Cure Rouge, Pretty Cure of Passion. Rin Natsuki, Nozomi's childhood friend, known for her athletic prowess and biting sarcasm. Easily frightened, but the idea of losing Nozomi is scarier than any monster. (Not to be confused with a Cure Passion from a different series.)
With the help of extradimensional tanuki duo Coco and Nuts, their goal is to collect fifty-five creatures called Pinkies in order to complete the "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 evil corporation who wish to steal the Dream Collet for their Big Bad queen, the mask-wearing Despariah. Later, the Pretty Cure get another ally in the form of Milk, a rabbit-earred mascot creature who gives them their Mid-Season Upgrade.Yes!produced more than a few waves in the Western fandom when it discarded many of the synonymous Pretty Cure 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 fistfighting combat and Post Modernism that makes Pretty Cure stand out in the Magical Girl genre. It also started the trend of having everytransformation phrase and special attack include the phrase "Pretty Cure" (where previously it was confined to the Finishing Move).Yes! proved popular enough to get a direct sequel called Yes! Precure 5 GO!GO!. After 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 track down the four missing rulers of the kingdoms that neighbour the Kingdom of Palmier, as they hold the four keys that unlock the path to the Cure Rose Garden.Along with new mascot creature Syrup, an orange flying penguin mailman, the Pretty Cure get a Sixth Ranger:
Milky Rose, Kurumi Mimino, an arrogantAce and New Transfer Student. As Milky Rose, she is a powerful Aloof Ally who draws her strength from a separate Power Rose from the other Cures. Of course, her true identity is Milk, and her better-than-you act runs out pretty fast when she admits that she's been taking cues from watching that character type on magical girl shows.
This program provides examples of:
Accidental Hero: Urara in The Movie: the only reason that the villain's plan failed is because Urara forgot to transfer the last MacGuffin to the Dream Collet.
Archer Archetype: Karen with her attack "Pretty Cure Sapphire Arrow." Befittingly, she's also the most analytical member of the group, being the Cure of Intelligence.
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.
Audible Gleam: This is Pretty Cure. You won't get five minutes into an episode without sparkles.
Bait-and-Switch Credits: 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.
Book Ends: The series proper begins with Nozomi running around a corner and crashing into Coco, who catches her. 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.
Butt Monkey: 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.
Childhood Marriage Promise: 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.
Clingy Jealous Girl: 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.
Club President: Mika is the Club President for the school newspaper, and only member by default, since her obsessive personality drove everyone else out.
Combined Energy Attack: 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.
Defeat Means Friendship: Despariah, Dark Dream. Seems to be an exclusive power of Nozomi's: the other Cures just kill their enemies. However, as seen in the second season, even Nozomi has her limits.
Diet Episode: 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.
Disappeared Dad: 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.
The Dragon: Kawarino, who has his own Dragon in Bunbee.
Yes, Milky Rose is Air. In her Aloof Ally phase, she had a tendency to appear in high places and vanish in a gust of wind. Consider also "Skyrose Translate!" The attack name "Milky Rose Blizzard" often leads people to associate her with ice, but a blizzard involves wind, too, and there's nothing ice-like involved in the attack, although the rose petals do quite resemble an ice sculpture at the end.
Everything's Better with Princesses: Crepe is their only real princess, but they do nod to the phenomenon in the first movie with the Princess Land theme park.
First Kiss: Nozomi won't shut up about how she envisions hers. It's heavily implied to happen exactly as she envisioned, though we don't get to see it.
Fractured Fairy Tale: 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 Medium Awareness that they're in a Cinderella story. It was only done midway before the midnight ball done, but Rin and Karen still complain on how they're cast as the 'villains'.
Frilly Upgrade: Wings Of Justice; later, Jackets, and later, Even Bigger Wings of Justice.
Girlish Pigtails: 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.
Gratuitous English: right there in the title. Also notice that the team says "Yes!" rather than "Hai!" when they are about to do something flashy.
Gratuitous French: The school's name, Cinq Lumieres, literally means "Five Lights". This has nothing to do with the five lights that protected the Palmier Kingdom..
Karma Houdini: Despite being touted as the most evil of Nightmare, and causing a lot of despair for his own purposes, Kawarino actually survived being dragged to Hell and continued being the smug businessman... just this time under Bunbee's new company at the end of Go!Go!.
Laser Blade: Played straight by Cure Aqua's sword in the movie, even leading to some fantastic Blade Locks with Dark Aqua's very own Laser Blade. Subverted as the Cure Fleurets are never used for direct combat.
Lethal Chef: Though they got better during episode 21 of ''GoGo''.
Lighter and Softer: This is supposed to be where the franchise takes a lighter-hearted turn as opposed to the dark themes of the previous seasons, especially Splash Star
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Played straight with Cure Rouge and Cure Aqua, but inverted with Nuts (wears red more, is quieter) and Coco (wears blue more, is outgoing).
Shy Finger Twiddling: Nozomi breaks into this in episode one after getting yelled at by Rin for not staying in one school club and for her Dojikko ways.
Theme Naming: All the mascots are named after food; all the Cures besides Dream are named after words for their respective colour that also happen to be things - Rouge, Lemonade, Mint, Aqua.
Theme Tune Cameo: Nozomi tries to sing a snippet of the OP in episode 33 before Rin cuts her off.
Uncanny Family Resemblance: 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 Sibling Yin-Yang. (Incidentally, they also share a voice actress.)
Verbal Tic: The mascots, as in every Pretty Cure series, use some variation on their names; also, Rin ends some of her sentences with "nano" and Nozomi with "mon".
Where the Hell Is Springfield?: 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.
Word Salad Title: Was somebody questioning whether they were Pretty Cure 5?
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In the first movie, when Dark Dream makes a Heroic Sacrifice, Shadow says that she had outlived her usefulness and he was probably going to kill her anyway. Later, Mukadia suffered this at the very end of 5GoGo!.
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