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Pretty Cure

The Original Duo

    Tropes associated with both of them 
  • Closed Door Rapport: When Kanade and Hibiki discuss Hibiki's past that caused her to stop playing piano.
  • Dual Wielding: The Belltier Separation divides the Belltiers in two halves, respectively.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: Both know each since their childhood and are still good friends, no matter how many times they argue.
  • Kamehame Hadouken: Passionato Harmony. By holding their hands, they can fire a golden beam from them. It becomes stronger with each additional teammate with whom they perform.
  • Shaping Your Attacks: They draw circles when performing their Music Rondos, and hearts when performing their respective Separation attacks.
  • Technicolor Fire: Their attacks Miracle Love Arpeggio and Fantastic Piacere have two colors, respectively, fitting to the colors of the Fairy Tones they use. Miracle Love Arpeggio is pink and orange like Dory and Miry, while Fantastic Piacere is white and yellow like Rery and Fary.
  • This Is Unforgivable!:
    • Hibiki and Kanade usually said this before their Transformation Sequence, to the point of catchphrase status.
    • Deconstructed when Siren has a Heel–Face Turn. Hibiki and Kanade are so shocked at this and, remembering how many times they had said this, start questioning whether Siren is really unforgivable. The Reveal that all the initial antagonists are brainwashed and the real Big Bad is not truly evil also hammers the point down. By the time of Final Battle, the Cures finally decide that the only way they can have a closure is for both sides to forgive each other.
    • Also Played for Laughs at the end of Episode 2 when Kanade emotionally melts just after shaking Hummy's paw. Kanade herself shouts the line at Hibiki for trying to tell the whole town about this incident as the scene transitions into a Pastel-Chalked Freeze Frame.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: Hibiki is the tomboy, and Kanade is the girly girl.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Hibiki and Kanade are a mild version, which is one of the defining differences between them and NagiHono and SakiMai.
  • Watch Where You're Going!: Hibiki and Kanade have managed to crash into each other twice. Once in the beginning of episode 2, which sends them both into a tree, and then again in the beginning of episode 5, smacking their faces together.
  • Wonder Twin Powers: They can only transform together, and half of their powers can only be used together.
    Hibiki Houjou (Cure Melody) 

Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (JP) Foreign VAs

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"Strumming the wild tune, Cure Melody!"

An energetic jock who loves eating sweets and playing sports. She tends to be bullheaded and act before she thinks, but her heart is generally in the right place. As the series progresses, she rediscovers her love of the piano.

  • All-Loving Hero: She develops into this as the series progress. When she understands Cure Muse's inner conflict of fighting and saving her father Mephisto, she indirectly helps her in saving Mephisto. And her empathy for Bassdrum, Baritone and Noise catalyzes their Heel Face Turns.
  • Alliterative Name: Both her first and last names start with H.
  • Bad "Bad Acting": Her acting comes off as stiff and overly honest to the point of unnaturalness.
  • Big Eater: She's seen eating lots of cake throughout the series, enough for her friend to lampshade it.
  • Big Fancy House: Downplayed, but she lives in a fancier house than her teammates.
  • Book Dumb: She's much better at sports than studying or playing music.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: In the sequel novel where the Big Bad Vanish possesses her after feeding onto her sadness.
  • Character Catchphrase: "I'm betting my woman's pride on this!" note 
  • Charles Atlas Superpower: In Episode 41, Hibiki, not Melody, jumps at least 10 meters high to catch Fary. And she lands safety afterward. And who was her opponent in catching Fary? The upgraded Bassdrum. After the Eye Catch and the stand-off it's shown that Bassdrum wins.
  • Dub Name Change: Her first name is changed into "Oto" (transcribed as 音) in the Taiwanese Mandarin dub.
  • Fiery Redhead: As Hibiki.
  • Genki Girl: As per tradition, she's an energetic Pink cure.
  • Girliness Upgrade: An in-universe example. She's gradually moves on from sports to become a pianist as she relearns to love music again. By the end of the series, she's fully focused on music training.
  • Girlish Pigtails: As a Cure, she has long pink pigtails that highlight her femininity.
  • Gratuitous English: When foreigners talk to her, she speaks bad English. "OH MY GAH!" (not quoted from Azumanga Daioh)
    "Posto offisu, go storeito [...] ando refto, my gal."
    • Played with in episode 30, after a quizmaster Negatone asked Rhythm and Beat what "shiro" and "ao" means in English ("white" and "blue" respectively), it asks Melody what "pink" means in Japanese.
    "Pinku! ...Ah? N-nihongo?" ("Pink! Ah? J-japanese?")note 
  • Hates Being Alone: The core of the sequel novel's main conflict is her fear of being abandoned, who feared she can no longer believe on Kanade, Ellen and Ako and wished she doesn't want to lose Kanade. Unfortunately that ultimately backfires on her end when Vanish uses her sadness and possesses her.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: In the movie, Cure Melody presumably died in hands of Howling.
  • The Heroine: As per tradition, the pink Cure is the main character.
  • Kung-Fu Wizard: Knows martial arts, but she's not professional.
  • Meaningful Name: Her name translates to "echo", playing off the music motifs of Smile.
  • Plucky Girl: She's naturally optimistic, whether that's playing sports or fighting as a Cure.
  • The Ojou: Subverted and downplayed. Her personality does not speak for this and she's not that wealthy, but she lives in a wealthier household than her teammates. Her house is fancier and her parents are famous musicians. She's also wealthier than all other lead Pretty Cures.
  • Overly-Long Tongue: While only for one moment, in the first episode, Hibiki is shown to be capable of licking a cake cream on her nose without a help of a hand.
  • Playing with Fire: The heart-shaped Miracle Love Arpeggio.
  • Sweet Tooth: She loves sweets, and she tends to take Kanade's cakes without her permission.
  • Tomboy: She's an energetic athlete who doesn't think before she acts.
  • Town Girls: She's the butch to Kanade's femme and Ellen's neither.
  • Tsurime Eyes
  • When You Coming Home, Dad?: Hibiki spends a lot of time alone, due to her dad's busy teaching schedule and her mother being on tour most of the time.

    Kanade Minamino (Cure Rhythm) 

Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (JP) Foreign VAs

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"Playing the graceful tune, Cure Rhythm!"

An intelligent and cool-headed patissier who works at her family's pastery shop. She becomes incredibly flustered and dreamy when romance is involved, and is short-tempered when dealing with Hibiki.

  • All Love Is Unrequited: Towards Ouji.
  • Badass in Distress: In the movie, where she's held captive by Howling.
  • Big Sister Instinct: Although her little brother Souta doesn't do anything but fool around, she was willing to save him from a Negatone attack in episode 6.
  • Character Catchphrase: "I'll show you the recipe of motivation!" note 
  • Cuteness Proximity: With cats... or rather cat's paws. No, really, her bedroom is even decorated with them!
  • Dub Name Change: Her first name is changed into Koto (transcribed as 琴) in the Taiwanese Mandarin dub.
  • Dumb Blonde: Inverted. As a Cure she has bright blonde hair but is an intelligent baker.
  • Fangirl: To Ouji.
  • Feminine Women Can Cook: Kanade is the girly one of the duo and likes to bake sweets which Hibiki likes to eat. Kanade also demonstrates her good cooking skills in making the curry in Episode 9.
  • Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has blond hair as Cure Rhythm.
  • Kindhearted Cat Lover: Well, cat paws, but still.
  • The Lancer: She is a headstrong feminine chef who thinks before she acts, while Hibiki is a rough-and-tumble athlete who gets into fights first.
  • Meaningful Name: "Kanade" translates to "play on" as in with an instrument.
  • Only Sane Man: As long as she doesn't think about Ouji, she is this sometimes when they were three Precure.
  • Out of Focus: Unfortunately, she loses some screentime to her teammates.
  • Psychosomatic Superpower Outage: In episode 6, her powers began to wane because she was affected by Souta's declaration that he doesn't want to see her face again.
  • Playing with Fire: The heart-shaped Fantastic Piacere.
  • Poor Communication Kills: In episode 6, Kanade jumps to conclusions when she sees the mess on the kitchen her brother, Souta made while he was making her White Day present, thus assuming the worst of him. This hurt Souta so much he began to question whenever or not Kanade really cared about him at all and walk out on her, and then becoming a victim of a Negatone attack.
  • The Smart Girl: The smart girl to the idiot Hibiki. Shares this trope with the new teammates.
  • Smitten Teenage Girl: Unlike Nagisa or Saki, she's not shy on showing her affection to her crush. In The Movie, unlike Hibiki and Ellen, the first thing she notices of the Major Trio is that they're handsome, not that they are suspicious.
  • Supreme Chef: She is great at making cakes, as Hibiki can attest.
  • Tareme Eyes: Has round eyes to contrast Hibiki's pointed ones.
  • Town Girls: She's the femme to Hibiki's butch and Ellen's neither.
  • Tsundere: A more friendship-oriented version towards Hibiki. Perhaps.
  • Unflinching Walk: Whenever she uses Music Rondo. And alone.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: See Hibiki's entry above.

Additional Pretty Cures (Spoilers)

    Cure Beat 

Siren/Ellen Kurokawa (Cure Beat)

Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi (JP) Foreign VAs

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Mephisto's second-in-command. A former Songstress of Major Land, she defected to Minor Land after Hummy was chosen over her to sing the Melody of Happiness. She is incredibly vain and prissy, and possesses the ability to shapeshift at will, often taking the form of a human girl called "Ellen". She later pulls a Heel–Face Turn and becomes Cure Beat, who is covered in the Pretty Cure section.

  • Always Someone Better: The reason for her Face–Heel Turn before the series.
  • Becoming the Mask: Face-plants into this trope when disguising herself as Sakura, Hibiki's ideal "best friend".
  • Broken Pedestal: To Hummy; however, Hummy subverts the usual way this trope works by never giving up on her.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Thanks to the Noise of Evil.
  • Cats Are Mean: She's a villain who is a cat fairy.
  • Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Eas of Fresh Pretty Cure! and the Dark Pretty Cure of Heart Catch Pretty Cure.
    • They were Dark Magical Girls and the agents of their respective evil faction who served the Big Bad before their redemption. Eas is Child Soldier who loyally served Moebius throughout her childhood. Dark Pretty Cure served as the lieutenant of Sabaaku is the clone of Yuri Tsukikage/Cure Moonlight and was created by him over a specific purpose: to target Cure Moonlight, but is not shy in targetting the rest of the HeartCatch team and is utterly dedicated to Sabaaku, who turned out to be Yuri's brainwashed father. Siren, on the other hand, was a shapeshifting cat fairy who served as Major Land's songstress, before she defected to Minor Land and went to the path of villainy after Hummy was chosen to sing the Melody of Happiness instead of her, becoming jealous in the process and joined with Mephisto, who brainwashed her.
    • Eas has a silver hair and wears a red-and-black coat-like dress that has two pointed tails. Dark Pretty Cure is dressed asymmetrically like Cure Moonlight, has a teal short hair, has golden eyes and wears a black dress and black boots. Siren, in her human form, wears a very casual clothing, has dark purple hair and golden eyes, as well as a gold-coloured necklace that allows her to shapeshift between her fairy form and human form.
    • Their relationship to their own masters heavily differ. Eas craved for Moebius' attention, thinking that she is worthy of his respect, despite his callous and pragmatic nature. Dark Pretty Cure is very loyal towards Sabaaku who sees him as her father, whose main goal is to defeat Cure Moonlight and prove her worth to him. Siren, on the other hand, willingly sides with Mephisto and the rest of Minor Land's like-minded members after defecting from Major Land, who is a jerkass and hardly has a close relationship towards the Trio de Minor even in times they have to team up.
  • Dark Is Evil: She is the black cat to the white Hummy. Subverted, she was just brainwashed.
  • The Dragon: She's Mephisto's leading minion.
  • Enigmatic Minion: Strays into this territory after she starts to fall out of favour with Mephisto, right around the time that Cure Muse first shows up. It's a Red Herring, and the "Siren is Cure Muse" theory is quickly investigated and disproved by the other characters.
  • Evil Former Friend: She and Hummy used to be the best of friends before her envy overcame her and she switched sides.
  • Heel–Face Revolving Door: Mephisto brainwashs her again before she undergoes a Heel–Face Turn in Episode 13.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Two episode after becoming Cure Beat. And she is even the only female villain of the whole season.
  • Morphic Resonance:
    • Whenever she shape-shifts, she's always wearing a very unique-looking charm around her neck. By the time Hibiki and Kanade notice this, it's too late to be of any use: she pulls a Heel–Face Turn and loses her shapeshifting ability shortly thereafter.
    • Also, her voice is still hers, even if it varies. However, if she knows the voice of someone she immitates, she copies his/her (always her) voice, too.
  • More than Mind Control: The Noise of Evil amplified her own insecurities and jealousy towards Hummy.
  • Musical Assassin: She can create Negatones with her voice, and generate explosive projectiles shaped like musical notes.
  • Not So Above It All: Wears an utterly ridiculous outfit in an early episode, which was pretty counter-intuitive to her mannerisms beforehand. (She claims that it was a special case because the plan was for her to get onto television.)
  • Not What It Looks Like: In episode 15, when Hibiki and Kanade discover Ouji passed out... on top of Siren. Naturally, Kanade flips the hell out.
  • Overt Operative: Takes approximately two seconds from introducing herself under her "Ellen" alias to reveal her true identity as "Siren", and is referred to as such from then on.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: She was once Hummy's kind friend and she even helped her to become the songstress of Major Land. But since she joined Minor Land, she isn't nice anymore. In fact, she's brainwashed by Mephisto and she becomes more a jerk whenever she listens to the the Noise of Evil.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Hummy, despite Siren already breaking their friendship.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: With her necklace, she can transform into any human (or at least into female).

Tropes exclusive to her as Ellen/Cure Beat

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"Strumming the soul's tune, Cure Beat!"

Siren, post-Heel–Face Turn. Free from her jealousy and the influence of the Noise of Evil, her true personality shines through as a headstrong yet socially-awkward girl whose only wish is to make friends. Her ability to shapeshift has been lost, trapping her in human form under the alias of "Ellen Kurokawa". She loves to read books on how to act in certain situations, being unfamiliar with human social conventions.

  • Ahoge: As Cure Beat. She can play a power chord on it.
  • Anime Hair: Besides the hair color, the hairstyle is not the problem. Her hair makes guitar noises.
  • Anti-Hero: Type I, at first.
  • The Atoner: As part of her redemption for fighting with the Noise of Evil, she joins the Cures in their fight.
  • Badass Boast: "The beat of my heart can't be stopped!"
  • Barrier Warrior: The first member of Team Suite to have Deflector Shields or defensive magic of any sort.
  • Berserk Button: Post-Heel–Face Turn, she is one; harm her in front of Hibiki and/or Kanade, and your life is forfeit.
  • The Big Girl
  • Cat Girl: She is a cat (fairy) stuck in a human body.
  • Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To Setsuna Higashi/Cure Passion of Fresh Pretty Cure!. Both were once the minions of their evil faction and later redeemed themselves to join their respective Cure team. However, their pasts heavily differ. In Eas' case, she was born and raised all her life within Labyrinth as a Child Soldier to Moebius who worked as one of his lieutenants, whereas Siren was born in Major Land who once was the songstress of the kingdom until she became jealous towards her closest friend Hummy for being chosen to sing the Melody of Happiness, causing her to defect to Minor Land. Both also have little understanding of Earth's customs at first and spent most of their time to learn more about it. Setsuna is initially very shy and reserved at first, while she becomes kind and cheerier after going out of her shell with the help of the Fresh team. On the other hand, Ellen is initially naive and fearful, who was completely haunted by the misgivings of her past as Siren and attempted to separate herself from Hibiki/Cure Melody and Kanade/Cure Rhythm, but she is later revealed to be upbeat and cheerful who regained her kindness, similarly to Setsuna. Their ways of redemption and their change of heart contrast. Eas, after being reborn, cause herself to betray the Labyrinth entirely as she has a change of heart and joins the Fresh team as Cure Passion. By contrast, Siren actively fixes the betrayal she caused by sacrificing her ability to shapeshift to her cat fairy form, fixes her relationship with Hummy and the rest of Major Land's residents and later joins the Suite team. In essence, Setsuna ultimately ditched Moebius and the Labyrinth ever since her redemption, whereas Ellen and her Cure team played a major role in fully redeeming the Trio de Minor and Noise during the Grand Finale.
  • Dark Magical Girl: Starts this way, but becomes progressively less dark as she becomes more accustomed to having friends.
  • Deflector Shields: Beat Barrier, cast by her Lovely Guitar Rod.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: After her Heel–Face Turn and joining the Cures, she keeps her distance from others less often. Notable, even before her Face–Heel Turn, she was a bit distant from Hummy and acted more mature, but after becoming friends with Hibiki and Kanade, she becomes more open and honest with herself and she behaves more like an actual teenage girl.
  • Ditzy Genius: It comes from naviete rather than any actual ditziness.
  • Face–Heel Revolving Door: She switches to the side of Minor Land before the story begins. Her first Heel–Face Turn is denied after Mephisto steps in and re-brainwashes her. But later she gets a true Heel–Face Turn as Cure Beat.
  • Fore Head Of Doom: Both of her forms.
  • Genki Girl: After her Heel–Face Turn, she has become upbeat and excitable, so much she makes Hibiki look calmer.
  • Good Costume Switch: Ellen gets different clothes after her Heel–Face Turn, but they don't look that much different than her "evil" clothes.
  • Guile Hero: Feigns a Face–Heel Turn to trick the Trio the Minor into a trap.
  • I Choose to Stay: Along with Hummy, Ako and the Fairy Tones in the finale.
  • Idiot Hair: As Cure Beat
  • I Have Many Names: She's Siren in her cat form, Ellen in her human form, and Cure Beat in her Cure form. Yet even after she permanently becomes human, Hummy, Trio the Minor, and Mephisto still call her Siren (and she doesn't seem to mind).
  • Instrument of Murder: The Love Guitar Rod, which not only has a trigger (which was probably pulled straight off of Raising Heart) for shooting Tone Rings but is also distinctly shaped like a battle-axe in its Soul Rod state.
  • It Amused Me: Her reaction to the Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure in episode 25. Ellen immediately sees through Trio the Minor's attempts to make the situation worse and plays along with them just for the hell of it.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: Siren/Ellen is a Precure?
  • Musical Assassin: Where Rhythm and Melody get magic rods that they wave around like conductor's batons, Beat gets the Love Guitar Rod, a magical guitar that turns into an ax and shoots exploding Tone Rings of death and destruction.
  • Nice Girl: Once she get's over her initial angst, post face turn, she proves to be one of the kindest and friendliest characters in the show.
  • Naïve Newcomer: Since adjusting to living life as a human, she's been rather impressionable and clueless about everyday life. Examples include believing she needs to prepare for a mountain expedition to go hiking, and how she intends to introduce herself once she starts attending school...
  • Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: In episode 25, after Hibiki and Kanade's prank scares the shit out of her. It appears to get worse when Trio the Minor use the same prank to further deepen the already-healing rift between her and her two friends. It turns out Ellen knew what was going on and played along in order to troll the Trio.
  • Plucky Girl
  • Power of Rock: Cure Beat's Love Guitar Rod.
  • Redemption Equals Death: Surprisingly averted. The real price of Siren's change of heart is being put in a Shapeshifter Mode Lock.
  • Shapeshifter Mode Lock: She lost the ability to shapeshift after her pendant broke, trapping her in human form.
  • Sixth Ranger: Is the third Precure to join the team.
  • The Smart Girl: Being good at school like Kanade and of course she was a smart villain before. She has pretented to come back to Minor Land, but she tricked the Trio the Minor. She shares the role with Kanade and Ako.
  • Town Girls: She's the neither to Hibiki's butch and Kanade femme.
  • Spam Attack: Her Beat Sonic, an attack with that she spams energy in form of eighth notes.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Seiren is Greek for "siren" and is the standard term for that creature in Japan, but since many English-speaking fans only know the word "siren" her name is usually rendered as "Siren" by the English fanbase.
    • Almost everyone assumed that her human alter-ego's name was "Ellen", but all official sources (including merchandise and the show itself) romanise her name as "Eren", which is a normal Japanese name, but the katakana spelling made it plausible that "Ellen" was the intended spelling. Never the less, "Ellen" is too well-established amongst the English fanbase for it to change.
  • Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Ellen starts her Cure life by being angsty and moody, but Hibiki and Kanade's influence eventually leads to her becoming much happier.
  • Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Siren's Shapeshifter Mode Lock into Ellen and unlocking her Cure Beat powers was ultimately revealed to be this in a novel — Siren didn't change because of her love for Hummy, but because of her sorrow for inflicting so much pain on her friend. This also explains Ellen's initial reluctance to stay with Hummy, Hibiki and Kanade.
  • Troll: See It Amused Me above.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Subverted with Hummy. After Siren's Heel–Face Turn, they barely argue anymore.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She is deathyl afraid of ghosts, as seen in the Halloween-themed episode.

    Cure Muse 

Ako Shirabe (Cure Muse)

Voiced by: Rumi Ōkubo (JP) Foreign VAs

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"Playing the Goddess' tune, Cure Muse!"

The princess of Major Land, after revealing herself as the masked Cure Muse. By far the most serious and pragmatic of the four Pretty Cures, her outward determination hides her emotional fragility in the face of the threat against her family. She can be incredibly blunt when criticizing others.

  • Aloof Ally: She helps the Precures, but claims that she is not on anyone's side. And she never finishes the Monsters of the Week off.
  • Badass Adorable: The (physically) youngest Cure of the franchise and still as capable of ass-kicking as her teammates with her starting as stronger and more skilled than them.
  • Badass Cape: She can use her cape for defensive purposes in her black outfit.
  • Brutal Honesty: She has absolutely zero reservations about making snarky comments at other people.
  • Clark Kenting: Wore glasses and cut her hair short on Earth to conceal her identity. Between that and her personality switch to Deadpan Snarker, it proved surprisingly effective with neither Ellen nor Hummy realizing that she is the princess of Major Land.
  • Cool Mask: Initially, she wears a mask that conceals her identity.
  • Crutch Character: Defied; While as Cure Muse, she was stronger than Hibiki and Kanade when they started as Cures, she only helps them hold off the Monster of the Week and has them find out new ways to use their powers. She only fully joins the team when they improved around the same level as her.
  • Curtains Match the Window: As Ako. Her eyes turn pink as Muse, which was one way Toei tried to throw us off her scent.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: As masked Cure Muse, her disguise is completely black, but she is nonetheless still heroic and willing to help the Cures even if she doesn't consider herself their ally.
  • Dark Magical Girl: Isolated herself from the other Pretty Cure and tried to find a way to help Mephisto on her own. Even after she loses the mask, she's constantly the pragmatic member of the group.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Oh so much. Probably one of the best examples the franchise ever had.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: After her identity is revealed, she acts less harshly towards her allies and shows off her kinder side.
  • Doppelgänger Spin: "Pretty Cure Shining Circle"
  • Everyone's Baby Sister: After revealing her identity and fully joining the Cures, she is considered this by her teammates with Kanade outright saying that she feels like a "cheeky little sister".
  • Eye Color Change: As Muse, her eyes turn pink.
  • The Glasses Come Off: Her glasses disappear when she's transformed.
  • Guile Hero: To protect their Cure Modules from the Trio the Minor, she replaces the Cure Modules with fakes, tricking her friends and the villains, a feat that she copied from her mother.
  • I Choose to Stay: In The Movie and episode 37, she decides to stay on Earth to continue the battle against Noise. And then along with Ellen, Hummy, and the Fairy Tones in the finale.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: Until episode 35, the identity of Cure Muse was kept hidden until Ako revealed herself with said knowledge naturally becoming common in subsequent all-star movies.
  • King Incognito: She's the princess of Major Land, but lives with her grandfather Otokichi, the former king, in an ordinary house.
  • Little Miss Snarker: She is a couple of heads shorter than her teammates, but is not afraid to insult Hibiki and Kanade for their behavior.
  • Macross Missile Massacre: Her finisher, "Pretty Cure Sparkling Shower" does this with note-shaped bubbles.
  • Musical Assassin: Can attack and create barriers with a piano of energy. It's later revealed to be an ability of Major Land's royal family.
  • Mysterious Protector: It takes around 24 episodes since her introduction to find out about her identity.
  • Not So Stoic: In her initial appearances as the Masked Cure she's often aloof and quiet, leaving Dodory to do the talking. And as Ako herself, she's also abrasive, who is rude and inconsiderate towards her elders. However, it turns out that this is not the case at all for her. She is actually a happy, sweet, and considerate girl in the past, it is revealed that her stoicism is a front for her emotional fragility and her failure to save her father who was brainwashed by Noise, consequently leading to Minor Land's takeover of her kingdom. Gets more obvious in Episode 36 when she, as Cure Muse, cannot bear the feeling of her parents fighting each other, claiming that the rest of her team doesn't know what she has been going through. This led her to be taken advantage of by the brainwashed Mephisto, who was too crazy to even think straight about his daughter in front of him. Thankfully, Ako manages to get out of this stoic shell after snapping her father out of his brainwashing and redeeming him in the process.
  • Older Alter Ego: Cure Muse may seem to be this to the significantly-shorter Ako... but as it turns out, Ako was just wearing platform boots.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The once stoic Ako, as Cure Muse in Episode 36, found herself temporarily unable to fight back against her father, almost going to a sobbing mess when she is confronted with the fact that she has to get her father out of his brainwashing and briefly yelled how the rest of her team don't know what she went through.
  • Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Applies to all the Cures, of course — but whereas the others just get longer, curlier hair, Ako's goes from extremely short to extremely long.
  • Royals Who Actually Do Something: She is the princess of Major Land, who actually saves the world along with her teammates.
  • Shared Family Quirks: In Episode 42, Ako rolls her eyes, smiles and then says the same line that Aphrodite says earlier in the episode.
  • Ship Tease: Quite a bit with Souta, Kanade's brother.
  • Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Often accused of this. Justified Trope since she joins so late in the series and only appeared once in a while before.
  • Spy Catsuit: Her black outfit looks like a bodysuit.
  • The Voiceless: She lets Dodory talk for her. Cure Muse's voice would reveal that she is actually still a child and that she's Ako. That's why she never makes a single noise until episode 35.
  • Token Mini-Moe: She's the youngest Cure not only in the Suite Pretty Cure team, but also in the entire franchise (beating out Hikari, Urara, and Erika). Up until Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure, that is.
  • When She Smiles: At the end of Ouji's birthday episode.
  • Wise Beyond Their Years: Played for Drama; she had to grow up quickly due to her father being brainwashed to serve Noise with her becoming a Cure shortly after, but choosing to conceal her identity due to being unable to fight her father.
  • You Shall Not Pass!: Pulls this when the Pretty Cure attempts to attack Mephisto directly. Unfortunately, it backfires after Mephisto uses the distraction to flee with all of the Notes.

Allies

    Hummy 

Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi (JP) Foreign VAs

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A Songstress of Major Land. Hummy is sincere, simple-minded, and relentlessly optimistic.

    Fairy Tones 

Voiced by: Mayu Kudou (JP) Foreign VAs

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The Precures' partners and the key to their transformation. Dory, Rery, and Lary are used for transformation into Cure Melody, Rhythm, and Beat respectively, while Miry, Fary, and Sory are used along with them for special attacks. Tiry serves as leader, and Dodori, the previously missing Fairy Tone, serves as the "voice" of Cure Muse; Tiry and Dodori are used for Cure Muse's special attacks and transformation, respectively.

  • Badass Armfold: Parodied. They invokes this in episode 16, but Fary arms are too short and he's the only one to fail.
  • Blush Sticker: All of them carry this just under their eyes.
  • Children Raise You: More like "Fairy Tones Raise You", but their own child-like demeanor qualifies them for this trope. Just watch their everyday activities from behind the screen of the usual Cures shenanigans. Not only do they take really good care of Hibiki's and Hummy's routines without them knowing and have a disciplined schedule, when several of them got captured and had their notes extracted from them, they saved themselves just to not worry their charges.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Dory, Rery, and Lary all match their respective Precures' color-schemes when transformed.
  • Damsel in Distress: The Fairy Tones are captured on several occasions, but in most cases, they manage to save themselves in the end.
    • Fary is captured by a Negatone in Episode 41.
  • Doppelgänger Attack: Parodied. Fary uses this to confuse Trio the Minor. But his doppelgängers are just the other seven Fairy Tones, painted in yellow. And then, thousands of Fary toys appear in the town.
  • Flight: They can float in the air and spend most of their time off the ground.
  • Fusion Dance: When the Crescendo Tone gets sealed along with Otokichi in a stone, they fuse into another Crescendo Tone and grant the Cures their Super Mode.
  • Hyper-Competent Sidekick: They have a lot more common sense compared to their effective boss Hummy.
  • Musical Theme Naming: Named after the "musical syllables" used in the modern solfège. Dodory is named as such because he's the higher "do", and not the first, like Dory is.
  • Ridiculously Cute Critter: They're tiny, friendly, adorable jewel-like beings.
  • Sarcastic Devotee: Occasionally. Hummy is supposed to be in charge of them, but the Fairy Tones have no problem pointing out her screw-ups, such as when she belatedly noticed that one Fairy Tone (Dodory) had been missing all along.
    Hummy: "I don't think I can get up anytime soon."
    Sory: "Once you see a cupcake, you'll be up and running again."
  • Sixth Ranger: Dodory was originally part of the group, but became separated from them, turned aloof and only went back when its Cure, Muse, joined the team.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: Fary in episode 41.
    Fary: "I'm the strongest and smartest of all Fairy Tones, fa-fa." (Trio the Minor appears) "Fa! The Trio, fa-fa!" (hides behind Rery)
  • Transformation Trinket: Four of them are needed to activate the Cure Modules in order for the Precure to transform.
  • Verbal Tic: Whatever their designated note is, e.g. "La-la" or "Do-do."
  • Wingding Eyes: Dodory is the only one of the eight that has stars in his eyes.

    Crescendo Tone 

Voiced by: Kumiko Nishihara (JP) Foreign VAs

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The Fairy of Sound who gave birth to all the sounds in this world. The other Fairy Tones were born from her. She usually resides inside the Healing Chest that was found in the dark forest.

  • Big Good: She lends the Precures her power whenever they use Suite Session Ensemble and Suite Session Ensemble Crescendo.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: The second half's Eye Catch shows Crescendo Tone before she's introduced.
  • Flight: Like the other Fairy Tones, she spends most of her time outside the chest floating in the air. Extra points ofr actually having wings.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: She rescues the Precures from Noise, but she ends up sealed in a stone beside Otokichi.
  • Ridiculously Cute Critter: Due to having the same adorable appearance as the Fairy Tones, though her awesome pair of wings makes her look more impressive.
  • Sealed Good in a Can: The Healing Chest was stuck in a dark forest guarded by monsters, keeping her from using her power to help Precure. The team beats up the monsters and manages to free her.
  • Team Mom: Literally, for the Fairy Tones. She's where they all came from.
  • Upgrade Artifact: Allows Cure Melody to transform into Crescendo Cure Melody in The Movie.

    Aphrodite 

Voiced by: Noriko Hidaka (JP) Foreign VAs

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The Queen of Major Land. Wife of Mephisto, mother of Ako, and daughter of Otokichi.

    Otokichi Shirabe 

Voiced by: Keiichi Sonobe (JP) Foreign VAs

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The mysterious tuner of Kanon Town, who is working on a large organ. The previous King of Major Land, father of Aphrodite, and grandfather of Ako. Long ago fought and sealed away Noise.

Minor Land

    Mephisto 

Mephisto

Voiced by: Kenyū Horiuchi (JP) Foreign VAs

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The King of Minor Land, a dark opposite to Major Land. His goal is to create the Melody of Sorrow, which would plunge the world into an endless despair. He is actually the missing king of Major Land, who was brainwashed by the evil power of Noise. He is later cured by the Pretty Cures and returns to Major Land.

Trio The Minor

    Tropes associated with the Trio the Minor 
The three generals who are the ones who tend to fight Pretty Cure the most.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: They were once the heroic "Three Musketeers of Major Land" before being corrupted by Mephisto and the Noise of Evil, with Falsetto getting the worst influence.
  • Characterization Marches On: They were Siren's singing Sidekicks for the first eight episodes, but then each of them get more personality during the course of the series, starting with Bassdrum being The Starscream to Siren.
  • The Dragon: Each of them becomes the leader of the Trio after Siren's Heel–Face Turn. For more, see their individual entries.
  • Flight: Averted. Despite it's a common Pretty Cure villain ability, they (and Siren) can't fly. Only with a flying tandem bike or something similar they are able to fly.
  • Heel–Face Turn: After Noise's defeat, all three of them are back and normal again. Before that, Bassdrum and Baritone also betrayed Noise and helps the Precures in the final battle after Mephisto absorbed most of their evil energy.
  • Mid-Season Upgrade: In episode 26, Mephisto gives them new powers before they become more incompetent. And then in the end of episode 36 and in the beginning of episode 37, Falsetto gets more of Noise's power, while Bassdrum and Baritone gets their Forced Transformation by Falsetto.
  • Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Bassdrum and Baritone give the girls their Cure Modules back in episode 42 after growing tired of Falsetto's Bad Boss behavior. Unfortunately, Noise exposes them to more evil energy almost immediately afterward, preventing them from doing a full-on Heel–Face Turn.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: Trio the Minor. After several episodes of standing in the background and acting as Siren's wacky sidekicks, the three are revealed to have gathered a good deal of notes on their own, whereas Siren has yet to gather even one. Starting in episode 11, Bassdrum takes Siren's leadership position after Mephisto demotes her and immediately stages a trap that came much closer to defeating the Cures than any of Siren's plans ever had. Later in the series after their Mid-Season Upgrade they also succeed in suckering the Cures and stealing all of their notes save for the one they got from that episode's Negatone.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: Their disguises are very poor. They often work, but sometimes not.
  • Quirky Miniboss Squad: Along with Siren. The trio get their own quirks after Characterization Marches On.
  • Sidekicks: To Siren until her Heel–Face Turn.
  • Super-Senses: Each of them get better sense after being upgraded by Mephisto. For more, see their individual entries.
  • Terrible Trio: They are always together. The only time when they aren't together is in the Grand Finale, after Bassdrum and Baritone's powers are degraded by the unbrainwashed Mephisto, and Falsetto being the only companion to Noise.
  • Those Two Guys: Depending of who is the leader, the remaining two are these.
  • Villains Out Shopping: In episode 26, Mephisto is very annoyed to discover Trio the Minor chilling out at the beach. Baritone even built a sandcastle.

    Bassdrum 

Voiced by: Atsushi Ono (JP) Foreign VAs

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A member of the Trio the Minor group.
  • Beard of Evil: And he doesn't like having it messed up.
  • The Brute: He becomes kind of dumber and less competent after he finally becomes The Dragon. And then, he plays it straight when Falsetto becomes The Dragon.
  • Forced Transformation: After his second upgrade, he takes on a form he doesn't care for.
  • Heel–Face Revolving Door: After being punished by Falsetto too often, he and Baritone give the Precures their Cure Modules back, only to get more evil energy by Noise again.
  • Mighty Glacier: After his second upgrade, he becomes much stronger and tougher, but he's kind of slow.
  • Spotlight-Stealing Squad: He steals the spotlight of the other members of the trio, especially Baritone's. And then, Falsetto takes over it.
  • The Starscream: Not to Mephisto, but to Siren. Before long, he doesn't waste any time in trying to undermine her and become the group's leader.
  • Super-Senses: After the Trio gets their power-up, Bassdrum gets the ability to smell notes like a bloodhound.
  • Top-Heavy Guy: He has rather short legs despite being taller than the others.

    Baritone 

Voiced by: Youhei Oobayashi (JP) Foreign VAs

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The leader of Trio the Minor.
  • Blue Means Smart One: Baritone is the blue-coded member of the Trio the Minor, having light blue hair and wearing blue clothes. In sharp contrast to his comrades, Baritone prides himself on his intelligence. He finally gets to show it after the trio's upgrade, using his smarts to trap the Fairy Tones and become the new leader.
  • Heel–Face Revolving Door: After being punished by Falsetto too often, he and Bassdrum give the Precures their Cure Modules back, only to get more evil energy by Noise again.
  • Lightning Bruiser: After his second upgrade, he becomes stronger, faster and tougher.
  • Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He's a pretty boy with long light blue hair falling down his back.
  • Narcissist: He's very proud of his beauty, but not as bad as Cobraja.
  • Out of Focus: After spending two episodes being the leader, Bassdrum steals his position again, and then Falsetto comes and bosses both of them.
  • Super-Senses: Gains super eyesight after the Trio gets their upgrade.

    Falsetto 

Voiced by: Tooru Nara (JP) Foreign VAs

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Another member of Trio the Minor who gets battered by Siren every now and then.
  • Bad Boss: After becoming the leader, he treats them worse than Mephisto ever did, he transform them into monsters without their agreement, and he electrocutes them unnecessarily. He's so bad that Bassdrum and Baritone help the Precures on occasion.
  • Butt-Monkey: Before her Heel–Face Turn, Siren would take her frustrations out on Falsetto by clawing out his hair.
  • Cute, but Cacophonic: Well, he's not exactly cute, but he's fairly mundane compared to Bassdrum and Baritone... and his voice is the most high pitched and shrill out of the entire trio.
  • The Dragon: To Noise, the real Big Bad, especially when the latter Brainwashes him.
  • The Dog Bites Back: Starts beating up Ellen, the other Cures, AND the rest of the Trio with shocking regularity.
  • Kamehame Hadouken: Can fires energy beams and energy spheres.
  • Knight of Cerebus: When he usurps leadership of Trio the Minor, he proves to be far more effective and dangerous than Mephisto, even ordering his fellow teammates to kill Aphrodite when she's held hostage and is dead loyal to Noise.
  • Malevolent Masked Men: Gets a mask that is half a bird's black skull after his true agenda is revealed.
  • Manchild: Acts the most outright childish of the Trio.
  • The Mole: Among the bad guys, to Noise, the series' actual Big Bad.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: The most dimwitted and overall nicest member of Trio de Minor was in fact the Dragon to Noise, the series Big Bad. And he is very cruel and has extreme methods, even successfully completing the Melody of Sorrow.
  • Rose-Haired Sweetie: He appears to be the most childish of the trio and less threatening than the two. Then he turns out to be more cruel and violent than them, Siren and Mephisto.
  • Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Gains the ability to create a purple energy whip from his palm. Then he wields a real one in the form of a cat-o-nine-tails later on.
  • Super-Senses: After the Trio gets their power up, Falsetto gets the ability to hear Notes from great distances.
  • Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Once Falsetto takes over the bad guys, he means business. Not only is he more effective than Mephisto ever was, but he does things like order Bassdrum and Baritone to kill Aphrodite when they are holding her hostage. That's not to mention how he repeatedly abuses them, and though that's often played for laughs, the final timenote  most certainly isn't.

Other

    The Mastermind (UNMARKED SPOILERS) 

Noise

Voiced by: Ryūsei Nakao (JP) Foreign VAs

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An entity born from humanity's sorrow. Once defeated by both the Cresendo Tone and Otokichi, he intends to complete the Melody of Sorrow to return to action and destroy the world, brainwashing Mephisto and creating Trio the Minor to help him accomplish that goal. He gains a chick form when he receives the partially finished Melody of Sorrow.
  • And Then What?: Subverted. Noise is fully aware that his "utopia" will cause him to disappear, and is quite fine with that. See Death Seeker below.
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: He's the personification of humanity's sorrow. This nature of gave him a lot of grief, and is his is part of his motive to remove all sound. If no one is sad, he will fade away.
  • The Assimilator: First, he absorbs Falsetto to heal his wounds from his battle against the Precure. Then he tries to absorb the Precures, but Bassdrum and Baritone sacrifice themselves, resulting Noise's final transformation.
  • As Long as There Is Evil: Noise will always be reborn as long sadness exist. As he is a Death Seeker, he seeks to subvert this so he made sure that no one could feel any emotion, sadness included. The Pretty Cures circumvent this by befriending him after he was reborn as Pii-chan after the final fight, learning that they have to face and accept sadness instead of fighting it.
  • Bad Boss: He absorbs Falsetto, his most loyal subordinate, all because he was noisy.
  • Berserk Button: Playing any sweet melody in front of him would put him into an utter rage, as it is his weakness. He takes this to a T in Episode 46 when Aphrodite and the remaining citizens of Major Land played a melody to overpower him, before Noise himself completely loses it and starts turning a few of them to stone, but it fails. It was until he covers his ears from the melody and finally reaches his breaking point where he uses his entire power to turn the entire Major Land's citizens and Aphrodite to stone.
  • Big Bad: He's the one pulling all the strings in the show and its movie, from brainwashing Mephisto into making Minor Land and making Trio the Minor to gather sorrow to revive him to sending Howling and the Trio de Major to attack Major Land.
  • Bishōnen Line: Goes from a tiny bird to a gigantic bird monster to a birdlike humanoid.
  • Breath Weapon: He can fire beams or energy breaths from his mouth. Even in his humanoid form.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: That skeletal bird thing that's seen when Negatones transform? That's the first hint of Noise's existence.
  • Cute Is Evil: As Pii-chan, a little adorable chick. Unfortunately, this cute chick façade is only a front to his nefarious nihilistic personality. He drops the "evil" part when he is reborn into a Pii-chan born from humanity's joy.
  • Dark Is Evil: Once he becomes complete, he is primarily dark violet and black, even in his humanoid form. Once he was reborn as Pii-chan again, his tan feathers become white.
  • Death Seeker: The utopia he seeks to create will ultimately lead to him disappearing as well, allowing him to finally escape his own sorrow.
  • Emotion Eater: Due to being humanity’s sorrow, he feeds off of sadness to grow even more powerful.
  • Evil Laugh: GYAHAHAHAHAHA!
  • Feathered Fiend: The Big Bad is an evil bird.
  • Go Out with a Smile: When the Precures reach him in his dying moment, they establish that they protect everyone's smiles. Including his. This is enough to give him a legitimately happy smile for the first time in the series.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: He is first mentioned in the end of episode 36 and becomes the Big Bad afterwards. He's also the person behind Mephisto's brainwashing, Trio the Minor's activities, and Howling and the Trio de Major's assault on Major Land. However, he doesn't do much for the better part of the show, and lets Mephisto rule Minor Land while he remains sealed.
  • Grey-and-Gray Morality: Noise, the so-called ultimate evil, is actually a personification of sorrow that people made as a scapegoat of their sadness. He being said as 'evil' by people of Major Land is a form of Fantastic Racism and he ends up so bitter and angry at this that he would rather die himself. Too bad that the only way for him to die is for other people, in all but name, to die too.
  • Heel–Face Turn: After the Precures defeat him while declaring that they won’t run away from sadness, he is reborn again as Pii-chan and befriended by them.
  • Kamehame Hadouken: He's not a normal bird and has hands, being able to fire massive beams with them.
  • The Mole: Posed as "Pii-chan" to get close to the Precure so he could steal the notes they collected.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: In episode 39, "Pii-chan's" eyes glow red as his connection to Noise is revealed.
  • Sad Clown: Not really a clown, per se, but it's revealed that Noise, the so-called over the top villain and source of sorrow and despair, is actually quite sorrowful himself, and believes he's creating a utopia by removing music, and thus the feeling it creates, from the world.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: He was sealed in a stone by Otokichi and Crescendo Tone.
  • Sleep-Mode Size: The form of a tiny bird named Pii-chan, who tried to get close to Ako by pretending to be hurt.
  • Straw Nihilist: His reasoning for why he wants to destroy all sound is because sound is a source of sorrow as well as that happiness can't last and will turn into sorrow anyway.
  • Taken for Granite: His scream turns people into stone.
  • Team Pet: After being reborn as Pii-chan again, he becomes the second one after Hummy.
  • Utopia Justifies the Means: Believes that removing sound and feeling from the world will create a utopia.
  • Walking Spoiler: While his existence was foreshadowed, he doesn’t appear until later, as the role of the Big Bad is seemingly held by Mephisto at first.

Tropes exclusive to Pii-chan post-final battle

After his Heel–Face Turn, Pii-chan is reborn as a chick with white feathers, birthed from the happiness of humanity. He appears in the Suite sequel novel as a main character.
  • Big Good: More so in the novel, since he's the one helping Hibiki's separation crisis, as well as helping her out of her possession to stop Vanish's threat in both worlds.
  • Light Is Good: In contrast to its original appearance who is literally Dark Is Evil and the Big Bad of Suite, Pii-chan is white-coloured and is with the good guys in the sequel.
  • Team Pet: He serves as Hibiki's pet companion and he played a major role in stopping Vanish by reviving her.

    Negatone 
The monsters of the week summoned by the villains to fight the Precures. They are created by a corrupted musical note that possesses a nearby object.
  • Animate Inanimate Object: Essentially what they resemble because they possess those objects.
  • Brown Note: They are corrupted musical notes capable of emiting sorrow-inducing sound waves.
  • Dem Bones: They resemble distorted objects encased in a white skeleton. The powered-up Negatones feature larger black skeletons.
  • Instrument of Murder: The negatone from Episode 3 possessed a cello and Episode 34 had a flute/guitar/violin Negatone vaguely resembling a dragon.
  • Mid-Season Upgrade: After Episode 26, the villains gained the power to summon stronger Negatones with black skeletons.
  • Rotten Rock & Roll: Their summoning theme is an absolutely face-melting rock tune.
  • Monster of the Week: They appear one per episode, fight the precure and are defeated.
  • Pokémon Speak: Can only cry their own name. The one exception was the Popquiz Negatone from Episode 30 that could speak normally.
  • When Trees Attack: Episode 22 featured a tree Negatone.

Other Characters

    Souta Minamino 

Voiced by: Yumiko Kobayashi (JP)

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Kanade's annoying younger brother, who is also Ako's friend.

    Waon Nishijima 

Voiced by: Yuko Gibu (JP)

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A second year student and Hibiki's friend who also appears to be on the same team as Hibiki in many sports, mostly in soccer.

  • Book Dumb: She has terrible scores, it's implied even worse than Hibiki.
  • Boyish Short Hair: She's a tomboyish and sporty girl with short hair.
  • Curtains Match the Window: She has blue hair and eyes.
  • Epic Hail: She promises to be there for Hibiki wherever she is needed, and boy does she mean it. It takes two seconds after Hibiki's Epic Hail for Waon to get there.
  • Genki Girl: She's very full of energy.
  • Muggle: She doesn't look like a minor character, but she really is a normal girl.
  • Nice Girl: She's optimistic and friendly.
  • Red Herring: Suspected to be Cure Muse in-universe. Her name containing a cardinal direction (Nishi for West) like Hibiki and Kanade was part of the ruse.

    Seika Higashiyama 

Voiced by: Youko Ninshino (JP)

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A third year student and the Club President of the Sweets Club. Also known as the "Princess of Sweets".

    Masamune Ouji 

Voiced by: Hisafumi Oda (JP)

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A third year student, school idol, and the leader of the group called the "Musical Princes".

  • Chick Magnet: He's popular with girls. Particularly Kanade and Siren/Ellen have a crush on him.
  • Curtains Match the Window: His eyes are yellow like his hair.
  • Everyone Loves Blondes: He's blond and so handsome that Hibiki is the only (teenage) girl who hasn't gushed over him.
  • Fanboy: He is a big fan of Hibiki's mother, Maria Houjou, just like the rest of Hibiki's class.
  • Nice Guy: He's a very helpful guy.
  • Princely Young Man: It's right there in his last name.
  • Satellite Character: He's probably just there to be lusted after. He is shown to have a more rounded personality later on, helping Ellen come to terms with some of her doubts on friendship and revealing that he's somewhat of a Fanboy of Hibiki's mom... and then he fades into the background again.
  • School Idol: He's the most popular student at the school.

Movie Characters

    Howling 

Voiced by: Tesshō Genda (JP)

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The Big Bad of the movie and an underling of Noise.

  • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: His dragon form is a massive beast towering over the Cures.
  • Big Bad: Of the movie, with the Major Trio as his Quirky Miniboss Squad.
  • Dark Is Evil: His colour scheme is primarily black and he's the movie's Big Bad.
  • The Dragon: To Noise by proxy of the only one of his servants that not being brainwashed and has his method the closest to Noise's true goal. Also bonus point for being a literal dragon.
  • Hero Killer: He presumably kills Cure Melody only for Cresendo Tone to bring her back to life as Cresendo Cure Melody.
  • Lean and Mean: A lanky monster who is the movie's Big Bad.
  • One-Winged Angel: Transforms from a evil cloud to a humanoid dragon.
  • Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: Aphrodite uses her power to contain Howling within her own body.
  • Stripped to the Bone: That bone-like structure that twisted around the Majorland Palace is the remain of his body after Aphrodite sealed his soul into herself.
  • Super Smoke: After forced out of Aphrodite's body after Mephisto jumped out of a window and threatened to kill them all, his form is that of shapeless cloud that nothing the heroes thrown can hurt him. It's nullified by Miracle Light.

    Trio de Major 

Voiced by: Kouichi Toochika (JP / Sharp), Junichi Kanemaru (JP / Natural), Mitsuaki Madono (JP / Flat)

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They are Howling's lackeys and resemble the Trio the Minor. The members are Sharp, Natural and Flat. During the movie, Sharp fights Cure Melody, Natural fights Cure Rhythm, and Flat fights Cure Beat.

Novel Characters

    Vanish (UNMARKED SPOILERS) 
The Big Bad of the Suite novel, it is a black cloud that is dedicated to spread chaos across both Major Land and Kanon Town.
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: It is the embodiment of humanity's negative emotions particularly sadness and despair, as in the case when he possesses Hibiki, who was going into an angst of being separated from her friends.
  • Assimilation Plot: It started absorbing Aphrodite, Mephisto, Otokichi, Hibiki's parents and the entire Kanon Town's populace once Hibiki's sadness reached a peak, leaving only the freed Hibiki and Kanade to deal with the abomination. At first until Pii-chan comes to the rescue.
  • Big Bad: The main antagonist of its sequel novel, who wants to spread despair and chaos by erasing the echoes of sounds.
  • Blow You Away: It can suck humans and even the entire populace of Kanon Town with a powerful wind force, akin to an eldritch vacuum cleaner.
  • Cessation of Existence: By humans it possesses, Vanish can erase any humans it touches in an instant. As in its name.
  • Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Unlike Howling and Noise who are directly affiliated to Minor Land and were immediately the threat, Vanish and its existence is largely unknown to the Suite Cures in the past during Minor Land's terror who is a Lone Wolf Boss, working independently, which is fitting for its true nature as a cosmic entity. Noise wants to remove all of sound and Howling wants to steal all of the notes in Major Land to revive him, whereas Vanish wants to remove every echoes of sounds to drive humanity to despair which makes them lonely and afraid. All three of them brainwashed at least one person, with Noise brainwashing the Trio de Minor and Mephisto; Howling brainwashing Aphrodite; and in Vanish's case it's Hibiki and everyone she knows including Ellen and Ako.
  • Cumulonemesis: A swirling black cloud whose intention is to cause chaos, despair and distrust. It likes to take advantage of human's sadness by possessing the saddened human to manipulate them into its own purposes.
  • Dark Is Evil: A black cloud whose purpose is to spread despair and chaos to fulfil its goal by possessing Hibiki.
  • The Dreaded: To say that it's utterly dangerous is an understatement. It almost destroyed an entire country by itself, absorbed an entire town full of humans and erased one of them from existence, a feat impossible even for Noise in his true form. Its power can break through the sound of Otokichi's pipe organ effortlessly. So extremely powerful that it can willingly alter the Melody of Happiness into Melody of Sorrow. Without any effort. And it can easily weaken someone's mental resolve to those who dared to foolishly battle it, where even the Suite Cures had a hard time defeating it at first. It took Pii-chan's intervention to even help Hibiki out of her possession from it, who wanted to kill her once she found out she was possessed by it.
  • Eldritch Abomination: It is a thick swirling black cloud who is a frightening Sentient Cosmic Force. It eerily swirls and it makes creepy low moaning sounds, enough to send a shiver through someone's spine. Nothing Is Scarier than that when Hibiki experiences the being's true nature firsthand. And it gets worse with its final form, which is a thick black smog cloud...
  • Greater-Scope Villain: Not the first time after Noise was sealed, but Vanish is responsible for starting chaos in Major Land by wreaking havoc into the country in the past, causing it to almost collapse to a critical situation before its banishment, making it partially responsible for Noise's escape in the present.
  • Hope Crusher: Its signature trait. It feeds to the despairs and sadness of its victims by possessing them through the power of sorrow, which makes it more focused on mental attacks through psychological means. And it can transfer that same sadness to its other victims...
  • Knight of Cerebus: Even more so than both Mephisto and Falsetto, Vanish is a serious threat without any comedic moments, who likes to use everyone's negative emotions to manipulate them like puppets. When it appears for the first time, it's clear that it means more than business. If that was not enough, it likes to use Hibiki's aspect of her separation angst and even forced her to erase Masamune once, which drove the rest of Kanon's townspeople into a disarray of distrust and suspicions with each other. And to top it off, it wants to kill the freed Hibiki and the rest with the power of sorrow, period.
  • Lone Wolf Boss: Whereas Noise and Howling are affiliated to the Minor Land, Vanish is an independent antagonist who has no connection to the previous antagonists of Suite.
  • Meaningful Name: Vanish, which means to erase someone suddenly. It fits with its intention to cause mass disappearances all across Kanon Town.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Its name is already an indicator of the serious threat Vanish poses to humanity in general.
  • Odd Name Out: Unlike most villains in Suite who were mostly named after tones and sounds (sans Mephisto), Vanish is the only Suite villain whose name doesn't derive from both.
  • Outside-Context Problem: It is completely unrelated to the past threats of the Minor Land and it is a much more mysterious Eldritch Abomination to be reckoned with, especially with its Curb-Stomp Battle against all of Major Land by plunging it to chaos in the past sometime after Noise's sealing where it was only defeated by being banished. Vanish, all by itself, is a foreign threat that the Suite team didn't see that coming and Hibiki only experiences it in the first place when she gets brainwashed by it after giving in to her sadness.
  • Post-Final Boss: While Noise was the true threat throughout Suite, Vanish is the one that Hibiki has to deal with in the novel. By herself at first. And unlike Noise and Howling, she is largely unfamiliar of its existence.
  • Walking Spoiler: The fact that Vanish is behind Hibiki's brainwashing and the instigator of the novel's conflict isn't revealed until she was freed of it.
  • Would Hurt a Child: It clearly has no qualms in driving children to sadness, as such when it passes Hibiki's sadness onto Ako to break her psychologically.

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