A motherly and intelligent girl whose tranquil nature belies a fiery temper. She starts the series considering herself plain and unremarkable, especially compared to her older sister. Nevertheless, she embraces her destiny as Cure Draco and discovers her own strength in the process.
The Unfavorite: Hiroko grew up seeing herself as this, due to her inability to measure up to Chiaki. She soon realizes that she always assumed this was the case without ever trying to stand out on her own.
Arbitrary Skeptic: In episode 11, she calls Hiroko and Yasu "gullible and kinda wussy" for believing in ghosts, despite the three of them being Magical Girl Warriors who fight demons and the fact that there's ghostly activity going on right behind her as she speaks.
I Know Madden Kombat: Her main attack, upgrade weapon, and some parts of her fighting style are gymnastics-inspired.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Izumi can be overly straightforward, to the point of being a little mean, but she usually realizes when she's gone too far and tries to make amends.
Lesbian Jock: Technically, bisexual jock, but her love interest is female, and she shows a preference for girls in general. Notably, her main sport is actually the "acceptably feminine" rhythmic gymnastics.
Lethal Chef: Luckily for everyone around her, Izumi doesn't try to cook unless she "has to", but when she does...
Nonuniform Uniform: Aside from her usualadditions, she also wears her uniform's blazer open and refuses to wear the neck ribbon, let alone tuck her shirt in.
One of the Boys: She mentions her childhood being like this.
Parental Abandonment: Her mother and father were around, but they'd pretty much emotionally abandoned her in favor of arguing with each other.
All of the Other Reindeer: As a child, her constant illnesses and fragile nature made her a bully magnet. She responded to the harassment by becoming an Emotionless Girl... or trying to.
Aloof Dark Haired Girl: Lampshaded - Hiroko muses that Yasu "should" look like this, since she already has the stylishly feminine looks and austere, sophisticated personality associated with it.
Parental Abandonment: Her father died when she was eight (being a Daddy's Girl, she took this very hard), and her mother isn't around very often due to her job. Granted, Yui tries her best to make time for her children, and Yasu is accepting of the situation.
Rei Ayanami Expy: Physically, she's pretty much Rei with a dye job and glasses. Personality-wise, she fits a number of the qualifications, but isn't quite as inhuman-seeming.
Yaoi Fangirl: She usually hides it pretty well, but she is one, as evidenced by the incriminating stash of manga under her mattress and her odd suggestive comments/fantasy segues.
Haruki Fukuda (Cure Phoenix) | Voice Actor: Makoto Tsumura (Japanese), Steven Jay Blum (English)
Yasu's cheery and sociable younger brother and a later addition to the team. He is a an idealistic daydreamer with an honest heart who believes there is some good in everyone. These traits make him the team's emotional center but also leave him a bit too trusting.
Cannot Spit It Out: He develops a crush on Hiroko from the moment they meet but has a lot of difficulty mustering up the courage to actually talk to her about it.
Custom Uniform: Wears a blue military-style uniform instead of the normal male uniform.
Dragged Into Drag: Nanami briefly ropes him (against his will) into cosplaying Cure Soul at her both during the town festival. She's thrilled, he's most definitely not.
Dreadful Musician: Haruki can't carry a tune to save his life. To make matters worse, he loves karaoke.
Prince Charming: He mentions having wanted to be this type of hero when he was younger before accepting that "prince who rescues princesses" isn't really a career you can have. He settles for writing a picture book that casts his author avatar as this.
The So-Called Coward: Haruki describes himself as a coward for being afraid of the monsters that Pretty Cure faces. However, he shows little evidence of actual cowardice, and Hiroko sees it as him being overly self-critical.
Phrase Catcher: Her Motor Mouth moments are almost always followed up by someone reminding her to breathe.
Status Buff: Her Gold Lyre allows her to temporarily boost either the strength, speed, or defense of one of her allies for a brief moment.
Team Pet: Sort of shares this role with Kisu, moreso during the first half of the series.
Tights With A Skirt: She's one of few students (aside from Kaoru) to do this with her uniform and the only Cure to pull this off with her combat attire.
Verbal Tic: "~nya" in mascot form. She also tends to get really, really, really, really repetitive when excited about something.
A friendly and masculine-lookingracer who Izumi has a far-from-subtle crush on. She acts cool and self-assured but is actually a bit shy and self-conscious. As Kimiko's first cousin, she already knows about Pretty Cure and later joins the current Cure team.
Armed Legs: Steel-toe shoes in civilian form, Verdant Greaves when transformed.
Badass Abnormal: She's shown to be perfectly capable of fighting alongside Pretty Cure (at least against mooks) earlier in the series. And then she gets powers.
Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She actually has a pretty generously-sized collection of them and will add another to the pile once in a while. She makes no effort to hide this, but those who don't know her well are pretty surprised to learn about it.
One of the Boys: She mentions having this kind of childhood, although she had more in the way of female friends than Izumi did.
Parental Abandonment: Her mother is dead, and her father sent her to live with her aunt and uncle when she was about nine. She's relatively positive about it now, but she didn't take it very well when she was younger.
Shrinking Violet: Covertly - Shun is good at feigning confidence but has moments where she reveals how shy and socially awkward she really is. She wasn't quite as covert about it while brainwashed, though.
Support Party Member: Licht Panzer has no finishers of her own; her powers revolve entirely around creating Deflector Shields and enabling Pretty Cure to perform their Combined Energy Attack. That said, she's still a solid fighter who can hold her own as well as the Cures can.
Trademark Favorite Food: Pancakes, although she's fond of anything maple-flavored in general.
Unsettling Gender Reveal: Does this to both Hiroko and Kae, who show interest in "him" for different reasons.
Vitriolic Best Buds: She and Kimiko are cousins who act more like siblings - they usually can't be in the same room for more than a few minutes without bickering with each other, but Shun would do anything to protect Kimiko, and vice-versa.
Muse's adopted "baby brother", a young mouse who holds the power to create a new seal. Every time the Cures defeat an enemy, Kisu absorbs and purifies the energy released in order to grow stronger.
Good Hurts Evil: So pure, innocent and powerful that he ended up seriously burning Hinyu when the latter grabbed him.
Sol | Voice Actor: Tohru Ookawa (Japanese), Travis Willingham (English)
Muse's father, a cat capable of transforming into a human man. He worked with the previous incarnation of Pretty Cure and lent his powers to them, allowing them to act as threshold guardians. He sometimes appears to give counsel to Muse or the former Cures.
Astral Projection: His personal power. He doesn't use it for much outside of occasionally checking in on his daughter and Pretty Cure.
A somewhat reclusive teahouse owner and the leader of the previous Cure team. At first glance, she is the model of elegance: quietly strong-willed, graceful and refined. However, she shows a more haunted and lost side in her private moments.
Ill Girl: She shows hints of being one - the above trope is one of her symptoms. Shun is aware that something is wrong with her older cousin, but Kimi refuses to say anything about her illness.
A scientist and the oldest of the Ishii family. She arranged for Hiroko to enter Mirai Academy. She is an unflappable, if somewhat morbid young woman who worries more for the welfare of those around her, especially her teammates, than she would let on.
Nightmare Fetishist: She loves horror films, states that you can "learn a lot" from zombie movies, and thinks spiders and other arachnids - the larger, the better - are the most adorable things ever.
Not So Stoic: She's usually pretty calm and collected, but when a number of Mirai students, including her younger brother are put in mortal danger by Hinyu, she can't hide how horribly distressed she is in the slightest.
A young woman who is best known as the mature and collected radio personality, Maria. Her true self is actually quite bubbly and cutesy. She is a friendly and affectionate person who seems to be in a state of perpetual cheerfulness.
Mature Character, Childish Actress: Rie is much less mature and dignified than her alter-ego, Maria is. She also dresses and carries herself completely differently when appearing as Maria.
Yuriko Kimura (Cure Tenma) | Voice Actor: Yuu Asakawa (Japanese); Julie Ann Taylor (English)
A childish, somewhat inarticulate mechanic. She is in a romantic relationship with her partner, Shiori, who often reprimands her for her behavior. She and Shiori lost their Cure powers during their last battle, and she's a bit more melancholy than she first appears.
Girliness Upgrade: Inverted - she went from a girly Idol Singer to a tomboyish mechanic over the last decade. The latter was always closer to her original personality, though.
A mousy literature teacher at Mirai Academy. She is kind and agreeable on the surface, but pessimistic and often depressed on the inside, which distresses her partner, Yuriko. She is unsure of the new Cures' power and is reluctant to acknowledge them as her successors.
Devil King Aseimera | Voice Actor: Rintaro Nishi (Japanese), Steve Cassling (English)
The leader of the Devil Kingdom, who spends most of his time yelling at his subordinates and making life a living hell for his subjects. He despises humans and wants to lay waste to Earth, mostly because he can.
Orcus on His Throne: He was badly injured during his last battle, so this is justified.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: His (deceased) wife was actually quite attractive. She was also the only person he actually cared about - his son (who apparently took after his mother in looks) was not so lucky.
Bastard in Sheep's Clothing: Acts like a timid Yes Man around Aseimera and a personable, if sometimes foul-tempered, guy around Kae, and to a lesser extent, her henchmen. He's actually a cold-hearted person who only cares about himself.
Manipulative Bastard: He is all too happy to take advantage of Kae's youthful naivete and desire to be valued and loved in order to make her do whatever he wants.
Technicolor Fire: Employs this a few times. The floating flames he uses to bait Pretty Cure in episode 12 are blue, and the flames he uses in battle are sometimes blue as well... because fire really does turn that color when it's hot enough.
Powerful, but Lazy: He's the strongest of the Triumvirate but only goes out to challenge Pretty Cure a small handful of times, mostly because he considers them beneath his notice. He uses the Trio to do his work for him, despite their tendency to botch his orders, because they're convenient, and nobody will care if something happens to three "lower-class nobodies".
You Killed My Father: Hinyu's father died at the previous Cure team's hands thanks to Aseimera, giving Hinyu another reason to despise him. Then, it's only a small part of his motivation to become king, with the rest being pure self-interest, and Hinyu does ration that his father dying removed an obstacle between him and the throne.
Tamakushi | Voice Actor: Rei Igarashi (Japanese); Megan Hollingshead (English)
The cold and detached lone female of the Triumvirate. She cannot stand to see people getting along and revels in the suffering of others, be they friend or foe. Many of her plans rely on her shape-shifting abilities in some way.
For the Evulz: She cares less about accomplishing any kind of goal and more about tormenting people as it suits her.
Glamour Failure: Her puppets are all given away by a tell-tale silver ring around their irises.
Glass Cannon: Her puppets have this problem - they could potentially do a lot of damage, but even a normal person can take them out in a few hits. Creating stronger ones takes more of her concentration and causes her more pain if they're destroyed, so it's also a practical measure.
Shapeshifter Default Form: When she isn't using her normal form or imitating someone else, she assumes the shape of an young woman with platinum-blond hair. This is the form she wears while she's patronizing Club Tsukikage.
Soul Power: She can both fight with spirit energy and use it to create convincing "ghost puppets" based on anyone she's seen.
Anti-Villain: Type I. He's as loyal to Aseimera as the other Triumvirate members; however, unlike them, he has actual standards. He hates the idea of torturing innocent people for one - the one time he's ordered to do it, it makes him ill, and he attempts to call off the Dogou responsible. He's also clearly capable of expressing love and kindness, as proven by his relationship with Kamryou.
Real Men Wear Pink: Seimono is the Triumvirate's (seven foot tall) resident muscleman... who is quite the cook and skilled at delicate tasks like sewing. He also wears a pink floral shirt when disguised as a human.
Antivillain: A Type I - although she'll insist otherwise, she just doesn't have the stomach for out-and-out evil. She also balks at the idea of actually destroying Pretty Cure (despite asserting over and over again that she will), preferring a rivalry with them.
Fangirl: She's enamored with the Sentai manga (and anime) Space Team Cross-3 and wants to emulate the series' villains, Team Dark Cross. This never goes well. Her crush on "Hinyu-sama" is also shown to be more fangirlish admiration than anything. It doesn't help that she has little idea of what he's really like, thanks to the way he acts towards her.
Genius Ditz: Despite her usual airheaded and ignorant behavior, she's actually quite skilled at creating magic charms.
Hey You: She pretty much always addresses Pretty Cure in this manner.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Again, all of the Trio could be counted as this, but she's the best fit for the position, being the only one who seems to care about being recognized as a real villain.
Jerkass: Usually, although she's not immune to Pet the Dog moments (i.e. episode 10).
Squishy Wizard: Relatively speaking - Kae isn't frail, but she isn't as strong or durable, let alone as good at fighting as Pretty Cure; thus, she prefers to stay out of the way and cast magic during fights.
Sue Donym: She creates her alias, "Kaeko Damai" in about fifteen seconds. It shows. And yet she's shocked when people aren't fooled by it...
Talking to Themself: Sometimes appears to do this. She's actually talking to Shahei, but most people aren't aware of that.
Kae's seemingly emotionless twin sister. She seems motiveless and hollow outside but is actually more conflicted that she'd let on. Later on, she takes up the alias of "Yuzuki" to spy on the Cures, which allows her to reevaluate what she really wants.
What Is This Thing You Call Love?: Later admits that she doesn't understand the concept and doesn't think anyone, save her twin sister, could ever value her anyway. Her mind nearly breaks when Haruki is genuinely nice to her without wanting anything in return.
Antivillain: A type IV who has a childishly naive attitude towards his team's "criminal activities" and only acts antagonistic when made to - when left on his own, he tries striking up a friendship with several of his enemies.
Japanese Honorifics: Actually averts this, instead using the English "Mr./Ms./Mrs." when referring to someone.
Kind Hearted Simpleton: He's really just a big kid who's more easily influenced than actively malevolent. He's also the most friendship-oriented of the Trio.
Literal-Minded: Kooyoo does not do well with idioms or rhetorical questions.
P. Tobi | Voice Actor: Voice Actor: Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese), Steve Bulen (English)
Kae's lancer and the Trio's (comparative) sane man who spends a lot of time snarking at Kae and criticizing her failings. He actually cares about her quite a bit, (though he'd never admit it.
Kou Ishii | Voice Actor: Daisuke Ono (Japanese), Johnny Yong Bosch (English)
The shamelessly flirtatious president of the ailing Film Club. He adores horror films and sometimes seems to have a tenuous grasp on reality but is smarter than others give him credit for.
Butt Monkey: He's pretty much the designated "fall guy" out of the Cures' schoolmates.
Chivalrous Pervert: He's this towards all of his female classmates (and some upperclassmen) in general. Emi (or "my cute little Emi-chan" as he tends to call her) is his favorite girl, though.
Never Live It Down: In-universe. He gave a love confession to Shinobu during his first year at Mirai. A number of people refuse to forget this, especially Shinobu himself.
A timid and anxious girl who dreams of becoming an idol singer. Her attempt at founding Mirai Academy's first Music Club fell apart after the other members tired of her underconfidence, which she tries to fix with Hiroko's help.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He really does care about Izumi, even if he expresses it through insults half the time. He also shows his heart of gold around Haruki and Muse.
Would Hit a Girl: He has no problems hurting Izumi during their sparring matches... but then again, Izumi would feel insulted if he didn't fight back properly.
The treasurer of the Student Council, who is originally from America. She's a friendly and enthusiastic girl who plays a guitar and dreams of becoming a famous musician.
The (seemingly) melodramatic and childish Student Council president. She often comes across as pompous and overconfident but is effective at her job and can be quite on-point when needed.
Ambiguously Gay: She refers to Kaoru as "my wife", play-flirts with her on occasion, doesn't seem upset that the Dogou in episode 8 mistook the two of them for an actual couple, and shows very little interest in men (unless they're dressed as women, and even then...). Her actual sexuality is never confirmed.
Cool Big Sis: She thinks of herself as this for most underclassmen, even referring to herself as "Big Sis" once in a while. She also expresses a wish to have Muse as her actual little sister.
The Student Council's vice-president, who is from a very rich family, although she refuses to let it get to her head. Unlike her childhood friend, Nanami, she's very down-to-earth and not one for childish antics.
Attractive Bent Gender: Pretty on his own, Shinobu makes a very fetching girl when he's trying to look like one.
Dude Looks Like a Lady: To the point of people wondering why the "fourth girl" on the Student Council is wearing a boy's uniform. He uses his delicate, feminine looks to his advantage whenever he cross-dresses.
Token Evil Teammate: Shinobu refers to himself as this, although he's more creepy than evil. That being said, he's the Council member most likely to resort to underhanded tactics.
Unsettling Gender Reveal: Did this to Kou pre-series. He still likes teasing him, despite Kou not really being "his type of guy".
Wholesome Crossdresser: The "wholesome" part is up for debate, but he definitely fits the other qualifications when dressed as a girl. He also wears a black neck ribbon with his uniform.
