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6[[caption-width-right:350:In the middle: [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife Cure Dream]] | Clockwise from bottom left: [[BitchInSheepsClothing Milk]], [[BadassBookworm Cure Mint]], [[TheLancer Cure Rouge]], [[PrinceCharming Coco]], [[AscendedExtra Milky]] [[SomethingAboutARose Rose]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Nuts]], [[IdolSinger Cure Lemonade]], [[YamatoNadeshiko Cure Aqua]], [[FlyingPostman Syrup]]]]
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9->''"The great power of hope! Cure Dream!"''\
10''"The red flame of passion! Cure Rouge!"''\
11''"The effervescent scent of lemon! Cure Lemonade!"''\
12''"The tranquility of the green earth! Cure Mint!"''
13->''"The blue spring of intelligence! Cure Aqua!"''
14->''"The blue rose is the proof of secrets! Milky Rose!"''
15->''"The power of hope and the lights of the future!"''
16->''"Five hearts flap their wings to magnificence!"''
17->''"Yes! Pretty Cure 5!"''
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19''Yes! Pretty Cure 5'' is the fourth entry in the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise. The title comes from the fact that this time, there are ''five'' Cures instead of two.
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21Nozomi Yumehara is an [[GenkiGirl energetic]] though [[IdiotHero dimwitted]] girl who is DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife. She meets a [[{{Bishonen}} hot guy]] in a chance encounter, follows him into the library, and before she knows it her belief in the importance of following your dreams has turned her into a MagicalGirl with a [[NonHumanSidekick sidekick who looks like a yellow plush tanuki]]. Within a few episodes, she's assembled a complete [[TrueCompanions team]]:
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23* '''[[color:deeppink:Cure Dream]]''', Pretty Cure of [[WideEyedIdealist Hope]]. Nozomi herself, who stays [[TheDitz positive and cheerful]], even though she's [[ThisLoserIsYou generally a screwup]] and well aware of it.
24* '''[[color:orangered:Cure Rouge]]''', Pretty Cure of [[PersonalityPowers Passion]]. Rin Natsuki, Nozomi's [[TheLancer childhood friend]], known for [[{{Tomboy}} her athletic prowess]] and [[DeadpanSnarker biting sarcasm]]. Easily frightened, but the idea of losing Nozomi is scarier than any monster. (Not to be confused with a Cure Passion from [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure a different series]].)
25* '''[[color:gold:Cure Lemonade]]''', Pretty Cure of [[TooLongDidntDub Bursting or Bubbliness or Effervescence or something]]. Urara Kasugano, an up-and-coming child actress and IdolSinger. Has trouble making friends due to her busy schedule.
26* '''[[color:forestgreen:Cure Mint]]''', Pretty Cure of [[TheQuietOne Tranquility]]. Komachi Akimoto, an aspiring writer who's getting discouraged by a lack of positive feedback. She's extremely nice and rarely gets angry, and believe us, [[BewareTheNiceOnes that's very fortunate.]] [[{{Expy}} Absolutely not]] [[Manga/TokyoMewMew Minto Aizawa or Retasu Midorikawa]].
27* '''[[color:blue:Cure Aqua]]''', Pretty Cure of [[TheSmartGuy Intelligence]]. Karen Minazuki, [[{{Ojou}} ridiculously wealthy]] StudentCouncilPresident. Responsible, kind-hearted, and independent... [[LonersAreFreaks in all the wrong ways]], as she quickly discovers.
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29With the help of extradimensional tanuki duo Coco and Nuts, their goal is to [[GottaCatchEmAll collect fifty-five creatures]] called Pinkies in order to complete the [[MacGuffin "Dream Collet"]], enabling it to grant a single wish and restore Coco and Nuts' destroyed homeworld. Though you would be forgiven for forgetting about this subplot, since Pinky-collecting is usually treated as an aside when nothing else is going on. The majority of screentime is given to the Pretty Cures' fight against the Nightmare Group, an [[CorruptCorporateExecutive evil corporation]] who wish to steal the Dream Collet for their BigBad queen, the [[CoolMask mask-wearing]] Despariah. Later, the Pretty Cure get another ally in the form of Milk, a rabbit-earred mascot creature who gives them their MidSeasonUpgrade.
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31''Yes!'' [[BrokenBase produced more than a few waves in the Western fandom]] when it discarded many of the synonymous ''Anime/PrettyCure'' tropes in favour of a more traditional formula. Despite this, the character development is good, the action is solid and it still retains some of the [[GoodOldFisticuffs fistfighting combat]] and PostModernism that makes ''Anime/PrettyCure'' stand out in the MagicalGirl genre. It also started the trend of having ''every'' [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull transformation phrase]] and [[CallingYourAttacks special attack]] include the phrase [[TitleDrop "Pretty Cure"]] (where previously it was confined to the FinishingMove).
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33''Yes!'' proved popular enough to get a direct sequel called ''Yes! [=PreCure=] 5 [=GoGo=]!''. After [[SoLastSeason upgrading their powers]], the Pretty Cure 5 team is recruited to protect the mysterious Cure Rose Garden from Eternal, an evil museum that steals and stockpiles priceless treasures from across the universe. To do this, the Pretty Cure have to [[GottaCatchEmAll track down the four missing rulers]] of the kingdoms that neighbour the Kingdom of Palmier, as they hold the [[MacGuffin four keys]] that unlock the path to the Cure Rose Garden.
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35''[=GoGo!=]'' had a NonSerialMovie in the form of Anime/YesPrettyCure5GoGoTheMovieHappyBirthdayInTheLandOfSweets. It was followed by the next installment, ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', in 2009.
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37Along with new mascot creature Syrup, an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot orange flying penguin mailman]], the Pretty Cure get a SixthRanger:
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39* '''[[color:mediumorchid:Milky Rose]]''', Kurumi Mimino, an [[InsufferableGenius arrogant]] [[TheAce Ace]] and NewTransferStudent. As Milky Rose, she is a powerful AloofAlly who draws her strength from a separate Power Rose from the other Cures.
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41On March 14, 2023, [[https://anime-precure.com/news/00021/index.html an adult-focused sequel was announced]], under the name of ''Anime/PowerOfHopePrecureFullBloom'' (''Kibou no Chikara ~Otona Pretty Cure '23~'', lit. ''Power of Hope ~Adult Pretty Cure '23~''). The series started airing on October 7, 2023 for Creator/{{NHK}} Educational.
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45!!This program provides examples of:
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47* AccidentalHero: Urara in TheMovie: [[spoiler:the ''only'' reason that the villain's plan failed is because Urara forgot to transfer the last MacGuffin to the Dream Collet]].
48* AccidentalMarriage: Accidental ChildhoodMarriagePromise.
49* ActionGirl: All of the Pretty Cure and Milky Rose are quite capable of beating down monsters and bad guys on a weekly basis.
50* AerithAndBob: While the first four cures have traditional Japanese names, Karen is the only one to have an English Sounding name.
51* AllPartOfTheShow: Episode 12.
52%%* AlmostKiss
53* AloofAlly: Milky Rose initially is elusive about her identity, not revealing anything about herself to the main characters.
54* AloofArcher: Karen with her attack "Pretty Cure Sapphire Arrow." Befittingly, she's also the most analytical member of the group, being the Cure of Intelligence.
55* AlternateContinuity: To the other series.
56* AmbiguousSituation: As it's shown that it's not enough to simply call the Kowaina to summon them, it leads to ambiguousness how Gamao is able to obtain Kowaina Masks even after he run away from Nightmare.
57* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Rin's younger siblings, the twins Yu and Ai, can be an annoyance to her when she's trying to get something done or look after the shop, but Rin still loves them.
58* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Nozomi. Although it's never outright stated, she displays a lot of the symptoms of ADHD.
59** In episode 11, Nozomi gets an ''18'' on a math test. She studies with Coco and company and manages to raise that up to a ''35'' by the end of the episode. In the same episode, Nozomi manages to finish reading a book for the first time in her life.
60** CharacterDevelopment eventually lets Nozomi grow out of this trope, though, although still a ditz.
61* AudibleGleam: This is Pretty Cure. You won't get five minutes into an episode without sparkles.
62* BaitAndSwitchCredits: While they're ''mostly'' accurate, the first opening briefly features Karen showcasing her musical talent the violin. In the series proper, the only instrument she's known to play is piano.
63* BarrierWarrior: Komachi/Mint's primary attack is creating a barrier to ward off attacks, though she occasionally manages offensive tricks with it. Her Emerald Saucer in ''Go Go'' is more offensive, but is used as a shield sometimes.
64* BatmanInMyBasement: Nozomi struggles to hide Coco in her house before he moves out to the Nuts House.
65* BattleInTheRain: Episode 10 of ''Go Go''. And the girls actually ''do'' slip on the wet ground a few times.
66%%* BecauseDestinySaysSo
67* BetaCouple: Nuts/Komachi, with Coco/Nozomi as the Alpha. In addition, both Syrup/Urara and Karen/Kurumi could count as the Gamma Couple.
68* BewareTheNiceOnes: The very first sign that the ''really'' nice Komachi needs to be watched out for was when she suddenly slammed the table and scolded the crowd that pestered Karen for her StudentCouncilPresident permissions. When Hadenya pushed her too far, she not only effortlessly block her attacks like a total badass, but shows that for a BarrierWarrior, she's also capable of unleashing untold destruction with that barrier.
69* BigDamnKiss: The first kiss of the two in the franchise’s whole animated canon is dedicated to Nozomi breaking Coco out of his villainous brainwashing in the [=GoGo=] movie.
70* BigEater: If you're not Komachi, raise your hand.
71* BigFancyHouse: ''Holy crap'', Karen! And that's not even including her ''private island'', or ''private mountain resort'', or just countless of other smaller houses...
72* BittersweetEnding: The first series. Although Nightmare is defeated and Coco now has the means to restore the Palmier Kingdom, he and the rest of the Palmier Kingdom citizens have to separate with Nozomi and friends, and to reach the Palmier Kingdom, the Precures give up their ability to become Precures and resume their life as normal girls. Not to worry, the second season's preview is right after the ending credits, so we know things will be less bitter soon.
73** In ''Go Go'', it was a lot more SWEET with some minor bitterness: [[spoiler:Eternal is destroyed, but Flora dies as well. She is, however, reborn in seed form, leaving it to the care of the Cures. Furthermore, the Cure Rose Garden becomes a free-to-visit and the Cures not only are able to resume walking forward to their dreams, they can visit the Palmier kingdom anytime unlike the first season]].
74* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Nozomi and Rin respectively, with Nozomi being a [[WideEyedIdealist chirpy, optimistic]] [[TheDitz idiot]] and [[TheCynic realist]] Rin providing a more [[SurroundedByIdiots normal]] point of view.
75* BookEnds: The series proper begins with Nozomi running around a corner and crashing into Coco, who catches her. [[spoiler:''Go Go'' ends with Nozomi running to deliver a letter to Coco via Syrup, only to run around the same corner and into Coco himself, who again catches her in his arms.]]
76* BorrowedCatchPhrase: [[spoiler:''[=GoGo!=]'''s final episode ending had the ''whole'' team shout "Kettei!" together with Nozomi.]]
77* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Coco in the ''Go Go'' movie is brainwashed by Mushiban and forced to fight Cure Dream]].
78* ButNotTooForeign: Urara, half-Japanese and half-French.
79* ButtMonkey: Coco suffers this through most of the first season; ''Go Go!'' lightens up on his load a bit but does so by delegating the role to poor Syrup instead.
80* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Pretty Cure, Metamorphose!"
81* CallingYourAttacks: Every attack is prefaced by shouting "Pretty Cure *Attack of Choice*". Since Milky Rose isn't a Cure, she calls out her name in front of her attack.
82* CassandraTruth: "No, no! This is no wristwatch!"
83* ChairReveal: A lot of the villains do this.
84* CharacterCatchphrase: Nozomi's "It's decided!"/"Kettei!"
85* CharacterDevelopment: This is pretty prevalent in this series, by the end of the series, the girls have come out to be different than how they were introduced. For example, Nozomi is less scatterbrained and more focused in her dream that she found out, being a teacher. Rin is more open to her more feminine hobbies (like accessory making) while still going with her tomboyish activities (like soccer). Karen becomes less self-dependant and lonely, accepting help and also works her way to be a doctor.
86* ChekhovsGun: In episode 32 of ''Go Go'', Precure and Milky Rose get shrunk, and there's a scene where Nozomi rushes to a piece of candy on the ground. She later uses it to get the ants away from the group.
87* CherryBlossoms: Used to add more of a dramatic, mysterious feeling to Syrup's first scene in [=GoGo=]. And to make him look more of a {{Bishonen}}.
88* ChestInsignia: Stylized butterflies.
89* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: Crepe is convinced that Coco made one of these to her. Although it turns out that it was a cross-cultural misunderstanding, she won't take no for an answer.
90%%* TheChosenOne: Er, sort of.
91* ChristmasEpisode: Episode 46 from the first season and episode 44 from ''Go Go''.
92* ClarkKenting: Aside from changing their hairstyles, the Cures look pretty much the same as they do in civilian form, yet no one guesses their identities, not even Mika, who gets up close to them several times.
93* ClingyJealousGirl: Milk towards Coco, which explains most of her animosity toward Nozomi; once Crepe appears, the three of them succumb to a jealous war over the poor guy. Syrup, on the other hand, is fought over by Nozomi, Kurumi and Urara. And then there's Anacondy...
94* ClubPresident: Mika is the ClubPresident for the school newspaper, and only member by default, since her obsessive personality drove everyone else out.
95* CombinedEnergyAttack: in the form of a magic kamikaze mecha-butterfly in the first season, and the form of a giant man-eating rose in the second season.
96* ComesGreatResponsibility: Nozomi's initial proposed uses for the Dream Collet.
97* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In Episode 9, Mika posts an article that says what Nozomi, Rin and Urara ate during break. Rin is enraged by this but once she reads about Nozomi's lunch (curry and donuts), said girl replies offended that she also ate a melon bread. Urara too, instead of being angry, is happy to see how cute she looked in the photo.
98* ComicBookTime: Used to avoid the question of why Precure (and everyone else) seem to have been held back a year in school in ''Go Go''.
99* ContinuityNod: In episode 40, Nozomi doesn't figure out that Otaka-san is the Chief Director until Rin says it. She and Urara have a BigWhat reaction. This happens again in episode 44 of ''[=GoGo=]'' with Santa Claus.
100** Also in episode 14 of ''[=GoGo=]'' with Milky Rose.
101* CoolMask: Pretty much the whole point of the Nightmare Group.
102* DancingTheme: Both versions of Ganbalance de Dance.
103* DarkMagicalGirl: [[TheMovie The first movie]] features the Dark Pretty Cure, dark copies of the original Cures.
104* DeadpanSnarker: Rin, Nuts.
105* DebutQueue: Introduction of the Cures.
106* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:Despariah, Dark Dream]]. Seems to be an exclusive power of Nozomi's: the other Cures just kill their enemies. However, as seen in the first movie, even Nozomi has her limits. Enemy subordinates, though? Tough luck... [[spoiler:unless you're Bunbee]].
107* DemBones: Rin gets frightened by a skeleton a few times in episode 27. That episode's Kowainaa is even a giant skeleton.
108* DemonicInvaders: Nightmare may disguise itself as a corporation, but part of its purpose is to plunge Earth into despair.
109* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Nozomi, Rin, and Karen all try to find out their dreams over the course of the series. Nozomi in particular was searching for her purpose right before becoming a Cure.
110* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Nozomi tries to sing a snippet of the OP in episode 33 before Rin cuts her off.
111* DietEpisode: In one episode, Coco goes on a diet because he got fat (although you never really see the difference in his human form) from eating too many cream puffs.
112* DisappearedDad: Not in-universe (except for Taro Minazuki), but all five characters' fathers seem to have a lot of trouble getting screentime. Only Urara's and Nozomi's ever appeared, and even then their combined total appearances are in the single digits.
113* DistractedByTheSexy: Happened concerning the school reporter. Whenever it's possible the girls were caught on camera, Mr. Natts would show up and she'd focus more on him than the girls in terms of article importance.
114* TheDragon: Kawarino, who has his own Dragon in Bunbee.
115* EdibleThemeNaming: Everybody in the Palmier Kingdom is named after sweet food.
116* ElegantGothicLolita: Dark Dream.
117* ElementalHairColors: It's pretty easy to figure out which character has which elemental power just from looking at them.
118* ElementalPowers: In order: [[HeartBeatDown Heart]], [[PlayingWithFire Fire]], [[LightEmUp Light]], [[GreenThumb Earth]], [[MakingASplash Water]], and [[PetalPower Rose Petals]].
119* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:
120** Desparaiah wants to bring despair to the entire world, like she already did to the Palmier Kingdom.
121** The Director of Eternal isn't directly trying to destroy Earth, but when he starts blowing up the Cure Rose Garden, Earth starts being erased.
122* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler: Coco after he has undergone the BrainwashedAndCrazy trope]].
123* EvilInc: Both Nightmare and Eternal are corporation-like organizations devoted to some shady goal. Much talk about promotions and submitting reports goes around.
124* EvilMinions: The workers for the aforementioned evil organizations.
125* EvilTwin: In TheMovie in the form of the Dark Pretty Cure. Each of them fights their original counterpart.
126* EvolvingCredits: Most notably, the addition of Milk and Pretty Cure Five Explode.
127* ExpressiveHair: Nozomi.
128* FestivalEpisode: Episode 28 of the first season and episode 27 of ''Go Go'', both Summer festivals.
129* FirstKiss: Nozomi won't shut up about how she envisions hers. [[spoiler:It's heavily implied to happen exactly as she envisioned, though we don't get to see it.]]
130* FirstNameBasis: Rin and Karen.
131* FleetingDemographic: Young girls.
132* FlightOfRomance: Syrup takes Urara flying in episode 40 of ''Go Go''.
133* FoeRomanceSubtext: The Director of Eternal and Flora. He's not actually interested in her, but Anacondy suspects he is, and he acts rather stalker-ish and obsessive towards Flora.
134* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Among five people. Nozomi and Urara are sanguine, Rin is choleric, Komachi is phlegmatic, and Karen is melancholic.
135* FracturedFairyTale: Milk fractured Cinderella in the first season: casting Nozomi as a super clumsy Cinderella, Urara as an equally clumsy Good Witch, Rin, Karen and Komachi as the Definitely-Not-Wicked Stepsisters and Stepmother... and every of the cast got MediumAwareness that they're in a Cinderella story. It was only done midway before the midnight ball done, but Rin and Karen still [[QuestionableCasting complain on how they're cast as the 'villains']]. [[invoked]]
136* FrillyUpgrade: ''Wings'' Of Justice; later, Jackets, and later, Even Bigger Wings of Justice.
137* GagSub: Yadokan and Isogin have almost the exact same lines, some fansubbers still translate them in completely different ways.
138* GenkiGirl: Nozomi is always bubbling with energy. If she doesn't have anything to do, she immediately goes looking for something to do.
139* GirlishPigtails: Played straight by Urara in both forms, and Nozomi in civillian form. Cure Dream's hair seems more like a bizarre take on {{odango}}, with rings replacing the usual buns.
140* GoodHairEvilHair: Nozomi has Innocent/Ignorant Pigtails.
141* GratuitousEnglish: ''right there in the title.'' Also notice that the team says "Yes!" rather than "Hai!" when they are about to do something flashy.
142** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkhtGTo8fXg This little moment]] from season 1 episode 20 combines this with SpellingSong.
143--> '''Nozomi''': "L"
144--> '''Rin''': "O"
145--> '''Komachi''': "V"
146--> '''Karen''': "E"
147--> '''Everyone in Unison''': Love! Love! U-ra-ra!
148* GratuitousFrench: The school's MeaningfulName, L'Ecole des Cinq Lumieres, literally translates to "The School of the Five Lights". This has no direct relationship with the five lights that protected the Palmier Kingdom, but it is where those five lights found the protagonists so they can become [[MagicalGirlWarrior Pretty Cures]].
149* HeavySleeper: Nozomi is hard to awake, especially when she's dreaming about food.
150* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Komachi's romance novel.
151* HoldingYourShoulderMeansInjury: Nearly every fight has one or two Cures holding their shoulders regardless of where they were hit.
152%%* HopeSpot: Subverted.
153* HotForStudent: Coco's human guise, Kouji, is a teacher... why this relationship doesn't really {{Squick}} anyone is a mystery for the ages.
154* IdiotHero: Nozomi has consistently terrible grades and has a difficult time figuring out the obvious. For example, she had to be told Milky Rose's true identity even after she transformed right in front of her.
155* IdolSinger: Urara wants to be an actress, but she ends up debuting as a singer to some hesitation. She later decides she enjoys it.
156* ImageSong: Lots; Urara sings hers in-universe.
157* ImprobableWeaponUser: Lemonade's castanets.
158* InASingleBound: The Cures can all jump super high, which shocks Dream when she first transforms.
159* IncomingHam: Mika.
160* InterspeciesRomance: Coco and Nozomi, Komachi and Nuts, possibly Karen and Milk, and Urara and Syrup. Mika also have an unrequited crush on Nuts.
161* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Individually and together.
162* InvisibleToNormals: Subverted early on, later used straight.
163* JoustingLance: Episode 34 has Karin joust with Hadenya while on horseback using lance of water.
164* JumpedAtTheCall: Nozomi, before she even knew there ''was'' a CallToAdventure to jump at.
165* KamehameHadoken: The offensive version of Mint Shield.
166* {{Kiai}}: In the Italian dub, Cure Dream's attacks fall under this. She ''growls'', which makes sense considering [[Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger the Super Sentai series the first season was paired with]].
167* LadyOfWar: Karen.
168* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Syrup.
169* LaserBlade: Played straight by Cure Aqua's sword in the movie, even leading to some fantastic [[BladeLock Blade Locks]] with Dark Aqua's very own LaserBlade. Subverted as the Cure Fleurets are never used for direct combat.
170* LateForSchool: And Karen would have none of that, as Nozomi found out.
171* TheLeader: Nozomi is chosen as one as she was the one who gathers them. However, in ''[=GoGo=]!'', Nozomi claimed that she's not one, and they probably don't need one, when Bunbee offered himself to be the Precure leader.
172* LethalChef: Though they got better during episode 21 of [=''GoGo''=].
173* LighterAndSofter: This is supposed to be where the franchise takes a lighter-hearted turn as opposed to the dark themes of the previous seasons, especially ''[[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Splash Star]]''. However, [[VileVillainSaccharineShow it is not without some utterly despicable villains]] like Kawarino or Eternal's Director.
174* LimitedSocialCircle: The girls are rarely, if ever shown interacting with other friends they might have, and they do everything with only each other. Rin has some friends due to her club activities, but that's about it.
175* LonelyRichKid: Karen.
176* LuckyCharmsTitle: The song lyrics.
177* MagicalGirl: All the Pretty Cure and Milky Rose are imbued with power that they have to transform to use.
178* MagicalGirlWarrior: They use their power to punch, kick, throw, shoot, and blow up monsters and villains on a weekly basis.
179* MerchandiseDriven: Toys such as the Pinky Catch are on display all the time, and the Cures themselves have dolls and the like made of them.
180* {{Metamorphosis}}: But it has nothing to do with "Metamorphose!"
181* MidSeasonUpgrade: Pretty Cure Symphony Set, Cure Fleurets and Milky Mirror.
182* MinionShipping: Bunbee sure seems more concerned about Arachnea than the rest of the QuirkyMinibossSquad...
183** He also sheds tears when his Eternal superior Scorp ([[HoYay a guy]]) is killed.
184* MirrorMatch: In the first movie between the team and their respective dark counterparts.
185* MissingMom: Urara's mother died when she was still young, leaving Urara with very little memories of her, which is the subject of episode 19.
186* ModestyShorts: Worn as part of the team uniforms.
187* MonsterOfTheAesop: In ''Anime/PrettyCure'' tradition, the monsters can get pretty weird in order to match the theme of the episode.
188* MonsterOfTheWeek: Kowainaa and later on, Hoshinaa.
189* MonstrosityEqualsWeakness
190* MorphWeapon: Aqua Ribbon.
191* MouseWorld: Episode 32 of ''Go Go'', where Mucardia shrinks the girls.
192* TheMovie: Three of them, one for each season, with the third one set to be a {{Crossover}} with the cast of ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure''.
193* MultipleDemographicAppeal: The show is nominally marketed primarily towards young girls, but it has a sizable older fanbase as well, both male and female.
194* MundaneUtility: Early on, Nozomi wanted to use the Dream Collet to... get her homework done.
195* MusicalAssassin: Dark Lemonade has a singing attack.
196* MythologyGag: [[MythologyGag/PrettyCure Has its' own page]].
197* NearVillainVictory: The Precure 5 has several moments where they're nearly, completely ''beaten''.
198** In the first season, Kawarino managed to put Despair Masks on ''all'' the Cures and sent them over the DespairEventHorizon... Until Coco leaps through and snaps Nozomi out of it, followed by her freeing the rest.
199** In the second season, there are two occasions:
200*** Mucardia managed to trap Nozomi, Rin, Urara and Komachi in his rigged game of ''Five de Chance'', and then cornered Karen into a game she really sucks at: Coin Toss. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain But then he gets impatient and grabs Karen's arm, rendering the guess he could've called correctly wrong, thus freeing the others]].
201*** Anacondy petrified all of the main Cures and turned them into Eternal collections as the Eternal Director makes his flight to the Cure Rose Garden (oh and he kills Anacondy afterwards). Even with Milky Rose, she wouldn’t be enough to single-handedly beat the Director and she doesn't know Eternal base's interior well enough to find out where the Cures are taken. But suddenly, Bunbee comes in and nonchalantly shows her the way just before he calls it quits for real, so Milky Rose and the other mascots reach the Cures, give them a pep talk that restores them from petrification, so they can catch up and deliver a righteous beatdown to the Director.
202%% * NeverFoundTheBody: Bunbee.
203%% * NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Aqua's sword.
204%% * NewTransferStudent: Urara, Kurumi.
205* NoblewomansLaugh: The first movie the girls have to try it in their PimpedOutDress at [[AmusementPark Princess Land]].
206%% * NonHumanSidekick: Coco, Nuts and Syrup.
207%% * NoOntologicalInertia: Significant to the early plot!
208%% * OddCouple: Both Nozomi/Rin and Karen/Komachi.
209%% * OddFriendship: ...you know what? ''Everyone.''
210%% * OddlyNamedSequel
211%% * OfficialCouple: Coco and Nozomi.
212%% * {{Ojou}}: Karen and Komachi.
213%% * OminousOperaCape
214* TheOneGuy: Well, three total in the form of Coco, Nuts and Syrup.
215* OneWingedAngel: When a member of the QuirkyMinibossSquad assumes one of these forms, then their final death is not far away.
216* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase: "Watch it, watch it, watch it, 'kay?"
217* ParentalAbandonment: Karen's parents are explicitly absent, while Komachi's parents are mysteriously never seen.
218* PersonalityPowers: Quite explicitly so; for example, [[ElementalRockPaperScissors Rin (fire) and Karen (water)]] get an episode devoted to how they do ''not'' get along.
219* PieInTheFace: Nozomi in the ''Go Go'' movie, albeit by accident, when the group end up in the Dessert Kingdom, and she lands face-first into a cream pie flower.
220* PimpedOutDress: [[http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/5834/xieyesprettycure5miracl.jpg The girls]] get one for their trip to [[AmusementPark Princess Land]] in [[TheMovie the first movie]].
221* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Syrup in mascot and transportation form.
222* PostEpisodeTrailer: That [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil always spoils]].
223* PowerGivesYouWings: Butterfly wings, and in the case of [[spoiler: Shining Dream]], fluffy white angel wings.
224* ThePowerOfFriendship: Used straight ''and'' subverted.
225* PrettyButterflies: The Cures have butterflies in their uniforms and attacks.
226* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Milk; Bunbee and Mika in ''[=GoGo!=]''
227%% * PropheticNames
228%% ** StevenUlyssesPerhero: Hope Dream-hara... er, Nozomi.
229%% * PummelDuel: Bloody and Cure Dream have a brief one.
230* PunnyName: "But from now on, call me... Masukomi-ka!"
231* QuirkyMinibossSquad
232* RealMenWearPink: A guy in episode 41 of ''Go Go'' wears a lot of accessories, including girly ones. He does this because they're gifts from his little sister.
233* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Dark Dream]].
234* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:Coco when he has been BrainwashedAndCrazy]].
235* RedOniBlueOni: Played straight with Cure Rouge and Cure Aqua, but inverted with Nuts (wears red more, is quieter) and Coco (wears blue more, is outgoing).
236* RedPillBluePill: And Rin went for the blue... and promptly tossed it away and picked red instead.
237* RefusalOfTheCall: Rin; Karen after initially failing to transform.
238* RepeatCut: Just... [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JCiKnu-7kWY watch this]].
239* RunawayBride: Komachi wants to become one someday... seriously. She said it'd be good in the viewpoint of storytelling.
240%% * SchoolFestival: Episode 36 of the first season (it's a sports one).
241%% * SchoolNewspaperNewsHound: Mika.
242* {{Sentai}}: This is the first Precure to adapt a FiveManBand style similar to ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' or ''Franchise/PowerRangers''.
243%% * SealedGoodInACan: Nuts.
244%% * SeriesFranchise
245* SelfAppliedNickname: Supporting character Mika Masuko, who's a reporter for Cinq Lumieres' school newspaper, insists on being referred to as "Masukomi-ka", a play on the Japanese abbreviation for "mass communication". Nobody ever calls her that, though.
246* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:The entire Dream Collet plotline. Though Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, because this trope becomes a point on how Coco is able to rally the Palmier Kingdom to break away from the Nightmare Mask and rebuild the Kingdom again even when the Dream Collet ran out of use by Desperaia.]]
247* ShipTease: Lots, mostly involving Karen or Nozomi.
248%% * {{Shojo}}
249* ShoutOut: The pirate ship monster appears to have [[Franchise/{{PiratesOfTheCaribbean}} a tricorner hat and rope "dreadlocks"]].
250** Season 1 episode 43's fansubs gives us this exchange:
251--> '''Rin''': ([[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger points at Hadenya]]) "[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} A wild Nightmare appears!]]"
252--> '''Hadenya''': "[[LampshadeHanging Don't treat people like monsters! Though I guess I am kind of monstrous...]]"
253** Season 2 episode 9 gives Komachi giving [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger trademark pointer fingers]] while finding culprits of a 'crime'... [[Franchise/AceAttorney not unfamiliar to a certain defense attorney]].
254** The cover of Urara's single, "Tobikkiri! Yuuki no Tobira", is mimics the limited edition cover of [[Music/HelloProject Koharu Kusumi's]] first album, ''[[Manga/KirarinRevolution Mitsuboshi]]''.
255* ShowWithinAShow: Urara appeared on several, one of them being, apparently, ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar''.
256* ShyFingerTwiddling: Nozomi breaks into this in episode one after getting yelled at by Rin for not staying in one school club and for her [[CuteClumsyGirl clumsy]] ways.
257%% * SickEpisode: Episode 15 (Nozomi's mother) and episode 34 (Milk) of the original season.
258%% ** Episode 39 (Montblanc) of ''Go Go''.
259* SignificantNameShift: After fighting for a whole episode, Rin and Karen use each others' first names as an indication of having developed respect for each other.
260%% * SixthRanger: Kurumi/Milky Rose.
261%% * SlasherSmile: The reflection of the Mask of Despair in Rin's and Urara's eyes.
262%% * SoLastSeason
263* SomethingAboutARose: The major motif of ''Go Go'', with Milky Rose representing the blue rose and Precure representing the red rose. This is all in accordance with the prophecy of the Cure Rose Garden.
264* SoundtrackDissonance: Ruining many a cliffhanger.
265* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Who knows what a bavarois is? Certainly not anyone who calls her Babaroa.
266%% * SpikesOfVillainy: The Dark Cures.
267%% * SpoilerOpening: Mild, but manages to ruin a cliffhanger.
268%% * StockFootage
269* StudentCouncilPresident: Karen.
270* SurpriseSantaEncounter: Episode 44 of ''[=GoGo=]''. Santa Claus is attacked by Mucardia who steals his sleigh and Santa falls on earth while losing his cloak and hat ''and'' catching a cold. Syrup and Urara find him in a park where he collapses, so they bring him to Natts House. They later bring his sleigh back after they purified it as a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Hoshina]], and Santa goes back to work. While everyone else figures out he's the real Santa when he's about to go, Nozomi and Urara take it longer.
271* TalkativeLoon: Not so much of a 'Loon', but ''Queen Bavarois''. Once she talks, she just won't shut up. She could easily pass as a less powerful long lost sister of [[Manga/SoulEater Excalibur]].
272%% * TeamShot
273%% * TeamSpirit: The whole point of the series.
274%% * ThemeMusicPowerUp
275* ThemeNaming: All the mascots are named after food; all the Cures besides Dream are named after words for their [[ColourCodedCharacters respective colour]] that also happen to be things - Rouge, Lemonade, Mint, Aqua.
276%% * ThereIsOnlyOneBed: To a ridiculous extreme.
277%% * TitleDrop: In a piece of stock footage, but treated very dramatically the first time.
278%% * TitleThemeTune
279%% * TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Sometimes in odd ways.
280%% * TransformationSequence
281%% * TransformationTrinket
282* TrapDoor: The Nightmare Group's (specifically Bunbee's division) preferred method for [[YouHaveFailedMe punishing the failures]] of the QuirkyMinibossSquad.
283%% * TrueCompanions
284%% * TrueLovesKiss: [[spoiler:In the ''Go Go'' movie, from Nozomi to Coco.]]
285%% * TwoTeacherSchool
286* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Komachi and her sister Madoka look so alike that anyone who doesn't know Madoka immediately mistakes her for Komachi, which is played for humor as Komachi and Madoka are a SiblingYinYang. (Incidentally, they also share a voice actress.)
287* VerbalTic: The mascots, as in every ''Anime/PrettyCure'' series, use some variation on their names; also, Rin ends some of her sentences with "nano" and Nozomi with "mon".
288%% * VoluntaryShapeshifting
289* WalkOnWater: When the path to the Cure Rose Garden opens, it situates itself on the lake in front of Nuts House and allows the characters to walk on the water.
290* WeCanRuleTogether
291* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: They're ''supposed'' to be in the Minato ward of Tokyo, but you couldn't tell by looking -- they instead seem to be in some twisted Euro-Japan that highly confused viewers as to where they actually were.
292* WordSaladTitle: Was somebody ''questioning'' whether they were Pretty Cure 5?
293* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: I'm looking at you, Mika, and your [[AccidentalInnuendo obsession with Nuts.]]
294* YeahShot: Might be better called a Yes! Shot.
295* YouHaveFailedMe: Subverted.
296* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In the first movie, when [[spoiler:Dark Dream makes a HeroicSacrifice, Shadow says that she had outlived her usefulness and he was probably going to kill her anyway.]] Later, [[spoiler:Mukadia suffered this]] at the very end of ''[=GoGo!=]''.

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