger variation of the MonsterOfTheWeek is introduced. |
| 323 | * MadeOfIron: Being a Cure means getting super strength and being able to fight off attacks that could seriously injure an ordinary citizen. |
| 324 | * MagicalGirlWarrior: The franchise's genre is about a series of girls who transform using magic and use magic to fight evil. |
| 325 | * MagicSkirt: The earlier seasons employ this, but they eventually get to a point where the skirts have thick petticoats underneath, so nothing is shown regardless. |
| 326 | * MeaningfulName: Has its own page [[MeaningfulName/PrettyCure here]]. |
| 327 | * MegatonPunch: While not as prevalent as the {{diving kick}}s from ''Franchise/KamenRider'', Cures are somewhat associated with punches due to them being Cure Black's main way of fighting till a point ''All Stars'' has several {{Combination Attack}}s in which the Cures punch an enemy together with ''All Stars F'' having the final attack being a punch from all 88 mainline Cures up till that point. |
| 328 | * MerchandiseDriven: How much varies from season to season, but it's usually obvious that at least one magical trinket per season was designed to be a toy first and an implement of magical ass-kicking second. The {{Transformation Trinket}}s are a relatively common example, as are the "cheat code" items that became a tradition from ''Fresh'' onwards. |
| 329 | * MidSeasonUpgrade: The Cures get usually two or more upgrades per season. Some villains get upgrades, too. |
| 330 | * ModestyShorts: When there isn't a MagicSkirt involved, Cures will gain bike shorts as part of their magical girl outfits. This is especially prominent in the series ''Yes! Pretty Cure 5'' and ''Smile Pretty Cure''. |
| 331 | * MonsterOfTheWeek: Often gigantic, so even when they're [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever blatantly silly]], there can be some [[FightScene sweet moves]] involved in taking them down. |
| 332 | ** Those monsters are [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Zakenna]], [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Uzaina]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Kowaina (Hoshina in the sequel)]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Nakewameke, Nakisakebe, Sorewatase, Hohoemina]] (though Hohoemina is harmless, as it's a purified, good version of Nakewameke), [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Desertrian]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Negatone]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Akanbe]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Jikochuu]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Saiark]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Zetsuborg]], [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Yokubāru and Donyokubāru]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Oshimaida and Mou-Oshimaida]], [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure MegaByogen and GigaByogen]], [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Yaraneda, Zenzen Yaraneda, Zettai Yaraneda and Cho Zettai Yaraneda]], [[Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure Ubauzo, Motto Ubauzo, Gossori Ubauzo]], [[Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure Lanborg and Kyoborg]]. |
| 333 | ** ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'' is a unique case. They do have a monster called Notrigger, but only Aiwarn can create them and it is fueled by a Dark Star Princess pen. Since there are only 12 around the entire universe, and the Cures keep collecting more of them, Notriggers do not appear every week. Later on, the QuirkyMinibossSquad receives an upgrade from Darknest that allows them to fight akin to summoning a monster. Kappard does this by sucking in twisted imaginations to morph his weapon. Tenjou has her Notraiders modify a victim of the week into a giant Notraider. Aiwarn modifies Blue Cat's space ship that she stole into a mecha. Galogre fights the Cures directly. |
| 334 | * MultipleDemographicAppeal: The franchise is aimed at girls 4-12 and men 16-35. Not just through cute girls, but also [[HotBlooded hot-blooded]] [[FightScene battles]]. Enough that ''Pretty Cure'' was the winner of a Famitsu poll asking which series would best suit a ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' crossover! |
| 335 | * MythologyGag: |
| 336 | ** The lead character will, shortly after her first transformation, jump into the air and [[InASingleBound go much, much higher]] [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength than she expected]]. This gag has been reused across different seasons and continuities for ''years''. Another recurring gag is that the mascot will typically introduce itself to the lead character [[CrashIntoHello by crashing into her face]]. |
| 337 | ** ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' was the first series to name the basic attacks "Double[[note]]Triple, Quadruple[[/note]] Precure Kick/Punch". Later series call these less often, but these kicks/punches come back with varied or changed names. |
| 338 | ** There is no other team more physically capable than [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Cure Black and Cure White]]. Even though later seasons toned down the violence, whenever it comes to the original duo, they still keep their original level of physical power in later appearances. |
| 339 | * NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Every single series has the villains a stone away from victory towards the end (except perhaps ''Healing Good'' and ''Tropical Rouge'')]]. |
| 340 | * NewcomerSavesTheDay: Pretty much every time a new Cure is introduced. |
| 341 | * NewTransferStudent: Several Cures start out as this. In chronological order: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Hikari]], [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Michiru and Kaoru]] (even if they're not actually Cures), [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Urara and Kurumi]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Setsuna]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Tsubomi]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Ellen]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Miyuki]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Makoto]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Hime]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Towa]], [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Mirai (In Riko's world), Riko (In Mirai's world) and later Kotoha (In both worlds)]], [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Ciel]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Hana, Ruru]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Lala]], and [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Nodoka]], [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Laura]], [[Anime/SoaringSkyPrecure Sora]], [[Anime/WonderfulPrettyCure Mayu and Komugi]]. |
| 342 | * NonHumanSidekick: Every Pretty Cure team has at least one fairy mascot tagging alongside them. |
| 343 | * NotAllowedToGrowUp: As of 2008, the older Cures have been subjected to this. It's been years since ''[[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Max Heart]]'''s end, but Nagisa, Honoka and Hikari don't look a day older than they were back then. Although it should be noted that this depends only on whether or not you count the ''All Stars'' movies as canon. The character designer of ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' actually posted [[http://precure.livejournal.com/3001783.html this art]] of the characters looking seven years older, and starting with ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'', seasons typically have a WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue that involves a timeskip. ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'' addresses this for its crossover event, where the side effects of the time travel apparently include de-aging. |
| 344 | * ObviouslyEvil: Played straight by every villain from this franchise. But subverted with the [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Desert Apostles]] and [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Minor Land]]. |
| 345 | * OddCouple: For two-person teams; when the teams widened and there was only one main character instead of two, just about every combination was an OddFriendship. |
| 346 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted, since several seasons tend to repeat names from previous continuities. So far the repeated names are Nozomi (''Max Heart'' and ''Yes!5''), Kaoru (''Splash Star'', ''Fresh'', and -- if it counts -- ''Kaoru''ko from ''Heartcatch''), Rin (''Yes! 5'' and ''Happiness Charge''), Hayato (''Fresh'' and ''Heartcatch''), Kurumi (''Yes!5'' [given name], ''Heartcatch'' [surname]), Miyuki (''Fresh'', ''Smile'', and ''Tropical-Rouge''), Akane (the original/''Max Heart'' and ''Smile''), Nao (''Max Heart'', ''Heartcatch'' and ''Smile''), Reika (''Fresh'' and ''Smile''), Ayumi (''Fresh'', ''Heartcatch'', ''All Stars New Stage'' and ''Doki Doki''), Madoka (''Yes!5'' [given name], ''Doki Doki'' [surname], ''Star Twinkle'' [given name]), Megumi (''Yes!5'' and ''Happiness Charge''), Seiji (''Doki Doki'' and ''Happiness Charge''), Kenta (''Splash Star'' and ''Happiness Charge'') Momoka (''Heartcatch'' and ''Go! Princess''), and Aoi (''Kira Kira à la Mode'' and ''Tropical-Rouge''). |
| 347 | * OneWingedAngel: Most of the villains transform into a different, much more imposing form when they directly fight the Cures. |
| 348 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: |
| 349 | ** Almost every BigBad and BigBadWannabe except [[spoiler:[[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Gohyan]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Noise]]]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Pierrot]] and [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure King Jikochuu]]. |
| 350 | ** Played straight with [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Akudaikahn]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Desparaia, the Director]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Sabaaku]],[[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Queen Mirage]], [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Noir]], and [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Darknest.]] |
| 351 | ** Justified with [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Jaaku King]] in the first season and [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Moebius]]. They have to rely on their minions. Similarly [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Dokurokushe]] clearly has difficulty fighting, despite his great personal power. [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure King Byo-gen]] also suffers from this, but gets stronger in the final episodes and fights directly. |
| 352 | ** Subverted with [[spoiler:[[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Dune]]]] [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Mephisto]], and [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure President George Kurai]]. [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Dyspear]] sits on the throne for the first half of the series, attacks the Cures personally at the half-way point, and is then forced to rest in order to recover her power. |
| 353 | * OurFairiesAreDifferent: They usually look like cute little animals rather than your typical fairy; probably the closest one to a "traditional" fairy is Ha-chan from ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'', followed by [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Ai]], who resembles a human infant with wings. Most others are clearly meant to look like existing animals, but [[CartoonCreature sometimes they don't]]. |
| 354 | * OverlyLongName: The strongest or other powerful Pretty Cure group attacks tend to be ridiculously long, especially with their "Precure/Pretty Cure" as the "pre-word". The longest examples for each series are: |
| 355 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'': "Pretty Cure Rainbow Storm". |
| 356 | ** ''[[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart]]'': "Pretty Cure Marble Screw Max Spark". |
| 357 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar': "Pretty Cure Spiral Heart Splash Star". |
| 358 | ** ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'': "Pretty Cure Five Explosion". |
| 359 | ** ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5GoGo'': "Pretty Cure Milky Rose Floral Explosion". (It has even two "pre-words".) |
| 360 | ** ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'': "Pretty Cure Loving True Heart Fresh". |
| 361 | ** ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': "Pretty Cure Heartcatch Orchestra". |
| 362 | ** ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'': "Pretty Cure Suite Session Ensemble Crescendo Finale". |
| 363 | ** ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'': "Pretty Cure Miracle Rainbow Burst". (Before "Miracle", there were "Royal" and "Ultra".) |
| 364 | ** ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'': "Pretty Cure Royal Lovely Straight Flush". |
| 365 | ** ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'' takes this up to eleven in episode 33, with the girls trying to come up with a cool new attack name, not being able to agree, and just ending up going with ''all of them at once,'' resulting in "Pretty Cure Jugemu Jugemu Gokou-no Surikiire Ultimate Marine Splash Megawave Dragon Tropical Mango Kiwi Limbo Dance Dondoko Dondoko Crash Niagara Shower Flying Phoenix Large Serving Supersize Hundredfold Spicy Free Extra Noodles Back Fat Extra Extra Beauty Legend Passing Shot Laura Apollodorus Hyginus La Mer #1 Cutest And Most Beautiful And Wonderful In Gran Ocean Queen of Queens Bubble Bomber Floral Pink & Purple Shadow Fall Cosmetics Product Line Ponpoko-Pii To The Ponpoko-Punch Kururun Kururun Kururun Ru~n! Shuuringan-no Guurindai Guurindai Land Beat Dynamic". The attack name is so long that the MonsterOfTheWeek manages to get away before they can execute the attack. |
| 366 | * PassingTheTorch: Starting with Happiness Charge, it became a tradition to see the next season's lead cure in the final episode of the current one. |
| 367 | * PinkHeroine: In fact, every team has at least one Cure in pink, and more often than not she's the leader, similar to ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' with red. |
| 368 | * PluckyGirl: Pick a Cure; any of the many are this to some degree, while others like [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Erika Kurumi/Cure Marine]] and [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Megumi Aino/Cure Lovely]] are more [[GenkiGirl explosively so]]. |
| 369 | * PokemonSpeak: The MonstersOfTheWeek. Save for the Desertrians. |
| 370 | ** The Jikochuus don't do this that often. |
| 371 | ** The Nakewamekes also do not do this after earlier episodes, but are reduced into this when they appear in ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars''. |
| 372 | ** The Nakisakebes can't talk at all. They can only grunt. |
| 373 | ** There also the two Zakenna butlers from ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure''. |
| 374 | ** There are a Hoshina, a Negatone and an Akanbe who can talk. All of them have quizmaster/gamemaster powers. |
| 375 | %%* PostModernism: One of the most unusual aspects for a mainstream magical girl series that isn't a full deconstruction of the genre. |
| 376 | * PowerDyesYourHair: It's usually downplayed, with a Cure's hair changing shades instead of color. Played straight with [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Cure Passion]] (from dark purple to rose), [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Melody]] (from ginger to pink), [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Heart]] (from pink to ''blonde''), [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Ace]] (from brown to red), [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Mirage]] (from black to blonde), [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure both Aloha Cures]] (from black to orange and teal respectively), [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Flora]] (from auburn to blonde with pink streaks), [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Twinkle]] (from brown to orange), [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Whip]] (from orange to pink), [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Parfait]] (from blonde to pink), [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Cure Fontaine]] (from charcoal to blue), [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Cure Sparkle]] (from brown to blonde), [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Cure Earth]] (from blonde to purple), [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure Summer]] (from auburn to blonde that fades to pink), and [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure Papaya]] (from light brown to orange). |
| 377 | * PowerGivesYouWings: Most of the [[MidSeasonUpGrade Movie Upgrades]] and most of them are later adapted to the respective series. |
| 378 | * PowerMakesYourHairGrow: Downplayed in the [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure first]] and [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar second]] series, but began to be very blatant in [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 the third]]; and the trend hasn't stopped since. The two most extreme examples are [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Sunshine]] and [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Muse]] who have very short hair in civilian form, but very long hair in their Cure forms. Many other examples are similar cases. |
| 379 | * PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Honoka]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Nozomi]] and [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Kotoha]] have high-pitched voices, but after their transformations, their voices become noticeably deeper. Justified with [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Aguri]], who transforms into her OlderAlterEgo, so her voice becomes naturally deeper. |
| 380 | * ThePowerOfFriendship: |
| 381 | ** Unlike most series in the genre, where it's second to ThePowerOfLove, friendship is ''the'' most important thing in ''Pretty Cure''. Every episode focuses on the relationships between the girls, and no romantic subplot is ever completely resolved, whether between the Cures themselves or with a third party; Nozomi/Coco is the one exception, and even they are allowed far fewer [=PDAs=] than other magical girl leads, only getting to kiss offscreen and in a movie. Most speeches are of the friendship variety, and the Cures' powers literally run on friendship -- even the ones who can transform separately are stronger together, and, as seen in the case of [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Karen]], powers can fail completely if they don't open up and act sincerely towards their TrueCompanions. |
| 382 | ** It's proven that the WonderTwinPowers don't work when the girls have a conflict. |
| 383 | ** If only ''one single'' Cure of the team is not available, the whole team cannot win against the MonsterOfTheWeek. If they gathered five members, they cannot win with four. If they gathered four members, they cannot win with three, etc. And you never win when you're alone unless you're Milky Rose or Cure Moonlight or Cure Ace or the lead Cure in episode 1. If you have a duel with a major villain, you'll still win with the PowerOfFriendship. |
| 384 | ** It is notable that, while ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'' did have a strong emphasis on ThePowerOfLove, ThePowerOfFriendship was at least equally important. |
| 385 | ** It is so strong that one Cure (Amour) was able to become a Cure when, story-wise, she's ''not intended to become one''. [[spoiler:In ''Hugtto'', there's only four [[TransformationTrinket PreHearts]] that were available initially, and 3 of them had been taken by the initial members. Naturally, this causes an issue when both Emiru and Ruru created their Mirai Crystals. Since there's only one of it left, Ruru is more than willing to let Emiru took the 4th [=PreHeart=], but Emiru refuses to transform since she wants to see both of them fight together as Cures, something that Ruru admits want to do as well. Thanks to an appropriately-timed DeusExMachina as a result of their extremely strong friendship bond and desire to fight together, said 4th [=PreHeart=] is split into ''two'' identical copies, allowing Ruru to claim her own [=PreHeart=] and become a Cure herself. This even allowed a breach of the "everyone must be there to win" rule and effectively broke the Hugtto team into two relatively independent teams: the first fight of Cures Macherie and Amour has Cures Ange and Etoile tied in other commitments and Cure Yell being sick, and the duo have their own finisher independent of Yell's.]] |
| 386 | * ProductPromotionParade: Given how MerchandiseDriven the franchise is, this is common. Premiere episodes can usually be counted on to have a first transformation and fight scene that shows off the TransformationTrinket, the lead Cure and her abilities (including the traditional FinishingMove). The debut of [[SixthRanger an additional Cure]] or a SuperMode later on prompts a similar blitz of showing off merchandising. And that's not counting other powerups accumulated along the way, as well as various other pieces of merchandise from the toyline such as accessory makers, an electronic tablet-like toy and accessories for that year's fairy doll, which means that this trope can come into play almost every week. |
| 387 | * PummelDuel: |
| 388 | ** in ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Max Heart'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Baldez]] engages in one with Cure Black ''and'' White simultaneously.]] |
| 389 | ** In ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Gohyaan]]]] engages in 2 different ones, one against Cure Bloom/Bright and Cure Egret/Windy at once, and later does the same against [[spoiler:Michiru and Kaoru]] |
| 390 | ** In ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'', [[EvilOldFolks Bloody]] and Cure Dream get into a brief one. |
| 391 | ** In ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', Cure Passion and [[spoiler:Northa Klein]] have another brief one of these during their own fight. |
| 392 | ** In ''Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure'', Cure Marine and Kumojacky get into one. |
| 393 | ** In ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'', Cure Sunny and Wolfrun get into one after the latter goes completely berserk. |
| 394 | * PunnyName: Most Cures will often have the Cure name and their given name mean the same or something similar. From the start there's Nagisa Misumi ("sumi" means "ink") as Cure Black and Honoka Yukishiro ("yuki shiro" can be read as "snow white") as Cure White, and it just continues from there. |
| 395 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Any purple Cure, any Cure who has either [[TechnicolorEyes purple eyes]] or hair or a purple TransformationTrinket counts. So do the villains. |
| 396 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Both the heroes and villains are always like this in every season/continuity. |
| 397 | * RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: Pretty formulaic to the Pretty Cure. Fairy retreats from the attacked homeland pick up inexperienced teens to become Precure. ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' does look like this at first, but later reveals it to be an aversion, with HeroicLineage in play. |
| 398 | ** ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'' twists the formula a little bit, as there is no fairy world. Instead, a Pretty Cure flees her homeland when the monsters attack. When she has trouble fighting back, the BigGood lets her pick a partner. (It's later explained that the BigGood actually spreads {{Transformation Trinket}}s throughout the world.) |
| 399 | ** ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'' averts this as there are (initially) no fairies and they became Cures after finding the {{Macguffin}} instead. |
| 400 | * RecycledPremise: Being a LongRunner, some newer seasons borrow elements from previous seasons at times. |
| 401 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' is ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'', but themed around nature and spirits. This is more blatant that most of the other seasons, to the point that it's sometimes mistaken for a direct sequel. |
| 402 | ** ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' is a LighterAndSofter version of ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'', as both have a FiveManBand team with the same colors and a fairytale theme. |
| 403 | *** On the topic of ''Smile Pretty Cure'', ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'' is this to Smile, as both were made after something happened that caused the series to change tone to a lighter and softer one, [[note]] for ''Smile'', it was the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that made the show lighthearted, while ''A La Mode's'' lighter tone was due to parents complaining about the DarkerAndEdgier tone of ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure''. [[/note]] involve the girls transforming with a compact mirror and charms, have the girls hanging out in a place related to the series' theme [[note]] the Mysterious Library for ''Smile'' and Kira Kira Patisserie for ''A La Mode''[[/note]], and have a mid-season power-up that [[spoiler: involves a pegasus character]]. [[note]] While ''Smile'''s [[spoiler: pegasus power-up was for the whole team]], the one for ''Kira Kira'' was just [[spoiler: a SixthRanger who was a pegasus-themed cure]].[[/note]] |
| 404 | ** ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'' is similar to ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure''. Both series have a baby the characters have to take care of [[spoiler: who came from the world that was in danger]], use a smartphone-like item for the TransformationTrinket, have a white and pink wand-like item decorated with hearts used for the Cures' second attack, have [[spoiler: an elementary school Cure on the team]] and use [[spoiler: a smart tablet-esque device for the final attack used in the show]]. |
| 405 | ** ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'' is similar to ''Anime/MahouTsukaiPrettyCure'', as both series involve an imaginative pink lead obsessed with the season's theme who meets a person from a world dedicated to that topic and goes on trips there with her. Both series also has a unique concept with the TransformationTrinket [[note]] For ''Mahoutsukai'', they used the actual mascot Mofurun as the item rather than having her become another object like in past ''Pretty Cure'' series, while in ''Star Twinkle'', the girls sing a song that goes along with the transformation.[[/note]], use a smartphone item to take care of the mascot that looks like a book, and have a SixthRanger [[spoiler: who comes from the alternate world they go to]], with ''Mahoutsukai'' having [[spoiler: Haa-chan become Cure Felice]] and ''Star Twinkle'' [[spoiler: having Yuni, who used to be the Phantom Thief Blue Cat, become Cure Cosmo]]. |
| 406 | * RecycledSoundtrack: A few of the seasons feature reused background music from one another, usually during the early episodes. |
| 407 | * RedHerring: From ''Fresh'' until ''Doki Doki'', there was usually at least one character initially hinted to be the SixthRanger, but turned out to be this trope. Due to what happened after ''Doki Doki'' used this, the practice was abandoned starting in ''Happiness Charge''. |
| 408 | ** In ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', it was thought that the Cures' dancing mentor, Miyuki Chinnen, would become Cure Passion. It turned out to be Eas/Setsuna Higashi. |
| 409 | ** In ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure''... this trope is instead parodied. Chypre and Coffret went around asking Tsubomi's classmates if they could be the third Precure, even asking a ''boy'', Kenji Ban, to be one (and he daydreamed himself becoming 'Cure Fire'). Turns out it's Itsuki Myoudouin. |
| 410 | ** In ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'', both Waon Nishijima and Seika Higashiyama, Hibiki and Kanade's friends in their respective specialties, were speculated to be the next Pretty Cures. The next Cures were actually Siren/Ellen Kurokawa (as Cure Beat) and Ako Shirabe (as Cure Muse). |
| 411 | ** In ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'', DarkMagicalGirl Regina, Princess Marie-Ange and Ai-chan were speculated to be Cure Ace. In fact, [[StrangerBehindTheMask Cure Ace was someone completely new]]... [[spoiler: but it later turned out Ace and the aforementioned candidates [[LiteralSplitPersonality were all parts of the same person.]]]] The negative reaction from fans and the downward spiral of ratings and merchandise sales as a result of this twist might have caused Toei to abandon this concept in later series. |
| 412 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The various mascots. Most play a much bigger role in the series with WonderTwinPowers (namely the first three, ''Heartcatch'' and ''Suite''). Also in ''Doki Doki'' and ''Maho Girls'', the mascots are the {{Transformation Trinket}}s. |
| 413 | * RoseHairedSweetie: A popular choice for the protagonists: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Nozomi/Cure Dream]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Tsubomi/Cure Blossom]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Melody]] (Hibiki being a redhead), [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Miyuki/Cure Happy]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Mana]] (but ''not'' Cure Heart, interestingly), and [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Megumi/Cure Lovely]]. [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Kotoha/Cure Felice]] is a non-protagonist example. |
| 414 | * RunningGag: The InASingleBound gag on a new lead Cure's first transformation, and the CrashIntoHello gag when first meeting the mascot. |
| 415 | ** An early running gag was that comic performers would find out the identity of the Pretty Cure of the series and promise to keep the secret. It hasn't happened much lately, though. |
| 416 | * SaveBothWorlds: Most plots involve saving the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter mascots']] homeworld as well as Earth, although there are exceptions, like ''Heartcatch'' and ''Maho Girls''. |
| 417 | * ScreamingWarrior: Sometimes the Cures get really loud during intense battles, most notably Cure Happy, who starts her Happy Shower attack by yelling "KIAI DA! KIAI DA!" over and over again. |
| 418 | * SecretIdentity: It's interesting to note that while the Pretty Cure hides their dual lives from their non-Cure friends and family, the ''villains'' usually learn their real identities right away. Given that the one time the Cures blew their secret identities to their families ([[spoiler:''[[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Fresh]]'', if you're wondering]]) said families got so worried they almost locked the girls in their houses the day of the final battle, it's probably for the best. Sometimes other reasons are given, like how ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'' has Liko not wanting to ruin the reputation of the legendary magicians by revealing one of them is the resident IneptMage... and then ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'' does away with pretenses and [[LampshadeHanging has Harry fully admit it's just because being mysterious makes you seem cooler]]. In ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'', [[HumanAliens Lala]] tries to keep her Pretty Cure identity a secret from her family on planet Saman, but when it's revealed, they have no issue and actually [[SoProudOfYou take it in stride]]. |
| 419 | * SesameStreetCred: A few celebrity voice artists have worked on this franchise: |
| 420 | ** Kanako Miyamoto and Mayu Kudou, who sing songs for the franchise, appear together in an episode of ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5GoGo''. Mayu also appeared with Aya Ikeda in the fashion show episode of ''Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure''. |
| 421 | *** Interestingly, Kanako herself would voice a character who was an IdolSinger like she was in ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure'', Makoto Kenzaki, also known as Cure Sword, and would later voice herself in ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'' alongside Yuri Komagata, who sang that show's opening theme. |
| 422 | ** ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' features a cameo from the manzai group Audrey. ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' would do the same thing with manzai act FUJIWARA. |
| 423 | *** Singer and veteran seiyuu Creator/MegumiHayashibara played Nico in ''Smile Pretty Cure''[='s=] NonSerialMovie. |
| 424 | ** The late Karl Lagerfeld [[https://soranews24.com/2015/03/03/famous-chanel-designer-karl-lagerfeld-makes-a-smooth-transition-from-fashion-to-anime/ appeared on a fashion-show themed episode]] of ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure''. |
| 425 | ** Music/{{AKB48}} member Mayu Wantanabe appears in the HalloweenEpisode of ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure''. |
| 426 | ** Idol Yui Ogura played Cure Etoile in ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'', while news anchor Mizuki Yamamoto played an animated version of herself in the 15th anniversary movie produced for that season, ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure: [[Anime/PrettyCureAllStars All Star Memories]]''. |
| 427 | ** In ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'', Cure Star is played by Denpagumi Inc idol Eimi Naruse, while singer and voice actress Creator/SumireUesaka plays the SixthRanger Cure Cosmo. Both girls also sing like the people who voice them (while both sing to transform, Cure Cosmo also [[spoiler: has a secret life as an idol named Mao]]). |
| 428 | *** Soma Saito as Lala's brother Lolo [[https://www.crunchyroll.com/en-gb/anime-news/2019/08/04/danmachi-star-soma-saito-joins-cast-of-star-twinkle-precure was officially promoted as this]]. |
| 429 | ** Creator/AoiYuuki plays Cure Grace in ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure''. |
| 430 | * ShapeDiesShifterSurvives: In ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' and ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'', the Cures' TransformationSequence begins with an intermediate form which has [[VirginInAWhiteDress their civilian appearance, but unbound hair and a simple gown made out of light]]. If they take severe damage while transformed, they will revert to this state rather than completely detransforming. |
| 431 | * SixthRanger: |
| 432 | ** Every continuity except [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Smile!]] has at least one late arrival: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Shiny Luminous]], [[spoiler:[[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar the Kiryuu sisters]] (though they’re not officially considered cures)]], [[Anime/YesPrecure5 Milky Rose]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Cure Passion]], [[Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure Cures Sunshine and Moonlight]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cures Beat and Muse]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Ace]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Cures Honey and Fortune]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Scarlet]], [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Cure Felice]], [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Parfait]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Cures Ma'Cherie and Amour]], [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Cosmo]], [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Cure Earth]], [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure La Mer]], and [[Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure Cure Finale]]. [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Jonathan Klondike]] can be considered a non-Cure [[TheOneGuy male]] example, as can [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Prince Kanata]] and [[Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure Black Pepper]]. |
| 433 | ** Every new Cure has either a different transformation (+ [[TransformationTrinket Trinket]]) or (semi-)completely different powers or both. Cure Passion, Cure Sunshine, Cure Beat, Cure Muse and Cure Honey have different powers than their teammates, Cure Moonlight has a shorter transformation (though it's still basically the same) because she has a different TransformationTrinket, and Shiny Luminous, Milky Rose, Cure Ace and Cure Scarlet fit both. Cure Fortune is interesting because she starts out as a Cure like the others, but gets her new Trinket when she actually joins the others. |
| 434 | ** ''[[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Hugtto]]'' plays around with this trope: Ma'Cherie and Amour join mid-way (giving a total of five Cures), but only ''four'' {{Transformation Trinket}}s were available initially. [[spoiler:They got the fifth one via an appropriately-timed DeusExMachina thanks to Emiru and Ruru's extremely strong desire to fight together.]] |
| 435 | * {{Slapstick}}: Much of the franchise's comedy involves one cure being put through slapstick. [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Erika Kurumi]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Kanade Minamino]] and [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Miyuki Hoshizora]] are the three most infamous examples, but [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Love Momozono]] and [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Nozomi Yumehara]] have their fair share of slapstick too. |
| 436 | * SliceOfLife: A good portion of each series is simply dedicated to the Cures' daily lives, with little interference from the villains outside of an obligatory fight scene in each episode. |
| 437 | * TheSmartGuy: Only those who doesn't have a double role. Mostly the blue Cures: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Aqua]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Moonlight]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Cure Beauty]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Diamond]]. [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Custard]], a yellow Cure, is an exception. |
| 438 | * SmurfettePrinciple: Despite being a MagicalGirl franchise, there are not many female villains. |
| 439 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'': Poisonny is the only female of the Dark Five. Later, Regine is the only female of the Seeds of Darkness. |
| 440 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Max Heart'': Viblis of the Four Guardians. |
| 441 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'': Not counting the Kiryuu sisters, Miss Shitataare is the only female of Dark Fall. |
| 442 | ** ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'': Arachnea is Bunbee's only female employee. Later, Hadenya is the only female member of the 2nd division. |
| 443 | ** ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Go Go'': Shibiretta is the only female employee of Eternal, besides the secretary Anacondy. |
| 444 | ** ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'': Eas of the three Labyrinth agents. She is later replaced by Northa. |
| 445 | ** ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': Sasorina of the three Desert Apostle Generals. And then, there is Dark Precure. |
| 446 | ** ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'': Siren is the only female from Minor Land. |
| 447 | ** ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'': Majorina of the Bad End Generals. The Bad End Precures appear for just one battle and they can arguably count as real members. |
| 448 | ** ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'': Marmo of the Selfish Trio. Regina shows up later, but eventually two new male villains are introduced. |
| 449 | ** ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'': Hoshiwa is the only female Phantom General. |
| 450 | ** ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'': Sparda is the only female out of Dokurokushe's minions. Benigyo is also the only one of Deusmast's kin that receives limelight. |
| 451 | ** ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'': Noir’s only female underling is Bibury. |
| 452 | ** ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'': Shidoine is the only female Byo-gen. |
| 453 | ** Special mention goes to Desparaia, the only female of nine {{Big Bad}}s in ten seasons. However, ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'' introduces a new female BigBad, Queen Mirage, [[spoiler: but it turns out there's a ManBehindTheMan.]] ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'' has yet another female BigBad, Dyspear, and ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'' has the Witch of Delays. [[spoiler:Darknest also qualifies since she’s really a Star Princess.]] |
| 454 | ** This also happens to the mascots from time to time. Milk is the only female of five mascots (Mailpo being counted), however, she is at least a main character. Chypre is the only female mascot who is introduced in ''Heartcatch'', considering that Potpourri's gender is unknown. And Hummy, as well as the Crescendo Tone, are the only female mascots in Suite while Siren was never a good mascot. Mipple was also the only female for a long time before Lulun was introduced. |
| 455 | * SpecialEditionTitle: Starting with ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5 GO!GO!'', whenever a movie is close to being premiered the title sequence of the currently airing season is replaced by scenes from the movie itself (while the standard opening theme plays). If the movie features a song, it'll usually play instead of the standard credits sequence. This continues for a few weeks after the movie premieres. |
| 456 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Only three series are officially subtitled, so character names are subject to differing romanizations depending on how fans translate them, with merchandise only occasionally offering a proper English spelling. |
| 457 | ** When it comes to Cures, at least, the GratuitousEnglish, [[GratuitousFrench French]], and [[GratuitousItalian Italian]] tends to mitigate this. The lone exception is ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure''[='s=] キュアマシェリ, a Japanese translation of the French phrase "ma chérie". Since the phrase is technically two words but most other Cures have one word names, fans are inconsistent on how it should actually be romanized. "Cure Macherie" and "Cure Ma'cherie" are both common, while "Cure Ma Chérie" is used by a smaller subset. |
| 458 | ** Other examples from mascots: [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Natts/Nuts]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Pafu/Puff]], [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Rate/Latte]]. |
| 459 | * SpinoffSendoff: |
| 460 | ** In a similar fashion to ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' after ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'', since ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'', it has become necessary for the past pink Cure to [[EarlyBirdCameo introduce the next leader]] at the end of the final episode of the finished season. With that, Cure Lovely got to introduce [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Flora.]] 50 episodes later, Flora does the same with [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Cure Miracle]]. |
| 461 | ** The transition got even more interesting and more Toku-like with the transition from Maho Girls to the next season. During the final episode, an epilogue [[spoiler:[[TimeSkip set a few years into the future]], while following an odd lollipop villain that looked like Dokurokushe and was stealing sweets]], Mirai, Lico and Haa-chan were transported to on front of the Kira Kira Patisserie. There, they met [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Ichika Usami]], one of the bakers there, who served up some nice treats for the girls. [[spoiler:Later, once they got up to that monster and were fighting, as the girls were about to lose him, they got help from a mysterious bunny-eared ally.]] Only until after the credits does Cure Miracle learn who this girl is: Cure Whip, the new lead Cure. |
| 462 | ** A year later, [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure a certain Hana Nono and a baby she was caring for]] visited the Kira Kira Patisserie. Then while the Kira Kira girls were fighting [[spoiler:the [[EvilCounterpart evil of Chouro-sama that split from himself proper]], and it seemed that the dark side would win, Cure Yell comes in and kicks Evil!Chouro's umbrella, which trapped Pekorin and her fellow fairies, open. Disappearing after cheering on the Kira Cures, Cure Yell/Hana returns in a post-credits scene to accept a cake from Cure Whip, which she baked with the rest of the Kira Cures to mark their moving on.]] |
| 463 | ** Again, at the end of Hana’s series, one last Oshimada is created by complete accident, and one [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Hikaru Hoshina]] shows up to help take it out. |
| 464 | ** Then at the end of Hikaru's series, she meets [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Nodoka Hanadera]] in the middle of the forest and exchange greetings before shortly jumping into a Giant Nottorei attack. Cure Grace then steps in and attacks, giving the Star Twinkle Cures a chance to purify the big brute. [[spoiler:This one is merely the dream of a now-adult Hikaru in the distant future]]. |
| 465 | ** To no one's surprise, [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Cure Summer]] appears during a fight in the Healin' Garden during that season. |
| 466 | ** Yui Nagomi meets the ''Tropical Rouge'' Cures when she mistook the riceball cardboard for the real food. Surprisingly, it occurs during [[Main/TheStinger The Stinger]] instead of the episode proper. |
| 467 | ** In the same manner as the previous season, Sora Harewataru meets the ''Delicious Party'' team by lending her Mirage Pen in order to write a message to [=CooKingdom=] before their trip. Unlike previous cameos, Sora isn't shown transforming into Cure Sky at all. |
| 468 | * SpoilerOpening: Own page [[SpoilerOpening/PrettyCure here]]. |
| 469 | * StockSoundEffects: The little pings and rings heard throughout the transformation sequences are repeated across all the Pretty Cure series, to the point that they're practically an entire series of [[SignatureSoundEffect Signature Sound Effects]]. |
| 470 | * StrictlyFormula: Not just individual episodes, but the series themselves. Some of the formulae below only apply to pre-''Fresh'' seasons and some only to ''Fresh'' and after, since that season discarded a lot of franchise traditions in favour of new ones. |
| 471 | ** This became particularly jarring from [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure 2009]] to [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure 2011]], which always had four-girl teams and a "cheat code" item appear at a late point to give the girls a new attack or set of costumes. |
| 472 | ** In all series, seasons, holidays, and school events (culture festival, sports meet, etc.) roughly line up with the real world according to episode airdates. This requires a little chronological fudging, as Pretty Cure series run from February to January but reflect the April to March Japanese school year. |
| 473 | ** Notable is that around episodes 20-24 (usually 23) something plot-related always happens, usually the appearance of a SixthRanger or the MidSeasonUpgrade. Plot important episodes also happen mostly during the Episode 30 mark where they get another upgrade (usually a Team Attack including the SixthRanger), and the Episode 40 mark (sometimes another team member or an improvement of their team attack). |
| 474 | ** Certain plots also may happen once per season, such as two of the Cures having a disagreement and nearly triggering the team's break-up. This one in particular is known as the "Episode 8 Curse" and is most common in the pre-''Fresh'' seasons. |
| 475 | ** An episode will feature one member of the team getting a real or imagined opportunity in acting/modeling/music/etc., with implications that they'll leave the area and cease all magical girl activities. [[spoiler:Never actually happens.]]\ |
| 476 | There is a variation of this formula in ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure''. Kirara did the normal variation where she screwed her overseas modeling chance to save a VictimOfTheWeek, but is then offered a bigger one at cost of [[ButNowIMustGo eventually leaving Japan to Paris]]. [[spoiler: She accepts. But her departure only happens at the end of the series, so she can still fight for the remainder of the series.]] |
| 477 | ** Most of the villains in ''Fresh'' and after will make a HeelFaceTurn by the end of the show by either purification ([[spoiler:[[Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure Desert Apostles]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Noise]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Pierrot's Three Subordinates]]]]), turning traitor ([[spoiler:[[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Westar and Souler]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Regina]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Shut, Lock]]]]), or flat out becoming a Pretty Cure themselves during the turnpoint of the season ([[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Setsuna]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Ellen]] and [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Towa]]). |
| 478 | ** It also seems that, from ''Fresh'' onwards, the first villain in the group to appear is the one who does a HeelFaceTurn first. Ellen and Setsuna, while Sasorina gets purified first out of ''Heartcatch'''s villains. ''Smile'' is an exception, as [[spoiler:all three members of the QuirkyMinibossSquad are purified at the same time]]. |
| 479 | ** ''Doki Doki'' inverts this with [[spoiler: Regina]], who is the last villain to make an appearance. [[spoiler: Also Inverted in that Regina is immediately brainwashed back to the side of evil afterwards... [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor before finally joining as]] an EleventhHourRanger.]] ''Happiness Charge'' is also an inversion, as [[spoiler: Phantom is last general to be introduced, and the first to be purified.]] A similar inversion also happened in ''Go Princess'', [[spoiler: Twilight was the last sentient villain (Stop & Freeze were basically upgraded Zetsuborg with little sentience or personality) introduced and then quickly purified into Towa and became Cure Scarlet.]] |
| 480 | ** There will be an episode/arc where the series' Fairy / NonHumanSidekick get kidnapped and the Pretty Cures have to rescue them. |
| 481 | ** There will also be an episode or arc where the newest or youngest fairy runs away; sometimes it's combined with the above. |
| 482 | ** The 41st episode is often focused on a yellow character: Urara (plus Komachi), Inori, Fary, Yayoi, and Alice. |
| 483 | ** Christmas or New Year's is usually used to kickstart the final arc of the series, so prepare for a MoodWhiplash from what seems to be AnAsskickingChristmas to [[CerebusSyndrome quickly get world-endingly worse.]] |
| 484 | * StudentCouncilPresident: Considering the middle school setting of the Cures, some Cures ''are'' presidents themselves, such as [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Karen]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Itsuki]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Minami]], and [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Madoka]]. [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Reika]] starts out as vice-president, and gets elected into the real deal late in the series. [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Mana]] is a main character ''and'' a StudentCouncilPresident to boot. |
| 485 | * SuperheroPrevalenceStages: |
| 486 | ** Most seasons are the '''Early Stage''': Each features a single team, with at most six members and no crossovers. |
| 487 | ** The first ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' movie heralds the '''Middle Stage''': a BatFamilyCrossover featuring characters from the six seasons screening up to that point (a total of 14 heroines). A new movie is made every year, incorporating the team from that season (and {{Sixth Ranger}}s from the previous season who had not been introduced when the last movie was released). By the time of the fifth movie (coinciding with the tenth season, ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure''), there are 32 Cures, and at one point in ''Doki Doki Precure'', one of the villains comments that at this rate it won't be long before there are a hundred. It is worth noting that these movies are not considered canon. This also applies to ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'', which establishes that ''all'' of the Cures (up to that point, around 60) are in danger thanks to the season's time-traveling villain. |
| 488 | ** ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'' has a '''Late Stage''', with Pretty Cures operating worldwide. It only applies to that season, however, due to the general AlternateContinuity nature of the main series. |
| 489 | * SupremeChef: [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Honoka, Hikari]], [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Saki]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Rin]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Kanade]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Akane, Nao]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Mana]]. |
| 490 | * TagalongKid: Ako and Aguri. Both are in elementary schools. Subverted though, Ako became a Cure before Hibiki and Kanade, and Aguri is TheMentor. |
| 491 | * TerribleTrio: Almost every QuirkyMinibossSquad has a main trio that is normally led by TheDragon, unless one of them ''is'' the dragon. The villainous trio is usually more active than the leader. Furthermore, there is a SmurfettePrinciple in every trio ([[Anime/SuitePrettyCure except one]]). |
| 492 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' has the Seeds of Darkness: Juna, Regine and Belzei Gertrude the leader. |
| 493 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Max Heart'' has the Four Guardians with Circulas, Uraganos and Viblis as the main trio [[spoiler:who even die together]]. The leader Baldez rarely shows up. |
| 494 | ** ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' has Bunbee's three subordinates Girinma, Gamao and Arachnea. Though, they never work as a trio. After they are killed, they are replaced by Bunbee himself, Hadenya and Bloody. Those three are "led" by Kawarino. |
| 495 | ** ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' has the three Labyrinth agents Eas, Westar and Soular, but none of them is the leader. Later, Eas is replaced by Northa who takes the leadership. |
| 496 | ** ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' has the Desert Apostle Generals Sasorina, Kumojacky and Cobraja, with Sabaku as their superior. |
| 497 | ** ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' has Trio the Minor, led by Siren. She is temporarily replaced by Bassdrum for a few episodes before returning as leader. After Siren's HeelFaceTurn, Bassdrum takes the leadership most of the time, Baritone becomes the leader for two episodes before being replaced by Bassdrum again, and finally Falsetto takes the final leadership. |
| 498 | ** ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' has the Bad End Generals Wolfrun, Akaoni and Majorina. Their superior is Joker. |
| 499 | ** ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'' has the Selfish Trio: Ira, Marmo and Bel. Their new leader Regina [[SpotlightStealingSquad steals their spotlight]]. Later, Leva and Gula are introduced, but they don't work with the trio. [[spoiler: At the end of the series, Bel tries to perform a DragonAscendant. [[SubvertedTrope Emphasis on tries.]]]] |
| 500 | ** ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'' has the Phantom Generals: Namakelda, Hoshiwa, and Oresky. In a bit of a twist, they don't have a leader; [[TheDragon Phantom]] prefers to work alone, and [[EvilGenius Deep Mirror]] is an adviser to the BigBad. It's also implied there are other Generals working around the world; one appears during the Hawaii episode. |
| 501 | ** ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'' has the Three Musketeers: Close, Lock and Shut. Their leader, [[DaddysLittleVillain Twilight]], only appears after [[spoiler: Close dies]]. The role of leader [[spoiler: passes to Shut after Twilight's HeelFaceTurn, and then passes to Close after he comes BackFromTheDead. Close then creates Stop and Freeze, becoming the leader of his own trio.]] |
| 502 | ** ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'' has the Dark Magicians Batty, Sparda and Gamettsu. Their superior is Yamoh. Deusmast has his own trio as well. |
| 503 | ** ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'' averts this, only two of Noir’s minions work around the same time to fight the Cures- Julio and Bibury in the first half, and Glaive and Elisio in the second half. |
| 504 | ** ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'' has the villains work in threes with Listol guiding them- Charalit, Ruru, and Papple in the first half, and Dr. Traum, Jelos, and Bishin in the second half. Daigan doesn’t qualify because he ends up becoming a BaitAndSwitchBoss. |
| 505 | ** ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'' has Kappard, Tenjo, and Aiwarn with Galogre commanding them. When Aiwarn is deported from the team, Galogre ends up taking the third spot. |
| 506 | ** ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'' has the three Tera-Byogens, Dairuzen, Shidoine, and Guaiwaru. While other Byogens do appear, these three are focused upon for the most part. |
| 507 | ** ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'' has Chongire, Numeri, and Elda with them taking commands from Butler. |
| 508 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: |
| 509 | ** In almost every season, the Pretty Cures use their new group FinishingMove to purify the MonstersOfTheWeek, despite those monsters not being any stronger than the previous ones. And the old {{Finishing Move}}s become SoLastSeason. |
| 510 | ** In ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'', Rainbow Storm is used very often, though Marble Screw is sometimes used, too. In most cases, Marble Screw would be okay, but Rainbow Storm is just an overkill. |
| 511 | ** In ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Max Heart'', Marble Screw Max Spark is unnecessary because the monsters are not that strong. We see Extreme Luminario sometimes, but Marble Screw Max is never seen again. And before Marble Screw Max Spark was introduced, Extreme Luminario was an overkill. |
| 512 | ** In ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', we see either Spiral Heart Splash or Spiral Star Splash, but not Twin Stream Splash. |
| 513 | ** This is averted in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'', Five Explosion is used only once against a MonsterOfTheWeek. The other times are against the QuirkyMinibossSquad members. |
| 514 | ** In ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5 GO!GO!'', Rainbow Rose Explosion and Metal Blizzard are used a lot. |
| 515 | ** In ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', we see all of the individual finishing moves at the same time, and later Lucky Clover Grande Finale a lot. The latter is justified because the Sorewatase are much stronger than the Nakewameke. |
| 516 | ** In ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', Heartcatch Orchestra is a lot for the Desertrians, even for the empowered ones. This attack kills [[GiantMook Desert Devils]], though. |
| 517 | ** In ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'', there are Suite Session Ensemble and Suite Session Ensemble Crescendo against the black-boned Negatone. The other attacks would be enough, even if they are used together. |
| 518 | ** Justified in ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'', where the blue nosed Akanbe, Super Akanbe and Hyper Akanbe can only be killed by Rainbow Healing, Rainbow Burst and Royal Rainbow Burst, respectively. These have relatively long sequences. |
| 519 | ** In ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'', we have Lovely Force Arrow against Regina's Jikochuu and Leva and Gula's combined Jikochuus because they have NoSell to the individual attacks, except with Ace Shot. Then we have Lovely Straight Flush against the Blood Ring Jikochuus, despite Ace Shot (and apparently Lovely Force Arrow) being enough. And finally, Royal Lovely Straight Flush is used to purify Regina's Jikouchuu who are even ''weaker'' than the previous Jikochuu types. |
| 520 | * TitleDrop: |
| 521 | ** The Pretty Cures always announce the title of the series after a group transformation (though prior to ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' it was just "Futari wa Pretty Cure"). |
| 522 | ** ''[[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Splash Star]]'' worked the subtitle into an attack name: ''Spiral Heart Splash Star''. |
| 523 | * TokenNonHuman: Every now and then, one of the Cures won't be human. |
| 524 | ** [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Shiny Luminous]] is actually the "life" of the Queen of Light, [[spoiler: although she [[BecomeARealBoy becomes a real girl]] at the end of ''Max Heart'']]. |
| 525 | ** [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Milky Rose]] and [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Cure Parfait]] are fairies capable of [[VoluntaryShapeshifting assuming human form]]. [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Beat]] used to be the same, although she becomes afflicted with ShapeshifterModeLock upon becoming a Cure. |
| 526 | ** [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Cure Amour]] is revealed to be a [[spoiler: RobotGirl]]. |
| 527 | ** Both [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Cure Milky and Cure Cosmo]] are aliens - Cure Milky of the HumanAlien variety while Cure Cosmo is an anthropomorphic cat who uses her shapeshifting powers to pose as a {{Catgirl}}. |
| 528 | ** ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'' has Cure Earth, a spirit. |
| 529 | ** Laura of ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'' is a mermaid. When she transforms into Cure La Mer, she also [[BecomeARealBoy becomes human]]. |
| 530 | * TrailersAlwaysSpoil: |
| 531 | ** New Cure? New power? If it's not in the title, it's in the next episode preview. |
| 532 | ** ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'', and ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'' went one step farther and showed that a [[SixthRanger new Cure]] would be arriving in earlier episode previews. ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'' didn't even bother trying to hide its {{Sixth Ranger}}s, who appeared in the TitleSequence. Of course it helps that said cure was the second Cure to make an appearance. |
| 533 | * TransformationIsAFreeAction: Justified in-universe, where the transformation takes place inside a barrier or appears as a bright flash of light to observers. Yanagita Rikao, a Japanese university professor, even provided a scientific explanation as to [[http://brickme.tumblr.com/post/94237039468/why-magical-girls-are-never-attacked-during-a why Cure Black and Cure White could never be attacked while transforming]]. Later seasons such as ''Kira Kira'' show that, to a bystander, Cure transformation is instantaneous and appears as a flash of light. |
| 534 | * TransformationExhilaration: The majority of the transformations are greeted with glee if not determination, with many including height, age, and hair color changes. ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'' in particular includes animal traits in the transformation. |
| 535 | * TransformationTrinket: Every single season has one. While some resemble cosmetics like perfume bottles or makeup kits, other resemble toys like cell phones or wands. |
| 536 | * TrueCompanions: |
| 537 | ** All teams wind up as a group of inseparable friends who would do anything for each other. |
| 538 | ** Rare villainous examples are [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure the Seeds of Darkness]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Bunbee]], [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Westar]] and [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure the Desert Apostle Generals]]. |
| 539 | * VerbalTic: Has its own page [[VerbalTic/PrettyCure here]]. |
| 540 | * VillainExitStageLeft: Some villains lack the power to teleport. Instead, they hide themselves and slip away unnoticed after their MonsterOfTheWeek is defeated. |
| 541 | * VillainTeleportation: Most teleport away from the Cures whenever they lose. |
| 542 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Some mascots can transform into humans: |
| 543 | ** [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Coco, Natts, Milk, Syrup]], [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Coupe]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Siren]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Pop, Candy]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Dabyi Charle, Raquel, Lance]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Miss Siamour]], [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode the Elder and Pekorin]], [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Harry]] all have this ability naturally. Most of them have another identity as humans: Coco/Koji Kokoda, Natts/Natsu, Milk/Kurumi Mimino, Syrup/Shiro Amai, Coupe/"Sora Hanasaki", Siren/Ellen Kurokawa, [[spoiler: Candy/Royale Candy]], Dabyi/DB, Kirarin/Ciel Kirahoshi, Pikario/Rio Kuroki. |
| 544 | ** Pop can also transform into ''anything'', but with MorphicResonance. |
| 545 | ** [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Mepple, Mipple, Pollun]], [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Flappy, Choppy]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Charle, Raquel, Lance and Dabyi]] can transform into [[TransformationTrinket Transformation Communes]]. [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Lullun]] can transform into the Miracle Commune, [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Milk]] could transform into a device, too (for the attack Five Explosion). [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Syrup]] can transform into a giant flying penguin. [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Chypre, Coffret and Potpourri]] can transform into flight capes. [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Melan]] can transform into a dragon. |
| 546 | ** In ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'', [[spoiler:Puff and Aroma get this power at the end of the series]]. |
| 547 | ** Many villains have this ability, most notably the ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' and ''Yes Pretty Cure 5 [=GoGo=]!'' villains. |
| 548 | * WakeUpCallBoss: Most seasons will typically throw something around the 10th or so episode that introduces something that ends up being a lot tougher than what the Cures have currently faced - whether if it's a stronger variant of the MonsterOfTheWeek, all of the villains so far teaming up against the Cures, or another villain added to the fray. This generally concludes with a group finisher with the current Pretty Cure formation. |
| 549 | * WaterIsWomanly: Cure Aqua, Cure Diamond, Cure Mermaid, Cure Fontaine, and Cure [=LaMer=] have their main color as a shade of blue and water powers, along with being the more mature and feminine members of their teams. |
| 550 | * WhamLine: [[WhamLine/PrettyCure See examples here.]] |
| 551 | * WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Starting with ''Go! Princess'', the last or next-to-last episode of each season features a timeskip with older versions of the Pretty Cure team. The only series that make an exception to this formula (for now) are ''Healin' Good'', ''Tropical-Rouge'' and ''Delicious Party''. |
| 552 | * WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Practically all seasons of Pretty Cure have no real way to figure out where they are on a distinct map. Standout examples of real places, however, include ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'', which is explicitly set in Koizumi Gakuen, which is based on Ooizumi Gakuen, Nerima. |
| 553 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Several Pretty Cures are all terrorfied of ghosts. These Cures being. [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Rin]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Ellen]], [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Nao]], [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Minami]], [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Manatsu]] and [[Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure Amane]]. |
| 554 | * WonderTwinPowers: The first three seasons and ''Suite''. ''Heartcatch'' also has this to a lesser extent. ''Mahou Tsukai'' brings this concept back, while ''Hugtto'' uses an interesting take of this by using this on their SixthRanger instead. |
| 555 | * WorldOfTechnicolorHair: While in ''Futari Wa'' the hair colors were pretty normal and only supernatural characters had inhuman colors, starting with ''Splash Star'' and officalized with ''Yes! 5'', natural hair colors that aren't genetically possible in real life, including pink, blue, green, purple, and so on, became the norm rather than the exception, and nobody treats this as unusual. |
| 556 | * YellowPurpleContrast: Cure Twinkle and Cure Soleil follow this colour scheme, in both cases to follow a {{Cosmic Motif|s}}. |
| 557 | |
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| 559 | --> '''Statler''': So, how come I've never heard of this ''Pretty Cure'' thing?\ |
| 560 | '''Waldorf''': Don't worry, I'm pretty cure nobody else has heard of it, either!\ |
| 561 | '''Both''': [[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!]] |
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